First Things First - HIGHLIGHT: Broussard's Under Duress List | Young QB expectations

Episode Date: August 8, 2025

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Time now for the most motivational segment in all of sports. We're here at 2025. We get tons of letters. I read the letters and we answer your questions and concerns. We're a little bit rushed. Dear Wiles, love the show. I heard you going to three hours. Who is going to be on the show now that it's three hours? Thanks, Ryan and Briar.

That's a great question because a lot of it's like, are you going to do first things first in friends? We read the little news release about Danny Parkins. So that is true. We will be expanding the show and expand. expanding the people who are on the show. It's a lot of, of course, familiar faces. So we'll be there.

And then Greg and Coach Manjini and Danny Parkins. And then, of course, we have some other additions. We have the Trumpers will be making appearances. Anytime we talk about the dolphins, of course, Brew, we'll have the break dancers. Who else is involved in the third hour dust? Oh, yes, the F-games crew. That's fantastic.

Any championship hopes we will have the marching band. Anytime we talk about the Ravens, of course, we put in a call down to our friend Snoop. It's been excellent. And of course, although we try our best to retire in. Yeah. There you go. We're waiting for. I knew it.

I knew it. I knew it. Lips on. Thank goodness. All right. I like it. All right. Here we go.

Pure motivation. Pure motivation. Number three, this is my team. John Harbaugh. All right. Now, coach, I got nothing but respect for Harbaugh as a coach. as a person, all that. But he's in his 17th year with the Ravens.

Only player, only coach in the league who's had a longer tenure is Mike Tom with 18. And that like by a mile, those two are the most, you know, tendered. Andy Reid started, but just 12 years with the Chiefs. And Tom is not on the hot seat, but it's a little, look, there are questions, right? Little job insecurity if they don't have a good season.

And I'm not saying Harbaugh should be on the hot. hot seat, but I am saying, you're S-Bob. And he has talked about and others have said they got the best roster in football or the AFC at the very least. They got a quarterback that Harbaugh has said is right up there at the top with anybody that's played the game. We know they have an all-time great running back. Like, they have it all.

And I'm just saying this. When I look at the Ravens and I say they don't play their best. in the postseason. They crumble in the postseason. And it's not just the play, but we know two years ago it was kind of forgetting their identity and stop running the ball. We know they've had, they've lost their composure.

They lose their cool. They make silly, you know, mistakes and penalties and all that. I look at the coach. Like part of that is it's your job to fix that. It's your job to make sure your team plays its best in the biggest moments. Your team can keep its composure. So that's all I'm saying.

That's what I want to see from Harbaugh this year. Because if I was convinced that they would play their A game in the playoffs, then I would, I mean, I'll probably pick them this year anyway to win the Super Bowl. But I would definitely, you know, think they're the best team in the AFC and in the whole league. So Coach Harbaugh, I believe in you, this is motivation. Go get it done. All right. At number two, Jaden Daniel.

Wow. Now, Greg came into my office with all the screens where I'm studying and breaking everything down. He was a little bit overwhelmed by the number of televisions in there and all that stuff. But he came into the lab and kind of dressed me down for, you know, Jaden Daniels being on it a little bit. But I'll let him get to that later. But here's the deal. Jaden Daniels had the best rookie season ever, ever for a quarterback. What that does is put pressure on you.

The only way, Nick, it doesn't, like, put a ton of pressure on you is if you win the Super Bowl's rookie. And now you got that monkey off your back. So, but that means he has got to come out and have a great year this year. We know they've upgraded the offensive line. They add Debo Samuel. You expect Dan Quinn in his second year there to upgrade the defense. They also made a few additions there.

I get it. You don't have Terry McLaurin right now. I think you'll get that done. But even if you don't, nobody's going to give him an excuse for that. Like if Terry McLorinful is not there, then people still are going to believe Jaden Daniels has to play great football. And I don't think he has to get him to the NFC title game. I just think he has to get them to the playoffs, play well individually.

Like his numbers are very good individually, and they're a contender. If they lose in the playoffs, he's good. But he does have to come out and avoid the soft. more slump, Jaden, I believe in you. And at number one, this is the most obvious number one on the butt list in a while. Shouldaer, Sanders. We all get it. I'm not going to be too long-winded here.

But this is your chance to do her. This is it. Like, this is your chance to erase the past four, five months, whatever it's been, where you have taken some shots. You have taken some blows, some real blows from thinking you were going to be possibly the number one pick, certainly a first round. pick. You go in the fifth round. You're the second rookie drafted by your team and you're not even getting first, you know, team reps yet. You have a chance to end all of that against some guys

that won't even, a lot of won't even be in the NFL a month from now. So you have to, I know it's a tall order, but you have to go out and get it done. I believe you got the ability and I believe in you should do her. That's the buddless. Solid buddress. Great bubbles. Thank you. It's a good butt miss. You wasn't saying that in two hours ago.

He's overwhelmed. It was my office. He was shocked at all I do. He was like, no. No wonder your take. I'm going to add to the quarterbacks. I'm going to go, I'm going to throw J.J. McCarthy up here. Wow.

Why am? And this is this is true. Again, it's the bud list. This is true motivation. And JJ, like, what a lot of people don't understand as players is when you get when you suffer an injury we all focus on the the injury and the rehab and what is going to take for you to get back and overcome that and get back to being the right player the player that you once were however we overlook the mental toe that it takes on you

especially when the team that you were hoping to lead has the type of success not only as a team but at the position that they were hoping you were going to be filling the shoes in. And that was Sam Darnel. You watching being injured as a rookie, a guy who hadn't had this type of success, be as successful as he was, and yes, were you excited for him, of course. But what that allows is for us to kind of question ourselves, kind of allows self-doubt to enter in. And it's been a long offseason because all we want when we're injured

is to get through that injury and get back on the field so we can almost reestablish to everyone who we are, but no one more important than ourselves. And so I just encourage you because I'm in Minnesota. I understand from the outside, there's a lot of excitement. There's a lot of talk of, man, JJ's been great. But being in that building, it's been a roller coaster. And personally for you, I know you've been dealing with a lot

of just the mental aspect of things. But sometimes we got to remind ourselves of who we are. You got great guys in that locker room. You got a great guy in your coaching room with Josh McCown. Obviously, Kevin O'Connell, they're going to support you. But turn on that tape. And I know it's Michigan tape. I know it's national championship tape.

But turn that tape on and remind yourself of who you are and what you've done and the success that you've had and bring that JJ to the table starting week one. I believe in you. You have to believe in yourself and remind yourself of who you are. You got the supporting staff around you and the skill guys around you. Sometimes it can be a blessing. Sometimes it can be a curse. I believe in you.

Go make it happen this year. Yeah. Look, there's a lot of pressure. If he doesn't play well and Darnold plays great in Seattle, like say Darnold does similar to what he did last year, now there's real pressure there. So that's a very sincere buddlers. They were. That is really good.

I like that. I like that. All right. Well, it's 4.10. Art film. Almost on the dot. Whether you like it or not, it's time for the media ombudsman. Again, the weather you like or not is on this.

And it's the sports media ombudsman. Whether you're like it or not, it is the sports media embudsman. Indeed it is. And Dust, way to beat to put the bar on there, if you would. So here's the deal. There is a reality, Greg. in shows like this. There are certain things that people in your role

are going to be able to talk about with authority that people in my role simply never can't. What it's like to go through two a days as we talked about off the air yesterday. You know what I mean? Your release point. All the things that you actually had to play the games to experience and we, those of us that didn't play,

try to add to our expertise in other ways, understanding, never going to be able to play in an NFL game. And something very interesting happened this week where NFL players, it seems like erroneously found out, smelling salts banned. And they're not actually banned, the team just can't provide them to you anymore. You've got to bring your own, you know, like going to a sushi joint

that doesn't have its liquor license yet. You can drink there. You just got to bring yourself. But these guys freaked out. George Kittles, like, I might retire. Like, I've used them every drive in my career. And I realized us in the sports media have an important opportunity this week.

You can pop the bar now dust and Christina, the salts. If these are so important to everybody, I feel like we should find out why. So I've got smelling salts for all of us. You're gonna, I don't know, Greg, if you would like to partake. I'm sure you've had plenty.

I'm not sure if it's safe for your age, but go ahead. Um, KW, you doing it? I'll watch this. Please. I do what I want to do it. Brue doesn't want to do it. No, I mean, Drew, you gotta do it.

Oh, well, what? You should do one at a time. One at a time. All right, you guys, all right. So let's see. Are we doing it together? All right. Oh my.

Whoa! Let's go, baby. What are we doing? Oh, it's still going. This thing is still ripping, man. Yeah, it's, it's, I don't know if I want to do that. That's enough.

You just, you just, Oh, this might be part of the killer. You're doing it, KW? Just cracking in the dot. Yeah, there? This way. Yeah, now some hard huff. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Come on, brew. Brue, come on, guys. Come on, brew. So you just. There you go. It does get you going a little bit. I don't say it.

I'm going to go in for another. That's like, you know, it's like diving into a pool and getting water. I were going to say, I hate to say it. I have done these before we had above ground pool. That's what I said. Oh, my. It's like diving into a pool and getting watered. I don't think it's that.

Like, I don't know if I would retire if I was George Kittle. I don't know, man. I could see how you get hooked on these. This is pretty good. You get a nice shot and you wake you up a little bit. Holy moly. Wow. I had no idea.

Wow. I got you a little bit. I had no idea. You're okay. Go ahead. You like, you didn't love it. I did it twice. I did it twice.

I might do the rest of it. How long before it goes away? It should be gone already. I still feel it up in my eye, but I'm sure. At that point, it should be gone. I feel it up in here. It's a big hit, man. This is the closest way.

It should be able to move forward in the show. I know. And I watched them. You went specifically to one notch. I didn't go right here. You got to put it in. In the middle. Yeah.

Oh, boy. Don't do it anymore. Yeah, no. Oh, my goodness. All right. We have time to do mine dust? We definitely have time to do yours. All right.

I'm sorry. Maybe I should have. What a, what an abundance. Oh, my goodness. All right. I'm back. Woo! That's serious.

Oh, okay. I'm putting the Colorado Rockies on the buttless. I don't know if you guys stayed up to watch some Blue Jays Rockies. But things are not going well. Everyone knows I've been sounding the. alarm all year about this rocky season. But instead of getting better, it seems like they're getting worse. On this three game series here, the, they were outscored by 39 runs.

It's the second worst, uh, uh, run differential since the Brooklyn Superbos beat the reds in 1901. What? And that was a memorable. Three game. I just read the, yeah, it was three games. They had 63 heads. It's the most since 19.

63 hits and it's it hasn't been good now especially because the red sox are in second place and we're trying to gain some ground but you're smashing uh the Toronto Blue Jays are out there smashing the Rockies now how about the Rockies historically well we are now flirting with flirting with uh worst team of all time the 62 Mets oh there's those old three tigers I was talking oh there they they are they were but final pep talk Rockies, what's past is the past, right? This has been a sincere bud list with a little bit of drugs in it. Pass about, you got a three-game series.

You know where they're headed? Arizona, taking on the snakes. Snakes also aren't trying to compete this year. Get a win or two from the snakes, get everybody up. I tried to watch the poor manager's press conference, try to make fun of him like trying to say, and I felt so bad I didn't include it. So Rockies, it's getting late early.

It's time to turn your season around. and if anybody would like to take another hit. One more. Don't do another one. Don't do one. Come on, Greg, one more. There's plenty of these come from. Ready?

How many we're supposed to do? Two. Oh! Look at this guy. This guy is ready to go. Okay. Ready to go. Put me here, Coke!

Oh, goodness gracious. We're brave away. I'm on my way. I'm on my way.