Jamie Erdahl: The Kirk Cousins Thing Still Irks Me

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We've had a great show so far. Scott Hansen brought down all things Gold Zone and Red Zone. Del Tufo is currently laughing uncontrollably back there about something unclear. Well, we know why. He played the wrong radio. I just played the wrong radio. No, I heard it. He played it from two days ago.

You want to give it another shot there? And you were here two days ago. But that's why he played it. That's why he played it.

That's why he played it. He played the last one that he was here for. You guys got me all piled up about my ex-wife to see what happened. Jamie Urnold's back there in the green room going, Joe Posnanski's here. What's happening?

Am I not on today? Just talk to Scott. Jamie's here.

He's coming out. I'm going to leave an old one and it was in there as hour three. Goodness gracious, Mike. Get it together. 844-204.

Rich is the phone number. Do you have thoughts? Do you want to play the win-loss game?

The NFL schedule game? Do you want to weigh in on Del Tufo opening people's mail? Whatever you got, feel free. Let's go to the phone lines right now. How about Joe in Florida? Joe, what's going on? How are you doing, Mr. Pelissero? I'm doing great, Joe. How are you? I'm doing well. This is the second time I've called in for the win-loss game and I'm kind of riding high on it. All right.

Who do you want to do today, Joe? I'm going to do my Atlanta Falcons. I have a 76.4% win percentage on straight up win losses for Atlanta over the last two years.

All right. Well, you're the first one to weigh in on the win-loss game this year for the Falcons. There's only the only teams, so you're setting the tone here. All right, let's start out week one, Pittsburgh.

It's a tough one. I'm going to say we win. Are we two at Philly on Monday night? Also a win. I'm going to say we sweep Pennsylvania. Home against the Chiefs. If I say that's a win, get me a CAT scan.

That's a law. Home against the Saints. First throwback game as announced today, lost. Home against the Bucks on Thursday night.

Give it a dub. At Carolina. We get vengeance, win. Home against Seattle.

I'm going to say a loss. All right, at Tampa. Another win, so we sweep Tampa. All right, so it's five and three at this point. Home against the Cowboys.

CJ will love this. I'm going to say Cowboys get the better of us. At New Orleans.

Toss-up, but I give up the edge. All right, at Denver. I have a loss at Denver.

All right, so you're going to the bye now, and you are six and five in Atlanta. All right, week 13 now. Home against the Chargers.

One of those teams has to find a way to lose, and I say it's the Chargers. Atlanta wins. All right, at Minnesota. The revenge game for Kirk Cousins, but I'm going to give Minnesota the edge. Wow, at Vegas on Monday night. I say we beat Vegas in Vegas on Monday night. All right, home against the Giants.

And this is going to shock you probably more. I have us losing to the Giants. Now you're right on that. You're right on that playoff precipice at this point. How about at Washington? Big one in week 17. I'm going to say we win against Washington. So at this point, you're going into the final week of the season, nine and seven.

So this could be in or out. Home against the Panthers. And I say that's going to be a win. I say we finished 10 and seven this year. Nice, reasonable finish to the regular season.

Probably good for the division, but anything's possible with the NFC South, sir. I appreciate the call, Joe. That was reasonable. 10 and seven.

I'm looking through the book here. Almost every team is 12 and five or 13 and four based on the prior calls. I like it. I like it. 10 and seven for the Falcons.

They've said they expect to be in the playoffs. That's one way to put yourself in the conversation. Let's go back to the phones. Jimmy in San Antonio. Jimmy.

I just smoked a smoothie bowl because they ain't got time for gummies to kick in. Are you guys sure that Hanson isn't a harbo? I mean, come on. That dude's got so much energy. Good Lord. The lost cousin.

The phrase that we always use was he makes coffee nervous. Right. OK, I have to agree with that.

Brockman, TJ Del Tufo. I have a what's more likely. Oh, here we go. Appetizer for the real thing. Well, it regards Tommy P. Tommy, with all due respect, I hope you enjoy this.

That's right. So with all due respect, never a good sign, Jimmy, but let's let's try it out. OK. Is Tommy P. confused more for Zach Braff or a late 90s Ray Romano stunt double? Ray Romano. You know, someone else had tweeted us that Ray Romano thought you gave off early Romano vibes. I don't see it. It's early Romano, not now Romano Romano.

I don't know. I like the early Romano a lot better. It's like 80s Billy Joel. You know, you don't need to get into the 90s. I don't see it.

The way Tom styles his hair is is more Braff like to me. Deborah. That is OK. What was sports question for you guys? Serious one. Sorry.

Bring it on. The influence of Chris Paul with Wendy in the chemistry or the teaching. Is anyone keeping an eye on what could possibly be a maybe like a play in season for the Spurs? How many games did the Spurs win last season? It was not a lot.

I know that. No, I lost that. I took the over. What was the over? What was the over under on that, Jimmy? 28 and a half or 29. Yeah, I know it was below that. I want to say it was like 17. Yeah, 22 and six.

22. OK, Jimmy. Yeah, no, I was in the shorts, buddy. All right, Jimmy.

Thank you very much for the phone call. What do you think? Play in Brockman Spurs relevant West is too tough. I think they're they need another score to go with Wendy. There are a couple of years away.

TJ. Yeah, I agree. I I'm sure that Chris is going to go in there. You just kind of hope that the personalities mesh and you know, and because we know Chris can, you know, he's a hard out man.

He's a hard ass. So you can hope that, you know, when he takes to, you know, the teachings and, you know, learn something from it, it'll be interesting to see how it plays out. But, you know, this team, it's still a work in progress.

So I think they're still maybe a year away from maybe making the playoffs. But how much weight does Wendy gain from year one to year two? Is he just going to always have the minute bowl type body? Is it just going to always be the skinniest, tallest guy you've ever seen?

Or does he does he fill out? He's still big. He's already bigger than minute. You gotta remember, minute was super skinny, but he's thin, but he's got to be one of the skinniest players in the NBA, right? But he's also what?

Seven four and he's 19 years old. So he's obviously going to put on some weight, but I feel like he's not going to come out, you know, looking like Buff Bagwell or anything, you know, maybe put on some, get some strength, you know, so he doesn't get five years from now. Who has the better build?

Wendy or Chet Holmgren? Oh, when be for sure. I think when be, I mean, again, just extremely is going to always kind of be that Kevin Durant type of thing. Oh, when be I feel like could be he won't be as muscular as Giannis, but I feel like he could get to that two thirty to two forty range. Giannis is jacked. Yeah, Giannis is super common when he looked like his first year.

Yeah, but he looks like Chet and Wendy when he first came into the league. So I think when be, look, he's going to be amazing. He's going to be in the MVP hunt next year. He's going to win defensive player of the year, most likely.

It's awesome. He's the man. So I hope that he can get it together, get some better players around him.

And then, you know, Spurs are going to just get back to where they used to seeing them when winning championships, being in that mix. All right, Jimmy, set us up for what's more likely. Brockman, take it away. Let's go hit it. What's more likely?

Never say never, but never. All right, Tommy P. Here we go. What do we got? Well, it's first off. Happy Thursday. What up, Chris? I'll miss you guys tomorrow.

Not really. All right. I think you will.

I think you will. The more likely coaching spot for Bill Belichick in twenty twenty five, the NFC East or the field? I'd have to look at my my whiteboard at home. I did like three months ago, I did like the one through thirty two hot seat rankings just to like get my head around.

You have done a little hot seat ranking. And it's not for interesting. My house is on the market right now. And I had to blur out the whiteboard in the photo. I don't need any I don't need any bad stuff going around.

Anybody figuring things out? It's a good question. I mean, the NFC East certainly there could be one or more changes in that division. But give me the field. I think that it's way too convenient to put Bill Belichick in Dallas, in part because I think Dallas is going to be really good this year. I think that even Philadelphia and New York, which are there are two that people will talk about. I think a lot of different things would have to happen for there to be openings there.

I think that if and when he lands and as we discussed, Belichick is preparing as if he will be coaching in 2025. I think it may be a place that nobody's talking about right now. So I'll take the field. Nice. I like that. Nobody's talking about it. I like what do we think? Like if we talk about it, then somebody's talking about it.

Brockman, like the Rams McVeigh bolts for TV and suddenly the Rams job pop. There's always a couple surprises every year. All right. That's on Tommy's list. All right. We've been doing the what's the win loss game T.J. for a while. Yes.

Yes, we have. There are two teams that just get steamrolled over throughout the course of the game. The Patriots and the Titans.

Yes. What's more likely the Patriots have the first overall pick or the Titans are picking in the top three? First of all, I want to look back. Patriots in the game. They've been four and 13 twice. Best record is eight and nine. Who is the our team? You said tight tight tightens.

We've got the Titans at somebody picked him at eleven and six to at nine and eight. They're not getting steamrolled. No. Well, I mean, look, when we play the game and the other teams play these teams, it's like, oh, I got you.

They consider those win. OK, all right. I got it.

So give me the question one more time. Likely, Patriots are selecting first overall next year or the Titans are in the top three. I would say the Patriots, just because I think that realistically this is a transition type of a year for them now to say that they're going to be the worst team in the NFL. I don't think people went into last year going the Patriots are going to be the worst team in the NFL.

No, I don't think the year before that you were going in and go on. The Bears were going to be the number one pick in the league. I think that a lot of that stuff is unpredictable. But if you're just looking at the teams that I think are pretty clearly in that build mode or rebuild mode, the Patriots would be one of the teams who will be on that list the time. I just I don't have a good feel for the kind of like the commanders to me where there's so many questions surrounding that team. I mean, I listed off in the last segment, all the moves that they've made in the offseason, not just with bringing in Brian Callahan to be the head coach and the offensive play caller, but also adding Tony Pollard and adding Calvin. Really, I mean, these are these are big, big time types of moves in that division. Everybody's been loading up, so they've certainly got their work cut out for them. But if you're asking me, are the Titans more likely to be just realistically to be in the top ten, are they a four or five win team versus a seven, eight, nine win team?

I'd probably go toward the latter. How about this one? Well, I think Mike Garofalo is still on the golf course right now. I think he slept out there. He's running off the clock on this week here.

Really full strength, really making it work. So he had the big Brandon Iuc story. So what's more likely to happen before week one? Brandon Iuc gets traded or C.D. Lamb gets paid by the Cowboys. C.D.

Lamb. It's not close on that one. I don't listen. Anything can happen. But Brandon Iuc can post as many ticktocks as he wants, can post on his Instagram story, can request a trade. If the 49ers don't want to trade him, they don't have to trade him. And to this point, they have showed no interest in trading him. They got calls back before the draft. The price is going to be high. It was going to be a first round pick and more or maybe a high first rounder.

Nobody was going to go there on top of giving Brandon Iuc twenty six, twenty eight, thirty million dollars, whatever the number might end up being. C.D. Lamb. There's certainly a pathway to get something done with C.D.

Lamb. It's going to be very expensive. We know this about Jerry Jones. When they're his guys, when they're his core players, he wants to get them locked up.

One of the bigger complications and this is just kind of knowing how these things operate. We've seen some longer contracts, four year extensions for guys like Justin Jefferson get done this off season. C.D. Lamb's agent Tori Dandy effectively invented the three year extension for wide receivers. It was Sammy Watkins, got like three for forty eight or something with the Chiefs years ago. That was one of the mind blowing deals. He did a three year deal for D.K.

Metcalf, three year deal for Mike Williams. He always has three year deals. The Cowboys like to do the longest deals possible. They like doing five, six year extensions.

That's part of the reason this is more complicated here. Are they willing to do a shorter type of a deal? Dak didn't get done for an entire year because they wanted to do a longer deal. Then Dak got more and more leverage. And finally, they cut it. He did, I believe, a four year extension at that time. It was even three, but I think it was four. So but in terms of what more likely before week one, C.D.

Lamb. Let's talk Pittsburgh real quick. T.J. Steelers quarterback more likely to start more games this year. Russell Wilson, Justin Fields, Russell Wilson, because they want to give every opportunity to Russell Wilson to be the guy. Justin Fields does some remarkable stuff. He creates highlights like few players in the NFL, but it's the consistency of the play that hasn't been there. It's the run in the offense, the way that it might be designed as opposed to creating.

I mean, Justin Fields, we've talked about it multiple times. I said on this show a couple of months ago, I didn't think it was crazy to talk about him as a kick returner because that guy in open space is as fun as anybody in the NFL to watch. But just being able to play to the system, even though Arthur Smith, listen, Arthur Smith's system for these two quarterbacks, I think is a really good fit.

Because when you think of the best of Arthur Smith, set aside the Atlanta for a second. When he's in Tennessee and they're having a lot of success and winning a lot of games, it's a lot of running the football downhill. They've got Jalen Warren, they got Najee Harris, and then you do these deep play action and bootlegs and chuck the ball vertically. And that's what they did with Tannehill going down the field. AJ Brown was never in the tops and targets, but he made plays because they would just run it, run it, run it. Now all of a sudden you get single coverage and you throw it down there to AJ Brown. He'd make big plays for you.

I think it'd be a similar type of formula. That's also the game, certainly that suits Russell Wilson best. That's when he plays best in Seattle is that style of offense. Fields, it's some of the same characteristics where it's not a rhythm passing game. It's not West Coast dice you up in, you know, a bunch of slants. It's let's make explosive plays happen.

So I think it's a good fit for both. I could just see Russell Wilson is such a prideful guy. He has not played at the top of his game since probably the first half of the 2020 season, which was, that was let Russ Cook. And he came out as the MVP of the league. He played, everyone's talking about it.

Brian Schottenheimer did a great job designing that. And then all of a sudden they went through this stretch where Russ had, I have to look up the numbers, but it was something like six or eight turnovers in a three game span. Pete Carroll went to the podium and said, we can't play this out. I don't recognize, I don't recognize this style of football. We can't play this way.

And so what happens all of a sudden they go conservative. They run the football again. 2021 comes, Russ gets hurt. He misses time. And then obviously we know what happened over the past two years.

Never. So it's been three or four years, and there's not a lot of quarterbacks I can think of that went that long without playing at a really high level who suddenly came back around. But again, Russ is a really prideful guy. He's in a good situation for him. He's with a head coach in Mike Tomlin.

Forget what anybody in the outside thinks. Forget about what anybody inside that building thinks other than Mike Tomlin. Mike Tomlin sticks with people. Mike Tomlin stuck with Matt Canada way beyond the point at which the media and the public fury was at a fever pitch because he believes, and it's the Steelers organizational philosophy too.

I talked to Art Rooney about this recently. It's like you extend Mike Tomlin after what, seven straight years without a playoff win. They've had three head coaches in the last 50 something years, Chuck Knoll, Bill Cowher, Mike Tomlin.

And I asked why, why is that the organizational philosophy? He said, well, something he learned from his grandfather and his father, which was when you feel like you've got the right people, you stick by him. And if the coach is still getting through to the players and you believe in him, you, you stick with him. Mike Tomlin has done the same thing with players, with coaches. He's kept around the Antonio Browns the world a while. There's a very long answer, but I believe he will stick with Russell Wilson for as long as he feels he can.

Black and gold. Every opportunity. We got a deal. We got a deal, Chris, but Tom, because Arthur Smith's there, we kind of feel like they're going to really run the football this season. So I don't need as much out of Russ. Well, that's and where's his best when you have a top defense and when you have a strong running game, that's what that's.

It's it's the same formula. The question is just Russell Wilson is 34. I believe at this point, he doesn't have that same elusiveness, that same short area quickness that he once did. Is he going to be able to play at that same level? We'll find out.

But if there's one place that you would think he can do it, it would be in this situation, because Mike Tomlin is going to give him the time that it takes to be able to show that he can play at that level. I think we need one more. All right, we'll get one more.

One more. Hey, look, we saw Mike's golf skills on display this week, striping it down the middle and is a lovely approach shot. Who's the more likely insider to win a golf match?

You in Rappaport, Mike Garofalo, it's Rappaport because he's got we've played the three of us together last summer. Ian hits every he's got old man game. Oh, he hits every club somewhere between 150 and 190 yards. Driver 190 down the center of the fairway. Five iron 170 down the center of the fairway.

Nine hundred fifty. He's got a pretty good short game. He like he can chip. He can putt. He doesn't hit the ball. I mean, Mike and I can both outdrive. I can outdrive both of those guys. I can hit the ball a long way.

I just don't know where it's going. Right. Ian just can play it dead down the middle fairway golf. You know, it's two shots chip in a pot. It's boring.

And he puts up a boring eighty five every time. Yeah. Yeah, it's Rappaport. Not close.

All right. Could Jamie Erdl be that she's a better after the guys you just mentioned. College basketball player. Former sideline reporter. Still does that too in the NCAA tournament.

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They've been to the Super Bowl nine times and I didn't get there once. Right. Think about that.

Right. And I was one pick away from being drafted by the Patriots. What happened? The Chargers drafted me. I know that's what happened.

They didn't come up and come get you. So I went on a visit to the Patriots and that's when Charlie Weiss was office coordinator and I go to Boston and I really like to visit. I like Charlie.

I love Charlie Weiss. You meet with Bill? I did meet with Bill.

You know, we sat in his office right above the stadium right there where you're looking out at the stadium. We really just sat there. We really didn't talk about much. We just looked at each other.

What do you mean? You just looked at each other. Just kind of starting each other's eyes, you know, I guess.

So you're saying it was awkward? I mean, I just, you know, you know how Bill is. He just, there's only a few things he probably wants to know about you and I guess he was trying to get a sense of, you know, was I passionate about football? As most coaches do, you don't invest a first round pick on a guy.

You want to make sure they're passionate. Do you think they would have chosen you if you were available? Well, they said they were going to choose me. Charlie Weiss promised me if I was there at sticks because they needed a running back. They needed a running back bad that year. And so, yeah, when the Chargers drafted me, I think they took Richard Seymour. Richard Seymour, yep.

They worked down there. Have you ever brought up to Brady when you've seen him? No, never brought it up. You could have been Robin, his Batman. I always thought about, you know, what would that be like? With all due respect to Antoine Smith. All due respect to Antoine Smith.

Would have been a little different. No way. Yeah.

I'm kind of getting freaked out. Welcome back to the Rich Eisen Show radio network. I am sitting at the Rich Eisen Show desk furnished by Grainger with supplies and solutions for every industry.

Grainger has the right product for you. Call click Grainger dot com or just stop by and stopping by right now to this show with me, Tom Pelissero, my colleague at NFL Network, my former colleague about a decade and a half ago at fifteen hundred ESPN radio in Minneapolis, Jamie Arnold studio debut. When you started to say fifteen hundred, I thought you were going to say you've known me. You've known me since I was fifteen years old. Did you know that since you were well, that's not in a professional manner.

Well, that's how, that's how driven I've been since the age of fifteen. I was KFAN and I was a high school student answering phones through sports radio. And Tom would come through the show for like the Chad Hartman Show and whatnot. And that is like 2004 ish. Yeah.

Yeah. And then we were back together in 2010 at fifteen hundred ESPN. And now here we are in the Rich Eisen Show on a sponsored desk. My desk at fifteen hundred ESPN in that closet was definitely not sponsored. No. In fact, it had pictures of other people's children on it.

And I think, you know, whose children those were. All right. So big news this week. The Internet has been a blaze, I'd say for three, four months about Good Morning Football, the future of the popular show on the network, a sports Emmy winning show.

All right. So you're back July twenty ninth. We are back. It's big news. The show is going to it's going to look a little bit different.

It's going to be on multiple platforms. We'll get into all this good stuff. Let's start with this. What the hell happened, Jamie? How did we get here? What's going on? I just want to say a lot of those questions that were on the Internet probably were from like ghost accounts by me. Like I had questions. I think we all you know, that was a challenging couple of months.

Let's let's start the story this way. In March 8th, I think we all found out that this was happening to Good Morning Football that we were leaving New York and the show was moving to Los Angeles. I was like thirty six weeks pregnant. So I had just come off the combine in Indianapolis. I was just lucky to not give birth at the combine. And I come back and we're like, great, we're going to rock through free agency. I got some vacation booked, maternity leave.

It's going to be great. We pop up with our bosses one day in early March and they give us this news. And we I was so surprised. You know, you hear rumblings of just the nature of the industry and changes. And, you know, there is a studio at NFL Films in South Jersey and Manhattan is very expensive and you listen to things, but mostly you just want to do the job.

This was so not a direction literally west that I thought it could ever go. I can only speak for myself that I just love my chair and the show so much and the position the show has within the NFL that I was going to do anything to stay a part of it. And that meant and that meant committing to the move before I had my third daughter at March 30th. And my entire maternity leave has been spent moving my family from New Jersey to Los Angeles. We got here in the middle of June and we're going to start rehearsing next week and we've got new teammates. And but it's been it's been really hard. It's been a challenge because the show is so team based. But these were all really personal decisions to make, I think, for everyone involved in the show. And so it's been I'm somebody who likes to talk things through.

And so I'm constantly just like, oh, how are the guys? What's everybody going to do? And, you know, it affected a lot of people behind the scenes, which was hard to see happen. But the health and the future of the show was kind of at risk and you wanted to move forward together and you wanted it to stay on the air.

So people made decisions that were important and impactful. And lo and behold, here we are going to come on the air from Englewood on July 29th and on Roku for a couple of the hours of the day. And that's right.

So that's one of the new things here. So it's Good Morning Football, which traditionally had been a 7 to 10 Eastern Time show, 4 to 7 Pacific show now going to be Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. on NFL Network. So it starts one hour later. That's 5 a.m. Pacific time.

We'll get to that momentarily here. Also, a new extension series, GMFB Overtime premieres July 29th, streams Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to noon on the Roku channel, which is where we are. So thanks, everybody, for watching Roku.

You'll be seeing a lot more of Jamie Udall moving forward. Now, a four hour show. How is the overtime version of this going to differ from the traditional Good Morning Football? I think it will have the same avenues, but in terms of football, I think the big thing is it will be on Roku. It will also be nationally syndicated from that 10 to 12 Eastern spot. So the big thing is we want to speak to the broader audience. I think then, you know, certain fans are going to go to NFL Network to hear certain, you know, just maybe a more intensified version of our football takes and our conversations in the news. Then you flip over to Roku and to be syndicated.

You want to welcome a broader conversation at times, I think. So it's still going to be, you know, it's the first ever sports talk show put into national syndication, which is a really cool flex to be a part of. But you you want it to be have almost start to drip into the talk show feel, if you will, when it's on Roku and in syndication. And my new teammate Akbar, who is classically trained now in the talk show world, that I'm so excited to sit next to him because Jason McCordy decided not to make the move with the show.

So Akbar is going to be next to me every day and I'm just so excited to learn from him and work with him. So I think it's going to almost be a little broader in the second two hours where you're going to see on Roku and then in syndication. So Peter Schrager, Kyle Brandt, obviously two of the OGs on Good Morning Football. They're going to stay based with their families in New York.

Yeah, and you'll see them out here. I mean, we can't do angry runs all the time from like a little closet in the East Coast. Like you got to get Kyle. So Kyle will have to angry run himself from coast to coast a handful of times throughout the course of the season. Yeah.

How does that impact the dynamic though? Because I know that, listen, social media is a terrible judge of anything, but all the all the complaints that are registered. Listen, I get all the complaints registered about myself. You see them about why, why are we screwing up the best show on it? It is different.

You're going to have a lot of the time, those two in New York, maybe in a studio together, maybe on home camp sometimes, however that ends up shaking out. But they're not sitting like the beauty of the show for a long time was the four people sitting around the breakfast table. It was this being in person. It's not the same. We did those shows in 2020. I filled in on a lot of them and doing it in the four box on Zoom cameras because we weren't allowed to leave the house.

Not as fun as sitting around the breakfast table. How will the dynamic change and how do you overcome the inherent kind of lack of human contact that's there? The short answer is I don't, I just don't know how it's going to change yet.

I don't know the answer to that question. I'm trying to be an optimist about it. What I am optimistic about is that I know Peter and Kyle very well. I've just now done 20 months worth of shows with them five days a week through two intense football seasons.

I've seen the ins and outs, how they both operate. So if anyone was going to be remote and away from me physically, it can be those two because I can still read them well enough to hopefully push them places and get them to go to their entertaining capacities. Not knowing Akbar, that's better that he's next to me every day because now I'm like, I just met him. I just saw him in the flesh last night for the first time. We met up in the town that we happen to both live in. Did he do any ninja stuff with you or was he totally cool and talk football?

What an impressive human. That's a whole other segment of television. But I'm glad that he's with me and we can grow together the way Jason McCordy and I did when we started. I'm okay with those guys making the decision that they did because it was important for them to stay where they were in the capacity that their family life would have been affected. I know that we'll see them. They'll keep the show alive. Those two, in my opinion, are the editorial north star of GMFB, Peter Schrager and Kyle Brandt.

The show can't do much, I think, without their engine at times. So what was your first year at CBS? What was your first year on television in general?

2012, 13-ish? My first year on television in a real official capacity was in 2012 in Boston. It was like my first big TV job at Nesin. I was with the Red Sox and the Bruins. And then at CBS, the fall of 2014 was on Mountain West football, NCAA tournament. And then the fall of 2015 was my first sideline in the NFL. Which is a rather rapid rise from running errands for two curmudgeon hosts on a local radio station and tracking down people to give various awards to.

Do you guys know the history of this? If you think what the cliche definition of what people think a radio intern does, that was Jamie. That was how Jamie was used at that station. Tom, you hosted the show, right? I was hosting too. You and Roycey. Phil Mackie and I. And then Roycey was on. There were a lot of different lineup changes through those days. So they had this bit, we'll call it that, sports person of the day. And why it was an everyday capacity, it made my job harder. They would just pick rando people that were, you know, whatever, making news that day. And they wanted to send certificates out to the sports person of the day.

Physical certificates to the person. And this was the summer of a World Cup. And if you remember, that was the onslaught of the vuvuzelas. The constant buzz. So this guy gives the sports person of the day, who's like the inventor of the vuvuzela.

And I have to track down who this person is, where they're from. But yes. You were involved.

You probably egged it on. I was around. So my job was, I was like sending certificates out, stamping them, licking the envelopes as a college intern on the sports radio station, answering phones. I was a Joe from Florida. He's going in on the Falcons just now. I'm just thinking about sports talk radio. Sorry. And so now come full circle, Tom fills in on GMFB, what was it last year? And you gave me a sports person of the day certificate.

Which I hope you have somewhere in a safe place amidst the move. You really did that? You didn't just say that? I really did it.

No, I watched it happen. It was literally coffee runs for the hosts, printing things, and sending out the sports person of the day. And then, so like four years after this, I turn on CBS and she's like interviewing Nick Saban.

And it was, I was like, wow, that was a pretty, that was a pretty rapid, rapid rise. But here's where I was going with that is the past four months. I know that you did, you know, there were some shows during the draft, whatnot, but this has to be one of the longest stretches you've ever not been on TV. And I imagine you have a lot of takes kind of brewing. You've just been storing them up. I don't want to take away from the return of Good Morning Football July 29th on NFL Network and streaming on the Roku channel, but what do you want to unleash on us today, Jamie?

What's been eating that way at you for three, four months here? Well, in my sleepless nights with a newborn, if you will, there's been a lot of, you know, as you say, reading and reacting probably in a healthy manner because I get to, you know, tell my three month old things that I probably wouldn't say on TV, you know, about trades that were made or contracts that were signed or quarterbacks that moved on. So let's just say I am actually really deep into, we take prediction week very seriously on GMFB, you know, and I think I'm gonna, I really think I'm gonna make some splashes this year with my prediction week. I just, you know, you guys are talking about the NFC East and then, you know, the Kirk Cousins thing still just irks me how that happened and the Falcons and they're drafting.

I'm kind of on a, like a, I'm losing my words. I'm so, it's so complex in my brain right now, but it has just been sleepless nights thinking about this, but prediction week with the division winners, I think I'm gonna really gonna move some teams around. When's prediction week?

It is the like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday of regular season, which is 49 days, we've been talking about two kickoff of the regular season. Give us a taste though, kind of like pilot, one of the hottest division winners you're thinking about. The hottest take you got in general. Come on.

Let me tell you something. My first season on GMFB, I made a grave error as the Kansas City Chiefs fans would tell you, and I did not make them division winners. I didn't even have them. You have the Raiders that year. Did you buy in on the Raiders? That's what Rich did. And he's still hearing about it. Still hearing about it. Now, I'm not saying I'm going to go with the Raiders, but all of a sudden there's this coach who's living in the same town as me and my husband went to Michigan and it's like, what is this team going to do in Los Angeles? You're going to do it again. Jamie, you just moved out here.

I'm just thinking about, I'm just trying it on for size. There's also definitely some, some personal part of this. If she's walking around in whatever beach town she happens to be in and run into Chargers fans and they're like, you're picking the Chiefs?

You got to protect number one here. Hold on, hold on. There are Chargers fans? That's what, well, and if they aren't, I think they're actually nicer than Chiefs fans. They're going to have quite the season ahead. They're the biggest story in sports.

Who is? Jim Harbaugh. They'll be one of the biggest stories in all sports. The Chargers?

Right now, you're saying? In the season, they'll be one of the biggest stories in sports. It will be Jim Harbaugh. Everywhere Jim Harbaugh has been, he has gotten the quick turnaround.

The first year of San Francisco, they went 13-3, went to the NCAA championship game. If they don't, if the Chargers don't go to the playoffs, that will be one of the biggest disappointments we've had. Every other head coach, give them time. It's going to take a while to get into it. Jim Harbaugh comes in.

The expectation is not, hey, let's go from five and 12 to nine and eight. We're building something. No, it's, you're going to be a Superbowl winner. You're going to push the Chiefs right now. I see your argument because you're saying either way it goes, it's going to be the biggest story because if it's a huge success, that means they're beating the Chiefs and they're beating teams that they did last year.

If they don't, then it's a grave failure on this coach that they hired that he was supposed to come in. Maybe he's 60 years old. Maybe he doesn't have the touch anymore. Maybe he should go back to college.

Should never have left Michigan. All that stuff. Yes, it's a huge story. To make that kind of statement, I think it stressed us all out for just a beat to say, because I'm still thinking of, we're living in an Aaron Rodgers Jets world. And to say that at times the Chargers who fight, I think for the spotlight, a lot of the year and frankly throughout the news cycle, that you're going to say that they are going to trump what's happening with the Jets is that's, that's a big one. Rams have one of the best coaches, one of the best, one of the best quarterbacks in the game.

They've got a couple of the best receivers in the game. They're not as big of a story as the Chargers. There's no way.

There's no way. We've talked substantially more about the, about the Chargers. We do this with the Chargers in the off season. That's the thing is I think every summer you could say the Chargers are the bigger story because they've had so much talent, but then in season, I think it's where they fall off the cliff. So I just kind of, you know, to say they're going to be the biggest story in sports, Tom, this is why you're sitting in that chair. What else? What else is burning you up here?

I mean, you know me, I'm classically trained. Aaron Rodgers Jets, the mini camp thing, you weren't on during that. I have a little PTSD from that because I think as a show last August, there was, I mean, for everything, you're still wearing your Jets gear, still wearing my Jets gear. There was so much emotional buildup to that. And then the fallout from that. But I'm curious about what's happening in Minnesota, you know, and just the emotional breakup at the quarterback position again, to bring it full circle with the Michigan quarterback situation and what that transition is going to be like.

I'm in the middle of watching receiver and you just like fall in love with Justin Jefferson all over again. And I think for KOC and their ownership and management, like this is, these are officially, it's like a college basketball coach that comes in and it's like his first real recruiting class that comes up. Like I think for Kevin O'Connor, like this is big time.

These are your decisions and you put stamps on these things. And plus it's the NFC North is no longer, or has it ever really been the team's just shifted a walk in the park. So like the lions are just so fun.

But my heart sometimes pulls towards the North star. We were talking earlier, we took some calls on it because the Texans being the first full squad on the field earlier today, who could be this year's Texans, the team that nobody thought. And there's not that many because we already have convinced ourselves, well, the Bears are a playoff team now. And then one of the teams I think you could put on this category would be if the Vikings are a playoff team, if they're good of the teams, how from a hype train perspective, obviously the lions, I mean, that's through the roof.

It was actually bigger last year. Cause now it's just like, no, now they're one of the best Packers were one of the hottest teams in the league last year, the second half of the season into the playoffs, right down to the final interception in San Francisco. You have the bears with all their additions and Caleb Williams is all kinds of excitement. No one's talked about the Vikings.

They've got a really good skill group. They got to figure out the quarterback position, but if they were to become an NFC contender this year, that to me would be an out of left field. People didn't see a common type of moment.

It would be out of left field. I agree with you, but the parallel to the Texans last year, who just from a star perspective, they didn't have it. We didn't see what CJ Stroud was going to come up with.

We didn't see what will Anderson was going to do defensively. D'Amico Ryans is such a wonderfully warm and intelligent and bright driven coach that really gets these guys to a place where they need to operate to put the Vikings in that I think the Vikings just have categorically more star power just because Justin Jefferson is there. So I agree it would be out of left field.

Gosh, that is a great question because you know we just now I'm really thinking about who it could be. I like the Vikings argument. What about the Broncos? I mean the Broncos, that would that would certainly be that would be surprising.

That would be that would be a surprise. Sean Payton finally got his quarterback to your point about putting the stamp on things. He's got Bo Nix who every scout and coach I talked to before the draft was like this is the perfect fit. 52 career starts. Coach's kid. He's going to listen to Sean do exactly what he wants. I like that one. I like that possibility. They're in a transition now.

personnel perspective and they're in the rockiest division that there is in football. Okay, last thing for you Jamie. What I'd really like to do is we remind you that Good Morning Football returns July 29th. It airs Monday through Friday 8 to 10 a.m. Eastern on NFL Network plus new extension series GMFB Overtime premiering July 29th streaming Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to noon on the Roku channel.

Also syndicated as you mentioned on TV stations. Sounds so good when you say it Tom. Jamie Urdahl everybody. All right, let's take a break. We've got coming up after this we got some big uh that's a big NBA news.

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Westbrook is expected to agree on a contract buyout with the Jazz clearing the way for him to eventually join the Denver Nuggets after clearing waivers. TJ your thoughts. You know a lot of people feel like Russ has been on the decline and you know obviously he's not the MVP Russ. I kind of felt like he brought something to that team though man. The thing about Russ Chris is no matter what he's going to give you 110 percent effort each and every time and I feel like that's super necessary on the team. He's never going to take a playoff Tom. He's always going to show up.

He's always going to play his hardest and so I think it kind of hurts. It's tough to lose a player like that especially after this Kendrick Lamar concert that we had up in the forum where Russ kind of solidified himself as just like a man Los Angeles just like legend for being on. Did Lakers and Clippers fans also come together? No that that will never happen.

Crips and Bloods can come together. Hatfields and McCoy can come together but Lakers and Clippers fans we definitely just can't see eye to eye. Russell Westbrook in Denver is an interesting piece of this development. Buried the lead at town.

I know we're limited on characters on X but whoa it's the next move. It's the Denver piece of this. I don't understand how that makes Denver better.

I don't really get it. You need shooting in this league right now and Russ is one of the worst three-point shooters in the NBA. I just don't get how that makes them better TJ. Yeah I mean I'd have to sit there and really take a look at that roster see what's going on. I'm not really sure this is we're just processing this right now but you know I think the Clippers I hate to say it we're moving in a new building. I don't know if this is a rebuilding season for this squad kind of appears it might be but low-key the last time the Clippers had a team that was really devoid of any stars Tom they made it to the playoffs the year before they got Kawhi and Paul George so we'll see we'll see what happens. Is this also a bit of a panic from the Nuggets after that highly inconsistent washout against the Timberwolves here? You feel like you need another veteran scorer Brockman?

Yeah yeah I mean look you need a team to compete with Boston and uh in the west too I just don't see it. I don't see it. We'll be back tomorrow. Tom Pelissero in for one more day on the Rich Eisen show thanks for watching and listening. Welcome to Talkville the Ultimate Smallville rewatch podcast from season four I'm glad that it's over. I'm glad that it's over um as as we know now that season five is supposed to be one of our better seasons. Obviously the tattoo storyline you know how I feel about that. You hating that storyline brought me a lot of joy because I kept waiting to see how it was going to keep going and then how they would somehow settle it. Binge seasons one through four of Talkville before season five begins wherever you listen.