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Okay, everybody, it's hour number two of the Rich Eisen Show on the air here in Peacock. I keep hitting my best dad ever sign that's in front of me right here that I have on my desk in my seventh month running. I hope that's not a metaphor for anything. I keep knocking it over. I hope I'm.
You know, I'm going to go home. I'm going to see if I'm still in good standing. You know what I mean? I think that's important. You know what?
And I don't usually lead an hour with this sort of thing, certainly on the Rich Island Show Radio Network or on the show, but I'll just say I had an intense game of battleship yesterday with Coop. Intense. I love Battleship. He did. He beat you.
He did. I loved Battleship.
Now, do you. I don't I don't let him win. No, no, no. I'm saying, do you, when like the walls are closing in, do you kind of like move it around a little bit after the game has started? You know what I mean?
Are you asking me if I cheat? No, I'm saying. My nine-year-old son out of beating his dad in battle shoes. I'm saying, like, You know, you only got one ship left. Maybe it's the two guy.
Maybe it's the little two guy. Shipback, two guy. And then you're like. Oh shoot. Missed!
No, I don't, Chris. Oh, all right. First of all, I don't cheat, and when you. It's like the game of chess. Yep.
In battleship. You place your boat down prior to the game starting. Yes. I mean, once you remove your finger from the piece. That's it.
That's your move. That's it. Yeah, but the wall, like, it's like the computer. The wall, you know, they got the wall in front, so they can't really see what you're doing back there. But, like, you know, oh, uh, A14.
We got the electronic one when we were kids. Like I'll remember the first one. Because my brother, we were notorious to cheat, like what doing exactly what Brockman was saying. Big cheaters at the Brockman house. Oh my God.
The electronic one you couldn't cheat. Did you solve a Rubik's Cube by snapping all the pieces off and then placing them back together? I did. I don't have the patience. Oh my gosh.
I did that. Brockman was definitely the kid who would kick the Nintendo at the end of a super tech mo game if he was about to lose and just accidentally like, boy, it reset. I'm sorry. 1000%. I don't understand what's going on here.
1,000%. Because Rich Eisen's show EP Don Bowie, who's back there, just got in my ear and reminded me that Chris Brockman. is the man who handles all of our funds when we bet paramutually on the on the triple crown races. That is true.
So what are you doing with our funds? If you're asking me if I cheat Fair. My nine-year-old out of a battleship victory, and then you kick open, you kick, you kick. a Nintendo device just to use the oh it reset I mean But I have also hold on a sec. I have also come through the front door and said if I was hit okay, say look, Powerball is like six hundred million tonight, right?
Yes. Hey, if we all pull our money together, I'll buy all of our tickets. I'm also the guy who have openly said If all one of those tickets happened to hit, You wouldn't ever hear from me again.
So, we know what we're dealing with.
So, we know what we're dealing with.
You know, you're dealing with the devil that do not say to him, hey, man. I just zipped up my iron wallet with all my Bitcoin in it. Would you take my password and make sure I forget my password? That's on you. Brockman's having a Mai Tai in Fiji.
Is that part of your news update we're about to get to? Bitcoin guy. He's a Bitcoin guy. I don't think he's consulting. By the way, we talked about it yesterday on yesterday's show that there's a guy with 220 million of Bitcoin in his iron wallet and he forgot his password.
He's got two more guesses to go. And if he doesn't get them right, it's over. He can't ever access it. They shut it down. By the way, how about that?
Doesn't the iron wallet sound like something from Game of Thrones? Like, let's send a three-eye raven to secure the iron wallet. Trial by combat. That's what it is. The King of the North's Iron Wallet.
Yeah, man. Iron wallet, also like an 80s metal band. What's in your iron wallet? 220 million of Bitcoin, I better be able to get. That's what's in my iron wallet.
I would have tattooed that password somewhere on my bar, right? Like somewhere where no one's going to see it. Just tattoo it, right? You got a memento that, man. Come on.
Momento it. That's like pulling a Munson. Oh, hey, come on. But this is kind of like. You, Chris Brockman, the the The Chris Brockman that we've all known have come to love and occasionally tolerate.
It's a push-pull of daddy Chris Brockman. Would you cheat your own? Like one day when Cage can actually play you in battleship, are you really going to move your. Your three-banger submarine boat, or is that the three-banger? Three, three-smarber.
By the way, you know, the battleship is the four-battery. Battleship is the airport. I guess. I guess my like board game cheating days are with my brother and my sister because I can't let she's like the beautiful boy like yeah, I know so but I also want to teach him that like look winning comes at a cost so you know come at the king don't miss no I know that you're never I don't think you're ever gonna be the dad to let Your kids are not. You're not going to let him win.
Unless, although I do believe the shop is closed, if you have a daughter, a different story. Yeah.
My shop's closed. I have not played battleship with Ted. Honestly, like ever, with my daughter. It's a hit. Like literally.
T six. Hit, hit. I don't think I've ever said Battleship. No, I'm sorry. I meant to say it.
Honestly, you've never played Battleship? I mean, no, I don't think so. I mean, I know what it is, obviously, but it was me and my brother Frank and I. We could play that for days. All right, Newpoll, what's the best board game?
Until I figured he cheated because he was a cheater. Battleship is not technically a board game, but it is in the realm of. But it's also, what's great about it is it's 15 minutes, 20 minutes done. Like when my kids say, let's play Monopoly, it's just like, I don't have four and a half hours. We'd make each other write down where they were.
Life, game of life. You'd have to write down where they were. Don has a good one. Would you let your kid win in a board game? Yes or no?
Oof.
Okay. Get under the age of 10. Under the age of 10. Would you let them win a board game? I say no.
You gotta, you gotta, that's what the F-the-board game is. You learn to lose.
Well, it's a cool one. How about this one? And then I'll have this conversation. This is great. This is great.
I know it's got a cool subject. We'll get to it in a second. It's just stuff. Like when I'm out there on the hoops court.
Okay. And they're like, cover me, Dad. I will reject them. I will be like the current construct is: I'm Minute Bull compared to them right now. I'm a Tumbo.
I am. Yeah.
And I mean, I don't do the finger wag thing, but I will. No, no, no. Yeah, no, I mean, if you want, if you say cover me, I will, I will, I will do that. And you can't just, you know, shoot it from the chest. You've got to, you know.
I'm just trying to visualize Rich just rejecting rowing all of his kids at a basketball. Why? Why? And he just like slamming it down. I mean, honestly, don't you have to teach?
I'm correct. You have to teach your children well, and that means failure. while not an option, you it is a learning tool. Mixing a pump fake or a jab step. Like, come on.
Yeah, right. Go underneath. Yeah.
Figure it out. Problem solve, which is something we tell our children all the time. You're going to get a point in life where the kids are going to be able to beat you anyway on their own without cheating.
So you might as well give every victory that you can get, right? That's what I'm about. Battleship, do I ever move the piece around on my chomp? What is the matter with you? I mean, my gosh.
Every year for Christmas, my niece Naila and I play Uno for money, and it's usually for the Christmas money she has.
So there'll be times where, like, I'll take. I took 65 bucks from her like two Christmases ago. And didn't feel bad about it whatsoever. How old is she? At that point, she was 12.
So, you know. But I gave it back to her before I left.
So, what are the board games that you.
So, oh, we didn't choose. Yeah, would you let your kid win at board games advertising show? My other actual poll is: who's got the best chance to pull the upset this week? The four underdogs: Rams, Ravens, Browns, Bucs.
Okay. I think I know what the answer to that's going to be. Only one of those Underdogs is Tom Brady quarterback in your family. We'll see at Rich Eisen Show. Post it, vote it.
You ready for your news update, Christopher? Sure. Mm-hmm. And now, with a report of the day's news from the world of sports and entertainment, someone who is not a journalist or newsman by any definition of the word whatsoever. It's Chris Brock.
My Chris for whatever. I just couldn't lose to my brother and sister, you know what I mean?
So, like, you gotta. You know what I mean? You gotta finagle the board. That's not news, that I know. All right.
So the Bears. Shocked kind of a lot of people today. They're going to retain Ryan Pace and Mad Nagey. Chairman George McCasky said: quote, it's not the easiest or most. Popular decision.
But they believe they're the best for the Bears.
So they're back, no contract extensions, however.
So they're on their current deals. George McCasky added: We need to get better at the quarterback position to be successful. Yeah, no kidding. Uh I'm impressed with both of them, he said, with Nagy and And Ryan Pace. Are you impressed with Matt Nagan and Ryan Pace?
I do like Matt when he calls in, and you know, um. If he was um Mm-hmm. Tasked with making sure Trubisky gets a second contract, he failed. I mean, let's be honest. If he's not being held responsible by ownership, that's on ownership.
If that was the plan coming in, you're hired, make Trubisky work. And And the offense Um He he he has failed that.
Now, if you're somebody who's like I I believe in his abilities and Let's see if he can coach the contract. How many years does he have left? This one more coming up? Is he going to be a. coaching for his contract next year.
We've seen that happen before. And Um And give him that, if you will, one more shot. And also, if you haven't Fired your coach by now, you're behind the eight ball. Chris, I'm sure part of your news update coming up right now is going to be telling us all the coaches that are on second interviews and where they're being interviewed right now. I mean, The Bears are behind.
Every single team that fired their coach the Sunday of week 17 or the Monday after it were behind the Lions, Falcons, and Texans to begin with. And everybody else's coaching search has been going on for a week. And you gotta now wait till certain coaches are done that have already interviewed places. Let's say you loved Robert Sala. He's with the Jets right now for a second interview.
He might not even be let out of the building. The Jets might be like you, like us. We like you. Here's the contract offer. Yeah, let's go.
We'll give you a few minutes. You want to talk it over with your agent and your family? Go for it. But uh we'd like this to be done today, if you do, Robert. You okay with that?
Would you be What I my point for the moment is For the Bears. You look around and you're like Okay. We like these people, but I don't know if we'll have a shot at them because we've waited so long. Let's just stick with these two guys. We know the building, the building knows them.
And they're going to be coaching for their jobs. Yeah, 28 and 20, been in the playoffs twice. Right, two out of the last three years, right? They made two out of the last three years. But when you're the seventh seed who makes it, and then you get.
Waxed. By You know, the Second-seated Saints that shows you how far you still are. And you're three plus years now into this program, and the quarterback that the general manager traded up to go get instead of taking two other clear. Generationally talented players. You're gonna let that guy still go.
And Be with the coach. That's why I was saying, we'll talk about it with Kyle Bryant soon. The finish of the season. The finish of the season might Paper over? What clearly needs to be done or is the necessary piece to Stick with Two people you believed in back in the day and Despite the howling of the crowd, you're holding up.
Your game plan and your leather satchel, like your coach Dalen Hoosiers, and say, This is my. concept and those are the people on the floor. And 2021, as the kids say, shall be lit in Chicago. Chuck Pagano, Chicago Coaching News, announced his retirement. I know, and one of the great guys in this business.
Great guys. And the defense was dynamite. The only reason why the Bill the Bears made the seventh seed. Is the defense was well enough, was playing well enough, and was so good. That when David Montgomery started running the ball with success, and Trubisky wasn't making the mistakes they were winning football games.
But if you want to use his comparison. Overall, they weren't close to the second-seeded team. And in division. They played three strong quarters with the Packers in week seventeen before It all fell apart.
So good luck. ESPN's Jeremy Fowler saying wouldn't be surprised if Doug Peterson takes a year off from coaching. That means that he hasn't gotten Calls from the Jets or the Chargers. It's what that means to me. 'Cause all all all are the coach coaching aga hi h you know All other coaching interviews, yeah, for most hiring processes were long down the road.
And unless the Jets didn't call him up right away and say, Hey, You're free. I know you. I'm Joe Douglas. You know me. Yeah.
And, you know, my owners. Think the world of you. Come on up here. Let's get this thing done. I mean, we can put a pin in everything that we've done so far just to kick the tires on you, or the Chargers saying the same thing and.
That's my reading of that: he's under contract. He's going to get paid. Take a year off. And come back fresh when you're a year removed from Nate Sudfeld and everything else going on. Enjoy your.
It's not like he's just, you know what, I'm just beat down by this sort of thing. That's the way I'm viewing it. I don't speak to the guy. I don't know, but I've just been around the block enough: is that if the Jets and Chargers said, Hey, do you want to come and get the second overall selection? Hey, do you want to be Justin Herbert's head coach?
I think Doug Peterson wouldn't be letting it be known. He might just take the year off. And as we've seen, five, six, seven, eight jobs open up every single year. Like, what if he will be a top coaching candidate in 2021 on Black Monday? Yeah.
So Lastly, Urban Meyer looks like San Diego. The Chargers are putting their hand in there, continuing to look and explore. Urban Meyer is a candidate, according to Ian Rapaport. The two sides have spoken recently, so it looks like Urban has its choice. between Jacksonville and here in LA.
Man. You're Jacksonville, aren't you getting really antsy? Yeah, like we talked to you. You came on my boat.
Okay. If you're Shad Khan, you came on my boat. You know the state of Florida, coach. You know Trevor Lawrence. We got Trevor Lawrence.
100 million in cap space. But if Shad Khan, if Shad Khan. Does in fact want roster control. He did say that he controlled, had roster control in 2020. If he does want that, That would turn me off as a head coach.
That's for sure. I don't know if that's the case or not. They might have already hammered that out. But if Urban's been told this is your job. We want you.
This is the price. That's Trevor Lawrence. This is the guy that you want to hire a general manager. This is the staff that you got. What's taking so long?
Why are the Chargers able to swoop in? You know what Daniel Jeremiah said: hey, you can win faster. with Justin Herbert in this roster in Los Angeles. But they'd have to pay him more. Whatever he would be making in Florida, whatever the difference is.
You know. Gavin Newsom takes more than DeSantis. That's what I'm telling you. That's a fact. All right, we'll take a break here on the rich eyes and show Kyle Brandt.
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Oh yeah, look at this, famous birthdays today. Uh Sean Mitchell of of Rich Eisen Show uh Production staff, right there, producer Sean Mitchell giving us. Hey, Sean, who's Natalia Dyer? Do you know where that is? Apparently, she's on Stranger Things.
Okay. Very good. I have not seen Straight Meetings. I got to see that. Trace Atkins, 59 today.
Trace was on the show, and we had fun when we had him turn a Nick Saban press conference into a song. Check it out. We sent you this uh song that we Kind of created based off of Nick Sabin. He stepped to the podium. This is, when was this, November, December?
Chris was right around there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, early November. He steps to the podium and he starts talking about how somebody you strolled past coming to the podium, they just had torn-up jeans, ripped-up jeans, holes in them. And I heard it and I said, you know what? If we set that to music, it sounds like a country music song.
We figured, you know what, since you are an award winner, you are as good as they come, man. You are, Trace. Don't worry. You're so humble. Let me talk about that.
So we figured we wrote the lyrics out. We wrote his soliloquy out for you, right? Do we have the lyrics?
Okay, we got right there. And, but, okay. No, no, no. Set it up however you wish. You got your own.
Way of doing it. Here we go. Trace Atkins, everyone on the Rich Osin Show, doing Nick Sabin's How Did We Get Here. Oh. I guess I just want to know how we got here.
Not to offend anybody out there. But I just walked by some Yeah. James. Wore out jeans with holes in them all cut up. I just remember when I was a kid in West Virginia, I was ashamed to go to school because my jeans were wore out.
Only because we didn't have any better. How they buy them that way, and I just want to know. How did we get here? Tell me how did we get here? Don't understand these kids these days.
Yes, I never will.
Somebody please. Please tell me. How did we get here people? How did we get here? Is that I tell you what?
All right.
Somebody just, my manager just a few minutes ago showed me the new laminate that we have for our tour this year. We were trying, we were. We know what we're gonna call this tour this year.
So, I hope there's no copyright infringement. My tour this year is going to be the how did we get here tour. It's great. Back here on the Rich Eisen Show, 844-204 Rich is the number to dial, as always, here on Wednesday. Just always a fun Frolic of a conversation.
Co-host of Good Morning Football, his podcast, a very popular podcast on Spotify and the Ringer is 10 Questions with Kyle Brandt joining us back here on the Rich Island Show. How are you, Kyle Brandt? I'm great, Rich. And then I had to come in and follow the voice of Trace Adkins, and now I sound like Pee Wee Herman compared to him. That's no easy task.
Well, everybody sounds like Peewee Herman, sir, after his adult. He came in when we did the Good Morning Football in Nashville, when we were doing our show from Tootsie's. He came in and performed. And we had a guest host and Michigan man that day, Taylor LaWan. And he had a lot of takes on Trace Atkins, including his favorite song of Trace Atkins, which is called Honky Tonk Badonka Donk.
And Burlison and I broke up dying laughing. Great guy. The voice from God. And maybe from the devil. Amazing dude.
No doubt about it. Kyle Brandt here on The Rich Edison Show. Let's. Let's see, where do we start? Chris, did anyone hold a press conference today retaining their general manager and head coach?
Great question. I think so. What city did that conversation be in? Chicago. Kyle Brent, your thoughts.
Everything's going on? Specifically, Lake Forest, Illinois, where my childhood bed is about one and a quarter miles from Hallis Hall in that town. And man, I had Walter Payton Sheets on that childhood bed. And I I've had a lot of great days as a Bears enthusiast, as I call myself. Today was a really kind of mystifying one.
I will say this. Um This process that they're going through is Very slow and very annoying, which is ironic because there's two guys named Pace and Nagy. It's right on the nose. And I would just say, Rich, I love being positive about the league, about the teams coming on your show. And I find it really difficult with this team, them saying, we got it.
The message today from the Bears was basically like, Trust us, we got it. We have a plan. We're going to figure this out. And I just, I watched the Packers game, never mind the Saints game for a second, I watched the Packers game. They're not playing the same sport as their alleged biggest rival.
It's just not there. And so that's fine. You get down and you get played. Ryan Rodgers is great.
So What are the sweeping changes? I know it's very difficult to make, but and let me just get out of my soapbox here. To really change an organization, to change the culture, change the product. You gotta split some throats, and you gotta fire some good men, and you gotta do some things you don't wanna do. And we've seen it a million times where good football men lose their jobs and move on, and it was the best thing ever.
I don't think the Los Angeles Rams wanted to fire Jeff Fisher. He's a great man, good guy. Everybody believes in him. Look at what they've done since then. And I don't want Matt Nagy's head on the stake.
I love Nagy. I love Pace, having met both these guys. They're great dudes. But I think if Chicago is sick of hearing that, and I can't conscientably come on your show and be like, I loved it. I'm glad they're back.
It's a problem. And I don't even know who the quarterback is. We didn't even get into the quarterback yet.
Well, you got the quarterback.
Now you've got a defensive coordinator. That'll be an important hire because there shouldn't be any shortage of candidates, except for the fact that. Candidates have already been hired. You know what I mean? So, that's the problem here: is that if you want to make a change.
And the only coach, I guess, they could have jumped on who hasn't been already interviewed twice or once or is going to be otherwise retained for a while and is already on other radar screens and is maybe already interviewed would be Doug Peterson, who it seems will be available in 2021 if you make that move. And I feel the same way about Sam Darnold as well, just to, I guess, continue the script of talking about our teams that we wear our hearts on our sleeves in our professional capacities as well. Is good guy, great kid, and face the franchise, but it's just what's more like. If we had to put a poll question up that Darnold is going to take the Jets where they want to go anyway, and Nagy's going to take the Bears where they want to go anyway, or none of the above, I think none of the above would win 100% in that poll question. You know what I'm saying?
And it's not like that these people don't know how to do it. It's just, you know, times run a course, unfortunately. And I think if you're a Bears fan, you watch and you say, all right, it's one thing that we're not winning. We were eight and eight before we went into the playoffs rate and nine. We hired Matt Nagy for his offensive acumen, and we pretty much scored three points in a playoff game.
Three! Like until the last walk-off touchdown to Jimmy Graham, and he ran out the tunnel. We're not losing 41 to 38, Rich. They don't have any offense, and he didn't draft Trubisky. Trubisky was a stepchild for him.
That's fine.
So we picked bowls, straight. Foals didn't work out. Back to street. It's like they've had everything. And listen, it wasn't that long ago when, man, the Bears were good.
And I'm talking about pre-Mark Tressman, Lovey Smith Bears, ran the hell out of the ball, great offensive line, great pass rush. And they had something. They could do it. They could beat Favre sometimes.
Now it's like. it's tough to say we got it, and that was the message today because they haven't earned that. And I hate saying that about the Bears. I wish they did have it, but I haven't seen that they do. Kyle Brandt here on the Rich Eisen Show.
Okay, let's be more positive then. Let's go. Yes, please. For the love of God, yes, I'd love to.
So I saw last week, and you know, you've been doing this quite a bit on Good Morning Football, but this one resonates with me because one of my favorite movies of all time is Network. I think anybody who works in this industry on television, radio, what have you, in the communications industry, it's required. Viewing that movie from the 1970s, the mid-70s, and the character that Peter Finch played and won an Oscar for posthumously, as I might add. The newsman, Howard Beale, who went crazy on the air and the rest of the country actually kind of loved it because he was a plain speaker. I mean, the number of items from this film that actually saw the future is truly insane.
But you are now, you've taken to on Good Morning Football using famous movie soliloquies and speeches to inspire teams. And you did that for the Cleveland Browns this past week. I did. Correct? Where you got a trench coat, right?
I assume that's not your trench coat that was provided to you, right? You got a rain trench coat. It's so funny you say that, Rich. The hardest part of that whole thing, it wasn't the execution or the idea, the conceptualizing. It was finding a damn trench coat.
I mean, I was asking anybody I could think of, do you have a trench coat? An old London fog? Eventually, I found one from a friend of a friend, and it was like my white whale.
Okay, and so it, because you can't do it without the trench coat and Looking like you just came in from the pouring rain and lost your mind. And the neat thing is that I think you inspired. I saw people on Twitter like a little kid go to a window on behalf of the Cleveland Browns and scream, I'm mad as hell, I'm not going to take it anymore, which means you've brought some good to the world. I tried. I thought it was really cool.
And Rich, I think you would really appreciate the behind the music of how that came together because it's interesting from a generational standpoint. I was speaking to one of our producers about: here's what I want to do. I think I want to do the network speech, and I'm going to pick the Browns to beat the Steelers. And this producer, I'd say, is maybe 30. And he says, What's the network being?
And I go, you know, I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore. And he goes, I honestly don't know what that is. I send him the link, he watches it, and his feedback, which I respect, was. I don't know if you want to go with this. Like, I don't know this.
My generation doesn't know. I don't think this will be big online. And I said, you know what, I don't care. Of course I don't want it to be big online. Of course I want it to be big online.
But this is more important than that. This is that the message comes first. And he, to his credit, said, You should probably go with something else. And I'm like, no, I'm not going with anything else. And here's why.
because that was specifically picked For Browns fans, who the young Browns fans don't appreciate what that game meant as much as the older ones. These are for Browns fans in their 40s, 50s, and 60s who have gone through this for 25 years with the Browns. They understand Howard Beale. They remember it. They ain't on TikTok, but they know what it's like to be mad as hell.
So it was picked for a very specific reason that a 30-year-old would not understand.
Well, it was brilliant.
So I'd like to set up some divisional playoff games for the coming weekend. Do you have any other film?
Soliloquies or speeches that might uh that you could uh deliver right here on the Rich Eisen show that is specific to any of the teams uh for this coming football weekend.
Well, the um The underdogs jump out, of course.
Okay. And uh The Rams have a really tall order. really tall. And um you know, I was looking into this and Jared Goff versus Aaron Rodgers, two Cal guys. That's probably going to be Goff.
There's a nugget there where. Uh in since since 2016, in freezing cold temperatures games, Aaron Rodgers is 10-0 with 25 touchdowns and one interception. Jared Goff has thrown five interceptions and no touchdowns. He's one and one. It's a miserable comparison, and that's absolutely perfect for a motivational speech.
So you know what I would do? What do you got? I would do something I've done before a couple of years back. I would do the Norm Dale from Hoosiers. And I would say, I would break out the tape measure and I would say the goalpost right here, it's the same height as the one we have in SoFi Stadium.
The sideline is the same distance from the end zone. It's the same distance, 10 yards. I would get the tape measure out. I did that a few years ago when the Colts went into Arrowhead during the Andrew Luck last run, Frank Reich. And they had such a young team, and the Arrowhead was so imposing.
And I did the Norm Dale speech about, let's go out and get these guys. It did not work for the Colts, and I don't know if it would work for the Rams, but anytime you listen to the Hoosier speech, it gets the blood going. And you tell Aaron Donald that you want to know what flavor or gum Aaron Rodgers is chewing, right? Find it right, and you go up to Aaron, and he'll just look at Sean McVay and just say, Dentine.
Something like that. Oh, God, I love that movie. That's good. That's it. You know, the one last year was for the younger audience is The Wolf of Rolstree, isn't it?
Is that I'm Not Leaving. And I would say that that's more of like a favorite. That's more of a favorite. Who everyone says, you know, they're kind of ripe to be knocked off. They're not so hot right now.
Right. I would I would probably have to put that one on the Saints. because the Drew Breeze I'm not blaming Livin. That would be about his retirement. Right.
Show goes on. The playoffs are my home. That's Drew Breeze to the team about the idea that the Bucs are going to come in and Tom Brady is going to end his season and his career. I would say that would be the Wolf of Bourbon Street, we could call it. Yes, Wolf of Bourbon Street, everybody.
I love that. Have you ever used the always-be-closing speech? Have you done that one yet? From Glenn Garry, Glenn Ross. Have you done that one?
You see that watch? That watch costs more than your car. I have not done it, Rich. Who would that be good for? The always be closing.
Who would that be for? Coffee's for closers. Who would that be for right now? Would that be for Tom Brady? Tom Brady.
The ultimate closer. The ultimate closer, right? That he would just look at he'd look at everybody and and and show off the watch, right? That there's right Good team, who gives a bleep? Good quarterback, bleep you.
Go home and be with your fans. You want to work here? Clothes. I like it, Rich. I like it in the green juice of the closer.
I like it. And then, you know.
So, who would be the machine, right? I mean, that would be Breeze be the machine. He's past his prime, right? I don't know. But he's not past his prime.
I got something in the chamber on Friday that I'm going to do on Good Morning Football. Can you give me an idea? I'm going to pick an upset, and it's going to get a lot of people upset, as it did last week when I picked Browns over Steelers. And let's just say I probably will be wearing some brown plaid pants, and we might be in the 70s about to go up against the Soviets in ice hockey. Just get ready.
You're going to bust out Herb Brooks. You're going to bust out the Kurt Russell version of Herb Brooks. Is that what you're going to do? I might. Let's just say I'm looking over.
I'm looking through Amazon furiously for brown plaid pants, and they're even harder to find. Go to the person who gave you the person who gave you the Inspector Gadget in your life who coughed up that trench coat, you know? Yeah, hey, remember, you gave me that trench coat and you gave me the Norm Dale tape measure, too.
Now I need some Herb Brook plaid pants. And after that, if you could give me some William Wallace blue war paint for my face, hold. Oh, man.
So, you know what? I mean, that's The Miracle is one of the greatest sports movies ever. And. And the reason why I say that is, you know, I was 11 years old in 1980.
So I remember it. Like the day, I remember it like yesterday. I remember it like yesterday. When my brother Jeff was in charge, he's two years older than me. He was in charge of all sports blackouts in my household.
And what that means was back in the day when anything was tape-delayed on television, yes, kids, things were not shown live. They were held off until prime time because you couldn't put it on whatever. There was no Nickelodeons back in the day that you could slime, you know, you could slime the Soviets, right?
So, um, So we had to wait to see it.
So we went into sports blackout. No traffic and weather together. My parents couldn't listen to the radio, like nothing.
So I remember that to this day. And I remember what it meant to beat the Soviets. And in the same way, again, that we all thought that the World Series ended when the ball went through Buckner's legs, there was another game, you know, against the Finns, right? And so there was another game, and that was nerve-wracking, too. I clearly.
By stating that, know how this movie is going to end, and I'm still biting my fingernails watching Miracle. Isn't that incredible? It's so good. And the speech is so good. There's a part of it, a particular line that's my favorite part in the Kurt Russell speech, and I think it applies to some of the games this weekend.
He's in the middle of it. And make no mistake, he doesn't just say, We got this, we got this, we're better, we're better. There's a part where he says, If we played him ten times, we might lose nine. But not this one. Not tonight.
And I love that because there's a humility there that's saying: listen, I'm not going to lie to you guys. These guys are incredible. And I look at somebody like the Rams and the Packers, and I look at somebody certainly like the Browns and the Chiefs, uh the Chiefs and Packers might win nine out of ten, but all it takes is one. And uh listen, I I'm already getting the goosebumps right now. It's it's the best.
Me too. Me too. It it really is, because it is truly a possibility. We cannot sit here and say it is impossible. We cannot sit here and say it is impossible.
And um and and I I love speeches like that. I just it's so good. It's um Let me get let let me pick your brand out something, Rich. I know you have thoughts on this. Hopefully.
There's a b there's I'm in a I think there's a branding quandary going on with the league because last week we talked so much about super wild card weekend. Electric.
Next weekend we'll be checking. Championship weekend. We're divisional round weekend. It won't do. It needs some adjective.
It needs some possessed. Yes, it needs an adjective. Correct. You can't just go super. And by the way, the way I always said it, it brought Wiley Coyote to mind.
I always had to say it uh super Wild card weekend, pretty much. There it is. There's Wiley Coyote right there.
So, Dynamite. Division weekend. I don't know other than that, and then conference. Definitive. You can't definitive.
It's no good. We've taken on Good Morning Football trying to call it the throwdown round, which is just something we threw together off the top of our heads. But you can't, I mean, listen. NCAA tournament. Sweet 16, 904.
Those are all just gold. You can see the little TM right next to them. Trademark. They're good. Divisional.
You go to. Then you get a divisional round. It sounds like a bad geometry class I don't want to be in.
So somebody has to figure this out. If we did Super Wild Care Weekend this year, something divisional next year. Ultimate Tag? I don't know. The Watts have already done it.
It's time to do it. Ultimate Tag Elite Ace. That's it. Oh, man.
I love the Ultimate Tag. Ultimate Tag Division Winners. trying to tag wild card winners. Here they come. Brought to you by Derek Watt, introduced at the coin flip.
I don't know. I don't know. You're right. You know that I've been coming on this show for months, and the one constant, there's two, is talking about let's. And talking about the movie The Running Man.
That's all of the two constants. Our bedrock, Rich. It is. Ultimate Pag and The Running Man. Again, the fact, again, your recall of pop culture is unrivaled, sir.
But when we first talked about The Running Man, and of all the references to The Running Man that you had at your fingertips, were the names of the three members of the resistance that were supposedly on the beach, but were really held hostage twice. And Hadab! You'll remember them backsteen in the Maui Sun. And Rich, I remember them because my first ever fantasy team was called Whitman, Price, and Hadaba. And you were terrible because we drafted Dominic Davis in the first round.
It never worked out. Dominic Davis. Dominic Davis was supposed to be on the beach. He was supposed to be on the beach, but instead he was held hostage. I'll be back.
And I guess, again, who one of the greatest. greatest, greatest pieces of casting was turning Richard Dawson evil was just really spectacular. Yeah.
I mean, it was, he was evil. Yeah.
Conchida Alonzo was the naive, couldn't believe Witten Price and Haddad were there. And then Jim Brown is going to go just light her on fire with the work. All right, before I let you go, we started this hour. With me talking about how I played a mean game of battleship with my nine-year-old Coop yesterday. Um how old are your children?
Carl? I've got seven and four and a half.
Okay, so you're not yet there where I'm currently. I'm playing heads up for a while. But ask. We play that.
Okay, guess Chris Brockman, ask. Kyle Brandt, our poll question at Rich Eisen Show. Go forward.
Now, Kyle, would you let your kid win at board games? Yes or no? Great. Listen, it's an emphatic yes. I just played Guess Who, where you say, well, do they have a mustache?
Do they have a monocle? I'm making up all sorts of nonsense to try to just throw the game. This was my equivalent of benching Jalen Hurts, Rich. There was no integrity into my Guess Who game. I'm guessing, well, are they wearing a crown?
Are they riding a horse? I was just dragging my feet till he finally got his act together and won.
So it's an emphatic, emphatic yes. I sud-felded the game. They sud-felded it.
Well done. But flip the script. Ask him the question that you thought that you asked me. Would you cheat? Yeah, so Kyle, if you're like losing a battleship, right?
If you asked me, would I move the ship on my side? Yeah, would you move the little two guy around just to kind of prolong the game? Would you do that, Kyle?
So you're telling me, you're saying, well, listen, it ain't looking so pretty on the high seas here. I got a couple of pegs in my destroyer on A9 through A12. Maybe I just slide it down to A12. I think I would do that with my wife, but not myself.
Okay, well done. Kyle Brad. Father of the year, but not husband of the year. No, definitely not. Kyle, thanks for the call, man.
You're the best, Rich. Thanks, guys. Right back at you. Check out his podcast. Ten questions with Kyle Brad.
And ringer and spotify. God. Fantastic. I just love when Kyle comes on this show, man. All right.
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Here we go. Here we go. Billy Bob Thornton. Mm-hmm. Good.
What's the oldest residual checks that you have? Probably from like Knott's Landing and Matt Lock stuff like that. Oh, yeah, I get them for like 13 cents all the time, yeah, from Matt Landing. From Matt Lock? Oh, Knott's Landing.
That's like one scene or something in the early 80s.
Well, this one is from, let's see, right here. This one is from CSI Miami Caged. Nice. I can't believe this is insane, Billy. This is nuts.
This is a real one? This is a real one. from syndication. $153. Wow, nice job.
Nice job. This is a record, Billy. Wow. I'm going to open these up more in front of you. I'm telling you, you could actually afford to send this one in to get cash.
Sir, usually there must be a decimal point off. It's usually $1.53. Wow, I know, right? What's Caruso making if I'm making $133? Exactly.
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Oh, Deep Freeze.
Okay, the other episode, Caged, was for $153. Deep Freeze. Appropriately named. $3.09, everybody. And how ironic that your name is Rich.
Yes. Knotts Landing, huh? That's the oldest one you get? Yeah, I was like a friendly rancher or something on there. I had my scene with.
With Ted Shackefort. Yes, that's right. You were officially called the Timberman. The Timberman? Yeah, you were a Timberman.
Oh, yeah. On Matlock, you were a pawn shop clerk. Yeah, pawn shop clerk. I remember that one. Yeah.
Pawn shop clerk on Matlock. I cannot wait to have in-studio guests back again. Right. And then we will just I I I do have like eight residual checks that have not been opened. I'm hop I'm I'm I'm I'm reserving.
Huh? You could hold them and wait for that. Yeah.
No, no, but after 90 days, though. Mike after ninety days, supposed to be no bueno. You get a big one and I'd be Do you know what I mean? Maybe we should just do them. We should just do another segment like that, and then we'll roll it, right?
Why not? Should we shoot it? We should shoot it. Oh, yeah. But we have the animation.
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That's the best. Oh, then you're seeing the celebrity guests going, oh, that's right, that's from Rounders. Oh, man.
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Great chat with Kyle Brent right there, man. I got to show, I got to, you know what? It just reminds me. I should show my kids a miracle. That's absolutely what a total 100% amazing.
I think I cried. I think I cried at the end of the theater. When they come, even though you know what's going to happen, exactly. Like, spoiler alert. You see, I truly am on the edge of my seat.
You have to be. You know, it's so good. You know, I know I saw, you know, we had Josh Lucas here prior to the pandemic. For Ford v. Ferrari, you remember that?
Great movie. I think Glory Row just celebrated an anniversary. That film. You know, got a sh the rookie. The rookie's great.
I'm the big rookie. That is quay. I missed it up watching the rookie on a plane. The rookie. I don't know what it is.
It's just, well, fatherhood has softened me in a way where I cry at commercials now. But. Just that movie. About with Jim Morris, right? The pitcher who actually did play for Tampa.
Yep. And um Just finding out what's real and what's not in a sports movie is. It's something that I'm interested in knowing, and then other times not. Like again, we had the director, David Onspa, who directed both Rudy and. Um Hoosier's on the show.
He came on in the spring because I went so all in on Rudy that he said that. about what a fraud he is and how I can't stand him and Yeah. That David Onspa, the director, called me up to say that Rudy has heard. What I've said and wants to fight me. Like the real Rudy.
The real Rudy wants to fight me. Celebrity deathmatch. Right. Rudy. And, you know, my answer to that would be: hey, Rudy, if you want to fight me, we just got to make sure if we do set it up.
and that we're in each other's corners that you don't You don't go off sides too soon, you know? Like, you stay in your corner. You don't jump. Grass. At least it's true.
And then I'm like, you know, it's not real. He wasn't carried off on his shoulder. Like, you know, Montana, the whole thing from the movie. But here he is. There's a photograph of him carried off in a movie.
And there's Jeff Spiccoli in his slacks right there. I don't know who that kid is. Yeah.
Looking very Collinsworth-like. Yeah.
Yeah.
And so Yeah. He said that Hoosiers is less real than Rudy. He called Rudy And the adaptation of the real story, he called it a Ken Burns documentary. compared to Hoosiers. Because Angelo Pizzo, who is the writer of both of those films as well.
That David Onsbaugh is, you know, an Indiana man through and through. And that's part of the reason why he did Rudy and Hoosiers to. Sports store is based in the great state of Indiana. that he said that they sent Angelo Pizzo to Indiana. Yo mile and high, right?
To find out about the story, to kick some. rocks around and find out about this story of this small school that eventually was Hickory in the film. That did win the championship. Like, that's a true story. That's the true story on which Hoosiers was based.
And he said, David Onspaugh said that Pizzo Called him up and said, We don't have a movie. What do you mean? He goes, there's no... They're there. There's no.
Stories there. There's not like the biggest. The thing they overcame was like one guy was late to practice one day. Like, that's it. Like that was the biggest.
Hump to overcome. Otherwise, they just won games. They won games and they won this championship, and that's the story. Like, there's so they made everything up. Name it.
Coach Dale made up. Jimmy Chitwood made up. The fact that a teacher was a guardian for Jimmy Chitwood and then had a romantic relationship with the coach whose background was checkered past, and this was his moment to try and make it back himself. Made up. Dennis Hopper?
Made up. Made up. All of it made up. Picket fence made up. My team's on the floor.
Made up. And I'm like Measuring the rim. What? That wasn't me. What and then the worst.
Part about it because Hoosiers is my movie. The worst part about it is the famous montage when hickory was just beginning to get its traction. And just beginning to win some games. And then there's that montage where they're. Where they're winning games and they're laughing on the bus, and it's great.
It's clicking. And you see a shot of Dennis Hopper who's sober. On the bench, you know, Coach Dale's reclamation project is working. And they're laughing on the bench, slapping. Hands on knees, David Anspa said, Dennis Hopper, before he passed away, told him That Hackman thought this was such a horrible movie that.
That he told him right before The cameras rolled and the camera was rolling unbeknownst to them. This movie's so bad it's gonna ruin our careers. And Hopper laughed and slapped him on the knee, and that's what they used in the movie.
So sometimes don't try and find out what's real in the sports movies or not. But in the rookie what wasn't real was him Paul passed a sign that miles per hour sign and then Not knowing that he's throwing 90. I mean oh my gosh. Real stuff, Leonard Fournette and Barry Sanders coming up. But Rudy was real.
Ish, you know, the placing of the Dan Devine said that he would have. Cut. Every last one of the players that said, Our jerseys are on the desk, he would have accepted their jerseys. You know, we're not playing if Rudy's not playing.
Well I'll see ya. Speaking of jerseys, uh James Harden might be in a new one soon.
So here I am starting the show saying it's not going to happen for him and it's going to happen? Yeah, Shams is saying that it looks like it's either going to be Brooklyn or Philadelphia. Nets have a huge package of they offer reported. Is Kyrie one of them?
Now four first round picks and three pick swaps. And then the Sixers deal is Ben Simmons and a bunch of picks. That sounds kinda crazy. Hmm. I turn to my Philly guy.
You want Ben Simmons out the door, and in comes Harden? I love Ben Simmons. It's hard to say no to James Harden, right? You know, here's the thing is I am officially I'm out. Yeah.
Call. I am. Please, you guys stop me from now on when I'm like, I wouldn't break my team up for X, Y, and Z. Yeah.
There's always going to be, or I've learned my lesson. There will always be an NBA team willing to redo things right here, right now. In the middle of a pandemic. Philadelphia, they were like, again, the Philadelphia 7-Sixers the other day. Screw it.
Let's just turn over the apple cart, send it all out, and let's get Harden in here right now. Thing is like Brooklyn has has done the pick thing before. Garnett and Pierce back in the day. Went went horribly wrong.
Well, I guess Garnett and Pierce were at the time. I know that they were old at that point.
So it would be Harden, Kyrie, and Durant. After all. All of this. Yeah, but you and then you reward Hardin for the way he's conducted his business for the last few weeks. But if you're Houston, you have no choice.
I mean, get him the hell out. He's basically said it. Yeah, Houston. You got John Wall there basically saying, this is my shot. This guy doesn't want it.
Like, It's just nine games. What the hell is his problem? Out.
So, I mean, Houston, if that happens, they handle that.
Now it's on to Deshaun Watson, figuring that one out. Andre Johnson, your thoughts? Wow. Right? Wow.
I'm done, though. I am out saying such and such player. Don't break your team up, and nobody's going to be interested. I've learned my lesson. Start the show in hour one saying Harden's not going anywhere and by hour three he might.
