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Brandon Marshall recently interviewed Broncos wide receiver Jerry Jeudy on the ‘I AM ATHLETE’ podcast.
Denver Broncos wide receiver Jerry Jeudy recently went on the I AM ATHLETE podcast for an interview with Brandon Marshall and Ashley Nicole Moss. In the interview, Jeudy discussed being the best route runner in the NFL, among many other topics. The nearly hour-long interview can be seen in the above video.
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Philadelphia Eagles’ All-Pro signal-caller Jalen Hurts made a list of quarterbacks DeAndre Hopkins would love to have throw him the ball
Based on this interview, DeAndre Hopkins has reportedly been seeking a trade, and the Philadelphia Eagles could be a team to watch.
While appearing on the “I Am Athlete” podcast, Brandon Marshall asked the star wide receiver to name five quarterbacks he’d love to catch passes from.
Eagles All-Pro quarterback Jalen Hurts landed high on the list.
DeAndre Hopkins was asked on @IAMATHLETEpod which QBs he'd love to have throwing him the ball. #Bills QB Josh Allen was quickly his first answer.
Jalen Hurts, Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson and Justin Herbert rounded out his top-5.pic.twitter.com/gtepzf9JD4
— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) May 22, 2023
Hopkins isn’t the only player to mention Hurts this offseason, and it’s in line with the narrative for the All-Pro quarterback after he exploded for 3,701 yards passing, 22 touchdowns, six interceptions, and a 66.7 QBR.
He added 760 yards on the ground and 13 rushing touchdowns as well.
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Six-time Pro Bowler Davante Adams says Calvin Ridley is one of the best receivers in the NFL.
It’s been nearly two years since Calvin Ridley caught a pass in the NFL, but six-time Pro Bowl receiver Davante Adams thinks Ridley is going to remind everyone how good he really is in 2023.
In a conversation with former NFL receiver Brandon Marshall on the “I Am Athlete” podcast, Adams said that the Jacksonville Jaguars’ recently acquired receiver is top five at the position.
Adams listed himself as the best receiver in the league followed by Justin Jefferson, Tyreek Hill, Stefon Diggs, and Ridley.
“I want people to have access to the tape — like how we can watch the tape after the game — so you can really find out who your favorite players are,” Adams said. “If you could really see Calvin Ridley go to work the way that I see him, the way that I watch his tape, the way that a lot of the guys that I know who know the position well that watch the tape … he’s going to be back this year and I think he’s going to have a really, really good year.
“At receiver, as you know, we don’t control everything. We control our tape. Watch the boy’s tape. He’s out there doing stuff to people consistently with the routes, he don’t give nobody a break.”
Adams, 30, spoke about how he puts an emphasis on never taking a play off or allowing an opposing defensive back to have a break. He sees that same quality in the way Ridley plays the position.
The Jaguars acquired Ridley in a midseason trade in 2022 while he was serving a suspension. The former Atlanta Falcons receiver was reinstated in March and is set to make his debut with Jacksonville this fall.
In 49 games over four seasons in Atlanta, Ridley had 248 receptions, 3,342 yards, and 28 touchdowns.
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Marshawn Lynch may be the most beloved Seahawks player of all time. While the fanbase almost universally adores him, his relationship with the media is a bit more contentious. Lynch never liked speaking to reporters after games – so much so that he was willing to get fined to avoid it.
Speaking as a guest on the I Am Athlete podcast, Lynch revealed that he was fined a total of $1.2 million in his career for not talking to the media. Watch.
Marshawn Lynch got fined $1.2 Million in his career for not talking to the media. Seahawks legend forever. pic.twitter.com/XwxIKrPTZl
— Sports ON Tap Seattle (@SONTSeattle) February 21, 2023
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The Baltimore Ravens are signing veteran wide receiver DeSean Jackson to the practice squad with the plan of elevating him to the 53-man roster
Veteran WR DeSean Jackson officially passed his physical with the Ravens and was signed to their practice squad with the expectation to soon be added to their 53-man roster.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) October 19, 2022
According to Adam Schefter, DeSean Jackson is back in the NFL after the 15-year veteran agreed to a deal with the Baltimore Ravens.
The move comes after Jackson told the I Am Athlete Podcast that he wasn’t retiring and looking to join the Eagles or another playoff-bound roster.
As Brandon Marshall and Pacman Jones preview the showdown at Lincoln Financial Field, the former Eagles second-round pick talked about another return to Philadelphia.
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Last season, Jackson played in 16 games — seven with the Los Angeles Rams and nine with the Las Vegas Raiders, recording 20 catches for 444 receiving yards and two touchdowns in 2021.
Jackson only played eight games with the Eagles in the 2019 and 2020 seasons.
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DeSean Jackson told the I Am Athlete Podcast that he intends to play in 2022 and listed the Philadelphia Eagles as the top team on his list.
Former #Eagles WR DeSean Jackson, asked by Pacman Jones if he’s called it a career: “Hell nah, I ain’t retired! I’m a free agent, and ready to go.”@OmarKelly follows up and asks if he has a destination wishlist, DJack says Philadelphia is his No. 1 and Green Bay No. 2.
— Josh Tolentino (@JCTSports) October 14, 2022
The Eagles are 5-0 with a matchup against the Cowboys looming, but one former Philadelphia star is looking to return to where it all started.
DeSean Jackson was a member of the I Am Athlete Podcast on Thursday night.
As Brandon Marshall and Pacman Jones preview the showdown at Lincoln Financial Field, the former Eagles second-round pick talked about another return to Philadelphia.
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Asked about potential destinations, Jackson named Philadelphia and Green Bay.
Last season, Jackson played in 16 games — seven with the Los Angeles Rams and nine with the Las Vegas Raiders, recording 20 catches for 444 receiving yards and two touchdowns in 2021.
Jackson only played eight games with the Eagles in the 2019 and 2020 seasons.
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He may have a case, but it might not be the easiest thing to prove.
When Brian Flores was fired from his job as head coach of the Miami Dolphins on the Monday following the final week of the regular season, many people were shocked by the news.
There were a lot of things said by the team and put out into the media to portray, right or wrong, that Flores was difficult to get along with and wasn’t collaborating the way that ownership and the front office wanted him to.
On Monday, a new episode of the “I AM ATHLETE” podcast was released with Flores joining Omar Kelly, Brandon Marshall, and Chad Johnson to discuss a number of things, including his firing. When Kelly asked Flores if he believed those were the reasons he was fired, Flores responded with allegations.
“I think race played a role in my firing,” Flores said. “What I mean by that is there were things that I was asked to do, there were conversations that were had, I was made out to be a difficult person to work with, and I think my white counterparts wouldn’t have been asked to do the things that I was asked to do. Look, I’m a strong personality. I know that played a role. You need to be that as a coach in the National Football League.”
Flores had two winning seasons before being fired and recently joined the Pittsburgh Steelers coaching staff as a senior defensive assistant and linebackers coach.
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Former Houston Texans receiver Andre Johnson says he once asked the team for a trade in 2012.
Andre Johnson spent 11 of his 13 years in the NFL playing for the Houston Texans after being drafted in 2003. And despite wasting the prime of his career on several losing teams in Houston, Johnson managed to establish himself as one of the league’s most prominent wide receivers in history — finishing 11th on the NFL all-time receiving yards list (14,185).
His career with the Texans came to an end when he signed with the Colts during the 2015 offseason. But Johnson’s departure from the organization could have occurred three years before he arrived in Indianapolis.
During his guest appearance on I am Athlete — a weekly YouTube unscripted and uncensored podcast — Johnson revealed that he once asked the Texans for a trade, but ownership would not budge.
“A lot of people don’t know this, but I asked for a trade,” Johnson said. “I went to the owner [Robert McNair]. I went to the general manager [Rick Smith]. And I went to the head coach. I met with all three of them at the same time and I’m like ‘Man, let me get out of here. Let me go somewhere where I can at least try to win me a Super Bowl.’ They told me straight up, ‘No. you are not going anywhere.'”
Johnson’s trade request came after the Texans’ 12-4 season in 2012. He said he felt the team was too top-heavy, which was the reason why the Texans lost to the New England Patriots during the divisional round of the postseason.
When showing support for Deshaun Watson in January, it was Johnson’s own experience with ownership dismissing his voice in his now-infamous tweet speaking out against the Texans.
“At the end of the day, they have all the power and I was already locked in,” Johnson said. “The next year, we go 2-14. Of course, they are going to make you feel like you don’t know what you are talking about because you are the player. But evidently, it is something I see.”
“That’s the thing; because we are players, they don’t like to listen or may feel less of a person when we come at them with something. It doesn’t hurt to listen.”
Former Houston Texans receiver Andre Johnson explains why he threw down and pummeled Tennessee Titans cornerback Cortland Finnegan in 2010.
Andre Johnson was one of the quietest receivers in the NFL from 2003-14 with the Houston Texans.
No matter the circumstances, the All-Pro wideout went out and did his job. Amid all of the losing seasons and mediocre finishes, with some playoff success near the end of his run in Houston, Johnson focused on the game and not the theatrics.
Which is why his smackdown of Tennessee Titans cornerback Cortland Finnegan on Nov. 28, 2010, at then-Reliant Stadium was out of character, albeit sympathetic given who the subject of punishment was.
Johnson joined former All-Pro receiver Brandon Marshall on his podcast “I Am Athlete” to discuss why he exploded on the 5-10, 190-pound cornerback.
Former All-Pro receiver Chad Johnson, who was also a guest on the podcast, asked Johnson what Finnegan could have said to have made him that angry.
“No, it was just — that was like three years worth of stuff, man,” Johnson said. “It built up to that point, and it just happened.”
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Finnegan earned his own All-Pro selection in 2008 as the Titans stormed through the AFC, earning the No. 1 overall seed that year with a 13-3 record. The former 2006 seventh-round pick from Samford had established himself as one of the more talkative cornerbacks in the league and embodied the personality of coach Jeff Fisher’s defense.
Johnson later said on the podcast that he warned Finnegan during the game that he was wearing a microphone for NFL Films and that, “you’re going to get yourself into something you don’t want to get into.”
The Texans humiliated the Titans 20-0. Johnson and Finnegan were both disqualified from the game with Johnson finishing with nine catches for 56 yards and a touchdown on 11 targets.
Not only did Texans fans get to see one of the pests of the AFC South get his comeuppance, but they got to see it during a victory at home.
Brandon Marshall was the definitely of loud and wrong here.
It’s one thing to be loud. And it’s also one thing to be wrong. You can be one of those things at a time.
But what you absolutely never want to be is loud AND wrong. That’s just never a great combination of things. It almost always leads to an embarrassing moment.
That’s what Brandon Marshall was on his I Am Athlete show. He was arguing with Channing Crowder and Chad Johnson about the differences between NFL and NBA player contracts.
Marshall argued that only four players on an NBA team at any given time have guaranteed contracts. And, well, that’s not true.
But you couldn’t tell that to Marshall, though.
Brandon Marshall couldn’t be more wrong 😂 #IAMATHLETE pic.twitter.com/h3NqYPzFtX
— Ry (@JustRyCole) April 5, 2021
“Not everybody that’s on an NBA roster has a guaranteed contract…There’s four guys on an NBA team that got guaranteed contracts and everybody else can be cut today and don’t got nothing.”
WHEW, BUDDY. That is a lot of passion right there. This is exactly what being loud and wrong looks like.
A vast majority of contracts in the NBA are guaranteed. Sure, there are some exceptions where contracts are just partially guaranteed. There are also 10-day contracts for fringe players and “two-way” contracts where players can play their way into guaranteed money. But, by and large, the contracts are guaranteed.
So, yes, as passionate as Marshall was about this, he was definitely wrong. Hilariously wrong.
Gotta love that energy, though.
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