April 10, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour Two of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with hosts Sara Walsh, Kyle Brandt, Isaiah Stanback and special guest Justin Reid answering several questions - does TJ Watt’s cryptic instagram post mean something? Could Travis Hunter play on offense and defense 100% of the game? Later, Justin Reid tells us something we don’t know about Patrick Mahomes, he discusses the toughest QB he’s faced, and then he explains why he joined the Saints. Chiefs DE Felix Anundike-Uzomah joins the show and talks about his incredible draft story, weighs in on the tush push, and has a good back and forth with former teammate Justin Reid.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Today on GMFB.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
I'm Sarah Wallash here in La with Isaiah stand back,
and we got a special guest safe safety immediately, the
best dressed person on this show. Friend of the show,
Justin Reed joining us. Kyle Brant solo out there, and
you're Justin looks good, Kyle.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
He looks crazy. I love that you're back, Justin here
a couple of weeks ago. Sometimes they leave, they never
come back. We never hear from them again.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Justin.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You good to be here.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
This is all right.
Speaker 6 (00:38):
I'm excited about it.
Speaker 7 (00:38):
This is this is the best place to be talking
about football early in the morning. I wore my best
today just for you, guys. Re peach excited about it.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Sure, sure, we don't get it's incredible.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
That's save that for a promo. This is the place
to be. Start the show.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Let's get into it.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Come on, Welcome to GMFB, Sarah, Kyle, Isaiah, and our
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special guest, Justin Reid with US New Orleans Saints.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Justin Reid.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
That has that sunk in yet.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
He's got a new ring to it, doesn't it.
Speaker 7 (01:22):
Yeah, Yeah, it is it is different, but I'm so
excited about the opportunity to return back to the boot
and leave my impact with a team and help build
a culture and get this thing turned around and get
it going.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
And I asked you because this is this is your hometown.
And I was talking to Justin about the fact that
I covered him in the Super Bowl in New Orleans,
and I remember you saying very vividly, my brother lives
around the corner from where we're holding like all these
press conferences. And I said, in some ways, people love
being in their hometown and sometimes it can be a distraction.
And you said, at this point in your career, yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 7 (01:53):
I mean, going playing for your hometown as a young
kid can be really difficult. But I'm going into year eight.
I feel like I'm far enough removed, and I feel
like I'm excited for, you know, handling the situation, joining
a team, helping turn a situation around. And I don't
think that there'll be too much distractions, but I think
that my family and everything will be such an asset
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supporting me and being there for me.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Well, the Saints are lucky to have you. We're lucky
to have you. Here today, let's get this thing going.
The latest from around the league. We want to bring
in our NFL Network insider lead block and join us.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Now, there we are.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
TJ.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Watt had a.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Little social media post put up the peace sign. People
in Pittsburgh going absolutely crazy because it's the time of
the year where you know, you can read into everything.
So we'll ask you, Ian, what do you make of
the TJ. Watt social media post?
Speaker 8 (02:47):
Well, you'll ask me to just read into it just
a little bit. Generally I hate to kind of take
a social media put well could mean this.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
It could mean that, because.
Speaker 8 (02:56):
For years and years I would say, it's just social media,
it's really nothing, and then you sort of figure out,
you cover up for these situations that barely is it
actually nothing? Generally, when a player makes a cryptic social media.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Post, TJ.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Wat's not even even a receiver.
Speaker 8 (03:11):
And yet here we are, when a player makes a
cryptic social media post, it's almost never nothing. So let's assume,
for the sake of argument, for the sake of me
actually having a reason to talk about.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
This, that it is something. Okay, Now, did TJ.
Speaker 8 (03:25):
Watt just say, you know what, I kind of look
like a boss in that picture.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
I'm just going to.
Speaker 8 (03:29):
Put it up to the fans know how cool I am.
That seems far fetched to me. He is a cool dude,
but I think people know that, so I don't think
the picture is for that. So my guess, and this
is only a guess because again we're reading it to
cryptic social media posts. At nine oh three in the morning, here.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
TJ.
Speaker 8 (03:48):
Watt is in a contract negotiation situation with the Pittsburgh Seiers.
We have seen several top edge rushers get paid, Miles
Garrett topping forty million dollars. We still have Michah Parson's
need to get paid, we still have Treh Henderson needs
to get paid.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
But TJ.
Speaker 8 (04:01):
Watt said to make just twenty one million dollars this
year is in that category. Generally, when a player makes
a social media post, it forces us to talk about
it on TV, like we're.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Doing right now.
Speaker 8 (04:12):
It is because contract negotiations are not going as well
as anybody had hoped. If they were going well, if
things were all wrapped up, then this would be more
like this and less like this, right.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
I mean, that's kind of what we're reading into it.
Speaker 8 (04:26):
So I think we could safely say the contract talks
between TJ. Watt and the Steelers are not off to
a rippering start. Doesn't mean they won't get there. They've
gotten there before. He is a great player who deserves
every penny. But for the sake of this argument right
now and this discussion, let's assume that TJ. Watt is
not exactly the most thrilled person on earth dealing with
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this contract.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
And I love the deciphering of this to that I
kind of don't see him putting the thumbs up once
he gets the deal. But I appreciate you reading between
the lines for us and there and giving us context
on what's going on. So we want to play some
three in our great job is first here we go justin,
We'll let you kick this thing off. Is there meaning
behind the TJ Watt posts? This is what we do
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on this show, justin just pick things apart, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (05:13):
I mean it's so easy to dive into it and
feel like there's meaning there.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
I don't think that there is.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
I think maybe it's he's just lightly setting a you know,
you know, how well is this marriage actually working out?
But I think at the end of the day, he
is a true professional, and I know he wants to
be in Pittsburgh, and I think that's the best place
for him.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Let me ask you, if you're in contract negotiations and
there's no context whatsoever, you haven't posted on your Instagram
stories a little while, and all of a sudden you
throw this up. I mean it's like, right, like you're
just not growing up, but justin Reid Peace thing for nothing, right.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
I mean, maybe he's just missing being on the field.
I know some guys. I've done it every once in
a while in the off season. You just throw up
a post from earlier in the season. You just want
to throw some football related because you've been off the
field a while. So I don't want to read too
deeply into it. It would feel really weird for me
to see TJ outside of a Steelers uniform. So you know,
he deserves everything in the world. He's one of the
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best defensive players in the history of the National Football League,
and I hope that they work that out.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
Yeah, well hope it's not a strategy.
Speaker 9 (06:15):
Reality is, when you look at the context of what TJ.
Watt typically posts on his Instagram page is usually his wife's,
usually his brand new baby so congratulations on that. But
let's put this thing in context. The highest paid non
non quarterback is who right.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Now, Miles Garrett.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
He's a conversation. Miles Garrett blew the roof off of it. Actually,
so forty million dollars a year. Correct, Okay, let's belorry.
So let me help you guys out.
Speaker 9 (06:41):
Miles Garrett has had seventy two sacks and eighty games played.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
TJ.
Speaker 9 (06:47):
Watt has seventy three and a half sacks in seventy.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Four games played and four interceptions.
Speaker 9 (06:54):
So less games played, more sacks with some interceptions, and.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
You don't want to pay me what the highest paid
play here?
Speaker 9 (07:01):
And my position is getting Yeah, I'm go going hit
you with the deuces and I'm go go ahead and
go to international.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
You like to travel around here. I say that picture is.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Well, hey, when you put it that way to read right, well, listen,
maybe so it has to be meaning though, I mean
Isaiah is on to it.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Listen, guys. TJ is a great player.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
He is not someone barking all over social media. He
doesn't say squad, he doesn't say it in in the interviews,
he doesn't do it on Twitter, he doesn't do on Instagram,
it is here's my foundation, here's my pictures of my family,
and here is sponsored posts and hit me in the comments.
There is no editorial, there is nothing gratuitous. So yes,
for him to say this in the middle of a
contract negotiation.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Is not great.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I mean, there are two other fingers that could have
put up too that would be worse.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
But we haven't gotten there yet, all right.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yes, obviously he says he's gonna want Miles Garrett money.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Why shouldn't he. The good news is we have not reached.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Defcon one yet, which is the worst because he has
not unfollowed the Steelers on Instagram. I checked, I did
the work this morning. He still follows the Steelers. It
seems a little bit bush league for someone of TJ's
stature and some of the way he usually conducts himself
with a lot of class and dignity, and this is
a little bit I don't know, a fake goodbye picture
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or a real goodbye picture.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I will end with this.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
If you are going to tell me that there is
some sort of reality for the Pittsburgh Steelers fan base,
then in the space of a week, a day, or
even a night, they are going to sign Aaron Rodgers
and lose TJ Watt. That is below def con. Let's
say that's World War three. That is absolute the sky
is falling. You can't do that. You can do one
of them, maybe.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
But not ball.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
TJ is the best player on their team. He has
been for years, he will be for years. I know
it's going to be expensive, but it's expensive because he's
worth it. And the next one should be like this,
we'll see. Yeah, it should be two thumbs up.
Speaker 9 (08:52):
But Kyle, to the point you just made, and that
is kind of under what he would.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Typically do in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 9 (08:59):
You don't have to do the talking. You know who
doesn't talking for you? The fans, right social media, social
media to feed it. So the strongest asset you have
sometime as a player and leverage is to go ahead
and hit him with the deuces and let everybody speculate, right,
Let the fan base get angry. Let the fan base
do the negotiating for you, because.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
They are going to speak more loudly than you ever.
Speaker 9 (09:18):
Could by going out there and talking and saying something
negative and having some kind of negative connotation towards towards
the organization.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Miles Garrett Obviously we talked about that deal and Justin
said it blew the roof off. But what's the seventh
highest page edge rusher in terms of average per year
at twenty eight million. Sure when you put it in
that the seventh I mean, I mean, look at what
he's done. I don't think on the flip side, I
don't think there's any chance he's not in a Steelers uniform.
I just there's like we can go into these negotiations
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and it happens with everyone and even Kyle, even the
players that never put anything out there. You can put
out the I mean and get everyone going. And Isaiah's right,
because it's going to stir everybody else up. I don't
think that at the end of the day, anybody really
thinks that this is not going to get worked out.
I don't think there's any scenario that he is not
in a Steeler's uniform next year and for years to come.
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But do you want to read into it, like, of
course we're going to read into it, all right. Colorado
head coach Dione Sanders believes his star two way player
Travis Hunter can play both offense and defense in the NFL.
Of course, he does take a.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Lesson very much feasible when you have a young man
of that status. I mean, he can do it. He's
proved that he can do it. The cottage game. It's
much faster than the pro game. The pro game is
much slower than the collegiate game because college you have tempo.
You know, nobody's holding. Everything's done at the line now,
So hats off the Travis. They're allowed him to do it,
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which they should. He's going to be phenomenal, not like
it hadn't been done, but he's done it at a
whole another level in college. So why not?
Speaker 9 (10:47):
All right?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Here we go, second down, and we got an NFL
defense of that joining us at the table this morning.
So we're starting with you justin thoughts, challenges, opinions. When
you hear someone talk about playing receiver and corner for
an entire NFL game, what's your reaction?
Speaker 7 (11:01):
You know what, I think that it isn't a matter
of condition. I think that he's well conditioned to do it.
But I don't know if this is something that's in
the best interest of him or the team to take
every single snap just because the speed of the game
might be slower. As Dion said, I mean, you're playing
against grown men. Let's keep that in mind. But the
mental side of the game is far and above so
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much higher than what college is. And to handle a
defensive playbook and an offensive playbook at the level of
depth you need to execute correctly and have an impact
on the game. I just don't see it happening, Especially
for a rookie guy that wants to come in and
making sure he's getting on the field and make an
impact plays early on, It'd be really difficult. Do they
have a package for him? Do they give him a
couple of plays? Yes, I think that they do do that,
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But for him to be every down on the field,
I just think it'd be really difficult.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
You even think even that even with corner.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I mean, I know that, like every position is complicated
in defense and whatnot, But if you said you're our
number one corner, you're going to guard that guy, You're
just gonna be on an island maybe to start like that,
then he learns the offensive playbook. What else would be
The challenge is justin you see this way differently than
all of us. Do you have so much more insight
in this? I am sitting here, were speaking as a
fan where I'm like, we've never seen this, Really, this
would be unbelievably cool, and guys like Champ Bailey and
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Dion and all these amazing athletes couldn't do it full
time if he came in as a teammate of yours,
if the Saints drafted, I mean, they're like, this is
what we're gonna do. What do you think would be
the biggest challenge and how would you participate in it?
Speaker 7 (12:24):
Well, I mean, I love that he wants to do
a n'sa first step and he absolutely should get his
opportunities at doing it. But again, like even playing a
cornerback position, these playbooks are so deep and you want
to be confident in going out there.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
You have to.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
Understand calls and signals. The terminology will be different than
what you're used to. The depth of the playbook will
be more than what you're used to, and you want
to make sure that you get that right first. The
last thing you want to do is be struggling at
one or the other and have that cascade and have
a snowball effect on your performance in the whole game.
You want to be good at one thing first. Be
a dominant corner, be a dominant wide receiver whichever. I
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think he'd be a better cornerback whichever you want to
do first, and then have some plays on off and
if it develops into that, I think that that's great.
But from the jump, I just think it'd be really difficulty.
Speaker 9 (13:11):
For somebody who has a sixteen hundred SAT score, somebody
who was an academic All American, somebody who had a
three point nine GPA in college. Don't you think that
he should be given the benefit of the doubt to
be proven wrong first before being limited coming.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Into the league. Yeah, he should.
Speaker 7 (13:28):
He should, But this game is just I love that
he's shooting for the stars, and he absolutely should, and
I think that at some point he might.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Be able to do it.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
But you just got to get good at one thing,
get good at one first, and then you can go
out and do both of them. I think that he
has all the talent in the world that he can
do both.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
Eventually.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
I think that it'd be one of the best things
ever in national football to see a guy play on
the field consistently, you know, just to show what an
incredible athlete that he is. But we're just gonna have
to work our way to that justin.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
You've talked a lot about the mental part of it.
I totally get that. Speak to the physical part where
football is so binary.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
You got the offensive guys, you got the defensive guys.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
It would be incredible that he is going to go
and play let's say, an eight snap defensive series, they
go to commercial, and then he comes back in a
twelve play offensive drive. What's the physical challenge of that?
And honestly, is it viable?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Yes or no? You think for a.
Speaker 7 (14:22):
Cornerback position, maybe it's a little bit easier than say,
like a defensive line the offensive line position, just just
how ruling and physical the nature is. But I mean,
the speed of the game is so much faster. You
talk about the pace of play up Temple offenses have
been coming to the NFL. We have dual threat quarterbacks
have now entered with the NFL in these last couple
of years, and that's become more of a staple in
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the NFL the same way that it has been in
college football. So yeah, I think it would be really
difficult because the physicality and the speed of the game
is higher. Even though you might say the pace of
game might be slower, you know, the speed of the game,
guy sprinting. The physical nature of the game will take
a toll at some point or another.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
How would that even work?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
And I'm not sure how many people understand if you're
not in the building, right, and that the practice facilities,
how much you guys are in meetings, right, there's a
short time really that you're on the practice field.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
So okay, So.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
When you go in your in your meetings and the
defensive backs are in their room, the corners are in
the wide how would from just a time management perspective,
how would that work?
Speaker 6 (15:22):
If the wide receivers are meeting, then.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
What is the coach going to call him after the
meeting because he's in a different I mean, you can
only be in so many places at once. Just give
us the context of what his day would be. If
you were going to play both ways, what would your
day be like when you step off the practice field.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Yeah, I mean, it'll.
Speaker 7 (15:37):
Just be It'll just be so hard because you'd have
to spend either you'd have to separate it first half
of the day, second half of the day, or maybe
you spend one day on offense one day on defense.
But either way, you're going to be missing something every
day of the NFL, like Wednesdays are first second down days,
and you have Thursdays your third down day and some
of your red zone. Then you have Fridays your special situations,
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and you never have enough time to get through all
of it just on one side of the ball.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
So if you compound that we're.
Speaker 7 (16:03):
Trying to play both size of the ball, it just
be you just be missing out on so much information.
And you want guys to be prepared for those critical
situations in the game where you have to make a
check or you have to make an adjustment on something
that you didn't even get a chance to practice in
order to be able to go out there and execute
and win the game.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I think that's justin that's really insightful, and we love this.
It's perfect, perfect insight.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
And yet, as you're saying it could be too hard
mentally or too challenging physically to play both sides of
the ball, I do look at you, and this is
a guy who's played defensive back.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
For a long time.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Roll the video tape, please, because look at this guy
who has Super Bowl rings and all that, and here
he is and he's kicking and he's covering kicks. So
you're playing both sides of the ball in a sense, right,
and you could pull it off.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Why not Travis Hunter? Though, Yeah, look at this guy
here it comes.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
Well, I got I got about I got about seven
snaps of kicks in me pulling off sixty to seventy
snaps a game might have been a little bit more
to act. I might have to ask for a raise
if I was doing that. Yeah, but that's awesome.
Speaker 9 (17:04):
I was gonna say real quick, I was going to
piggyback on the fact that what you were describing, right,
just for the general public, when.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
You're talking about what you may miss.
Speaker 9 (17:12):
Typically, pre practice you have walkthroughs, right, So offenses on
one half of the field, defenses on the other half
of the field, And these coaches take these walk through
seriously as you well know, right, they're going through their script. Hey,
these are the things we have to hit. We have
to get on these things because it's the only time
we're going to have opportunity to go through it prior
to playing in the game. So to be on one
side of the field and go through those walkthroughs and
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be missing the stuff on the other end, that's going
to be very difficult to make up because you can't
be in two places at once. So I just want
to just add on to that point that you're highlighting.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
Yeah, and time is limited, Like we have an NFL PA,
you have a limited amount of time on the practice field.
You have a limited amount of time and meetings, and
that time accumulates and an adds up, and you only
have so many ways that you can cut the pie.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I think what you've done is bring us back to
reality because we just it's exciting, right, So we're just like,
put them out there, put them out there for everything.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
Let them do it because you.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Can do it.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
And then the reality is there's so much more behind
the scenes.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
That you know.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
But I absolutely think that there is a package that
he could have early on and have him run someplace
and it will still be just as exciting as ever.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Yeah. That leads us now into third down.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Cowboys linebacker friend of the Show Tomarvion Overshown will become
the first Cowboys player in franchise history to wear the
number zero.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
What do you think of this? I guess it's a
new age.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
I mean I'm still a little bit old school. I
still like, you know, DB's being in the twenties linebackers
being in the you know, the forties, you know, he
got tight ends and the eighties. I still prefer the
old school numbers personally, but it's a new age now,
you know. At twenty years old, I guess I'm still
an old man, you know what I mean? Because guys
want to be number zero, number one, or whatever they
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want to be. But I think that is cool that
he wants to do that.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Listen, I'm old.
Speaker 9 (18:52):
School as well, especially as a color commentary guy, because
I'm sitting up there in the booths and I'm like
number Oh shoot, I don't know what position that is,
So I get it from that stance. In terms of
de marvioll Overshown, this dude is a one of one.
We talk about a lot of guys as athletes and
as personalities. As somebody who works for the Dallas Cowboys.
This dude, from day one is a unique individual. He
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is not like the others. He was the first number
zero at the University of Texas. He is now the
first number zero and the Dallas Cowboys, and he is
going to represent it will. This dude is everything that
you want in a player, everything you want as a personality,
everything you want as a representative as your organization, and
agent zero is in the house.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I hear that, and I love Hibachi, and I love Gilbertarenez,
and I love everybody who wears the zero.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
We can go up and down the list.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
You know, there are twenty two players now in the
NFL who wears single zero. It is a very popular number.
And I'm just going to take this moment to ask
our fair Commissioner Roger Goodell too.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
We need a new initiative now.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Now that we're into the wild West and anybody can
wear any number more or less, and there's single zeros.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
It's time to free the double zero zero. If we're
going to do it, let's really do it.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Look at the legend Doublow Jim Otto, the Pro Football
Hall of Famer back in the day. That's the man
double zero. Now, nobody has worn double zero since nineteen
eighty one, and Auto made it legendary. It was fun
because it was ooh and his name was Atto. It
started and began with an oh and ended with an oh.
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I look at someone like do Odeingbo who signed with
the Bears. He should be double zero because he's got
the double.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Oh and let me ask you guys something.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
All right, so they we allowed number number three in
the league, right, we also allowed number thirty three. We
allow number nine in the league. We also allowed ninety nine.
If we allowed single zero, shouldn't we allow double zero?
There's precedent there. It would be cool, it would be retro.
All the kids would like it, all the olds would
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like it. Free the double zero. That's my ask.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
Would you write double zero?
Speaker 7 (20:54):
Double zero actually looks like a pretty cool I don't
let's go I was somebody twenty twenty one, but double
zeros that seems like a place called Jersey to have it.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
Yeah, man looking firing to the end.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Hult add a tenorception brought out by Reid and he
takes the right side across the forty to fifty.
Speaker 7 (21:20):
Someone's gonna get a.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
Coach to coach Jostin reed one hundred and one yards.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Rookie season from your rookie year in Houston.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
You're one and only pick six.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
I saw the big smile. How many times have you
watched that?
Speaker 6 (21:35):
One? A lot?
Speaker 7 (21:37):
A lot is the easy way to say, one of
the best players love it.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Where's the football?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (21:42):
Yeah, I got the football? Painted Football's painted this on.
I got a football wall. You can see me, guys
call him before. I got a wall of footballs that's
always behind me right there, smack dab in the middle.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
I love it all right. Well, you can add to
that wall this year.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
In the meantime, for the next fifty sixty seventy years
of your life, you're going to be asked questions about
Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
That's just the statue of Mahomes. And he's legend already.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
You played with him for a while, for three years
up close in personal.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
We've all seen his greatness.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
We get it.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
We watch like you have this unique perspective in justin like,
tell us something that we don't know about Mahomes, the player,
the person, or both, whatever you want.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
Yeah, I mean on the practice field, well, first of all,
every single Friday practice, him and the rest of the
quarterbacks love to play soccer.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
So they're warm up and activation is.
Speaker 7 (22:30):
They got a soccer ball out there and they're.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
Crossing and playing.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
And I think in another life that Patrick was probably
Major league or Barclay Premier League soccer player because you know,
he can kick, he can kick, he can punt, so
he warms up that way. But this guy is just
a total athlete. The way that he can throw the ball,
slinging side arm, over the top, behind the back, passes
in the middle of practice.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
He has a ton of fun with it. So it's
just great.
Speaker 9 (22:56):
All right, Well, let's go ahead and stay with the
quarterback talk. Let's get into the the AFC guys who
have been battling the last few year. You've been battling
the last few years, Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson,
all the dudes, right, but for you personally?
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Who gave me the most fits? Ooh woof.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
Unfortunately only one of those guys has hurtled me, so no, yeah,
so Josh Allen, Yeah, Josh Allen. He's such a talented
do I mean he's he's the size of a defensive
end and he has an arm talent to make all
the throws. He's a special playmaker when his team needs
the most. He just takes over a game when he
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needs to.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
With the draft just two weeks away, what was it
like for you to hear your name when you were
drafted by the Houston Texans. We saw what you did
in your rookie year. Take us back to that time
of your life and what was like in twenty eighteen
when you heard your name called.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Oh boy, the draft is so crazy because you really
don't know what's going to happen. Next, you're sitting by
the phone, You're waiting for that phone call.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
You don't know who's gonna call.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
And then you get that you know that one ring tone,
you see an area code you don't recognize, you pick
up the phone and you know. Then they tell you
it's like, hey, Bill O'Brien, and I'm the GM and
I'm the safety's coach and the defensive coordinator, rum and
Cornell and you know we're taking you with this pick
and the draft.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
And then the rush of relief.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
That first comes over you and then the second rush
of excitement that comes right after. It's one of the
best feelings on earth. And you know, you really it's
one of the best.
Speaker 9 (24:26):
Yeah, all right, So you start out with Houston, right
then you go out there to Kansas City and you
become fanos collecting all the rings. Now you have an
opportunity to go back to the crib. Like what was
enticing about that opportunity?
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Man?
Speaker 7 (24:39):
I mean, I'm a Louisiana kid. I grew up on
the Saints. I remember what two thousand and nine was
like for the entire state. I have friends that have
dedicated enshrinements to that moment, and I just want to
I just want to get back to that. I want
to hear the who that chance in the crowd. I
want to be in that stadium. I want to win games.
I want to, you know, make the community and the
city and the entire state proud of the product that
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we're putting out on the field. And I'm so excited
to add to that culture and get things done with
Kellen Moore and that that new revamped offense and a
new revamped defense that we're going to have come into
the season with coach Brandon Staley.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Justin sounds like the governor that he space.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I mean, they're gonna love you down there, all right.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Two part questions justin this is it's it's you know,
it's draft season where it's these prospects get asked like
really dumb and reverend questions.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
So I might have one of them for you.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
But the two parts is who is your favorite Saint
growing up? And then who is your favorite Saint? I'm
not talking about New Orleans Saints. I'm talking about like
an actual saint. Those are the two questions.
Speaker 7 (25:37):
Okay, okay, favorite saint probably Moses, you know what I mean,
I love I love you know the story of Moses.
And then favorite saint growing up?
Speaker 6 (25:50):
This is a Saint?
Speaker 7 (25:51):
Oh boy, I don't want to. I mean, Drew Brees
is just too easy of a choice to say. Yeah, really, Colston,
that's my brothers. Yeah, my brothers, Marcus Colston. And then
I would say, I mean I really liked Reggie Bush.
I mean he was just the way that hell yeah, yeah,
that rock.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
What's that going to be like for you?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Because I was talking to somebody about this the Saints
the pre game, because the whole don't it's just it's
all blocked out. When I talk about pregame introductions, I
feel like New Orleans because how rock in that place
is and it's completely black when when everyone comes out,
What is that going to be like for you? Because
I can't imagine the friends of the family, the ticket request.
Speaker 6 (26:32):
You talked about it when you were there. Yeah, it's
going to be a party.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
It's going to be an absolutely, it's going to be
basically Mardi Gras in the stadium every Sunday night. I mean,
because like they got the umbrellas, the parade, the everything
is just so excited, the dancing, the zydaco, everything is
going to be.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Yeah, what's your ticket request situation? Everyone's there.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
I mean, shoot, oh, reader, I have to have to
get about thirty tickets for the Super Bowl.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Yeah. I played for free. Yeah, I played for free
that game.
Speaker 7 (27:01):
But yeah, I mean I whatever it is, it'll be
all right.
Speaker 9 (27:05):
It's awesome. Like you can literally feel how excited you
already be playing back at the house. I just think
there's dope that you have the opportunity.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Yeah, we need to potentially close things out at home,
which is really really special.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
In full circle, welcome back to Good Morning Football. Since
I'm the guest analyst, I want to bring on a
friend of mine today. All right, please welcome my former
teammate Chiefs defensive end Felix.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Are you Douka Exama Felix?
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Yeah, my Godix, appreciate you being on the show.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Bro.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
Before we talk ball, Before.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
We talk ball, I have a really important question for you.
The Jay Red and D Golf Tournament is coming up
June twenty third, and I just got to know because
I need you there.
Speaker 6 (27:53):
Have you been working on your swing? How's the golf
swing going.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
It's been going good.
Speaker 10 (27:57):
I've been with a couple of friends, so like, we're
gonna I'm definitely gonna work on that swing and then
I'm gonna show you what's up.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
Oh hey, I like that teen Felix.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
You know your group is going to need you to
really show up, but I know that you're going and
bring it.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
Oh yeah, you don't see, Felix.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
We've been talking a ton about the draft here what
it feels like to be drafted. But you have a
really really cool draft story because you not only play
in Kansas City, you were born and raised in Kansas City,
and then you were taken in the twenty twenty three
draft by Kansas City.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
In Kansas City.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
I mean, nobody can.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Script this out better than the situation you had. What
was that moment like for you when you heard your
hometown team took you?
Speaker 10 (28:36):
At first, it was just like so real. I didn't
think I thought I was dreaming the whole time. So
right when they call my name, all my whole family
was just like shouting everything like that, And I'm still
in shock. I'm like, there's no way this is dreaming.
Like I'm dreaming. So I had to pinch myself a
couple of times. But it's just so real that the
fact that I literally dreamed about this my whole life,
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even growing up. I went to Chief Parade at twenty
twenty saying like what if I was on this podium
and stuff like that, and then boom, like a couple
of years later, I'm right there with all the cheese,
which is a dream come true.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
Man, we could be more excited to have you too.
But speaking of you know, you being drafted in your
rookie season, there's about to be a whole new batch
of rookies in the building and they'll be getting the
Saint Joe's experience.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
You already know what that's all about.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
Could you tell us a little bit of some stories
about what training camp was like for you as a
rookie and maybe some of the things Chris and the
rest of the d line had you.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
Do as rookie duties.
Speaker 10 (29:34):
Oh yeah, Chris wasn't there by rookie year, but I
still had to buy like a ton of waters, So
I think about like twenty cases of waters. Put it
in his room. Charles came in in his room took
some of those waters too. I had to put some
waters in the meeting room too, and then I had
to buy a lot of snacks too, so that was
a lot too. And then bout like comforters, humidifiers, fans,
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all that stuff before I even went there.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Yeah, I know that was crazy dulous.
Speaker 10 (30:01):
And then put on top of that, I think the
security staff put a cat in my room, like a
live cat, literally a live cat.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
The Bobcat in my room.
Speaker 10 (30:14):
I literally got scared, like because they did it to
be a rashid so like I literally scared.
Speaker 11 (30:18):
I started run out, was like, there's no way to
actually live cat in my room. So like it was bobcat. Yeah, yeah,
it was a bobcat.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
And they had a speaker playing Bobcat noises like it's
about that attack for really crazy.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
All right, well listen, Felix, You've got so many great
things going on. I'm supposed to ask this question to
you now about all right, bring the room down.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
You had it. You guys had a tough day in.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
The super Bowl and you lost, and we all feel
so bad for you. You know, I feel you're twenty
three years old and you've been in two Super Bowls.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
I don't feel bad for you at all.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Man, You've only played two seasons and you've made it
to the super Bowl both times. You don't even know
what it's like to play an NFL season not make
it to the Super Bowl. Have you ever considered maybe
one of these years it's only a title game or
something like that. Would it be strange to play a
season and not have an end in February?
Speaker 5 (31:12):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (31:12):
For sure.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
For sure.
Speaker 10 (31:14):
It's even crazy for like the George Coloss Trent McDuffie
is like, it's crazy for them too. They've been to
three straight, so I'm I'm trying to catch up to them.
I can't catch up because they're on the team. But
it's just like it's just crazy. They don't really know
anything but going to the Super Bowl. So it's it's
a good thing, man feels.
Speaker 9 (31:32):
We know that most basketball players, most football players did
at their basketball players.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
You're a defensive end.
Speaker 9 (31:36):
We know most defensive anstey that they have hands that
can play receiver. We don't usually hear about defensive ends
playing seven on seven, but yeah, here you are hosting
a seven dof seven tournament. Tell us a little bit
about it.
Speaker 10 (31:48):
Think is when I was younger, we never had no springball,
nothing like that, and I always did like seven on
seven things with my friends and stuff like that. So
I had an idea and I was like, there's a
lot of old folks and there's a lot of high
schoolers that I would like to have like a seven
on seven event just to showcase it talent and stuff
like that. So I was like, might as well go
ahead and do it and have charity with the two
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because should mercy is dear.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
To my heart.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
I had a hernia when I.
Speaker 10 (32:14):
Was the younger, and they helped helped surgical repair it,
and it was a scary thing when I was hearing
because it's like a life changing it was.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
It was a life learning situation.
Speaker 10 (32:24):
So I wanted to get back to them, and there
was no other way to have a fun event like
having a seven seven tournament.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
I love that it's for a very good cause.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
And you know what the best part is, Felix, in
seven on seven you can't do the toush push, so
that's that's not a factor in the game whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
You don't have to worry about that Felix put you
on the spot.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Should should the league make a new rule that says
no more toush push?
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Should they or not? Oh?
Speaker 5 (32:50):
This is this is a hard question.
Speaker 10 (32:51):
So, like I'm a little fifty fifty on it because
at the end of the day, they the Eagles found
a play that they saw that was unstoppable and other
people try to mimic it and some people they didn't
succeed with this. So I don't know exactly like if
it should be banned or not. And plus obviously it's
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it's super hard to guard and it's unguardable, so it's
just a play that it's just I don't know, I
really know how to answer that question.
Speaker 9 (33:19):
Just a play that I created. So I mean, I
don't know, all right, real quick, A Felix. So the
touch push is a heck of a question. The offense
has an advantage because they can push. The defense currently,
by the rules, cannot push. If the defense could push,
would you want to allow the touch push to stay
or would you want it to go away?
Speaker 6 (33:39):
So defense can posh or to push goes away?
Speaker 10 (33:42):
Oh yeah, if defense can push, for show that it's
a stake if they if they can't push listen. You
gave me a good point. I didn't know that. I
didn't know that at all. But they they can't push
then I don't know. It might have to go away.
Speaker 7 (33:56):
All right, Felix, let's get really deep. I was telling
the guys here that you're a country boy. You love
the fish, you love country music. So my question for
you is, if you had to give one of those up,
which would you give up.
Speaker 10 (34:15):
I'll give up country music because I just started listening
to country. I'm not gonna lie. I just started to
listen to Christapleton, Morgan Wallen.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
My favorite. Yeah, who else? Luke Combs, and I don't know.
Speaker 10 (34:28):
I just started listening to country music because one of
my friends back at home. They just put me on
country music. So I can give that up because fishing,
I don't know. I love fishing. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 6 (34:38):
Is consider Is he in your country playlist?
Speaker 5 (34:42):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (34:42):
Yeah, for sure, that's likest you don't know?
Speaker 5 (34:46):
Oh yeah, no, he's on the playlist.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Show Feelix.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
We really appreciate you joining us. We got justin the
rest of the hour with us. Is there anything we
should know about, any hard hitting questions we need to
drop on him?
Speaker 2 (34:55):
What do you got.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
Ooh, it's a good one.
Speaker 10 (34:58):
Okay, okay, we played we played this game called Talking
Locker Room.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Why why do you keep stopping like me?
Speaker 10 (35:08):
Chris and Michael Panel was like, hey, Javery, come over.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
He just just quit playing with us. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (35:16):
I was tired for paying you guys coffee tabs all the.
Speaker 6 (35:20):
Time on that game.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
There you go, hey Felix. We really appreciate it. Best
of luck on your seven and seven tournament. Season is
going to be here before you know it. I know
you're trying to make it three straight to the title game.
As Kyle said, just this's just an average season for
you guys.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
You know it's incredible. We appreciate it, appreciate thanks right
to me.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
You good dun for sure, for sure.
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special guest, Justin Reid with US New Orleans Saints.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Justin Reid.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
That has that sunk in yet.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
He's got a new ring to it, doesn't it.
Speaker 7 (01:22):
Yeah, Yeah, it is it is different, but I'm so
excited about the opportunity to return back to the boot
and leave my impact with a team and help build
a culture and get this thing turned around and get
it going.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
And I asked you because this is this is your hometown.
And I was talking to Justin about the fact that
I covered him in the Super Bowl in New Orleans,
and I remember you saying very vividly, my brother lives
around the corner from where we're holding like all these
press conferences. And I said, in some ways, people love
being in their hometown and sometimes it can be a distraction.
And you said, at this point in your career, yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 7 (01:53):
I mean, going playing for your hometown as a young
kid can be really difficult. But I'm going into year eight.
I feel like I'm far enough removed, and I feel
like I'm excited for, you know, handling the situation, joining
a team, helping turn a situation around. And I don't
think that there'll be too much distractions, but I think
that my family and everything will be such an asset
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supporting me and being there for me.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Well, the Saints are lucky to have you. We're lucky
to have you. Here today, let's get this thing going.
The latest from around the league. We want to bring
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Speaker 6 (02:27):
Now, there we are.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
TJ.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
Watt had a.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Little social media post put up the peace sign. People
in Pittsburgh going absolutely crazy because it's the time of
the year where you know, you can read into everything.
So we'll ask you, Ian, what do you make of
the TJ. Watt social media post?
Speaker 8 (02:47):
Well, you'll ask me to just read into it just
a little bit. Generally I hate to kind of take
a social media put well could mean this.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
It could mean that, because.
Speaker 8 (02:56):
For years and years I would say, it's just social media,
it's really nothing, and then you sort of figure out,
you cover up for these situations that barely is it
actually nothing? Generally, when a player makes a cryptic social media.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Post, TJ.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Wat's not even even a receiver.
Speaker 8 (03:11):
And yet here we are, when a player makes a
cryptic social media post, it's almost never nothing. So let's assume,
for the sake of argument, for the sake of me
actually having a reason to talk about.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
This, that it is something. Okay, Now, did TJ.
Speaker 8 (03:25):
Watt just say, you know what, I kind of look
like a boss in that picture.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
I'm just going to.
Speaker 8 (03:29):
Put it up to the fans know how cool I am.
That seems far fetched to me. He is a cool dude,
but I think people know that, so I don't think
the picture is for that. So my guess, and this
is only a guess because again we're reading it to
cryptic social media posts. At nine oh three in the morning, here.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
TJ.
Speaker 8 (03:48):
Watt is in a contract negotiation situation with the Pittsburgh Seiers.
We have seen several top edge rushers get paid, Miles
Garrett topping forty million dollars. We still have Michah Parson's
need to get paid, we still have Treh Henderson needs
to get paid.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
But TJ.
Speaker 8 (04:01):
Watt said to make just twenty one million dollars this
year is in that category. Generally, when a player makes
a social media post, it forces us to talk about
it on TV, like we're.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Doing right now.
Speaker 8 (04:12):
It is because contract negotiations are not going as well
as anybody had hoped. If they were going well, if
things were all wrapped up, then this would be more
like this and less like this, right.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
I mean, that's kind of what we're reading into it.
Speaker 8 (04:26):
So I think we could safely say the contract talks
between TJ. Watt and the Steelers are not off to
a rippering start. Doesn't mean they won't get there. They've
gotten there before. He is a great player who deserves
every penny. But for the sake of this argument right
now and this discussion, let's assume that TJ. Watt is
not exactly the most thrilled person on earth dealing with
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this contract.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
And I love the deciphering of this to that I
kind of don't see him putting the thumbs up once
he gets the deal. But I appreciate you reading between
the lines for us and there and giving us context
on what's going on. So we want to play some
three in our great job is first here we go justin,
We'll let you kick this thing off. Is there meaning
behind the TJ Watt posts? This is what we do
(05:10):
on this show, justin just pick things apart, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (05:13):
I mean it's so easy to dive into it and
feel like there's meaning there.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
I don't think that there is.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
I think maybe it's he's just lightly setting a you know,
you know, how well is this marriage actually working out?
But I think at the end of the day, he
is a true professional, and I know he wants to
be in Pittsburgh, and I think that's the best place
for him.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Let me ask you, if you're in contract negotiations and
there's no context whatsoever, you haven't posted on your Instagram
stories a little while, and all of a sudden you
throw this up. I mean it's like, right, like you're
just not growing up, but justin Reid Peace thing for nothing, right.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
I mean, maybe he's just missing being on the field.
I know some guys. I've done it every once in
a while in the off season. You just throw up
a post from earlier in the season. You just want
to throw some football related because you've been off the
field a while. So I don't want to read too
deeply into it. It would feel really weird for me
to see TJ outside of a Steelers uniform. So you know,
he deserves everything in the world. He's one of the
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best defensive players in the history of the National Football League,
and I hope that they work that out.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
Yeah, well hope it's not a strategy.
Speaker 9 (06:15):
Reality is, when you look at the context of what TJ.
Watt typically posts on his Instagram page is usually his wife's,
usually his brand new baby so congratulations on that. But
let's put this thing in context. The highest paid non
non quarterback is who right.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Now, Miles Garrett.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
He's a conversation. Miles Garrett blew the roof off of it. Actually,
so forty million dollars a year. Correct, Okay, let's belorry.
So let me help you guys out.
Speaker 9 (06:41):
Miles Garrett has had seventy two sacks and eighty games played.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
TJ.
Speaker 9 (06:47):
Watt has seventy three and a half sacks in seventy.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Four games played and four interceptions.
Speaker 9 (06:54):
So less games played, more sacks with some interceptions, and.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
You don't want to pay me what the highest paid
play here?
Speaker 9 (07:01):
And my position is getting Yeah, I'm go going hit
you with the deuces and I'm go go ahead and
go to international.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
You like to travel around here. I say that picture is.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Well, hey, when you put it that way to read right, well, listen,
maybe so it has to be meaning though, I mean
Isaiah is on to it.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Listen, guys. TJ is a great player.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
He is not someone barking all over social media. He
doesn't say squad, he doesn't say it in in the interviews,
he doesn't do it on Twitter, he doesn't do on Instagram,
it is here's my foundation, here's my pictures of my family,
and here is sponsored posts and hit me in the comments.
There is no editorial, there is nothing gratuitous. So yes,
for him to say this in the middle of a
contract negotiation.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Is not great.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I mean, there are two other fingers that could have
put up too that would be worse.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
But we haven't gotten there yet, all right.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yes, obviously he says he's gonna want Miles Garrett money.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Why shouldn't he. The good news is we have not reached.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Defcon one yet, which is the worst because he has
not unfollowed the Steelers on Instagram. I checked, I did
the work this morning. He still follows the Steelers. It
seems a little bit bush league for someone of TJ's
stature and some of the way he usually conducts himself
with a lot of class and dignity, and this is
a little bit I don't know, a fake goodbye picture
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or a real goodbye picture.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I will end with this.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
If you are going to tell me that there is
some sort of reality for the Pittsburgh Steelers fan base,
then in the space of a week, a day, or
even a night, they are going to sign Aaron Rodgers
and lose TJ Watt. That is below def con. Let's
say that's World War three. That is absolute the sky
is falling. You can't do that. You can do one
of them, maybe.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
But not ball.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
TJ is the best player on their team. He has
been for years, he will be for years. I know
it's going to be expensive, but it's expensive because he's
worth it. And the next one should be like this,
we'll see. Yeah, it should be two thumbs up.
Speaker 9 (08:52):
But Kyle, to the point you just made, and that
is kind of under what he would.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Typically do in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 9 (08:59):
You don't have to do the talking. You know who
doesn't talking for you? The fans, right social media, social
media to feed it. So the strongest asset you have
sometime as a player and leverage is to go ahead
and hit him with the deuces and let everybody speculate, right,
Let the fan base get angry. Let the fan base
do the negotiating for you, because.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
They are going to speak more loudly than you ever.
Speaker 9 (09:18):
Could by going out there and talking and saying something
negative and having some kind of negative connotation towards towards
the organization.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Miles Garrett Obviously we talked about that deal and Justin
said it blew the roof off. But what's the seventh
highest page edge rusher in terms of average per year
at twenty eight million. Sure when you put it in
that the seventh I mean, I mean, look at what
he's done. I don't think on the flip side, I
don't think there's any chance he's not in a Steelers uniform.
I just there's like we can go into these negotiations
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and it happens with everyone and even Kyle, even the
players that never put anything out there. You can put
out the I mean and get everyone going. And Isaiah's right,
because it's going to stir everybody else up. I don't
think that at the end of the day, anybody really
thinks that this is not going to get worked out.
I don't think there's any scenario that he is not
in a Steeler's uniform next year and for years to come.
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But do you want to read into it, like, of
course we're going to read into it, all right. Colorado
head coach Dione Sanders believes his star two way player
Travis Hunter can play both offense and defense in the NFL.
Of course, he does take a.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Lesson very much feasible when you have a young man
of that status. I mean, he can do it. He's
proved that he can do it. The cottage game. It's
much faster than the pro game. The pro game is
much slower than the collegiate game because college you have tempo.
You know, nobody's holding. Everything's done at the line now,
So hats off the Travis. They're allowed him to do it,
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which they should. He's going to be phenomenal, not like
it hadn't been done, but he's done it at a
whole another level in college. So why not?
Speaker 9 (10:47):
All right?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Here we go, second down, and we got an NFL
defense of that joining us at the table this morning.
So we're starting with you justin thoughts, challenges, opinions. When
you hear someone talk about playing receiver and corner for
an entire NFL game, what's your reaction?
Speaker 7 (11:01):
You know what, I think that it isn't a matter
of condition. I think that he's well conditioned to do it.
But I don't know if this is something that's in
the best interest of him or the team to take
every single snap just because the speed of the game
might be slower. As Dion said, I mean, you're playing
against grown men. Let's keep that in mind. But the
mental side of the game is far and above so
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much higher than what college is. And to handle a
defensive playbook and an offensive playbook at the level of
depth you need to execute correctly and have an impact
on the game. I just don't see it happening, Especially
for a rookie guy that wants to come in and
making sure he's getting on the field and make an
impact plays early on, It'd be really difficult. Do they
have a package for him? Do they give him a
couple of plays? Yes, I think that they do do that,
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But for him to be every down on the field,
I just think it'd be really difficult.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
You even think even that even with corner.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I mean, I know that, like every position is complicated
in defense and whatnot, But if you said you're our
number one corner, you're going to guard that guy, You're
just gonna be on an island maybe to start like that,
then he learns the offensive playbook. What else would be
The challenge is justin you see this way differently than
all of us. Do you have so much more insight
in this? I am sitting here, were speaking as a
fan where I'm like, we've never seen this, Really, this
would be unbelievably cool, and guys like Champ Bailey and
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Dion and all these amazing athletes couldn't do it full
time if he came in as a teammate of yours,
if the Saints drafted, I mean, they're like, this is
what we're gonna do. What do you think would be
the biggest challenge and how would you participate in it?
Speaker 7 (12:24):
Well, I mean, I love that he wants to do
a n'sa first step and he absolutely should get his
opportunities at doing it. But again, like even playing a
cornerback position, these playbooks are so deep and you want
to be confident in going out there.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
You have to.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
Understand calls and signals. The terminology will be different than
what you're used to. The depth of the playbook will
be more than what you're used to, and you want
to make sure that you get that right first. The
last thing you want to do is be struggling at
one or the other and have that cascade and have
a snowball effect on your performance in the whole game.
You want to be good at one thing first. Be
a dominant corner, be a dominant wide receiver whichever. I
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think he'd be a better cornerback whichever you want to
do first, and then have some plays on off and
if it develops into that, I think that that's great.
But from the jump, I just think it'd be really difficulty.
Speaker 9 (13:11):
For somebody who has a sixteen hundred SAT score, somebody
who was an academic All American, somebody who had a
three point nine GPA in college. Don't you think that
he should be given the benefit of the doubt to
be proven wrong first before being limited coming.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Into the league. Yeah, he should.
Speaker 7 (13:28):
He should, But this game is just I love that
he's shooting for the stars, and he absolutely should, and
I think that at some point he might.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Be able to do it.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
But you just got to get good at one thing,
get good at one first, and then you can go
out and do both of them. I think that he
has all the talent in the world that he can
do both.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
Eventually.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
I think that it'd be one of the best things
ever in national football to see a guy play on
the field consistently, you know, just to show what an
incredible athlete that he is. But we're just gonna have
to work our way to that justin.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
You've talked a lot about the mental part of it.
I totally get that. Speak to the physical part where
football is so binary.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
You got the offensive guys, you got the defensive guys.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
It would be incredible that he is going to go
and play let's say, an eight snap defensive series, they
go to commercial, and then he comes back in a
twelve play offensive drive. What's the physical challenge of that?
And honestly, is it viable?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Yes or no? You think for a.
Speaker 7 (14:22):
Cornerback position, maybe it's a little bit easier than say,
like a defensive line the offensive line position, just just
how ruling and physical the nature is. But I mean,
the speed of the game is so much faster. You
talk about the pace of play up Temple offenses have
been coming to the NFL. We have dual threat quarterbacks
have now entered with the NFL in these last couple
of years, and that's become more of a staple in
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the NFL the same way that it has been in
college football. So yeah, I think it would be really
difficult because the physicality and the speed of the game
is higher. Even though you might say the pace of
game might be slower, you know, the speed of the game,
guy sprinting. The physical nature of the game will take
a toll at some point or another.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
How would that even work?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
And I'm not sure how many people understand if you're
not in the building, right, and that the practice facilities,
how much you guys are in meetings, right, there's a
short time really that you're on the practice field.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
So okay, So.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
When you go in your in your meetings and the
defensive backs are in their room, the corners are in
the wide how would from just a time management perspective,
how would that work?
Speaker 6 (15:22):
If the wide receivers are meeting, then.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
What is the coach going to call him after the
meeting because he's in a different I mean, you can
only be in so many places at once. Just give
us the context of what his day would be. If
you were going to play both ways, what would your
day be like when you step off the practice field.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Yeah, I mean, it'll.
Speaker 7 (15:37):
Just be It'll just be so hard because you'd have
to spend either you'd have to separate it first half
of the day, second half of the day, or maybe
you spend one day on offense one day on defense.
But either way, you're going to be missing something every
day of the NFL, like Wednesdays are first second down days,
and you have Thursdays your third down day and some
of your red zone. Then you have Fridays your special situations,
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and you never have enough time to get through all
of it just on one side of the ball.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
So if you compound that we're.
Speaker 7 (16:03):
Trying to play both size of the ball, it just
be you just be missing out on so much information.
And you want guys to be prepared for those critical
situations in the game where you have to make a
check or you have to make an adjustment on something
that you didn't even get a chance to practice in
order to be able to go out there and execute
and win the game.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I think that's justin that's really insightful, and we love this.
It's perfect, perfect insight.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
And yet, as you're saying it could be too hard
mentally or too challenging physically to play both sides of
the ball, I do look at you, and this is
a guy who's played defensive back.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
For a long time.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Roll the video tape, please, because look at this guy
who has Super Bowl rings and all that, and here
he is and he's kicking and he's covering kicks. So
you're playing both sides of the ball in a sense, right,
and you could pull it off.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Why not Travis Hunter? Though, Yeah, look at this guy
here it comes.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
Well, I got I got about I got about seven
snaps of kicks in me pulling off sixty to seventy
snaps a game might have been a little bit more
to act. I might have to ask for a raise
if I was doing that. Yeah, but that's awesome.
Speaker 9 (17:04):
I was gonna say real quick, I was going to
piggyback on the fact that what you were describing, right,
just for the general public, when.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
You're talking about what you may miss.
Speaker 9 (17:12):
Typically, pre practice you have walkthroughs, right, So offenses on
one half of the field, defenses on the other half
of the field, And these coaches take these walk through
seriously as you well know, right, they're going through their script. Hey,
these are the things we have to hit. We have
to get on these things because it's the only time
we're going to have opportunity to go through it prior
to playing in the game. So to be on one
side of the field and go through those walkthroughs and
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be missing the stuff on the other end, that's going
to be very difficult to make up because you can't
be in two places at once. So I just want
to just add on to that point that you're highlighting.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
Yeah, and time is limited, Like we have an NFL PA,
you have a limited amount of time on the practice field.
You have a limited amount of time and meetings, and
that time accumulates and an adds up, and you only
have so many ways that you can cut the pie.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I think what you've done is bring us back to
reality because we just it's exciting, right, So we're just like,
put them out there, put them out there for everything.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
Let them do it because you.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Can do it.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
And then the reality is there's so much more behind
the scenes.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
That you know.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
But I absolutely think that there is a package that
he could have early on and have him run someplace
and it will still be just as exciting as ever.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Yeah. That leads us now into third down.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Cowboys linebacker friend of the Show Tomarvion Overshown will become
the first Cowboys player in franchise history to wear the
number zero.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
What do you think of this? I guess it's a
new age.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
I mean I'm still a little bit old school. I
still like, you know, DB's being in the twenties linebackers
being in the you know, the forties, you know, he
got tight ends and the eighties. I still prefer the
old school numbers personally, but it's a new age now,
you know. At twenty years old, I guess I'm still
an old man, you know what I mean? Because guys
want to be number zero, number one, or whatever they
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want to be. But I think that is cool that
he wants to do that.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Listen, I'm old.
Speaker 9 (18:52):
School as well, especially as a color commentary guy, because
I'm sitting up there in the booths and I'm like
number Oh shoot, I don't know what position that is,
So I get it from that stance. In terms of
de marvioll Overshown, this dude is a one of one.
We talk about a lot of guys as athletes and
as personalities. As somebody who works for the Dallas Cowboys.
This dude, from day one is a unique individual. He
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is not like the others. He was the first number
zero at the University of Texas. He is now the
first number zero and the Dallas Cowboys, and he is
going to represent it will. This dude is everything that
you want in a player, everything you want as a personality,
everything you want as a representative as your organization, and
agent zero is in the house.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I hear that, and I love Hibachi, and I love Gilbertarenez,
and I love everybody who wears the zero.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
We can go up and down the list.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
You know, there are twenty two players now in the
NFL who wears single zero. It is a very popular number.
And I'm just going to take this moment to ask
our fair Commissioner Roger Goodell too.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
We need a new initiative now.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Now that we're into the wild West and anybody can
wear any number more or less, and there's single zeros.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
It's time to free the double zero zero. If we're
going to do it, let's really do it.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Look at the legend Doublow Jim Otto, the Pro Football
Hall of Famer back in the day. That's the man
double zero. Now, nobody has worn double zero since nineteen
eighty one, and Auto made it legendary. It was fun
because it was ooh and his name was Atto. It
started and began with an oh and ended with an oh.
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I look at someone like do Odeingbo who signed with
the Bears. He should be double zero because he's got
the double.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Oh and let me ask you guys something.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
All right, so they we allowed number number three in
the league, right, we also allowed number thirty three. We
allow number nine in the league. We also allowed ninety nine.
If we allowed single zero, shouldn't we allow double zero?
There's precedent there. It would be cool, it would be retro.
All the kids would like it, all the olds would
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like it. Free the double zero. That's my ask.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
Would you write double zero?
Speaker 7 (20:54):
Double zero actually looks like a pretty cool I don't
let's go I was somebody twenty twenty one, but double
zeros that seems like a place called Jersey to have it.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
Yeah, man looking firing to the end.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Hult add a tenorception brought out by Reid and he
takes the right side across the forty to fifty.
Speaker 7 (21:20):
Someone's gonna get a.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
Coach to coach Jostin reed one hundred and one yards.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Rookie season from your rookie year in Houston.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
You're one and only pick six.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
I saw the big smile. How many times have you
watched that?
Speaker 6 (21:35):
One? A lot?
Speaker 7 (21:37):
A lot is the easy way to say, one of
the best players love it.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
Where's the football?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (21:42):
Yeah, I got the football? Painted Football's painted this on.
I got a football wall. You can see me, guys
call him before. I got a wall of footballs that's
always behind me right there, smack dab in the middle.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
I love it all right. Well, you can add to
that wall this year.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
In the meantime, for the next fifty sixty seventy years
of your life, you're going to be asked questions about
Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
That's just the statue of Mahomes. And he's legend already.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
You played with him for a while, for three years
up close in personal.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
We've all seen his greatness.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
We get it.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
We watch like you have this unique perspective in justin like,
tell us something that we don't know about Mahomes, the player,
the person, or both, whatever you want.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
Yeah, I mean on the practice field, well, first of all,
every single Friday practice, him and the rest of the
quarterbacks love to play soccer.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
So they're warm up and activation is.
Speaker 7 (22:30):
They got a soccer ball out there and they're.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
Crossing and playing.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
And I think in another life that Patrick was probably
Major league or Barclay Premier League soccer player because you know,
he can kick, he can kick, he can punt, so
he warms up that way. But this guy is just
a total athlete. The way that he can throw the ball,
slinging side arm, over the top, behind the back, passes
in the middle of practice.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
He has a ton of fun with it. So it's
just great.
Speaker 9 (22:56):
All right, Well, let's go ahead and stay with the
quarterback talk. Let's get into the the AFC guys who
have been battling the last few year. You've been battling
the last few years, Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson,
all the dudes, right, but for you personally?
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Who gave me the most fits? Ooh woof.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
Unfortunately only one of those guys has hurtled me, so no, yeah,
so Josh Allen, Yeah, Josh Allen. He's such a talented
do I mean he's he's the size of a defensive
end and he has an arm talent to make all
the throws. He's a special playmaker when his team needs
the most. He just takes over a game when he
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needs to.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
With the draft just two weeks away, what was it
like for you to hear your name when you were
drafted by the Houston Texans. We saw what you did
in your rookie year. Take us back to that time
of your life and what was like in twenty eighteen
when you heard your name called.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Oh boy, the draft is so crazy because you really
don't know what's going to happen. Next, you're sitting by
the phone, You're waiting for that phone call.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
You don't know who's gonna call.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
And then you get that you know that one ring tone,
you see an area code you don't recognize, you pick
up the phone and you know. Then they tell you
it's like, hey, Bill O'Brien, and I'm the GM and
I'm the safety's coach and the defensive coordinator, rum and
Cornell and you know we're taking you with this pick
and the draft.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
And then the rush of relief.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
That first comes over you and then the second rush
of excitement that comes right after. It's one of the
best feelings on earth. And you know, you really it's
one of the best.
Speaker 9 (24:26):
Yeah, all right, So you start out with Houston, right
then you go out there to Kansas City and you
become fanos collecting all the rings. Now you have an
opportunity to go back to the crib. Like what was
enticing about that opportunity?
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Man?
Speaker 7 (24:39):
I mean, I'm a Louisiana kid. I grew up on
the Saints. I remember what two thousand and nine was
like for the entire state. I have friends that have
dedicated enshrinements to that moment, and I just want to
I just want to get back to that. I want
to hear the who that chance in the crowd. I
want to be in that stadium. I want to win games.
I want to, you know, make the community and the
city and the entire state proud of the product that
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we're putting out on the field. And I'm so excited
to add to that culture and get things done with
Kellen Moore and that that new revamped offense and a
new revamped defense that we're going to have come into
the season with coach Brandon Staley.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Justin sounds like the governor that he space.
Speaker 6 (25:16):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I mean, they're gonna love you down there, all right.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Two part questions justin this is it's it's you know,
it's draft season where it's these prospects get asked like
really dumb and reverend questions.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
So I might have one of them for you.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
But the two parts is who is your favorite Saint
growing up? And then who is your favorite Saint? I'm
not talking about New Orleans Saints. I'm talking about like
an actual saint. Those are the two questions.
Speaker 7 (25:37):
Okay, okay, favorite saint probably Moses, you know what I mean,
I love I love you know the story of Moses.
And then favorite saint growing up?
Speaker 6 (25:50):
This is a Saint?
Speaker 7 (25:51):
Oh boy, I don't want to. I mean, Drew Brees
is just too easy of a choice to say. Yeah, really, Colston,
that's my brothers. Yeah, my brothers, Marcus Colston. And then
I would say, I mean I really liked Reggie Bush.
I mean he was just the way that hell yeah, yeah,
that rock.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
What's that going to be like for you?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Because I was talking to somebody about this the Saints
the pre game, because the whole don't it's just it's
all blocked out. When I talk about pregame introductions, I
feel like New Orleans because how rock in that place
is and it's completely black when when everyone comes out,
What is that going to be like for you? Because
I can't imagine the friends of the family, the ticket request.
Speaker 6 (26:32):
You talked about it when you were there. Yeah, it's
going to be a party.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
It's going to be an absolutely, it's going to be
basically Mardi Gras in the stadium every Sunday night. I mean,
because like they got the umbrellas, the parade, the everything
is just so excited, the dancing, the zydaco, everything is
going to be.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Yeah, what's your ticket request situation? Everyone's there.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
I mean, shoot, oh, reader, I have to have to
get about thirty tickets for the Super Bowl.
Speaker 6 (26:56):
Yeah. I played for free. Yeah, I played for free
that game.
Speaker 7 (27:01):
But yeah, I mean I whatever it is, it'll be
all right.
Speaker 9 (27:05):
It's awesome. Like you can literally feel how excited you
already be playing back at the house. I just think
there's dope that you have the opportunity.
Speaker 6 (27:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Yeah, we need to potentially close things out at home,
which is really really special.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
In full circle, welcome back to Good Morning Football. Since
I'm the guest analyst, I want to bring on a
friend of mine today. All right, please welcome my former
teammate Chiefs defensive end Felix.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Are you Douka Exama Felix?
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Yeah, my Godix, appreciate you being on the show.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Bro.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
Before we talk ball, Before.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
We talk ball, I have a really important question for you.
The Jay Red and D Golf Tournament is coming up
June twenty third, and I just got to know because
I need you there.
Speaker 6 (27:53):
Have you been working on your swing? How's the golf
swing going.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
It's been going good.
Speaker 10 (27:57):
I've been with a couple of friends, so like, we're
gonna I'm definitely gonna work on that swing and then
I'm gonna show you what's up.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
Oh hey, I like that teen Felix.
Speaker 7 (28:06):
You know your group is going to need you to
really show up, but I know that you're going and
bring it.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
Oh yeah, you don't see, Felix.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
We've been talking a ton about the draft here what
it feels like to be drafted. But you have a
really really cool draft story because you not only play
in Kansas City, you were born and raised in Kansas City,
and then you were taken in the twenty twenty three
draft by Kansas City.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
In Kansas City.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
I mean, nobody can.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Script this out better than the situation you had. What
was that moment like for you when you heard your
hometown team took you?
Speaker 10 (28:36):
At first, it was just like so real. I didn't
think I thought I was dreaming the whole time. So
right when they call my name, all my whole family
was just like shouting everything like that, And I'm still
in shock. I'm like, there's no way this is dreaming.
Like I'm dreaming. So I had to pinch myself a
couple of times. But it's just so real that the
fact that I literally dreamed about this my whole life,
(28:58):
even growing up. I went to Chief Parade at twenty
twenty saying like what if I was on this podium
and stuff like that, and then boom, like a couple
of years later, I'm right there with all the cheese,
which is a dream come true.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
Man, we could be more excited to have you too.
But speaking of you know, you being drafted in your
rookie season, there's about to be a whole new batch
of rookies in the building and they'll be getting the
Saint Joe's experience.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
You already know what that's all about.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
Could you tell us a little bit of some stories
about what training camp was like for you as a
rookie and maybe some of the things Chris and the
rest of the d line had you.
Speaker 6 (29:33):
Do as rookie duties.
Speaker 10 (29:34):
Oh yeah, Chris wasn't there by rookie year, but I
still had to buy like a ton of waters, So
I think about like twenty cases of waters. Put it
in his room. Charles came in in his room took
some of those waters too. I had to put some
waters in the meeting room too, and then I had
to buy a lot of snacks too, so that was
a lot too. And then bout like comforters, humidifiers, fans,
(29:56):
all that stuff before I even went there.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Yeah, I know that was crazy dulous.
Speaker 10 (30:01):
And then put on top of that, I think the
security staff put a cat in my room, like a
live cat, literally a live cat.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
The Bobcat in my room.
Speaker 10 (30:14):
I literally got scared, like because they did it to
be a rashid so like I literally scared.
Speaker 11 (30:18):
I started run out, was like, there's no way to
actually live cat in my room. So like it was bobcat. Yeah, yeah,
it was a bobcat.
Speaker 7 (30:29):
And they had a speaker playing Bobcat noises like it's
about that attack for really crazy.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
All right, well listen, Felix, You've got so many great
things going on. I'm supposed to ask this question to
you now about all right, bring the room down.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
You had it. You guys had a tough day in.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
The super Bowl and you lost, and we all feel
so bad for you. You know, I feel you're twenty
three years old and you've been in two Super Bowls.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
I don't feel bad for you at all.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Man, You've only played two seasons and you've made it
to the super Bowl both times. You don't even know
what it's like to play an NFL season not make
it to the Super Bowl. Have you ever considered maybe
one of these years it's only a title game or
something like that. Would it be strange to play a
season and not have an end in February?
Speaker 5 (31:12):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (31:12):
For sure.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
For sure.
Speaker 10 (31:14):
It's even crazy for like the George Coloss Trent McDuffie
is like, it's crazy for them too. They've been to
three straight, so I'm I'm trying to catch up to them.
I can't catch up because they're on the team. But
it's just like it's just crazy. They don't really know
anything but going to the Super Bowl. So it's it's
a good thing, man feels.
Speaker 9 (31:32):
We know that most basketball players, most football players did
at their basketball players.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
You're a defensive end.
Speaker 9 (31:36):
We know most defensive anstey that they have hands that
can play receiver. We don't usually hear about defensive ends
playing seven on seven, but yeah, here you are hosting
a seven dof seven tournament. Tell us a little bit
about it.
Speaker 10 (31:48):
Think is when I was younger, we never had no springball,
nothing like that, and I always did like seven on
seven things with my friends and stuff like that. So
I had an idea and I was like, there's a
lot of old folks and there's a lot of high
schoolers that I would like to have like a seven
on seven event just to showcase it talent and stuff
like that. So I was like, might as well go
ahead and do it and have charity with the two
(32:09):
because should mercy is dear.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
To my heart.
Speaker 5 (32:12):
I had a hernia when I.
Speaker 10 (32:14):
Was the younger, and they helped helped surgical repair it,
and it was a scary thing when I was hearing
because it's like a life changing it was.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
It was a life learning situation.
Speaker 10 (32:24):
So I wanted to get back to them, and there
was no other way to have a fun event like
having a seven seven tournament.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
I love that it's for a very good cause.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
And you know what the best part is, Felix, in
seven on seven you can't do the toush push, so
that's that's not a factor in the game whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
You don't have to worry about that Felix put you
on the spot.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Should should the league make a new rule that says
no more toush push?
Speaker 2 (32:47):
Should they or not? Oh?
Speaker 5 (32:50):
This is this is a hard question.
Speaker 10 (32:51):
So, like I'm a little fifty fifty on it because
at the end of the day, they the Eagles found
a play that they saw that was unstoppable and other
people try to mimic it and some people they didn't
succeed with this. So I don't know exactly like if
it should be banned or not. And plus obviously it's
(33:12):
it's super hard to guard and it's unguardable, so it's
just a play that it's just I don't know, I
really know how to answer that question.
Speaker 9 (33:19):
Just a play that I created. So I mean, I
don't know, all right, real quick, A Felix. So the
touch push is a heck of a question. The offense
has an advantage because they can push. The defense currently,
by the rules, cannot push. If the defense could push,
would you want to allow the touch push to stay
or would you want it to go away?
Speaker 6 (33:39):
So defense can posh or to push goes away?
Speaker 10 (33:42):
Oh yeah, if defense can push, for show that it's
a stake if they if they can't push listen. You
gave me a good point. I didn't know that. I
didn't know that at all. But they they can't push
then I don't know. It might have to go away.
Speaker 7 (33:56):
All right, Felix, let's get really deep. I was telling
the guys here that you're a country boy. You love
the fish, you love country music. So my question for
you is, if you had to give one of those up,
which would you give up.
Speaker 10 (34:15):
I'll give up country music because I just started listening
to country. I'm not gonna lie. I just started to
listen to Christapleton, Morgan Wallen.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
My favorite. Yeah, who else? Luke Combs, and I don't know.
Speaker 10 (34:28):
I just started listening to country music because one of
my friends back at home. They just put me on
country music. So I can give that up because fishing,
I don't know. I love fishing. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 6 (34:38):
Is consider Is he in your country playlist?
Speaker 5 (34:42):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (34:42):
Yeah, for sure, that's likest you don't know?
Speaker 5 (34:46):
Oh yeah, no, he's on the playlist.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Show Feelix.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
We really appreciate you joining us. We got justin the
rest of the hour with us. Is there anything we
should know about, any hard hitting questions we need to
drop on him?
Speaker 2 (34:55):
What do you got.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
Ooh, it's a good one.
Speaker 10 (34:58):
Okay, okay, we played we played this game called Talking
Locker Room.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
Why why do you keep stopping like me?
Speaker 10 (35:08):
Chris and Michael Panel was like, hey, Javery, come over.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
He just just quit playing with us. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (35:16):
I was tired for paying you guys coffee tabs all the.
Speaker 6 (35:20):
Time on that game.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
There you go, hey Felix. We really appreciate it. Best
of luck on your seven and seven tournament. Season is
going to be here before you know it. I know
you're trying to make it three straight to the title game.
As Kyle said, just this's just an average season for
you guys.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
You know it's incredible. We appreciate it, appreciate thanks right
to me.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
You good dun for sure, for sure.
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