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The GBAG Nation dove into all of the latest news from around the NFL. They began the discussion talking about the Cowboys opening the season against the Giants and Jerry Jones’s early slip about the matchup. They also covered Ryan Flournoy’s wild growth journey to the league, along with big roster moves across the league, and more.
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00:00If you missed it for the eighth time in the last 15 years, the Cowboys are opening on Sunday night
00:05football against the New York football Giants. Cowboys 11-1 record against New York in season
00:10openers. Yeah, baby, this is going to be awesome. Now, I did remember this in the Cowboys post-draft
00:17presser, and it has now started to circulate today, but did Jerry accidentally slip up and
00:23tell us? So we all should have known, there should have been no surprise, this is who the Cowboys
00:27were opening up against. Here was Jerry just a couple weeks ago. Tomorrow, we've got these
00:33guys, we think there's enough players right there that they can be on the 53 and be helping
00:38us beat Giants. And Will, you guys have gone to the defense. Oh, wow. Jerry snuck one in
00:45there. Yes, he did. Now, I thought of it like, he does just kind of use the Giants, like, yeah,
00:50we're going to kick the Giants ass, you know, like the Giants are just kind of his fallback
00:54team. It's kind of brilliant because it's like, you know, they're going to play the
00:57Giants. You could just say that, but he knew. He knew. Did he give him a wink? Did
01:02you see the video? Did he give him a wink when he said Giants? I was trying to, like,
01:05see Chotty's body language right next to him. Like, oh, no, was he just, did he make
01:09a face or anything? And I do think that he was trying to contain himself for not trying
01:15to give anything away, like, crap. Jerry, really? Did you just tell everyone that we're
01:19playing the Giants week one? But he does, like, do you think, Brian, do they all know the
01:23schedule already? Like, they've all got it. These teams do have it. And we're just waiting
01:27for Thursday for the public to know. We would get it on the dot-com side the day of the
01:35release, really. Well, actually, the day before. And because then we were building out all
01:42the elements that, you know, like, we always had this, we had the schedule reveal, you
01:46know, we had to. Yeah, you got to make it. You got to make it. Video. Yeah. So there
01:50was a time where we were building out all these elements that they knew what it was
01:56and, you know, but it not, not, I don't think it was that early. Okay. But we admit
02:01nowadays, it's like the schedule release is a big thing around the league. Everybody's
02:06trying to one-up each other, these social media teams. They're all trying to, the social
02:09media teams are absolutely trying to one-up. How many little Russini-Vrabel
02:15Easter eggs are there going to be in some of these? A lot. There's going to be a ton.
02:19It hasn't been the Chargers that have been the best in the business over the last few
02:22years? The Chargers. Their social team's pretty dialed. The Chargers are the one that everybody's
02:26been kind of chasing here recently. Yeah. They're in a nice shop. Creativity. You've got
02:30to go back to Cowboys and Bucks open this season. I think it was in 2003. It was a noon
02:37kickoff. That's the last time the Cowboys have had a noon kickoff week one. That is
02:41crazy. I was still working for the team then. It was a home one at Texas Stadium. I actually
02:44went with my dad. We showed up. We rode the bus to get there. How hot was it that
02:48day for you? It was extremely hot and we were late. The bus was arriving late. I missed
02:52the first quarter and I was freaking fuming. The little me. But it was fine. Cowboys did
02:57win that day. So it was cool. You got to see Quincy spin it? We didn't have too many wins
03:01in 2000. No, there were a lot of wins. There were not a lot of wins. We didn't win many
03:04games. That was, God, what a nightmare. No, there weren't. But the Bucks were, you know,
03:09hey. They played Season 0 Pro quite a bit, actually, when you think about it, like the Giants
03:13slot. But they played Tampa Bay. They played the home and home against Tampa Bay and Brady
03:18in Tampa. Great game. Then when Dak broke his finger at home. And then I think they opened
03:23up the season with Romo one year in Tampa. And they might have gotten a win there. So
03:28yeah, the Bucks are kind of a team that's obscure that the Cowboys open the season up
03:32with a lot. But there you go. Cowboys, Bucks, and we know Cowboys and Ravens. The other thing
03:37that we got on Wednesday, we're going to get all the international games. That'll be as they're
03:41kind of slowly releasing the schedule stuff. But we did find out that Peacock landed a
03:46Week 17 Saturday doubleheader. So you're going to get a 325 game and a 7 o'clock game on Peacock,
03:53which President Trump is pissed about.
03:56Yeah, I mean, they keep spreading things out. Got to have nine different services to watch
04:03football.
04:03Stop. I do agree. You shouldn't have to pay to watch the NFL.
04:07It's the best way to get people onto your platform, though, is hijack their NFL team
04:11and say, the only way you can watch us this weekend is if you have this, that, or the other
04:14thing.
04:15No, you're right. Absolutely.
04:16You're going to feel horrible for those people.
04:17Okay, the story of Ryan Flannoy. Now, if you listen to the Cowboys hour earlier this
04:22season, Flannoy was on with Brad and he told some of this. But this is incredible. And
04:27Flannoy is certainly one of these players that you're hoping takes another step this year.
04:30I mentioned this on the stack with Brian last week. But I think Flannoy is going to be on
04:36a mission to prove, hey, you got George Pickens on a franchise tag. I can be the guy that steps
04:41up as wide receiver two next to CD. You don't need to worry about this. And he made the most
04:46of all of his opportunities last year. But here's the story of Ryan Flannoy. Did you know
04:51anybody like this in high school that grew this amount in just an offseason?
04:56Playing football, smallest on the field. My freshman year of high school, I was 5'3",
05:0299 pounds. Playing football, smallest on the field. We having this meeting, a freshman
05:08meeting. He asked the whole room, does anybody want to play college football? Of course, everybody
05:13raised their hand. He pointed me out and was like, but your side is unlikely. I'm not being
05:18harsh on you. I'm just being realistic. My heart went to my stomach. So that, like, moment
05:25floor, I'm like, not that I can tell you what I can do because I'm the only person on that
05:30team. 5'3", 99 pounds. We had a church revival there. I'm glad you said that. Yeah. Freshman
05:39year of high school. I wasn't sure what he said. 5'3", 99 pounds. Okay, so one of my best
05:45friends my senior year, and I know how much he weighed because we were always going to work
05:50out together, right? And he was like 140, 145 that entire year. Like, by the time he was
05:5719 years old, so this is like a year and a half, two years later, he was 210. And it
06:02just, it went like up and out. He went from like 5'11", 140 to about 6'2", 215, 220.
06:09I mean, and he's probably 250 pounds right now. Yeah, what, I mean, what a jump. Like,
06:13you're 5'3", 99. It's like, dude, yeah, you want to play in the NFL, good luck. And then
06:16all of a sudden you shoot up to 6'2". Amazing. Quite the story there for Ryan Floyd. And that
06:22dude, he's driven to be great. And I'm a believer in his game, man. Just late bloomer.
06:27Yeah. Absolutely. Probably a big reason why he was under-recruited. Didn't go to a big
06:30school. It's an incredible story. I don't know if he said that in the clip. I couldn't
06:34tell, but he said going into his senior year, like the coaches were going around the room
06:38being like, oh, you can make it D1. You, you, you. And well, not you, but like everybody
06:43else. And he said, it just hit him so hard. Yep. Wow. Yep. That's what he, that, it's
06:48just, ugh, crushed him. But now look at him on the Dallas Cowboys. Only player from a school
06:53that's made it to the National Football League. Did you see the video of this? Like, did
06:57you see where it was that there was a, uh, just so much, it was just the most chaotic post
07:04edit? Yeah. They, they put that sound on there and they did a bad job mixing it. Oh my God.
07:08Awful mix. Yeah. Doing way too much. Yeah. Cause the actual, uh, interview was a good
07:14listen. The post edit here was, was terrible. Yeah. Not good. Really, really bad stuff.
07:20But we love Flanoi and you've been on Flanoi. At least Flanoi's my guy. I love him. You loved
07:24him over somebody else, right? It was, uh, who was it? Was it Turpin or was it? Jigba?
07:28No, no. He loved JSN. JSN is wide receiver one. There was, there was, there was like some
07:33wide receiver stuff. Maybe it was Turpin. He just kept being like Flanoi, Flanoi, Flanoi.
07:38Yeah. Flanoi's going to be your wide receiver three. Yeah. You nailed that dude. 100%. What
07:44are you giggling about? I asked you him or lamb. You know the answer to that CD. For
07:49one more year. I'm trying to like downplay my love for Flanoi cause I'm not going to take
07:52him over CD or Bacons? No, no. Jackson, Smith and Jigba. Oh, him or, ooh. That's why I said
07:58it. It's tough. Do you believe if he was a wide receiver two for the entire season, he'd
08:04be what? 900 yards? 1100 yards? What do you think Flanoi is? I think 900 is fair. I think
08:10900 is absolutely fair. Like it to me, it's within reason. Yeah. I mean, like, look, I
08:14don't know if you're going to have 2000 yard receivers like you had last year, but I think
08:18that he's very capable of being a wide receiver. I mean, this year will be a lot. I think a
08:21wide receiver three is perfect right now. Uh, but I believe in him to be able to take
08:24that next step. CD or JSN is a great question. I think I'm still going to go with CD today.
08:30Okay. That could change after this year because JSN's really only had one amazing season where
08:35he's looked like a top five wide receiver. Now some of that's not his fault, right? DK
08:38was there and he was getting a little bit limited. They finally just let him unleash
08:42this season, but I'll still go CD for the time being. And maybe that's because I'm a little
08:46bit biased. Maybe dude, just maybe not, not a guarantee. Not guaranteed. Chris Boswell,
08:52man, congratulations for your $28 million extension, but he does not beat out Brandon
08:57Aubrey. Okay. He ties Brandon Aubrey for the highest paid kicker in the national football
09:02league. But I think that guy deserves it. Anybody that's kicking in Pittsburgh, that
09:05is a tough place to kick. Very difficult. And he's done it. He's been pretty nails. He
09:10has. Isn't he a local guy? He is a local guy. Fossil Ridge or something. I want to say
09:15Blake has an interesting story about Chris Boswell. Yeah. The Boz hopped in the, uh, the
09:20ex-girlfriend's DMs or something like that, which I mean, how old is Chris Boswell? I feel
09:24like he's up there. Yeah. I feel like he's definitely in his mid thirties. He's older
09:28than us. Yeah. But he, I think he went to, and who was Blake dating? Like this, he had
09:33to have been punching way down. Like we're talking 12 years younger. Yeah. Fossil Ridge
09:37high school. And then he went to Rice. Good for him. Shout out to the Boz. Uh, David
09:42Njoku has agreed to a one year deal with the Chargers. He's going to get $8 million. This
09:46is an underrated late off season signing. This could be a great fit with the Chargers.
09:52I was jarred with like last week or the week before when I was looking at remaining free
09:57agents. I'm like, wait, David Njoku is still on the street. I don't understand how that
10:02happened. He just got a one year deal. I wonder what the league knows that we don't. Cause
10:08on the surface, it's like David Njoku, like, yeah, he's super solid tight end, man. I know
10:12he was out in Cleveland because Harold Fannin, you know, he stepped up as a rookie. He's like,
10:16he's super solid. I get it. Move on. But I thought Njoku would have been a week one of
10:22NFL free agency kind of pickup. That's a nice move for the Chargers right there. Yeah. And
10:26I mean, as a, another option for Herbert, obviously you got McConkie, Quinton Johnston.
10:31They said they're not going to trade him. So as of now, Gadsden at tight end, right? Yes. And
10:35he was the rookie last year that popped. Yeah. Gadsden ended up being an absolute star. Uh, so
10:40that's a nice duo right there. They want to run some more 12 tight end personnel. They can do
10:44that. I like what they're doing. Maybe a Marion Hampton can finally only their offense. If
10:49there's tackles can stay healthy. Trey Harris was another good addition for them last year
10:52that they took at Ole Miss, the rookie. If those tackles can stay healthy, maybe finally
10:57Justin Herbert can have playoff success. Mike McDaniels talking about, Hey, I'm trying to
11:01make on the best quarterback in football. Good luck for Mikey. We'll see if he can adapt
11:05because he didn't do that in Miami, but maybe he's a guy that's just a really good OC, not
11:09a good head coach. I mean, didn't he have the best offense in the NFL with Tua? Yeah. A couple
11:14of his first year there, they were really good. Yeah. So I, I, I don't know. I could
11:18see this being the development that Herbert needs to actually, you know, be great. Yeah.
11:24Not just a traitsy dude. Who's good. I'm with you, dude, because Tua has so many limitations.
11:29And so McDaniel, there was only so much he could do with them and he got the most out
11:32of Tua for that stretch. But now you look at Herbert and like compared to Tua, you're
11:37talking about a guy who there is really no limitations in terms of what you can do as an
11:41offensive coordinator. I'm sure McDaniel is just smiling every single day, walking in
11:46there. Like I'm not constrained by a guy with kind of a noodle arm and no athleticism.
11:50The thing about him though, that I think maybe doesn't get all the recognition is, is how
11:55run dominant he is. He's fantastic. How well that's going to marry with what Harbaugh
12:00wants and how much pressure that's going to take off Herbert. I mean, for most NFL defenses,
12:05you have a 60% chance of being right. If you play pass, you know, if you can bring it
12:10back
12:10to 50-50, the mind games that it plays. Oh, 100%. And you're right. He's been able to
12:15do that too with not great offensive lines. So with the Chargers who have dealt with a
12:19ton of offensive line injuries, McDaniel is going to be a good remedy to solve some of
12:22that. Speaking of running the football, congratulations to Adrian Peterson. Last week, you told us about
12:27his son who's already getting offers as a freshman in high school. Now Adrian Peterson has been
12:33named to the 2026 Ring of Honor for the Minnesota Vikings. So congratulations. He wasn't in it
12:38initially. No, I know. Right. I figured like as soon as he retired, that would have been probably
12:42an easy move, but no, maybe some of the legal stuff. Maybe they like wanted to take a step
12:47back, but that 2012 MVP season, 10 of his 15 years were in Minnesota. So now he will be
12:54part of their Ring of Honor and we'll stay with the running backs. This is a sad story. Missouri
13:00running back Ahmad Hardy, who is he okay? He's well, he's, he's in stable condition. So yes,
13:04he is okay. He is okay, but he was shot at a concert and he was awesome last year. He's
13:10projected to be a first round pick possibly. Oh wow. He could be the best running back in
13:13all of college football. Hopefully this doesn't, you know, this is an injury to him and we're
13:17going to get more information. They're still doing an investigation on the shooting, but
13:235'10", 210 pounds. He transferred to Mizzou ahead of last season, finished second in all
13:29of college football and rushing, led the SEC in yards per carry. So he's going to recover
13:34from that and then we'll see how that impacts his season. But that is one of the big names
13:38in the upcoming NFL draft. Ahmad Hardy from Mizzou. We don't know where he was shot. It
13:44was at a concert. Oh yeah. Where on the body? Where on the body? That might have come out.
13:48Lower body? I think it's a, I want to say it's a lower body, but again, we're getting more
13:52information out on this. I don't know how much they've released yet. Yeah. I haven't seen
13:55anything about exactly what the nature of the, of the actual wound is. Just that there
14:00was a post from Mizzou and that we know that he was one of the victims. Yeah. You
14:05had, I mean, you had the Washington running back, Brian Robinson, a couple of years ago
14:08that was shot through the knee. Miraculously didn't like slow him down. Then you had the
14:1449ers wide receiver last year, right?
14:16Yeah, here's all.
14:17But both those guys made it back during the season. You know, like.
14:21It's true.
14:22You know, gunshot wounds sounds terrifying. And I'm sure last night was, was horrible for
14:28him, but it doesn't have to be career altering apparently, which is surprising.
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