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Okay, that'll be on Saturday. One of our favorites, Brian Winhorst from ESPN, joining us here on the Rich Eisen Show. How are you, Brian? Good to see you, man. I'm just laughing at that micro impression.
I liked it. It's all good, man. It's great to see you, man. How are you? Good to see you.
Good, thanks. Awesome. Where have we found you? What backdrop is that? No, it's just, it's a.
Where are we going? I just threw a screen. I know. Yeah, I'm in Denver today. No, I'm in my house, but I just threw a 40 backdrops, and I just threw a cityscape.
I like it. Would you like me to change? Would you like something else? No, no, no. I didn't know you'd take requests.
I have no idea. Where can I go for you, Rich? This long-distance dedication. Let's go to City, Rich. Let's go, Hoxha.
Let's go to Milwaukee. Or put up the background where you think Giannis. Wants to go. Yes, there you go. You know, what is going on with Giannis?
Yeah, Broad. I can understand why it's frustrating. You know, you heard Doc Rivers' comments last night, and I can understand why he's frustrated. Because you know we've seen um Over the last decade, we've seen a number of star players say, okay, I'd like to no longer be here. In fact, this is let's just go back one year and see what happened with Jimmy Butler, where Jimmy Butler made it very clear he no longer wanted to be with the Miami Heat, and he went on like a six week long You know, rampage to get what he wanted.
And in the end, he got to the place that he wanted for the contract that he wanted. And that team ended up being really good the rest of that year. They didn't end up winning anything, but. Um That's kind of more the norm. Giannis.
has not You know, viewed it that way. Giannis has not gone up and said, I want to be traded. Giannis has just expressed frustration. And his agent has had to be sort of the guy behind the scenes that has talked about stuff. And so it's it's I understand that what people want is: does he want to be traded or not?
It's a simple yes or no question that doesn't have a simple answer because he's. uh elected to to to sort of Try to go through the process without You know, having a firm decision. He's just not thrilled with where they are, but he doesn't know if he wants to go forward. In the last 24 hours, as I've talked to people from across the league, the question that they're all asking me is, do you think Giannis will actually ask for a trade? Will, because he's rattled the saber before.
As my colleague Sham Starania reported a few months ago, over the summer, Giannis was really open and in the mindset of becoming a New York Nick. to the point where the Bucks and the Knicks had trade conversations. It was not the Bucs idea, I promise you, Rich. And it was not, the Knicks weren't expecting it. It kind of came out of the blue for them.
It was started by the Giannis side.
Now, did Giannis come and look anybody in the eye and say, trade me to the Knicks? No, he didn't. But those talks took place because that was on the table.
So the Bucs are aware that they're in a tenuous position. And they just, you know, they got their biggest win of the season last night. Giannis had an injury, and luckily not a severe injury, a moderate injury to his calf. But fortunately, that is not what we are talking about today. When they lost to the Wizards on Monday, they fell in the 9-13.
They were in 10th place in a very sort of. you know not Overly impressive Eastern Conference, the Bucs know that they're in trouble with Giannis. They know that they're pushing it. And so the question really is now. Will Giannis Cross the Rubicon in the line and say Trade me.
I don't know the answer to that, but I do know, and Shams has reported on this for months. That is something that Yannis is Very much considering. And I know that that's frustrating to hear that gray area, but that's just where it is. No, I know.
So the trade talks that you're referring to involving Giannis over the summer that did involve the Knicks was. Inspired by a vibe the Bucks picked up. No, no. I mean, like, so, no, I'm serious. No, no, they were told.
You know, they were told. Right.
So, like, hey. I'm a big actions over words guy. Yes, sir.
Okay. Yes, sir.
Um, The the bucks Do this deal where they cut Dame Lillard. That costs them $100 million for a player who's not going to play for them anymore. Then they sign Miles Turner. They took a $100 million issue, which was a player that had torn his Achilles in his mid-30s and was owed $100 million, and they doubled down and made it a $200 million investment. The $100 million they're going to pay Dame to no longer be on their roster, and the $100 million they paid to Miles Turner.
So they make a Really expensive, gutsy move.
Okay, Giannis sees that move. And His representation says, you know, he wouldn't mind being a Nick.
Now, I want you to think about if you're the Bucs.
So I promise you, the Bucs did not make a $200 million double-down and then say, I wonder what the Knicks are. I wonder if the Knicks are interested. The Knicks, okay? Here's how I know that they didn't think this was coming. Because in the last week of July, they signed Mikhail Bridges.
to a contract extension. And once they did that, He was untradeable for six months. And I want to just go for the nuance here. I know that when this gets chopped up in aggregation, the nuance will be exploded. But just for this audience at this time, we'll give you the nuance.
Thank you, sir. Um It's not necessarily that they were like, oh, we're going to trade bridges for Giannis. But if you're about to enter into a negotiation for a top five player in the league. You don't make a deal with a player that takes him off the table to be traded.
Okay?
So we get to the end of July, and the Knicks do this deal with Mikhail Bridges. They feel good about it. They feel good about their team.
So I promise you, the Bucs. Or not. Looking to this negotiation. And I promise you, the Knicks weren't preparing for this negotiation. And I promise you, the negotiation took place.
What are we left with, Rich?
Okay, did he ask to be traded? I mean, Doc Rivers can look you in the eye and say, no, he didn't ask to be traded. But clearly, this was an action that Giannis had some interest in. And look, because he didn't demand to be traded, he wasn't traded. They talked, the two sides talked, no deal came through.
Giannis said I'm going to be in Milwaukee, to use his words, for the next six to seven months. The buck signed his two brothers, and the And we went off into the season. and the season hasn't gone very well. And now he is, Shams is saying today he's looking at two to four weeks being out. The Bucs are one and five when he doesn't play.
I hope that they're able to rally and hold a fort. Where are they going to be at in two to four weeks? They're in 10th right now. They did have a great win against the Pistons last night. And I mean, that is a very impressive victory.
They needed it. The Pistons were 17 and 4. Cade Cunningham played in the game. Jalen Duran played in the game. It was not any sort of asterisks on this.
It was a bona fide real win. They beat him down the stretch. They've been one of the best clutch teams. The Bucs outperformed them down the stretch. But, you know, this is just what's happened.
And so I know that there's this real need and desire. And if I was a Bucs fan, I would be frustrated too. And if I was another fan who wanted to trade for Giannis, I would be frustrated too. But this is the landscape that we've got here. This is the way Giannis has decided to approach it.
This is the way the Bucs have decided to approach it. And so. I know that Yannis is you know, concerned about his future. And I don't know how it's going to play out. Brian Winhorst here on The Rich Eisen Show.
Let's move to Chris Paul then. What is your reporting on? On the Break up. Why and how it was communicated.
Well, that's two different things. How it's communicated. I think we can all agree that that was an F. Um If you want to take Lawrence Frank at his word, the Clippers president, which I will. They decided to that he was going to be sent home on Sunday.
Which makes me wonder why he was in Miami on Monday and why he was still in Miami all day while they had plane problems on. Tuesday and while they decided to have a meeting at 11 p.m. like It's not the way to handle a two-way guy, quite frankly. Much less handling a first bout Hall of Famer who, you know, I think. Their intention was to raise his number to the rafters.
And, you know, when you go into the Hall of Fame in basketball, it's not like baseball. You don't wear a hat. But, I mean, He could have gone into the Hall of Fame essentially as a clipper. And so you just don't treat somebody that way. And so the execution of the message delivery was an absolute fail.
I don't think there's anybody who could argue any differently. Did somebody knock on his hotel room door and and after hours essentially and say this is official Brian, the story as Lawrence Frank told it, and I'm not in a position to. Was that they made the decision on Sunday. They played in Miami on Monday. It was an embarrassing performance for a number of reasons.
Then, as you often see, teams will stay over in Miami after a game, and they were going to fly in the mid-afternoon, Monday, which is normal. Teams typically travel on travel days in the mid-afternoon, and then they had plane trouble. I think they actually ended up having to replace the plane. Um but whatever, instead of leaving at three, they left not until after eight. And they flew up to Atlanta and instead of landing at 4:35, they landed at almost 10.
Right.
And so the meeting that they had planned to have in the mid-evening or early evening ended up happening at 11 p.m. And so the meeting lasts three hours, and at 2 a.m., they're done with it. And Chris Paul, at that point, announces to the world he's being sent home. I, you know, if the decision was made on Sunday, I don't know why he was even in Miami. But, you know, like there may have been some other factors that I don't understand.
But so the rollout of this, again, I don't think it's controversial at all. I think. Everybody would say that was handled poorly. I don't think you should you should handle anybody that way on your team, much less, again, a first ballot Hall of Famer. The decision itself, and I know everyone's, you know, Ty Lou was like, Oh, it wasn't my call, and Players have been like, oh, it's news to us.
And Lawrence Frank has come out and said, I'm the bad guy, blame me. But of course, it's. It's more complicated than that. But I think essentially is this: that Chris Paul. Is a guy who is very vocal and um he is.
For 20 years, been described as a Leader by his teammates and his coaches. But just go look up the video from any Chris Paul game from the last 20 years, and you will find him. Giving his opinion to the official, giving his opinion to the opposing coach, giving his opinion to his coach, giving his opinion to his star teammates, giving his opinion to the role player teammates, giving his opinion to the trainers, giving his opinion to the ball boys. That's just what you can see on the cameras. This is who Chris Paul is.
When you are a star point guard who almost always has made your team better, That's part of the package that you wanted with Chris Paul. You want your point guard to be like your quarterback, to direct guys to do this. I mean, it was Chris Paul being proactive. And like walking in the Hollywood Hills with Bob Iger. Taking the bull by the horns that got the NBA bubble put together, okay?
That's who Chris Paul is. Chris Paul sees a situation that needs addressing, he addresses it. And for 20 years, his team's always succeeded. I think he made the playoffs like 14 or 15 straight years. His teams were always striving to be better.
They were not underachieving teams. Maybe there was one or two years where they didn't go farther in the playoffs, or maybe you thought they were the should have been the two seed and they were the four or whatever. But for the most part, he was on achieving teams and he was the starter. He was the 82-game starter last year in San Antonio.
So this year he's in a position where he's the same guy. And now He's playing a bit role where he's the second, or in some cases, the third string point guard. And the team, instead of being achieving, where he's one of the stars, was woefully underachieving. And so I think It just it it hits differently in the locker room when you're uh a a bit playing role player. You know, still being the guy who was the starting point guard and first Ballot Hall of Famer.
Now, You can say That why didn't the Clippers Understand that when they signed them. And I would just say they thought they did. And there was a lot of things about this roster in this season that the Clippers thought. For example, the Clippers. thought that they could replace Norman Powell with Bradley Beal and they'd be fine.
That's obviously been a dramatic Miscalculation and And is one of the main reasons why they are 6 and 16 and woefully underachieving. Having Chris Paul's personality not fit on a losing team is a miscalculation, but not the most egregious miscalculation. The fact that they handled it this way, which is like I said, the F minus apart this all. Exacerbated this and made it look really worse, and it's just part of another miscalculation that has basically defined the season.
Well, wow. Number one. Number two, you know, Chris Paul doesn't want to go out this way at all.
So, what happens now? Where does he wind up?
So, it's complicated. I saw headlines yesterday saying the Clippers have released Chris Paul. In fact, They have not. He has not been released, and he will not be released, I don't think, for the foreseeable future. And he has not been traded, and he's not even allowed to be traded for at least another 11 days.
I don't know how much you want me to get in the weeds here. NBA teams have to have 14 players on their roster, it is the rule. The Clippers have 14. The Clippers only have about $1.2 million in space that they're allowed to spend under the first apron. I know it's exhausting to talk about this.
But if they cut crisp ball today. they do not have enough money to sign another player.
Okay, so they have to do one of two things. They have to trade him. To another team, which I said they can't do for 11 days because, as a newly signed player, you can't be traded until December 15th. Or They have to agree to a buyout where he would take less money and they would have money because his money is guaranteed. Um Either way, you're talking about negotiation and seeing how things play out.
So, what I would expect is that Chris Paul does. I have a good feel that Chris Paul does want to continue this year. He is going to retire at the end of the season. He does not want to go out this way.
So, I think he will look for an opportunity that makes sense. Maybe that opportunity is there now. Maybe that opportunity will present itself. Maybe it's a trade that gets worked out. Maybe he gets cut.
And signed, but the Clippers are not really in position where they can just cut him right now. And so he will not be cut. And so he will live in this. Exile nether region for some period of time. I'm not sure how long.
Hopefully, not too long for his sake.
So, knowing all those rules, as I'm sure the Clippers front office did, makes me think that's a lot of opinions he was sharing for them to just say, we're done. We're done. And you're not only done, you're done here in Atlanta. And I know this is not going to play out well in the media, and it's not the way we wanted it. Probably they envisioned it.
But my gosh. Yeah, as somebody that's been around Right, somebody who's been around pro sports and is a problem-solving person, you may be seeing why. The story that we're being told isn't 100%. The actual story because nobody would say, oh, the plan is to cut him in the hotel in Atlanta at midnight. Obviously, nor do they want to say he was so insufferable to be around and he with us that because of what's going on, that we just can't have.
You know what I mean? Like, I just said the words of what I'm trying to pick up from all this. My goodness gracious.
So, um Let me ask you, let's finish up the conversation with this. when Giannis returns. Let's say it's a month from now. Doc, Doc said, right, right. But I mean, this sort of stuff.
How many times have we seen calf strains turn into something far worse, right?
So let's just say, let's just give it the month here. Doc did say, we're just a 10-game win streak away from this thing going away. Um, they're they kind of agree with that. If they win 10 in a row, it would go away. They got nine more to go, they got they got nine more to go, um, you know, and so.
Uh let's just say they might not win nine more in a row. They come back, he's healthy, or at least everybody believes he is. Play it out for me. What trade deadline is when, and who might be interested. And I'm imagining this won't be a pocket listing just for the Lakers if it happens.
So, what do you think? Play it out for me, Brian.
So, this is the conversations I've been having for a day now. Sure.
So, the question is: will you know, and obviously the injury is a new factor in all this, so I don't know how it affects it, okay? Right.
Will Giannis simply rattle the saber like he has in the past and the Bucs. When he's rattled the saber in the past, like you know, there were times when Giannis you can go back and look at it. I won't give the exhaustive, but you know, like, for example, Giannis a few years ago said, I'm not going to sign the contract extension That they have on the table right now. I'm just gonna wait. And then they traded for Dame Lillard, and he signed the contract extension.
Okay. You know, like he had another contract extension, they traded for Drew Holiday. He obviously had some angst the way this last season ended. They go out and make this Miles Turner trade. I think they're pretty much out of moves, but John Horst and the Bucs ownership have pulled off some things, like maybe there's a move that they could make.
where they get a player and it does help them. Maybe they don't go 10 and 0, but maybe they go 6 and 4 or 7 and 3 and Giannis comes back because this has happened. Giannis has radically changed before.
So people wonder, like, will he actually ask for the trade? That's an unknown. That's number one. Number two, let's say that he does ask for the trade. Is it a situation where it's, you know, in August, it was a one-team list, it was the Knicks.
If he does ask for that trade, is are the Knicks still number one? Or is it three teams, four teams, nine teams, thirteen teams? I don't know. The third thing is Giannis. after this season has one year.
Plus a player option left on his contract, but essentially one year. When we see players in this situation, Jimmy Butler was an example of this. Last year, Jimmy Butler had one year left on his contract. Anybody who traded for him knew that They had to have a contract understanding with him.
So when he went to Golden State, they negotiated a contract extension with. The trade and he signed it.
Now, Giannis is not eligible to sign an extension for rules that I won't get into right now, but you certainly would want to know that if you traded the sun, the moon, and the stars for Giannis, that he intended to sign next summer.
So the question would be, does Giannis get to control this? if he actually asks for a trade. And I have talked to a bunch of people in the league with this exact question, and I thought the answer would be yes. He's been there 12 years. He won a championship.
He's won two MVPs. They want a respect for him. They want the most that they can possibly get in a trade. Giannis, they would work with Giannis. Not everybody agrees with me.
People in the league think that the Bucs, if they had to, would make a deal where they wouldn't do what Giannis wanted. I don't believe that. I believe that Giannis would. Basically, choose his team.
So if you're a Laker fan, which is really what you're getting to, Rich, which you're saying, because Laker fans are like, well, when are you going to say how he's getting to the Lakers? When are you getting to that? If Giannis said to the Bucs, Trade me to the Lakers. Yes, sir.
He would be he would be a Laker. But any other way, I don't see how the Lakers do it. Um Because I don't think the Lakers can win a bidding war.
Okay, if it's a bidding war where there's teams offering draft picks and players and stuff, because. I don't know how long one you want me to go here, but the Bucs don't control their next three drafts.
Okay, so The buck's starting a rebuild. Where they like, okay, we're gonna sink down and get that doesn't work because they don't control their picks.
So the bucks probably are either gonna want Real players who help them today in a trade, or they're going to want draft picks from a third team. What I mean by that, a third team is. Me having my draft pick doesn't work. I don't control the next three. I'm trading you, Yannis Tenacupo.
Your team's gonna be awesome. Giving me your draft picks for the next couple of years aren't doing me any good. Do you have third team picks that might be valuable? And So these are all things that would be valuable. I don't think the Lakers have a package that can win out teams that have draft picks, have good players, and have third-party.
There's teams out there that are good teams that have third-party draft picks that could offer.
So I don't think the Lakers can win a bidding war. But if Giannis says, make me a Laker. Yes, there's a deal there that could happen because the Lakers have a bunch of expiring contracts that I think could make it. But I do think it would be a bit of a journey to get there, but not impossible. All right.
Plus, I don't think John Horst wants to have his name in the rafters next to Nico Harrison's as a retired jersey in crypto. Because fans of the Lakers are trying to. I don't say a word. That's the difference. That's the difference.
Well, I'm sure. Wild, man. This is wild. Listen, I know I've kept you. Or he doesn't ask for it at all, and he's a buck for the next six months.
It could be. It could be. It's what he wants. Hey, man, I know I've kept you so long, but you want to spend a minute on the last time when we spoke for forever? You're like, we're not paying attention to Jokic enough.
And then that night, he drops 55 on the Clippers. And right now, he is 100%. In the averaging a triple-double for the season, with shooting almost 62% from the floor. It's insane. What he's doing.
I just want you to know that Shea Gildas Alexander is on a team that is 21 and 1. Yes, sir.
He just put up a month where he had, he is a reigning MVP, the finals MVP, all that stuff. He just had one of the best. Six week stretches of his career. on a team that's 21 and 1. He did not win Western Conference Player of the Month, and I agree.
I agree that it was Jokic because Jokic was so amazing that he even overcame that is how great that he has been. I figured you'd want to have the floor on that, and we should be paying more attention to what's going down there. And maybe that's why you chose that as your backdrop. Denver, Colorado. Good to see you, Brian.
There he goes. Thanks, Brian. He's flying across the sky. There he goes to block another shot to maybe get a quadruple double. Thanks, as always.
You're the best. Have a great day, Richard. Right back at you. Brian Winhorse, nobody better right here on the Rich Rising Show. All right, let's take a break.
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progressive insurance. Colby in Georgia wants to chime back in again. What's up, Colby? How you been? I am doing well.
As always, you know the what's my first question for you, Colby? What's my first question for you? What do you think? Guess what? I want to ask you first up.
What house of church are you in? No, why aren't you in school? That's my first school. That's right.
So he is at school. You are at school. And your Brilliant homeschooling is let's take some time out and call the Rich Johnson show, right? Genius. Is that what it is?
Yes. Excellent. Is he getting credit for this? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Extra drugs. You should get extra credit. That's right.
You should. You should. What can we sign? What can we do? Yeah.
Journalism. All right. Colby, what do you got for me? What do you want? I wanted to say that I am really confused with the Dolphins right now.
Why? I don't know what that means. Why? Why? Why are you confused?
Let's walk you through it. Because I Cool. I just feel like at the start of the season, I feel like it's just win loss. Lately though we've been on a win streak, so I'm glad about that. Yes, sir.
I just feel like every time things start to get going, it just goes downhill again.
Well, Colby, your Miami Dolphins this week are visiting the New York Jets. And then have a chance to get back to 500 on Monday night in front of the whole country. at the Pittsburgh Steelers. And then from there, It's all on. Who knows what's going to happen after that?
So let's take it one day at a time, right? Like one game at a time. I'll give you the, there's one word, there's one word as to why it's happening. You want to know what that word is, Colby? You want to guess what that word is?
Guess what the word is? It's a name. It's a last name. Give me the name of the guy that's the reason why it's happening.
Okay. Starts with an A and ends with a Chan. That's his name. A Chan, pal. That guy.
You know what? You know, the. It's a higher register Thursday. Should I'll ask the question in your higher register. Should HM be in the mix for Offensive Player of the Year?
Ooh, really great question. He is a beast. He's unbelievable. But when you're five and seven. No, I understand that, but as you know, it's a stat-related award.
There's five guys who can win it. I mean, there's five finalists, essentially, is what I'm saying. You know, so Colby, that's the guy. He's just been, he's been unstoppable. And he's the one that just used, he's a home run hitter.
He may be the best home run hitter and name a Marlon. He's probably more of a home run hitter than any of them. You know, to be honest with you. Um, I just think if you can keep it up, you'll have a good chance. Thanks for the call.
Colby in Georgia, everybody. All right, Colby. You're top six for odds for Offensive Play of the Year. Let me go. Let me go.
Okay, great. Offensive player of the year, McCaffrey. McCaffrey's fourth. Jonathan Taylor. He's second.
Um Is A-Chan on any of these? No.
Okay. Gibbs? Gibbs, number one? Gibbs is fifth. Who's won?
Jackson Smith and Jigbo.
Okay. There you go. He's minus 125. Taylor, minus 105. And then it's either between those two right now.
And then it jumps up. George Pickens, 25 to 1. McCaffrey, 35 to 1. Gibbs, 75 to 1. Devin A-chan is 125 to 100.
And that's probably because of the record of the team. Sure.
Guy's been unreal, man. James Cook is 100 to 1. I might have some numbers to support all this stuff, but I don't think I printed out anything on the Dolphins on this week 14. George Pickens, though. That's an interesting top three there.
Dude. He's been unbelievable. I was looking up some old. He's the closest to Jackson Smith in Jigba in receiving yards. Yeah, I was looking up some old overreaction takes from the offseason, and there was one in May where I said George Pickens would lead the Cowboys in touchdowns, and he does.
Is that right? Yeah. I don't know who loves being right more, me with my regular takes or you with your... Yeah. The outlandish, yeah, the outlandish ones that end up sort of coming true.
Well, it's not just that, too, because you are, you know, at the end of the day. Um, I don't know what you love more is being aggregated by our friends at ESPN and Disney or for your hot takes on the Tuesdays. I know, they take you. They just love that, they take you literally. They take you literally, which is just like, can you guys just at least say in the copy that it's overreaction Monday on a Tuesday?
Because most people don't know. Yeah, right. All right, I'm glad we tap danced long enough. Here are the numbers for HN. 1,404 scrimmage yards, sixth in the NFL.
He ranks third in the NFL in rush yards with 1,034. Fifth in touches with 240. Most rush yards through 12 games by Miami players since. Ricky Williams. Bingo, 1,284 in 2002.
He's the leading pass catcher for the Dolphins.
Well, Tyreek has been gone for quite some time. How many does he have? 54. Wow. When he touches the ball 20 times in a game, that's happened five times.
You want to guess what the Dolphins' record is? 5-0. Correct. They're 0-7 are all the others. That's why when I say H, I didn't even know that stat.
That's why I tell Colby, listen, we're homeschooling you, sir. He's had 100 or more scrimmage yards in each of the last four games, all wins. He's led the NFL in scrimmage yards with 157.5 per game since week nine. The only uh Player with more games than his 10, with 90 or more scrimmage yards this year, is Christian McCaffrey. 120 or more rush yards in three straight games.
That's tied with the aforementioned Ricky Williams for the longest streak in Dolphins history. The only one with more of a streak in... In such a regard. in the last 10 seasons with four. 120 or more rush yards in a game.
For four straight games in 2016. You want to guess who that was, TJ? I'm asking you for a reason, 2016. Oh, DeMarco Murray. No.
Z. 16. Man, maybe HN at 125 to 1 isn't a bad spring. What I'm telling you. Since the Dolphins run the table, why not?
That's what I'm just telling you, man. Everyone's going, what happened?
Well, let's trade away Jalen Phillips. Let's fire the general manager. Before we do that, Why is it happening?
Well, Tua is not throwing the interceptions as much. He's, you know, which Mike Ben Daniel told us: hey, we don't throw 10 picks, I think we'll be all right. And they're running the hell out of the football: 160 or more rush yards in each of their last three games. Yeah. All wins.
Okay. He's been dominant. Let's not put the ball in the air as much. Let's get this guy dominating and play enough defense. And obviously the schedule softened up to help.
While we're back. 844-204 Rich, number to Donald. When we come back, let's take a break. I've got a top five list: top five teams that should finish.
Well Should I'm going to sit here and say they're definitely finishing well. They should looking at how they've played and how the schedule is breaking.
So, with your chest, you will not say it.
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Yeah, I do. I'm glad you're happy about it because I am as well.
Well, I just like to, I know that Brockman's going to argue you're five with you no matter what it is. No, it's not true. I enjoy that. This is all good. My top five teams that I've done at top five negatively.
which is teams that I'm concerned about how they're going to finish.
Now I'm going to raise expectations. These are my top five teams that should finish strong, presented by Hyundai. Hit it. High five. One, two, three, four, and five.
Riches, top five. All right, everybody. My top five teams that should. Finish strong. I don't want to hear anything otherwise.
These teams should finish strong. Don't screw it up. Yeah. Number five on the list. I'm not quitting them.
Oh, geez. Kansas City Chiefs should finish trial. What are we doing? What do you mean? What are we doing?
They're going to lose on Sunday. How is that starting off with a finished stroke? One of their six losses have come at Arrowhead. One. One.
and the Colts had him dead to rights the last time? And then let him off the hook.
So, the Chiefs have their toughest opponents remaining on their schedule, they are at home. If you take a look at it, Yes, Houston's stout. And then the Chargers are coming into town. And they have Denver coming into town. On Christmas night.
on Prawn Video. Those are the toughest ones. They're at Tennessee. They're at Vegas. Let's just say they don't lose at home because it's Arrowhead and things go well for them there, and they're tickling everybody's tonsils.
They should finish strong.
Okay. They're number five on my list. How dare you feel otherwise? I think you get royalties for mentioning the Chiefs. I do not, sir.
I really thought he was going to put the Bengals under the channel. Let me shut you up. Number four on the list of the Patriots. Oh.
Well, yeah, we have the easiest schedule. I keep hearing from everyone that we have the easiest schedule. You are home against the Bills and you're at the Ravens, but after that. Yeah, you're at the Jets in your home from Miami. You should finish strong.
You should let me ask you this question real quick. Do you want them to lose? Oh man. As a Patriot fan, would you prefer one of these final games results in a loss so that could potentially help grow? Get it out of the way, as they say.
No.
No.
Okay. You want to win out because if you win out, that's one seed.
So you get the buy. Then all you got to do is win two games in this Super Bowl. Let's go.
Okay. So you want to go into the playoffs of a 14-game win streak. 0-7, undefeated year. Right.
Probably would have been nice to lose one of those. Like at Baltimore, that probably would have been nice to lose. But you didn't lose in the Super Bowl because you hadn't lost one. No, that's true. We couldn't talk about Straighthand.
Right.
Everyone else on that defensive line was. You didn't have to blitz Brady. You just could put four sets of hand in the dirt and go get him. That was rough. I'll never forget that night.
And catch one off your helmet. Ugh, Rodney Harrison. That play should honestly keep Rodney Harrison out of the Hall of Fame. That's absurd that you would give it to me. No, I don't like that.
I don't like that. All right. Patriots should finish strong. Number three on the list of top five teams that should finish strong are the San Francisco 49ers should come off there by. And you look at the Niners' remaining schedule.
They're home for Tennessee. They're at Indianapolis. They have a home game against Chicago, which is going to be outstanding on Sunday night. And they have then home date with Seattle. They should go into that game against Chicago on a five-game win streak with all due respect to the Colts.
And they should finish strong. and they should win maybe 11, if not 12 games. and there'll be a playoff team finishing strong and feeling good about themselves. I don't care if it's a last place schedule. They have crushed it.
with everybody being hurt, mostly. Good thing for them, it's not McCaffrey. Number two on the list. You know, we should finish strong? Your team should finish strong, TJ.
The Dallas Cowboys should finish strong. Because if they win tonight. Their remaining football games are against the Minnesota Vikings and Chargers are at home. And then they take on Washington and the Giants on the road. and no stadiums.
should be filled in Washington and in New Jersey. Chock full of Cowboys fans going nuts. Say it again. It's the truth. Say it again.
Your team should finish strong. And I don't know where they're going to wind up. Again, coming into. you know, this game tonight. The Chances for making the playoffs are 17%, and if they beat the Lions, it's up to 31%.
That 3-5-1 start is like a cinder block right now. Yeah. But each wind chips away at that cinder block and makes it less of a presence undertowing them. Five winnable games at Scope was a very good one. And my number one team.
To finish up strong. Are the Cincinnati Bengals? Seriously? Yes, yes, yes, on quadrupling and quintupling down. Yes, they should finish strong.
Come on. Joe Burrow is back. Defense is suddenly balling out. They're going into Western New York, and every single Bills fan will tell you if they are filled with sodium pentothal or not, or whatever is in their red, in their red cups. LeBats.
Blue. With Burrow coming in this weekend. Everybody Bill Sphinter is getting a little tighter. You just gotta sit there and just need a whole bench.
Okay, and then they can have the Ravens. It'll be Burroughs' first home start. Week 15 with the Ravens coming in, a chance to sweep them. Then they're at Miami on a Sunday night. Then they're home for Arizona and Cleveland.
Let's. Go! The season is not over. They are the number one team that shouldn't finish strong in the entire National Football League. Season is not correct.
And I will be proven right and it's going to be delightful. What I'm doing right now is just a mere appetizer of what would happen if I'm proven ultimately right. Forget the other details as to why I thought the season was not over. throughout. Get it.
I did not know. And I'm just gonna keep doubling down on this one, too. Take a chill pill, Eagles fans. Oh, geez. Nah, you don't have to.
Take a pill of the chill variety.
Okay. I do know that in the commercial break prior to this segment, Jalen Carter's been ruled out for the Monday nighter. Had a weird surgery on his shoulder. I get it. Yeah, that seems bad.
That doesn't sound good. That hurts. I understand. You know what also hurts? Jalen.
Yeah. That's right.
He's coming. And so is Saquon, and so is this team. And they're taking on a Chargers team that's got Justin Herbert with a left hand that needs screws in it. He says he's going to play on Monday night. He's practicing today.
Got it. Home for Vegas, two against Washington, and you going to Western New York. Hold home. The Philadelphia Eagles have what it takes. The question is, is it going to happen?
I don't know. But they should finish strong. 100%. And let's go. Take a chill pill, Philly.
Stop egg in the OC's house. Yeah, what do we have? You gotta censor yourself. Get a grip, man. And then, also, you know what the Eagles need?
is a home game on the road. Every Eagle fan that comes into SoFi Stadium on Monday night, and there's going to be a lot of them. Every single one of them. Will be in a better mood than anybody else that they're like, what was in their turkey? On Friday.
Boo. That one dude is like, I know I shouldn't do that sort of stuff because people screen grab and make Jeff's. Great still frame. But seriously, that dude. All of that.
Like last year didn't happen. What is going on? Everybody, though, on Monday night? They're going to be like, this is amazing.
So, you're going to have a happy home crowd on the road. Isn't that amazing? They got to go on the road to have a better home crowd. Yeah. Supporting the team.
That's my top five list, everybody, presented by Hyundai. The Rich Eisen Show Podcast. Mm-hmm.
