rose to the end zone. To Justin Jefferson popularizing
the gritty in the Pacific Northwest. In his touchdown
. Justin wide open Well, I know him in
that open for a minute and you don't double team
Justin Jefferson, you've got no chance. God,
truer words have never been spoken. We got emojis
in the first segment of the show. Now we're
going list season SZN, if you will. There's
been a lot of lists going around. NFL's top
100. We're doing a list here every other day
. It feels like on GMFB. Now we got
Randy Moss saying that Justin Jefferson could be the greatest
of all time at the wide receiver position. Well
, we've got Justin Reid here at the table,
safety in the NFL for 8 seasons coming in,
coming into 8 seasons with the Saints now, Justin
. So we gotta get your peace of mind on
some of these topics. Share it with us.
Absolutely. OK, here we go. We're talking
Justin Jefferson. What makes him so difficult to cover
and do you agree with Randy Moss's take that he
could usurp some of these guys and become one of
the best or the best wide receiver in the NFL
? Absolutely. He has electrified the NFL ever since
he stepped foot on the field. I mean,
the gritty, um, his route running capability more
than anything, he's a tough kid that runs his
routes really, really crisp. He gets open,
he defeats double teams, he finds a way to
get the route. And he makes things happen.
Now the great wide receivers always find a way to
get to the rock and make things happen. How
does it make you feel when a guy like Randy
Moss comes out and makes this type of statement for
a guy currently playing in the NFL? Yeah,
coming from the same franchise too, it's big time
and like he didn't need any, he didn't need
anyone to, you know, tell him how great
he is, but still to have one of the
greatest all time, a guy that has a literal
emoji made after him getting moss to come out and
say that I mean that's huge. That's it.
That's really cool. I mean, Justin, if
I, if I have it right, you've played
with guys like DeAndre Hopkins, Tyreek, like there's
amazing wide receivers out there right now. It's just
a really, really cool time for whiteouts. Who
, who's just someone who's really blown your hair back
, never mind the hat, like who's really impressed
you, like who's like, like this guy can
play when you're out there on the field with him
. Yeah, you know what, um, let
me, when I did play with DeAndre Hopkins back
in 2018 2019, there was nobody better than the
football league. I mean this guy was catching everything
that came his way, and it wasn't that he
was fast or anything like that. He was extremely
physical, and if you ever shook his hand,
his hands are like spider legs like they'll just wrap
all the way around your palm with how big,
you know, I mean, he just catches everything
, but him, Justin Jefferson. Um, Jamar
Chase, even, I mean it really is a
lot of LSU guys. LSU guys tend to do
pretty well in the league, um, but it's
just, it's there's so much talent going around the
league these days. I mean, the, the
level of play is just picking up so much.
Well, a lot of really good receivers tend to
play with Jalen Hurts, and for some reason that
draws, I don't know, some sort of skepticism
towards his ability. You've played against Jalen in the
Super Bowl twice. Now we've been hearing these discussions
and his coach talked about it, that he was
a passenger, that he's a game manager on and
on, and any other quarterback would have won the
Super Bowl or at least a half dozen of them
. What do you think of when you hear that
? No, Jalen Hurts is a bona fide leader
. He's a bona fide. I mean, his
story from where he started at Alabama and then going
over to OU and still winning the Heisman there and
then getting drafted and just becoming the man of this
franchise and the trajectory that he's taken him, he
, he, he has every tool. He's a
certified leader. He can make all the throws.
He's a dual threat. He can tuck and run
it. He's strong. That push push works because
he's the one pushing the pile, um, he
, he, he's a. guy and if you
think that anyone could step into this system and do
what he does, you are absolutely wrong. I
mean, I, I'll take this to another example
. I'll talk about the Brock Purdy conversation and then
he had Jimmy Garoppolo there you had Trey Lance there
, and that those guys are playing in the same
system as um Brock Purdy, but yet when Brock
steps on the field, he makes things happen.
He executes. He does not get enough credit for
that, you know what I mean? So like
you can't just think that you can plug. Like
the receiver talent, you need that and that's a
tool in assistance, but the quarterback position in the
NFL, you need a guy there to do it
, you know, you can't get away from it
. I look at the quarterbacks as like a pie
chart. Like they have to have all this talent
, but there's other parts of the pie too that
when you walk into the room or into an organization
, you have to be convincing to the 52 other
guys in the field that you are the guy.
And to your point, that's all I keep coming
back to about Jalen Hurts is that when he got
benched for two. In Alabama, he sat there
and waited but was still available in an SEC title
game. He goes to Oklahoma, so you have
to imagine that if you were to line up next
to Jalen Hurts, you feel this vibe from him
that like, man, his leadership portion of his
pie is off the charts. Yeah, huge,
huge. I mean there's a game last year where
a guy didn't want to go on the field because
, you know, he, he lost his starting
job. So like him and his perseverance, it's
just incredible. Yeah, absolutely, Willie. Justin
, Justin, I may put you in a blender
here, but I'm just gonna go ahead and do
it. Who's the tougher quarterback to prepare for?
Bill's Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson from the Ravens?
I would say I would say Josh Allen and I
let me give you my reasons why I would say
Josh Allen just because Josh Allen is, he will
, they both make something out of nothing, you
know what I mean? They're both create and be
dynamic and just, you know, run, run
all over the field, but Josh is just,
he's such a problem like his size, he's like
250, 6'6, 250, and it's we played
in that AFC championship game, he almost completed that
pass at the end of the game and we'd send
a. All out pressure to him and you know
it just ended up falling shape but this guy is
just incredible what he does. He, he can
either be their superhero or be their biggest villain,
but when he's on, he is extremely on.
We'll, we'll stay on a comparison train now.
I know defensively we don't like you doing this a
lot because if you're making a lot of tackles we're
not a good rush defense, but there are those
situations I think it's possibly the the hardest situation to
be in as a defensive player. Your safety when
the running back breaks, it is an open field
tackle. Now Justin, you have two types of
running backs coming at you. Which one would you
rather tackle? Would you rather tackle Henry, Derrick
Henry, or Saquan Barkley in that situation? Solo
, tackle solo. Hey, that's, that's a
, that's a, that's a really hard way to
live either way you go, uh, I mean
. I think tackling Saquan might hurt a little bit
less just because of size, um, so I'm
gonna go that route, but you know I think
that you're a little bit worried about Saquan jumping over
you backwards and maybe Derek, can we, so
, so you're, so you're more concerned about getting
juked out than run over. See, that's how
, that's how I see it as a as a
linebacker. If I don't, I don't wanna see
shifty guys. I don't like shifty. Like I
can do with the big dudes, but the shifty
ones, I, I don't like getting Juke puts
you on SportsCenter, you know what I mean.
But if this is, if this is an open
, this is an open field tackle, like I
mean like, yeah, there's young kids out there
. Listen, if you're the last line of defense
, you gotta just, you know, you gotta
, you gotta take it on the chin, take
it on the chain and get them down, you
know, it's fine. You're good in the field
room and everyone tell you that it was a good
play, you know, yeah. Well, Jamie
, you know, you mentioned the last line of
defense. In my opinion, in any corporate structure
, the first line of defense is always the interns
. Can we go to the intern camp? Let's
check in with the new NFL. There they are
, everybody wins. You guys look great. Alright
, if you guys can hear me, I wanna
, I want a show of hands. Me versus
Manti Te'o in a wrestling match. How many people
think I would win? Raise your hands. Come
on, get them off. I want. And
now how many people think Manti would beat me in
a wrestling match? So. Yeah, and you're
smart, smart as well. Great job. Great
job. hire them. Oh my gosh. So
in the open field like kind of like the senior
executive on the show, shouldn't they be kissing my
butt? What's going on here? I mean,
at least one hand could have went up. One
of the interns, I can't hear the question.
I don't know how to answer. One of them
was doing go to great job in the red shirt
. You're going places. Justin, you got one
open field solo tackle in your career that you're most
proud of, toughest guy to take down. Gosh
, man, let me think about that. Yeah
, on the spot, on the spot, you
know what, you know what, probably, probably
one of the most fun ones for me, uh
, was playing against CMC because we were teammates at
Stanford, so I've seen the way this guy grinds
and the way he works, so you know,
I always like hitting my friends, you know what
I mean, hitting my friends, hitting my friends
. Just the best. It's not personal. I
, I hit you because I love you. Yes
, it happens on the show too. Yeah,
knock your cowboy hat out of love. All right
, one week from today that was Justin Reid,
everybody answering the questions, peppering him with inquiries from
around the league, and Kyle peppering the interns.
Come on, Kyle, they were not prepared for
their on-camera debut today.