NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal - Naming Some Dudes

Episode Date: July 31, 2026

Gregg Rosenthal, Jourdan Rodrigue and Patrick Claybon name some dudes.NFL Daily YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nflpodcastsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human. I'm going to throw this out there, guys. Trung candidate. What? In general, St. Louis Rams, I feel like are going to feel even older than they really are. Mark Bulger. Mark Bulger.

Like, in terms of how good he was to how he's remembered, it's a crime. A lot of lost players from that time, even on the time. like some of the super teams. Ricky Prol? People don't think about Ricky Prol. No. Ricky Prol is,

I think, remembered mostly for talking too much that he was going to come back and beat the Patriots. Really? In no one. NFL films did him wrong.

That's a certain point of, that's a very Patriots point of you. I think of Ricky Prol the catch, right? Yeah. And that's just editing, Greg. That's just mean editing. You know?

Bill Belichick was probably in there at the time with NFL films. Greg Zerline back in the day there. Yeah? you guys remember this is a player i was so fascinated by when i was in high school and then like coming into my actual football watching in college john smoky brown yes oh that that 15 season come on well smoke that brought maybe i thought maybe i'll be a cardinals fan and then

quickly it was beaten out of me so in 2015 there were six or seven weeks where you could have been convinced that gary barnage was the future oh gary barnage the catch, the leg catch. I mean, he was incredible. Cleveland Brown's touchdown. And he only played one more year after that. Who could add so much more? Shout out to Gary Barnage.

Both very prominent around the NFL characters. Yeah. West loved him from some John Brown. And yeah, Gary Barnage, a legend. DeAngelo Hall. Yep. Says a player.

Yeah. I don't want to think about it. him as a now like De Angel Hall as a player was a, was a thing. He, to me, he's like up and down, like the ultimate like streaky quarterback. Yeah. Love D. Hall. Like, impossible

to separate him from the I fear God homie training camp moment. Like one of the premier training camp moments in history and with, you know, DeAndre Hopkins maybe trying to get on the coaching circuit. Like maybe, we'll probably hear I fear God homie a few more time.

I like thinking about other lost St. Louis Rams too. Austin Davis. Austin Davis. Wow. Deep pole for the wrong reason. So what was it? Eight games, but he tied for the lead and picked sixes that year.

On a short list of like the worst starting quarterback stats. But I'm sure, I'm sure it was a nice man. How about, um, Attawale, a Gunlea? Agunli. Nguyen. Ogun?

There's, there's so many. Like when you go through and you're just like the names of themselves when this happens like Chris Fu Matumah Fala. Mm-hmm.

It's just like something premier about a name and a moment that stand out for a lot of guys. A lot of those bears for some reason stand out to me. Like Lance Briggs is maybe that's a good, yeah. You're good? Are you allowed to say good ones?

You're just naming guys? Oh, I think like... I think you can name good guys. Yeah, you can name good guys. Keep the process going, but it doesn't give that spark that like an Aurelius Ben does. Big! Oh. I think I remember thinking, you know, when I first started being a fan of football and, you know, I was like, what, 13 years old?

And you try to look and see what you want the best last name. You don't really care when you're a kid. like what the, what the team is, especially when you grow up being, you know, in a Cardinals household as I did. You really don't care about the team.

Bin, Ben would have been a good one. Yeah. Ed Dixon, recently. Okay. Like, just like really

always just did his job kind of guy, you know? Ed Dixon, the tight end? The tight end? Well, you might have different memories

of Ed Dixon than I do. Well, it's, Because so many, like so many things around that team and you're, and you're like, what are the primary options here? And it's Ed Dixon, some Ted Ginn. Yeah. And you think, well. A little Kalyn Clay. It's like, oh. Can I interest you in some Kalin's? Yeah, always. A little Keevan Seymour action. Not sure how much, how much there was around. One time, one time I was in the publics in South End and I ran into Kevon Seymour. Poor guy in the summer. He was recovering from double shoulder surgery. And, and, his wife had just given birth. And so he was getting the groceries instead of, you know, and being a helpful partner. And he was pulling a little cart and he couldn't reach up to the top, to the top of the aisle or the shelves in the aisle. And I saw him and I was like, hey, can I?

He was in a double sling, you know, and I was like, what a guy. He was trying to help out the fam. Did he feel emasculated in that moment? No, we bonded over it. Yeah, always rooting for that guy. there's something about tight ends that just like bow scafe a lot of it is about the name

like some really good tight end name germane wiggins that it's an old Super Bowl champion for the Patriots I don't want to lean too hard on that but just just give me like a 430 yard as your peak career your tight end and that I'm like feeling good you're mentioning mid 4th high 400s it's impossible from and I know I say his name all the time

because I think about this moment in history in 2004. But Billy Volick needs to be mentioned in every single one of these discussions. In two weeks, he had 920 passing yards, eight touchdowns, and the Titans were 0 and 2. But I will never forget it. He only started two more games in his career after that. Shout out to Billy Volick. Andrew Bennett, who did it along with him. And I've probably even said it on NFL Daily, but those two men indirectly, almost directly

responsible for my children's lives because my old friend and boss, Rick Wolf, staked us to a high stakes fantasy. Like, this was allowed, you know, because I wasn't working for the NFL. Shield protected everybody. And my co-owner and I, Rick Cordella,

who now runs all of NBC Universal Sports, which is insane. We hit that lick, you know, on Billy Bowling, Drew Bennett, we made thousands. I spent that money. And Ellis, that's how.

Yeah. I spend that money to go visit my best friend Dave Bennett, who I just climbed Mount Fuji with, who was living in Japan at the time and working in one of his best friends in the world in his friend group, you're not to be my future wife. But if Billy Volick and Drew Bennett didn't go on that run. And that's why that itch.

Yeah. You know, Greg works hard to not. The shield is safe. Was Cortland Finnegan on those teams? Yeah. I mean, I was just thinking if the year's matched up. Cortland Finnegan is... It's one of the coolest NFL names ever, in my opinion.

And a great player who's mostly remembered for getting his ass beat, but a great player at his peak. He was sort of Richard Sherman before Richard Sherman and just not on a good team. Yeah, a D-1 instigator. Mm-hmm. He was like a mix between Richard Sherman and Johnson Gardner Johnson. Sorry.

Cool names always spark for me. Fuzzy Whitaker. one of the all-time, one of the micro fullbacks, I guess I would say. Beanie Wells. That's a good name. Yeah.

Yep, but, you know, what could have been? Legadu, none, A? Like, anytime a guy's running fast and has long legs, his name is Legadu, it's like, all right. I always said to be back. Hartley Dykes.

That was a first round pick. I don't know why I just remember the upper deck card from that year. So I thought he was going to be good. We were just talking about that 04 Titan. team and fun names and tight ends, Ben Troop. Oh yeah.

Yeah, that's, I mean, come on. As in support the, you don't get, you don't get any more tight end than that. Ben Troop, Ben Coates. Ben Troop was kind of the original Jono Smith, too. It just has a player.

Like, looks good going off a bus. I don't know why we're going so hard Titans, but Kyle Vandenbosch feels like he belonged from the show. Just, what a juicy name right there. Juicy player too. In the name genre, you run across some repeats for the same franchise. What about Falcons defensive end, Jamal Anderson?

Oh. Yeah. I think it was one. Was there a guy with double A's at the end of the name though? Yeah. Yeah. Two A's. It was confusing.

Two A's for the not Jamal Anderson that we all familiarized with 98 Falcon. How about the other Kurt Warner? I mean, come on. I mean, listen, I say the other Kurt Warner, but depending on your perspective, Kurt with a C. The Kurt Warner. Like, that is the original Kurt Warner, you know, depending on your perspective on all of them. How about the poor, I think he was a jet center,

Lamar Jackson, down the last couple of years. There was a corner of Lamar Jackson. Bo Wolf, our friend, was saying he really wants to ask Jalen Hertz what it's like to be on the same team with Michael Jordan at training camp this year. Just see if he can get Jalen Hertz to like half smile. See if he says.

I took it personal. Jalen Hertz, notably, made a point to not call LeBron James the greatest basketball player ever when asked about him. That is press guns. Because we know. The Jordan Brand.

Yeah. He's that guy. You guys remember, well, how could you forget, Von Taz Burfect? Arizona State Sun Devil, let me tell you, when you're a kid growing up in the valley, that Sun Devils team is larger than life.

A lot of those famous you know, from the, you know, Jake Plummer, obviously one of my favorites of all time, Pat Tillman. Jake Plummer. Jake Plummer. Good for him, man. Living his best mushroom life now. You know you're a special kind of NFL character

when you make Adam Pac-Man Jones kind of like the secondary figure of who's getting too much headlines and kick that of games on that Bengals team. Yeah, the answer to how could you forget, is Vontes perfect for a lot of? of people because he's he's made people. I don't know why, but like the first name that came to my mind, I don't know why it's waited so long here was Bernardrick McKinney.

It's an old Texans linebacker. It's just, that's just an NFL name, Bernardrick McKinney. My mom and I were talking about my training camp schedule coming up and I'm going to go see the Texans at some point. She was writing it down and then reciting it back to me and she goes, okay, and then you're going to go see the Titans. And I go, no, mom. the Texans and she was quiet and I go,

I could see where you're coming from. Yeah. You know, her era. Her era. Yeah. Some players based on name alone, feels like they had no choice with their position. Like Jasper Brinkley was destined to be a linebacker.

That's a good call. Now I want to come up with people that are that category. Al J. Crumpler had to be a tight end. Michael the Bernard Turner. Probably had to be a running back. I guess you could have, you could have been, you could have been a receiver,

but then you might have been confused with Michael the Beer Man Lewis. Ooh. And honestly, how could you not be anything but one of the largest defensive linemen we've ever seen if your name is not Vince Wilfork? Yeah. You know? Yeah.

Parlayed into a tremendous barbecue post career. And also, yes, I just saw an Instagram video of him salmon fishing. He said it was the first time he's ever done a salmon run before. Patrick's reaction to me saying Michael the beerman Lewis was all I wanted out of this exercise. Yeah, no, because it's such a great pull. And one of like, like, why we, what a character?

Why don't we have a beer man movie? We need more beer man. Yeah. Yeah. How about old kickers? Ooh. Ollendo Mari. That one, I always, I always like that one.

Rob Barronis. Why? It's all Titans today. I have a Stephen Goscoski. Yeah. He was good. I thought you'd like that way. I was always I think old kickers

Mike Vanderjett where again it's another player calling him out it's like the premiere moment of the league is when Peyton said their idiot kicker got liquored up and ran his mouth. It's like one of the all times. It's like wow, it's some heat. Neo rackers if we're sticking with old car.

Oh man. Little Josh scobie. Okay, rackers is such a cool kicker name though. Like, I mean, if it How about Tank Johnson? We're off kickers here, but just Tank Johnson. One more kicker. You're a nose tackle and you're Tank Johnson.

Yeah, absolutely. Get in the way, stay in the way. Janikowski is, whenever you say kickers and then you talk about clips, anything slow-mo, sea bass, moving in slow-mo toward the tea, you know? Yeah. I want to go tea. Well, Tim Rete. Oh.

The Latette guy was getting buckets. Didn't necessarily work out. That was at a point in time where it was like, is every 49ers quarterback always going to be good? He was the one who kind of stretched it to the end point. Well, what about T. Martin? He's now a coach.

But T. Martin as a player. More of a college guy. Modern throwback, Tori Smith. Go ball king. Drew the PI like nobody else could and probably still can't. Not a receiver, but there's DJ Moore of the Chicago

Robert is the defensive back. So they still. I don't remember him. DJ Moore. That's not even one that I know. No, I don't know that one. How about both Tatupus? Lofa and Mosey.

Mosey is the one that gets Mosy was a good player. This is, you know, I know you were worried that we're going to bring up players before your time. And that's, I encourage it. Patrick's time. I encourage it. Mosey Tatupo was getting it done in the Patriots throwbacks

before they were throwbacks. And then Lofa Tatupu kind of, there's not a lot of players like that anymore. They've kind of taken them out of the game. Bernarjik McKenny was one of those players. Just like a walking concussion.

Either he got one or he gave one to someone. Not to get dark, but this was true. Ruben Foster, following that category as well. How about Ruben Drones? I just like going off the names. Ruben Drones. Ruben Drones basically think of a guy.

on my list, Olandus Gary. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just like Broncos running backs is fun. CJ Anderson. He had Super Bowl MVP. Wait, did they all have number 22? Super Bowl touchdown score.

CJ Anderson. Was he MVP? No, Von Miller was. I remember thinking he could have been MVP. Ronnie Hillman, also on that team, I believe. My favorite thing is when like a really serious and really solid running back has like a little kid's first name, like Timmy Smith. Remember Timmy Smith?

Is it Washington running back Like two touchdowns in that Super Bowl One hit wonder How about Tatum Bell? I was all over Tatum Bell In like the second round of a fantasy draft With Broncos running backs Glenn Milburn

You looked like he had a good one No I was done you did You did You guys remember Trey Turner Can't forget Trey Turner Like good good career with the Panthers Played well with the Chargers A certain point

I'm trying to remember what he what he was what he looked like at the Chargers. That was like the COVID season. Strong man. Great style. One time he complimented my shoes in the locker room and it was like the best day of my life. You got a lot of Panthers. Formative memories, man. It's a good one. Yeah. Formative memories. I'm sure I could convince you to do a little. I know a lot of them are my like favorite players. Like Fred Jackson. Yeah. Captain Munnerland. Fred Jackson, I know Bill's fans still remember fondly, but I just, I always

Fred Jackson was my guy. Yeah. Marlon Jackson. I just, we haven't had another Marlin. I know. That's what I immediately tried. Berlin Olson.

O-N Marlins. Yeah. But not a lot of like fish Marlins. So shout out to Marlon Jackson. How about DeQuel Jackson? I mean, he was just in the NFL, but he just feels like a guy that deserves to be. Again, another like position already assigned at birth.

Who's like a guy that when you guys think about like your childhood or like some flashes of memories when you were watching football? I didn't. watch football a ton when I was a little kid. But I remember, you know, as I was kind of growing a little bit older, I remember two names, one good, one bad. Bad was Levi Brown. And I was in my friend's car one time and her dad was driving. We were going to like a sport, like we played like youth soccer or something. And they were talking on sports radio about Levi Brown and, and the guy in the, the dad said, human turn style and then turn the radio off. Dang. I'll never forget it. And then the good one, And I remember always, because Ron Wolfley would always yell Carlos Dansby.

And I just loved hearing him yell Carlos Dansby. It just really enamored me. Carlos Dansby, who when I got into a playoff game in high school basketball, my freshman year, I went to block out a person who subsumed me, got the rebound and went back up and dunked it. It was Carlos Dansby. Shout out to Woodlawn High School. I'm so glad you brought that up. Yes.

Thank you, Jordan. You've really earned your paycheck today. Hugh Millen, you're talking about, like, teams that you associate with childhood. I, for some reason, loved, like, there was a Dick McPherson Patriots. The team was in a dark place where six wins and winning a few games at the end of the season

felt like the peak of all time. And, like, Hugh Millen, I think they had two rookie of the year running backs on that team. Leonard Russell and John Stevens. Marv Cook was on TechMobile. as like the tight end. Ben Coates, who we already mentioned on that team. Irwin Fryer before

things went wrong. Were you mentioning Bill's players and then like formative players? For some reason, even though he's not that old, Josh Reed, the running back that converted to a wide receiver and it was

like for some reason that was just so cool to me. It's like, oh, this guy gets the ball, makes plays in space. What was his name? The running back on that team, the Vikings. Ontario Hardesty? No. Monterio Hardesty.

I'm mixing things up. He was a brown. How about the combination of Cleo Lemon and Greg Camarillo on the Miami Dolphins? Winning that first game for Cam Cameron. Just YouTube, Cleo Lemon, Greg Camerio, Cameran. And you will see. a celebration that exceeds many Super Bowl winning championship moments.

Not even joking. I like those. I like going down like the YouTube rabbit hole. I'm like celebrate like Joe Horn. He was the one that pulled the phone out of the answer. It was. Right? I love that.

Joe Webb was the first one to shoot the webs, you know? In my recollection, you know, I'm, you know, a lot younger than you guys. In my recollection. Just keeps pointing this out. Joe Webb, do it all. I mean, so is Patrick. Patrick. It's like happening in between.

He did. Joe Webb played for a few different teams with the Panthers. He was fun. The audacity to list him as a receiver. Go to pro football reference and look. Guys, what about Brian Mormon? Ooh. Punter.

It's true. Yeah, we have not appreciated enough punters. He was the only Bill's pro bowler for so long. I would watch the Pro Bowl. I was like, who's the Bills? Oh, the punter. Forever on the highlight rules, wrecked by Sean Taylor.

I was going to say, one of the most famous punter moment. of all time is him getting absolutely being blasted in a meaningless game. Pause right back up

and looks like he's getting his face but he said he went to go congratulate him on a hit out of Brian Mormon jersey a punter jersey goes to show the times. How about Jeff Fiegel's?

I was going to say should we name more punters? I struggle with it off the top of my head I don't want to cheat. I'm cheating. Shane Leckler is one. Oh my God, I can't believe I forgot. Andy Lee.

Andy Lee, yeah. Yeah. Marquette King. You say, St. Joe Horne reminds me of some old favorite saints. Chris Ivory. Chris Ivory was so ruggedly. Will Smith, RIP?

Mm-hmm. Great player, Will Smith. I don't know why I'm just thinking of Alph Morris. Alfred Morris on those Washington teams had a moment. There's something about like a running back that just has a moment for. Yeah, and a great celebration at the baseball celebration. celebration. You talk on old saints that makes me think of Aaron Brooks, who's so many guys

favorite player. Good Aaron Brooks years. I think you think about running backs that have moments and then the one that I remember was like lore when we started talking about like the Madden curse. I mean, Peyton Hillis. Yeah. Famously called a shot saying he didn't believe in the curse and then

whoops. Although like he hadn't done that much before that either and they kind of overworked. Got the player vote though. Got the player vote. Did Larry Johnson ever make a Madden cover? Because Larry Johnson has to be high on the list of

excellence to like not remembered ratio. There's no Larry Johnson talk. Larry Johnson was running shit. Yeah, he was. For like a while. With a high volume of carry. And Priest's home, I feel like Priest's Holmes is remembered.

Jamal Charles remembered. Remembered. Larry Johnson at his peak, maybe. Do you guys want to hear my Jamal Charles story? Sure. Yes. So I interned for ESPN sports science when I was in my senior year of college. And one of the segment ideas that never came to fruition was,

could we jump rope with Jamal Charles to test foot speed and foot quickness? Instead of doing ladder drills, could we make it more TV? Could we do more fun? And I was a very, very, very, very good jump roper as a kid and as a young teenager. and like kind of internationally as such. And then ended up finding a crew to come in and we tried to test foot speed that way. It didn't work out.

But he loved, he had a blast. He was super nice. Sneaky Jordan Lordrop on international jump roping competition. Remembering some guys. Sneaky, sneaky Hall of Fame candidacy I might try to push, you know, Jamal Charles. Yes, I was a semi-prooper, junior Olympian.

now I can't do shit you can't jump up well can't do anything very unathletic now stop can run in a straight line speaking of sneaky

you know sneaky a league of fame Canada Cates Matt Forte if we're talking running back oh yeah I mean and if we're talking

two lane backs it's Millie Mowaldi more all day yeah get Mowelty in there J.P. Lossman Lamott Jordan

Stevenson Sylvester Larry Brown, guys. First corner to ever win Super Bowl MVP. Guy Wimper. Oh, Guy Wimper. Catches as a tackle. It's like Browning Nagel.

You know you're going to be a Jets quarterback if you're named Browning Nagel. This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human.