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As you know, one of our favorite shows is Landman on Paramount Plus. Allie Larder was on this program just a couple of weeks ago, talking about our Eagles as well as Landman season two. Billy Bob Thornton's been on here before. We love all things Taylor Sheridan, but this show in particular. Andy Garcia, who's about to come out here on our set, has joined the cast at the end of season one.
His feature. In season number two, quite a bit, including just this past weekend's episode. He plays an individual named Dan Morrell and Galeno. It just depends on if he's just. I guess laundering money or making it.
This is him in a scene with Demi Moore that's coming up this very weekend. Your husband left you quite a master didn't. It wasn't intentional. But yes, he did. Snakes are cannibals, did you know that?
I did not. The Rabbits, mice, squirrels. Quail. But they also eat each other. I know my business is similar.
But the snakes We have a code. We only eat other snakes. No rabbits, no mice. A quail. I'd like to help you, but I can't negotiate with you.
Not because you're a woman. You're not a snake. Have Tommy reach out. Are you calling Tommy a snake?
Well maybe not a snake, but uh He's a hawk. And hawks. Babe's next to Okay. Tommy being the Billy Bob Thornton character, the awesome stuff. Andy Garcia is here on the Rechargement Show.
I already did. Man, do these lines written by Taylor Sheridan just jump off the page as you're saying, I can make a meal of this when I'm sitting down on camera to do it, you know? He's such a great writer. You just say the words. It's not only his writing, the way how he can write individually for every character, so uniquely specifically.
But also he His storytelling, the arcs of his stories with the characters, which is very important in an ongoing series, you know, his ideas about that. And of course the voicing of this central character for Billy Bob is just quite extraordinary. He can't take a step without the basically having the uh you know, the weight of the world on his shoulders that's coming at him from all angles all the time. And now we have in this new season also Sam Elliott has joined the show. Oh, yeah, isn't it so bad?
Yeah. And them together, you know, Billy and Sam together are really sublime. What a cast, too. I mean, you got an Academy Award nominee that you're across from right there in the United States. I'm amazing in the show.
Right. And, you know, we had Allie Larter here just the other week. Michelle, everybody. Everybody just, it's a group of. Scenery chewers, you know what I mean?
Like it's seen, like you're all chewing up the scenery in a good way, you know? And I can't get enough of it. What did Taylor Sheridan tell you about your character? I don't want to spoil anything because we're kind of still learning about how dark you are or how you know. I'm rooting that you're going to turn into a nice guy over here.
And I'll be honest with you. I don't even know if that point of view. He has two names. You set him up already when you open the show. In the first season, you learn about him a certain way.
Yes. And in the second season, he kind of sees the other side of the coin. But Taylor asked me to come out to Fort Worth to meet him before. that he wanted to create this character for me and of course that for me I found that To be a great privilege, you know, I was a big fan of his already, not only from Yellowstone, but from early from his movies. He was an a he's still an actor, but yeah, I knew him as an actor, but also I knew him, you know, of the films he wrote, which were quite extraordinary.
I said, this guy could really write. And so, when I got the call that he says that he wanted to create this character, he told me that there was. Essentially, this kind of cartel presence in the Permian Basin and in Texas. And I had no idea. That's the thing about all his shows, too.
By the way, obviously, you know, you've worked with Costner before. He's worked with Costner. And we saw what Yellowstone has been basically the base of operations for everything else out of it. And, you know, watching Taylor Sheridan's Lioness, for instance, just the fact that he learns that world, and now I'm learning it. He seems to be so detail-oriented in every world that he creates.
Yeah, and it's based on a podcast, too. You know, it's Christian Wallace's podcast. Sure. But the words are Taylor, you know. Right.
But, you know, that was it. I said, you know, he said, I want to create this character for you. And I said, I'm in. I'm all in. I said, you know, let's go.
There was nothing written yet, but I said, I'm all in. Yeah. And you didn't even see a written word like you're all. Don't need to. Don't need to.
No. No, we we spoke about life and movies and the character where he was from and he says, No, it's you, he's not from Texas, he's you know, my pasta and then we started to spitball a little bit of it.
So, okay, then so he's he's maybe South Florida, he's Cuban, he's the connection to where the source the the raw material comes from, you know, and he developed this this this uh area and and through time these relationships in the business world and And then he went off and rode. But I was happy that he was a fan. He had seen a movie of mine many years ago with Alashby called Eight Million Ways To Died, and he was a fan since then.
So heard of that one? I was, you know, like I said, I was privileged that he thought of me.
So you're saying that your character, Galeno, roots for the Miami Dolphins? Is that what you're saying right now? I hadn't picked up on that. What do you think of your Miami Dolphins right now?
Well, we're on a little bit of a streak, you know. You are. I mean, if we can win out, you never know. Maybe we will sneak in. We have something, you kind of just went for you, something called higher register, which is a gag or a bit that we do around here.
When you mentioned dolphins, I went in my register.
Well, the register goes up when you got to go higher register in order to believe it. Like, hey, if we went out. Oh, I see. You know what I mean? Like, you know, you never know.
You never know. I'm a half, you know, glasses, half-full kind of guy with the dolphins.
Well, this kid, H-N, when he gets the ball, it's a home run almost. Let me know what happened also is. Yeah. McDaniel very cleverly, because of his abilities, H. Andy, he put a tackle as a secondary tight end and sometimes in the backfield as a fullback.
And it's opened up a little bit more of the zone blocking and more people out there blocking for the HNS of the world. Plus, the way he schemes things up, it just comes from, you know, obviously the San Francisco world where just all you got to do is just get one little extra angle, one little extra motion, and suddenly that step will hit a crease and off you can go. Certainly as fast as he is. Yeah. So, how far back with the Dolphins do you go, like, from the beginning?
From day one. From day one, I was there opening kickoff when Joe Hauer took the opening kickoff 105 yards in the orange bowl. Yeah. You were physically there at the same time. I was physically there in the 60s, and I went all through the Shula years and the undefeated season.
I was at every game and the Merino years, and then I moved to L.A. in 1978.
Now, periodically, we're going to go back and see a game, but mostly. In those days, there wasn't like the Sunday ticket, so we'd find satellite places that had satellites. Eventually, I got a satellite from my house to watch the games. Did you meet Marino? You ever met Marino?
Yes, yes, he's a Marino.
Okay, give me that one. What do you got for me there? Oh, my God. He's the best. And I asked him, you know, I was at one of the games.
I was sitting with him in their booth up there. Yeah, yeah. And I said, Dan, what do you think you would do with these new rules where the defensive backs can't touch anybody and they can't muscle them? And he went like, oh, my God. You didn't even have to answer.
He just laughs. He just went like that. It'd be thousands and thousands of yards. 5,000 every season, 6,000 wouldn't even be any stretch. Yeah, I mean, you know, there's been great passers of the ball in the field, you know, from Joe Namath.
But I think, hands down, I think. Marino is the greatest passer two in the game. I mean, you got to sit here. He and Elway from the 80s suddenly, you know, with each passing year, a lot of people forget how incredibly great they were. Amazing.
So, Marino, so you go way back in the day. Way back, yeah. Die Hard, diehard. Gary Yupremi and making that moment in the second. Come on.
Well, I mean, that actually prevented the Dolphins from having the final score match their record of 17-0. Had he made that field goal, they'd have been up 17-0. Instead, it made it 14-7, which they won. I'm not bringing up the losses to you. You know what I mean?
I thought you were talking about Gary Yupremi trying to pass the pass. Right. And instead of, had he not made the field goal, it would have been 17-0 as the final score for a 17-0 team. Oh, I see what you say. Instead, it was 14-7 as the final score because of what happened.
All right.
So we got the Miami Dolphins there. Landman, again, is available every single Sunday on Paramount Plus. And congrats, season three's picked up. See, yeah, I just heard this morning before I got here. I got to come here more often.
How many times have we had that? This is like instance three or four where this has happened, where an actor in the show has been on the show that day when it got announced, the new season. Yeah, yeah, that's amazing. Like I said, it's a privileged situation to be in, a lot of fun. And, you know, the cast, to play with that cast and with that writing, it's really beautiful.
And again, just look at that cast that's up on there on the screen. It really is phenomenal with Taylor Sheridan at the controls as well. And you're working on your golf game while you're. Shooting Landman? Is that what Tommy was?
No, you know, I did actually, because Taylor, I think it's in the episode for this weekend. Yeah, okay. He had written. This thing in a monologue that Billy comes to my office and he says, You can, you know, basically says something to the effect, it's a tease. There you go.
It's a tease saying, you know, you can pretend, you can play golf at the country club, but I know, you know, I saw you kill a man in front of me, you know, I know who you are. And so I saw that. I called Scotty Cameron, and he's made me these Napa putters, which is the putter that Ben Crenshaw kind of made famous, the old 8802, Wilson 8802 from the 60s, you know, Palmer and stuff. And he made me that putter. He says, and so when Billy comes to see me, I said, I'm going to be putting in my office.
And the director, Stephen Kay, said, Oh, great, just keep.
So we have this kind of rather intense scene, and my character is just putting through it.
So, amazing. Taylor Sheridan writes a scene for you to play golf in your office. No, no, he's not. Billy said, I know that you like to play golf.
So I just said, well, I thought it was interesting that I would be putting it. You know, golfers, we. Oh, you suggested. I said, how about I do that? I just brought it out and brought the putter with me, and I said, What if I'm putting to the director?
And he said, Great, let's do that. You know how golfers, if we have a chance to practice our putting wherever it is, we'll just sit right here. We'd be on a break, everybody would be putting. Look over your right shoulder, there's the surface right there. Every time I'll look up from his desk, actually getting ready to do the shoe, and I'll see him putting over there.
And I'm like, What's happening?
So, exactly.
So, if you zoom into that shot, you'll see the little Scotty Cameron label on the putter.
So, that's that's uh, that's Danny Morrell's butter. It's a gunmetal blue nap. It's called Napa. Scotty said, I'm going to make it gunmetal. That's a great flex, by the way, Andy, to just be like, Hey, Scotty Cameron, can you make me a customer?
Yeah, he's been good to me. He's been good to me. Yeah, how is your game going? It's my handicaps going up. Again, you know, my length, you're working.
Yeah, no, but also length. You know, if you have. You know, when you have to hit hybrids and three was into par fours, you're going to have to get up and down a lot to keep your handicapped at some. The lowest I've ever been has been like a seven. I'm maybe like a 14 now.
All right, I got to go here, even though I probably shouldn't, but I'm going to go here. Andy Garcia here on the Rich Eisen Show. You know, I've seen you out at the club, okay? And yes, indeed. And I see Pesci there.
Mm-hmm. What do you and Joe Pesci talk about when you're just hanging out. If you don't mind me asking. I think RCA. I don't think anything specific, but we do talk about golf, actually.
You know, he'll say. Just golf?
Well, he'll look at what I'm doing and he goes, he says, What are you doing? What are you doing? Why are you doing that? But you don't talk about the profession? I wouldn't say that it's something that we always talk about.
I think we just. It's just easygoing, you know. Nothing, I wish I could tell you an anecdote or say we like to talk about this or that, but it's pretty, it's pretty easygoing. He loves the game, you know. He takes it, he's very serious about the game.
He's really serious about people playing fast in front of him. That I know. Yeah, I know, yeah. He kind of bops around a lot, you know, just finds an empty hole and plays, you know, and hits a couple balls. He likes to just be out there.
I know that I feel bad sometimes when I look to my right and I see him zipping past. I'm like, I'm trying my fast, I'm trying to fast.
Well, I'll see him across the way if I'm not playing with him. And I'll go like this.
So he knows that it's me. You know, it's like bringing in an airplane, you know. And he goes, I said, Joe, if I go like this, it's me. Because a lot of people, you know, will go, hey, hey, Joe, how are you? And I said, I'm just doing this.
That's me. And he'll go like, he'll look, and he'll go, hey, how are you doing? Oh, my God. He's the best. He's an American original.
He told me that he would go up to a kid.
Well, I've been told, actually, by people of the club when they bring the kids in. And obviously, I know him from Goodfellas. I even know him from like Easy Money, right? From back in the morning, from home alone, yeah. Home alone.
And he'll go up to a kid who recognizes from home alone and he'll say, I haven't broken into your house. Yeah. Yet. See, I have a pic I have a picture. I have a picture of him with my daughter Daniela, who's now in her.
Mid-30s, but she was probably 10. Right. And she was at the club with me on my golf cart, you know, and And I was playing with Joe, and she came up, or something like that. And he signed her in the thing, and he took her hand and he put it in his mouth like this. And I have that shot.
So that just reminded me. I love that guy.
So. Are you in the maybe the next oceans? Are we I was told I was, I haven't read the script. I was told by uh Grant Hesloff, who's my golf buddy and producer. I was sitting next to him last night.
Oh, yeah? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm trying to pick his brain about oceans because he's involved in that. He told me, yes. That I'm in it, but I ha I haven't uh.
I wish I had known while I was out flopping him. But anyway, long story short is you were you were definitely You think you've been told you're in this next game? He told me that my character's in it, and just trying to get a green light, you know? Terry Benedict is in it. Terry Benedict is back.
Who'd you base him on? No, no one in particular? No one in particular. No. It wasn't just the writing itself, how he's presented.
I mean, I had that guy. I remember having a conversation with Soderbergh when we first started. We got our meet like first meeting together. Right. And I said, you know, Stephen, I think this guy is like You know, he's like, he has a kind of a military precision, you know, like the art of war kind of guy.
He's very disciplined about who he is. and uh the way he dresses and all these things and And sort of a maybe like a Eastern phil philo philosophy about him. And but he's like uh he's very precise. When he goes through his casino, people have to fall in to talk to him. He's not gonna he's not going through the casino casually.
Right. He has things to do, and he's like a shark. He's gotta keep moving. And if people have to talk to him, they gotta fall in and g give him the information as he goes. And I remember he said, Okay, yeah, that sounds great.
And he kind of states stuff for that. If you see oceans. 11, you see them like there's scenes like that where we want to keep moving. Is it true that some of the scenes in which you're walking? In the casino, or even when you're in the back part of the casino, and this is when it's all going, the heist is going down.
The shots of you walking around were shot weeks apart, and you had to match your sometimes that happens where you are in the casino. But my favorite story, if you have time, of Oceans 11, I think it was Ocean's 11. We were doing the lunch break instead of going to like the catering or whatever. Don Cheadle and Scotty Connor and myself, we went to the cafeteria at the Bellagio, and they have this long counter that kind of sweeps like this in this. That's in the it's in the casino area there.
So we sit down in the counter like this, and Don is in the middle, Scotty Khan, and I'm to the right. And this younger girl from New York. Says, how can I help you? And we go, Oh, we just wanna. Want to have some quick lunch?
He goes, What are you doing here? He says, no, we're shooting a movie. He goes, you're shooting a movie? They go, yes, we're shooting a movie. This is Don Sheadles talking.
Yes. Shooting a movie. He goes, Who's in the movie? And he says, Well, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts, Andy Garcia. He says, Andy Garcia's in the movie?
Oh my God, Heart Beat Still. I'm sitting right here next to her. Heartbeat Still. Oh my God, he's my favorite. Oh, can I see him?
You think I'll be able to see him? He goes, He's sitting right here. And she looked me up and down. He says, No, no, no, he's much taller, more handsome, stronger. And then she walked away.
Did she think you were somebody else? And listen, I had that, you know, Terry Benedict's claw. I had like $5,000 on me in clothing, you know, and I took a $500 haircut, you know what I mean? And it's still like, nah, it's not good. No, she really looked at me.
She went, no. That's amazing. It's kind of, it just looks, again, one of the compliments that we love getting is from people who watch us and listen to us. Andy, it's like, looks like you're having fun. That movie.
Oh, yeah, of course. Looks Even though obviously you're all acting like that had to have been a complete well it it trickles it trickles down from from George George does, you know, he he's uh Joy of life and his sense of humor. And of course, the Weintraub, you know, and you have, you know, in that period of people wanting to have fun, you have Brad and Matt and Don and everybody, and Scotty, and, you know, Affleck, Casey, and, you know, just a bunch of Cody Reiner. I mean, Carl Reiner, God rest his soul. Yeah, right there on the screen.
Oh, he was the best. He was he pr you know, he I miss him so much. He uh you know when someone like that Looks Tells you Do I remember I was doing this actual scene and he came and I said I said uh I said, Carl, what a great pleasure it is to work with you. I've been such a great admirer of yours so many years, you know, forever, you know. And he looked at me and said, You're beloved.
No kidding. That's what he said. And I was like. No kidding. Yeah.
That'd be pretty cool for you. Oh, man. It's like, you know. You know, it means the world to when a colleague or someone that you think, well, you know, you go like, has he been, you know, he's been watching whatever I did, and he has that reaction. Sure.
Or it's a beautiful gift, you know. That is awesome. Yeah. And I could geek out on this so much, but is it also true in the scene where you walk up to all the whales? And you're talking three different languages.
That Soderberg threw that on you at the last second. You had to learn. I don't remember. I don't remember. Again, these are all things that are literally.
It's been a long time. I don't remember. I don't remember. I would think you remember if you have to learn Mandarin at the drop. Yeah, no.
No, I have a feeling that was in the script, and I probably learned the little snippets, right? Where you're saying, like, you're talking to one person. No, I think that was in the script, and I learned it. I would love to take credit that I can do a little Mandarin gibberish on the spot. My 13-year-old watched it, loved it.
And I watch it back. It's a remote drop movie for me, Ocean's 11th. Beautiful film. And you know what's magical also in that movie is the ending. Over the fountain where people peel off.
And I remember, and Claire DeLune is playing. And uh you're not in that. You're not in that. No, I'm not in that. And uh I remember Sodervik said to the team, to the guys, you guys are all there, you know, but you guys peel off on your own time.
Whoever wants to go first, third, or fourth. You know, I'm covering it so it all works. And you guys decide when you guys want to go, as what your individual character wants to go. But I just want to leave Elliot Gould there by himself, you know. Why do you think he did that?
Because Elliot was the elder statesman of the casino thing. No, but just to let everybody leave when they're going to go. Let's go leave organically. Who goes first? It wasn't like a pecking order.
You know, let's leave Danny Ocean last or so and so.
So it was more like. Everybody leaves in their own time, however they do it. All right.
I'm going to g I'll put you on a little bit of a spot then before I let you go here, Andy Garcia.
So you haven't read the script yet of the next iteration.
Okay. No. What do you want Terry Benedict to be? Coming in and finishing up like a coherent. That's it, just coherent.
Coherent. And, you know, by the way, in that movie, I think it was lunch in one. Yeah. This is great. There's also a putting scene.
I try to put a putting scene to everything I do. And we were doing the scene with Julia Roberts. I think it's in 11. And. I had told the prop guy just for the sake of maybe I'll be able to use it or whatever, because he said, You want any props?
And I said, Yeah, make me a cane. Mm-hmm. With a potterhead. That same map by the old butter hiccups. It looks like a cave.
It sure does if you flip it over. Yeah, and make me that, and we'll see what happens. And there was a scene with Julia, and I think it's in 11, where the scene starts and you see a glass on the floor and a ball comes off camera. to try to make it in the glass that's on the fl you know, turned over on the floor. I didn't make the putt, but then I come to the to get the balls and it's like a reveal, you know?
So, like I said, it's uh the the The Scotty Cameron putters are in my rider. I love it. That's the way to work it, man. Again, new episodes of Landman available to stream every Sunday, exclusively on Paramount Plus. An incredible cast, an incredible show.
And, Andy, you're the man. Thanks for coming here and sharing your stories. It's great to see you too. I mean, I could go in millions of other directions, but I'll just wait for the next time to come here. Please, anytime.
Anything else you want to pop? What's going on here? With you? I'm in the editing room. I just wrote and directed a picture that I also acted in with.
I've been trying to make for like 15 years, so that's what I'm doing now. We have a great cast, Vicky Creeps. Rosemary DeWitt, Brendan Frazier, Bill Murray, Dustin Hoffman, Danny Houston. Yo Vasquez, did they mean Bashir? I mean, it was I was blessed with a great actor.
Fantastic. And that's right now in the room right now. I'm heading there right now. Fantastic. Well, don't don't let me hold you up.
I want to see that movie. And everybody, check out Landman on Paramount Plus. Just picked up for season three. Come back and we'll get you season four. How's that sound?
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What's up, Joseph? Joe. You there, Joe? I don't know. Joe.
Everybody hangs on for all this time, and then it's time. Pop them back on hold. Anthony in Miami's been hanging on the second longest. What's on, Anthony? What's going on?
Hey, Rich, longtime fan. What's up? I wish I could watch the special for Stuart Scott because he was one of my favorites. I've been a fan of you and Stu since the beast. Yeah, that's coming up next Wednesday.
It's coming up Wednesday on ESPN.
So maybe you'll be able to catch it. I can't afford to get ESPN. I got you, man. But I appreciate you calling in today. What's on your mind?
I want to talk about the Giants and who should be their new head coach, because it's quite clear that they obviously need somebody who is a disciplinarian type.
Someone who commands respect and commands the room. Mm-hmm. I'm hearing a lot of people saying that Mike that if Mike Tomlin gets let go by the Steelers or if he decides to leave, he should do it. I disagree. I think the pl the person who should be the head coach of the New York Giants Is the head coach at Notre Dame, Marcus Freeman?
Yeah, I bet you there, Dave. Let me tell you, I think his name's going to be mentioned every single year and I don't know what would make it stop other than him taking a job, but he is highly impressive. What he has done with Notre Dame would absolutely be something I think the Giants are interested in. I don't know if the Giants would take a college coach at the very end of the day. I don't know what their mindset is going to be.
Joe Shane is leading it, but if they wind up with Marcus Freeman, I think every Giant fan would be ecstatic over something like that. Anthony. I see Marcus Freeman as somebody like Jimmy Johnson when he went to Dallas. Why not? Why not?
Because when you look at the Giants roster, there is a lot of young players on that roster, a lot of rookies, first, second, third, and even fourth-year players. Marcus Freeman has been head coach in Notre Dame four years, which means he's recruited a and he was transferred coordinator for Brian Kelly for two.
So he's recruited a lot of the players that are on the Giants. He knows what their strengths are, he knows what their weaknesses are. Not a bad idea. Anthony, thank you for the call. Thanks for hanging on as long as you did.
That's Anthony in Miami right here. Or if he is from New York City, that sounds like he is from She's probably known as Antony. In certain parts. That's what we would call somebody like Anthony from Staten Island. Anthony.
Anthony. Or Tony. Hey man, Marcus Freeman is going to have his name mentioned every coaching cycle in the National Football League, no matter how many times he says, I like it here. Is he ever? And um We'll find out if he makes it.
When we come on the air Monday, We'll find out if he's got a college football playoff team. Wouldn't that be something? Wouldn't that be something? It's a TV show. That's Sunday, right?
That usually happens during Sunday night or is it usually happens during game day morning? Usually they get in my ear and say the college football rankings are out, and then we pop it on the screen and we're like, okay, now I guess the games are over Saturday. Let's have the adults play. 844-204 Rich, number to Dow. Week 14 is just chock full of playoff implicating action.
And every single week. It ratchets up now. December football, now there's so much at stake. coming into this weekend. In the National Football League, and it's time for me to just lay it all out for you as to what's at stake.
In week number 14. Hit it, please. I need some music for that sort of thing. And I'm going to start. uh in Atlanta.
There's eight early window games, eight of them. The Seattle Seahawks are in Atlanta. The Atlanta Falcons are playing out the string, and I don't know if they're playing for their coach's job. I don't mean to ever stir that stuff up, but. Who the heck knows anymore?
I know that they like Raheem Morris there, and there's lots to like about with Raheem. Drake London's not playing in this game, and that doesn't help matters. And the Seahawks are coming to the East Coast, and this is what they do. They come east in an early window when you're supposed to beat them, and they beat you up instead. And the Seahawks are going to need to win this game, knowing that later on in the day, the Rams are taking on the Arizona Cardinals.
The San Francisco 49ers are chilling their heels, cooling their heels on. Their bye week. Seahawks early window. Ram's late window. And that's going to be a Jacoby Brissette start.
And the Rams last week. Early window west to east, they couldn't pull it off against the Carolina Panthers who were on a bye week this week.
So the Rams late window will already know the result to the Seattle Seahawks. These two teams, the Rams and the Seahawks. Are on a collision course for their next and final game, which is the Thursday night kickoff to week 16.
Okay. That's what's at stake between those teams while the Steelers and the Ravens take on each other. This is all happening at the same time.
Okay, the Rams and the Cardinals are later on. But while the Seahawks are taking on the Falcons, the Steelers, and the Ravens, the first of two times. 6 and 6 versus 6 and 6. And the winner has a massive tiebreak over the other. As I mentioned, the first of two times these two teams face each other in Pittsburgh.
in um the final game of the year.
So, what better way to go into the last four weeks of the season than beating your blood rival and having a first place? Uh Record. And Lamar is Just announced today, despite him being banged up missing some practices, he's going. And then the Pittsburgh Steelers are going to be on the road, and they're going to be hoping that they'll look up in the crowd and see some terrible towels and make them feel like they are at home, even though it's Baltimore and it's a blood sport. And there's so much at stake right now because as this is happening, Joe Barrow's back.
He's back in western New York, and the Cincinnati Bengals at four and eight know. Know that they still have, regardless of the result, Pittsburgh and Baltimore, a shot to win this division. Because Joe Burrow is back, and it's for the first time since week two, Burrow behind center. And then T. Higgins and Jamar Chase outlawed.
T. Higgins has been cleared. While the Buffalo Bills, I mean, Darius Slay is like, all right, I'm so glad you picked me up. But what do you think? He thinks eight and four is not a good spot to be in with Josh Allen?
Coming off that win. The team he wants to go to is also 8-4. That one's a big mystery. And then, you know, Joey Bosa is not playing. No Terrell Bernard playing in this game either.
I mean, what a monster game this is because if the Bills lose it, their next game is at New England. And if they lose that one, The division's done. The Patriots can clinch the division if the Bills lose this game and if the Bengals win it. Oh baby. It's on like Donkey Kong.
So there is so much at stake for both teams. The season's over if the Bills win this for Cincinnati. I can at least say that, even though I've been saying the season is not over. And if the Bills win this game, the division somehow is still in the mix. But the Bengals win this game, then they go home.
It'll be Burroughs' first home game since week two. And it'll be against Baltimore for them to try and sweep the Ravens. That's a massive game that's at stake there. And while this is happening, The AFC South has a massive game. between the Colts and the Jaguars.
The Colts who lost at home last week to the Texans Need to win this game in order to have a shot at Their division, one would think. Because they already lost one at home in Texas. They haven't played the Jaguars at home yet either. The Jaguars would love to. Tell the Colts not here not today.
No sauce gardener, he's out. Jonathan Taylor's got to carry the day here, man. Daniel Jones banged up, nicked up, who knows? The Jaguars are feeling it. And Duval is going to show up in full throw, and the Colts normally don't do very well there in Jacksonville.
What a big game this is. Colts win it. They have a great shot at the division. Jaguars win it. And the Colts have got to be wondering what is going on because their next game for them.
is not easy. They visit Seattle while they're home for San Francisco. Oh boy. And then they have Jacksonville at home, and then they're at Houston. They've got to win this.
They got to win some games now. That would be three losses in a row, and Jacksonville has been on a heater. Since that London game. Against the Rams.
So. Except for losing at home to Houston. I mean, losing in Houston, a game that they had pretty much wrapped up. Otherwise, they'd be on a five-game win streak. That's a massive game.
Meanwhile, while that's happening, the Commanders are at the Vikings. And again, I know these teams are out of it. But Jaden Daniels is back. J.J. McCarthy is in.
These are games that the Commanders haven't won since they were 3-2. They're 3-9. The Vikings need to show something, they need to see a pulse. They need to have J.J. McCarthy stop all this conversation about how they made a massive mistake.
He's got five games left, four games left, part five games left in which to prove it. That's a big game. The Dolphins and the Jets are taking on each other at the same time. One eastern window. The Jets just surprised the Falcons.
The Dolphins win this one. They kick on the Steelers next week. They have an opportunity to get back to 500. The Jets would love to stick it to the Dolphins. Remember the Monday night game where the Jets thought that season could still be redeemed?
That was the Dolphins' only win while they started one and six. They're five and seven now. Here we go. The Dolphins need to win this one because they have some tough games ahead.
Meanwhile, while that's happening, you also have the Titans at the Browns.
Okay. You've got Shador, another home start. You got Cam Ward coming in. You got... The first overall pick, taking on a fifth-round selection, who thought, or at least many people thought, once upon a time, could be first overall.
Saints at Buccaneers, Bucks not getting Mike Evans back yet. But the Bucs need to win this game, certainly with Carolina. On their bye week. That is a big game in division. That's all.
I mean, the witching hour is going to be insane. And then you've got late window, the Broncos at the Raiders. The Broncos coming off of that big win on Sunday night football. They win this. They would be the one seed above the bye-weeking Patriots, both 11-2 going into the final.
Stretch of the season. While the Raiders at 2 and 10, they are getting. They need to win in the worst way. I mean, an absolute worst way. Is Max Crosby going to play in this game?
You know the Broncos are hoping that's not the case. I already mentioned Rams and the Cardinals. Bears and packers, baby. Bears and Apackers. Are playing each other for the right to be in first place.
And this is Ben Johnson's first crack at the Packers. And they're the teams coming in at 9-3. And the Packers are 8-3-1. And they're coming off a win against the Lions. This game is as huge as possibly can get.
The Bears are the one seed. Can the Rams take the one seat back? Can the Eagles take the one seat back? Let's pump the brakes a little bit because you got the Texans and the Chiefs on Sunday night. The Chiefs at 6-6.
They have to win this game. They have to win out essentially and hope for some great results. in order to make the playoffs. Absolutely need to beat the Texans because they already have a tiebreak on the Colts and the Texans. And if the Jaguars win the AFC South, the Chiefs can cash in some of these.
Um tie breaks and take care of business until the Texans beat it. And they can also somehow, some way, just wipe the taste of the last two weeks out of their mouths while the Texans have been on a roll. And what better way to say that we are no longer 0-3 and we can not only win this division, we can make a greater run than that. if we win the division. And put that card on the table.
That's on Sunday night football. And then the Eagles come out here to SoFi Stadium. The Chargers want to win this division, they got to keep winning. Justin Herbert with a surgically repaired hand, taking on an Eagles team that will not have Jalen Carter, but they will have a home field advantage. And one would think all the fans there Won't be booing them every two seconds.
That's a big-time contest. Certainly, with the Cowboys having already lost, they win this. Their magic number to clinch the division is two going into the final four games of the year. And that's what's at stake in week number 14. Let's go.
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So, uh Let me go to a quick phone call right here. Cowboy James in San Antonio. What's up, Cowboy James? Hey, Rich, thanks for taking my call. Thanks for making it.
Hey, TJ. Yes, sir. I say, I didn't want you to catch all that smoke today by yourself, man. Thank you. You know, I've been a Cowboy fan since 'seventy two.' So hey, I'm here with you, brother.
I'm here with you. I still say That we need to pay Pickens who had a bad game. I'm not going to hold it against them like you didn't. CD Lamb had the drops a couple of weeks ago. He came back strong.
I expect Pickens to come back strong against Minnesota. And I still think he ought to get paid. you know, giving that sixty, seventy guarantee And about, you know, a million, a million and a half above the franchise tag.
Okay. And we're going to be all good, even if it's for next year.
Well, listen, Cowboy James, I'm glad you're there for TJ. I'd like you to be there for me when I negotiate my next contract. I did at Cowboy James in San Antonio. EFL Game Radio is presented by Progressive Insurance. They make the claims process easy so you can get back on the road in no time.
It's why over 43 million drivers trust Progressive. See for yourself at Progressive.com. And in terms of Pickens, he's going to be, he's already heard it. I'm sure he's heard it already. And he's going to be hearing it, certainly since they're on a mini-buy.
Like that performance last night, they needed him to be like the Pickens for the last three weeks. And instead, you know, that's all I'm saying. You look at it, he's running, he'd run, you know, routes that weren't crisp, and he let a ball drop right in front of him. Lights could have been or in his eyes, or not. How he's going to handle this is crucially important.
And if I'm the Dallas Cowboys, I'm taking note of it because if he's going in a tank, Where did that tank come from? Because he was killing it. Here's the deal: he can't go in the tank because CD, based upon what we saw last night, is not going to play next week. Maybe not. I mean, he does have a mini-buy.
I don't know. I would hope not.
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