January 2, 2025 • 37 mins
Hour One of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with hosts Jamie Erdahl, Peter Schrager, Kyle Brandt, and Akbar Gbajabiamila discussing the Philadelphia Eagles decision to rest Saquon Barkley in their final regular season game when he has an opportunity to break the single season rushing record. Peter leads NFL Trivia and then they review how Eric Dickerson rushed for 2,105 yards in a single season.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Good Morning Football. Yeah, that's right, this is Good Morning Football.
Welcome inside our show. Thank you for being here.
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It's Thursday, January tewod. We're settling in nicely to twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
This is awkward.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Bosha bat Miller, Peter Schreker, Kyle Brant. I'm Jamie Rdall.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
How you doing. I am doing great. That is good.
We've got announcements going on today. We've got some good
things going here. We do walk bar.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
The announcement of which you refer to is the fact
that the next hour of our show, we will be
announcing the Pro Bowl rosters for both the NFC and
the AFC, all eighty eight players.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
It's happening right here, Peter and Kyle.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
This is such a thrill. It is cool.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
There used to be a Pro Bowl announcement television show
that was like in primetime, and.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
We would have to hype that.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Now they gave us the gift and it's pretty cool.
Today you're going to find out all the Pro Bowl
rosters and there are some players missing that might really
bother you.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Let's celebrate that as well.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
We will, and we have some history too. This has
never happened before. I don't know if I'm supposed to
divulge this right now.
Speaker 7 (01:27):
Oh great.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
For the first time ever a college player has made
the Pro Bowl. Camp scattaboc Pro Bowl team from Arizona State.
Speaker 7 (01:34):
He's playing, and he's going to be the MVP, and
he might be the Super Bowl MVP.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
I'm going to abandon everything I have developed in my
life and I'm just going to follow camp scattable around
the country.
Speaker 7 (01:43):
That's my guy. That guy's a national hero. I love him.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Camp Scattabo had more votes than Travis Kelcey in the
last twelve hours than Travis Kelsey did over the last
like five months.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
It's perfect, camp scattaboy, you see you.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
We are going to talk Bowl games, of course, just
a little bit, just to see what we've been watching
over the last couple of days. But for now, let's
focus on some Pro bowler, shall we. There is a
guy that we've been talking a lot of out this week,
and it's Takuon Barkley. Whether or not he will play
lee block this weekend.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Against the Giants.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
This matters purely for a rushing record that we have
been discussing and debating, and it's a hot topic. However,
the decision is now made that Sakuon Barkley, the announcement
came out yesterday, will not play against his former team
on Sunday. This means that rushing record will end, or
his rushing season will end at two thousand and five yards,
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exactly one hundred yards behind Eric Dickerson's single season record
of twenty five. The decision, of course, is not easy
to make in Philadelphia.
Speaker 8 (02:41):
Obviously.
Speaker 9 (02:41):
It's a very special record that's that's been you know,
standing for a very long time by a great player.
It's a team record, you know, it's a it's a
team record that everybody's involved in. So you take, you
weigh in all those things, but at the end of
the day, you just try to do what's best for
the team.
Speaker 10 (03:00):
I mean, he asked me if I wanted to play,
if I want to go for it, I said, Sunday.
You know, I probably didn't care too much for it.
When I slept on it, it was like it was
an opportunity to imploint my you know, my name in
football history may never get another opportunity like that again.
So I'm down. But at the end of the day,
like I don't care for putting the team at risk.
Speaker 11 (03:21):
Is somebody in your family who did take it the
hardest following Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 10 (03:25):
He tried to act like he didn't, but you know
he called me yesterday, try to say happy New Years,
check up with me. But he definitely wanted me to play,
you know, selfishly for him. You got to think about
it for however long, whether it would take a year
if I would have broken it, or for someone to
break it, or another forty fifty years our last name
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would have been attached to that. So I see it
from that side too. But at the end of the day,
the most important thing is one of the football games.
And he's the one that raised me to kind of
be all about the team too, So he could have
his little selfish moment, but he'll get over.
Speaker 12 (04:00):
Yes, for him, I would love, you know, that would
be awesome to say. You know, I have the NFL
rushing record for a single season, so you know, I
would love for him to get it. But at the
same time, I know, I know what's at stake or
you know what's in store? And uh so that's that's
my point of view.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
All right.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
So that was Lane Johnson from our show yesterday. We
asked sequence teammate and the guy that helped him get
there whether or not he would want him to play
this weekend. Everyone has their own decision and opinion about it. However,
it has finally come down, Peter your thoughts and the
fact that the Eagles will rest their star running back
Saquon Barkley in week eighteen.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
It's such an interesting scenario because I don't have a
long recollection of situations like this where it was players
desires versus team's long term interests, and then coach is
the one putting his thumb on the scale and making
the final decision, and the player obviously wasn't over the
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top thrilled with it like it would have been one
thing at Saquon yesterday came out and was like I
get it, I love it, let's go. We're gonna said,
Saquon's being very honest and candid, and he's right. You know,
this record has stood for forty years. I don't know
if anyone's gonna get an opportunity to break it after this,
This would have been the greatest running back season we've
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ever seen, and I think he would have broken it
against his former team.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I think that matters.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Afterwards, Lane Johnson within the locker room and he was
talking and he's like, you know, I've done a lot
of research on this. I watched a Barry Sanders documentary
and Barry walked away right before he could have broken
all the rushing records. And I don't think we diminished Barry's.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Career because of that.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
We still look at Barry Sanders as the guy, even
though it's not his name in the record books. This
one's different, Like if they lose in the divisional round,
all right, if those in the NFC Championship came out,
I think it put a lot of pressure, like you
have to.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Go win a super Bowl right now. I really do
feel that way.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
And Saquon laughed and said he'd sacrificed it earlier in
the season, where like, do you want to go back
in against the Giants in that meaningless game where he
was running up and down and he's like, nah, let
the young guys eat. Maybe he should have stayed if
he had known that he won't think I get a
chance to break the all time record by the same
coach I had asked to go in in a game
earlier in September. So I'm gonna come off as a
fantasy football guys, and I'm like, I love the NFL
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record book.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I think it matters.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
And when you get this close to NFL history to
then take the foot off the pedal, that's a decision
that the team made. They'll have to live with that,
and that's fine. I obviously understand it. Last year, in
a Week eighteen game against the Giants, AJ Brown hurt
his legg he missed the playoff game, and they lost
to the Buccaneers.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
So, like, I get it, they've got.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Scar tissue there as an Eagles franchise based on last
year alone. But selfishly, this could have been one of
the coolest running back seasons of all time. Who knows,
he could have broken it in the first quarter and
then he could have wrest the last three quarters.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
We'll never know.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
And I would have liked seeing the name Barkley and
those record books.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
Yeah, I would too.
Speaker 11 (06:46):
I mean, you guys know how passionate I've been about
Saquon Barkley. It's a great opportunity, especially going up against
the Giants. And I'm not just talking about because it's
his former team talking about because it's a great opportunity
to go and against a run defense that would not
be able to stop him. I could easily see a
scenario where they could have given him maybe ten to
fifteen and he could have probably popped off, you know,
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at least two big runs to be able to get
to that one hundred and one yard that he needs
to break it. But I will say this that what
he's done is absolutely phenomenal. What he has done is
absolutely phenomenal, especially in a passing, you know, era of football.
This is a freakish thing. I know a lot of
people will say even if he did break it, it's
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in a seventeen game season, and I will just say
they weren't throwing the ball like that then back then
during the Aaron Dickerson years as they are doing now.
So shout out to Saquon Barklay. I hate that he's
not going to be able to get it. And I'm
just like you, Peter, I'm a big fan. I would
love to have seen this happen for sa Kuon Barkley
because I think for a player, as a player, it
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means something. It meant something to Michael Strahan when he
was able to become the all time season SAC leader,
and I know that would mean a lot to Saquan
as well.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
I hear you, man, I really do.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
And I find myself as a watching these highlights like
I'm melancholy about this. I'm kind of sad, and I'm
something that you're never supposed to be in sports media,
which is I'm conflicted. I talked a lot earlier in
the week, and I encouraged Nick Sirianni from our modest
platform here to sit him down, do the responsible thing,
think about the team, and he did.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
I got me thinking now, though.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
So over the decades, there's been over three thousand.
Speaker 7 (08:27):
Players who have a Super Bowl ring.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Over the years, there's never ever been any player who
run for more than twenty one hundred and five yards. Ever,
there's twenty five running backs in the Hall of Fame.
None of them have ever run for over twenty one
hundred and five yards.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
He would be.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
One of one, and yet I still think it is
very special. He's not one of one, but he is
one of nine to ever run for two thousand yards,
and that is an incredibly exclusive club. If he was
sitting on nineteen and oh three right now, this season
would be way more forgettable.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
It really would.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
There's something about that two thousand number that is truly
special that will never be taken away from him. And
I would say this to Saei Kuan at Whitehall High School.
He never won a state championship. He was prolific, legend,
never won state in state college Pennsylvania.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
He was a legend, he was an icon.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
He never won a national championship.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
He was never in that title game to know, and
none of that stuff. He's always been prolific, He's always
had amazing numbers, He's always been special.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
He's never had a really special team. Ever.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
That's really what's missing for Saquon. A special team, a
super Bowl team.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
I think that's the deal here.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
And I would say this to Nick Siriani, who takes
a lot of crap for being childlike or erratic.
Speaker 7 (09:44):
This was an adult in the room decision, and it's
easy to say, ascre it.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Let's just roll the diet. It'll be great for Saquon,
it'll be great for the team, It'll be great for
the organization. We may have had this record for fifty
years and the Eagles had the all time. Siriani and
sure certainly other people weighed in made the decision about No,
we're gonna go with the team decision, not this that's hard.
I'm I'm sure Sirianni sees Saquon on that hood on
kind of sad and depressed.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Talking about his father.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
That probably hurts all Roseman, Siriani, Lurie, everybody, Let's see
how Saquon comes out after a week of rest in
the wildcard round watching one for one hundred and ninety
yards like boom, there you go. I'm impressed with the
Eagles decision. I'm sad for Saquon, but I think he's
got some bigger things to achieve and I think you will.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Kyle really really well said thank you for painting all
the corners. Everybody, Mike yourfolo, welcome inside a GMFB. You
are a Philadelphia guy. You've covered the Eagles for a
long time. You know the ins and outs of this team,
but specifically this running back. Just take us more inside
the locker room and the decision behind this.
Speaker 13 (10:45):
Speaking of the locker room, when I left that Stadium
on Sunday, Jamie, good morning. I really felt like Saquon
Barkley was one hundred percent toward not playing in this game,
and he probably was.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
And then on Monday it sounded like no.
Speaker 13 (10:57):
Decision had been made and everybody wanted to kind of
go to their neutral corners and come back together on Tuesday,
and at that point they were still towards sitting him.
So it's interesting to hear Barkley kind of say that
this was tugging on him a little bit, because I
do think it changed within the course of the last
couple of days to think Bo's right there for the taking.
But it wouldn't have just had to be him playing.
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It would have had to been the entire offensive line.
I think that was a big part of what the
Eagles were trying to decide on this one, Jamie, And
I know that Nick Sirianni referenced Devonte Smith getting the
rookie receiving record for the Eagles. Excuse me a couple
of years ago in that last game against the Cowboys,
he only needed like thirty something yards. He was out
of there early in the second quarter. For Saquon Barkley,
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it would have taken a little bit longer, in large
part because I joked about this. It's still here on
the Insiders the other day.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
This was my joke.
Speaker 13 (11:44):
I got this out of the Giants game plan book
this week.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
That's eleven players in the box.
Speaker 13 (11:49):
There's no way the Giants were gonna let him get
this record easily, let the receivers run free on the outside.
Put everybody in the box to stop that from happening
against us.
Speaker 7 (11:57):
Point.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Hey, Mike mag I got a question for you. You
know you follow that team. You also follow the Giants closely,
but you're in the locker room and we saw you
in the postgame talking.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
To AJ Brown all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Kyle and I were talking about this in the commercial
break before the show.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
If Saquon had.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Come out on Tuesday morning and walked into Sirianni's office
and it's like, dude, like I need this record, I
need I want this, I need this, tweeted it, and
he tweeted, and he had did a different way than
been like kind of you know, well, this is what
do you think It would have been a different decision
if Saquon had put his foot on this thing and
said I want the record.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Dang it.
Speaker 13 (12:29):
I'm not so sure because this was an entire organization
wide decision, Peter. It's not like it was Sirianni and Barkley.
Everybody was in on this conversation. Howie Rosmen was in
on the conversation, Jeffrey Lourie as well, and I think
everybody would have kind of come together and say, look,
we understand, we just can't have you hurt. Because again,
like I said, it's not just him. It's not just
like you could put him out at wide receiver and
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he's kind of sort of isolated and you call some
stuff for him. You would have had to play the
offensive lineman. Now, having talked to those offensive linemen all
year long, I've had a multiple conversations with Jordan Malata
about this. He would have loved to see Barkley get
the record, and those guys I'm sure would have volunteered
as well. So now you're putting all those guys out
there in harm's way as well. Obviously, the team goals
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are the biggest thing for the Eagles, even Barkley after
that game on Sunday set it's my first.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Hat and T shirt game.
Speaker 13 (13:17):
I didn't even know these things existed.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Mike, do you appreciate that?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Moving forward to a game that we have all been
focused on Sunday night football, It's Packers or excuse me,
it's Lions Vikings. The NFC North looks awesome. The Packers
will sit and watch those two teams figure out who
is the one seed or the five seed. The Packers
will move forward in the playoffs, but without a massive
piece of their defense.
Speaker 13 (13:42):
Yeah, you're Alexander with that knee injury that he's had,
and he's been managing the last couple of weeks, had
surgery on that knee, and the expectation is that he
is done for the season after undergoing that procedure on
the kneed. As a disappointing one for the Green Bay
Packers because of how important he.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
Is to that defense.
Speaker 13 (14:00):
And I say he's important, but we're heading into the
non guaranteed portion of his kind. So is it potentially
the last game he's played for the Packers. He's got
some big numbers the next couple of years we sh
out see, but for now, a very very very slim
chant that he would return deep into the postseason. Meanwhile,
the Miami Dolphins looking like they are going to start
Snoop Huntley this upcoming weekend, and not to a tongue
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of Bai Looo who's dealing with that hip injury there.
At least that's the way they're approaching it. If they
get a surprise to the positive side with Tua, they
can always kind of revert and slide him back in,
But for now, it looks like it's going to be
Tyler Huntley and for the La Rams, it is going
to be Jimmy Garoffolo getting the start for the Rams
this week, a chance for him to kind of reset here.
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Remember last year it was Carson Wentz who got the
start for the Rams late in the season there in
the last week and reset himself and his value as well.
Could be the same for Jimmy Garoppolo. We've got a
lot of quarterback seats potentially to fill this offseason, so
Garoppolo getting the chance to show what he's able to
do once again in a really good offensive system for
a head coach who has a appreciated the way that
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Garoppolo has approached being a backup quarterback in the league
this year. Weekend and weekend.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Welcome back to gmfb let Dot Trivia on Thursdays. It's
a really cool week for the NFL because it's the
final week of the regular season, and we have great
history with the final week of the regular season, not
only for records and for stats, but of course for
shocking upsets and for playoff seedings and for teams that
got into the playoffs on the final play of the
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regular season. We recently expanded to eighteen weeks that used
to be sixteen seventeen. Achbar, We're gonna go down the
memory lane here. We're gonna hit some famous final regular
season week moments, and let's.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Just go back two years ago, all right.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
One of the coolest wins that kick started a franchise,
maybe an NFL history was a meaningless, meaningless Week eighteen
game from the Detroit Lions up in lambeau Field.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
This was great.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
If the Packers had won this game and Aaron Rodgers
was able to get past Jared Golf, the Packers were
going to the playoffs. The Lions had nothing to play for.
And yet the Lions went up into Lambeau a young,
upstart team that had been through two decades of futility,
and they shocked the Packers by beating them in a
game that was winning in at home Okbar. On a
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fourth and one, with less than two minutes to go
and no team having timeouts left, the Lions decided to
go for it despite being up in this game, instead
of kicking a field goal. Question is to you on
fourth and one, which Lions player caught the pass to
officially eliminate the Packers from playoff contention in Week eighteen,
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twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Remember fourth and one, Lions have.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
The ball, They don't run the ball, they throw it
and they say, let's just end this thing right here
a sign of a moment with a sign of things
to come for Dan Campbell, if you will.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Who caught it?
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Aman Ross, Saint Brown, David Montgomery, DeAndre Swift or DJ.
Speaker 11 (17:07):
Shark Okay, years ago this is in Lambeau St.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
Brown.
Speaker 11 (17:17):
I don't remember this one being a big one for
a Monroe Saint Brown. DJ Shark seems like I think
it was DJ Shark in this one. I was actually
in Green Bay during this time and I couldn't get
me and my brother to get to the game because
he was doing whatever.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
Uh this was?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
This was DJ Shark all right?
Speaker 8 (17:42):
Mistaken?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Okay, let's go to Mike.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Too, Rico who lives in ann Arbor, Michigan, and Chris Collinsworth,
who I've seen a lot of great Aaron Rodgers moments,
but not a lot of great Detroit Lions moments up
to this point.
Speaker 14 (18:00):
If the Lions get by the yard and a half,
they can run out the Clocket's Seattle, we'll go to
the playoffs.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
But if they don't, Aaron Rodgers has a chance to
win it.
Speaker 14 (18:10):
The season comes down to a snap and gob is
looking to throw any.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
The first down my DJ Shark.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
And you can hear them from all the way in Seattle.
Speaker 14 (18:22):
The Lions have come into Lambo and if knocked the
Packers down and help.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Done.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Kyle mentioned it here, guys.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
That was Aaron Rodgers's last game as a Green Bay Packer.
He lost in a regular season finale that was winning
in against the Lions team that was not going to
the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Kyle, what do you remember? I got chills watching that?
Speaker 6 (18:43):
First of all, I remember the day with DJ Shark
was always gonna go DJ Shark, D did DJ and
that was his thing. But Rogers walks off with Randall
Cobb into the tunnel eighteen years in Lambeau.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
That is his final game? Unbelievable?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
And was that not a sign of things to come?
Like fourth and one? Screw it, let's go show it.
Let's ask the ball that was Dan Campbell.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Awesome moment, Jamie, you're lighting up the screen with your
shirt with that black background.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I love it. You're electric right highlight. It's awesome.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
You are the Washington Commanders are going back to the
playoffs now.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
In two thousand and.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Twelve, the Robert Griffin led Washington team went to the
playoffs as well, but they didn't get there until a
final week seventeen regular season win over the Cowboys. Jamie,
which Washington running back, ran for two hundred yards three
touchdowns on thirty three carries in an NFC East Division
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clinching win over the Cowboys in twenty twelve.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Was it a Clinton Portis? Was it b Alfred Morris?
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Was it c Samaj p Ryan who's still playing today for.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
The Kansas City Chiefs? Or was it d Adrian Peterson?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Are you trying to tell me that Samaji Peter was
playing in twenty twelve? That blows my mind just saying
it out loud. Try to trick you into telling you, pear.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
He didn't take the bait.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Twenty twelve, Adrian Peterson was still with the Vikkings. It's
not Adrian Peterson. So I had just graduated from college
the year before in Washington, See, so I had cared
a little bit about what was going on with that team.
They drafted Alfred Morris that spring, and that's the only
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name all the name that jumps off the screen to me.
So I'm gonna go be Alfred Morris.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Alfred mos go off for two hundred yards and three
tugs in a division clinching win.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Over the Cowboys.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Think about this, Tony Rubbo and the Cowboys come in
final week in the season and Robert Griffin is the
offensive rookie of the year. He's the story in the NFL.
And then Alfred Morris just does.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
His famous swinging a bat man and Alfred.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Morris goes for two hundred yards. Wax poetic on Alfred
Morris in his car.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
I mean Bentley go on.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I believe it was a Nissan or some student.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Three hundred thousand miles on it, and he was running
out in the yard of Mazda and they're like, why
don't you get a new cars? Like, why would I
ever get rid of Bentley and it just became the story.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
They got so beat into a pulp. It was unbelievably charming.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
And Morris was money, I said, Rookie Robert Griffin the
third and at the time the Redskins now the commanders
to the playoffs, and they took down Tony Romo and
the Cowboys to win the NFC East title. An incredible
moment for Washington football.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Jamie out, Morris, you nailed it well, Peter.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
That spring, I was like trying to be on TV,
and I had like audition to work for the team,
and I was like studying the craft and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
I didn't get the job. But we're here now, so
that's great. Okay.
Speaker 11 (21:51):
It was the nineteen ninety Mazda six to six. Yeah, Yeah,
that's unbelieva.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Hey, Jamie, that's the best thing that ever happened. Those
were not great years for DC. I'm happy you were
not in that book. We're here instead.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
We're happy. Okay.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
All right, So Jamie and ackbar both got it right.
And now I'm gonna get some question about dude, whar's
my car?
Speaker 9 (22:09):
Is that?
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Where I watched?
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Actually, let's go to the next you already got okay.
In week seventeen of the twenty eleven season, they bench
Aaron Rodgers in the final week of the season and
Matt Flynn comes in, who had not played at all,
and the dude throws for.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Six touchdown passes.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
I think this is your narrow game in history. I
love that you love this game so much? Did you too?
Speaker 5 (22:30):
The guy Flynn was the long time backup. They're like
Thatplen's gonna play finally because he throws for six touchdown passes?
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Right?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Does this end up signing.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
A huge deal with Seattle in the offseason, which, of
course he never would start from them because Russell Wilson
beat Hi Mountain training camp.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
This was January second, twenty twelve. Matt Flynn looked like
Joe Montana, Steve Young, Frank Tarkenton, and Dan Marino.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
All in one. So good, and he got paid off
of his game.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
He about like four million dollars per touchdown.
Speaker 13 (22:58):
I think he did.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Jordy Nelson, awesome stuff.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
Oh, Jordy, send him a septer that Lewis.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Delmass He just sent them to the bottom of the earth.
Hellout DeAndre Levy.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Anyway, the number one song in America on the day
that Matt Flynn threw six touchdowns in January second, twenty
twelve was one of these songs.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
What was it?
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Let's go to the Billboard charts.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
We Found Love sung by Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris. Sexy
and I Know It by Lmfao shout out to Red Food.
I Won't Give Up by Jason Mrazzs Change Your.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Name, Dude?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Or Hours by Taylor Swift.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Off an album that apparently came out.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
In two thousand, Yeah twelve.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
I've learned a lot of Taylor Swift songs the past
a couple years.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I don't know about Jamie, do you know Hours? I
don't know that.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
I think that's one of her early and it might
be up the Red album.
Speaker 11 (23:54):
R Okay, all.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
Right, listen twenty twelve. Tough for me.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
This is post marriage, pre kids, so host marriage, host
marriage still Mary, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
Mary, okay, post wedding. Yes, I hope I'm never post married.
I just know these guys.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
It's it's sexy and I know that song was everywhere.
It was in this commercial where hamsters were dancing like that.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
It was constant.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
I feel like there was definitely an NFL tie in
with LMFAO.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
They were everywhere.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
So I'm gonna go with be with respect to Maras
Maras and Rihanna and all that.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
I'm gonna go sexy and I know it.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
So that was a number two song in America and
LMFAO would eventually have another.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Song that was huge. They would be at the US Open,
he would be dancing everywhere.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Dave Data The correct answers a, we found love.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
That's a good song.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
It was Rihanna, it was Calvin Harris. It was the
song of the year that holiday season. The answers a,
we found love in a hope with.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
Place and I found love with my wife and we
were still married and then we ended up naming our
son Calvin and so it all together.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Yes, So that's it.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Damn Red Food, I thought you were gonna be there.
Haven't heard the lost of him? What's what?
Speaker 8 (25:04):
Well?
Speaker 2 (25:04):
I heard Kendrick Lamar's gonna have some guests this this
oh the return?
Speaker 5 (25:10):
What do you say, Kendrick Kendrick Lamar's first guest, Red Foo.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
Hey, and I know if.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Sorry, Yeah, that one's gonna get the crowd fired up,
all right.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Video clue. It was your video clue. We all get
to chime in.
Speaker 15 (25:27):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
The Jets and Dolphins play this weekend. The Jets and
Dolphins sixteen years ago had a huge final week of
the regular season game. It was Brett Favre versus Chad Pennington.
It was Eric man Jeanie versus the late Tony Sperano.
It was in the Meadowlands in the Old Giant Stadium,
and the winner went to the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
The loser went home. Let's go to this huge play
in the third quarter.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
What happens on this third quarter play that put this
game away and sent Chad Pennington, the former Jet to
the playoff and sent Brett Farre, the former four time.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
MVP back home. Let's get some choices here.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
It's a second and nine, It is.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
On that the twenty yard line.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Is it a a Chad Pennington twenty yard touchdown run?
Is it B an Anthony Fossano twenty yard touchdown reception?
Is it C a Ted gin Junior twenty yard end
a round touchdown? Or is it d our Guy Alronde
Gadsen having a twenty yard touchdown reception. We're gonna go
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left to right, so akbar Jamie Kyle take a shot.
Speaker 11 (26:41):
Okay, this one right here, I'm gonna have to go.
I don't remember this point, but I'm gonna go Teddy
Gan Junior twenty yard end a round touchdown for this one. Yeah,
it's gonna be Teddy. We were at the Dolphins together
for a little bit the seventh.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Peter, I don't know what to do when you don't
give me a pick six as an option. I always
picked the pick six, so I have to take something else.
I will go be Anthony Fassana, Oh twenty yard TV reception.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
If I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
This is the year Chad Pennington finished second and MVP
boating too. Peyton Manning still did not make the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 7 (27:17):
Pro bple announcements coming later on Good Morning Football.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
I will go with Pennington A with a twenty yard run.
This isn't the stinky leg one. I don't know, but
I do think why not Pennington twenty yard run?
Speaker 5 (27:26):
Let me set the stage a little bit far from
The Jets were red hot the start. They fell apart
a the end of the season. Pennington was like this,
like all right, fine, Chad Pennington's going to be the
quarterback takes them all the way, that goes back into
his old building and the touchdown he throws is to
a New Jersey native and a Notre Dame legend.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
Ah go on.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Second at nine, make sure my quarterback.
Speaker 7 (27:46):
Is standing up. That's one of those mottos. Here's his
quarterback throwing for.
Speaker 13 (27:51):
The end zone and a cats just made by Anthony Fasano.
Speaker 7 (27:56):
What an adjustment that was.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
It was We've seen some tremendous adjustments to the football today.
Speaker 14 (28:03):
A Jersey boy from Verona High School comes back home.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
What a cash highlight Anthony Fersao. Let's go Jamie Ardal
Kyle some Anthony Fassano memories.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
Just Peter, listen, what is it? Was it Verona Heights,
Verona High School.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
He was not a del Barton guy something like that
was housed about Verona High School.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Just a North Jersey high school. And Fassano was the
ultimate at that time. He was like like peak Jersey
was Anthony, Jersey Shore was out. Anthony Fossano was a.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Star Notre Dame and then goes back into his old
building and he scores that touchdown. Of course, he's most famous,
I think for the fake lambeau leap that he did
when he did it against the Packers.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
Was a great coal. That's what they call trolling. Unbelievable.
Shout out to New Jersey.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
Let's go all right, guys, that was trivia. We'll see
you next week wild card rounds.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
Yeah, doesn't look as big as he is.
Speaker 8 (29:00):
Uh, he doesn't look as fast as he is.
Speaker 7 (29:03):
He has real good vision.
Speaker 15 (29:05):
You really can't get a clean shot on him, not
one of those shots that.
Speaker 8 (29:09):
Will knock him out of the game.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
You will probably arm tackle him.
Speaker 8 (29:13):
He very seldom get a clean knockout shot on Eric Dickerson.
Speaker 15 (29:18):
He runs a four to three forty. He's for a
big guy, He's one of the quickest guys I've ever
seen in my life. When he runs, he looks like
he's not running fast, but he can hit a open
and he can hit a hole so quick's unreal. You're
looking at the great one, the Walter Payton, the Earl Campbell's,
the Jim Brown, Mary Dickerson.
Speaker 14 (29:39):
You have one that is in that upper upper.
Speaker 9 (29:41):
Upper echelon that only come along very seldom.
Speaker 8 (29:44):
Man. When you do have one, you catch lightning in
a jug.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
There is decades after he stopped playing, Eric Dickerson's been
all over the news in the last couple of weeks,
and it's because of his nineteen eighty four season, which
he ran for twenty five yards, a record that Saquon
Barkley will not break with the Philadelphia Eagles this year,
and a record that no one has broken in forty years.
Dan Marino's single season passing record was broken, Jerry Rice's
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single season receiving record was broken, and yet Dickerson still stands.
Speaker 7 (30:16):
There four decades later.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
And you might not have been alive when he broke it,
or like me, you might have been too young to
remember it. So I think it's important, especially this weekend,
when you're gonna be hearing about it more and more,
to look back with our films and our access and
our perspective on how this happened.
Speaker 7 (30:31):
Let's get into it.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
Nineteen eighty four was Eric Dickerson's second season in the NFL.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
He was playing with the John Robinson La Rams.
Speaker 6 (30:38):
Let's take a quick look though at his rookie season,
which was hilarious. This is the nineteen eighty three legendary
draft second overall pick. Let's get rambunctious second overall pick
behind John Elway, legendary running back out of Southern Methodists
with the Specs and the Gogs got a ridiculous rookie
year eighteen hundred plus rookids as a rookie with nearly
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four hundred carries, it was it was fresh, it was
a neck roll, it was glasses.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
It was different.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
But there was the sense of that, all right, rookie,
what do you do for an encore?
Speaker 7 (31:12):
How do you follow that up? While he followed it
up with history.
Speaker 6 (31:15):
The nineteen eighty four season, let's get into it. Starting
Week one against Dallas, one hundred and thirty eight yards
on twenty one carries. La is Cool, It's hot, Ghostbusters
the number one movie in the box office. Dickerson's running
guys over, It's amazing. Week two follows it up with
one hundred and two yards against Cleveland. He's cruising and
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then he hits a roadblock in the form of the
Chuck Noll Steelers at three Rivers Stadium. Week three against Pittsburgh,
Dickerson has forty nine yards on twenty three carries in
a double digit loss. Next week, the Sam Wiss Bengals
and their defensive coordinator Dick Lebau pulled them to.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Eighty nine yards in the Bengals on.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
The turf, So through four games he's got three hundred
and seventy eight. It's nothing special.
Speaker 6 (32:06):
They're kind of buckling up and maybe this isn't letdown here.
But then he started cooking, and his Hall of.
Speaker 7 (32:12):
Fame teammate Jackie Slater loved it.
Speaker 14 (32:17):
Bickers been cut up inside to forty five forty lookout.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
It's exciting. It's exciting to know that you have that
kind of explosiveness coming out back field man.
Speaker 6 (32:31):
One twenty against the Giants one oh seven and a
loss to Atlanta, and then on the turf in the
Superdome one seventy five against the Kenny.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Stabler, Pearl Campbell Saints.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
Yes, at the end of the europe Can he had
Campbell and Dickerson together. Dixon went for one seventy five,
then one forty five in a rematch with Atlanta. Now
he's cruising nine hundred and twenty five yards in eight games,
incredible pace. And then the first place Bill Walsh forty
nine ers come to Anaheim Stadium.
Speaker 7 (33:05):
And stopped him. This defense.
Speaker 6 (33:08):
All four members of the secondary win the Pro Bowl.
Ronnie led by Ronnie Lott, coached by Ray Rhodes, Montana
cooked done this day. He had over three hundred yards.
He had three touchdowns. The star was not Eric Dixon,
it was Dwight Clark, who was all over the field.
This defense would eventually shut out the eighty four Bears
in the NFC Title Game and beat Dan Marino in
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the Super Bowl by three touchdowns. Dickerson stuffed, can he
recover or you better believe he can recover? Next week,
Eric Dickerson rebounded with a ten yards per carry masterpiece
against the Saint Louis Cardinals. Think about this is the
Rams at Saint Louis, but they're not the team in
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Saint Louis.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
He went absolutely nuts, two.
Speaker 7 (33:53):
Hundred and eight yard ten.
Speaker 6 (33:54):
I said, almost ten yards a click, and then we're
just then we're in montage mode. One forty nine against
a tough Bears defense, one thirty two against Green Bay,
one against Tampa, won forty nine against the Saints, and
then he goes against the Oilers. He is over two
hundred yards away from two thousand. He's over two hundred
yards away from breaking OJ Simpson's single season record, and
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on twenty seven ruling carries against a bad Hugh Campbell
Oilers team in Anaheim.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
Dickerson goes for.
Speaker 16 (34:26):
Two fifteen and surpasses oj single season record, albeit in
more games, on a fourth quarter handoff from Jeff Kemp
on Dickerson's signature play forty seven gap.
Speaker 14 (34:42):
Hey, He's got it at a brand News Shingo jes
a rushing record for the upstanding shot from shada level.
Speaker 8 (34:49):
The thing that made that record so especially that all
the players were involved in. Every guy wanted a piece
of that. They were just like, man, big, hey, go ahead,
need it today. I mean, and that made me feel good.
And I think that's what that record means to me.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
In a forty year old game recap, after the game,
Dickerson said, I can't explain the feeling. I'm just on
a natural high. I don't know what to say to OJ.
I still respect him. He's still the best. I did
it in fourteen games.
Speaker 7 (35:15):
He did in fifteen. Here's what's fascinating. Everyone thought that
he would break it in the last game of the season.
Speaker 6 (35:20):
Because the last game the season was against San Francisco
and OJ was on the broadcast. He was in the
booth as a color commentator, and this will happen. He
went so nuts against the Oilers that he broke it
the week prior, still played in the last game of
the season and tacked on ninety eight yards and twenty
six carries and a loss to the forty nine Ers.
Here's what's very interesting that Rams team going into that
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last game was ten and five.
Speaker 7 (35:45):
Their playoff spot was secure.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
It's very similar to what's going on in Philadelphia and
the recently passed John Robinson rest in piece played him.
Dickerson carried the ball a whole bunch of times. He
buried the record at twenty one oh five. They lost
in the wild card round. That's the season, guys. I
think it's at some point it will be broken the
twenty one oh five sometime in the next decade, in
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sixteen games, in seventeen games, maybe even in eighteen games.
But when it does, remember nineteen eighty four because when
that record is broken, big brother Dickerson in the respecs
will be watching.
Speaker 7 (36:22):
And that takes us to this weekend and.
Speaker 5 (36:25):
It's incredible retrospective. I love that you do because we
always talk about the record, and we even talk about.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
OJ seventy three season.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
So we did it in fourteen games, Dickerson, he did
it also in fifteen like he did it.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
He did it in that time. I earlier said on
the show.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
The football historian in me, I would have liked to
see in Saquon at least try for this thing in
the first half and if they put it some parameters,
we won't see that.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
For shame for many of us who want to.
Speaker 5 (36:51):
Just look at individual records, but likely the better decision
long term for the Philadelphia Eagles if they really want
to do this thing in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 11 (36:58):
Yeah, and it would have been cool to see it.
And it's so special to see what Eric Dickerson did,
especially and that time in that era where they were
running the ball a whole lot. You think, and you
look at his career. You know, in that eighty four
season he ran the ball three hundred and seventy nine times.
The year before three ninety, a couple of years later
in eighty six, he ran four hundred and four times.
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You don't see that type of number. In fact, Saquon
Barkley just ran three hundred and forty five times this season.
That's the first time he's ever hit and eclipsed the
three hundred mark. So it just lets you know that,
you know, although the games are different, how many games
that they have are different for Saquon to do what
he's doing in this era where they're passing the ball
a lot more and you don't see a lot of
guys carrying the ball three hundred plus times, special special
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for both.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Did you say one hundred and seventy five yards in
the Superdome?
Speaker 2 (37:47):
You say that he went nutshit?
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Ridiculous? That is absolutely ridiculous. Very excellent highlights. That one
jumped out to me. Especially it was against Kenny Stablor,
Kenny the Sneak Stabler, so good
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Bosha bat Miller, Peter Schreker, Kyle Brant. I'm Jamie Rdall.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
How you doing. I am doing great. That is good.
We've got announcements going on today. We've got some good
things going here. We do walk bar.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
The announcement of which you refer to is the fact
that the next hour of our show, we will be
announcing the Pro Bowl rosters for both the NFC and
the AFC, all eighty eight players.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
It's happening right here, Peter and Kyle.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
This is such a thrill. It is cool.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
There used to be a Pro Bowl announcement television show
that was like in primetime, and.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
We would have to hype that.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Now they gave us the gift and it's pretty cool.
Today you're going to find out all the Pro Bowl
rosters and there are some players missing that might really
bother you.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Let's celebrate that as well.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
We will, and we have some history too. This has
never happened before. I don't know if I'm supposed to
divulge this right now.
Speaker 7 (01:27):
Oh great.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
For the first time ever a college player has made
the Pro Bowl. Camp scattaboc Pro Bowl team from Arizona State.
Speaker 7 (01:34):
He's playing, and he's going to be the MVP, and
he might be the Super Bowl MVP.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
I'm going to abandon everything I have developed in my
life and I'm just going to follow camp scattable around
the country.
Speaker 7 (01:43):
That's my guy. That guy's a national hero. I love him.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Camp Scattabo had more votes than Travis Kelcey in the
last twelve hours than Travis Kelsey did over the last
like five months.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
It's perfect, camp scattaboy, you see you.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
We are going to talk Bowl games, of course, just
a little bit, just to see what we've been watching
over the last couple of days. But for now, let's
focus on some Pro bowler, shall we. There is a
guy that we've been talking a lot of out this week,
and it's Takuon Barkley. Whether or not he will play
lee block this weekend.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Against the Giants.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
This matters purely for a rushing record that we have
been discussing and debating, and it's a hot topic. However,
the decision is now made that Sakuon Barkley, the announcement
came out yesterday, will not play against his former team
on Sunday. This means that rushing record will end, or
his rushing season will end at two thousand and five yards,
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exactly one hundred yards behind Eric Dickerson's single season record
of twenty five. The decision, of course, is not easy
to make in Philadelphia.
Speaker 8 (02:41):
Obviously.
Speaker 9 (02:41):
It's a very special record that's that's been you know,
standing for a very long time by a great player.
It's a team record, you know, it's a it's a
team record that everybody's involved in. So you take, you
weigh in all those things, but at the end of
the day, you just try to do what's best for
the team.
Speaker 10 (03:00):
I mean, he asked me if I wanted to play,
if I want to go for it, I said, Sunday.
You know, I probably didn't care too much for it.
When I slept on it, it was like it was
an opportunity to imploint my you know, my name in
football history may never get another opportunity like that again.
So I'm down. But at the end of the day,
like I don't care for putting the team at risk.
Speaker 11 (03:21):
Is somebody in your family who did take it the
hardest following Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 10 (03:25):
He tried to act like he didn't, but you know
he called me yesterday, try to say happy New Years,
check up with me. But he definitely wanted me to play,
you know, selfishly for him. You got to think about
it for however long, whether it would take a year
if I would have broken it, or for someone to
break it, or another forty fifty years our last name
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would have been attached to that. So I see it
from that side too. But at the end of the day,
the most important thing is one of the football games.
And he's the one that raised me to kind of
be all about the team too, So he could have
his little selfish moment, but he'll get over.
Speaker 12 (04:00):
Yes, for him, I would love, you know, that would
be awesome to say. You know, I have the NFL
rushing record for a single season, so you know, I
would love for him to get it. But at the
same time, I know, I know what's at stake or
you know what's in store? And uh so that's that's
my point of view.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
All right.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
So that was Lane Johnson from our show yesterday. We
asked sequence teammate and the guy that helped him get
there whether or not he would want him to play
this weekend. Everyone has their own decision and opinion about it. However,
it has finally come down, Peter your thoughts and the
fact that the Eagles will rest their star running back
Saquon Barkley in week eighteen.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
It's such an interesting scenario because I don't have a
long recollection of situations like this where it was players
desires versus team's long term interests, and then coach is
the one putting his thumb on the scale and making
the final decision, and the player obviously wasn't over the
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top thrilled with it like it would have been one
thing at Saquon yesterday came out and was like I
get it, I love it, let's go. We're gonna said,
Saquon's being very honest and candid, and he's right. You know,
this record has stood for forty years. I don't know
if anyone's gonna get an opportunity to break it after this,
This would have been the greatest running back season we've
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ever seen, and I think he would have broken it
against his former team.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I think that matters.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Afterwards, Lane Johnson within the locker room and he was
talking and he's like, you know, I've done a lot
of research on this. I watched a Barry Sanders documentary
and Barry walked away right before he could have broken
all the rushing records. And I don't think we diminished Barry's.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Career because of that.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
We still look at Barry Sanders as the guy, even
though it's not his name in the record books. This
one's different, Like if they lose in the divisional round,
all right, if those in the NFC Championship came out,
I think it put a lot of pressure, like you
have to.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Go win a super Bowl right now. I really do
feel that way.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
And Saquon laughed and said he'd sacrificed it earlier in
the season, where like, do you want to go back
in against the Giants in that meaningless game where he
was running up and down and he's like, nah, let
the young guys eat. Maybe he should have stayed if
he had known that he won't think I get a
chance to break the all time record by the same
coach I had asked to go in in a game
earlier in September. So I'm gonna come off as a
fantasy football guys, and I'm like, I love the NFL
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record book.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I think it matters.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
And when you get this close to NFL history to
then take the foot off the pedal, that's a decision
that the team made. They'll have to live with that,
and that's fine. I obviously understand it. Last year, in
a Week eighteen game against the Giants, AJ Brown hurt
his legg he missed the playoff game, and they lost
to the Buccaneers.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
So, like, I get it, they've got.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Scar tissue there as an Eagles franchise based on last
year alone. But selfishly, this could have been one of
the coolest running back seasons of all time. Who knows,
he could have broken it in the first quarter and
then he could have wrest the last three quarters.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
We'll never know.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
And I would have liked seeing the name Barkley and
those record books.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
Yeah, I would too.
Speaker 11 (06:46):
I mean, you guys know how passionate I've been about
Saquon Barkley. It's a great opportunity, especially going up against
the Giants. And I'm not just talking about because it's
his former team talking about because it's a great opportunity
to go and against a run defense that would not
be able to stop him. I could easily see a
scenario where they could have given him maybe ten to
fifteen and he could have probably popped off, you know,
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at least two big runs to be able to get
to that one hundred and one yard that he needs
to break it. But I will say this that what
he's done is absolutely phenomenal. What he has done is
absolutely phenomenal, especially in a passing, you know, era of football.
This is a freakish thing. I know a lot of
people will say even if he did break it, it's
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in a seventeen game season, and I will just say
they weren't throwing the ball like that then back then
during the Aaron Dickerson years as they are doing now.
So shout out to Saquon Barklay. I hate that he's
not going to be able to get it. And I'm
just like you, Peter, I'm a big fan. I would
love to have seen this happen for sa Kuon Barkley
because I think for a player, as a player, it
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means something. It meant something to Michael Strahan when he
was able to become the all time season SAC leader,
and I know that would mean a lot to Saquan
as well.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
I hear you, man, I really do.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
And I find myself as a watching these highlights like
I'm melancholy about this. I'm kind of sad, and I'm
something that you're never supposed to be in sports media,
which is I'm conflicted. I talked a lot earlier in
the week, and I encouraged Nick Sirianni from our modest
platform here to sit him down, do the responsible thing,
think about the team, and he did.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
I got me thinking now, though.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
So over the decades, there's been over three thousand.
Speaker 7 (08:27):
Players who have a Super Bowl ring.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Over the years, there's never ever been any player who
run for more than twenty one hundred and five yards. Ever,
there's twenty five running backs in the Hall of Fame.
None of them have ever run for over twenty one
hundred and five yards.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
He would be.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
One of one, and yet I still think it is
very special. He's not one of one, but he is
one of nine to ever run for two thousand yards,
and that is an incredibly exclusive club. If he was
sitting on nineteen and oh three right now, this season
would be way more forgettable.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
It really would.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
There's something about that two thousand number that is truly
special that will never be taken away from him. And
I would say this to Saei Kuan at Whitehall High School.
He never won a state championship. He was prolific, legend,
never won state in state college Pennsylvania.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
He was a legend, he was an icon.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
He never won a national championship.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
He was never in that title game to know, and
none of that stuff. He's always been prolific, He's always
had amazing numbers, He's always been special.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
He's never had a really special team. Ever.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
That's really what's missing for Saquon. A special team, a
super Bowl team.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
I think that's the deal here.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
And I would say this to Nick Siriani, who takes
a lot of crap for being childlike or erratic.
Speaker 7 (09:44):
This was an adult in the room decision, and it's
easy to say, ascre it.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Let's just roll the diet. It'll be great for Saquon,
it'll be great for the team, It'll be great for
the organization. We may have had this record for fifty
years and the Eagles had the all time. Siriani and
sure certainly other people weighed in made the decision about No,
we're gonna go with the team decision, not this that's hard.
I'm I'm sure Sirianni sees Saquon on that hood on
kind of sad and depressed.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
Talking about his father.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
That probably hurts all Roseman, Siriani, Lurie, everybody, Let's see
how Saquon comes out after a week of rest in
the wildcard round watching one for one hundred and ninety
yards like boom, there you go. I'm impressed with the
Eagles decision. I'm sad for Saquon, but I think he's
got some bigger things to achieve and I think you will.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Kyle really really well said thank you for painting all
the corners. Everybody, Mike yourfolo, welcome inside a GMFB. You
are a Philadelphia guy. You've covered the Eagles for a
long time. You know the ins and outs of this team,
but specifically this running back. Just take us more inside
the locker room and the decision behind this.
Speaker 13 (10:45):
Speaking of the locker room, when I left that Stadium
on Sunday, Jamie, good morning. I really felt like Saquon
Barkley was one hundred percent toward not playing in this game,
and he probably was.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
And then on Monday it sounded like no.
Speaker 13 (10:57):
Decision had been made and everybody wanted to kind of
go to their neutral corners and come back together on Tuesday,
and at that point they were still towards sitting him.
So it's interesting to hear Barkley kind of say that
this was tugging on him a little bit, because I
do think it changed within the course of the last
couple of days to think Bo's right there for the taking.
But it wouldn't have just had to be him playing.
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It would have had to been the entire offensive line.
I think that was a big part of what the
Eagles were trying to decide on this one, Jamie, And
I know that Nick Sirianni referenced Devonte Smith getting the
rookie receiving record for the Eagles. Excuse me a couple
of years ago in that last game against the Cowboys,
he only needed like thirty something yards. He was out
of there early in the second quarter. For Saquon Barkley,
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it would have taken a little bit longer, in large
part because I joked about this. It's still here on
the Insiders the other day.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
This was my joke.
Speaker 13 (11:44):
I got this out of the Giants game plan book
this week.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
That's eleven players in the box.
Speaker 13 (11:49):
There's no way the Giants were gonna let him get
this record easily, let the receivers run free on the outside.
Put everybody in the box to stop that from happening
against us.
Speaker 7 (11:57):
Point.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Hey, Mike mag I got a question for you. You
know you follow that team. You also follow the Giants closely,
but you're in the locker room and we saw you
in the postgame talking.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
To AJ Brown all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Kyle and I were talking about this in the commercial
break before the show.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
If Saquon had.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
Come out on Tuesday morning and walked into Sirianni's office
and it's like, dude, like I need this record, I
need I want this, I need this, tweeted it, and
he tweeted, and he had did a different way than
been like kind of you know, well, this is what
do you think It would have been a different decision
if Saquon had put his foot on this thing and
said I want the record.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Dang it.
Speaker 13 (12:29):
I'm not so sure because this was an entire organization
wide decision, Peter. It's not like it was Sirianni and Barkley.
Everybody was in on this conversation. Howie Rosmen was in
on the conversation, Jeffrey Lourie as well, and I think
everybody would have kind of come together and say, look,
we understand, we just can't have you hurt. Because again,
like I said, it's not just him. It's not just
like you could put him out at wide receiver and
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he's kind of sort of isolated and you call some
stuff for him. You would have had to play the
offensive lineman. Now, having talked to those offensive linemen all
year long, I've had a multiple conversations with Jordan Malata
about this. He would have loved to see Barkley get
the record, and those guys I'm sure would have volunteered
as well. So now you're putting all those guys out
there in harm's way as well. Obviously, the team goals
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are the biggest thing for the Eagles, even Barkley after
that game on Sunday set it's my first.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Hat and T shirt game.
Speaker 13 (13:17):
I didn't even know these things existed.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Mike, do you appreciate that?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Moving forward to a game that we have all been
focused on Sunday night football, It's Packers or excuse me,
it's Lions Vikings. The NFC North looks awesome. The Packers
will sit and watch those two teams figure out who
is the one seed or the five seed. The Packers
will move forward in the playoffs, but without a massive
piece of their defense.
Speaker 13 (13:42):
Yeah, you're Alexander with that knee injury that he's had,
and he's been managing the last couple of weeks, had
surgery on that knee, and the expectation is that he
is done for the season after undergoing that procedure on
the kneed. As a disappointing one for the Green Bay
Packers because of how important he.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
Is to that defense.
Speaker 13 (14:00):
And I say he's important, but we're heading into the
non guaranteed portion of his kind. So is it potentially
the last game he's played for the Packers. He's got
some big numbers the next couple of years we sh
out see, but for now, a very very very slim
chant that he would return deep into the postseason. Meanwhile,
the Miami Dolphins looking like they are going to start
Snoop Huntley this upcoming weekend, and not to a tongue
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of Bai Looo who's dealing with that hip injury there.
At least that's the way they're approaching it. If they
get a surprise to the positive side with Tua, they
can always kind of revert and slide him back in,
But for now, it looks like it's going to be
Tyler Huntley and for the La Rams, it is going
to be Jimmy Garoffolo getting the start for the Rams
this week, a chance for him to kind of reset here.
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Remember last year it was Carson Wentz who got the
start for the Rams late in the season there in
the last week and reset himself and his value as well.
Could be the same for Jimmy Garoppolo. We've got a
lot of quarterback seats potentially to fill this offseason, so
Garoppolo getting the chance to show what he's able to
do once again in a really good offensive system for
a head coach who has a appreciated the way that
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Garoppolo has approached being a backup quarterback in the league
this year. Weekend and weekend.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Welcome back to gmfb let Dot Trivia on Thursdays. It's
a really cool week for the NFL because it's the
final week of the regular season, and we have great
history with the final week of the regular season, not
only for records and for stats, but of course for
shocking upsets and for playoff seedings and for teams that
got into the playoffs on the final play of the
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regular season. We recently expanded to eighteen weeks that used
to be sixteen seventeen. Achbar, We're gonna go down the
memory lane here. We're gonna hit some famous final regular
season week moments, and let's.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Just go back two years ago, all right.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
One of the coolest wins that kick started a franchise,
maybe an NFL history was a meaningless, meaningless Week eighteen
game from the Detroit Lions up in lambeau Field.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
This was great.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
If the Packers had won this game and Aaron Rodgers
was able to get past Jared Golf, the Packers were
going to the playoffs. The Lions had nothing to play for.
And yet the Lions went up into Lambeau a young,
upstart team that had been through two decades of futility,
and they shocked the Packers by beating them in a
game that was winning in at home Okbar. On a
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fourth and one, with less than two minutes to go
and no team having timeouts left, the Lions decided to
go for it despite being up in this game, instead
of kicking a field goal. Question is to you on
fourth and one, which Lions player caught the pass to
officially eliminate the Packers from playoff contention in Week eighteen,
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twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Remember fourth and one, Lions have.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
The ball, They don't run the ball, they throw it
and they say, let's just end this thing right here
a sign of a moment with a sign of things
to come for Dan Campbell, if you will.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Who caught it?
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Aman Ross, Saint Brown, David Montgomery, DeAndre Swift or DJ.
Speaker 11 (17:07):
Shark Okay, years ago this is in Lambeau St.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
Brown.
Speaker 11 (17:17):
I don't remember this one being a big one for
a Monroe Saint Brown. DJ Shark seems like I think
it was DJ Shark in this one. I was actually
in Green Bay during this time and I couldn't get
me and my brother to get to the game because
he was doing whatever.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
Uh this was?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
This was DJ Shark all right?
Speaker 8 (17:42):
Mistaken?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Okay, let's go to Mike.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Too, Rico who lives in ann Arbor, Michigan, and Chris Collinsworth,
who I've seen a lot of great Aaron Rodgers moments,
but not a lot of great Detroit Lions moments up
to this point.
Speaker 14 (18:00):
If the Lions get by the yard and a half,
they can run out the Clocket's Seattle, we'll go to
the playoffs.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
But if they don't, Aaron Rodgers has a chance to
win it.
Speaker 14 (18:10):
The season comes down to a snap and gob is
looking to throw any.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
The first down my DJ Shark.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
And you can hear them from all the way in Seattle.
Speaker 14 (18:22):
The Lions have come into Lambo and if knocked the
Packers down and help.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
Done.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Kyle mentioned it here, guys.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
That was Aaron Rodgers's last game as a Green Bay Packer.
He lost in a regular season finale that was winning
in against the Lions team that was not going to
the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Kyle, what do you remember? I got chills watching that?
Speaker 6 (18:43):
First of all, I remember the day with DJ Shark
was always gonna go DJ Shark, D did DJ and
that was his thing. But Rogers walks off with Randall
Cobb into the tunnel eighteen years in Lambeau.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
That is his final game? Unbelievable?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
And was that not a sign of things to come?
Like fourth and one? Screw it, let's go show it.
Let's ask the ball that was Dan Campbell.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Awesome moment, Jamie, you're lighting up the screen with your
shirt with that black background.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I love it. You're electric right highlight. It's awesome.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
You are the Washington Commanders are going back to the
playoffs now.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
In two thousand and.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
Twelve, the Robert Griffin led Washington team went to the
playoffs as well, but they didn't get there until a
final week seventeen regular season win over the Cowboys. Jamie,
which Washington running back, ran for two hundred yards three
touchdowns on thirty three carries in an NFC East Division
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clinching win over the Cowboys in twenty twelve.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Was it a Clinton Portis? Was it b Alfred Morris?
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Was it c Samaj p Ryan who's still playing today for.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
The Kansas City Chiefs? Or was it d Adrian Peterson?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Are you trying to tell me that Samaji Peter was
playing in twenty twelve? That blows my mind just saying
it out loud. Try to trick you into telling you, pear.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
He didn't take the bait.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Twenty twelve, Adrian Peterson was still with the Vikkings. It's
not Adrian Peterson. So I had just graduated from college
the year before in Washington, See, so I had cared
a little bit about what was going on with that team.
They drafted Alfred Morris that spring, and that's the only
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name all the name that jumps off the screen to me.
So I'm gonna go be Alfred Morris.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Alfred mos go off for two hundred yards and three
tugs in a division clinching win.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Over the Cowboys.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Think about this, Tony Rubbo and the Cowboys come in
final week in the season and Robert Griffin is the
offensive rookie of the year. He's the story in the NFL.
And then Alfred Morris just does.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
His famous swinging a bat man and Alfred.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Morris goes for two hundred yards. Wax poetic on Alfred
Morris in his car.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
I mean Bentley go on.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I believe it was a Nissan or some student.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Three hundred thousand miles on it, and he was running
out in the yard of Mazda and they're like, why
don't you get a new cars? Like, why would I
ever get rid of Bentley and it just became the story.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
They got so beat into a pulp. It was unbelievably charming.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
And Morris was money, I said, Rookie Robert Griffin the
third and at the time the Redskins now the commanders
to the playoffs, and they took down Tony Romo and
the Cowboys to win the NFC East title. An incredible
moment for Washington football.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Jamie out, Morris, you nailed it well, Peter.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
That spring, I was like trying to be on TV,
and I had like audition to work for the team,
and I was like studying the craft and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
I didn't get the job. But we're here now, so
that's great. Okay.
Speaker 11 (21:51):
It was the nineteen ninety Mazda six to six. Yeah, Yeah,
that's unbelieva.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Hey, Jamie, that's the best thing that ever happened. Those
were not great years for DC. I'm happy you were
not in that book. We're here instead.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
We're happy. Okay.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
All right, So Jamie and ackbar both got it right.
And now I'm gonna get some question about dude, whar's
my car?
Speaker 9 (22:09):
Is that?
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Where I watched?
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Actually, let's go to the next you already got okay.
In week seventeen of the twenty eleven season, they bench
Aaron Rodgers in the final week of the season and
Matt Flynn comes in, who had not played at all,
and the dude throws for.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Six touchdown passes.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
I think this is your narrow game in history. I
love that you love this game so much? Did you too?
Speaker 5 (22:30):
The guy Flynn was the long time backup. They're like
Thatplen's gonna play finally because he throws for six touchdown passes?
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Right?
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Does this end up signing.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
A huge deal with Seattle in the offseason, which, of
course he never would start from them because Russell Wilson
beat Hi Mountain training camp.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
This was January second, twenty twelve. Matt Flynn looked like
Joe Montana, Steve Young, Frank Tarkenton, and Dan Marino.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
All in one. So good, and he got paid off
of his game.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
He about like four million dollars per touchdown.
Speaker 13 (22:58):
I think he did.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Jordy Nelson, awesome stuff.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
Oh, Jordy, send him a septer that Lewis.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Delmass He just sent them to the bottom of the earth.
Hellout DeAndre Levy.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Anyway, the number one song in America on the day
that Matt Flynn threw six touchdowns in January second, twenty
twelve was one of these songs.
Speaker 8 (23:19):
What was it?
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Let's go to the Billboard charts.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
We Found Love sung by Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris. Sexy
and I Know It by Lmfao shout out to Red Food.
I Won't Give Up by Jason Mrazzs Change Your.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Name, Dude?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Or Hours by Taylor Swift.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Off an album that apparently came out.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
In two thousand, Yeah twelve.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
I've learned a lot of Taylor Swift songs the past
a couple years.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
I don't know about Jamie, do you know Hours? I
don't know that.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
I think that's one of her early and it might
be up the Red album.
Speaker 11 (23:54):
R Okay, all.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
Right, listen twenty twelve. Tough for me.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
This is post marriage, pre kids, so host marriage, host
marriage still Mary, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
Mary, okay, post wedding. Yes, I hope I'm never post married.
I just know these guys.
Speaker 6 (24:13):
It's it's sexy and I know that song was everywhere.
It was in this commercial where hamsters were dancing like that.
Speaker 7 (24:19):
It was constant.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
I feel like there was definitely an NFL tie in
with LMFAO.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
They were everywhere.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
So I'm gonna go with be with respect to Maras
Maras and Rihanna and all that.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
I'm gonna go sexy and I know it.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
So that was a number two song in America and
LMFAO would eventually have another.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Song that was huge. They would be at the US Open,
he would be dancing everywhere.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Dave Data The correct answers a, we found love.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
That's a good song.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
It was Rihanna, it was Calvin Harris. It was the
song of the year that holiday season. The answers a,
we found love in a hope with.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
Place and I found love with my wife and we
were still married and then we ended up naming our
son Calvin and so it all together.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Yes, So that's it.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
Damn Red Food, I thought you were gonna be there.
Haven't heard the lost of him? What's what?
Speaker 8 (25:04):
Well?
Speaker 2 (25:04):
I heard Kendrick Lamar's gonna have some guests this this
oh the return?
Speaker 5 (25:10):
What do you say, Kendrick Kendrick Lamar's first guest, Red Foo.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
Hey, and I know if.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Sorry, Yeah, that one's gonna get the crowd fired up,
all right.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Video clue. It was your video clue. We all get
to chime in.
Speaker 15 (25:27):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
The Jets and Dolphins play this weekend. The Jets and
Dolphins sixteen years ago had a huge final week of
the regular season game. It was Brett Favre versus Chad Pennington.
It was Eric man Jeanie versus the late Tony Sperano.
It was in the Meadowlands in the Old Giant Stadium,
and the winner went to the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
The loser went home. Let's go to this huge play
in the third quarter.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
What happens on this third quarter play that put this
game away and sent Chad Pennington, the former Jet to
the playoff and sent Brett Farre, the former four time.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
MVP back home. Let's get some choices here.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
It's a second and nine, It is.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
On that the twenty yard line.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
Is it a a Chad Pennington twenty yard touchdown run?
Is it B an Anthony Fossano twenty yard touchdown reception?
Is it C a Ted gin Junior twenty yard end
a round touchdown? Or is it d our Guy Alronde
Gadsen having a twenty yard touchdown reception. We're gonna go
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left to right, so akbar Jamie Kyle take a shot.
Speaker 11 (26:41):
Okay, this one right here, I'm gonna have to go.
I don't remember this point, but I'm gonna go Teddy
Gan Junior twenty yard end a round touchdown for this one. Yeah,
it's gonna be Teddy. We were at the Dolphins together
for a little bit the seventh.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Peter, I don't know what to do when you don't
give me a pick six as an option. I always
picked the pick six, so I have to take something else.
I will go be Anthony Fassana, Oh twenty yard TV reception.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
If I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
This is the year Chad Pennington finished second and MVP
boating too. Peyton Manning still did not make the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 7 (27:17):
Pro bple announcements coming later on Good Morning Football.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
I will go with Pennington A with a twenty yard run.
This isn't the stinky leg one. I don't know, but
I do think why not Pennington twenty yard run?
Speaker 5 (27:26):
Let me set the stage a little bit far from
The Jets were red hot the start. They fell apart
a the end of the season. Pennington was like this,
like all right, fine, Chad Pennington's going to be the
quarterback takes them all the way, that goes back into
his old building and the touchdown he throws is to
a New Jersey native and a Notre Dame legend.
Speaker 7 (27:41):
Ah go on.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Second at nine, make sure my quarterback.
Speaker 7 (27:46):
Is standing up. That's one of those mottos. Here's his
quarterback throwing for.
Speaker 13 (27:51):
The end zone and a cats just made by Anthony Fasano.
Speaker 7 (27:56):
What an adjustment that was.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
It was We've seen some tremendous adjustments to the football today.
Speaker 14 (28:03):
A Jersey boy from Verona High School comes back home.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
What a cash highlight Anthony Fersao. Let's go Jamie Ardal
Kyle some Anthony Fassano memories.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
Just Peter, listen, what is it? Was it Verona Heights,
Verona High School.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
He was not a del Barton guy something like that
was housed about Verona High School.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Just a North Jersey high school. And Fassano was the
ultimate at that time. He was like like peak Jersey
was Anthony, Jersey Shore was out. Anthony Fossano was a.
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Star Notre Dame and then goes back into his old
building and he scores that touchdown. Of course, he's most famous,
I think for the fake lambeau leap that he did
when he did it against the Packers.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
Was a great coal. That's what they call trolling. Unbelievable.
Shout out to New Jersey.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
Let's go all right, guys, that was trivia. We'll see
you next week wild card rounds.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
Yeah, doesn't look as big as he is.
Speaker 8 (29:00):
Uh, he doesn't look as fast as he is.
Speaker 7 (29:03):
He has real good vision.
Speaker 15 (29:05):
You really can't get a clean shot on him, not
one of those shots that.
Speaker 8 (29:09):
Will knock him out of the game.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
You will probably arm tackle him.
Speaker 8 (29:13):
He very seldom get a clean knockout shot on Eric Dickerson.
Speaker 15 (29:18):
He runs a four to three forty. He's for a
big guy, He's one of the quickest guys I've ever
seen in my life. When he runs, he looks like
he's not running fast, but he can hit a open
and he can hit a hole so quick's unreal. You're
looking at the great one, the Walter Payton, the Earl Campbell's,
the Jim Brown, Mary Dickerson.
Speaker 14 (29:39):
You have one that is in that upper upper.
Speaker 9 (29:41):
Upper echelon that only come along very seldom.
Speaker 8 (29:44):
Man. When you do have one, you catch lightning in
a jug.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
There is decades after he stopped playing, Eric Dickerson's been
all over the news in the last couple of weeks,
and it's because of his nineteen eighty four season, which
he ran for twenty five yards, a record that Saquon
Barkley will not break with the Philadelphia Eagles this year,
and a record that no one has broken in forty years.
Dan Marino's single season passing record was broken, Jerry Rice's
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single season receiving record was broken, and yet Dickerson still stands.
Speaker 7 (30:16):
There four decades later.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
And you might not have been alive when he broke it,
or like me, you might have been too young to
remember it. So I think it's important, especially this weekend,
when you're gonna be hearing about it more and more,
to look back with our films and our access and
our perspective on how this happened.
Speaker 7 (30:31):
Let's get into it.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
Nineteen eighty four was Eric Dickerson's second season in the NFL.
Speaker 7 (30:35):
He was playing with the John Robinson La Rams.
Speaker 6 (30:38):
Let's take a quick look though at his rookie season,
which was hilarious. This is the nineteen eighty three legendary
draft second overall pick. Let's get rambunctious second overall pick
behind John Elway, legendary running back out of Southern Methodists
with the Specs and the Gogs got a ridiculous rookie
year eighteen hundred plus rookids as a rookie with nearly
(31:01):
four hundred carries, it was it was fresh, it was
a neck roll, it was glasses.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
It was different.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
But there was the sense of that, all right, rookie,
what do you do for an encore?
Speaker 7 (31:12):
How do you follow that up? While he followed it
up with history.
Speaker 6 (31:15):
The nineteen eighty four season, let's get into it. Starting
Week one against Dallas, one hundred and thirty eight yards
on twenty one carries. La is Cool, It's hot, Ghostbusters
the number one movie in the box office. Dickerson's running
guys over, It's amazing. Week two follows it up with
one hundred and two yards against Cleveland. He's cruising and
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then he hits a roadblock in the form of the
Chuck Noll Steelers at three Rivers Stadium. Week three against Pittsburgh,
Dickerson has forty nine yards on twenty three carries in
a double digit loss. Next week, the Sam Wiss Bengals
and their defensive coordinator Dick Lebau pulled them to.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Eighty nine yards in the Bengals on.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
The turf, So through four games he's got three hundred
and seventy eight. It's nothing special.
Speaker 6 (32:06):
They're kind of buckling up and maybe this isn't letdown here.
But then he started cooking, and his Hall of.
Speaker 7 (32:12):
Fame teammate Jackie Slater loved it.
Speaker 14 (32:17):
Bickers been cut up inside to forty five forty lookout.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
It's exciting. It's exciting to know that you have that
kind of explosiveness coming out back field man.
Speaker 6 (32:31):
One twenty against the Giants one oh seven and a
loss to Atlanta, and then on the turf in the
Superdome one seventy five against the Kenny.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Stabler, Pearl Campbell Saints.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
Yes, at the end of the europe Can he had
Campbell and Dickerson together. Dixon went for one seventy five,
then one forty five in a rematch with Atlanta. Now
he's cruising nine hundred and twenty five yards in eight games,
incredible pace. And then the first place Bill Walsh forty
nine ers come to Anaheim Stadium.
Speaker 7 (33:05):
And stopped him. This defense.
Speaker 6 (33:08):
All four members of the secondary win the Pro Bowl.
Ronnie led by Ronnie Lott, coached by Ray Rhodes, Montana
cooked done this day. He had over three hundred yards.
He had three touchdowns. The star was not Eric Dixon,
it was Dwight Clark, who was all over the field.
This defense would eventually shut out the eighty four Bears
in the NFC Title Game and beat Dan Marino in
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the Super Bowl by three touchdowns. Dickerson stuffed, can he
recover or you better believe he can recover? Next week,
Eric Dickerson rebounded with a ten yards per carry masterpiece
against the Saint Louis Cardinals. Think about this is the
Rams at Saint Louis, but they're not the team in
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Saint Louis.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
He went absolutely nuts, two.
Speaker 7 (33:53):
Hundred and eight yard ten.
Speaker 6 (33:54):
I said, almost ten yards a click, and then we're
just then we're in montage mode. One forty nine against
a tough Bears defense, one thirty two against Green Bay,
one against Tampa, won forty nine against the Saints, and
then he goes against the Oilers. He is over two
hundred yards away from two thousand. He's over two hundred
yards away from breaking OJ Simpson's single season record, and
(34:18):
on twenty seven ruling carries against a bad Hugh Campbell
Oilers team in Anaheim.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
Dickerson goes for.
Speaker 16 (34:26):
Two fifteen and surpasses oj single season record, albeit in
more games, on a fourth quarter handoff from Jeff Kemp
on Dickerson's signature play forty seven gap.
Speaker 14 (34:42):
Hey, He's got it at a brand News Shingo jes
a rushing record for the upstanding shot from shada level.
Speaker 8 (34:49):
The thing that made that record so especially that all
the players were involved in. Every guy wanted a piece
of that. They were just like, man, big, hey, go ahead,
need it today. I mean, and that made me feel good.
And I think that's what that record means to me.
Speaker 6 (35:05):
In a forty year old game recap, after the game,
Dickerson said, I can't explain the feeling. I'm just on
a natural high. I don't know what to say to OJ.
I still respect him. He's still the best. I did
it in fourteen games.
Speaker 7 (35:15):
He did in fifteen. Here's what's fascinating. Everyone thought that
he would break it in the last game of the season.
Speaker 6 (35:20):
Because the last game the season was against San Francisco
and OJ was on the broadcast. He was in the
booth as a color commentator, and this will happen. He
went so nuts against the Oilers that he broke it
the week prior, still played in the last game of
the season and tacked on ninety eight yards and twenty
six carries and a loss to the forty nine Ers.
Here's what's very interesting that Rams team going into that
(35:43):
last game was ten and five.
Speaker 7 (35:45):
Their playoff spot was secure.
Speaker 6 (35:48):
It's very similar to what's going on in Philadelphia and
the recently passed John Robinson rest in piece played him.
Dickerson carried the ball a whole bunch of times. He
buried the record at twenty one oh five. They lost
in the wild card round. That's the season, guys. I
think it's at some point it will be broken the
twenty one oh five sometime in the next decade, in
(36:09):
sixteen games, in seventeen games, maybe even in eighteen games.
But when it does, remember nineteen eighty four because when
that record is broken, big brother Dickerson in the respecs
will be watching.
Speaker 7 (36:22):
And that takes us to this weekend and.
Speaker 5 (36:25):
It's incredible retrospective. I love that you do because we
always talk about the record, and we even talk about.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
OJ seventy three season.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
So we did it in fourteen games, Dickerson, he did
it also in fifteen like he did it.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
He did it in that time. I earlier said on
the show.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
The football historian in me, I would have liked to
see in Saquon at least try for this thing in
the first half and if they put it some parameters,
we won't see that.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
For shame for many of us who want to.
Speaker 5 (36:51):
Just look at individual records, but likely the better decision
long term for the Philadelphia Eagles if they really want
to do this thing in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 11 (36:58):
Yeah, and it would have been cool to see it.
And it's so special to see what Eric Dickerson did,
especially and that time in that era where they were
running the ball a whole lot. You think, and you
look at his career. You know, in that eighty four
season he ran the ball three hundred and seventy nine times.
The year before three ninety, a couple of years later
in eighty six, he ran four hundred and four times.
(37:18):
You don't see that type of number. In fact, Saquon
Barkley just ran three hundred and forty five times this season.
That's the first time he's ever hit and eclipsed the
three hundred mark. So it just lets you know that,
you know, although the games are different, how many games
that they have are different for Saquon to do what
he's doing in this era where they're passing the ball
a lot more and you don't see a lot of
guys carrying the ball three hundred plus times, special special
(37:41):
for both.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Did you say one hundred and seventy five yards in
the Superdome?
Speaker 2 (37:47):
You say that he went nutshit?
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Ridiculous? That is absolutely ridiculous. Very excellent highlights. That one
jumped out to me. Especially it was against Kenny Stablor,
Kenny the Sneak Stabler, so good
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