All I give a damn about is The Rich Eisen Show. Four-time WNBA All-Star Britney Hicks is here. Give it up for Britney, everybody. I'm joking around. That's my friend's wife.
I knew none of you knew WNBA players. This is the Rich Eisen Show with guest host, WWE superstar Seth Rollins. My feelings on CM Punk are not hard to find. Don't like the guy. Never liked the guy.
Haven't liked the guy. Probably never going to like the guy. Earlier on the show, undefeated boxing champion. Terrence Crawford. Coming up, UFC broadcaster Daniel Cormier.
And now, sitting in for rent, it's WWE superstar Seth Rollins. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, we are back here. Hour number two of the Seth freaking Rollins show. I can't get over it. It's still just so nice.
It's so wonderful. Yeah. I'm going to sell these cups in the parking lot. That's right. Put them in the trunk, man.
Put them in the trunk. We had a great first hour to talk to Terrence Crawford a little bit about his fight with Canela Alvarez coming up. We got DC Daniel Cormier, UFC Hall of Famer legend, coming up later in the show. This hour, we are going to talk. American football.
We are going to talk Chicago Bears. We are going to talk my opinions. You are going to get my wish list for the Chicago Bears for the 2025 season. We are going to go through every single game on this schedule. And I am going to predict, like Nostradamus, the future of the Chicago Bears football franchise.
Nostrasethis. Yes, Nostrasethis. I mean, I am the architect. I am the visionary. I am a seer of all things before they happen.
So we'll see. And in case you are just tuning in and you have no idea who this strange voice is filling in for Rich Eisen, I am WWE superstar, multi-time world champion, Seth freaking Rollins. The familiar voices, Chris, Jason, TJ, they are all here. Why are you wielding that? You got that Singapore cane that's Kindle stick over.
What are you doing with that? I don't know what's going on. I'm glad you're far away now. I just stay ready, Seth. You never know.
Who might make a run in? You know what I mean? Keep a weapon over there. Back to the door. I got to protect you if necessary because you can't move around that well right now.
So I'm here. Have you ever actually been struck with that thing? I have not. Full force. I've taken steel chair to the back.
Have you really? Yeah, my Samoan Uso Tadao hit me once, and that was like 15 years ago. And every Wednesday, I still feel it. Yeah, that's right. It just kicks in on a Wednesday afternoon.
I understand that. Let me tell you something about that Kindle stick over there. That is. Excruciating. Yeah.
It is so painful. People think, oh, it's just a little stick, a little whack. It's like being stung by a thousand bees at one time. As Tommy Dreamer told me, it is so bad. It's literally the only wrestling weapon that.
It's only real function. Is it as a weapon? Yeah. Like a steel chair you sit on, a table you put stuff on. This kendo stick is just meant to beat people down.
That's it. That's it. It's just meant for pain and suffering, and that's it. And it's horrible. We're also going to get to some callers.
We have power rankings later. We have big power rankings of professional wrestling. Finishing moves. That's going to be a lot of fun. I like that.
If you want, you can call us. The lines are open. We got a few waiting, but the lines are open. 844-204-RICH. R-I-C-H.
Still couldn't get that Seth number going, but maybe next time. Maybe next time. You know, you can watch us live on the Roku Sports Channel. Listen to us at the Infinity Sports Network Sirius XM channel 375. Follow us, Rich Eisen Show.
We need to get a Seth Rollins show at going. We need to do that. I'm just saying, for the future. You know, I'm not taking over anytime soon, but you never know. You never know.
You never know. You never know. Chia Pet grows in three days. You know what I'm saying? You got to plant those seeds.
You got to plant the seeds. That's it. It can't grow unless you water it.
So here we are, you know. Sprinkle, sprinkle, water, and fertilize. Isn't that sprinkle a little bit? Yeah, that's one of the fertilizer. What's going on over there, Brock?
Man, what's on your mind, man? What are you thinking? You know, I'm monitoring the British Open Open Championships going on now, across the pond, round one. A bunch of guys I've never heard of are in the lead. That's cool.
God, is that where golf's at right now?
Well, it's just first round at a major. You always get some randoms kind of at the top, but then, you know, as the weekend hits, the cream always rises to the crop, to the top, like Macho Man used to say. Yeah, brother. Matt Fitzpatrick is the major winner. He's at minus four, but I'm monitoring Rory, a big Rory guy.
You're a Rory guy. Big Rory guy. I always have a wager or two on him for the majors.
Okay. And then I'm thinking about, you know, thinking about the NFL stuff. We're thinking about Major League Baseball back tomorrow. Every summer leagues going on. You know, summer's kind of a lull, but there is stuff popping.
So I like thinking about all that. Um. You want to take more calls? What do you want to do right now? Yeah, let's just do it.
Open up with a call. Let's bring in a call. Let's go Tanner and Iowa. Let's go more Iowa. Iowa.
Tanner. What's up, man? Hey, how's it going? Hey now, good man. How are you?
Are you driving? What are you doing? I'm driving. Driving in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Cedar Falls, you and I, baby.
It's I. And I was gonna say first off, uh I loved your uh intro for the Iowa Hawkeye. uh When they played I think it was Washington. Yes. One of the best intros I ever seen in my life.
But uh what I was gonna Uh you know paid in Roctor is, he's a two-time trader to the Iowa Hawkeyes and uh Alabama, trims and tide, off-employment, uh He was ad. uh who if he considers himself the greatest Iowa Athletes that ever come out of Iowa, and he said he didn't want to be named. Um and he said Kaitlyn Clark and which I agree but It's kind of disrespectful to uh Seth Rollins that he didn't say uh Seth Rollins uh 1B and Kalen Park 1A, so I decided. But that's just a lot of gene should have won the Super Bowl NBP. That's right.
Like I said, Iowa buy it. Nah, it's just a fact, really. That's all it is, man. Pick six in the Super Bowl. Come on now.
So, what's the question, I guess? I guess uh It was just a comment, but I also or I guess the question would be what do you where do you consider the top five credits? I was athletes that ever come out of the state of Iowa and And also, if you're ready for the Vikings to beat the Mayors week one, oh, shame on you. Banner. Shame on you.
Shot out the door. There is no chance we are losing to J.J. McCarthy week one. Not a chance. Monday Night Football, I believe, as well.
If I'm not mistaken, no chance. Caleb's going to own the Vikings. That's what's going to happen. That's how I feel about it. Top five.
I don't know if I'm going to do top five. I mean, Caitlin's certainly up there. I'll throw some at you if you want. I think Dan Gable. Dan Gable is number one.
Roger Craig's from Iowa. Roger Craig is from Iowa. Davenport, actually. Yeah, yeah. I had Roger Craig autographed when I was a kid.
I thought it was the coolest thing in the world because he was from Davenport. And I was like, oh, I think his sister, somehow I had a connection. I want to say her name was Brenda. We might need to check that. I don't want to.
I think it was Brenda. This was a long time ago. I was like five or six years old. If I can remember that, that'd be pretty crazy. But somehow, my family had a connection to like a family member of his.
We were able to get an autograph because that's how it was back in the day. Like, you couldn't get there, was like sports memorabilia thing that didn't exist, like Fanatics, like that, whatever that world was, like, didn't exist. You couldn't get on the internet and just order a Roger Craig because there was no internet, didn't exist.
So it was like a friend of a friend somehow got me Roger Craig's autograph. I mean, he's up there. What an underrated Dallas Clark. Ahead of his time. Dallas Clark, Kittle.
Kettle. Yep. Yep. Kurt Warner from Talk UNI. Warner?
Yeah, man. Yeah. What a stud. What a story. What a stud.
He's incredible. Smart guy, too. Really smart cat. Lolo Jones is from Des Moines. Really?
I did not know that. Dang. All right.
Okay. I'm into that. I can throw myself on that list. Of course. Yeah, I can throw myself.
It's my show. I can do what I want. I can throw myself on that list. Your name's on a mug. That's right.
Who else's names on a mug? You know what I mean? Come on now.
So, yeah, that's cool. I dig that. That's a good question.
Sort of question. But yeah, man, there's no chance. Bears are going to beat the Vikings. I'm still stuck on that. That hurt my feelings a little bit.
I was a weird place because we got all sorts of, you know, I'm a Bears fan, but you got Packers fans. You got Vikings fans. In the last decade, you've now got a bunch of Chiefs fans acting like they were Chiefs fans the whole time. Right? Come on.
Yeah, Elvis Gerbach. You were a fan.
Well, I was in that weird spot where you can kind of pick and choose who you want to root for. You know, like you're a Chicago Bears fan. I assumed you'd be a Cups fan, but you're a Cardinal guy. Cardinal guy, yeah. That's my grandpa.
It's a family thing. Just was passed down to me. You know, I had no understanding of it as a child, especially the Bears, because we were just losing lots, lots of losing in the 90s. I mean, there was a nice little window there. Had the Super Bowl against the Colts, lost again, but still, you know, we were winning some years there.
Things were good with Lovey, or at least sustainable. And then back to the losing.
So, yeah, they. I've been no explanation. Just my grandpa. That's the hat he wore. He watched the game.
We went to church. We watched the games. That was it. Cardinals were good, though, because they won a lot, a lot of winning. They're there.
They just win all the time. Even when they're bad, they're like still over 500, you know, maybe squeaking into the wild cards.
So, yeah, man. Very, very odd place. Iowa. Speaking of Caitlin Clark, guys, a little breaking news here. She announced that she's not going to participate in the upcoming three-point contest at the WBA All-Star weekend because of the injury.
She re-aggravated that groin strain this week against the Connecticut Sun. They were playing at Boston Garden.
So major bummer there. And then this week on Women's Sports Now, you can watch right here on the Roku channel. Christine Brennan joined the ladies to talk about, you know, she was very critical of USA basketball. Even Caitlin Clark off the Olympic roster last year in Paris. They asked her, the esteemed journalist, who she would have taken off the roster to replace with Clark.
Caitlin Clark was playing great. By that point, her statistics were much better than Diana Taurassi's.
So I'll pick Diana Taurassi. 42 years old, basically given a spot, of course did not play. You know, in the, well, in fact, it led to a great line for me in the book, cynical line for sure, but Diana Taurasi and Caitlin Clark both played the same number of minutes and scored the same number of points in the gold medal game against. France, which was a ragged one-point victory. And of course, zero points and zero minutes played.
Diana Taurasi was on the bench in Paris and Caitlin Clark was 4,000 miles away in the United States. Diana Taurassi's great. She's amazing. And she's cynical and acerbic. I personally would not treat a 22-year-old the way she did.
I mentor many hundreds of, you know, over the years, 22-year-olds and younger. I would never, never be as mean-spirited, kick him in the shins as she was with Caitlin Clark. But I mean, it's a free country. She can do that. You know, when she said reality is coming and kind of laughed like, ha ha, you know, yeah, well, as we now know, reality was coming, you know, as Diana.
As Diana said for her on that one. But that's okay. I mean, that's not, you know, it's not the end of the world. But yeah, I mean, Diana Taurasi was given a spot to get a going away present. Let's just be honest.
Women's Sports Now, that episode is up now. New episodes every Thursday, of course, with Susie Schuster, Renee Montgomery, Saratiana, and Colleen Wolf. This week's guest, Christine Brennan. Wow. That was intense.
I was not ready for that take, man. That was intense. That was, you know, kind of the sentiment at the time. Like, if you're really serious about growing the game of women's basketball worldwide. Why wouldn't you have the most famous women's basketball player currently on the roster?
So that's, you know, Christine kind of went all in on that last year and has kept that thought going. She's Caitlin Clark. She is like a lightning rod. Right for the good and the bad, whatever the attention is. And I can't think.
I can't think. I mean, I wasn't around during the Jordan rise, you know, being a Bulls fan in the Midwest. I got the 90s and the championships and all the love for Jordan. But I don't know, I can't think of an athlete in a sport that has done like. It's been so polarizing.
Um For nothing. You know, for nothing, for just she's just playing basketball. You know what I mean? She's not like a political figure. She's not outspoken about anything.
She tries to just stay in her lane and do her thing. And somehow, she's been such a lightning rod for takes on both sides of it. And I just, I simply cannot understand. I'm kind of like. I'm not anti-Diana Torosi either.
I think she's a legend. She's a legend. She's a goat. But I understand that perspective of like, why are you, why? Why would you do this?
Like, why are you dunking on the next generation? Like, what's the point? What do you get out of this? What's the point? Is it the tough love that you were raised on?
Is that part of it that you think you're helping condition the next generation to be tougher? Is there something to that? I don't know. I've thought about this. Obviously, Caitlin from Iowa.
So there's kind of like that sort of synergy there, you know? She probably thinks Cooper DeGene should be the MVP as well. But there's so many. cards that get played on her. You know, oh, she wasn't ready for the Olympics.
Uh the race card gets played on her for some reason as well, that she's, you know, getting all this attention 'cause she's white. And uh and like I said, she has done nothing but just try Try to stay, keep these blinders on and play basketball. And like, I just really can't, I can't wrap my head around it. And at the end of the day, I go, well, look. All the press is good press, right?
All the press is good rest. All the press is good press. You know, yeah, spell her name right. Get it done. Women's basketball, women's sports are only on the rise.
And so I guess you just take the good with the bad and you ride it, and you be that you go out and perform, and that's what she does every single night. You know, bummer that she's going to be out for a little while with this injury. Missing her at the all-star game, even in the three-point contest, that's a bummer.
So they didn't say anything about her not playing in the game yet, though, or just she's just the all-star, it was just a three-point shootout right now.
So. No, she can't play in the game. She can't play in the game if she can't. I would imagine she's not playing in the game. She didn't play last night.
I mean, I could shoot threes with his knee, you know what I'm saying?
So I'm not. But I wouldn't be playing in no game.
So that groin can't be good if she's taking a three-point contest off. She's not going to play in the game. But like you said, it's very polarizing. You know, even like yesterday, Brockman and I got into this heated debate about it. And I think the bottom line is this.
Five, six years ago, we never would have gotten into three years ago, we wouldn't have gotten into this debate about the WNBA. What was the debate? You know, it's just, you know, people have the people saying she's the greatest of all time. And I'm kind of like, I get pushed back on that a lot. And then.
You know, social media came after me one day because I said maybe she didn't deserve to be on the Olympic team. Not that I didn't like her, not that she wasn't good, but you know, she was a rookie. Maybe she didn't deserve. And that set off like firestorm. Yeah, she anytime you mention her name, man, it just brings out the best and the worst of people.
And like you said, she's just a girl who seems like the female Kevin Durant. I mean, all she wants to do is ball. Yeah. All she cares about. But fan bases, whether you like her, you know, you don't, it brings out the worst in people sometimes.
I get it. Yeah, man. It's interesting. But like I said, she puts eyes on the W. She really reminded me.
And I just say this. I don't mean this. She's so. Uh, this is a bad word, this is a bad word to say. She's a stump button, yeah.
I know, no, she's so, she's so plain, she's so like, but that's not an insult, no, no, no, she's so uncontroversial, she's so normal. Like, I feel this way about Taylor Swift a little bit. I go, like, I, you know, like, Taylor Swift was this massive phenomenon. This is a huge thing, the highest-grossing tour of all time. And, like, I, I, you know, I look, I think Taylor Swift's got some bangers, you know, I think she's got some great songs, like, she's just like a normal, like, just a normal thing.
Like, she's not, she's not a gimmick, like, she's not out there, like, doing a bunch of crazy stuff to get attention or anything like that. She's just like, you, you look at her, you listen to her, she's just like a normal thing. I'm like, how does this hysteria happen? I felt that way, yeah, but where does it like, I don't get it, I don't understand, like, you know, uh, just to stay on the music, like Beyonce, I get, I get Beyonce, like, Beyonce is like this thing, you know what I mean? She's a one.
She's one name, she's Beyoncé, Destiny's Child Can, but she's like, you know, she's like this. You see her, and you go, Oh, that's a star. Yeah, you know what I mean? That's a star. And she makes these bangers, she's got this voice, like, she's got the move, she looks the part, like, all this.
I get all this, but then you get a Taylor Swift or a Caitlin Clark, and you're just like. Yeah. You're a baller. You got these hits. You put up these points, put up these numbers.
But like you said, her numbers aren't like the, you know, the craziest numbers you've ever seen in your life. Like, she's not scoring 30 points a game or anything like that. After the WNBA, her numbers are pretty good. They're great. They're fantastic.
But she's not like at the top. She's maybe top of the list in assists, I think. But she's not, like I said, she's not putting up Jordan numbers. She's not averaging triple-doubles. She's not changing the way the game is played.
She got the long ball, but. You know, it just blows my mind a little bit that the fascination around her is shocking. But I love it. I love every second of it because these women are hustlers, man. And whatever spotlight you can put on them is fantastic.
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So, you know, we love talking movies around here. You know, we love talking comedy around here. We also love talking about classics around here.
So, you know what I'm all about. That said, All of that said. You know how I must have felt when I was sitting in the movie theater like I was the other day watching the previews, and up came a preview. for the naked gun. with Liam Neeson as Frank Greben, junior.
That Preview had me at hello. I loved police squad back in the day. I loved the naked gun back in the day. And here comes the naked gun once again with yes, Liam Neeson as Frank Drebbin Jr. Come on now, son of the celebrated police squad, Lieutenant Frank Drebbin from the original movie, Paul Walter Hauser's in this movie, also Pamela Anderson.
Guess who also makes an appearance? WWE superstar. Cody Rhodes, and the producer of the movie is Seth McFarlane, the creator of The Family Guy. Come on now, this is gonna be so much fun. I'm excited to see The Naked Gun in theaters on August 1st.
So. What do you do on August 1st? Of course, you're going to a theater near you and you're seeing the naked gun. I might even be there. Boom.
I did not approve this, but that's part of me delegating to you our social media grand maester. You put out on Instagram a photograph. It says Breaking Bears Trading for Russell Wilson. And what's today's date? What's today's date?
It is April 1st, Rich. And that is what? It is April Fool's Day.
So it's five minutes to air, and my phone's on the desk and it's buzzing. And I see it is, you know, it's. It's Jeff Garland. Is the caller there? Is the caller there on the line?
Which Jeff from Chicago. What's funny about it? Nothing's funny about it. Nothing is funny about it. Our friend Doug Robinson texts me at the Capitol Let.
Russell Wilson, he says, you know, Rich doesn't usually get the scoops. Adam Jedder should be on this.
Well, that should have made me suspicious. But no, I have so much respect for the Rich Eisen show that I know that they have connections that nobody else has. That's true.
Well, you know what, Rich? I'm not going to swear, but I got to tell you, your little social media boy, he's going to get his. Oh my god. TJ, do you have anything to say to Jeff Garland? Yeah.
Happy Aquarius Day. All right.
Hey, TJ, you don't know what you've brought down on yourself. You don't even have a clue. I'm very power that I have, especially in practical jokes. I'm going to nail you so hard. You know what?
I hope you enjoy your testicles right now because they're going to disappear. No, but I. Oh my god. Yeah. All right, let's talk the Bears, baby.
Seth Rollins here, WWE Superstar, filling in for Rich Eisen on the newly named Seth Rollins show with the new logo and all that good stuff. We are going to talk Bears. We are going to talk Chicago Bears. I am, in case you didn't know. Chicago Bears.
What? The Bears. Shocking. I know. Shocking.
Chicago Bears, American football fan. I have loved the Bears pretty much my entire life. Look, I'm going to make a confession. I'm going to make a confession to you guys. I Oh God, it's hard.
I I uh I had a bit of an affair. With the mid-90s San Francisco 49ers.
Well, I mean, they. I guess I get it. Looks like things weren't going well. He got caught up. Yeah, things weren't going well with the Bears.
Do we need to pull a couch over? I just pulled a couch over. You know, the names, you know, Steve Young, big names. Jerry Rice. Jerry Reynolds.
Ricky Waters. Not bad, yeah. Yeah, not bad. And for a season. Prime time.
Deon. Neon Deon. I loved Deion Sanders when I was a kid, man. I love him today. Who didn't love him?
Love him right now. Yeah, I mean, he's the best. He's awesome. But I mean, what was not to love?
Well, I was a Cowboys fan, so there was a lot not for me. Yeah, yeah, you were a Cowboys guy. That was the rivalry.
So my brother, also a Chicago Bears fan, had a love affair with the mid-90s Dallas Cowboys. Right.
So me and your brother. Yeah, you'd be tight. Aikman. Smith, Irvin, the whole nine. Moose, the whole nine.
Yeah, we did. We had the starter jackets for these teams. We did the whole thing. Yeah, it was really depressing time. And then the starter jackets were a movement in the mid-night.
That's true.
Starter jackets were a movement. Yeah, but we could have had Navy and Orange, you know? But instead, I had red and gold. And I'm ashamed to admit it, but it's the truth. But I found my way back, man.
I found my way back. Through Brian Ehrlicher and Lance Briggs, and Charles Pina Tillman, and Devin Hester. And now I'm living in it with Caleb Williams and the Chicago Bears, and I am back in full force, and I may be. The world's biggest Chicago Bears fan. Certainly the most prominent, I would say, or up there at least.
Up there. Yeah, I mean, there might be some people arguing with me on that, but I am. Till I die now. Loyalty to the Chicago Bears. But I got some nits to pick.
Oh. Yeah. I got some nits to pick some nits with the Chicago Bears. I have a wish list. Oh, I have a wish list for the Chicago Bears.
If I had one, I got five. I don't got just one. I got five. I got a top five. For the Chicago Bears 2025 season, I got a wish list for you, and we're going to kick it off.
With number five. You guys ready for this? Look at that. Look at that graphic. Four, five, six.
That is just all them on the mine. Look at that. Kind of look a little bit like Jesus there. I like that. I like that.
Well, you were the Messiah. I was the Messiah. You still are, I guess. I am. Always.
Yeah, we can't. Always from you. That's right. Alright, number five. Listen guys.
Yeah. Can we just do one, head coach? Just one coach this season. You know, I'll double up on it. Maybe just one offensive coordinator as well, please.
Just one. If we could just Declan Doyle, just stay in that spot. I know we know Ben Johnson's running the offense, but just one. Just one coaching staff. Just lock in for the year.
Get back to the old Bears ways and just not be firing nobody. You know, we don't need in much chaos, okay? Number four, number four, and this one, you know what? I'm gonna say this, and not gonna be that hard. It's not going to be that hard because we should have been 2-0 against the Packers last year.
My wish at number four, 2-0 against the Green Bay Packers. We beat him in the finale at Lambeau already, Caleb undefeated at Lambeau Field. But we should have beat him at Soldier Field as well, if not for a bit of a coaching hiccup. Maybe could have got a couple extra yards, kicked a little bit closer.
So the trajectory of the ball goes up instead of out, and you don't have that block. And we're 2-0 against Green Bay in the Caleb Williams era. But we can do that in 2025, I think. No problem is what I say. No problem, Green Bay.
Listen to me on that. Wow. Uh, number three, this uh, I think it's gonna be again, we can do this. This is easy, an easy list so far, guys. Easy list.
Number three, no what the moments, no WTF moments. Let's just pump the brakes. If we're gonna lose, let's just lose to the better team.
Okay, I don't want any coaching snafus from the sideline. I don't want any, should we call it timeout? Do we have a timeout? What's a timeout? I don't want any none of that.
No Thanksgiving Day breakdowns. I don't want any of that. I don't want, like I said, get closer when you can. I don't, I don't want any like, oh, let's only rush three on the Hail Mary. None of that.
All right.
Let's just play the game. Do it smart. Use the analytics. Do the right thing. No crazy moments.
No WTF moments. Please, please, guys. For the love of God, don't break my heart. All right.
Number two, this is a bigger ask because. in the history of Chicago Bears football never been done. I need her. Four. Thousand yards passing for the kid.
Come on now.
King Caleb. We are ready. We are prime. We got more. We got Adunze.
We got Loveland. We got Komet. We got Luper Verden III. We got Swift. We got Roshan.
We got Ballers. Achaeus. We got them all. Let's get it done. And we got a veteran offensive line.
So we're going to keep Caleb upright this year on his two feet. Protected. We're not going to get 70 sacks this season. Uh-uh. No, sir.
4,000 yards passing. I want it. I need it. I can feel it in my bones. I can feel it.
And now we have reached my number one. Oh, baby. What do we got? And I thought about going all the way with it. I really did.
There was a strong debate in my heart. About going all the way with number one. But I said, you know what? Let's just be real, man. Let's be real.
What can we do that's real? And what we can do that's real. We can bring the NSC North home. To Soldier Field, to Lake Michigan, to Chicago, Illinois. I want to take back the North.
That's what I want. I'm with you, Poles. I'm with you. We're going to take back the North. We will be the kings in the North.
Again, it is time for Chicago Bears football to rule the NFC North. Bye-bye, Green Bay. Bye-bye, Detroit. Bye-bye, Minnesota. You don't stand a chance.
We're taking the North. That's what I want. That's my wish list for Chicago.
Okay. What do you guys think? Can we get these things done? What do you guys feel? I think that's a great wish list.
Look at the bears. We were high on Caleb last year. I'm going to continue to be high on Caleb. I think he is that dude, and I think he should be very happy heading into this. I love it.
I love it. And if you got any problem with it, you can call in and you can talk to us about it because we got a phone line for that. 844-204-RICH. Call me. Tell me what you think about the Chicago Bears.
Should we do it? Should we do the schedule? Let's do it. Should we do the schedule? Should we just go?
Bears win-loss game with Seth Rollins. Look at this. I got this fancy. Look at this thing they got here. This is cool.
Let's fancy all of it. Yeah, man. Laminade or Nick. I can't spill nothing on it and ruin it. It's going to be great.
Let's go through the schedule. Let's make predictions. All right, here we go, Seth. Week one, Monday night football at home against the Vikings. Oh, W, no doubt.
I W at home, Monday night football, rookie quarterback on the other side. Dennis Allen is going to feast on JJ McCarthy. That's bottom line. We're going to win that game. Week two at Detroit.
No As much as I would like to say we're going to go 17-0, I can't do it. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I'll take an L. I'll take an L in Detroit on week two. I'll do it. I'll give Detroit that.
They're still a great team, well coached, a lot of talent on that squad. We'll see what they look like early in the season. New coordinators on both sides of the ball, but I'll take the L there. Week three, home, mid-afternoon. You know, Tom Brady's going to be there against the Cowboys.
Week three, Dallas. Dad is kind of worse. Blowout. Blowout. Blow out.
Blowout game. Done. Over. Two and one. Two and one.
Bears, baby. Tallis instead. Come on. Get out of here. Cowboys are going to win that game.
They might not win a road game all season. Texting you that sounds good. Please do. We watch it together, sir. All right, we'll do it.
Week four in Vegas, Raiders. W. Three and one. W. Three and one heading into the bye week.
And then we got Monday night football at Washington. This is a get-back game right here, baby. This a get-back. We need this one. We need this.
All right.
We need it. I don't like that bye week being so early in the season, by the way. Before I let in there, I don't like that. Don't like that. But we need this win at Washington.
This is going to be a get-back game for that Hail Mary last year. Four and one home for the Saints. Yes, sir, W. Five and one at Baltimore. That is now we're getting to the sticky part of the schedule here.
Yeah. God, Harry. I think Baltimore, again, the most complete team in the NFL. I'll take an L there.
Okay. I'll take the L. All right.
Oh, God. I hate saying that out loud. More AFC North. Back-to-back tough AFC North games at Cincinnati. At Cincinnati.
Week nine. Week nine. Oof. Oof. Oof.
Oof. Oof. No, I take the L. Oh, God. Two in a row.
It hurts me to say, but I'll put the L on it. I'll put the L on it. Eesh. Uh-oh. Eesh.
Eesh. All right, week 10. Get right, game. Yeah, get right, W. Giants.
W, taking that. I don't know who Russia Williams is. You love football now. Yeah, I love football. Post it on the threads.
Love football. We'll thread it. Here we go. Division at Minnesota. I still think, I do not think JJ McCarthy is going to beat Chicago this season.
I don't think it's going to happen. Not at home, not in Minnesota, not in Chicago. Not going to happen. JJ watches a show, too, so he probably watches it. Good.
Please use it as motivation. Go out there and throw a few interceptions. Please. We'll take it. All right, seven and three.
Home for Pittsburgh. Oh, Rogers going down. Rogers is going down. After you put him in the top 10 yesterday. I don't care.
He's going down. He wasn't number one, was he? He was number 10. He wasn't number one. Uh-huh, he's going down.
Cam Hayward, we're going to get you a chain. Don't worry, baby. We're going to get you a chain. I love football. I love football.
Eight and three at the champs. At the champs. Friday night. You know what? That's a Black Friday.
Black Friday. If we were in Chicago, I think I might go Chicago, but I'll give Philly the W there. I'll give it to Philly. I hate football. I hate it.
Football. All right.
Eight and four. At Green Bay. We beat him in Lambeau last year. We'll beat him again in Lambeau. December football.
Drop him. Drop him in the cold on the frozen tundra. Take him down. Nine and four, week 15, home for Cleveland. Shadira going to be starting by then?
Probably. Probably, yeah. I'll take a dab there. I'll take another W. Oh, man.
I love it. 10-4? 10-4. Home for Green Bay. Home for Green Bay.
It's Saturday. Another win. I love George Winter. Another win. We are not losing to Green Bay.
It's not going to happen. I said 2-0. It's on my wishlist. I can't go against my own wishlist. I'd be crazy, Tom.
Why would you? At your secretly favorite team, 49ers, week 17. Dude, you know what? I would love to predict a victory in week 17. We get mauled by the 49ers every season.
Every time we match up with them, it's bad. Kittle goes off against the game. Kittle went off. He could have a stretch where he doesn't catch a pass for four weeks, and then he plays Chicago and he scores six touchdowns. Catches that game.
It's brutal, dude. Yeah, I'll give San Fran the W there. 11-5, last game of the year, week 18, home for Detroit. Could be the final game of the season. This could be Sunday night football to decide the NFC North.
It will be. That's my prediction. It will be a deciding game for the NFC North, and Chicago will win. In Chicago, we will beat the vaunted lions and take. Back the North.
12 and 5. Kings in the North. Kings in the North. 12 and 5. That's my prediction.
I'm sticking to it. Chicago Bears football. We are going to take the North. Let's take the NFC. Let's take the whole thing, man.
I want it all. I wasn't the one seed, but that should win your division. That's going to win the division. I want the Eagles in the playoffs. Yeah.
Because I want revenge for the double doink. Doink doink. You got to remember, we were a field goal away. Double doink. That was the year they went to the Super Bowl.
Nick Foles wins the Super Bowl for the Eagles that year. Am I correct? Is that right? That's right, right? That was the double doink year.
That was the double doink year. 2017. I'm pretty positive. Wow. That is all because we couldn't kick a field goal.
Mitch Trubisky led the game-winning, could it be game-winning drive? I remember where I was at. I was at a Hooters. Yeah, you were in Fort Myers, Florida. Oh, what?
It was the original? I don't think so. It might have. Hooters in Fort Myers, Florida. I remember it.
There was a live event that afternoon or that evening. Arn Anderson. Double A. Double A, the enforcer, was the producer on the show, and the game was going long. I had to text Arne and tell him I'm going to be a little late.
I'm watching the Bears. He's like, I got a kid, I understand. No problem. You're on last. Just make sure you're here by intermission.
So I was there. I remember it. We're driving down. I'm thinking, this is it. We're going to get a playoff victory.
Doink, Doink. Again, I have a habit of this in chaotic losses. I dropped to my knees. Same as the Hail Mary. I fell to my knees.
Were you by yourself? I was by myself. I was totally. This was like the stage of my life where I was traveling by myself. My buddy, my travel buddy, when I used to drive, was Claudio Castagnoli, Cesaro in WWE.
We'd travel all the time. I think this was like a period of time when he was with Jack Swagger, and they were like the real Americans or un-Americans or whatever. And so he was riding with Zach. Or Zeb Coulter and Jack Swagger. We're the people.
We the people, yes. And so I was by myself, solo. I went to the Hooters, I had some buffalo shrimp, you know, had a diet coke. I had a couple of curly fries, you know. And I thought, here we go.
This is it. We're going to get a dub. Great, great year that year, too. It was Naggy's rookie year. Everybody was like, Matt Naggy, the future of Chicago.
Oh, all downhill after that. How was your match that night? I don't even remember. Couldn't tell you who I wrestled. Like you were saying earlier, you don't remember the matches, but you remember where you were for double doink.
I remember the moments. I remember the moments. And that's our second Hooters shout out this week. How about that? I brought up Hooters on Monday.
Is Hooters still around? Are they still a restaurant? People still go there. Not many. Not many left.
That's sad, man. You know, Hooters is where I used to watch all my WWE pay-per-views when I was a teenager. Uh, they used to put them on because it was a big deal. You put on the pay-per-views. You had, I feel so bad for these waitresses, though.
So, you'd show up an hour early. Say the pay-per-view started. I was in the Central Times, so it started at seven. I'd show up at six o'clock to get my table and get set up. I'd be there for four hours and I would have a water, a water, and you get a soda or like a you know, whatever, a cola because refills on and french fries.
And then you get like maybe if you were if you made a couple extra bucks to car wash that week, I would order like a like a chicken sandwich or something. Buffalo shrimp was my go-to. The Hooters' curly fries were delicious. Oh, man. Hooters, high quality.
I loved Hooters. I still love Hooters. The Breaded Wings type. Yeah, dude. Very good.
The Bread and Wings. People don't, they don't know about the, but you don't do Bread or Wings anywhere. Not like that. You know what I mean? You don't get that very much.
So that's my Bears' prediction for the season. My wish list. I want the Eagles. in the playoffs. I want revenge for the double doink.
I want the NFC North. I want it. Uh This episode is brought to you by Navy Federal Credit Union. Navy Federal can help you find and finance the right vehicle with ease. And this summer, you're in the driver's seat with savings.
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Auto zone. restrictions apply. I've asked you this before, but I'll ask it again because it's the first time that you're here in studio. When you walk around and people see you, which is the movie or. play or anything that you get from like depends on the person okay uh certainly uh dumb and dumber is a is a big hit okay uh you know internationally and uh pick an airport oh my god dumb and dumber oh my god yeah um uh you know and there's newsroom and there's gettysburg and you know you get those People, you know, because of Winn-Dixie, which is a little family movie that I, you know, was very happy to get paid for.
Sure. Was going, Winn-Dixie was, my God, I grew up on that. I'm going, okay. How about speed? Speed, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Do you get that a little bit? A little bit.
Okay. I mean, I was. I was the guy back in the office, you know, going, speed. I remember getting a script, and they said, um. And I died on page 22.
I died in the elevator shaft. Oh. And I said, You know, the career's in trouble, but it's not in that much trouble. I'm going to pass.
So, and the agent said, Hang on, there's another draft coming. You die later. I said, Okay. And it did. It came in about, you know, page 80.
Oh, so you gained 60-something pages. I did. I'm going, well, okay, all right, I'll do it. And Keanu and Sandy Bullock, and you know, it was like, okay. Uh, happy to do it.
Uh, and I get into the house, and I've got we're in somewhere near here, I think, somewhere south of LA. And uh, And I've got full SWAT gear on. You know, it's like 80 pounds of whatever. And I got to crawl in through a little window and look like Harrison Ford doing it. And I'm like, I'm catching on the window frame and all that.
I finally get in. And the moment in speed is I've got to turn and look at the thermostat and understand that that's not a thermostat. That's a timer for a bomb. And it's 3, 2, 1 and about to blow up. And so I'm going, how am I going to do that?
I'm not gonna. Do I make faces? Do I, you know, what? Do I cry? Do I, what do I do?
And I remembered an interview that Roy Scheider did for Jaws. And they asked Roy, that moment Roy, when you saw the shark. My God. I mean, one of the great acting moments in cinematic history. How did you do that?
And Roy said, well. I looked down and when I looked over at the shark, I made sure my cheek muscles were a little up. And then I just dropped him.
So I said that's what I'll do.
So I looked at the thermostat. Cut. Lunch. Learned. And I have gotten critics.
That moment in speech. Jeff. I mean, I get emotional talking about it. Yes, yeah, well I Roy Scheider. I love that story.
Oh my gosh. And it's funny you say that was right around here because the 105 is right up some little house that they rented. Because the 105 freeway was just, it wasn't completed yet, and that's when's right here. This freeway that's right here. Yeah, it was somewhere.
That was the one that was used in speed. There you go. Yeah. I'm not sure if I can do it. Ah, got that wish list out of the way there.
Felt good about it. I felt great about it. I felt this very reasonable. Wishes for the Chicago Bears season, you know? Like, very reasonable.
I think that, you know, I might have undersold the team. We might be able to get more, more wins. We could get more than more wins. Yeah, why not? Wow.
Who knows? Who knows what could happen? Black Friday is crazy. Anything could happen on Black Friday, man. That's a good point.
Who knows? Who knows? Who knows? All right.
You know, we got a lot of callers over here, man. We got a lot of callers. And I ramble too much.
So we get on. There's like a minute to go.
So maybe we should get to see some of these callers so I can properly answer some questions. How about it? All right, let's see what we got. Let's do it. Let's go.
Let's see. Let's go to Justin in Los Angeles, line two. Los Angeles. Justin, what's up, man? Hey, this is Justin.
What's up, Seth? What's going on, man? How are you? I'm doing good. I just want to get your thoughts on WW Unreal.
That's going to be next week on Netflix. I know a lot of wrestlers are conflicted.
Some like it, some on uh protect the business in Kayfei. Um and then is there a moment where you had to go off script? And on Saturday you had to come up with a finish on the fly with Late Night. Because of the injury, um And yeah, I hope. Recovery goes well for you.
Thank you, man. I appreciate it. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Good question. WWE Unreal.
Premiering later this month. I want to say the 29th of July. Could be wrong on that on Netflix. It is a. Behind the scenes, in case you aren't familiar, it is a behind the scenes, like full curtain peel back.
Of the WWE creative process. Cameras in the boardroom, the creative meetings, microphones on Triple H and the match producers. You know, the NFL Films crew has been actually working with us to get this footage over the past year, I want to say. Maybe less, maybe more. My timeline might be a little off on that.
How do I feel about it? Man, you know, conflicted, he said conflicted in there, and conflicted is the. Is the right word. I am very conflicted on it. On one hand, You know The industry is so much different than when we all were growing up watching it.
Everybody knows what it is. Everybody talks about what it is. And that has, in my opinion, helped grow the business. It's helped make it bigger than it's ever been. It's more broadly accepted, I think, because there's not this gatekeeping that comes with it that you can't know anything.
Now we can all enjoy it as grown adults, and we don't have to pretend like it's a real contest between two fighters out there.
So the fact that we can all just acknowledge what it is and appreciate it for what it is as this cool little art form, this sort of live theater in the round that doesn't exist really anywhere on the world in any other sort of form. I love that part of it. But there's still this part of me that loves the secrecy. It loves the what we call Kfabe. I love that part of it.
And the the thing that makes it so great is is People not quite knowing, you know, that little bit of like, maybe they really hate each other, that little real conflict, that real thing. And the fact that we're going to give all that away, you know, maybe it's the evolution. Maybe this is the next step. In the industry. And it'll be f I promise you it'll be fascinating if you're a wrestling fan.
I promise you, from a dramatic standpoint, it'll be fascinating if you know nothing about professional wrestling and this is like your first sort of foray into it. You're gonna go, whoa, I had no idea that this much thought and this much care and this much. Intelligence, attention to detail was in the room. You know, it's not just dudes fighting in their underwear all oiled up, yelling curse words at each other.
So, again, WWE Unreal on Netflix, it's going to be fantastic. It is the 29th, July 29th. Gonna be very interesting. I think I won't know totally how I feel about it until I see the finished product.
So, you haven't seen any of it yet? I've only seen what you guys have seen. Like, they don't, they didn't, like, send me, you know. Episodes like what do you think? Yeah, no screeners.
I've seen the trailers. Obviously, I've seen the cameras around. But like, I don't know who's mic'd up sometimes. Like, you know, I don't know. Like, I'll have like, you know, Michael Hayes, Michael P.S.
Hayes, who's a legend in our business, one of the fabulous Street Atlanta GA. Yes, man. That's street in the whole USA. He's also, what I want you to know. Free birds when I was a kid.
Mike, dude, he's awesome. He's awesome, but he's incredible. He is so, first of all, kudos to Michael Hayes. He's gotten sober recently. Oh, that's awesome.
Which has been incredible. But now his mind is so clear, so sharp. He's got so many ideas, but he is one of the unsung heroes of our generation in our business because he is such a helping hand in putting together the creative for everything. And you're going to see that in this show. You're going to see the whole process and how involved he is and how much of a genius.
I rarely throw the word around. But he's a genius. He's a savant for our industry. He's fantastic at it. And he's just a gem of a human as well.
Like he's just one of those people that's such a character. You love being around him. He's a star.
So I'm looking forward to seeing how. It plays when it does come out. I'm looking forward to seeing what the response is. I think you're obviously going to have controversy and pushback from the old timers. But man, yeah, I do I do love that just a little bit of A little bit of like a little bit, man.
Just sometimes, you know, sometimes we gotta give it all to you.
Sometimes we gotta tell you all of it and that's the best thing for you to know all of it. But sometimes that little like, ooh, I don't know. Do they secretly really not like each other? I mean, you see it in UFC and you see it in boxing now. Clearly, there's a respect, right, between a lot of those guys.
If you get in the Octagon, we'll talk to DC maybe about this in the next hour. There's a respect, but like the fact when they hate each other or when you think they don't like each other, that's what you want to see. DC John Jones, perfect example. They didn't like each other. They probably still, I know they've buried the hatchet.
I don't buy that for a second. But, you know, these people don't like each other. Like, it's one thing to see Poirier and Holloway, you know, they love each other. They're going to go in there and swing fists and that's going to be great. But man, if they didn't like each other, and you got to pick a side, you know, who I want to see get knocked out the most, you know, and you hated the other guy.
That's the thing, man. There's like a secret sauce to it. It's like watching basketball when you know two teams hate each other. Yeah, it's always better. The games are so much better.
Oh, yeah. And also with these other, you say, MMA and boxing, they really don't have to care for the well-being of their opponent the way you guys do. Exactly. There has to be that respect. It's special, man.
It's special. We'll get into it in the next hour with DC. I love it. Okay. Jim Rome takes on sports.
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