Jamie Erdahl Talks GMFB on Roku, Chiefs, Jets, Vikings & More | Full Interview | The Rich Eisen Show

my colleague at NFL Network my former colleague about a decade and a half ago at 1500 ESPN Radio in Minneapolis Jamie erdo in studio debut when you when you started to say 1500 I thought you were going to say you've known me you've known me since I was 15 years old did you know that uh oh since you were well that's no don't say uh oh in a professional manner that's how that's how driven I've been since the age of 15 I was kfn in I was a high school student answering phone R and Tom would come through the show for like the Chad Harman show and what and uh that is like 2004 is yeah yeah and then we were back together in 2010 at 1500 ESPN and now here we are in the rich Eis show on a sponsored desk is who who would have thought exactly from our friends at Granger no have thought my desk at 1500 ESPN in that closet was definitely not sponsored in fact it had pictures of other people's children on it and I think you know whose children a long way all right so big news this week um the internet has been a blaze I'd say for 3 four months about good morning football the future of uh the popular show on the network um a sports sem winning show yeah uh all right so you're you're back July 29th we are back it's big news the show's going to it's going to look a little bit different it's going to be on multiple platforms we'll get into all all this good stuff but uh let's start you with this what the hell happened Jamie how we get here what's going on I just want to say a lot of those questions that were on the internet probably were from like ghost accounts by me like I had questions too I think we all you know that was a challenging couple of months let's let's start the story This Way in in March 8th I think we all found out that this was happening to good morning football that we were leaving New York and the show was moving to Los Angeles I was like 36 weeks pregnant so I had just come off the combine in Indianapolis I was just lucky to not give birth at the combine comine and I come back and we're like great we're going to rock through free agency I got some vacation booked maternity leave it's going to be great we we pop up with our bosses one day in early March and they give us this news and I we I I was so surprised you know you hear Rumblings of just the nature of the industry and changes and you know there is a studio at NFL films in South Jersey and Manhattan is very expensive and you listen to things but mostly you just want to do the job this was so not a direction literally West that I thought it could ever go um I can only speak for myself that I just love my chair and the show so much and the the position the show has within the NFL that I was going to do anything to stay a part of it um and that meant um committing to the move before I had my third daughter uh at March 30th and my entire maternity leave has been spent moving my family from New Jersey to Los Angeles we got here in the middle of June and we're going to start rehearsing next week and we've got new teammates and but it's been it's been really hard it's been a challenge because the show is so team based but these were all really personal decisions to make I think for everyone involved in the show and so it's been I'm somebody who likes to talk things through and so I'm constantly just like oh how are the guys what's everybody going to do and um you know it affected a lot of people behind the scenes which was hard to see happen um but the health and the future of the show was kind of at risk and you wanted to move forward together and you wanted it to stay on the air so people made decisions that were important and impactful and lo and behold here we are going to come on the air from Anglewood on July 29th and on Roku for a couple of the hours of the day and that's right so that's one of the new things here so it's good morning football which traditionally had been a 7 to10 eastern time show 4 to7 Pacific show now going to be Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. on NFL Network so it starts 1 hour later that's 5:00 a.m. Pacific time we'll get to that momentarily here uh also a new extension series gmfb overtime premieres July 29th streams Monday through Friday 10:00 a.m. to noon on the Roku Channel which is where we are so thanks everybody for watching Roku you'd be seeing a lot more of Jamie erll moving forward now a 4-Hour show how is the the overtime version of this going to differ from the traditional good morning football uh I don't I think it will have the same Avenues but in terms of football I think the big thing is uh it will be on Roku it will also be nationally syndicated from that 10 to 12 uh Eastern spot so the big thing is we want to speak to the broader audience I think then you know certain fans are going to go to NFL Network to hear certain you know just maybe a more intensified version of our football takes and our conversations and the news then you flip over to Roku and to be syndicated you want to welcome a broader conversation at times I think so it's still going to be you know it's the first ever Sports Talk Show put into National syndication which is a really cool Flex to be a part of um but you you want it to be have almost start to drip into the talk show feel if you will um when it's on Roku and in syndication and my new teammate Akbar who is like classically trained now in the uh talk show world that I'm so excited to sit next to him because Jason mccordi decided not to make the move with the show um so Akbar is going to be next to me every day and I'm just so excited to learn from him and work with him so I think it's GNA almost be a little broader in those second two hours where you're going to see on Roku and then in syndication so Peter shreer Kyle brand obviously two of the ogs on good morning football they're going to stay based with their families in New York yeah and you you'll see them out here I mean we can't do Angry runs all the time from like a little Closet in in the east coast like you got to get Kyle so Kyle will have to Angry Run himself from coast to coast a handful of a handful of times throughout the course of the Season how how does that impact the dynamic though cuz I know that listen social media is a terrible judge of anything but all the all the complaints that are registered listen I get all the complaints registered about myself you see them about why why are we screwing up the the best show on it it is different you're going to have a lot of the time those two in New York maybe in a studio together maybe on home cam sometimes however that ends up shaking out but they're not sitting like the beauty of the show for a long time was the four people sitting around The Breakfast Table it was this being in person it's not the same we did those shows in 2020 I filled in on a lot of them and doing it in the four box on Zoom cameras because we weren't allowed to leave the house not as fun as sitting around The Breakfast Table how will the dynamic change and how do you overcome the inherent kind of lack of human contact that's there the short answer is I don't I I just don't know how it's going to change yet I I don't know the answer to that question uh I'm trying to be an optimist about it I what I am optimistic about is that I know Peter and Kyle very well I've just now done 20 months worth of shows with them five days a week through two intense football seasons I've seen the ins and outs how they both operate so if anyone was going to be remote and away from me physically it can be those two because I can still read them well enough to hopefully push them places and get them to go to their entertaining capacities um not knowing akar that's better that he's next to me every day because now I'm like I just met him last I just saw him in the flesh last night for the first time we met up um in the town that we happenin stuff with you or to exactly no he what an impressive human like that's a whole other segment television but I'm glad that he's with me and we can grow together the way Jason mordi and I did when we started um and then I so it's I'm okay with those guys making the decision that they did because it was important for them to to stay where they were in the capacity that their family life would have been affected and I know that we'll see them they'll keep the show alive I mean those two in my opinion are the editorial North Star of gmfb Peter Sher and Kyle brand like the the show can't do much I think without their engine at times so what was your first year at CBS what was your first year on television in general 2012 13ish my first year on television uh in a real official capacity was in 2012 in Boston like my first big TV job um at nesson I was with the Red Sox and the Bruins and then at CBS the fall of 14 um was on Mountain West football NCAA tournament and then the fall of 15 was my first sideline on the NFL which there was a rather rapid rise from running errands for Two kudin Hosts on a local radio station and tracking down people to give uh various Awards do you guys know the history of this no don't so when Tom P J was if if you think like what the uh the cliche definition of what people think a radio intern does that was Jamie that was how Jamie was used at that stene Tom was you hosted the the show right you and royy uh Phil Macky and iil Mack and then royy was on right we had different there was a lot of different lineup changes through those so they had this bit we'll call it that Sports person of the day and why it was in everyday capacity it made my job harder they would just pick Rando people that were um you know whatever making news that day and they wanted to send certificates out to the sports person of the day physical certificate phical certific to the person and this was the summer of a World Cup and if you remember that was the onslaught of the vuu Zas remember this the so so this guy F said gives the sports person of the day who's like the inventor of the vuua and I have to track down who this person is where they from what you were you were involved you probably egged it on so I my job was I was like sending certificates out stamping them licking the envelopes as a college intern on the sports stock radio station answering phones you know I really I let you know Jo was it Joe from Florida he's going in on the Falcons just now I'm just thinking about Sports Talk Radio sorry um but yeah that's and so now come full circle Tom fills in on gmfb what was it last year and you gave me a sports a sports person of the day cic hope you have somewhere in a safe place you really did that you didn't you did it I really did it I watched it happen it was literally coffee runs for the host printing things and sending out the sports person of the day and then so like four years after this I turn on CBS and she's like interviewing ni and it was I was like wow that was a pretty that was a pretty rapid rapid rise but here's where I was going with that is the past four months I I know that you did you know there were some shows during the draft what not but this has to be one of the longest stretches you've ever not been on TV and I imagine you have a lot of take kind of Brewing you've just been storing them up I I don't want to take away from the return of good morning football July 29th on NFL network streaming on the Roku Channel but what do you want to unleash on us today Jamie what's what what's been eating that way at you for three four months here well in my uh sleepless nights with a newborn if you will uh there's been a lot of you know as you say reading and reacting probably in a healthy manner because I get to you know tell my three-month-old things that I probably wouldn't say on TV you know about uh you know trades that were made or contracts that were signed or quarterbacks that moved on um so I let's just say I I am actually really deep into we we we take prediction week very seriously on gmsb you know and I think I'm going to I'm really think I'm going to make some splashes this year with my prediction week I just you know you guys were talking about the NFC east and then you know the Kirk Cousins thing still just irks me how that happened and and the Falcons and then their draft I'm kind of kind of on a like a I'm I'm losing my words I'm so it's so complex in my brain right now but it has just been sleepless nights thinking about this but prediction week with the division winners I think I'm going really going to move some teams around when's prediction week it is the like Monday Tuesday Wednesday ofek of the Season which is 49 days as we've been talking about to kickoff of the regular season give us a taste though kind of like pilot one of the hottest division winners you're thinking about or the hottest take you got in general come on L somethingest let me tell you something my first season on gmfb I made a grave error as the Kansas City Chiefs fans would tell you and I did not make them division winners I didn't even have them going same you have the Raiders that year you buy in on the Raiders RP the what Rich did that's what Rich did and he's still hearing about it still hearing about it yeah now I'm not saying I'm going to go with the Raiders but all of a sudden there's this coach who's living in the same town as and my husband went to Michigan and like what is this team going to do in Los Angeles you're going to do it again Jamie you just moved out here I'm just thinking about I'm just trying it on precise you said I 39 days there's also definitely some some personal part of this if she's walking around in whatever Beach toown she happens to be in and running into Chargers fans and they're like you're picking the Chiefs like you got you got to protect protect number one here hold on hold on there're are Chargers fans that's what well and and and if they are I think they're actually nicer than Chief fans they're going to have quite the season ahead they're the biggest story in sports Jim Jim Harbaugh the charg be one of the biggest stories in all SP the Chargers right now you're saying in the season they will be one of the biggest stories in sports it will be Jim Harbaugh everywhere Jim Harbaugh has been he has gotten the quick turn around the first year with San Francisco they went 13 and3 went to the NC championship game if they don't if the Chargers don't go to the playoffs that would be one of the biggest disappointments we've had every other head coach give them time it's going to take a while to get into it Jim Harbaugh comes in the expectation is not hey let's go from 5 and 12 to 9 and8 we're building something no it's you're going to be a Super Bowl winner you're going to push the Chiefs right now I see your argument because you're saying either way it goes it's going to be the biggest story because if it's a huge success that means they're beating the Chiefs and they're beating teams that they didn't last year if they don't then it's a grave failure on this coach that they hired that he was supposed to come in 60 years old maybe doesn't have the touch anymore maybe she go back to college she never left Michigan all that stuff kind of statement it just I think it stressed us all out for just a beat to say because I'm still thinking of we're living in an Aaron Rogers Jets world and to to say that at times the Chargers who fight I think for the spotlight a lot of the year and frankly throughout the news cycle that you're going to say that they are going to Trump what's happening with the Jets is that's that's a big one but one of the best Coes one of the best uh one of the best quarterbacks in the game they've got couple of the best receivers in the game they're not as big of a story as the Chargers there no way there's no way we've talked substantially more about the about the Chargers we do this with the Chargers in the offseason that's the thing is I think every summer you could say the Chargers of the bigger story because they've had so much talent but then in season I think it's where they fall off the cliff so I just kind of you know to say they're going to be the biggest story in sports Tom this is why you're sitting in that chair what what else what else is is burning I mean you know me I'm classic Rogers Jets little PTSD from that because I think as a show last August there was I mean for everybody you're still wearing your jet gear still wearing my jet gear there was so much emotional buildup to that and then the The Fallout from that uh but I'm curious about what's happening in Minnesota you know and just the emotional breakup uh at the quarterback position again to bring It full circle with the Michigan quarterback situation and what that transition is going to be like I'm in the middle of watching receiver and you just like fall in love with Justin Jefferson all over again um and I think for KOC and their ownership and management like this is a these are officially it's like a college basketball coach that comes in and it's like his first real Rec recruiting class that comes up like I think for Kevin okell like this is Big Time these are your decisions and you put stamps on these things and plus it's the NFC North is no longer or has it ever really been the teams just shifted a walk in the park so like the lions are just so fun um but I'm I my heart sometimes you know pulls towards the North Star we we were talking earlier we took some calls on it you know because the Texans being the first full squad on the field earlier today who could be this year's Texans the team that nobody thought and there's not that many because we already have convinced ourselves well the Bears are a playoff team now you know all these and then one of the teams I think you could put on this category would be if the Vikings are a playoff team if they're good of of the teams how from a hype train perspective obviously the Lions I mean that's through the roof it was actually bigger last year because now it's just like no now they're one of the best the Packers were one of the hottest teams in the League last year the second half of the Season into the playoffs right down to the final interception in San Francisco you have the Bears with all their additions and Caleb Williams there all kinds of excitement no one's talked about the Vikings yeah they've got a really good skill group they got to figure out the quarterback position but if they were to become an NFC Contender this year mhm that to me would be an out of left field people didn't see it coming type of moment it would be out of left field I agree with you but the parallel to the Texans last year who just from a star perspective they didn't have it we didn't see what CJ stra was going to come up with we didn't see what will Anderson was going to do defensively demo Ryan is such a wonderfully warm and intelligent and bright driven coach that really gets these guys to a place where they need to operate to put the Vikings in that I think the Vikings just have categorically more star power just because Justin Jefferson is there so I I agree it would be out of left field um um gosh that is a great question because you know we just now I'm really thinking about who it could be I mean I like the Vikings argument what about the Broncos I mean the Broncos that would that would certainly be that would be surprising that would be that would be a surprise the would be pretty shock sea Peyton finally got his quarterback to your point about putting the stamp on things he's got Bo Knicks who every Scout and Coach I talked to before the draft was like this is the perfect fit 52 career starts coach's kid he's going to listen to Sean exactly what he wants I like that one I like that possibility they're they're in a transition now person perspective and they're in the rockiest division that there is in football okay good morning football returns July 29th airs Monday through Friday 8: to 10: a.m. eastern on NFL Network plus new extension series gmfb overtime premiering July 29th streaming Monday through Friday from 10: a.m. to noon on the Roku Channel also Syndicate as you mentioned on TV good when you say it Tom Jamie you're the best awesome seeing you again thank you very much for coming I will be watching hopefully on that show yes July 29th and your guar catch the rich eyes and show every single day on the Roku Channel 12 to 3 Eastern for free