GMFB | Kyle Brandt bold prediction Seahawks vs. Rams: Sam Darnold or Matthew Stafford?

GMFB | Kyle Brandt bold prediction Seahawks vs. Rams: Sam Darnold or Matthew Stafford?

Football presented by Old Trapper Beef Jerky. We are halfway through the weeks, guys. It is Wednesday, November 12th. Sher Burrus here with Manteo in Los Angeles. Coast to coast. That is Wait, that side. That way. Yep. Mike Golo and Kyle Brandt in New York. Second half of the season, guys. Really starting up now. Kyle, this is kind of make or break for some teams. Yeah, it really is. And it’s also one of the best games of the year so far in the schedule in terms of of record in the NFC West. We get Seahawks, we get Rams. We’re going to talk all about it. plus all the other matchups coming up because on Wednesday we turn the page like Bob Seager, right Mike? And we get on to the next week. You guys don’t know what I’m talking about, but Mike, Silver Bullet Band, Detroit Lions, we see you too. Let’s start the show. Good morning football. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Welcome to Good Morning Football presented by Old Trapper. Hey. Yeah. Come on in. The water’s warm. Wednesday here on Good Morning Football. Sherry Manti, Mike G, and Kyle. You mentioned it. We’re turning the page. Week 11. We’re going to start looking ahead because there is an NFC West Battle Royale that is going to be happening just next door to us here in Los Angeles. Matt Stafford and the Rams will play host to the Seahawks. Uh proud of this group. Um they’re earning a lot of the confidence with the way that they’re working throughout the course of the week. And this is what we want to be able to do as the season goes is just continue to build. Um, and you know, like I mentioned, you know, you look up and you see, uh, you can’t help but notice, I’m a fan of this game, how big time Seattle’s been, and what a great challenge it’s going to be, and, uh, great atmosphere at home next week against a great football team. So, there might be a little bit more traffic in the area. Shocker. Uh, looking at the NFC West standings right now, Seahawks won, Rams 2. We talked about it yesterday, the trust in these two quarterbacks, Matthew Stafford and Sam Darnold. Maybe you could say he’s the work in progress here. But I want to know what do you think, Kyle, a win would mean for either Sam or what a win would mean for Darnold and the Seahawks if they could get one across the street. Oh, it would mean a lot. It’s it’s first of all, I think these are two maybe the best two teams in the NFL if the Seahawks win this game in the power ranking sense. Are they sitting there literally the best team out of 32? But also, listen, they they may have to go back to that stadium in the playoffs. They may see this team a second and a third time. But my eyes go with all the quarterbacks and all the Sam Darnold storylines. My eyes go to the coaching and my eyes go to that guy who this would be I think a coming out party for him because Mike McDonald would be going against Shawn McVey who I’ve said a thousand times I think is the number one best coach in the NFL. Mike McDonald is one of the most unknown coaches in the NFL. I think most people are just starting to say his name. I think most people can’t even spell his name. It’s not McDonald’s like the quarter pounder with cheese. Macdonald, MAC. This is the guy who went to Georgia as a college student. Didn’t play football, just there as a student, then was on the Georgia coaching staff and was at Michigan. He was at Baltimore. He’s been around forever. Do you know he’s 17 and N as a head coach in the NFL over the first season and a half. That’s brilliant. That’s excellent. Excellent coaching. 7-2 this year. And I just think if you were to walk around every town USA and say to anybody walking on the street, start naming NFL coaches. How many here even know who Mike McDonald is? How many still think that Pete Carol is the coach of the Seahawks? It’s really that thing where if McDonald goes eight and two and beats McVey and does it with Sam Darnold and with these emerging players and these emerging stars like JSN, it’s like United States of America. Meet Mike McDonald. He’s going to be coaching in at least one playoff game. It’s probably going to be at home. And if this team keeps cruising, it’s going to be in late January and beyond. I’m excited for this guy because he’s so low profile and he shouldn’t be. I feel like the Seahawks embody everything he’s about. You hear about him kind of. They’re supposed to be good, but I don’t really know about him. Jeffrey Dean Morgan tweets about him a lot. He’s the guy who seems to be doing it. It would be huge for them. Huge. There’s also, Mike, a little bit of a back to the shallow end factor. If they go to SoFi and get their clocks clean by Stafford and McVey. So, there’s a lot of stakes in this game even though it’s only week 11 or whatever it is. But, I’m watching the Socks closely. There’s a friend of mine who’s a big sports fan. I talked to him literally every single day. I’ve known him since I would say I was small, but he was always enormous blocking shots in the lane and all that stuff. Um, he said to me yesterday, I got to be honest, I don’t even know who the coach of the Seahawks is. Literally, what you just And he knows I can’t name it. He he he lives in Philly. He knows all the athletes for all the like he’s he’s so for him and what you just mentioned, this is how you spell it. Okay. Not only is it MAC, not MC, it’s a lowerase D. See, I would have known that. That’s how you spell it right there. Mike Macdonald. Um, that’s right. It’s time for him to put his name out there on everyday household name with a lowercase D. Wow. Sam Darnold. Yes. Sam Darnold facing the Rams who he faced in the postseason last year for the Minnesota. So much so this is a chance for Sam Darnold to face the Rams and a team that’s going to pressure him a lot more than he’s been pressured already. Like that’s been a big part of what the C they’ve done a great job for years. I I you know I do a weekly radio hit in Seattle and they would say I need to build up this offensive line. This offensive line is playing a lot better. They’ve got a lot of really good pieces up front, but this is a Rams team that up front gets after it and now it’s going to be that pressure in Sam Darnold’s face and forcing him to make some Look at that right there right off the snap. Pressure in his face. He’s going to have to make some quicker decisions. So this is going to be in a lot of ways test for the new Sam Darnold, the Seahawks Sam Darnold. Yeah, Mike, you talk about Sam Darnold and the last time he played the Rams was in a Minnesota Vikings uniform. Well, I know we’re talking about Sam Darnold and what it would mean for the Seahawks, but I I can’t help but think about what it would mean for somebody like Cooper Cup to walk into a stadium because the last time he played in that stadium across the street played the Bears, the Bears played the Saints um at in New Orleans. And so I got to play another former team at the home field. And it was the last game that I ever suited up for. And it’s such a special moment for me just to be there. So, and I didn’t really accomplish half of the stuff that Cooper Cup accomplished when he was with the Rams. So, the one that I’m looking for uh the most has to be Cooper Cup and his return to Sofi Stadium, a team that he helped build, a team that he helped win a Super Bowl with, and what that would mean for him to come out with a win. That’s going to be really special. And both these teams have the second longest win streak right now in the league, each writing four. So, something might have to give. that game at 4:05 Eastern out here in LA. But your day is going to start on Sunday with a very early game, the International Series still going on. Madrid, the first ever NFL game being played in Madrid. The flight time, I just checked, 14ish hours from LAX to Madrid. And that is where we find our Jamie Erdall. I’m sure she has talked nonstop to the folks. Hey Ario, our girls in the streets of Madrid. How are you, Jamie? How was the trip? The trip was great. Thank you very much. Wonderful to see you guys this morning. I’ve been watching or this afternoon, which honestly one of the most glorious parts of being assigned these is that good morning football is on squarely in the middle of the afternoon, which is really the appropriate time for a show like this. Guys, I found Vespas, which makes me feel like I’m not just in Central Park. I’m not just on the Upper West Side. I am parked amongst the Vespas, which means we have truly landed in Spain. That feels very Spanish. The other thing, too, parenting tactics alive and well amongst the Spanish children. I just saw a child walk by me. He looked to be in about the sixth grade. Honestly, I looked to be about Calvin’s age and he ignored me. I He was wearing a dolphin sweatshirt and I was like, “Go Dolphins. Go Dolphins.” He didn’t respond. Well done to his parents. He also had a Golden State Warriors backpack on, so maybe he’s like a Steph Curry type kid. Um, but we are here in Madrid. Our producer from GMF, Gina, and I arrived here this morning. We took a little siesta. We’re already a part of the culture. We’re about 15 minutes here from Bernabo Bernabo Stadium. Uh I I asked for that clarification, manti, from my driver who I had this morning who is the person that I had the longest conversation with on my travels. Let me just tell you this story real quick. So talked to my driver for a while. He didn’t know I was part of the NFL. He just thought I was here visiting. So he gets in the car and he goes, “Gosh, there’s so much traffic here. You know why? Why, Carlos? Because the NFL is in town.” I was like, “You don’t say.” And this guy went on and on about the NFL being in Madrid and how there’s so many more people here. And while the NFL is brand spanking new to this city, competition and sport is not because he went ham on how Madrid and Barcelona hate each other. So I was like, “Oh yeah, now we’re talking good oldfashioned rivalry.” So, I do feel like even though it’s perfectly new for the NFL, for it to be in Madrid, Manti, it is uh not new to just have like fierce competition on a Sunday afternoon. Jame, you’re such a legend and we know that you just got there literally like four hours ago, yet you’re still here live on television. I got to ask you your favorite question because I know you have beef about this. When are the Commanders and the Dolphins getting to Madrid? Don’t care. I don’t even know if they’re here yet. No, I’m just kidding. I do care. Uh I believe both teams are here. In fact, I do know that because I have to get off this segment momentarily. I’m going to be on the sideline on Sunday on NFL Network. Both sidelines, I get to be doing my usual laps as a traditional reporter would. And I have Zack Cer calling me momentarily from the Dolphins defense to talk about what Miami’s been through the last couple of weeks. So, got to go. The teams are in town. I got to talk about their day off, uh what they’ve been eating, what they’ve been getting into because it is, as you can see here, gorgeous. a gorgeous play style to play a game of football on Sunday. It looks awesome. Treeeline streets, traffic behind you, pedestrians. You look great, you sound great, Jamie like you really belong there. And yet all roads for me lead to your flight over there. Uh who did you sit next to? How much did you talk to them? When did you show them pictures of your kids? And when did you ask them what their zodiac sign is? Didn’t show them picture of my kids. However, I did offer to hold someone’s baby. There was a baby in in uh the class of the airplane that I was in. I never like to say where I get to sit because it’s annoying. Uh and these sweet parents who were flying over here from we connect through Atlanta from Atlanta were bringing their little five-month old baby and I was just like, “Oh, do you want me to hold her? Do you want me to pat her on the butt? What do you need?” I did offer that. They said, “Please leave us alone, creepy lady.” I’m like, “But I have children of my own.” They’re like, “Where are they? Why are you by yourself?” So, they didn’t let me hold their child. However, I did uh wave at her, play a little, you know, peekaboo. We’ll see how that how those names go, not only on the flight, but on Sunday. But thanks for asking, Kyle. But it was my driver, Carlos, who was really introducing me to the chatting. Uhhuh. That’s my guy. Kyle’s just really jealous. He wanted to have a really long conversation. I’ve seen you with kids, Jame. That parent should have taken you up on it. We appreciate you. Have a great call. We will see you tomorrow. Have a siesta, sangria. You let us know what you get into there in Madrid. All the things. Yeah. Way to

GMFB | Kyle Brandt bold prediction Seahawks vs. Rams: Sam Darnold or Matthew Stafford?