Billy, Mikey A and Fuentes run through the headlines from the NFL with a game of "Here's a Headline" including the latest with Aaron Rodgers, a new QB flying up the draft boards and Bengals wide receivers getting all the money. Billy introduces the Bracket Bonanza which crowns a new champion in 2025. "Will is pass" hits Mikey's favorite time of the off season. And more Mikely's has the guys looking at draft busts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the latest NFL headlines discussed?
It was so much better. I'm ready to go now.
I faked it.
Stugatz stuff. That's okay. It's okay to fake it.
Well, there's been a lot of mishaps this morning in the Gill household that I was telling Mikey about involving dogs and humans and just vomit and fevers and what have you. But, hey, you don't care about me or my life, so we're here to talk about some football. We have some segments that – what's that, Mikey?
I just said football because you said football. Okay, good. By the way –
Godless Football is presented by DraftKings. The crown is yours. So I have a segment that I want to debut today, and it is called, because it's this time of year, it's a very special time of year. I know that you guys right now are probably knee-deep in brackets and March madness and college basketball. So we appreciate you guys coming and joining us on Godless Football.
I have a game that's called... God bless football's bracket bonanza. Ooh, I love a good bonanza. Yeah, it's a bracket bonanza, and we're going to be playing GBF's inaugural bracket bonanza next segment. So we're not going to get to bracket bonanza this segment. We're going to get to it next segment.
We also have a game called Will It Pass, which could be about anything, and a new round of More Mikely. So fun show today.
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Chapter 2: How is the 'Here's a Headline' game played?
i want to start things off though as we do every week with our favorite game called here's a headline so for those of you who are new to the program this is how here's a headline works i will say here's a headline and then i will give you a headline and then i will discuss and mike yay will discuss and mike fuentes will discuss and stu gatz when he joins us he will discuss
Mikey A will say, here's a headline, and then he will give a headline, and then we will go around and around until we've filled out enough time for the first segment to be over. And that's how here's a headline works.
All right.
Chapter 3: What are the potential moves for Aaron Rodgers?
Here's a headline. Ready? I didn't ask you already. Ready?
Ready.
I am ready. Here's a headline. The Vikings have said, you know what? I think we're going to see this through with J.J. McCarthy, at least through spring practice, and then we'll reassess the quarterback situation and decide whether or not we need to make a move and whether or not we're interested in Aaron Rodgers, which is an interesting decision.
And it now kind of puts everybody in a predicament because Aaron Rodgers has said that his preference is to go to Minnesota and that if he didn't go there, he might retire or he might go to Pittsburgh or he might go to New York. And we're trying to figure that out. But in the meantime, the Steelers have just been waiting to see what it is that Aaron Rodgers does.
The Giants have been waiting to see what it is that Aaron Rodgers does. The Giants might trade up to get the number one pick in the draft and draft Cam Ward. So they don't know what they're going to do at the quarterback position.
And right now it seems like the Vikings are calling all the shots and they've decided we're going to kind of put everyone on hold right now while we figure out whether or not we like J.J. McCarthy, who was our first round draft pick last season.
and uh then got injured and we didn't know what to do with him so we signed sam darnold which he had already been signed but he was a backup he became the starter they lost him to the seahawks so if you've been living under a rock now you kind of know what's been going on football in minnesota for the past uh year or so so headline we're kind of just going to play the waiting game now with minnesota and see what they got to do and aaron rogers needs to maybe make a decision or maybe not
It sounds like everybody is learning what the Aaron Rodgers at the end of his Green Bay tenure was like, which is a whole lot of wishy-washy. It's a whole lot of maybe, I don't know. We didn't get this. As bad as the play was on the field, we didn't get this with the Jets. He was always in. He was always all in. And...
This is probably just as frustrating because if you're a Steelers fan right now, what are your other options? You burn the bridge with Russell Wilson. There is no other quarterback that can possibly... Possibly make you a decent contender right now. It's not me.
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Chapter 4: Which quarterbacks are rising in the draft?
To your point about Aaron Rodgers, I don't think there's a team he's ever been more committed to than the Jets. Even the end of his relationship with the Jets, he wanted to stay and they didn't want him, which is the weirdest thing ever. Green Bay is like, I don't know about Green Bay anymore. I'm tired of being there. Jets, he loves.
He really wants to go to Minnesota for some reason, but they don't really want him. Do you even want like if you're the Steelers, I know this is going to sound crazy, but if you're the Steelers or the Giants where you've basically been told like, I don't really want to go there unless I absolutely have to. Like, is that who you want kind of in your locker room?
Because as it is, there's already all the other stuff that comes with Aaron Rodgers where it's like, is he a distraction to see this? Is he that? And now you have an Aaron who's not necessarily even entirely committed to being there the whole time.
I mean, you do because you don't have another option. Yeah. Your other option is Mason Rudolph. And like, you know, thanks, but I'd rather just wait this out.
Yeah. All right. Well, that was that headline. Mikey, do you have a headline?
I do. There is a certain quarterback who is flying up draft boards right now. Mel Kiper has Jackson Dart out of Ole Miss going 12th to the Saints. This is the highest I've seen him picked. And... I think it's absolutely bonkers for Mel to even consider the Saints taking a quarterback right now, let alone Jackson Dart, who might not be a second-round pick talent-wise.
But they are committed next year to Derek Carr for a $69 million cap hit. You cannot be drafting your quarterback of the future with that price tag waiting for next year. You can't do it.
There's no point in paying and there's no getting out of the Derek Carr because what you kept doing was you kept pushing the cap it and pushing the cap it until eventually it's all going to come to a head next year with $69 million. And I just don't see how you can take a quarterback and do anything other than bench him for two years. Then why take it?
Why not wait till next year and see what else you can get?
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Chapter 5: What is 'God Bless Football's Bracket Bonanza'?
Oh, look what he just did. Never mind.
I feel like we laugh at Jameis Winston a lot. Jameis Winston. So he's only 31. But I see a world in which Jameis Winston, I mean, he's been in the league already 10 years. Jameis Winston can easily be like a 17 year NFL vet, I think. Oh, yeah. Like very easily.
Make no mistake about it. The number one quarterback I wanted for the New York Jets going into this offseason was Jameis Winston. That was who I wanted because I figured if we're going to be bad, we might as well be entertaining. And Jameis has got all the talent in the world. He just has to get out of his own way.
Yeah. Zach Wilson was introduced this week to the dolphins.
Oh, how'd that go?
It was, you know, I think that they were expecting it to be something not the best. Ooh, by the way, also, uh, here's a quick headline. Cause I think Mike Fuentes is going to get to it, but we're running out of time. This segment, here's a headline. The Cincinnati Bengals decided to give all of their money to their two receivers, not learned anything.
And they're going to have two receivers making $80 billion a year.
And they're going to trade their one player on defense that was worth anything because they paid their wide receivers and their quarterback all of the money. All of it.
Yeah. Well, you know what? That might come into play next segment. We play a brand new game when we come back called God Bless Football's Bracket Bonanza. So it's been a while. It's been a while since I've done that. But it's been a while since we've introduced a new segment on this show. We pretty much just play the same segments every week.
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Chapter 6: What are the AFC and NFC team seedings for the Bracket Bonanza?
Okay. And then we have two slots left. You don't want anyone in the AFC South, you have said.
I kind of like the Broncos. I like the Broncos. And I'd probably say just because of the great unknown, probably the Steelers.
I'm going to go off board a little bit. I'm going to throw it. I just want to throw it out there. I'm not saying it should be. I'm just throwing it out there. The Patriots. Wow.
Okay. I like the Patriots in just to, just because of the unknown. So then do we leave out the Broncos or do we leave out the, uh, the Steelers Steelers Steelers Broncos are in at six and then at seven, we will put in the Patriots. Now we're going to hop over the NFC real quick before brackets. Bonanza's really gets interesting. Okay. So at the one seat in the NFC, who are we liking?
I mean, it's hard to say. It's hard to go against the Eagles. They lost their third de-tackle, their second de-tackle. They've still got, like, a lot of draft capital. They made some good moves. I'm going to say that.
Eagles, two seed.
Can I sneak a commanders in there? I was going to say, I like the commanders.
I like it. I like it. Okay, we're going to sneak the commanders in at the two seed. The Lions, how far will the Lions fall?
I have them borderline in. I have them as a seven. I have them as a seven.
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Chapter 7: How do the teams match up in the Bracket Bonanza?
I tried. I tried. You were very enthusiastic. Number six Broncos against the number two Chiefs. Number two Chiefs. The Chiefs.
Oh, I was going to go Broncos. Okay. Number two Chiefs. No. We're going to have the one seat against the two seats.
I know, but I can't go Josh Allen over Justin Herbert and then be like, oh, yeah, Bo Nix over Mahomes. That makes sense.
That is very good reasoning by you. Okay. We have the number one Eagles against the number five Bears over the NFC. Brackets Bonanza is so fun.
I'm going to go the upset again. I'm going to go the upset again.
Okay.
Super Bowl, Super Bowl, like too many playoff games for too long. Bears need it. They got a change of everything. They got a brand new offense.
Ben Johnson.
Yeah. They can stop the tush push. Yes, and I'm going to say Stugatz was right, but one year late, and the Bears are going to the big game. Nice! The Jets make it? Yes. Bears. Okay.
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