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Let's talk. Let's have a great chat. Because you know what? It's time to do that. It's time for the season.
It's time for the National Football League to get started. It's time for the Hall of Fame game this evening. in Canton, Ohio. The home of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Lions.
And the Chargers. Oh my. Here we go. Let's roll. Going down tonight.
Good to see you over there, Chris Brockman. How are you? Rich, I'm great. Another reason why getting while the getting's good is we have four guests. We're four wide today.
A lot of guests. Four wide today. We've got first up Mantaita making his way to our studio from the NFL Network Studios where he just finished Good Morning Football. We follow good from morning GMFP overtime every single day. Here I'm uh Roku Sports Channel.
He's making his way here. And then We've got ourselves a big-time guest, TJ Jefferson. Is the candle lit? Is it candle lit over there? It's lit.
It's smelling amazing. Michael Irvin's going to join us today. Oh, yes. He knows a little bit about gattle with these man. And then, on top of that, just for you, The Miz is joining this program.
Nice, nice. The Miz is joining this program. Nice. Yeah. In advance of SummerSlam.
Have you heard of that event? Yeah, it's going down. That's going down. For real, that's the exact thing. Good to see you, Jay Felling.
How are you? What's up, Rich? Good to see you. I don't know if you have any personal like of Gotham Chopra. He's our fourth guest.
I've been trying to. Uh hook up uh each guy with the guests that might uh be of interest. You may not know this. Huge fan. Fantastic.
Out of the boy. He is once, he's the co-director of Prime Videos built in Birmingham. Brady in the Blues. It's following the players, staff, and owners of Birmingham City during their record-breaking season of last year. Tom is uh Part owner of that team.
So we'll talk TB12 and so much more on this program. And you at 844-204-Rich is the number to dial here on the show. Lions and Chargers. Oh my, here's the scoop. Chargers this year.
We had Daniel Jeremiah in yesterday. Big season for Justin Herbert. Is it in the making? With Ladidi McConkey coming back after that superb. Rookie season, Quentin Johnston.
Can he start catching passes more than? Dropping one amongst many. The running back room, Omarion Hampton, is a very, very large individual. Najee Harris hurt himself on July 4th. Will he be able to be ready for week number one?
What's going down? In Charger country. In the deep end of the AFC West Pool. Back and forth, back and forth we go about who's got the best division in football. And I could make a great case that the best division in football is represented by one of those two teams on the field tonight.
in Kenton, Ohio. Because the Detroit Lions were the one seed last year. Beating out the 14 win. Minnesota Vikings in the final game of the season, so they could be the one seed and get one and done, just like the Vikings were here in Los Angeles. And then the Packers got one and done by the f Philadelphia Eagles.
And then you've got the Bears, vastly improved, one would think, because guess what? They took the offensive coordinator from the Detroit Lions and Ben Johnson and hooked him up to Caleb Williams, who's apparently drinking out of a fire hose, which is a football term of we're giving the kid way more than he can handle right now. Because last year I guess was a baptism by fire. Because somebody got fired in the middle of the season, and part and parcel of that. Was because Caleb Williams was left on his own to figure out what film to watch, amongst many other shocking elements that we have learned about last year's Bears season.
Ben Johnson, just add Ben. Add. Yeah. competency on the offensive side of the coaching equation. Add Innovation on the offensive side of the equation in the playbook.
He's the one that came up with that Jared Goff fake fumble play. Pick it up, throw for a touchdown against the Bears and you covet what you see. And the Bears coveted Ben Johnson and took him. And then the Jets took Aaron Glenn for their defensive side of the football. And the guy who sprinkled his fairy dust on a team that had how many guys?
Uninjured reserve last year? 412. That's correct. I looked it up. Odd for a 53-man roster, but I think we all get the point.
The Lions are good, they're healthier, but they're missing their. Coordinators in the last Super Bowl contending team that we saw lose both coordinators. Made the Super Bowl the year before and got one and done the year later in the Philadelphia Eagles. Will that be the Lions' fate? Laying out all of these storylines for you.
Even though we won't get a single answer tonight, because I don't know who's playing. But hey, tune into NBC anyway because it's football. It's guys in pads. Yes, sir. Or guys taking up good seats on the airplane for Daniel Jeremiah, as he was complaining about.
That was a weird type of idea. Yeah, I know these guys are looking for jobs, but the plane's overloaded with a bunch of guys that are not going to be there in week one, and I'm going to be there week one.
So why are they taking up? The aisle seat. That I like. Because they're reclining to his knees. Guess what, Daniel Jeremiah?
You might not have gotten the seat you wanted, but you just got Mason Miller for your San Diego Padres from the West Sacramento A's. And JP Sears will talk about the moves in Major League Baseball on this program because we talk baseball here. On the Rich Eisen show. But that said, Chris, we did this the other day for a week one contest of the regular season. We've picked and chose.
Some of the more marquee events of week number one and figured out combined win totals for For the matchup. The teams involved in those matchups. Season-long combined win totals. What have you cooked up on the Brockman win total meter for the Lions and the Chargers, sir? Yes, sir.
We're looking at Vegas' total first before we get to the BMT. 10 and a half for the Larger. What does that stand for? The Brockman median total? Oh, BWT.
Brockman Winton Total.
Okay, very good. Upside down. 10 and a half for the Lions. 10 and a half fortunes. You forgot to refer to yourself in initials.
I was going to, but then you said it. You said BM. Yeah. I'm like, okay. The bowel movement.
Okay, very good. Why did you mention that? Anyway, the whole other issue on combined win total. But first, the. VWT, the Vegas Vegas.
10.5 for Detroit, 9.5 for the Chargers.
So that's 21. You normally like to plus it up. What are you going to plus it up to? I'm not going to plus it up at all. I think that's a great total.
I'm going to stick it at 21. Oh, I'm going over combined win total here for the Lions and the Chargers, don't you think? TJ Jefferson? You want over 21 combined wins for these two teams? You're not going to fall off.
You got great coaches right there. You've got MVP-style quarterbacks right there. I think Detroit's going to go 15-2 again. I don't know about that, but what if they both win 11 games? I got my over.
I think I said that the other day though, yeah. I think that's the over on that.
Okay, what if I bump it up to twenty-three?
Well, that's I would take the under. Carry the one. How's that? Because these. Divisions are deep.
Deep. They are going to, I mean. Could you make the case That in the AFC West and the NFC North, there won't be a single series sweep. This year. That everybody draws blood on the other.
Couldn't you make that case? Man, hearing Albert talk about the Bears the other day, I'm a little worried someone might sleep them. Dude, that's also a verbal way of. Uh listen. Albert knows he he and information men and women who come on this program.
We've had Florio, we've had Breer, we've had Diana Rossini this week. Pellicero is coming on as well. They always have a way of letting you know what they know without saying, I've been told he's struggling. And he definitely talked about how Caleb Williams is struggling right now. not playing fast enough.
There's a month to go. I'm not concerned about it. How does that sound?
Next up. The Bears get swept by the Packers or the Lions or the Vikings or they. They Pick off one. And nobody Nobody sweeps in either division. I don't even know how rare that is.
I'm out of ask NFL Network Research when I see him on Saturday. What if I give you total playoff teams between the... AFC West and the NFC North at four and a half. Hmm. The NFC West?
AFC West. These two divisions, four and a half playoff teams. I'll take the over. Because that means Three are coming from one division. Right.
And three came from both divisions last year. They put three teams Both divisions put three teams in the playoffs last year. There were six combined from those divisions last year.
So you're saying one doesn't make it. This year from last year. I'll take that. Or two don't make it.
Well, two don't make it, and I don't get the over. Right, that's what I mean.
So I'm saying one doesn't make it. I'll take that, but I'll still take the over. I still think they're terrific, brother. They are terrific. And the AFC North is going to be better.
Yeah, two 15-win teams. And a 14-win team in these two divisions. How does this sound? The AFC North isn't putting just. One in.
Maybe That may be a one divi one playoff division. Cause the Browns, the Bengals, the Steelers didn't make it. Last year. I'll take the over on both. TJ?
I'm picking four for the AFC I mean, I see the well the Chiefs are a given, right? I would think so. Maybe the chargers.
So for I'm going to take the 104 and a half. I'm going to take the under and play off teams. What about 23 wins? 23. Yeah, we already said that.
I think. Yeah, well, I bumped it.
Well, you did 21. I did 21 at first. They both were hard over, so I went 23. Uh no. I'm going to say 22.
So they both go 11 and I could see that. That's the first item up for bids. It's a very price is right thing that you just did right there. You went right in the middle with your bid.
Well, you know, it's first blush, and you're kind of, you know, it's a lot to take the process, you know, but.
So you know what that means? is that if the line is 21. We just have a double over. What you're used to. Oh, wow.
Wow. Unnecessary Thursday blow dart. Is it time for the kendo stick? Unnecessary Thursday blow dart. That's a UTBD.
I'm just minding my own business here. What do you say? Oh, I would go unders. I don't think Detroit's going to be as good this year. Yeah.
Why? Just because the new OC and the new DC will be less than, and that will trickle down, and the team that is now much healthier than last year and potentially more improved because of that. Yeah, I think Detroit and Minnesota take a little bit of a step back. If you think Chicago is going to be a little bit better, Green Bay is going to be a little bit better. And how about this?
I think Jameer Gibbs is going to be much better. I think Jameer Gibbs is going to. He could be RB1 this year. I think it's not, could be. I think he will be in all of fantasy.
I think Jameer Gibbs is going to have more on his plate this year, and it's going to be time to have him. Yeah, it seems like he's getting more immediate work with the Wands from what I've been seeing in camp. And then you look at the West. That's a very balanced division. Right.
And again, what you texted the other day, Jameer Gibbs has stepped his game up. No, that was me. Oh, is that what you? Yeah, yeah. He was at, or was it SmackDown or Raw in the crowd?
And it looked like life was good for Jameer. That's all I'm saying. Life was good for him.
Okay. Very good. His plus one. That's what you said. Yeah.
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All right, so uh the Hall of Fame games tonight, excited. Uh Cee Dee Lamb has spoken on the Micah Parsons. Scenario. I can't wait to hear this. And also, there was a fight in training camp in Oxnard yesterday.
And LeBron Scheinheimer handled it. Certainly raised an eyebrow or two, and CD was asked about that. We'll unpack that before. Our 88 clubber on our roster today joins us. Michael Irvin, The Miz and Deep also on this program.
Gotham Chopra will be here to talk about his latest documentary involving Tom Brady. He also was there documenting the. Pete Carroll class at USC, I was coming on the air and telling you about. That's the last time I saw him.
So we'll talk some Raiders football with him, too. Why not? Since Tom Brady is in the ownership group of that franchise as well. But let's take a break. We'll come back.
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It's just a couple minutes down the road, fresh off of the Good Morning Football set. Man, Doteo making his rich show appearance. It's good to be here, bro. How are you, man? I'm great.
You know, we've been rolling since 3 a.m.
So we're like midday around. You know what I mean? Yeah, we're mid-sweet, bro. What time do you go to sleep? Man, I try to get in bed by about 7:30, 8 o'clock.
Yeah, with a three and two-year-old. My wife is a champ. She makes sure that they're all settled. Yeah, it's a lifestyle. You know how it is, bro.
Oh, no, I know. Plus, at this point in time, it is still quite light outside. Oh, yes. So I have one of those like blindfold things on just so I could sleep. But I'm a little different where I love the sound of my kids around me.
It kind of soothes me a little bit. And so just to have them around me, I can go to sleep. I'd rather go to sleep in a room filled with my wife and my kids than in a hotel room.
Okay, I'm going to bite on this one. Yeah. How does a two and a three-year-old noises. Get you ready for bed, man. I mean, how is that possible?
Well, you know, when you're Rich, you know, this, when you're on the road so much, you know what I mean? The silence is deafening to me.
Okay. And so when I'm hearing my kids, and my wife does a great job at telling them to shush. When I got some Moana on this TV and it's down a little bit, like they're not really talking all that much, but you could hear them laugh at certain scenes. Sure. It's home.
I'm reminded that I'm home when I'm a song. Moana is quite on brand for someone from Moana. You know?
Okay. I like it. It's awesome. Did Cage ever help put you to sleep when he was two? No, definitely not.
No, no. Because he would run in and hit me with a macho man elbow. Yeah, that's right. He's like, dude, I'm trying to sleep. Yeah, boys, boys, girls.
What do you have?
So, my three-year-old, she's going to be four in about two weeks.
Okay. Man Tyteo has stopped by from Good Morning Football and Good Morning Football, GMFB overtime that precedes this show every single day on the Roku Sports Channel. It is good to see you, sir. Were you recruited by Charlie Weiss? Yes, yes, I was.
Yes, I was. Back in the day in the day.
So Charlie Weiss showed up in Hawaii? He did once.
So he only came down once to visit, and it was a big visit. But, you know, back Pete Carroll, Charlie Weiss, Jim Harbaugh, they're the three.
Okay, so Pete was obviously at USC. USC, yeah, Jim was at Stanford. Right, and Jim was at Stanford. Yeah, yeah. Okay, so you had the grades for it, huh?
Yeah, how okay.
Well, I didn't have the AP classes, and so when they told me I had to take one more AP class, I was like, oh, I don't know. AP class at Punaho is that's that's a whole nother level. That's that's the school I went to. Yeah, right. It was one of those requirements where you understood when you had that Stanford diploma, it was going to be something.
Okay, so Jim was recruiting you? You had a good story about Jim was, how Jim recruited you? Did he sleep in a, in a, what, a banyan tree or something like that? Or like, what happened? You know, I've always had a great respect for Coach Jim Harbaugh.
When he recruited me, there was that rumor that he was going to go to the NFL, and he always kept it real with me. He's like, listen, you know, things always change. Opportunities always open up, so I'm not going to say anything. No, but I'm also not going to say yes. He said that to you.
Yeah, and so I've always had a tremendous amount of respect for him because he was real about it.
Now, what's so strange is I go my freshman year, Coach Harbaugh's at Stanford, Coach Carroll's at USC, Coach Weiss is at Notre Dame. Yes.
Sophomore year, all three of them are gone. It didn't really matter at that time. Wow. Well, because Brian Kelly came in too much. Brian Kelly came in, right?
Pete left for Seattle. Yeah, Pete left a journey with San Fran. Yeah. So all you finished either way.
So either way, you know, somebody looking for continuity at the collegiate level, the cards were stacked. That's how they were, Richard. Oh, okay.
So Brian Kelly comes in. How is it different?
Well, Brian Kelly is different because he just came from Cincinnati and Cincinnati in 09, 2010. They're one of the. Better offensive. Schools in the country at that time.
So he comes in, he brings in his regime. I mean, it's just new. You know, he's trying to get used to Notre Dame. We're trying to get used to him. But we have some dogs there.
I mean, we're at. Golden Tate, we had Kyle Rudolph, Harrison Smith, Michael Floyd.
So we had some guys over there that you could have helped push that along. Look at Harrison Smith doing it still. Killing it too. Like he's at the top of his game, you could make a case still. General, yeah, cerebral smart.
Right. He's always been that since Notre Dame. Yeah, I know. By the way, just how much respect I have for you to have you on this program. You know, I severely dislike Notre Dame football.
Okay. Understatement, man. Understatement. What's the background behind that? On the University of Michigan Wolverine.
Oh, okay.
All right.
Okay. My first game that I covered for the Michigan Daily on the football beat, which is what you work for, you work towards on the Michigan Daily ladder. Sat right there. Rocket Ishmael ran it one way, then he ran it the other way. And basically, Michigan's national title hopes back in that day were dashed on day one.
So, are you more, do you not like Notre Dame more or Ohio State more? Oh, great question. I think that's pretty much it. Ohio State. Ohio State.
I'm asking you, Rich. Rich, for you, it seems like you're struggling a little bit.
Well, we were answering for him.
Well, sure. First of all, we don't play Notre Dame anymore because Notre Dame refuses to schedule us. We're tired of losing, guys.
So that's it. I do, I think, out of any. Entity Sports Entity I dislike the Ohio State University, number one overall. His Red Sox are two. Because I'm a New Yorker who went to the University of Michigan.
Got it. And the only two thank, listen, this is what we call first-class problems, man type, because of what I've done from Sports Center all the way to the present day, from 96 to now, is I don't, I don't. I'm not emotional about. Sports that much anymore. But the two entities that get me very emotional, where I have to.
Snap out of it if they lose is Michigan football and New York Yankees baseball. Yeah, Michigan football is a big thing. I had a thing against Michigan first. You know, Michigan was my first away game as a collegiate athlete.
Okay, I thought I knew what in the big house. I thought I knew what rivalries were until I went to the big house as a member of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team. And when I got off that bus, things were being said to me that, you know, yeah, yeah.
So that was my first one. I didn't hear that in Hawaii. I didn't even know those words were even in the dictionary. But they still aren't. Urban dictionary.
Depends on the dictionary. But so I've had that's how I felt against Michigan until you know, recently, past five years, I met some amazing people from Michigan. Jamie Erdall, her husband Sam. Shout out to Sam. He's a Michigan alum proud.
Normally they tell Sam, Jamie, you know, he married up, but Jamie knows I. You know how I feel about Michigan. Yeah, Sam, yes. Yeah, and then JB Fitzgerald, who's my agent, he also went to Michigan, so I'm surrounded by a bunch of Wolverines now. Yeah, I love him.
I know him too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Congratulations on being surrounded by Michigan people and important parts of your work life. I love it. I love it.
That's why everything's changed for me in Michigan. Look at you now. Look at you. Still, I rent Rudy hoping he pops a thong. And Rudy has heard that, and he wants to fight me, apparently.
The real Rudy. The real Rudy is Rudis. Rudy Rudiger, huh? Yeah, he was because he was offsides anyway.
Sorry. What's my problem? It's very hostile and aggressive. Mantai's bigger than you. I don't know, bro.
It's all love up in here, brother. You know that. He's bigger than you. I do it to Bettis, too. And by the way, so Bettis' kid is there.
Larry Fitzgerald's kid is there now. Marcus Freeman is crushing it. I actually like him. Right? Like, did I tell him that too?
Or did I tell him quarterback that? That I'm like. I like him j so much. Makes me forget my dislike for Notre Dame football. He's a very likable man.
I was rooting for Notre Dame football in the national championship. You can't come here, Rich. But I was out of spite. You're asking, which one do I not like the most? Let's play each other for the championship.
I get that. At least you're rooting for us a little bit, though. I'll take that as a win. For four quarters, how'd it go for you, though? You know?
Oh, yeah. It was rough. You know, I struggled because when I went to the first and only game that I went to that year was a Northern Illinois game. Oh, no. I was sorry to hear that.
I know. And so, like, the narrative was like, bro, you guys lost because Mantai was at the game.
So I took one for the team, and I stayed home for the national championship because I didn't want in any event that anything happened. I didn't want that bad GG around the team. But it was an exciting game. The first half, I know it was a little slow, but just in normal Marcus Freeman team fashion, they started to fight back and in. I couldn't be more proud.
He's really, really, really good. Yeah. And I leaked. And by the way, and I will just say this: calling out my Ohio State friends, the Ohio State friends, when Ohio State lost. To Michigan in the final game of the regular season.
And it was all blowing up in that world, which obviously, yada, yada, yada, five weeks later, everything's fine. Um, Everybody wanted day out Marcus Freeman in because he went to school at the Ohio State. And so, you know, instead They go on this run for the ages, and now they still claim them both. In the same way, they still claim Burrow and Burrow still claims them. And it pisses me off.
All right, I'm going to get under this Matt Tatteo here on the Rich Eisen Show. How are you enjoying your gig now? I'm like it. I'm loving it. It's a great team.
I think that's the main thing about where I'm at right now. I wanted to be a part of a good team with good people. And man, let me tell you, when you're surrounded by somebody like Jamie Erdahl and Kyle Brent and just how their brain works. Right. You're seeing what's on the prompt, but then they're saying a whole bunch of other stuff.
And I'm just constantly trying to soak up information and knowledge from them.
So it's been a true blessing. That's awesome.
So let me put you through the paparazzi paces right now. Your Super Bowl contender. Of note, number one, top of your list. Who is it? 2025 anti-tele.
I know we're a month away. You got to flex these muscles now because it's going to be asked of you very shortly. See, Rich, I was taught this by Kyle Brandt as we have a segment on our show where we make a pop culture reference and dodge the question where we have a specific prediction week where we save all of our stuff for that prediction week.
So I got to a cagey way of saying, you know, I'm not answering the question because I need to save it for my show. You know, that's essentially what he said.
So then give me your top contenders.
So I really like the Buffalo Bills. I think a sleeper coming out this year. Out of the AFC are the Denver Broncos. I really think that what Sean Payton has over there. Third straight day, third straight day.
Denver Broncos, Richard, they're looking scary, man. Um, what Sean Payton has been able to do with Bo Nick's that offense, he has a two-back system now, a true two-back system, which is what he's always wanted. He had that in New Orleans when I was there with Alvin Kamara and Mark Ingram.
So, Dobbins is his Ingram, and RJ Harvey is his Kamara. Yeah, that's how I that's how even Audrey Estimate could be in that Mark Ingram. I don't mean to leave out the Notre Dame guy, yeah.
Now see you did a true Michigan guy, whatever. Yes, sorry, I like them out of the AFC. The Chargers could also be one of those as well. The AFC West, I know there's a lot of talk about the NFC North, but the AFC West, in my opinion, is the division to watch this year, not only with the talent, but if you look at all of the coaches over there. All of those coaches have played in the Super Bowl.
There's only one that hasn't won a Super Bowl, and that's Jim Harbaugh, but he's won everywhere else he's been.
So that's, you think about that pedigree, and you just can only assume that the competition coming out of that division is going to be something.
Okay. And again, I know you're relatively new to the paparazzi NFL media front here, but you left out the Chiefs. And if you do that, but it's it is an annual ritual one would have If somebody wins the division eight straight years, this is finally the year because it cannot happen. The broken clock is going to have to be right once before it's right twice. And so.
This is the year, you think? I don't think it's the year, but the thing is, everybody has to understand with the Chiefs from weeks one through 17, they play okay. It's when they get into the playoffs that they morph into something called a champion and they start to play at championship caliber football. If you don't allow the Chiefs to get into the playoffs, and that's why I bring up the Broncos and the Chargers because they're in that division.
Now, we've had seen throughout the years three teams from one division go to the playoffs. Yes, if that happens, it's all you're hard to go against Patrick Mahomes in the playoffs, it's just hard. Yeah, so. It's going to come down to the contenders in that division to see what happens to the Chiefs. Because right now, it's probably the most competitive one.
And out of the NFC, I got to say. That building right next to where we work, there's a team that's playing out of there called the LA Rams that. That signing of Devontae Adams Rich is probably one of the Most dangerous signings. For a defensive player to go against that offense with all If you look at Pukunoku and Cooper Cup, what they had before, right? They played the same position.
So it's hard to have, to divvy up shares there when you have the guy that plays the same position. That's what they had before.
Now you have Devontae Adams, who's a true X receiver, one of the best at his job to ever play the game.
Now you have what the. Cincinnati Bengals have with T. Higgins and Jamar Chase, where you Pukundaku is Jamar Chase, where you move him everywhere. You could use him anywhere you want to. But then you have Devontae Adams.
And if you give Matt Stafford the luxury of just looking at your defense and seeing where your safety is at, and seeing if you have somebody over number 17 or not, and him being able to identify that defense so quickly like that. Because he's done it forever. He's done forever, Rich. And then, even at that point, if you still stick both safeties back there to guard against the pass, you still have to guard against Kyron. And Kyron Williams is a rugged runner who can play 99% of the snaps for you if you're the LA Rams.
And so if you have that dynamic offensively with Matt Stafford at the helm, it's scary. Especially since it all does predicate off the run with McVay. Always. And so if the run game is working, because there's also a Michigan Wolverine in that running back room. And you're right, Kyron doesn't come off the field because he does have the ability to pass block on third.
Unlike a lot of running backs. Unlike a lot of running backs, he doesn't touch the top of his helmet a lot at all. And if the offensive line can hold up, right, and they have the tight end position down, um. It's pretty friggin dangerous.
Well, the thing about these one-back approaches is this: it keeps everything at your disposal. See, when you send in a scat back defensively, I know. 80% of the time you're going to throw the ball.
So there's a tendency marker that defensively I can get into your huddle a little bit. It's like, okay, if I see Alvin Kamara back there, yeah, he can run the ball, but you're mainly here to. Throw him the ball, you know.
So, like, defensively, when you have Kyron in the game, first and second and third down, I don't know what you're going to do. You know what I mean? And it just puts the defense in a very uncomfortable situation and position to be in.
So, I look at the LA Rams as a team offensively and defensively with one of the best head coaches in the game and Sean McVay. They're going to be dangerous. Yeah, Jared Verse. A lot of folks are saying this is a defensive player of the year type of guy coming off of winning defensive rookie of the year.
So, you like them. First of all, when they play the Eagles, they just have to stop Saquon, at least hold him under 200 yards, right? Because he was the one who torched them. You could say that he was the one who essentially finished him off last year and then also stuck it to him in a very crucial measuring stick game on a Sunday night.
So, put it all together, though, how do you like the Eagles coming back and potentially repeating? I really love the Eagles, and this is why I love the Eagles is because. Offensively, they have almost zero turnover. They lost Makai Beckton, he went to the Chargers, but other than that, you have the same guys in there, the same identity, all of that. The biggest question for the Eagles to me is with all the departures defensively.
Now, you lost some key guys as far as figures in the locker room with Brandon Graham retiring and Darius Slay going to the Steelers. Like those two guys, like there's a dynamic of play on the field, but then impact in the locker room. Those two guys are locker room guys. They're the guys that, as a coach, if you're Nick Siriani, you can say, do it like Brandon Graham.
Well, now you don't have a Brandon Graham in there to point to.
So can Jalen and Jalen Carter them step up and be that for the Eagles? Because you look at that Eagles talent-wise, probably the most talented defense in the NFL right now, top to bottom. And so I look at the Eagles coming out of the East as being that contender to go against somebody like the Rams. And now it's going to be a tale of the two. They lost their OC again, too.
You know, when I was interviewing Jalen Hurts before the Super Bowl last year for game day morning. and talk to him about all the different offensive coordinators he's had from college. I mean, literally from college, where, you know, Dayball was there in Alabama, then he wasn't. Then he goes to Oklahoma. Then he goes to the pros, and they constantly, you know, then there goes Doug Peterson, in comes Siriani, there goes Shane Steichen, right?
Now here goes Kellen Moore. And I'm like, all the different guys. He said, tell me about it. Knowing that he was going to lose Kellen Moore, pretty much. And so, how will that affect things is a big question mark.
And that's the biggest question mark involving the Lions, right? Is that they lost both coordinators. And the last time the Eagles did that, they didn't make the Super Bowl after making it. Yeah, no, it's going to be something. I think defensively for the Lions, it isn't going to be that big of a transition because Coach Shepard, who was that linebacker coach over there for the past four years, knows the guys.
He knows the personnel. He was under Aaron Glenn.
So I think there's not going to be maybe a little. Maybe a little difference as to how he calls the plays, but not what he calls. I think they run the same thing now offensively. That's going to be the thing that I think we're going to miss a lot with Ben Johnson not being there. It's all those trick plays and those things to kind of take advantage of defenses in a very creative way, which Ben Johnson was so good, good at.
But the identity of that team is Dan Campbell. You know, Dan Campbell, the rugged, hard-nosed Detroit style. You know, and I think that's something that's going to forever be there as long as Dan Campbell's there.
Okay, so let's follow Kyle Brand's direction. Keep it quiet until good morning football's prediction. I think so, Rams, Broncos. Did I hear that? I like that.
Yeah, like vultures just circling them. You're circling around it. Yeah. Okay. Hey man, I I'm high on the Rams too.
Very. We shall see. And if you want to just really extrapolate it out, I mean, you think the Rams want to win the Super Bowl and the home of the Niners? I don't know. You know, and just basically put their mark, you know, like that hydrant, lift a leg on that hydrant, you know what I mean?
Forevermore. You know what I mean? Like that's... That's the sort of stuff. You know, Michael Ervin, who's our guest an hour too, was on game day morning.
You know, we were all together in Tampa. And everybody was choosing the Chiefs that was in that COVID Super Bowl. And everyone's choosing the Chiefs. The Chiefs are going to, you know, and then. Michael's like, nuh, I'm taking the Bucks.
And we're like, why? And he basically gave the football reason, but then also said, There is no way the Bucs will allow another team to come into their house and win a Super Bowl. Yeah. Like they'll never be able to walk on this field again without thinking about it, and they will not do it. And guess what?
I mean, they didn't. The LA Rams did that when they played the Bengals. That was great. That came really close. They came close, but Aaron Donald was a good day.
Exactly, exactly. Right, but at least they had him. Thanks for coming here. Of course, we really appreciate it. Let's do this more regular.
You know the way now. Yeah, I know the way.
Okay. I'm going to bring another name in Jersey just for you, Rich. You could do that. And we'll put it somewhere special. Good to see it in the bathroom.
We have different opinions on the definition of special. There's a lot of wall space here. There is. Bring whatever you'd like. Just bring yourself, okay?
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Hmm. So we could have had a movie about somebody who's what, a half nothing, 100 pounds nothing. Could have called it David, huh? And then we could have had Bo, we could have had Bo up there and everybody could have put their Michigan jerseys on the desk. Did that really happen, David?
Of course not. And you know that. But you know something? The other night, you know, you got me going because the other night I just Googled, I just said, you know, how much of this blank is true? And I started putting in a list of sports movies.
Okay. You know, We Are Marshall, The Blind Side, Remember the Titans, blah, blah, blah. We come off like a Ken Burns documentary compared to most of those movies.
Alright. Yeah. I'm not joking, you know? Do you want to explain to me how what you told me on Monday that Rudy has heard what I've had to say about this subject? That is the best part.
I haven't told my guys about this, but please, I give you the floor. Is this true that Rudy, that this, what I have said into this microphone has filtered in the direction of Mr. Rudiger? We're directly to Las Vegas, Nevada. Yes.
And it was very interesting. I have not talked to Rudy. Angelo has.
Okay. And apparently, Rudy was pretty incensed, incensed enough to go to his neighbor, Mike Tyson, and ask him if he would train him to get you in the rain, to put you where you belong. Hold on, hold on a second. Back the truck up. Hold on.
So the real Rudy lives in Las Vegas next to Mike Tyson. Who he has apparently asked for so he could come and look. He could, you know what? Rudy could. I heard this through Angelo.
Angelo spoke to him. But it could have been, I know that Floyd Mayweather. It might have been Mayweather. Mayweather lives in Liz Mayweather. Oh, my gosh.
Fantastic. And oh, by the way, this was not in the movie. What was not in the movie is that when Rudy was at Holy Cross, And he was, you know, trying to come off as a Notre Dame student, getting in the cheering section, painting the helmets and all that. He also joined what they called, and I don't know if they do it today, but it was a campus-wide boxing tournament, and it was called the Bengal Bouts. And dudes, he won it as a Holy Cross student masquerading as a Notre Dame student.
And he won. And we had it originally in the script, but we had to cut it out.
Well, now hearing about his ability to fight, he better start playing nice and brutal. Boy, what a great film this is, David. I mean, now you tell me the backstory. I mean, wow, it's quite a moving piece of cinema that you put together. I'll never forget when um I got on the phone with David Onspaugh.
That was during the pandemic, I think. Yep. And. He told me on the phone, oh, yeah, Rudy wants to beat you up. I called you.
I'm like, wait till you hear what's going on. We're going to have David Arkspawn program, and you'll never guess what's coming. Yeah. And the last two Fanatics fast, I've been secretly hoping that we ran into Rudy. Yeah.
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Just back, you know, back in backstage. No, no. Oh, hey, Rudy.
Oh, the Rudy. And I'd be like, would you like to meet my friend Charles Woodson? He's here, too. 844-204-RICH, number to DOM. We didn't lead with this today because there's an actual football game to be played tonight, but we've been talking a lot of Cowboys.
Yeah, we sure did. And it's all been about what's up with Micah, and do the Joneses know what they're doing and why are they dragging it out? And how does that actually lead to results? poorly or not for the Dallas Cowboys later on, you know, this uh Season. Let's talk a little bit more about positives here, right?
And how about it includes their coach as the positive? Because as you all know, well, I mean, it all started with Mike McCarthy, you're out. Brian Schottenheimer, who's never done it before, you're in. Because we at the Dallas Cowboys aren't going to go higher in a lead coach. Because they ex they're expensive and plus, you know.
We want coaches to do what we want them to do. And elite coaches might give you a little pushback. Or maybe they'll make him that's the narrative. That's the narrative. But.
Um You know, this is the son of Marty here. That's what I'm saying. And this is his one shot. And I don't think, to use the Hamilton phrase, he's going to throw it away. Um And he's not going to thr Countenance His players fighting with each other during training camp.
So apparently, a fight broke out in Oxnard, California. He steps in. Breaks it up. It airs him out and then makes. the players and other coaches Run laps.
Love it. Whoa. Yes, this happened in Oxnard, California. Yesterday. CeeDee Lamb, you have the floor after that all went down.
What did you think of Brian Schotteneymer's way of handling this training camp, Brouha Ha? It's been a while, but I feel like that was really necessary. I honestly like what he's doing because we need discipline. We need. We need to be able to go through that line.
You know what I'm saying? We need to have that availability towards the team and then that aggressiveness at the same time to be able to be as mad and fight between the whistles. And then, as soon as the whistle is done, like we're going to line it up again.
So I'll see you next play type. We need to have that type of energy. Not, we're going to get it done right here, right now. Like, no matter what.
So, shout out Shadi for that. But that's for us. We just got to be the best group that we can. What was the PT version of what Shoddy's message? It looked like he had a few curse words.
Um. Do we want to be champions? Um Because, like, throughout the years of us being here, talent was never the problem for us. It was always discipline. How do we like.
Get Ahead and not behind. You know what I'm saying? How do we not shoot ourselves in the foot? How do we not? How do we not hurt ourselves?
Obviously, when the momentum is going our way, like we need to continue to keep our foot on the pedal and make the right play and always think about the team. Do you want to be champions? Oh, I like this. Calling him out. That's the PG version.
I believe that sounded like our friend Clarence Hiller said to him. What's the PG version of what Schottenheimer said to the group? Do you want to be champions? And how about him saying it's not been the talent around here, it's been the discipline. Because you do see, you know, a lot of foot shooting moments, obviously, by the Dallas Cowboys.
Sometimes it was play calling.
Sometimes it was timeouts. That's obviously on the coach. And other times it was on execution. That's on the players. But he's saying it's definitely on the coaches, too.
Yeah, Schnheiber already came out and said he wasn't basically down for fighting. And camp and I guess that just proved it. Brian Schoenerman getting the job done would be quite the plot twist, would it not? You know, about a month ago, everyone was kind of clowning on Schottenheimer. And I said, because of the one little blurb that we heard, and I told you, I listened to the whole.
His whole press conference and I and I bought in, man. I really did because, like we said, he's a coach's son. What was his sound bite that made you? I forget what, do you remember what it was? He just said something and it went around and it kind of made him look, yeah.
But then I watched the whole thing and I was like, nah, I really, I like this message. I like what he's doing. Like you said, he's the son of a legend. He had to have picked up on things, right? Coaching-wise.
And he just never got his chance. It took this long for someone to give him a chance. And I can guarantee you that he's not going to go out there and just blow it.
Well, it would be helpful if he is Micah Parsons and CeeDee Lamb. That's what happens when somebody's holding in or not having a contract. Everybody else gets asked the question. And CeeDee was in this position last year. Let's not forget.
Jerry Jones, when he heard people screaming, pay Micah, he said that that's not as loud as when it was last year.
Some people took that as a shot that. C D's more popular than Micah, but Jerry pointed out he meant that were louder last year 'cause CD literally wasn't here, which makes things worse.
So, CD's been through all this. He was asked advice that he would give. It's two cents. On the Micah Parsons situation. It sucks.
Like, it's terrible to be uh to be honest. But as for Micah, his is to dominate one player that's in front of him.
So I feel like for him, it's just like whenever you let them them shackles loose on him, he's gonna be a literally an uncaged tiger.
So, or lion, essentially.
So. For him. just keep his head on right. Stay positive throughout this whole thing. We know it's gonna get figured out.
And when it does, we're gonna act like none of this happened. I'm gonna ask him for $100,000. And he can't tell me no 'cause he has it. See, now you're being Ozy. That's my money.
Oh. Having fun with it because he's right. I told you it sucks, it sucks to be in this position. You have your self-worth, you wish that management would match your vision of your self-worth. Not just monetarily, but And time.
You're like, let's go. Like, we know this is going to happen. What's the point? Let's. Let's go.
And of course, Dallas's Joneses are pushing back, saying it takes two to tango. He's got to want to get paid, you know, all that sort of stuff. And it just sucks. He's walking around with. Everybody knows he's why he's not participating.
They see it. You're trying to buck them up. ZD's been through it, but he also knows at the end of the day, he wound up smiling with a ton of cash, and they act like it doesn't, nothing ever happened. And he's a good teammate because he corrected his choice of the analogy of an animal, you know, like. Michael refers to himself as a lion.
He's. Lion.
So he went tiger and then he corrected himself to lie. That's good. At the end of the day, he's going to be there. And at the end of the day, it's going to be on the players to execute. And if they have a coach that's selling stuff that they're buying in a way that they didn't have sold to them over the last few years, With all due respect to Mike McCarthy and his tenure there.
I mean, CeeDee Lamb said discipline was missing. How about them, apples? Yeah, I mean and if it's there right now You know Off we go for the Dallas Cowboys, man. On the first night of preseason, cannot wait. First night of regular season, Dallas at Philly, big-ass measuring stick.
Michael Irvin coming up. You know. You were saying, sorry, we're only 15 seconds left in the radio hour. The discipline thing kind of checks because it can't be the talent. Because this team, over the last, I don't know, two decades or so has had at least 21 or second.
All NFL team members that are Dallas Cowboys.
So the talent has definitely been in Dallas. But The results have not. Been there, obviously, as everyone knows. Yeah, Vegas thinks you're going to be under 500 this year. I think that's a little bit out of.
Pocket. What's the so they think the over-under is at eight and a half? Is that what you're saying? Yeah, if you bet over eight and a half, you're getting plus money. I'm going to do that.
Didn't Susie make Irv play the win-loss game when she sat in this chair? Yeah, Tulo sent us an email about that. And he had him at 12. Did she not write it down? He had him at 12 and 5.
He did. 12 and 5. TJ, I got this signed and notarized by Jay Felly. 11 and 11 and TJ prediction. Yes.
Irv had a starting off 3-0, beating Philly, beating the Giants, beating Chicago, losing the Green Bay, and then going on a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, six-game winning streak. That's at the Jets, at the Panthers, Washington Commanders, at the Broncos, home for the Cardinals at Vegas. It's interesting he has them winning at the Jets since we called a game in. London back in the day, all went to dinner afterwards. He brought his iPad with him with the NFL League pass on.
He was watching the game, streaming it at the table, Dallas and the Jets. I was having it on my phone on the ESPN app. You know, the dot arcs for completed passes, and then X's for incomplete passes. I love that. And then straight lines for touchdowns, right?
So I was in front of him. I was in front of him. The app was before his stream.
So I saw Sam Darnold hit somebody with a pass, or it was picked off. In return for a touchdown against the Cowboys, and I knew a jet touchdown was coming, said nothing, watched Michael Irvin watch it. He got so upset, he grabbed his iPad, left the restaurant, went back to the hotel, and to this day still has not given. His portion of the bill. I think we should lead with him.
No, I don't know. If he starts talking mess about the Cowboys, oh, they're definitely going to beat the Jets in New York. Or New Jersey, pardon me.
Sorry, Bills fans. It's New Jersey. I get it. Then I'll have to say something. I don't know if I really want to.
A board. The way I introduce him is going to be epic, by the way. That's right. Michael Irvin coming up. Yeah.
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