Tag: Good Morning Football

One NFL insider said he will ‘put my name’ on Jayden Daniels to the Commanders

Another NFL insider strongly believes the Commanders will pick Daniels.

ESPN NFL insider Adam Schefter has insisted for a few weeks now that everything points to LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels going No. 2 overall to the Washington Commanders in the 2024 NFL draft.

On Tuesday — two days before the first round of the draft — another well-connected NFL insider also believes Daniels is heading to Washington.

Peter Schrager of Fox Sports and “Good Morning Football” was a guest on the “Pat McAfee Show” Tuesday and said he’d put his name on Daniels at No. 2.

“I feel like the last few days things have settled a bit, and I don’t know if there have been conversations with Dan Quinn or with Kliff Kingsbury, but from all the intel that I’m gathering, it sounds like Daniels to the Commanders is a lot more likely than it might have been on Friday,” Schrager said.

Schefter said Washington fans could go ahead and buy their Daniels’ jerseys two weeks ago. While he hasn’t reported Daniels to Washington — because the Commanders have told no one of their intentions — the intel he received from numerous sources has led him to strongly believe it will be Daniels at No. 2.

It would be a surprise if the pick is anyone other than Daniels on Thursday night.

Why there’s no Good Morning Football on the NFL Network until later in 2024

There’s a good answer for that.

If you’re turning on your TV to watch Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Peter Schrager and Jason McCourty for an episode of Good Morning Football and it’s not on starting April 1, and you’re wondering what’s up?

There’s a good answer for that.

GMFB is moving to Los Angeles later this year, with a relaunch date still TBD. We’ve seen emotional goodbyes to the New York crew and fans from the various stars of the show, although some have talked about moving with the show out to the West coast.

We’ll see if we find out a date for its return soon.

 

Kyle Brandt and the Good Morning Football crew had 1 last emotional sign off before leaving New York

Good Morning Football is making its move.

For years, Good Morning Football fans have woken up in the early mornings to see the crew talking about the latest in the football world on NFL Network. The biggest changes to the show have been its different crew members, but it’s always just generally been the same show.

Starting today, that show will be going away for a while.

Good Morning Football is going on an indefinite hiatus as the show moves across the country to a new studio in LA. The GMFB crew announced the move on the show earlier this month.

While the move doesn’t seem like a big deal to most of us, it is for the folks working on it. GMFB has been based in New York City for its entire existence. Now, everything is changing.

That’s why Kyle Brandt, Jason McCourty and the rest of the GMFB crew seemed so emotional during their final sign-off from New York on Friday.

Brandt addressed the show’s future himself from the streets of New York for the final time.

“I know you have questions, because I’ve seen them. Why is this happening? Who’s going to LA? Why would you take something that you got so right and change it? Some of those answers I don’t know. Some of them are not mine to give. And, candidly, I have a lot of questions myself. Here’s what I know. I, personally, will be intensly involved in Good Morning Football moving forward and I want to spend the rest of my career with the NFL. And Good Morning Football is not ending — it’s expanding.” 

Meanwhile, to end things, Jason McCourty gave us one final emotional sendoff.

“Very hard to say goodbye to a lot of people here. And Kyle talked about Good Morning Football continuing on the west coast. When it continues on the west coast, everybody has asked if the four of us will be there or not. There’s going to be a lot of people behind the scenes who won’t have the opportunity to go to LA. And those are the people who have been very close to me for these past 20 months.” 

The show will be back, but we don’t know exactly when. Brandt also said the show will be covering the draft, so we can assume it’ll be back in time for it at the end of April.

We’ll have to wait and see.

Panthers WR Adam Thielen on Bryce Young’s rookie year: ‘Everything was stacked against him’

Adam Thielen on Bryce Young’s rough 2023 season: “I think everything was stacked against him last year.”

It’s clear that Carolina Panthers quarterback Bryce Young wasn’t dealt the greatest of hands during his rookie season—and another one of his teammates has laid those cards out on the table.

Wideout Adam Thielen was featured as a guest on Wednesday’s episode of Good Morning Football. After talking about some new faces in head coach Dave Canales and fellow receiver Diontae Johnson, the 10-year veteran was asked what he learned about Young in 2023.

“Yeah, well, I’ll say this—I think everything was stacked against him last year,” Thielen replied. “And I’m not gonna get into detail as to why that was, but I’m just really excited for him to have a fresh start, an ability to just have a good coaching staff that’s gonna put a good plan together to help him be successful, and also to put people around him to help him be successful.

“So with that being said, I think what he really showed is his maturity over the year. I think his ability at times to just be very honest in front of the room and say, ‘Hey, this is what I’m not doing very well and this is what I need to get better at and please hold me accountable,’ I thought was really impressive for a young guy.”

The young guy didn’t end up turning in a campaign worthy of the No. 1 overall selection that was used on him. He passed for just 179.8 yards per game and threw 11 touchdowns to 10 interceptions.

Again, Thielen isn’t the first of Young’s pass catchers to allude to the unfavorable circumstances. New Los Angeles Chargers tight end Hayden Hurst, who spent the year in Carolina, told reporters after the season that Young had too many voices in his ear.

He also had to deal with receivers who struggled to gain separation, a bruised and battered offensive line and multiple changes at the play-calling position between head coach Frank Reich and offensive coordinator Thomas Brown.

Now, it feels as though Young, Thielen and the rest of the Panthers offense will be listening to one voice—or at least one common vision.

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Panthers WR Adam Thielen praises Dave Canales for being ‘extremely real’

Panthers WR Adam Thielen not only respects Dave Canales’ background, but also has an appreciation for his honesty.

Carolina Panthers head coach Dave Canales may like to use a lot of words, but none of them are seemingly wasted.

Wide receiver Adam Thielen hopped on Wednesday’s episode of Good Morning Football, where host Kyle Brandt asked him about his team’s new leader. While the 10-year veteran admitted to not knowing much about Canales prior to his hiring, he’s already gained an appreciation for his work.

“Before he was hired, I really didn’t know a lot about him. I knew of him, didn’t know a lot about him,” Thielen said. “So, really, to hear his background, his coaching background, maybe the little bit of chip on his shoulder he has from being overlooked for a lot of years and what he’s able to do with a lot of different quarterbacks that he had in his room over the years—it really impressed me.”

That coaching background includes an impressive streak of success from under center—whether he was the quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator in Seattle or the offensive coordinator in Tampa Bay. Canales was a part of Russell Wilson’s four straight Pro Bowl selections from 2018 to 2021 and helped push Geno Smith and Baker Mayfield to career campaigns in 2022 and 2023.

Thielen also praised the 42-year-old coach for the person that he is.

“It all comes back to the energy he brings, the passion,” he added of Canales. “You can tell he’s a real guy. One of the first conversations we had, I’m not gonna get into details, but he was extremely real with me and very honest and open. And you can really respect that. ‘Cause in this league, you don’t get a lot of that.”

Well, it feels as though Thielen and the Panthers have already gotten a lot of it thus far.

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Saints special teams coordinator Darren Rizzi talks kickoff rule change proposal

New Orleans Saints special teams coordinator Darren Rizzi discussed his kickoff rule change proposal on Good Morning Football:

The NFL is considering another change for its kickoff rules this offseason, and the latest effort is being led by New Orleans Saints special teams coordinator Darren Rizzi. With fewer kicks being returned than ever after pre-snap positioning and other procedures were changed in the name of safety, Rizzi hopes his new proposal will make the play more impactful without sacrificing player safety.

Rizzi made an appearance on NFL Network’s Good Morning Football show to discuss the proposal. He said that he’s collaborated with other special teams coaches around the league to come up with a solution that’s both safer for players and more exciting for viewers.

They drew inspiration from all levels of the game. Rizzi said: “We looked at it, not only the XFL but the USFL, the CFL, the arena leagues, college. The number one goal here was to make the play safer. We wanted to eliminate some of the space and speed. If you can imagine our current kickoff in a condensed version, that’s kind of what we’re doing.”

Rizzi’s proposed format would keep kickoffs from the 35-yard line, but allow players on the kicking team’s coverage unit to line up at the receiving team’s 40-yard line. The receiving team would have blockers positioned between their 35- and 30-yard lines with two returners allowed to start further back. The kicking team can’t move until the ball hits the ground or is touched by the return team. There are more rules involved, which you can read about in greater detail here.

“I should say this as well. The NFLPA, they’re on board, the players love this,” Rizzi continued. “This is a play that’s going to add more plays for the returner, for the core players. It’s more strategy for the kickers. There’s a lot of exciting things. Once the fans understand what we’re doing here, they’re going to be excited too, because you’re going to see a lot of your favorite players with the ball in their hands significantly more.”

This proposal has already been approved by the NFL Competition Committee, and it will go to a vote before league ownership when they convene for offseason meetings next week in Orlando, Fla. Rizzi and his team have put a lot of work into this proposal. Let’s see if it crosses the finish line.

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Jamie Erdahl delivers emotional message to Good Morning Football before maternity leave and Los Angeles move

Jamie Erdahl had a message for NFL Network execs.

The Good Morning Football crew will bid farewell to the New York studios soon as the NFL Network morning show goes on hiatus and eventually pops back up later this year in Los Angeles.

So that was mixed in with another goodbye, albeit a temporary one: host Jamie Erdahl is leaving for maternity leave, and in an emotional message to viewers, she talked about how she’ll be there in L.A. later this year. She noted how hard it was for GMFB staffers affected by the decision to move the show and hoped that execs would keep things the same in the future.

Jason McCourty noted “we don’t know what the future holds,” all of which tells you that this move is a big decision that’s affecting a lot here:

Good Morning Football is moving to Los Angeles: Here are all the details we know so far

Here’s what we know about the NFL Network morning show moving in 2024.

For Good Morning Football fans, they’ve woken up to see the crew on the NFL Network talk all things pigskin since 2016.

That’s not going to change, even though the lineup of stars on the show has over the years. But there will be a switch in locations.

Beginning on March 29 — per Pro Football Talk — the show will take a breather so that it can relocate to Los Angeles from it’s usual location in New York.

When will it return? We don’t know, although it’ll be before the 2024 NFL season. We also don’t know what the hours will be. PFT reports there will be a separate, syndicated show produced as well.

Here’s what the show’s Kyle Brandt had to say on Thursday amid the news:

 

Lavonte David says he’s ‘ready to play’ and it could be somewhere other than Tampa Bay

Lavonte David made an appearance on Good Morning Football Thursday and seemed to imply that won’t be retiring this offseason.

Bucs linebacker Lavonte David told WDAE a few days ago that it was either his plan to retire or come back to the Buccaneers. It’s looking more like the latter.

David was on “Good Morning Football” on Thursday, and when asked about his intentions by co-host Jason McCourty, he indicated that retirement isn’t in his immediate future — he wants to suit up.

“I mean, I’m ready to play,” David said on the show. “I still feel like I’ve got a lot left in me — I still wanna give it a shot. I’m gonna let my body tell me when it’s time to give up, but right now, I feel pretty good. I’m confident, especially after the season I just had.”

That certainly doesn’t sound like someone who wants to retire. David did, in fact, have a good year in 2023, racking up 134 combined tackles, 4.5 sacks and a forced fumble, so the Bucs will want him back, and it’s clear he wants to come back. Despite that, David said he hasn’t had talks with the Bucs just yet, but that Tampa Bay knows he wants to return.

“Communications haven’t really started up yet, but throughout the season, we all expressed how we feel about one another, and how they’d love me to be back and I would love to be back as well,” David said.

Despite what he said to WDAE, he said on “Good Morning Football” that playing for another team was in fact an option he was considering, saying that “you never know” where free agency could take you.

“I’m not naive to the fact that somebody else could probably come swoop me up,” David said. “I’m definitely open to all options, but I would love to phase out my career in Tampa Bay.”

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Good Morning Football sounds off on Todd Bowles’ unused timeout

Todd Bowles’ last timeout in the second half has been a big point of controversy in the NFL world, and the GMFB crew gave their takes on the matter.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ season may be over, but one incident in their Divisional Round matchup against the Detroit Lions might not be going away any time soon.

Bucs head coach [autotag]Todd Bowles[/autotag] was criticized on Sunday after he held a timeout at the end of the game when the Detroit Lions were kneeling down far too early. Had he used that timeout, the clock would have stopped with about 36 seconds left, and the Lions could have been forced to kick a field goal or punt on fourth down. Bowles has defended his decision in the media, most recently telling reporters on Monday that he thought there was no point — while some have speculated that there was a gentleman’s agreement between him and Dan Campbell, Bowles asserted there was no such thing.

“It’s not a gentleman’s agreement. They were in field goal range. We’d have had 12 seconds, calculated, after using that timeout to come back from it,” Bowles told reporters. “Then we’d have been down 11 points, so it’s kind of pointless. You kind of know when the game is over. The game was over.”

The crew at Good Morning Football discussed this event during the “We In Or We Out” segment, where the panelists give their support or derision for the topic. All four were “out” on Bowles’ decision, and it came with some harsh words from the panelists.

“I don’t even want to hear the word ‘probability’,” GMFB panelist Kyle Brandt said. “You’re like, ‘yeah, but then they have to make the two [point conversion]. So maybe they make the two [point conversion] — we’ll never know. It’s the playoffs.”

You can take a look at the five-minute segment above.

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