January 21, 2025 • 41 mins
Hour Two of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with hosts Jamie Erdahl, Peter Schrager, Kyle Brandt, and Akbar Gbajabiamila sharing one thing they learned from the divisional round playoff matchups. Peter and Kyle go “into the booth” and hand out the best broadcast awards from divisional round. Actor Morris Chestnut joins the show and talks about his nerves ahead of the Eagles-Commanders matchup, and then he explains why Jalen Hurts should receive more credit.
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Peter Stregger, Kyle Grant.
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I'm Jamie eard All.
Speaker 8 (01:31):
That was a montage music video, if you will, of
a look back to what happened over divisional weekend.
Speaker 7 (01:37):
Some visuals that.
Speaker 8 (01:38):
Caught my eye was the glassy eyed Dan Campbell, Matt
Stafford getting bent in half by Jalen Carter, Mark Andrews
and those terrible drops.
Speaker 7 (01:45):
Guys, there are lessons to be.
Speaker 8 (01:47):
Learned from what happened over the divisional weekend.
Speaker 7 (01:50):
It's all said and done, whether or not you like it.
Speaker 8 (01:53):
We have our final four teams in the conference championships. However,
Peter Kyle Akbar. Let's look back one more time, shall we.
It's the divisional weekend. That was everything we watch and
we learned. What is one one thing that you took
away from that round of.
Speaker 7 (02:06):
Games, Peter?
Speaker 5 (02:09):
The one thing that I learned during the divisional round
is well, your team they can turn it around. The
Washington Commanders were a Foreign thirteen team a year ago
foreign thirteen team, the second worst record in.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
All of football.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
They fired their head coach, they got rid of their
general manager. They had nothing at quarterback, and they didn't
necessarily have the skill position players that you would desire
to go to if you were a team looking to oh,
I don't know. Playing the NFC Championship Round. The next season,
they first hired Adam Peters GM had been recruited by
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other teams but didn't get the jobs. Adam Peters is
the guy in the right. That's Josh Harris, the owner
on the left. Adam Peters comes in as the general manager,
fresh off a stint with San Francisco, but before that,
had history with Denver, had history with New England. Young
fresh going to bring things from different organizations to this organization.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Here they danced with Ben Johnson, it didn't happen. Instead,
they hired Dan Quinn.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Dan Quinn a defensive coordinator who was coming from the
Dallas Cowboys but also had history as a coach who
had been there to the Super Bowl at the Top
of the Mountain with the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
But also the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
At dan Quinn's opening press conference, here's what he had
to say about the commander's task ahead.
Speaker 9 (03:39):
You know, as a coach who has done it before,
I knew then what I was looking for. You know,
I think when you're first going through it is the
first time you got to go get it and you
got to go take it. After you've been through the experience,
you want to make sure that you can align it
exactly like you want to do to go kick ass.
And so that's what I was, you know, looking for
specific markers, because if I wasn't going to find them,
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then I wasn't going to do it. And I desperately
wanted to. But if the markers weren't in line, to
say dis alignment between ownership general manager at the club,
I wouldn't have. So when this one was here, it
was please call, and in short.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Order they hired Cliff Kingsbury as the offensive coordinator.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
They got Joe Witnis the defense coordinator. Then they drafted
this guy second overall.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Jaden Daniels comes as the same year to Washington football,
and he has not only been that, he has exceeded expectations.
He's not only been the best rookie quarterback in football,
he's been one of the best quarterbacks in all of football.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Then they go to the rest of the draft and
in the later rounds they had to make picks two.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Here's a sneaky one who made the biggest plays of
that Lions NFC Divisional round up.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Say, let's go to the draft again for oh, I
don't know, Day two and who was selected there.
Speaker 10 (05:02):
With the fiftieth pick in the twenty twenty four NFL Draft,
the Washington Commander select Mike Sander for Steel Defense.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Of my goodness, gracious.
Speaker 11 (05:17):
We're turning Cadillac square to the big house.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
That's rich eyes and excited because that's a Michigan man
who made all the big plays in college.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
And then with the.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Second round pick behind Jane Daniels, and then goes to
Detroit this past weekend and he's the most dominant defensive
player on that field. Look, it wasn't just we hired
the right coach, or we hired the right GM, or
we got the quarterback. They got a second round pick
who's starting at corner and has been outstanding as well.
And then they decorated that roster in March with all
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the right free agent veteran leaders. You're talking about Zach Ertz,
Bobby Wagner, Marcus Mariota, Frankie Lubu, Jeremy Chin, Nick Allighretti,
Thornce Armstrong's played a big.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Role, Dante Fowler. These were all free agent signings.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
That nobody had as the top guy on the board.
But that made sense for Washington in a matter of
just one year, and less than one year if you
consider dan Quin didn't get there till February. The Washington
Commanders went from the joke of the league to maybe
the gold standard onto how to rebuild a franchise. They
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were a four and thirteen team a year ago. They
got the right GM who hired the right coach, They
got the right quarterback, they got the right defensive player
in the second round, and then they got all the
right veterans around that. Oh and by the way hired
the right offensive coordinator, the right defensive coordinator, and all
of it seems to be working. My message is for
Jets fans. My message is for Raiders fans. My message
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is for Browns, Titans, Jaguars, any of the downtrodden franchises
right now in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
It can happen. There's hope.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
The commanders just showed us you can change your things,
and you can change your team.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
You can do so with the right moves. Anybody can
do it. Anybody. The Giants could do it, the Jets
could do it. They can all do it. It's all
right there, Kyle.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
It's very positive, it's very constructive. I actually am going
to respond to Peter.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Peter.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I see the Washington example of changing everything as the
false god of changing everything. I see it as if
you're trying to do what Washington's do it, it's like
you're chasing waterfalls.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I think you're fooling yourself.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Mostly important because if you are a downtroden franchise, you
are not going to change owners.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
That is almost definitely not going to happen.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
And that is a massive, massive part of what happened
to Washington. I don't think if the prior regime and
ownership is still there, we're having this conversation. I certainly
don't think they're playing this weekend, and I have decades
of experience to show it.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
You're not going to change owners.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
It's almost definitely what not gonna happen, so you're not
gonna have that benefit. Also, I think that Jaden Daniels
is an anomaly. I don't think he's just the next
cool young quarterback. I don't think there'll be a Jaden
Daniels in this draft, or the next draft or the
one after that. And I've talked about this a lot,
is that he's not only doing exceptional things as a
rookie in the playoffs, winning two road games, he's doing
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it in a way that no rookie quarterback has ever done.
And you can talk about Roethlisberger or Sanchez or Flacco.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Those guys had insane.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Lights out sometimes all time historic defenses, which Jane Daniels
does not. I don't think he is just a cool
young quarterback. I don't think you're gonna get Jade Daniels.
So those teams are outliers. I don't think you're gonna
get him.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Also, I don't think dan Quinn grows on trees.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I don't think there is a plug and play dan
Quinn out there.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Remember this.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Find me another coach who has an historic meltdown in
the Super Bowl that would break most coaches and most
human beings, and the next year has that team back
in the division round of the playoffs. I am almost
at this point, we're so far removed from twenty eight
to three. I almost am looking at it as a
positive for dan Quinn because I'm so impressed that he
recovered from it.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
It's incredible, it really is that that happens. So to
those teams.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I would also love to give you a message of hope,
especially on a day when the Bears hire a new
coach and maybe the Jets will as well.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Maybe you will, but don't.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
In my opinion, look at Washington, say we can also
do that.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Not like that.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
You may find a way, but you're not gonna have
a new owner. You're not gonna have jayde Daniels, and
you're probably not gonna have dan Quinn.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
So look elsewhere. Sorry to be a skeptic, but look
at the commanders. You can't do that. Yeah, you can't.
Speaker 12 (09:21):
Yeah, sorry and to speak to hope, uh, Kyle, and Peter.
I think there's still hope in this old idea when
you talk about what I've learned from the Divisional round
and that the run game still works and having a
team that is rooted in the run game. I look
at the Philadelphia Eagles and I've seen just kind of
their storyline, and I'm watching a team that came into
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the playoffs as the twenty ninth ranked passing offense. This
is a team that is going to be playing in
the NFC Championship on the heels of a strong running game.
Say Kwon Barkley.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
We all know.
Speaker 12 (09:57):
It, and we've all felt the pain. We talked about
it like almost two We've been nauseated about how the
Giants just gave up on Sae Kwon Barkley and how
we've seen the devaluation of the running backs. And he
has literally brought that idea back the Philadelphia Eagles. There
are a team that is rooted in a strong run
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game and rooted in a strong defense, and that recipe
is enough to get you that old school football, but
get you to the championship. But I've started looking at
some of the other teams in the playoffs, and you're
looking at the second ranked offense and with the Lions,
they are passing game, and you're looking at the seventh
ranked passing game with the Ravens. And you're looking at
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some of these top ten teams who are in the
passing game and you don't need it, and we haven't
seen that from Jalen Hurts. Jalen Hurts has contributed to
the run game. Say Kwon Barkley is the run game.
This defense is very, very strong. I really truly believe
when I look at, you know, the Jalen Hurts production,
and it is just crazy to even think when we're
thinking about the matchup going into the NFC Championship, two
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hundred and fifty nine yards. That's the amount of passing
yard yards that the Eagles have had in the last
two games. That's Jayden Daniels had what seventeen yards less
in the first half against Detroit. And it just lets
you know how strong that passing game is. So we're
going to be looking at the old school principle of
winning like this is what.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
All the old school coaches want.
Speaker 12 (11:23):
A strong defense and a strong run game going up
against this high power passing offense. It's going to be
interesting to watch to see which one wins out. And
if we start to see the valuation of running backs
come back where we go. You know, we can't discount
them anymore. They do make a difference. They are important.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
It is nice to see the resurgence of the run game,
especially the characters are play this weekend. What I read
this thing yesterday on cbsports dot com the fact that
for the first time ever, coming up this weekend, the
four teams that are remaining in the playoffs, they have
not turned the ball over this postseason. Their opponents, the
teams that are book their trips, book their vacations, they've
turned the ball over fifteen times in January. The four
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teams remaining zero turnovers. It's a remarkable thing. It makes
me think that at times, you have to expect the
best if you're a team playing in the postseason, or
prepare for the worst. I hated that music video to
start our show only because you see the two Mark
Andrews turnovers. You see the fact that the Lions had
that emotion and that they expected excellence this season.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
They expected to get to the.
Speaker 8 (12:25):
Super Bowl, but emotionally, if you're a fan, you have
to prepare for the worst. But guys, how remarkable is
it that you look at these four teams, you look
at what happened over this weekend, specifically if you're a
Raven's team and you're like, we knew we were here,
and now we have to prepare to watch these four
teams play. I find it specifically fascinating the fact that
zero turnovers in the four teams that are left. What
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does that say to you, guys about the way that
the football is being played?
Speaker 12 (12:48):
Take care of the ball? I mean it is important.
Look at the Kansas City Chiefs. They've gone like what
eight games without turning over the ball. When you look
at how how much they take care of the ball,
that's what it comes down to. You can't you can't
let every coach preach this that you cannot turn the
ball over because the team that turns them over the
Bulls traditionally will lose the game. So I think this
is what we're talking about when we're watching elite football
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at this point of the season.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Well, the Chiefs and Bills have the exact same thing
going on right now, like they are so good with it.
I feel like the first turnover in Chiefs Bills is
going to be nuclear.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
It's going to be, a fumble, in interception or something.
It's like, if that happens in the first quarter of
the fourth, I cannot wait for that because it's going
to be a huge indicator of who's going to win
that game. Somebody has to blink. One of those guys
is going to do it.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
I don't know who.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
And Jamie and Lamar's first interception, that pass where it
looks like he and Bateman didn't run on the same pit.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
It was like watching a car.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
It was like so jarring because Lamar hasn't thrown interceptions.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
You're like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
And then to then see Lemar get the ball stripped
and von Miller recover it and take it, it's like, oh,
they're not They can't win the game if you turn
the ball over against the Bills. That's how big turnovers
are in these playoffs. And if you're a Ravens fan
deep in your heart, as much as Mark Andrews drop
that pass, you know, if you don't turn the ball over,
that game might go a different way.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
Well, we saw the Lions. They lost to the Commanders.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
It's a great story. Commander is one of the four teams.
The Lions, now their coaches were a little bit more
available to meet with some teams. Tom Pellisaro, good morning
to you. Welcome inside. We got Aaron Glenn down the
street from those guys in New York meeting with the Jets.
We think right this second, but we also know the
destination of their offensive coordinator, Ben Johnson has he takes
flight out of Detroit, but he doesn't land too far.
Speaker 13 (14:23):
Well, Jamie, this really did, as you said, escalate after
the lions stunning home loss to the Commanders on Saturday night.
If the Lions had won that game, then Ben Johnson
Aaron Glenn would not have been able to do second
interviews until after the conference championship games and would have
had technically to wait to take a job until then
as well. Once they were out, Ben Johnson, after going
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through exit meetings on Sunday, ramped up his process, and
so did the Chicago Bears. He had multiple opportunities. The
Raiders also made a strong offer, but the favorite always
was going to be Ben Johnson landing in Chicago. There
are a lot of reasons for that, starting out with
their quarterback Kleb Williams, the number one overall draft pick,
who Ben Johnson now will take over his development. They
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got tons of cap space, they got extra draft resources.
It's an iconic franchise and one that is soon going
to break brown on a new stadium as soon as
this year. For the Bears, what they saw in Ben
Johnson was a person who is going to help take
Caleb Williams to the next level. For Ben Johnson, there
is a belief in Caleb.
Speaker 14 (15:26):
And the organization that even stayed in a really tough
division in the NFC North, that he is going to
have the alignment and the opportunity for long term success.
Speaker 13 (15:36):
Ziel's got the opportunity to build a really strong staff.
Dennis Allen, the former Saints head coach, is considered a
top candidate for the defensive coordinator position. A guy who
certainly has had a long history in the NFL on defense,
but also as a former head coach, can maybe help
Ben Johnson with some of those operational things that go
on around him. Meanwhile, you also mentioned Aaron Glenn, who
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is in Florin Park today for an interview that's really
more like a visit a recruiting trip to the New
York Jets facility. My understanding and speaking with people involved,
is there is hope on both sides that they will
get a deal done and Aaron Glenn will be the
head coach of New York Jets as soon as today. Now,
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the contract for Aaron Glenn is not done yet. Obviously,
until that's final, there's a lot of different directions that
this can go. He does still have a meeting scheduled
with the Saints, but again I would categorize it as
a surprise if Aaron Glenn does not end up as
the Jets coach. And meanwhile, while Peter and Kyle and
the guys were talking just a little bit ago, I
thought about this because I've seen some people putting on
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social media, which of course is a terrible metric to
judge anything. Oh, Aaron Glenn's defense, what happened to the Lions? Well,
last year there was a defensive coordinator whose team gave
up forty plus points in a stunning home loss in
their playoff opener. He ended up being the last head
coach hired in the cycle. That was Dan Quinn, who
now has the commanders in the NFC championship game. The Jets,
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if they get this done with Aaron Glenn can only
hope that he is a similar figure in a turnaround
like that.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
In New York.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Playoff time, You're looking at New York City, the media
capital of the world, great politically charged atmosphere. Right now,
Peter and we are going to celebrate those ladies and.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Gentlemen, take the oath.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Of Office of Broadcasting Football games. There he is Trey Aikman,
and there is Peter Schrager from television. You know him
from Fox, you know I from NFL Network, And today, Peter,
we as always are going to celebrate what we liked,
what was positive and fun about NFL broadcasting during the
visual round.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
This is where everyone's watching the same game and the
same broadcast, so everyone is listening to the same calls.
The red zone is no longer and a lot of
times if you're flicking between games during the regular season,
you might have missed the best calls. Now we're all
living in the same boat and we're all here in
the same different calls and you might have missed.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
A few, Yeah, especially since all the announcements are just
trying to be SpongeBob that's what we're at at this point, and.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
They're all trying and failing.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
But our first thing we'd like to talk about today
is our best called the week. It comes from the
Washington upset against Detroit Peter, and we are going to
go to our friend, longtime Washington linebacker London Fletcher and
Bram Weinstein on an incredible moment and an incredible call.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Let's go to Detroit, second of fourteen at the eighteen.
Speaker 12 (18:22):
Well, they get to stop here.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
This crowd's gonna get real nervous.
Speaker 12 (18:26):
Golf pointing out a defender, pressure up the middle, Golf
has time Flowers, Oh, pick up, got is.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Picked up by Quad carton twenty by twenty fifteen turn fine,
pick six, touchdown, chuckdown locking Dad Quad Lordon.
Speaker 15 (18:47):
This is a great job to disguise all the curvets
on the back end by Joe with Julia. They had
Jared Coach totally confused. Helmy Russ please cup eight back
of coverage and inaccurate belt leads to the quad Mardin
tapped down eight pound Benny Cornas has swarthed into the.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Last whoa to turn over the half.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Cook Peter?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
All right, so whoa?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Whoa?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Okay, we heard the eight mile reference.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
We know that it's Eminem swerve and bend that corner. WHOA,
I'm sure I'm the guy who everyone wants to hear
sing that right, that's the song Tweaker by Jello Ball,
sure of the famous Ball family.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Of course we saw that viral sensation golf.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
It's now like the number one most down London Fletcher
in real time. It's like, I'm gonna reference that and
guess what, Jello was there before the game.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
There was reference to him. He was there. This is unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Jello Ball signed a Deaf Jam this month for a thirteen.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Million dollar record deal.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Jello Ball gets the call from London Fletcher and we
love that London reference.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
There is there any chance that the big Baller brand
will return?
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Now?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
I still I want I was on ground floor on
that best sneakers, best gear B B B from the
Ball family.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Also such a subtext.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
There from Fletcher he knows on a lot of those
teams fired up. That was the moment too that you know,
oh my god, I think the lines are gonna lose
this game.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
And I like the local call there. We get a
lot of objectivity on the national calls.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
I'm sure Burkhart was excited, but Bram Weinstein, we see it,
we felt it. It was a local Washington team that's
been watching a lot of bad football over the last
two decades. That one felt like a Catharsis of sorts.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Wbig, big, one hundred. Let's move onl to the next category, Peter,
because I know this is one that you like. It
came during the the Houston versus who did they play
Kansas City?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yes, remember the Chiefs.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
There is a fraternity amongst all the broadcasters, and there's
a certain man at the top the hierarchy, and it
starts with mister al Michaels.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
And al Michaels used to always be a little bit
of a rascal in the booth.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
He would mention something about Las Vegas or a point
spread or something like that. Boy, back before it was
okay to promote Vegas and.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Gambling in points. Bront forget your promo code BMFP. Exactly right.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Here's Joe and Troy Pang homage to mister Michaels at
the end of a game where there was a play
that had a certain I guess what you say, significant
change and who were the happy and sad folks out
in vague for us.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Though nobody back.
Speaker 16 (21:13):
Arrizo will head out in the back of the end
zone for a safety and there are a lot of
people who are paying attention to that.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
That makes it a nine point game.
Speaker 17 (21:29):
Rolled al Michael's is smiling right now.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Michaels is kiddy, all right.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
So the backstory it was a nine and a half
point spread, and then I'm sorry, I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Tell like it is. If they can do what we
could do it what is spread spread? Me? If they
were supposed to win by nine and a half points.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
To get picked it five, they go out in the
back of the end zone, makes it.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
A nine point game.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
All those fortunes turn a nine seconds on a safety
And al Michael somewhere was smiling because that's something he
used to always do a little dangerously, not as dangerous now.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I just love ball, Peter, What do you mean supposed
to win according to who?
Speaker 3 (22:01):
I don't know? I understand how that? What do you
even this is to me? Can we all ball? Can
we also talk about zar balls?
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Yes? Okay, why not crystal balls?
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Because Tom Brady's taking a lot of heat this season.
Eighteen regular season games, a playoff game.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
You see all the people online.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
You might have had as decisive and perceptive, perceptive call
out of anybody this weekend. Listen to Tom Brady shouting
something out when it goes.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
To twelve men on the field, twelve on.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
The field, time out, time out?
Speaker 8 (22:38):
Op nop, oh no.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Now we got a penalty flag. What are they doing? Well?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Players on defense? Offensive information in this a minute? The
penalty has happened, doesn't for the goal? You called it
for ten seconds.
Speaker 18 (22:57):
I'm seeing him run out there and you got one, two, three, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Miscommunication is one.
Speaker 19 (23:06):
Of those things that you've got to see.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Time out, time out?
Speaker 1 (23:10):
How does he do that? I know these Tom Brady.
He sees the field and he's been looking at defenses
for thirty years. But my whole life, anytime there's a
twelve men on the field penalty. They showed a wide
shot and I try to count myself at home, and
it could be nine, it could be fifteen.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
He does it immediately, and then I gotta give him credit.
Nails the telestrator numbering them one by one. That can't
be easy, Yeah, listen, there's spotters. We don't see that
in real time. Ten second daughters, ten seconds.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Before it goes out.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
Brady's like, oh no, guys, twelve minute what And it
was such a moment in the game where it's like
everything was going wrong for Detroit. They had all these
injuries and then now you're gonna have a shoot yourself
in the foot twelve men on the field penalty. Brady
seems legitimately disappointed, not angry, disappointed in the execution of
the little things.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
We have a jar at my house round Christmas time
that's filled with red and green eminem's, and the family
contests guessed how many m and ms are in the jar.
I'm always off by like two thousand. I feel like
Brady would stick the number. You just look at you,
like seven hundred and thirty six.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Got it.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
It was really impressive. I would say it's Brady's best
moment as a broadcast.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
Okay, I think in real time he called it out,
which is the hardest part, and then to have real emotion.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
That's what we've been waiting for.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
So I think Brady really gets a gold star for
this week.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
So when if there's twelve commanders, on the field in
the Super Bowl. He'll be able to pick that up.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I think he can. Really is that think happened? And
he'll be as equally disappointed. Hi, yes you will.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
All right?
Speaker 3 (24:26):
What do we have next?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
We have best rivalry next? Yeah, because Peter, this is
a long time colleague of yours, Mike Pereira. I just
met him for the first time a few weeks ago
on the sideline. It was there before Bill's rams. What
a personality. He came up to me and it was
like a whole vaudeville show. I was like, Wow, Mike,
you're incredible.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Nice to meet you.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
And we have an word for him, Mike Pereira, greatest
rivalry in sports.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Take a lesson who he hates?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Okay, a lot of great value players came in and
played great football for this team.
Speaker 17 (24:52):
Third long golf underneath kids. Has it hit down right
around Mark? I'm not sure if he got there. It's close.
Take a half yard short and now time obviously a
big problem.
Speaker 12 (25:04):
Previous players under for the review.
Speaker 17 (25:06):
And they will take a look. Mike, what are your thoughts?
Speaker 18 (25:08):
I don't know. I never trust that yellow line. As
a matter of fact, they always which they always say
is unofficial.
Speaker 17 (25:15):
Mike, yellow line ever do to you? I mean, there's
it feels like there's a grudge there.
Speaker 18 (25:19):
Well, they say that I was the greatest invention since
the yellow lines. So I've had this competition for fifteen
years now against the yellow line.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
It's a good line there, the yellow one.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
There have been like six thousand word essays by by
the greatest few about how important the yellow line was
for the NFL.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Pereira is like, screw the yellow line.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
I'm the best invention.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I'm the one. I come in and tell it like
it is. Uh, the yellow line, it's a technology.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
Everyone seems to praise it, but maybe the officials at
heart don't exactly approve it because it's unofficial.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
I've been saying this for years.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Like in the hierarchy of great inventions, you have the
light bulb from Edison, you have the smartphone from Jobs,
and you have Mike Pereira and Fox and all the
wonderful and not necessarily in that order. No, I'm honestly not.
I have a big Mike Prayer fan, and I love
that he was cantankerous about the yellow line. Who's gotta
go yellow line of my prayer? Yellow line, get out
of it line, get out, get out of here man
football before you, we'll have it after you. We need Perera.
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What's last period?
Speaker 16 (26:16):
All right?
Speaker 5 (26:17):
You never know when a previous era style is.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Going to be brought out. But we got to give
him Monro Saint Brown some love.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Well, you know, a Monrod does the blue hair thing,
it's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Did it last year? Does it this year?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Unfortunately the playoff run does not last long. But he's
all in, and so Brady. We're going back to Brady
and Burkhart. We're getting into maybe some of Brady's style choices,
which is a fun thing to look back on. And
they went off the rail about Tom Brady maybe doing
some sort of Mark McGrath adjacent look back in the day.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Let's roll it.
Speaker 17 (26:51):
You know, Saint Brown has done this before, but he
went back for the playoff run to the Saint Brown
blue hair and as a matter of fact, he's got
his own shirt.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
It's a good looking haircut, a blue.
Speaker 17 (27:00):
Blue Did you ever do a Honolulu blue haircut?
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Frosted the tips once? That only last at I don't
know a day. I mean that decision.
Speaker 17 (27:08):
I'm from New Jersey, of course I had frosted tips
at one point there you.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Go, all right, so, Peter, you're from New Jersey. Burkhart
just laid it out.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
That if you're from New Jersey, there is an of
course with frost in the tips.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
What say you.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I never did frosted tips, but I know many who did.
And there was a hung called son In. Have you
heard of Sunny, Yeah, it's sen in my book used
to put this thing in.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
You'd go to a tanning salon, you'd put son In
in your hair and then you'd have these frosted tips.
It was the late nineties and Mark McGrath and Sugar Ray,
we're all the rage, fred dirts, you name it.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Dyeing your hair was.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
Nothing uncommon to a Jersey guy like Burkhart.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
But Brady said me, he did it just once.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
And the story is he did it just once. I'm
sure there's more to it.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Kyle, Well, apparently he went to the Met Gallapri party
and he went at the time and he frosted the
tips and then everyone took his picture and gave him
crap about it or something.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
I give no crap about this.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
You have to understand, at the time, there's a lot
of us and I say us who.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Just did it once?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
They tried it, because every single girl that you were
either with or wanted to be with loved sugar Ray.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Mark McGrath was like the hottest, sexiest thing of all time. Mark.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
If you're watching, good luck to you now, whatever you're doing,
love you. But at that time, like everything was coming
up McGrath. I used to date this girl in college
who had poster of mark Ingrath, not the whole band,
just Mark McGrath, a little tank top with us, and
she just was like here God, and I think Brady
gets even Tom Brady, who's got on Earth, and it's
like for a while there, every morning there's a dead
(28:32):
you know what I mean. Like it was coming up
McGrath and he put that thing on the map.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
Tom Brady went to the frosted tips. But I'll tell
you what, he is no heart thrub compared to our
next oyes.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
My god, I just want to fly with Morris Chessnut.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
He loves hearing that.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
I think Morris is in the production booth right now.
I'm probably watching the segment. He's like, what are these
two idiots talking?
Speaker 5 (28:50):
Tell my wife, I go, we got MOR's chests on
the show today and she's like.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Wait, what, I might watch your show today. So there
we go.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
We got one More's chestnut after this into the Boost.
Congratulations to all our winners.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
We got us here in the studio in New York
and it's a guy we've been watching for our entire
live Bladies and gentlemen, It's More's Chessnut.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Hey, thank you guys for having me. I appreciate. I'm
glad to be here.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Dude, fired up to have you fired up about your
new CBS drama series, Watson.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
We're going to talk about it a lot. But I
don't know if.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
It's a coincidence Morris that you were dressed in green today.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
You know, I don't know.
Speaker 19 (29:23):
I mean, I don't know why, how this happened? How
did this happen? I'll tell you what happened.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
The Philadelphia Eagles are hosting the NFC title game. You
are an Eagles fan? Yes, the phraser here all the time.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Now, vibe check.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Let's get a vibe.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Just days away from the NFC title Guests, give us
a vibe check as a Birds fan.
Speaker 19 (29:41):
Okay, Now, I'm a rational fan, I'm nervous, I'm nervous
about the games, okay, because Jayleen Jalen Daniels is a beast,
and our Jalen Jalen Hurts is a little bit hurt
right now. And we also, you know, Quenya Mitchell's hurt.
So we lost to Kobe Dean. No, you know, we
have we have a lot of stuff going on that
could really change the complexion of the game. So I'm
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a little bit.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
So we're watching the NFC Divisional Round game. Yes, and
it's on NBC and your shows on CBS. Yeah, we're
seeing it, and there's all these commercials new shows, and
then we turn on CBS and there's all these Watson adds, Yes,
chess on looks greats. What meanwhile, as they're promoting your
show in this big moment in your career, your team
almost gives up this huge league at the end, where
(30:27):
were you for the fourth.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Quarter of that game? And where are you watching it?
Speaker 5 (30:30):
How are you watching as in the same breath everyone's
texting you about like, hey, cool new show coming.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Get it in exactly what people were text me. And
I was watching the game and I.
Speaker 19 (30:39):
Here's the thing. Being a lifelong Eagles fan, I'm used
to it. So we score touchdown, we go up by
thirteen points. I relax a little bit, I exhale, right,
of course, the Rams scoring like two seconds and then
I have to get nervous again. And so so I
was in my hotel room just just watching a game
and it was tough, but I'm glad we pulled it out.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Yes, and we.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Love those promos. Jamiere, don't get in here. I know
you love chess, not come on.
Speaker 11 (31:00):
I do.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
So I have to add, Moris, what's up?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
So nice?
Speaker 8 (31:03):
It's antis a little little upset that you're in La,
that you're not in our studio. But like for the
next for the next.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Past through, well we'll see.
Speaker 19 (31:12):
They invited me here, Jamie in there. You know Ogbar
knows better Sockbar. I'm little disappointed.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
Uh so we got to talk. Jalen Hurts, you Morris
are one. Are a part of one of the best
ensemble cast movie series around. People love the Best Man,
they love everybody that's.
Speaker 7 (31:31):
In that film.
Speaker 8 (31:32):
Jalen Hurts is catching some heat right now, maybe because
he doesn't, you know, throw for over three hundred yards
and three three touchdowns, but.
Speaker 7 (31:39):
Like he's got Sequon Barkley.
Speaker 8 (31:40):
Do you find that this criticism of the quarterback is
fair or do you look at this Eagles offense of
more of an ensemble cast.
Speaker 19 (31:48):
So this's this whole thing about Jalen Hurst. Let me
let me just say that. So the Eagles do have
we have a very talented team. But every time a team,
every team looks at the quarterback position to say how
to pro to to to evaluate how the team is
going to do?
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Right.
Speaker 19 (32:07):
So with the Eagles, Jalen Hurts has been with this team.
He's been a starter for four years. He's been in
the playoffs all four years. Mars had three different offensive
coordinators and he's still averaged over twenty five points each
year he's been with the team. And listen, I do
I love love Saquon Barsha, right, but he's done it
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with two other different running backs as well, including he's
been three out of his four years as the starting
he's won double digit games.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
So, I mean, what can you say about Jalen Hurts?
He's the man?
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Right?
Speaker 10 (32:37):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (32:37):
That was good?
Speaker 19 (32:38):
Good?
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Get okay?
Speaker 12 (32:40):
All right, So you make a really solid and strong
point about Jalen Hurt. Okay, because it's a very strong
run game. But you and I were together not too
long ago, and you not had a discussion about how
good is Saquon Barkley, and to my surprise, you went
over the top. I want anybody to take a look
(33:00):
at this because you'll understand.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Take a look.
Speaker 19 (33:03):
Oh, bowl was extremely explosive, but I've never really seen
him catch out the backfield too much, so I haven't
holding it. Eric Dickerson, whoa wow, Ladanian Thomlinson, l T
was a beast.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Yes, hold on, LT. I didn't say that, man.
Speaker 12 (33:26):
Okay, okay, so you have you held on to that
ball and I actually throw the ball where Saquon, which
running back was better than Saquon. You had it over
Bo Jackson, Eric Dickerson, Ladanian Thomlinson, heck, you even took
Saquon over the great Jim Brown. So are you still
standing by those takes? I mean you only threw it
for Barry Sanders.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
Okay.
Speaker 19 (33:47):
I will say this aside from the fact that, of
course there's a little fandom, little Homer them there for
for Saquon and a little recency bias. I mean, at
the time that we we did that video, ocbar Uh,
Saquon Barkley was honest path to have the most yards
rushing in a season for a running bess. And if
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people say, well he had an extra game, if you
look at the carries, that carries were significantly less than
what Eric Dickinson had. So and it's much more challenging
to do it now in a passing league when Eric
Dickinson was in the running league.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
So what I'm trying to.
Speaker 19 (34:24):
Say to you is I was right on par with
that because had Sa Kwan Barkley played that final game
against nothing, against the Giants, against the Giants who have
not been you know, playing that well this year or
maybe last decade, but he would have broken the all
time rushing records. So I think my annoulynsis at that
(34:45):
time and point was accurate.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
My man Morris.
Speaker 7 (34:48):
People might blush when you come in a room.
Speaker 8 (34:50):
Peter Schrager blushes when you break down a passing league
versus running league, like this is right up the.
Speaker 7 (34:55):
Alley there in New York. This is perfect.
Speaker 8 (34:57):
I got to ask people have known you as a
football player and some of the projects that you worked
at Boys of the Hood, best man the game plan.
Are you good at football or did you have to
go through training for these roles?
Speaker 19 (35:09):
So I will say this. I played football as Pop
Warner in high school. I was you know, I hate
to say that I was an all league player in
high school because people who actually like pros, they're like
all league plan. Who wasn't right? It wasn't all league
in high school. I'm glad I'm not playing football anymore.
I did train for some of the movies that I've
done a game plan, But and I'm out there with
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these guys and these hits that these players take.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
I'm glad that. I'm glad that I'm in.
Speaker 19 (35:38):
This nice studio with you guys in stead out there
on the field and snow taking some bad hits.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
When you play all these football roles, and like game Plan,
you unders understand.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Game Plan is on in my house. Still look at
Rich's shirtless here.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
I came Plan is on in my house at all hours,
and it's like.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
I can by word, I can recite it.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
Are there football consultants on set who are like, actually,
you'd carry a ball like this or in this case,
you wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Say that in the locker room, you would say that.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
I know that's a comedy and other movies are not,
But like, is there a consultant who's working with you
to kind of get the details right.
Speaker 19 (36:10):
There is there is one guy and I'm sorry, I
hate it. I don't have his name right now, but
he's he does all the football guy. He's the guy
just in terms of he breaks down all the plays.
He sets up all the plays because we're not actually
running plays, you know, they're all choreographed. He choreographs all
the plays, He gets all the guys. He's incredible. And
I'm sorry, I don't here.
Speaker 7 (36:29):
Wants to be that guy.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
Trust me.
Speaker 19 (36:33):
You don't want to be that guy, you know. No, no,
you don't want to be that guy because you know,
seeing a movie may be cool, but making a movie
is kind of boring, right, and so you don't want
to be that guy.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
Trust me.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Listen, the first the first movie that ever made me
cry was Boys in the Hood. Oh, he played it
truly tragic character and Ricky and he's going places and
then we know what happens at the end.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Of the movie.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
All these years later, how do you look back on
Ricky and how do you look back on Boys in
the Hood.
Speaker 19 (36:57):
Oh, that's a great question, man, You know what it's
it's near and dear to me because of course that
was the first movie that you know, people around the
world knew me, and that was John Singleton, late grade.
John Singlety, you know, discovered me for that movie. So
I have very fond memories of that movie and just
all the cast, you know, everyone's still you know a
lot of people still irrelevant, still working today. It's just
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a very very fond memories of that movie.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
And that's a matter of fact.
Speaker 19 (37:22):
See that was so I played this character a little
bit out of high school. This is one of the
first times I knew I wasn't I wasn't made for football.
So there was a scene in this movie where I
had to go down the gauntlet and all I had
to just hold on to the ball and they were
hit me and doing all this stuff.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
I could not And I was only like a.
Speaker 19 (37:38):
Couple of years removed from high school, but I did
this movie and I could not get down the gauntlet
without fumbling the football. I said, this is I'm done.
I was never meant to play football. I was meant
to play a football player.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
You people always come up to you and say, why
didn't Ricky zigzags?
Speaker 3 (37:52):
It's always online.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
People people say that all the time.
Speaker 19 (37:54):
They say, why didn't Ricky zigzag And there's only one
simple answer, because the movie would have turned out differently.
But but but no, it's it's you know, I don't mind.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
People come up and they always say Ricky, they yo Ricky.
Speaker 19 (38:09):
But I don't mind because before I did that movie,
nobody knew who I was. I didn't have an opportunity
to work in this industry. I just wanted to work.
So they can say Ricky, they can ask me, why
didn'tzig Zach, they can say whatever they want, thank you
for watching the movie.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
I just appreciate people.
Speaker 5 (38:22):
I want to ask about the Best Man series too,
because a lot of people know you from that and
the fraternity of brotherhood of those guys and that.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
Yes, of course, along and all these others.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
But yes, yes, yes, yes, does that feel like a
team like you talk about football teams and like people
still say, oh, tell.
Speaker 19 (38:35):
You exact yeah, yeah now that now that that definitely
seems like a team.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
So I was with them.
Speaker 19 (38:42):
We've done movies together, for movies and TV shows for
twenty five years.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
You know.
Speaker 19 (38:46):
We did that back in like ninety nine, two thousand
and we're still working together. So we did two movies,
and we did a television series and now me and
the guys we have a brand, a bourbon brand called
Stable Together. Yeah, Sable brand, and so all of this
we still work together. And there's a possibility fingers crossed.
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We're talking to Malcolm Lee trying to get him to
do some other best so yeah, hey, hey, we're trying
to get him to do it. We'll see what he does.
He said the final chapters were the final chapters. But
it's you know, you know what I'm saying. That's just
keep going, all right.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
So here's the deal, Uh, Sunday in CBS, Jeeves Bills Watson,
here's what you're gonna do.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
Everybody watching is gonna watch the title game. Just leave
it on.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Whatever you do, leave it on, because this man, it
goes Josh All and Patrick Mahomes or Chestnut right after this.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
In fact, I think we have a clip.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Do we have a clip of premieres after the NTE
title game. Here's a clip of Watson coming the Sunday.
Speaker 11 (39:41):
Three men went over the water. Home yourself, miss arms Man.
We've been chasing James Moore already one survivor. We've lost him. Gulf,
We've lost miss Arms.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
I was trying to help him sit up. I went
into water after just go get him. You know I
was closer.
Speaker 11 (40:03):
I love you friend, mister Holmes had So don't you
go puming she's in yourself because I won't have it. Well,
you will take time, Lisa, and we will remember the
man properly. But they're gonna want to have a look
INSI and you will fixed. Carmail, you're up.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
That's Watson right there, that's Watson. Let me give you
let me go quick. So it's a it's a TV show.
Speaker 19 (40:28):
It's a medical procedure combined with the detective investigating show.
So we opened up where we're solved medical mysteries. So
we're doctors and we're detectives. We're detectives. So watch Watson.
We're detectives on CBS. Detectives. That's what we are.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Can you imagine one weekend you get the birds back
in the super Bowl and detectives and Watson is a
big hits like I need.
Speaker 4 (40:49):
To pinch myself. Come on, I de pinched myself, I
really do, all right?
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Well you pinched? Jamie wants to pinch your tip. Jamie,
we love you, We love you, Morris Chestnut.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
We love you.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Everybody watching Watson CBS. This something that's the man right there.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
Thank you, appreciate you man got so much. Yeah, what's
up about we can't win?
Speaker 3 (41:09):
Of course? Of course, of course the ram rebbe went out.
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Learned from what happened over the divisional weekend.
Speaker 7 (01:50):
It's all said and done, whether or not you like it.
Speaker 8 (01:53):
We have our final four teams in the conference championships. However,
Peter Kyle Akbar. Let's look back one more time, shall we.
It's the divisional weekend. That was everything we watch and
we learned. What is one one thing that you took
away from that round of.
Speaker 7 (02:06):
Games, Peter?
Speaker 5 (02:09):
The one thing that I learned during the divisional round
is well, your team they can turn it around. The
Washington Commanders were a Foreign thirteen team a year ago
foreign thirteen team, the second worst record in.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
All of football.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
They fired their head coach, they got rid of their
general manager. They had nothing at quarterback, and they didn't
necessarily have the skill position players that you would desire
to go to if you were a team looking to oh,
I don't know. Playing the NFC Championship Round. The next season,
they first hired Adam Peters GM had been recruited by
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other teams but didn't get the jobs. Adam Peters is
the guy in the right. That's Josh Harris, the owner
on the left. Adam Peters comes in as the general manager,
fresh off a stint with San Francisco, but before that,
had history with Denver, had history with New England. Young
fresh going to bring things from different organizations to this organization.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Here they danced with Ben Johnson, it didn't happen. Instead,
they hired Dan Quinn.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Dan Quinn a defensive coordinator who was coming from the
Dallas Cowboys but also had history as a coach who
had been there to the Super Bowl at the Top
of the Mountain with the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
But also the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
At dan Quinn's opening press conference, here's what he had
to say about the commander's task ahead.
Speaker 9 (03:39):
You know, as a coach who has done it before,
I knew then what I was looking for. You know,
I think when you're first going through it is the
first time you got to go get it and you
got to go take it. After you've been through the experience,
you want to make sure that you can align it
exactly like you want to do to go kick ass.
And so that's what I was, you know, looking for
specific markers, because if I wasn't going to find them,
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then I wasn't going to do it. And I desperately
wanted to. But if the markers weren't in line, to
say dis alignment between ownership general manager at the club,
I wouldn't have. So when this one was here, it
was please call, and in short.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Order they hired Cliff Kingsbury as the offensive coordinator.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
They got Joe Witnis the defense coordinator. Then they drafted
this guy second overall.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Jaden Daniels comes as the same year to Washington football,
and he has not only been that, he has exceeded expectations.
He's not only been the best rookie quarterback in football,
he's been one of the best quarterbacks in all of football.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Then they go to the rest of the draft and
in the later rounds they had to make picks two.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Here's a sneaky one who made the biggest plays of
that Lions NFC Divisional round up.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Say, let's go to the draft again for oh, I
don't know, Day two and who was selected there.
Speaker 10 (05:02):
With the fiftieth pick in the twenty twenty four NFL Draft,
the Washington Commander select Mike Sander for Steel Defense.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Of my goodness, gracious.
Speaker 11 (05:17):
We're turning Cadillac square to the big house.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
That's rich eyes and excited because that's a Michigan man
who made all the big plays in college.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
And then with the.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Second round pick behind Jane Daniels, and then goes to
Detroit this past weekend and he's the most dominant defensive
player on that field. Look, it wasn't just we hired
the right coach, or we hired the right GM, or
we got the quarterback. They got a second round pick
who's starting at corner and has been outstanding as well.
And then they decorated that roster in March with all
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the right free agent veteran leaders. You're talking about Zach Ertz,
Bobby Wagner, Marcus Mariota, Frankie Lubu, Jeremy Chin, Nick Allighretti,
Thornce Armstrong's played a big.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Role, Dante Fowler. These were all free agent signings.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
That nobody had as the top guy on the board.
But that made sense for Washington in a matter of
just one year, and less than one year if you
consider dan Quin didn't get there till February. The Washington
Commanders went from the joke of the league to maybe
the gold standard onto how to rebuild a franchise. They
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were a four and thirteen team a year ago. They
got the right GM who hired the right coach, They
got the right quarterback, they got the right defensive player
in the second round, and then they got all the
right veterans around that. Oh and by the way hired
the right offensive coordinator, the right defensive coordinator, and all
of it seems to be working. My message is for
Jets fans. My message is for Raiders fans. My message
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is for Browns, Titans, Jaguars, any of the downtrodden franchises
right now in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
It can happen. There's hope.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
The commanders just showed us you can change your things,
and you can change your team.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
You can do so with the right moves. Anybody can
do it. Anybody. The Giants could do it, the Jets
could do it. They can all do it. It's all
right there, Kyle.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
It's very positive, it's very constructive. I actually am going
to respond to Peter.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Peter.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
I see the Washington example of changing everything as the
false god of changing everything. I see it as if
you're trying to do what Washington's do it, it's like
you're chasing waterfalls.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I think you're fooling yourself.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Mostly important because if you are a downtroden franchise, you
are not going to change owners.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
That is almost definitely not going to happen.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
And that is a massive, massive part of what happened
to Washington. I don't think if the prior regime and
ownership is still there, we're having this conversation. I certainly
don't think they're playing this weekend, and I have decades
of experience to show it.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
You're not going to change owners.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
It's almost definitely what not gonna happen, so you're not
gonna have that benefit. Also, I think that Jaden Daniels
is an anomaly. I don't think he's just the next
cool young quarterback. I don't think there'll be a Jaden
Daniels in this draft, or the next draft or the
one after that. And I've talked about this a lot,
is that he's not only doing exceptional things as a
rookie in the playoffs, winning two road games, he's doing
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it in a way that no rookie quarterback has ever done.
And you can talk about Roethlisberger or Sanchez or Flacco.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Those guys had insane.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Lights out sometimes all time historic defenses, which Jane Daniels
does not. I don't think he is just a cool
young quarterback. I don't think you're gonna get Jade Daniels.
So those teams are outliers. I don't think you're gonna
get him.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Also, I don't think dan Quinn grows on trees.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I don't think there is a plug and play dan
Quinn out there.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Remember this.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Find me another coach who has an historic meltdown in
the Super Bowl that would break most coaches and most
human beings, and the next year has that team back
in the division round of the playoffs. I am almost
at this point, we're so far removed from twenty eight
to three. I almost am looking at it as a
positive for dan Quinn because I'm so impressed that he
recovered from it.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
It's incredible, it really is that that happens. So to
those teams.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I would also love to give you a message of hope,
especially on a day when the Bears hire a new
coach and maybe the Jets will as well.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Maybe you will, but don't.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
In my opinion, look at Washington, say we can also
do that.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Not like that.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
You may find a way, but you're not gonna have
a new owner. You're not gonna have jayde Daniels, and
you're probably not gonna have dan Quinn.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
So look elsewhere. Sorry to be a skeptic, but look
at the commanders. You can't do that. Yeah, you can't.
Speaker 12 (09:21):
Yeah, sorry and to speak to hope, uh, Kyle, and Peter.
I think there's still hope in this old idea when
you talk about what I've learned from the Divisional round
and that the run game still works and having a
team that is rooted in the run game. I look
at the Philadelphia Eagles and I've seen just kind of
their storyline, and I'm watching a team that came into
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the playoffs as the twenty ninth ranked passing offense. This
is a team that is going to be playing in
the NFC Championship on the heels of a strong running game.
Say Kwon Barkley.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
We all know.
Speaker 12 (09:57):
It, and we've all felt the pain. We talked about
it like almost two We've been nauseated about how the
Giants just gave up on Sae Kwon Barkley and how
we've seen the devaluation of the running backs. And he
has literally brought that idea back the Philadelphia Eagles. There
are a team that is rooted in a strong run
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game and rooted in a strong defense, and that recipe
is enough to get you that old school football, but
get you to the championship. But I've started looking at
some of the other teams in the playoffs, and you're
looking at the second ranked offense and with the Lions,
they are passing game, and you're looking at the seventh
ranked passing game with the Ravens. And you're looking at
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some of these top ten teams who are in the
passing game and you don't need it, and we haven't
seen that from Jalen Hurts. Jalen Hurts has contributed to
the run game. Say Kwon Barkley is the run game.
This defense is very, very strong. I really truly believe
when I look at, you know, the Jalen Hurts production,
and it is just crazy to even think when we're
thinking about the matchup going into the NFC Championship, two
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hundred and fifty nine yards. That's the amount of passing
yard yards that the Eagles have had in the last
two games. That's Jayden Daniels had what seventeen yards less
in the first half against Detroit. And it just lets
you know how strong that passing game is. So we're
going to be looking at the old school principle of
winning like this is what.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
All the old school coaches want.
Speaker 12 (11:23):
A strong defense and a strong run game going up
against this high power passing offense. It's going to be
interesting to watch to see which one wins out. And
if we start to see the valuation of running backs
come back where we go. You know, we can't discount
them anymore. They do make a difference. They are important.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
It is nice to see the resurgence of the run game,
especially the characters are play this weekend. What I read
this thing yesterday on cbsports dot com the fact that
for the first time ever, coming up this weekend, the
four teams that are remaining in the playoffs, they have
not turned the ball over this postseason. Their opponents, the
teams that are book their trips, book their vacations, they've
turned the ball over fifteen times in January. The four
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teams remaining zero turnovers. It's a remarkable thing. It makes
me think that at times, you have to expect the
best if you're a team playing in the postseason, or
prepare for the worst. I hated that music video to
start our show only because you see the two Mark
Andrews turnovers. You see the fact that the Lions had
that emotion and that they expected excellence this season.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
They expected to get to the.
Speaker 8 (12:25):
Super Bowl, but emotionally, if you're a fan, you have
to prepare for the worst. But guys, how remarkable is
it that you look at these four teams, you look
at what happened over this weekend, specifically if you're a
Raven's team and you're like, we knew we were here,
and now we have to prepare to watch these four
teams play. I find it specifically fascinating the fact that
zero turnovers in the four teams that are left. What
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does that say to you, guys about the way that
the football is being played?
Speaker 12 (12:48):
Take care of the ball? I mean it is important.
Look at the Kansas City Chiefs. They've gone like what
eight games without turning over the ball. When you look
at how how much they take care of the ball,
that's what it comes down to. You can't you can't
let every coach preach this that you cannot turn the
ball over because the team that turns them over the
Bulls traditionally will lose the game. So I think this
is what we're talking about when we're watching elite football
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at this point of the season.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Well, the Chiefs and Bills have the exact same thing
going on right now, like they are so good with it.
I feel like the first turnover in Chiefs Bills is
going to be nuclear.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
It's going to be, a fumble, in interception or something.
It's like, if that happens in the first quarter of
the fourth, I cannot wait for that because it's going
to be a huge indicator of who's going to win
that game. Somebody has to blink. One of those guys
is going to do it.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
I don't know who.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
And Jamie and Lamar's first interception, that pass where it
looks like he and Bateman didn't run on the same pit.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
It was like watching a car.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
It was like so jarring because Lamar hasn't thrown interceptions.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
You're like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
And then to then see Lemar get the ball stripped
and von Miller recover it and take it, it's like, oh,
they're not They can't win the game if you turn
the ball over against the Bills. That's how big turnovers
are in these playoffs. And if you're a Ravens fan
deep in your heart, as much as Mark Andrews drop
that pass, you know, if you don't turn the ball over,
that game might go a different way.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
Well, we saw the Lions. They lost to the Commanders.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
It's a great story. Commander is one of the four teams.
The Lions, now their coaches were a little bit more
available to meet with some teams. Tom Pellisaro, good morning
to you. Welcome inside. We got Aaron Glenn down the
street from those guys in New York meeting with the Jets.
We think right this second, but we also know the
destination of their offensive coordinator, Ben Johnson has he takes
flight out of Detroit, but he doesn't land too far.
Speaker 13 (14:23):
Well, Jamie, this really did, as you said, escalate after
the lions stunning home loss to the Commanders on Saturday night.
If the Lions had won that game, then Ben Johnson
Aaron Glenn would not have been able to do second
interviews until after the conference championship games and would have
had technically to wait to take a job until then
as well. Once they were out, Ben Johnson, after going
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through exit meetings on Sunday, ramped up his process, and
so did the Chicago Bears. He had multiple opportunities. The
Raiders also made a strong offer, but the favorite always
was going to be Ben Johnson landing in Chicago. There
are a lot of reasons for that, starting out with
their quarterback Kleb Williams, the number one overall draft pick,
who Ben Johnson now will take over his development. They
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got tons of cap space, they got extra draft resources.
It's an iconic franchise and one that is soon going
to break brown on a new stadium as soon as
this year. For the Bears, what they saw in Ben
Johnson was a person who is going to help take
Caleb Williams to the next level. For Ben Johnson, there
is a belief in Caleb.
Speaker 14 (15:26):
And the organization that even stayed in a really tough
division in the NFC North, that he is going to
have the alignment and the opportunity for long term success.
Speaker 13 (15:36):
Ziel's got the opportunity to build a really strong staff.
Dennis Allen, the former Saints head coach, is considered a
top candidate for the defensive coordinator position. A guy who
certainly has had a long history in the NFL on defense,
but also as a former head coach, can maybe help
Ben Johnson with some of those operational things that go
on around him. Meanwhile, you also mentioned Aaron Glenn, who
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is in Florin Park today for an interview that's really
more like a visit a recruiting trip to the New
York Jets facility. My understanding and speaking with people involved,
is there is hope on both sides that they will
get a deal done and Aaron Glenn will be the
head coach of New York Jets as soon as today. Now,
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the contract for Aaron Glenn is not done yet. Obviously,
until that's final, there's a lot of different directions that
this can go. He does still have a meeting scheduled
with the Saints, but again I would categorize it as
a surprise if Aaron Glenn does not end up as
the Jets coach. And meanwhile, while Peter and Kyle and
the guys were talking just a little bit ago, I
thought about this because I've seen some people putting on
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social media, which of course is a terrible metric to
judge anything. Oh, Aaron Glenn's defense, what happened to the Lions? Well,
last year there was a defensive coordinator whose team gave
up forty plus points in a stunning home loss in
their playoff opener. He ended up being the last head
coach hired in the cycle. That was Dan Quinn, who
now has the commanders in the NFC championship game. The Jets,
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if they get this done with Aaron Glenn can only
hope that he is a similar figure in a turnaround
like that.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
In New York.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Playoff time, You're looking at New York City, the media
capital of the world, great politically charged atmosphere. Right now,
Peter and we are going to celebrate those ladies and.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Gentlemen, take the oath.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Of Office of Broadcasting Football games. There he is Trey Aikman,
and there is Peter Schrager from television. You know him
from Fox, you know I from NFL Network, And today, Peter,
we as always are going to celebrate what we liked,
what was positive and fun about NFL broadcasting during the
visual round.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
This is where everyone's watching the same game and the
same broadcast, so everyone is listening to the same calls.
The red zone is no longer and a lot of
times if you're flicking between games during the regular season,
you might have missed the best calls. Now we're all
living in the same boat and we're all here in
the same different calls and you might have missed.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
A few, Yeah, especially since all the announcements are just
trying to be SpongeBob that's what we're at at this point, and.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
They're all trying and failing.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
But our first thing we'd like to talk about today
is our best called the week. It comes from the
Washington upset against Detroit Peter, and we are going to
go to our friend, longtime Washington linebacker London Fletcher and
Bram Weinstein on an incredible moment and an incredible call.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Let's go to Detroit, second of fourteen at the eighteen.
Speaker 12 (18:22):
Well, they get to stop here.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
This crowd's gonna get real nervous.
Speaker 12 (18:26):
Golf pointing out a defender, pressure up the middle, Golf
has time Flowers, Oh, pick up, got is.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Picked up by Quad carton twenty by twenty fifteen turn fine,
pick six, touchdown, chuckdown locking Dad Quad Lordon.
Speaker 15 (18:47):
This is a great job to disguise all the curvets
on the back end by Joe with Julia. They had
Jared Coach totally confused. Helmy Russ please cup eight back
of coverage and inaccurate belt leads to the quad Mardin
tapped down eight pound Benny Cornas has swarthed into the.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Last whoa to turn over the half.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Cook Peter?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
All right, so whoa?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Whoa?
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Okay, we heard the eight mile reference.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
We know that it's Eminem swerve and bend that corner. WHOA,
I'm sure I'm the guy who everyone wants to hear
sing that right, that's the song Tweaker by Jello Ball,
sure of the famous Ball family.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Of course we saw that viral sensation golf.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
It's now like the number one most down London Fletcher
in real time. It's like, I'm gonna reference that and
guess what, Jello was there before the game.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
There was reference to him. He was there. This is unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Jello Ball signed a Deaf Jam this month for a thirteen.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Million dollar record deal.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Jello Ball gets the call from London Fletcher and we
love that London reference.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
There is there any chance that the big Baller brand
will return?
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Now?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
I still I want I was on ground floor on
that best sneakers, best gear B B B from the
Ball family.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Also such a subtext.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
There from Fletcher he knows on a lot of those
teams fired up. That was the moment too that you know,
oh my god, I think the lines are gonna lose
this game.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
And I like the local call there. We get a
lot of objectivity on the national calls.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
I'm sure Burkhart was excited, but Bram Weinstein, we see it,
we felt it. It was a local Washington team that's
been watching a lot of bad football over the last
two decades. That one felt like a Catharsis of sorts.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Wbig, big, one hundred. Let's move onl to the next category, Peter,
because I know this is one that you like. It
came during the the Houston versus who did they play
Kansas City?
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yes, remember the Chiefs.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
There is a fraternity amongst all the broadcasters, and there's
a certain man at the top the hierarchy, and it
starts with mister al Michaels.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
And al Michaels used to always be a little bit
of a rascal in the booth.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
He would mention something about Las Vegas or a point
spread or something like that. Boy, back before it was
okay to promote Vegas and.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Gambling in points. Bront forget your promo code BMFP. Exactly right.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Here's Joe and Troy Pang homage to mister Michaels at
the end of a game where there was a play
that had a certain I guess what you say, significant
change and who were the happy and sad folks out
in vague for us.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Though nobody back.
Speaker 16 (21:13):
Arrizo will head out in the back of the end
zone for a safety and there are a lot of
people who are paying attention to that.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
That makes it a nine point game.
Speaker 17 (21:29):
Rolled al Michael's is smiling right now.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Michaels is kiddy, all right.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
So the backstory it was a nine and a half
point spread, and then I'm sorry, I'm gonna.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Tell like it is. If they can do what we
could do it what is spread spread? Me? If they
were supposed to win by nine and a half points.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
To get picked it five, they go out in the
back of the end zone, makes it.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
A nine point game.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
All those fortunes turn a nine seconds on a safety
And al Michael somewhere was smiling because that's something he
used to always do a little dangerously, not as dangerous now.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
I just love ball, Peter, What do you mean supposed
to win according to who?
Speaker 3 (22:01):
I don't know? I understand how that? What do you
even this is to me? Can we all ball? Can
we also talk about zar balls?
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Yes? Okay, why not crystal balls?
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Because Tom Brady's taking a lot of heat this season.
Eighteen regular season games, a playoff game.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
You see all the people online.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
You might have had as decisive and perceptive, perceptive call
out of anybody this weekend. Listen to Tom Brady shouting
something out when it goes.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
To twelve men on the field, twelve on.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
The field, time out, time out?
Speaker 8 (22:38):
Op nop, oh no.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Now we got a penalty flag. What are they doing? Well?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Players on defense? Offensive information in this a minute? The
penalty has happened, doesn't for the goal? You called it
for ten seconds.
Speaker 18 (22:57):
I'm seeing him run out there and you got one, two, three, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Miscommunication is one.
Speaker 19 (23:06):
Of those things that you've got to see.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Time out, time out?
Speaker 1 (23:10):
How does he do that? I know these Tom Brady.
He sees the field and he's been looking at defenses
for thirty years. But my whole life, anytime there's a
twelve men on the field penalty. They showed a wide
shot and I try to count myself at home, and
it could be nine, it could be fifteen.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
He does it immediately, and then I gotta give him credit.
Nails the telestrator numbering them one by one. That can't
be easy, Yeah, listen, there's spotters. We don't see that
in real time. Ten second daughters, ten seconds.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Before it goes out.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
Brady's like, oh no, guys, twelve minute what And it
was such a moment in the game where it's like
everything was going wrong for Detroit. They had all these
injuries and then now you're gonna have a shoot yourself
in the foot twelve men on the field penalty. Brady
seems legitimately disappointed, not angry, disappointed in the execution of
the little things.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
We have a jar at my house round Christmas time
that's filled with red and green eminem's, and the family
contests guessed how many m and ms are in the jar.
I'm always off by like two thousand. I feel like
Brady would stick the number. You just look at you,
like seven hundred and thirty six.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Got it.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
It was really impressive. I would say it's Brady's best
moment as a broadcast.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
Okay, I think in real time he called it out,
which is the hardest part, and then to have real emotion.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
That's what we've been waiting for.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
So I think Brady really gets a gold star for
this week.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
So when if there's twelve commanders, on the field in
the Super Bowl. He'll be able to pick that up.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I think he can. Really is that think happened? And
he'll be as equally disappointed. Hi, yes you will.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
All right?
Speaker 3 (24:26):
What do we have next?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
We have best rivalry next? Yeah, because Peter, this is
a long time colleague of yours, Mike Pereira. I just
met him for the first time a few weeks ago
on the sideline. It was there before Bill's rams. What
a personality. He came up to me and it was
like a whole vaudeville show. I was like, Wow, Mike,
you're incredible.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Nice to meet you.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
And we have an word for him, Mike Pereira, greatest
rivalry in sports.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Take a lesson who he hates?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Okay, a lot of great value players came in and
played great football for this team.
Speaker 17 (24:52):
Third long golf underneath kids. Has it hit down right
around Mark? I'm not sure if he got there. It's close.
Take a half yard short and now time obviously a
big problem.
Speaker 12 (25:04):
Previous players under for the review.
Speaker 17 (25:06):
And they will take a look. Mike, what are your thoughts?
Speaker 18 (25:08):
I don't know. I never trust that yellow line. As
a matter of fact, they always which they always say
is unofficial.
Speaker 17 (25:15):
Mike, yellow line ever do to you? I mean, there's
it feels like there's a grudge there.
Speaker 18 (25:19):
Well, they say that I was the greatest invention since
the yellow lines. So I've had this competition for fifteen
years now against the yellow line.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
It's a good line there, the yellow one.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
There have been like six thousand word essays by by
the greatest few about how important the yellow line was
for the NFL.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Pereira is like, screw the yellow line.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
I'm the best invention.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I'm the one. I come in and tell it like
it is. Uh, the yellow line, it's a technology.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
Everyone seems to praise it, but maybe the officials at
heart don't exactly approve it because it's unofficial.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
I've been saying this for years.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Like in the hierarchy of great inventions, you have the
light bulb from Edison, you have the smartphone from Jobs,
and you have Mike Pereira and Fox and all the
wonderful and not necessarily in that order. No, I'm honestly not.
I have a big Mike Prayer fan, and I love
that he was cantankerous about the yellow line. Who's gotta
go yellow line of my prayer? Yellow line, get out
of it line, get out, get out of here man
football before you, we'll have it after you. We need Perera.
(26:15):
What's last period?
Speaker 16 (26:16):
All right?
Speaker 5 (26:17):
You never know when a previous era style is.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Going to be brought out. But we got to give
him Monro Saint Brown some love.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Well, you know, a Monrod does the blue hair thing,
it's pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Did it last year? Does it this year?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Unfortunately the playoff run does not last long. But he's
all in, and so Brady. We're going back to Brady
and Burkhart. We're getting into maybe some of Brady's style choices,
which is a fun thing to look back on. And
they went off the rail about Tom Brady maybe doing
some sort of Mark McGrath adjacent look back in the day.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Let's roll it.
Speaker 17 (26:51):
You know, Saint Brown has done this before, but he
went back for the playoff run to the Saint Brown
blue hair and as a matter of fact, he's got
his own shirt.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
It's a good looking haircut, a blue.
Speaker 17 (27:00):
Blue Did you ever do a Honolulu blue haircut?
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Frosted the tips once? That only last at I don't
know a day. I mean that decision.
Speaker 17 (27:08):
I'm from New Jersey, of course I had frosted tips
at one point there you.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Go, all right, so, Peter, you're from New Jersey. Burkhart
just laid it out.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
That if you're from New Jersey, there is an of
course with frost in the tips.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
What say you.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I never did frosted tips, but I know many who did.
And there was a hung called son In. Have you
heard of Sunny, Yeah, it's sen in my book used
to put this thing in.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
You'd go to a tanning salon, you'd put son In
in your hair and then you'd have these frosted tips.
It was the late nineties and Mark McGrath and Sugar Ray,
we're all the rage, fred dirts, you name it.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Dyeing your hair was.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
Nothing uncommon to a Jersey guy like Burkhart.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
But Brady said me, he did it just once.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
And the story is he did it just once. I'm
sure there's more to it.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Kyle, Well, apparently he went to the Met Gallapri party
and he went at the time and he frosted the
tips and then everyone took his picture and gave him
crap about it or something.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
I give no crap about this.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
You have to understand, at the time, there's a lot
of us and I say us who.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Just did it once?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
They tried it, because every single girl that you were
either with or wanted to be with loved sugar Ray.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Mark McGrath was like the hottest, sexiest thing of all time. Mark.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
If you're watching, good luck to you now, whatever you're doing,
love you. But at that time, like everything was coming
up McGrath. I used to date this girl in college
who had poster of mark Ingrath, not the whole band,
just Mark McGrath, a little tank top with us, and
she just was like here God, and I think Brady
gets even Tom Brady, who's got on Earth, and it's
like for a while there, every morning there's a dead
(28:32):
you know what I mean. Like it was coming up
McGrath and he put that thing on the map.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
Tom Brady went to the frosted tips. But I'll tell
you what, he is no heart thrub compared to our
next oyes.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
My god, I just want to fly with Morris Chessnut.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
He loves hearing that.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
I think Morris is in the production booth right now.
I'm probably watching the segment. He's like, what are these
two idiots talking?
Speaker 5 (28:50):
Tell my wife, I go, we got MOR's chests on
the show today and she's like.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Wait, what, I might watch your show today. So there
we go.
Speaker 5 (28:56):
We got one More's chestnut after this into the Boost.
Congratulations to all our winners.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
We got us here in the studio in New York
and it's a guy we've been watching for our entire
live Bladies and gentlemen, It's More's Chessnut.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Hey, thank you guys for having me. I appreciate. I'm
glad to be here.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Dude, fired up to have you fired up about your
new CBS drama series, Watson.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
We're going to talk about it a lot. But I
don't know if.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
It's a coincidence Morris that you were dressed in green today.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
You know, I don't know.
Speaker 19 (29:23):
I mean, I don't know why, how this happened? How
did this happen? I'll tell you what happened.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
The Philadelphia Eagles are hosting the NFC title game. You
are an Eagles fan? Yes, the phraser here all the time.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
Now, vibe check.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Let's get a vibe.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Just days away from the NFC title Guests, give us
a vibe check as a Birds fan.
Speaker 19 (29:41):
Okay, Now, I'm a rational fan, I'm nervous, I'm nervous
about the games, okay, because Jayleen Jalen Daniels is a beast,
and our Jalen Jalen Hurts is a little bit hurt
right now. And we also, you know, Quenya Mitchell's hurt.
So we lost to Kobe Dean. No, you know, we
have we have a lot of stuff going on that
could really change the complexion of the game. So I'm
(30:03):
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
So we're watching the NFC Divisional Round game. Yes, and
it's on NBC and your shows on CBS. Yeah, we're
seeing it, and there's all these commercials new shows, and
then we turn on CBS and there's all these Watson adds, Yes,
chess on looks greats. What meanwhile, as they're promoting your
show in this big moment in your career, your team
almost gives up this huge league at the end, where
(30:27):
were you for the fourth.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Quarter of that game? And where are you watching it?
Speaker 5 (30:30):
How are you watching as in the same breath everyone's
texting you about like, hey, cool new show coming.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Get it in exactly what people were text me. And
I was watching the game and I.
Speaker 19 (30:39):
Here's the thing. Being a lifelong Eagles fan, I'm used
to it. So we score touchdown, we go up by
thirteen points. I relax a little bit, I exhale, right,
of course, the Rams scoring like two seconds and then
I have to get nervous again. And so so I
was in my hotel room just just watching a game
and it was tough, but I'm glad we pulled it out.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Yes, and we.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Love those promos. Jamiere, don't get in here. I know
you love chess, not come on.
Speaker 11 (31:00):
I do.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
So I have to add, Moris, what's up?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
So nice?
Speaker 8 (31:03):
It's antis a little little upset that you're in La,
that you're not in our studio. But like for the
next for the next.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Past through, well we'll see.
Speaker 19 (31:12):
They invited me here, Jamie in there. You know Ogbar
knows better Sockbar. I'm little disappointed.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
Uh so we got to talk. Jalen Hurts, you Morris
are one. Are a part of one of the best
ensemble cast movie series around. People love the Best Man,
they love everybody that's.
Speaker 7 (31:31):
In that film.
Speaker 8 (31:32):
Jalen Hurts is catching some heat right now, maybe because
he doesn't, you know, throw for over three hundred yards
and three three touchdowns, but.
Speaker 7 (31:39):
Like he's got Sequon Barkley.
Speaker 8 (31:40):
Do you find that this criticism of the quarterback is
fair or do you look at this Eagles offense of
more of an ensemble cast.
Speaker 19 (31:48):
So this's this whole thing about Jalen Hurst. Let me
let me just say that. So the Eagles do have
we have a very talented team. But every time a team,
every team looks at the quarterback position to say how
to pro to to to evaluate how the team is
going to do?
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Right.
Speaker 19 (32:07):
So with the Eagles, Jalen Hurts has been with this team.
He's been a starter for four years. He's been in
the playoffs all four years. Mars had three different offensive
coordinators and he's still averaged over twenty five points each
year he's been with the team. And listen, I do
I love love Saquon Barsha, right, but he's done it
(32:27):
with two other different running backs as well, including he's
been three out of his four years as the starting
he's won double digit games.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
So, I mean, what can you say about Jalen Hurts?
He's the man?
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Right?
Speaker 10 (32:37):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (32:37):
That was good?
Speaker 19 (32:38):
Good?
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Get okay?
Speaker 12 (32:40):
All right, So you make a really solid and strong
point about Jalen Hurt. Okay, because it's a very strong
run game. But you and I were together not too
long ago, and you not had a discussion about how
good is Saquon Barkley, and to my surprise, you went
over the top. I want anybody to take a look
(33:00):
at this because you'll understand.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Take a look.
Speaker 19 (33:03):
Oh, bowl was extremely explosive, but I've never really seen
him catch out the backfield too much, so I haven't
holding it. Eric Dickerson, whoa wow, Ladanian Thomlinson, l T
was a beast.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Yes, hold on, LT. I didn't say that, man.
Speaker 12 (33:26):
Okay, okay, so you have you held on to that
ball and I actually throw the ball where Saquon, which
running back was better than Saquon. You had it over
Bo Jackson, Eric Dickerson, Ladanian Thomlinson, heck, you even took
Saquon over the great Jim Brown. So are you still
standing by those takes? I mean you only threw it
for Barry Sanders.
Speaker 4 (33:47):
Okay.
Speaker 19 (33:47):
I will say this aside from the fact that, of
course there's a little fandom, little Homer them there for
for Saquon and a little recency bias. I mean, at
the time that we we did that video, ocbar Uh,
Saquon Barkley was honest path to have the most yards
rushing in a season for a running bess. And if
(34:09):
people say, well he had an extra game, if you
look at the carries, that carries were significantly less than
what Eric Dickinson had. So and it's much more challenging
to do it now in a passing league when Eric
Dickinson was in the running league.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
So what I'm trying to.
Speaker 19 (34:24):
Say to you is I was right on par with
that because had Sa Kwan Barkley played that final game
against nothing, against the Giants, against the Giants who have
not been you know, playing that well this year or
maybe last decade, but he would have broken the all
time rushing records. So I think my annoulynsis at that
(34:45):
time and point was accurate.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
My man Morris.
Speaker 7 (34:48):
People might blush when you come in a room.
Speaker 8 (34:50):
Peter Schrager blushes when you break down a passing league
versus running league, like this is right up the.
Speaker 7 (34:55):
Alley there in New York. This is perfect.
Speaker 8 (34:57):
I got to ask people have known you as a
football player and some of the projects that you worked
at Boys of the Hood, best man the game plan.
Are you good at football or did you have to
go through training for these roles?
Speaker 19 (35:09):
So I will say this. I played football as Pop
Warner in high school. I was you know, I hate
to say that I was an all league player in
high school because people who actually like pros, they're like
all league plan. Who wasn't right? It wasn't all league
in high school. I'm glad I'm not playing football anymore.
I did train for some of the movies that I've
done a game plan, But and I'm out there with
(35:32):
these guys and these hits that these players take.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
I'm glad that. I'm glad that I'm in.
Speaker 19 (35:38):
This nice studio with you guys in stead out there
on the field and snow taking some bad hits.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
When you play all these football roles, and like game Plan,
you unders understand.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Game Plan is on in my house. Still look at
Rich's shirtless here.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
I came Plan is on in my house at all hours,
and it's like.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
I can by word, I can recite it.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
Are there football consultants on set who are like, actually,
you'd carry a ball like this or in this case,
you wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Say that in the locker room, you would say that.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
I know that's a comedy and other movies are not,
But like, is there a consultant who's working with you
to kind of get the details right.
Speaker 19 (36:10):
There is there is one guy and I'm sorry, I
hate it. I don't have his name right now, but
he's he does all the football guy. He's the guy
just in terms of he breaks down all the plays.
He sets up all the plays because we're not actually
running plays, you know, they're all choreographed. He choreographs all
the plays, He gets all the guys. He's incredible. And
I'm sorry, I don't here.
Speaker 7 (36:29):
Wants to be that guy.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
Trust me.
Speaker 19 (36:33):
You don't want to be that guy, you know. No, no,
you don't want to be that guy because you know,
seeing a movie may be cool, but making a movie
is kind of boring, right, and so you don't want
to be that guy.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
Trust me.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Listen, the first the first movie that ever made me
cry was Boys in the Hood. Oh, he played it
truly tragic character and Ricky and he's going places and
then we know what happens at the end.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Of the movie.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
All these years later, how do you look back on
Ricky and how do you look back on Boys in
the Hood.
Speaker 19 (36:57):
Oh, that's a great question, man, You know what it's
it's near and dear to me because of course that
was the first movie that you know, people around the
world knew me, and that was John Singleton, late grade.
John Singlety, you know, discovered me for that movie. So
I have very fond memories of that movie and just
all the cast, you know, everyone's still you know a
lot of people still irrelevant, still working today. It's just
(37:19):
a very very fond memories of that movie.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
And that's a matter of fact.
Speaker 19 (37:22):
See that was so I played this character a little
bit out of high school. This is one of the
first times I knew I wasn't I wasn't made for football.
So there was a scene in this movie where I
had to go down the gauntlet and all I had
to just hold on to the ball and they were
hit me and doing all this stuff.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
I could not And I was only like a.
Speaker 19 (37:38):
Couple of years removed from high school, but I did
this movie and I could not get down the gauntlet
without fumbling the football. I said, this is I'm done.
I was never meant to play football. I was meant
to play a football player.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
You people always come up to you and say, why
didn't Ricky zigzags?
Speaker 3 (37:52):
It's always online.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
People people say that all the time.
Speaker 19 (37:54):
They say, why didn't Ricky zigzag And there's only one
simple answer, because the movie would have turned out differently.
But but but no, it's it's you know, I don't mind.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
People come up and they always say Ricky, they yo Ricky.
Speaker 19 (38:09):
But I don't mind because before I did that movie,
nobody knew who I was. I didn't have an opportunity
to work in this industry. I just wanted to work.
So they can say Ricky, they can ask me, why
didn'tzig Zach, they can say whatever they want, thank you
for watching the movie.
Speaker 4 (38:21):
I just appreciate people.
Speaker 5 (38:22):
I want to ask about the Best Man series too,
because a lot of people know you from that and
the fraternity of brotherhood of those guys and that.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
Yes, of course, along and all these others.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
But yes, yes, yes, yes, does that feel like a
team like you talk about football teams and like people
still say, oh, tell.
Speaker 19 (38:35):
You exact yeah, yeah now that now that that definitely
seems like a team.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
So I was with them.
Speaker 19 (38:42):
We've done movies together, for movies and TV shows for
twenty five years.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
You know.
Speaker 19 (38:46):
We did that back in like ninety nine, two thousand
and we're still working together. So we did two movies,
and we did a television series and now me and
the guys we have a brand, a bourbon brand called
Stable Together. Yeah, Sable brand, and so all of this
we still work together. And there's a possibility fingers crossed.
(39:06):
We're talking to Malcolm Lee trying to get him to
do some other best so yeah, hey, hey, we're trying
to get him to do it. We'll see what he does.
He said the final chapters were the final chapters. But
it's you know, you know what I'm saying. That's just
keep going, all right.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
So here's the deal, Uh, Sunday in CBS, Jeeves Bills Watson,
here's what you're gonna do.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
Everybody watching is gonna watch the title game. Just leave
it on.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Whatever you do, leave it on, because this man, it
goes Josh All and Patrick Mahomes or Chestnut right after this.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
In fact, I think we have a clip.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Do we have a clip of premieres after the NTE
title game. Here's a clip of Watson coming the Sunday.
Speaker 11 (39:41):
Three men went over the water. Home yourself, miss arms Man.
We've been chasing James Moore already one survivor. We've lost him. Gulf,
We've lost miss Arms.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
I was trying to help him sit up. I went
into water after just go get him. You know I
was closer.
Speaker 11 (40:03):
I love you friend, mister Holmes had So don't you
go puming she's in yourself because I won't have it. Well,
you will take time, Lisa, and we will remember the
man properly. But they're gonna want to have a look
INSI and you will fixed. Carmail, you're up.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
That's Watson right there, that's Watson. Let me give you
let me go quick. So it's a it's a TV show.
Speaker 19 (40:28):
It's a medical procedure combined with the detective investigating show.
So we opened up where we're solved medical mysteries. So
we're doctors and we're detectives. We're detectives. So watch Watson.
We're detectives on CBS. Detectives. That's what we are.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Can you imagine one weekend you get the birds back
in the super Bowl and detectives and Watson is a
big hits like I need.
Speaker 4 (40:49):
To pinch myself. Come on, I de pinched myself, I
really do, all right?
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Well you pinched? Jamie wants to pinch your tip. Jamie,
we love you, We love you, Morris Chestnut.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
We love you.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Everybody watching Watson CBS. This something that's the man right there.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
Thank you, appreciate you man got so much. Yeah, what's
up about we can't win?
Speaker 3 (41:09):
Of course? Of course, of course the ram rebbe went out.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
You said here until we here
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