GMFB Tuesday Hour 1: Cowboys Blowout Eagles, 49ers & Chiefs Concerns? Fernando Mendoza Time?

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0:31 It's Tuesday, October 27th.

0:33 Jamie Erdahl and Manti Teo are back in Los Angeles.

0:36 What's up?

0:37 Isaiah Stanback is at home proudly wearing the hat.

0:41 Well done, Zay.

0:43 And Kyle Brandt is home from Philadelphia as well. What did you do, KB, yesterday after catching that punt? We were worried about you, man.

0:52 I wasn't, KB.

0:52 I had full faith in you.

0:53 Big dog.

0:54 I was.

0:54 I was thinking we were going to have a Marsha Brady situation.

0:56 I caught a pun from a jugs machine. We should have the video, but maybe we'll have it later.

1:00 And we all had our faces made out of pretzels, so that was an even bigger honor. You know, you can't beat that. When you go to Philly, you have to do that, right?

1:07 So hospitable those Eagles fans were, and the Cowboys were also. We brought people together at the NFC East yesterday. But the game was then played, Kyle. You got the highlight. Let's roll through it.

1:17 What happened on Monday Night Football?

1:20 Yes, thanks for having us to Philadelphia and being so kind and feeding us. Sorry you just got smacked around in the game.

1:25 Here we go. Nick, we feel you, bud. You're a Super Bowl champion, but this is shaping up as.

1:31 A really, really all-time low season, at least in your generation.

1:35 38-21.

1:36 The Cowboys win to get to 3-4, and the Eagles fall to 2-5.

1:41 They have lost a lot of games in a row.

1:43 Let's hear from Dak, and let's hear from Saquon after a gutty performance and a loss.

1:49 We say the division's right in front of us. It is as long as we win.

1:52 And, you know, if you lose another game, then you're probably checking to see what New York's doing. You're probably watching, you know, the other teams more than we should. So, yeah, we can't– yeah, I mean, you got to win the games. You got to win division games. Like I said, how big of a game this was, understanding how– how much they're hurt on their, on their offensive side. And, uh, yeah, huge road went for us. And as I said, create momentum for us to go back home for the next couple of weeks.

2:19 I truly love this game. And I feel like if you're able.

2:21 To go, sometimes you got to push your, your body to the limit. Um, and I'm trying and it's just not responding the way I wanted to respond right now. And it sucks because trying to be the best leader I want to be.

2:33 And it's hard when you're.

2:35 When you're not going to be out there and perform and for your team.

2:38 But, I can't make any excuses.

2:42 That's just the hand I'm dealt with this year right now, and it's got to keep going.

2:47 It sucks.

2:50 Just got to keep fighting.

2:52 That's an all-time pro right there. Saquon Barkley understands what's happening with his team, Mike Garofalo, and he's doing his best to try to embody what it's like to be a leader, especially when his body is trying to give up on him. First touchdown on the season for Saquon last night, but we're not sure what this injury looks like now, especially considering that it started with one thing and now it looks like he aggravated something else as we move forward in the running back room as the Eagles as a whole.

3:17 That's actually the.

3:18 Good news, because Barkley told reporters after the game, Jamie, that his hamstring came out fine. It was the back that flared up, and he doesn't feel like the back is going to be something that's going to keep him out for a while.

3:28 And a lot of times when you're dealing with a hamstring.

3:30 It changes your posture, and you're compensating, and.

3:33 All of a sudden something else pops up.

3:35 So when this was happening last night, I said, oh, this hamstring is going to be something he's going to have to pull back on. And then all of a sudden, the Eagles come out with the injury update saying he's questionable return with the back injury. So That's the good news in all of this. And then we talked about this yesterday. Saquon Barkley and Tanner McKee are tight. I know Irv was laughing about the whole golf thing, but that's his buddy. And he wanted to be out there for him because Devontae Smith's not playing and they're banged up across the offensive line and elsewhere. So this was part of what Barkley was doing to try.

4:06 To be out there. for McKee, for the offense, for the team.

4:09 He said he spoke to the locker room after the game, which he very rarely does as well. So Saquon Barkley doing everything he possibly can to try to lift this team up right now. We'll see about his status going forward. I mean, this is something he's going to have to see how he feels when he wakes up today and how he is throughout the practice week.

4:25 And then you got Damian Pierce who left.

4:28 With an injury late in the game as well this is an extremely banged up eagles backfield so the guys that are coming in to try to fill in for other guys who are down like the tag bigs bees of the world they're getting hurt as well so the eagles is trying to plug the holes in the boat right now we'll see how it is for their backfield and really their offense.

4:45 In general because even dac mentioned it how banged up they.

4:48 Are on that side of the ball That is the worst parallel to make, trying to plug the holes in.

4:52 The boat for a team at this point this season.

4:55 Mike Garofalo paints quite the picture. Thanks, Mike G.

4:58 We'll talk to you in a little bit. So the Cowboys snapped their two-game losing streak. Isaiah, I'm sure people around the Cowboys facility are now going to have a little different pep in their step. And now it becomes Philadelphia's longest losing streak since 2016.

5:12 So, Zay, I'll start with you.

5:14 Big takeaway, especially on the Cowboys side of things last night.

5:17 Finally, the Dallas Cowboys have gotten back to the run. Shoddy, shoddy, shoddy. Coach Brian Schottenheimer has avoided, for whatever reason, the running game of the Dallas Cowboys. He actually abandoned ship over the last two games. It was 13 carries for 50 yards versus Tampa Bay, and then it was 15 carries for 48 yards versus Green Bay. You have Javante Williams, one of the best running backs in the league as of last year. You signed him to an extension, and then you simply just abandoned the run game. You get Tyler Smith back at the left guard position. Your entire offensive line is set, and then you throw the ball for 54 times last week. But finally, Shottie committed to the run game and gave Javante Williams the ball 25

5:57 times for.

5:57 155 yards and a touchdown.

5:58 38 carries for the entire team for 204 yards. These guys were effective, I guess, on the ground game versus one of the best defensive fronts, interior defensive.

6:08 Fronts in football.

6:09 This is what happens, though, when you run the ball with Javante Williams.

6:13 Look at this, sir.

6:14 Look at the stats over the last two weeks versus last night alone.

6:18 They did one heck of a job.

6:19 Dak Prescott is the best version of himself whenever he has a run game. He's one of the best play-action quarterbacks in the game. So you have to commit to the run game, and that's exactly what they did, and they were successful because of it.

6:31 Yeah, I'm going to opposite side of the football, Isaiah.

6:33 I do like what the Cowboys did, but the whole conversation yesterday was about Tanner McKee and can.

6:38 He be that guy? The biggest question was him.

6:41 Tanner McKee last night did everything he needed to do to win that football game. I mean, I liked what he was doing. Everything was looking nice. Even though Saquon went out, he was still dicing the ball. The biggest takeaway for me was how leaky that rush defense was. It was surprising to me that I've never seen a Vic Fangio defense that had Jordan Davis, that had Jalen Carter, that had Zach Vaughn give up 155 rush yards to Javante Williams alone. That is the most rush yards that a Cowboy running back has had since Zeke Elliott in 2016.

7:12 2016 is also the same year that that was the same most rush yards that a Vic Fangio-led defense gave up to a man named Ty Montgomery in 2016 who played for the Green Bay Packers when Vic Fangio was the defensive coordinator for Chicago Bears. It was so bad last night, guys, that Vic Fangio, who doesn't blitz, was blitzing second-level players. I mean, I saw Cooper Dijon blitzing from the nickel cornerbacks position just.

7:36 To get some type of penetration.

7:38 The offensive line for the Dallas Cowboys didn't just run the line of scrimmage. They owned the line of scrimmage. I have never seen. Two of the biggest interior D linemen get pushed back so far in a run game. And that shout out to, you know, Shadi and Dak Prescott and their run game and.

7:56 Really focusing on, hey, let's establish.

7:58 A physical brand of football here against a defensive front that has been known to be one of the more, to your point, Isaiah, you just said, the more dominant fronts.

8:07 They haven't had to blitz guys in the secondary.

8:10 Why?

8:11 Because their front seven usually handles it all. But when you're getting gashed the way that they were getting gashed last night, Now Vic Fangio is starting to have to sprinkle in things that he usually doesn't do and that's blitz. So it was it was it was my biggest takeaway was I didn't expect for the Cowboys to come against a unit like the defense that Vic Fangio has and do what they did KB.

8:31 I hear you man.

8:32 And listen I'll start with the Eagles and get to the Cowboys. If you ever listen to Bill Simmons one of the things that he does every year is he tracks which team is having the season from hell.

8:41 It's usually one.

8:43 It feels like it's often the 49ers with the injuries that they've been through. This season from hell to him is the Eagles. They've lost five in a row. The Knicks, Sirianni, Jalen Hurts, Eric Eagles don't lose five in a row. They're out there having Saquon, who's clearly hurt, playing through the game so he can help his backup quarterback named Tanner keep it close against the Cowboys in a game which they lost by 17. Lane Johnson, Jalen Hurts, over and over.

9:10 This feels like the season from hell.

9:12 And They play Washington and New York next, and I don't know if they can beat either of those teams right now. It's just, I don't even recognize this team, and it's really, really sad. It's not fun unless you absolutely hate the Eagles, which we, of.

9:24 Course, don't.

9:25 I don't know what to make of them for the rest of the season, but that was hard to watch last night. They were never even close. You know what was hard about it? They finally got their offense to show up. Finally.

9:34 And as they're moving the ball, now their defense is terrible.

9:36 Yeah.

9:36 The defense that's that's the fixing the hole in the boat you plug that hole already and then when you fix the new one the last one springs it was just terribly ironic that when their offense finally plays with tanner mckee their defense does nothing and now they're two and five on a five game losing streak as for the.

9:51 Cowboys uh they needed it they got it huge win fireworks it's everything you want it's one of.

9:57 Those games the cowboys were like why can't you do this every week why isn't it always cd.

10:01 And pickens and running and cd and pickens and running? Why isn't it that every week?

10:05 It isn't.

10:06 And why aren't there shots of Jerry Jones laughing and chortling with whoever's up there? I just, I feel like it's been a long time since we've seen this. They make it look so easy when they do it. But here's the funny thing. Like, The Cowboys' concern is not the Eagles. They blasted them. The Eagles are no problem at all. The Cowboys' concern right now, and I can't believe I'm saying this in 2026, their biggest threat right now is J.J.

10:28 McCarthy.

10:30 That's where we've come. The Cowboys can keep winning fine. Maybe they'll get on a win streak. They got to hope that J.J. McCarthy loses or struggles. And by the way, they don't play the Giants for a long time, and they already played them really early, and they lost early.

10:44 The Jackson Dart Giants. So they can't do anything about it.

10:48 They have to sit back and even if the Cowboys do get it right and they start reeling off wins, this thing... Like, they're in first place. They've won with Jameis. They've won with Jackson. They've won with JJ. All the J's they win with somehow. So if you're a Cowboys fan, if you're Jerry, if you're Stephen A., if you're Michael Irvin, whoever the hell's in that booth up there, you've got to hope that John Harbaugh somehow fumbles this thing because the Giants right now have so much mojo and positive energy, and they have that lead, and they're in first place.

11:13 It's really not that close.

11:15 Speaking of those guys, shout out to Irv and all the energy that he brought to GMB yesterday to see him in the booth last night with Jerry. And then in the final story, Jerry gets up to take a selfie with the rest of the group that's in that booth. And then Irv is still standing there like barking at the Eagles fans.

11:30 I'm like, Irv's been bringing it since 8 a.m. And it's like 11 a.m. or 11 p.m. Eastern at that point. Well done, Cowboys and Eagles. We're thinking of you today.

11:38 Speaking of hellish situations, the Baltimore Ravens feel like they are in one of those, I am sure, Mike Garofalo. As you teased it last week, Lamar Jackson is trying to get back in the field with this ankle injury, but the Ravens continue to cough up double-digit leads to significant opponents, specifically within the division. So when are we getting the quarterback back for the Ravens?

11:56 Jamie, I really, I try my best, and I take pride in giving you guys some good information.

12:02 Okay.

12:03 I just feel so powerless with Lamar anymore.

12:06 I can't imagine.

12:08 Well, because he's trying as much as he possibly can, and I know that there's chatter down there.

12:14 That Lamar doesn't push through things.

12:16 He's really been trying as hard as he possibly can, rehabbing maybe a lot more than he has in the past or a lot more dedicated to doing that than he has been.

12:25 In the past, and he just hasn't gotten out there.

12:27 And every week there's sort of this– slow drumbeat of optimism down there, but it's got to be guarded optimism at this point. So they are optimistic that Lamar Jackson is going to be out there, and he was relatively close this past week, just couldn't get to the point where he felt comfortable enough to be his normal self.

12:46 So we'll call it guarded optimism for Lamar Jackson as we get closer to the start of the practice week for the Baltimore Ravens.

12:53 Obviously, we'll keep you updated. And we're updating you on this one.

12:57 This is not a good one.

12:58 Vega Yohani, Venga Yohani, got to make sure I say that correctly, the incredible rookie interior offensive lineman for the Ravens. And if you've snapped a ball as the starter for the Ravens at center in practice or in a game this year, things have not gone well for you. The number of injuries they've had, the guys that have played center, out of control. Ian Rappaport and I just reporting this.

13:18 An MCL sprain, not a catastrophic injury, but one that's going to cause the rookie to miss time.

13:23 He has been sensational.

13:24 Another significant blow to the interior of the Ravens offensive line.

13:28 That doesn't help things for Lamar either, does it?

13:30 It does not.

13:31 We've entered the part of the season where Mike Garofalo is categorizing his levels of optimism. Now, guarded optimism when it comes to the Baltimore Ravens.

13:38 Guarded optimism. Mike G., thank you so much. Good luck with the Lamar coverage, by the way.

13:42 Let us know how that goes. All right, time for going for two. I mentioned it coming into Sunday. The Chiefs and the Niners were two of the three undefeated teams on the season.

13:54 Well, they were both handed their first L's.

13:56 And now you're going to hear from both Patrick Mahomes and Brock Purdy who have to work through the emotions over getting over the loss but also getting your team right before the following week. Here are some pretty candid answers from the quarterbacks.

14:08 Got your tail kicked.

14:10 Didn't execute offensively, especially around that midfield area. kept us away from a lot of points, or at least enough points to be competitive. But it's stuff you've got to learn from. That's obviously a really good defense, and we didn't execute at a high enough level to have success.

14:27 Obviously, we're 6-1.

14:28 This one stings.

14:29 But we really do have to have perspective on how we're playing, what it's going to take moving forward for the second half of the season. Every game, every little thing matters. So we've got to take care of our bodies and be back ready.

14:43 All right, injuries are one thing for the San Francisco 49ers. We know what that looks like for that team. The Kansas City Chiefs being held out of the red zone against the Seattle Seahawks, Mandai, is a mind-boggling stat. And it's the first time that that's been handed to them in a Patrick Mahomes start.

14:57 Yeah, they were held out of the red zone, Jamie.

15:00 It's the fewest points, the fewest total yards, the fewest first downs of Patrick Mahomes' career as a starter in this league.

15:07 But I got to say, it happens.

15:09 I mean, that's just an old school butt whooping and you watch film, you correct the mistakes and you come back and you have all the weapons that you entered into this game is still with you going forward. For me, it's the San Francisco 49ers. Ever since Mike Evans went down at halftime in the second quarter of the Commanders game, that offense doesn't look like what it used to. Like what once was lavish isn't lavish no more. I mean, Brock Purdy, He threw for two interceptions. He walked into that game with two interceptions. And he's been playing at an MVP level. That's the least amount of points. That four total turnovers.

15:44 And that's the second fewest rush yards by Christian McCaffrey. It was a very basic.

15:50 approach.

15:50 And attack by Kyle Shanahan and that offense. And for Brock Purdy, he looked very uncomfortable. The offense literally went through Christian McCaffrey and George Kittle, and that was it. And it doesn't help that you have a.

16:02 Plethora of other injuries.

16:05 But even amongst those injuries, as long as Mike Evans, as long as number five was that X wide receiver.

16:10 It still looked great. It still looked explosive.

16:13 Brock Purdy still looked like the MVP conversation Brock Purdy that we've been talking about. But when number five went down, they still haven't been able to recover. Hopefully they do recover. But more importantly, Isaiah, hopefully number five recovers because when he does or if he does, then I think that San Francisco 49ers offense gets back to what they were doing before.

16:31 Until then, it's been a struggle. Yeah, obviously the.

16:34 49ers are going to figure things out.

16:35 Those guys have a tremendous amount of injuries that nobody can even wrap their head around, and they still find ways to win ballgames. I'll give them one game to have a mulligan. But I'm going to go with the Kansas City Chiefs. The Kansas City Chiefs, dare I say that they need help offensively.

16:50 Andy Reid needs some receivers.

16:52 He needs some guys out there on the field that he can actually get the rock to and help because this team has somehow some way this season become a running team.

17:00 Yes, I know.

17:01 That's kind of weird to say the Kansas City Chiefs are a running team. But that's what happens when you add Kenneth Walker, the third. and he has absolutely lights out first six games of the season. But now the Seahawks have highlighted exactly where their weaknesses are. They shut down Kenneth Walker. They shut him down to 14 carries and 36 yards. And you see it on your TV right there, 213 yards for the game for the Kansas City Chiefs.

17:23 That is not a quarter.

17:24 That's not a half.

17:25 That's a complete game with– Andy Reid and Eric Bien-Ami as your offensive coordinators. The Chiefs were unable to establish a running game, and then when they turned to the passing game, their fastest man on the field, Xavier Worthy, only had 11 yards on the day. The top two guys that were receiving the ball for them was Travis Kelsey and Noah Gray.

17:43 Those were your tight ends. They both had 44 yards.

17:46 This team needs some help on the outside because without that running efficiency, there's nowhere for the.

17:51 Ball to go.

17:52 Yeah, I can't say Niners here. Nobody goes undefeated. It was a weird game. They fumbled three times. Fumbles aren't a problem with your team.

17:59 I think fumbles are just a problem with your technique, and I think they'll bounce back from that.

18:02 Listen, I watched that.

18:03 Chiefs-Seahawks game with my jaw on the floor, and honestly, I'm kind of breaking the segment here.

18:08 I feel like I learned the most about.

18:09 The Seahawks by way of the Chiefs because that defensive performance was, I think, the best that I've seen all year.

18:15 We could even go back to last year when they were the Super Bowl champs. I mean, that was incredible.

18:19 I've seen teams hang banners for less than we kept Patrick Mahomes.

18:24 Out of the red zone.

18:25 There are some franchises out there who would hang a banner for that in a regular season game. What they did to Walker, what they did to Mahomes, what they did to everybody.

18:32 The Chiefs are going to be all right. The Chiefs are going to have a say in this thing.

18:34 But it was just a little reminder of the Seahawks about just– Chill out, everybody. The champ is still the champ. I know we were 500 going into this game. We will still lock you the hell up. To me, Chiefs, Niners, they'll all matter. The Seahawks, the best defensive performance of the year, and that includes all of those incredible performances by Brian Flores Vikings.

18:53 Okay, well, if we're going to stand up for the Seahawks, then we'll stand up for the Falcons as well because that's who beat the 49ers.

18:58 Jesse Bates.

18:59 Going for two.

19:00 Jesse Bates.

19:01 So the Raiders, we all watched them.

19:02 They started the season 3-0, but now they've faced an absolute ridiculous string of quarterbacks, and they've dropped four straight.

19:09 This now has people.

19:10 Wondering, how do the Raiders go about making a decision about the quarterback? Because they have a number one overall pick in Fernando Mendoza sitting in their building. And even Kirk Cousin knows that if things don't improve as it pertains to his play, that a decision needs to be made.

19:25 If I'm not the best option, then I don't want to be out there either. I want our football team to have the best chance to win games. If the first OTA, if that had become apparent, I would have been the first one to say, yeah, you can't play me. Nothing changes. The organization will do what they feel is best.

19:48 I want to let you guys know that Kirk is our starting quarterback. There is no controversy there. He's playing at a very high level, and he's got to continue to do that for us to win, and we've got to keep helping all the areas around him.

20:04 All right, we've entered the window of this conversation now because this is Kirk, the first three weeks of the season. We were ready to crown him, and it's fallen off in terms of quarterback play. But again, as I said, really challenging opponents they've faced in the last couple weeks as well. Kyle, how far away are we from seeing Mendoza?

20:21 Where do you think you're at emotionally with demanding to see the number one overall pick?

20:26 I respect the conviction from coach. Nope, this is our guy. This is our plan.

20:30 Listen, the 2026 season in the span of Fernando Mendoza's career is almost nothing like we're talking about the 2036 season from him you know the 20 2040 season that's the idea with mendoza so eight years from now three years from now 15 years from now the goal he is the raider starting quarterback no one is going to be sitting there 14 years from now and be like yeah i don't know why they waited so long that rookie year in 2026 behind cousins they are babying this thing they are nurturing this thing here's the thing yeah you guys i have a feeling the answer is going to be yes You guys ever make brownies?

21:07 OK, here's the way it works. You make the brownies, you put them in the oven and they always give you that.

21:11 Annoying instruction where it's like, you know, between eight to 12 minutes or whatever.

21:15 It's like a huge window. All right.

21:17 So at eight minutes, you take them out, you set them on the top of the stove, take a toothpick and you stick a toothpick in there and you pull it out and you see if the batter is still kind of wet. And if the batter's still wet, you put them back in. If the toothpick comes out dry and clean, those suckers are ready.

21:35 Carve them up and serve them.

21:38 The toothpick isn't coming out dry yet, all right? The batter's not ready. Either Mendoza's not ready to play or he doesn't matter. Maybe he looks amazing, but they're just making extra special sure that those brownies are perfect because this is the most important batch of brownies they have ever made. So it's like, here's the good news. And Manti, you can follow up, please. If you are Raiders fans, like, give me Mendoza.

22:03 What the hell? I hear you. If they lose at the Jets next week, I promise you, Kirk Cousins will be benched. All right?

22:09 If they go to the MetLife and they lose to the Jets, you will get your wish.

22:12 Trust me.

22:13 Because the Jets right now, like, they're burning down the house. So if they go to the Jets and lose, then we'll talk Mendoza. For now, put that tray back in the oven.

22:21 Well, let's talk about the ingredients that the chef, Kirk Cousins, has been given right now. I don't think when you're looking at the ingredients, KB, that you can honestly put the– The onus on Kirk Cousins. Kirk Cousins right now is leading the NFL in passing touchdowns. He has a better passing completion percentage than a lot of quarterbacks in this league.

22:42 If you look at their run game, there's a lot of talk about the Packers run game. That is the only run game that.

22:48 Is worse than the Raiders right now. The Raiders have the 31st ranked run game.

22:53 Now, you take into consider, who are the guys that are catching the ball from Kirk Cousins?

22:58 You have.

22:59 obviously Brock Bowers and Trey Tucker. You mentioned the Jets, KB. The Jets have a better wide receiver core than the Raiders. The Tennessee Titans have a better wide receiver.

23:09 Core than the Raiders. The Cleveland Browns have a better.

23:12 Wide receiver core than the Las Vegas Raiders. And so yet, Kirk Cousins is still being able to put up the numbers that he's been able to put up in what year 50 that he's playing right now. So I know that the Raiders fans are calling Fernando Mendoza and say we need to put him in the game.

23:27 My question to the Raiders fans is, What is.

23:30 Fernando Mendoza going to do with the ingredients that he's been given to cook this brownie that Kirk Cousins hasn't already been able to do?

23:38 Yes, maybe he'll scramble a.

23:39 Little bit more, but until you get that run game fixed and until you get That quarterback more options to throw to.

23:46 I mean, it goes back to the Eagles game. It's like, who's going to.

23:50 Whatever quarterback is back there, who are you going to throw the ball to? You don't really have anybody there. I don't think it's a Kirk Cousins situation. I don't think it's a Kirk Cousins problem yet. I think it's more so a personnel problem as... You need to be able to give these guys, Isaiah, these quarterbacks, somebody to throw the ball to, or at least establish some sort of run game to kind of take that responsibility and that pressure off of them in a pass game. Until you do that, I don't think the finger can personally be pointed at Kirk Cousins.

24:17 Kyle, I love me some brownies, and I'm not sure how many people at home still have toothache. I think most people are using the butter knife, slicing it through there and messing up the whole look.

24:26 I'm just saying.

24:28 Man time. I'm right there with you, bro. Like, what do people truly think is going to be different? You just mentioned it. Kirk Cousins is balling right now. He's at the top of the league in passing touchdowns. He's at the top of the league in pass efficiency. He has zero run game. He has comparable stats to Dak Prescott, but you don't hear nobody talking about bench Dak Prescott.

24:48 What we're facing right now is a case of the shiny shoes. People get shiny shoes, get a brand new pair of shoes. And what do people want to do? They take them to the house. They don't set them on the shelf. They don't go put them in the closet. They want to put the new shoes on because they want everybody to see the new shoes.

25:04 The shoes that you walked.

25:05 Into the store with are perfectly fine, but yet I still want to put on those new shoes because they're brand new. That's what people see in Mendoza. They just want something different. They know they have him sitting on the shelf right now.

25:16 They're curious.

25:17 They want to see everybody's reaction, but you have to appreciate the fact that what you have on the field right now is productive. You just need to surround him with more support. People stop tripping, let Kirk cook. That's what he does, and you like that.

25:30 If you try to cut through those brownies and they're undercooked and then they all start to crumble and catch on the side of the knife, then.

25:36 You're like, good! You can't put them back in. So, Kyle, you're right.

25:40 Like, you start to cut through that pan and it's all catching up and it gets gunking up and you're like, I did it. I'm impatient and I should have put these guys back in the oven. That is how we feel about the quarterback spot.

25:50 That's when I just get a spoon, Jamie. Eat it right out of the pan. Put some ice cream on it. We're good.

25:55 Now it's just become a brownie batter mush.

25:58 All the mode.

25:59 Exactly.

26:00 Kyle's got angry runs, and perhaps there will be a pan of brownies involved.

26:03 We'll be right back on GMFB.

26:18 I just think angry runs, that segment. This guy, he just lives angry.

26:22 Thank you for my six angry runs.

26:24 Much love, much appreciation. The guy's name that does it with the angry runs.

26:28 I always want to be on that, you know.

26:30 He can be an angry runner. Angry runner. Angry runner. That's what I'm talking about. Let's go. Oh, Kyle Brandt.

26:39 We just had an angry run candidate.

26:41 You actually said you wouldn't have a scepter.

26:44 Angry run scepter.

26:45 As a running back, you want this.

26:47 You want to be on that.

26:48 Angry runs and have an angry run they send you a cool set there send you a cool shirt.

26:52 Let me get it boom.

26:59 Welcome to angry runs the the often often imitated segment that you will see all over the place but never duplicated i am here in the woefully insufficient basement.

27:12 Set but i'm going to break the tackle we're going to get meta with it.

27:14 I'm going to run through the constraints of this set to bring you the anger that you crave from the NFL each and every week. It is called Angry Runs, but we start with love and happiness and joy in the form of the Angry Runs street team.

27:26 Bring them up. These are the men, women, and children who wear the official Angry Runs shirt from homage.com. That's my guy, Vincenzo. What's up, Vincenzo?

27:34 Five years old, wearing the hat of the division leader, wearing the shirt of... Cameron Scataboo may be showing up in the segment.

27:41 We'll see.

27:42 Vincenzo, I love you. Bellissimo.

27:45 Next. Who else we got in the anger run street team? I always love when the kids go under their jerseys. They wear it on Friday night lights.

27:50 Hell yes. Carter.

27:52 That's my man Carter of the Branson Pirates. He is a freshman playing JV ball. I respect the hell out of it.

27:59 And guess what? The Pirates got the dub, too. What's up, Carter?

28:03 Next is maybe my favorite picture I've gotten in the history of the street team.

28:06 Let me show you the most beautiful couple you've ever seen.

28:09 This is Doreena and Mike Hughes out to dinner for their 50th wedding anniversary. And look what Doreena is wearing to the restaurant.

28:19 An Angry Runs shirt.

28:21 They've got oysters and chowder, and she's wearing her Angry Run shirt. Mike, you're a good man. I love that you let Darina be Darina. And Darina, what's up, girl? I roll with you all the time.

28:31 Happy 50th. We'll see you on the 60th. Love both of you. But my gosh, we have so many things to get. What a great street team. I could end the segment right there, but I won't, because we have to celebrate the accomplishments of, yes, A New York Jet, J-E-T-S.

28:46 Two weeks ago, Braylon Allen, nasty things. Big old strong running back playing in Jersey. This is against the Patriots out in the flat in Foxborough.

28:54 Boom!

28:55 Just a flick of the finger and leveling of veteran safety in this league.

28:59 That gets us an angry run. But does the scepter get to Jersey?

29:02 And do the Jets get together and give the scepter to Braylon Allen? Do we have any pictures, any proof of that whatsoever we could share.

29:07 With the people? You better believe we do.

29:10 Braylon Allen, contemplative, thoughtful, tatted as all hell, muscular, kind of looking at it artistically, and then they're going to give us a bit of rage, too. This is how you do it. I love the green backdrop. I love the sleeveless flex from Braylon Allen. Braylon, this is not your last Scepter, and I love that the Jets are getting our very own form of a win, and I love now that Braylon Allen joins what we call... The Interceptor World Tour. Here's a quick little summary to get you up to speed. If you want to binge watch angry runs, here are the gentlemen, minus Kyle Menungai, who was injured. who have sent the scepter pick. Way back, Tyler Owens. Remember the gunner from hell on the Commanders?

29:49 Jadarian Price, who the Seahawks really would like to have back. Trey McBride, one of the best players in the NFL. Marshawn Lloyd out on the field with the pack. And then Braylon Allen representing North Jersey with a double flex and a scepter.

30:00 Who joins the group?

30:03 Now, there's probably one person you're waiting for to see if they will join the group, to see if they're allowed.

30:08 To join the group.

30:09 I'm going to have to do some things in this segment I might not be allowed to do. But first, I'm always allowed to do Samajay Piran. I love Samajay Piran. I love when he runs the ball. I love when he catches the ball. And I love it when he's doing it in a butt-whooping manner.

30:22 A butt whooping of the division rival Ravens. This is just easy work for Samaje. A couple of things I like about this.

30:28 He's going to get the ball out in the flat and he puts that chin strap right under the chin. And the tackler's trying to go up to his own face by saying, no, no, no, no. I'm dictating the terms here right under the chin.

30:39 And this is fine.

30:40 I like the stiff arm, but I like the mentality at the end of the run. Samaje could have run out of bounds here. Nope.

30:45 Let me one more shot.

30:47 I'm not going out of bounds. I'm Samadji bleeping pee around. I got a big old beard like Leonidas. I decide the shot. And then I say, first off, Samadji, great.

30:55 History with the program. Let's go back to 2022. Samadji won the scepter. What does he do? He's a gentleman. He gets together with the linemen. This is all.

31:04 This is four years ago with the Bengals linemen in the locker room with grace and dignity and anger.

31:10 So you will always have a home here, but you will not have a win this week for a couple of reasons.

31:14 The next one is, I mean, guys, is there anyone who is more my guy than my guy, Jameer Gibbs?

31:20 He's fast. He's nifty. He's agile. He's all those things. Don't get in his way. You think Jameer Gibbs won't lower the shoulder? I have video evidence to prove otherwise. Give it to me. Gibbs, Lions, another division rivalry game, and boom. Oh, this is filthy. Give me the field level. Give me the field level. I like it's between the tackles.

31:38 I like it's man on man.

31:39 I don't love that it's our guy Xavier McKinney, who's a close friend of the show, but what are you going to do?

31:44 Even gunfighters get shot sometimes. I'm sorry. Jameer lowering, exploding all.

31:50 That fast twitch muscle stuff. It works that way, too. Trust me, just because he can get outside. Don't think he can't get right up the middle.

31:57 He can't. And he will go over you and through you if he has to. You know me. This is my offensive player of the year. I need this.

32:02 I want this. But as much as I love Jameer Gibbs. I don't think he'll be winning Angry Runs this week.

32:08 Why is that, you ask? Well, complicated goings-on here at Angry Runs, Inc., where we have a long-term relationship, at least a year and change, with young Cameron Scadaboo of the New York Giants.

32:19 Now, you might have seen, I referred to him as my nephew, you might have seen that Cam Scadaboo... In yesterday's game or Sunday's game had a play where he was flagged, flagged for a very intense collision, which the style of that collision was not allowed in the NFL. We have very few rules here at Angry Runs. In fact, I love that we break rules. But if a player is injured on a play, we.

32:40 Don't include it.

32:41 It's not allowed and it's not in good taste and we've never done it. If a player is flagged on a play, we are not allowed.

32:48 To use it, which is fine. It's just one of the guidelines that we have.

32:52 So Cameron Scadaboo was flagged on that play.

32:54 We will not be having the videotape today.

32:56 But trust us, we here at Angry Runs are very aware of that play, and we're very aware of the mentality that led to that play and his comments afterwards saying, that's how I play. Cam?

33:08 I love you. I respect the way that you play. I respect that you're unapologetic about it.

33:13 And it's okay in 2026 to still want to play that way.

33:16 It's going to get you flagged. That's on you.

33:19 But I love that you go out wanting to run over people. And Cam Scadaboo did us a favor, guys. To play that we can't run?

33:26 He gave us another one that we can. So let's do it.

33:29 Roll the videotape of number 44 for the New York Giants. He already has two sectors in his very young career and just bouncing all over the place.

33:37 And through anything wearing a Houston jersey. And watch this. A gratuitous. completely gratuitous stiff arm.

33:44 Once he gets through all the main events, he's going to already be well into the end zone and deliver a subsequent shot to the defensive back.

33:51 He's like, all right, all right. I get it. I get it. I get it. You score. Jeez. I love the spin. I love the shoulder dip. And I love all the extracurriculars.

33:59 Cam's actually kind of angry that he scored. He's like, I want to keep fighting.

34:03 Keep hitting me. In fact, on another run, he just goes down because it's like, I guess it's over now. You're not going to fight me anymore. This is that kid out in.

34:11 The playground who's just bloody in noses, even though he's not the biggest and not the strongest.

34:15 We love Cam Skadig with so much.

34:17 And imagine the audacity to have this much violence and then seal that thing with a backflip.

34:23 Right in the end zone. Just for fun. Look at that. A dessert at the end.

34:27 That's like your Oreo shake when you're going out to Applebee's.

34:30 Ah, screw it. I already had the Bourbon Street Steak. Give me the Oreo shake. Two straws.

34:35 I love that he did it. I love what he had to say afterwards, unapologetic. It's okay to be kind of a bad boy still in 2026.

34:42 And here's the best part.

34:44 So I go to Instagram and I say to the people, should Cam Scadaboo win Angry Runs this week?

34:49 And I get all kinds of responses on Instagram. A lot of people are saying, yeah, duh, of course, duh, duh. Yeah, obviously. You know who said duh? Look at one of the messages I got back on Instagram to that question. Who said, this is from Cam himself. Scataboo says, duh, LOL. Is that like the most beautiful six letters you've ever seen?

35:09 Six letters, seven characters, and says an entire mentality of how I.

35:14 Run the football and how I play the sport of football. Duh, LOL. Obviously, he's like, I should get it. And you know what, Cam?

35:22 I don't care if the other three on this panel walk into traffic for Jameer Gibbs to win this thing. I promise you you're going to get your third scepter. But let's just pretend we're going to have some discussion about it because I love you, dude. You're not far away. I may even have to deliver this myself. Let's go to the panel. Samajay Piran, love him. Jameer Gibbs, love him.

35:40 Cam Scadaboo, that's family.

35:42 That's my nephew right there. L.A., what say you?

35:45 Well, love you, too, Kyle. But no one's walking into traffic.

35:48 We were we were commiserating over here. We were going to go against the grain and say, but we're going to demand to vote for scat anyway. So we appreciate that he gave us something else that popped off the screen. I specifically love the hand slapping in the end zone.

36:00 Yeah, my guy.

36:01 You know, I know you put those other two guys up there, but it's like, you know, Pete Ryan's like the chopped salad.

36:05 Yeah, you got to have it. Gives us the bone and ribeye.

36:08 It's nice, but I came for the flambe.

36:11 I came for the bananas foster.

36:13 And when it comes out there and you present it to me, KB, I'm sitting at the table like, this is why I came.

36:18 To Anger Runs.

36:19 Put Scataboo up there and give him that scepter.

36:23 Yeah.

36:24 Hey, listen.

36:24 Jameer Gibbs, what you did was nasty work. You threw up the X before you ran over X.

36:28 But Scataboo?

36:28 Yeah.

36:29 I'm going to my same container right here. You see this? I'm giving you money. Whatever you got. I'll pay your fine.

36:35 Bold.

36:35 Deceptive. I'm waiting for it.

36:38 Let's go.

36:40 He's got cash.

36:41 Listen, any other week I'm sending this thing to Detroit.

36:44 This is going to Jameer Gibbs. You picked the wrong week, Jameer. You'll have it another week. I love Cam Scadaboo still fighting into the end zone. It's like when there's a street fight and somebody's like, hey, man, he's had enough. He's had enough.

36:56 And Cam's like, I decide when he's had enough. Like Johnny, Bleep, and Lawrence. Is this thing going to Jersey to the New York Giants? Is this Cameron Scadaboo's third career scepter in a very young career? duh lol cam scottaboo is back he gets the

37:12 Scepter boom see you next week