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And now, it's Rich Eisen. Hour number three of the Rich Eisen Show is on the air. As soon as this hour is done, we're all heading to Los Angeles International Airport to fly to New York City the rest of the week. We'll be doing our show from the ESPN studios in Lower Manhattan as soon as GetUp is done. Um they're gonna Turn out Turn the place around and put a set of our own in there, man.
So Greeny's our neighbor. We'll ask him for a cup of sugar. And that'll be that. What are we asking Rex Ryan for? I don't think Rex wants to see me.
Yeah. I don't know if Rex is going to be. I have no idea. I don't know. I don't know.
Is he a regular? I don't know. We'll say hello because we're friendly neighbors. That's right. We're just that crazy neighbor that lives in Los Angeles.
We're making our way. Tomorrow's guest, Jeff Saturday, will be our first guest. Um the actor Tony Goldwyn will be in studio. On Wednesday's show, we've got Hank Azaria and Paul Rudd in the studio. Love it.
That's just the first two days.
So horrible.
So it'll be good times. Golden, that's Carl from Ghost. Oh, yeah. Oh. You want me to ask him about ghosts a little bit?
I think that would be mandatory to talk about ghosts. I don't know. Should he talk about how he's been all over Namdi's wife? Whoa, as the President of the United States? I mean, you might think that.
Olivia Pope is what he usually gets.
Some people might be able to do that. Speaking of ghosts, Demi Moore is crushing it on Landman this year. She's so great. She's so great. That was so much fun with Andy Garcia.
It was. I have not caught up. I didn't watch last night. No. I started to watch.
I didn't watch last night. God bless you. How do you do that?
Well, I guess you're not working all morning like I am. I mean, I was solo, so I was working. Oh, yeah. I got you. You know what I mean?
You had a rough job this week. It's all good. Yeah, I started to watch after I got done packing. It was like 11:45. I'm like, let me save it for you.
Oh, you guys say, how do you start something and then save it? Because it was good. That was late. That's weird. Like, you're a weirdo.
Why? Because I know I'm going to fall asleep in the middle of it. You start something and then stop it. I don't know. You just don't start it at all.
It's 11, it was almost midnight. I know, but I why'd you start it? 'Cause I thought I could power through. Oh, okay. Turns out I.
Wasn't going to be able to.
So I need to speak with Suze because we both we're both she's coming to New York as well, but we're on separate flights. We're leaving and she's leaving later on. Mm-hmm. Um do we Download Land Man and each watch it separately? Yeah.
Like, or nothing about that. I mean, or do we just leave it? But when are you going to watch it this week? And then you're going to watch it. No, we're just not.
I mean, you're going to watch it. It's going to be two next Sunday? That's actually not bad. That's also odd. I never watch them on Sunday anyway.
That's a Sunday night football. You know, I'm out. Yeah, I usually watch on Monday. I should be bad. No, actually, what we're going to do is we're going to watch the first five minutes and then save it.
What a weirdo. Why is that weird to you, Rich, that someone knows that they're about to fall asleep? Basically, no, yeah. I think our bigger issue is starting it, knowing how late it was. First of all, who are either of you to have an issue, first and foremost?
I mean, we're excuse me, we're preeminent experts. I'm just saying, that's the you're making it seem like I'm weird, and I think your reaction to it is weird. No, you are weird. We watch Landman and an episode of The Beast in Me. Hey, hold on.
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Now let's try David in Dallas. You're here, David? We got you now, David? Line three? Oh, please.
What's up, David? Yeah. How are you doing, guys? Long time listening, our first time call. Really appreciate you guys hanging in the format.
Friendship. What's on your mind? What up, man? Oh, no. You know, this whole college football playoff just needs to cancel the committee altogether.
We don't need thirteen people in a room deciding which is the best for ratings. College football needs that go back to a strength of schedule percentages, Numbers don't lie. Bring back actual competitive football and viewership that we want to see. No one wants to watch a bum game on New Year's Eve to decide who's actually going to play in a national championship. I think that to me is a waste of everybody's time.
Well, I think the yeah, you, you're, you listen, man. And the whole thing, David, though, is it's not about ratings. If it were, they wouldn't be putting Tulane in Ole Miss or James Madison in Oregon. I'm sorry, I got to jump here. That's David in Dallas.
They wouldn't be doing that over ratings. Again, like, oh, let's get some guy you've never heard of who has trouble communicating what what everybody in the room needs to have communicated or is appropriately communicating it, and whatever they're doing in the room needs to 100% be rectified. Let's have him come on the air and say things like P4 or a group of five. Like, who the hell can even follow that? Who cares?
You gotta this is you've you gotta Situation where we're all going for the same eyeballs around here. And the same people that you're trying to say, hey, on New Year's Eve, you know what you need to do? Forget that party you want to go to, forget that thing that you want to go to. Um or Don't have the party, watch our game. You know, and who can understand what this is?
You know, at least with the college basketball tournament, you talk about RPI this and all that sort of nonsense that you get so difficult for you to follow if you're a casual fan. But the people who who can't make the field of 68 You know might have a case or not. But it's not like this, where it's so glaring. And absurd.
So they got to put Tulane and James Madison in. Honestly, I know we might even have some of these coaches on.
So I'd say this with the ultimate respect, it's on them. Go into Olemas and make a game of it. And James Madison, good luck going to Oregon. Dan Lanning's going to have them whipped up. Whipped up.
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So once upon a time, the Pittsburgh Stoves were 4-1. And the Ravens were on their way to going one and five, and everybody thought the Ravens were going to win the division anyway. Yada yada yada. The Steelers Off their four and one start. lose um Get this math right, five of their next seven.
There's six and six. And um The Ravens wind up winning five in a row. And While the Steelers are losing and the Ravens are winning. Everybody's prophecy is coming correct. Until the Bengals beat the Ravens.
On Thanksgiving night. And then Joe Barrow is back in doing that. And you look at the standings, and even I'm pounding the table saying, season's not over. Season's not over.
So it went from the Steelers starting 4-1, but still nobody believing in them.
So the Ravens are going to overtake them, then the Ravens do, until they don't.
Now it's the penguins who can overtake everybody. and then they don't. And so do the Ravens bounce back against the Pittsburgh Steelers despite having an extra half of a week of rest coming off of that Thanksgiving night loss against the. Cincinnati Bengals? And do the Steelers Who looked terrible.
Here in Los Angeles against the Chargers. And coming off of A loss. Against the Uh Buffalo Bills. in which Aaron Rodgers, again, gets his nose cracked open. And Looks like, again, he's breaking into Kevin's house in Christmas.
And He's got a broken left wrist and he's turned 42 and They're you know, booing Tomlin, calling him to be fired. The ultimate. Sign of the canary in the coal mine in Pittsburgh. Not even cheering for Renegade at home. Or I mean This is why we play the games though, huh, everybody?
Cause guess who's in first place in the AFC North? That'd be the Pittsburgh Steelers. Guess who became the oldest player in Steelers history to score a touchdown? That'd be Aaron Rodgers, turning back the clock, one in the air, one on the ground. And he broke a tie with Steve Young for the third most games of the pass.
Touchdown and a rush touchdown. Trailing only Cam and Josh Allen. Joins Brady and Floody as the only players with such a game at age 42 and older. And Rogers, who knew this? I don't know if your Steelers fans even knew this.
He's never lost to the Ravens. Ever. 4-0-0. And he's got one more to go. And he wins that one?
He's probably going to go to the playoffs and put... Behind's in the seat in Across. In a wild card playoff game, hosting it as a division champ. Then they'll play Renegade again. We'll see what happens.
See what the score is. Because they went into Baltimore. and did it to Baltimore. And that is The it being An opponent to come into their House From the vision. And win.
And all of a sudden, it felt like Rogers, certainly, since I have. The TK Metcalf at Fantasy. Oh. Is out there, huh? Maybe I should target him 12 times.
And the run game wasn't working. Just 34 rush yards, but Kenneth Gainwell and Jalen Warren both scored anyway. Warren on this. Touchdown run off a pass, Rogers. I mean, probably his Rogers' eyes had to light up pre-snap when he probably saw what was going down.
Wide open. He's like, and Warren's that wide open, he's probably like, oh my goodness, is this really happening? He started walking in from the 15, it felt like. And DK Metcalf wound up with 148 receiving yards. Most receiving yards by Steelers players since two years ago.
Who did it? Go for it. George Pickett. That's right. That's right.
Just when everybody's like, boy, you made the mistake of letting George go. DK is saying, this is why you let George go. Mike Tomlin, 7-6, atop the AFC North because he went into Baltimore and beat the. Hated Ravens, had this to say about Rogers after. You know, we knew what was on the line today, and that's why you go do business with a guy like Aaron.
for thick days like today. He's been there, done that guy. But beyond the experience component of it, he relishes it. You can just tell. Um and and that's the benefit of having a guy like AR.
Mm-hmm. You know what the benefit of having a guy like AR? Certainly whenever he's carpet about you. And he feels like you have his back.
Well, he will have yours. This was the phrase, the exchange that pays, if you will. When um Rogers was asked about this result coming in a week in which Tomlin was on the hot seat griddle, all over the place. What does it mean to get a wedding like this after the week that you guys have had and and the week that kind of like Tom wants to? Means maybe you guys will shut the hell up for a week.
Yeah. Oh man, I wanted that quote to be better. I saw it on the bottom line, and they had just the transcript, and it's expletive. The hell, I wanted him to say F there. That would have been so much more.
Yeah, it's great, though. He kind of like gave him a look, like. You know, I'm not wrong. I think I like him now. You know, I'm not wrong.
And wait till next week. Can we sustain it? Can we sustain it? Yeah. Against the Miami Dolphins, who come, I mean, this Monday nighter.
One of the hottest teams in the league. Dude, this Monday nighter. Miami's coming in at And they're trying to get back to 500. Radio audience, I just did the sixth, seventh thing because, again, my kids are in school and they didn't see me do it, and they're livid every time I do that. Yeah.
Then they're at Detroit Rogers. One last spitting in the. Face of the NFC North. One last one in Detroit, where he's the king of the Hail Marys. Everybody knows that.
They're at Cleveland. Division game Rogers vs. Shadur. Oh, baby. And then Baltimore.
So much fun That Monday nighter man. Because while The Steelers get ready for that. The Ravens. will be already having played At Cincinnati. Joe Burrow trying to give him three straight losses and three in division in a row, including two of them against Cincinnati.
That would be a massive blow, especially because the Ravens have the Patriots at home at Green Bay before they take on the Steelers, who could sweep them and be done with it. if they're not already done themselves, because they just cannot get Consistent play on offense, even though they had one of their best offensive days yesterday. It's kind of like what's going on with the Chiefs, where too many mistakes are being made by too many people and too much ineffectual play by too many people that they're used to counting on to be superior. I mean, that moment in the end zone where it was an Isaiah likely touchdown and then not, because it was a scoring play, it's reviewed, and then they could take a look like was his third foot down To make it a catch before the ball got knocked away. And there were moments, a lot of plays were just on the line, couldn't play better than the refs ref'd or replay, replayed.
Lamar had one of his best games. He actually threw a touchdown pass. First time in a month he's done that. And Derrick Henry. Did what he had to do.
Season high 25 carries, 94 rush yards. He uh got over a thousand on the season. Fourth player in NFL history to have a season with a thousand rush yards. and ten or more rushing touchdowns. He's now second on the all-time list, tying Emmett and Adrian Peterson with seven such seasons, one behind Ledanian.
From most.
So the run game's working. Zay Flowers got 128.4 receiving yards. Lamar. Did throw an interception and did break a three-game drought without a passing touchdown. But the defense suddenly couldn't stop, let Jalen Warren stroll in, couldn't stop DK Metcalf.
So I'm concerned about the Ravens. I don't know if they're going to make it. If I'm concerned about the Chiefs, how am I not concerned about the Ravens?
Now, the Chiefs, as you know, that division's gone. The Ravens need the Steelers to. What? At the same record, they're both 8-8. They need to be 8-8 going into that final game.
But then it would come down to a tiebreaker if they won.
Well, no, if they're both eight and eight, then whoever wins that game wins the division. Right. That's That's a tall order. That means they need to win two of their next three. I mean, you could.
And they're taking on an 11-win New England team. And a Green Bay Packer team. They could be taking on the one seat in both conferences. Ravens could lose out, honestly. The fact that the team that started last season.
And went as far as they did last season. to maybe both miss the playoffs this season is nuts. But it's in the ether right now and give it up to the Steelers. Hey Steelers fans, Tyler might be sticking around. We don't have to reinvent the wheel.
They can't, that you can't. Dispute it. What a Stones W that was yesterday. What's so does the town where Mo Green Have no plaque or a signed post, despite the fact that he once founded it. Finally, we have the Steelers as the favorites to win the division now?
Yeah, only slight. Minus 155. You know, bet $15, $0.5 to win $10. And the Ravens are plus $160. Still, still, Bengals are still on the board at 13.
I mean, Joe Burrow's even talking in past tense now about the season. Yeah. So close. To coming on here and saying the Bengal season is not over, and can we look up in the bylaws? That the comeback player of the year is somebody who was healthy last year, but was coming back from an injury this year.
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Back here on ESPN Radio, presented by Progressive Insurance. Let's go to the phone lines here. Connor in Kansas City. What's up, Connor? It's line one, G.
How are you, man? First time caller, longtime listener. Finished my first binge of the league TV show, and there's my boy Rich Eisen.
So I knew I had to call in. I appreciate that. I'm also in that episode. Thank you. Yes, you both were great.
But I was cheating because. Going back to kind of the college football playoff stuff, but we'll diverge a little bit. You guys are the NFL playoff committee.
Okay.
So the rules for getting into the playoffs are thrown out. Conferences, divisions, all thrown out. As of right now, in this season, there are 12 teams that have to get to the playoffs. This is what I said last week.
Okay.
All right. But the College Football Playoff Committee must include certain conference winners. They have to. You know? Um so you're saying The rules are: if it's the top 12, it doesn't matter how many there are from each division.
A division winner doesn't have to be included. That's what you're saying? The division winner does not have to be included.
However, you do have to take into account strength of schedule.
So, like the undefeated team in the middle of Uh Nevada, for example, would probably not get in with their really light schedule. See, I just don't have those numbers here in front of me. If you're just saying you want to just go through who should be in, who should be out. 12 teams. Is what you're saying?
All right, I'll bite. Let's go Rams, Seahawks. Niners. I'm just going to write them all down. Um And then I'll put the Packers.
Bears. Lions, eagles. Cowboys, and then we're gonna have to pare them down, right? Am I missing anybody? Bucks?
Panthers. Got to throw those guys in. Yeah, I mean, I have strength of schedule and strength to victory numbers if you want. I'm going to put them as a tie break. Let's go here.
Now I've got the. The Broncos. I've got the chargers. I've got the bills. I've got to put three teams from.
The AFC South in right now, right? In this mix, right? Texans. And the Colts.
Well, Daniel Jones just got out for the year. No, no, I don't. You don't have to include them.
Well, we're going to treat them like Florida State. Is that what you're saying? Yes.
Okay.
And then I've got the Bills and the Pant and the And the uh Patriots. Oh my god. I've just put 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. I can only put in 12. If you can find it in your heart to throw out one of the AFC West teams as a Chiefs fan, I'd be grateful.
Yeah, well. I don't know. The Chargers and the Broncos should definitely be in the. How do you pair down 17s down to 12? I actually should be down a 14, to be honest with you, because we haven't even shot it.
The Chiefs don't have the wins, but they have an incredible strength of schedule. It's a 530 strength of schedule, but they only have a 372. How about this? Because this is a little too long of a conversation to be having. On live radio and television is spitball.
How about I'll just sum it up like this, Connor? This just shows you how stupid. Stupid, it is right now with the college football playoff. Set up. Dumb.
And where now we're trying to figure out whose strength of victory is better than the other and who's got a more impressive win lately compared to an impressive loss and all of that nonsense. As opposed to, here's the record, here's the tie breaks, one through, soup to nuts coming in, and we play it off. And we play it out. You know what I mean? Like, honestly, like, who's to say the Bucs or the Panthers one should go over the other?
At this point in time? They both have the same record. What, the Bucs started good well and you know, didn't finish up strong. The Panthers are playing so much. I'll take it one step further.
Nobody from the NFC South is in, nobody from the AFC North is in. You throw the Chargers out, they barely have a 40% strength to schedule. I'll make the hard decisions, Rich.
Okay.
Appreciate that. Honestly, if you're taking out the Bucs and the Panthers and the Chargers and the Steelers. And the Ravens, see ya. And if this is actually a TV show, which I know it is, you put the Chiefs and Cowboys in. Because you're gonna get eyeballs.
Right? Yeah, but they deserve it over the Bucs, Panthers, Steelers, and Ravens. I mean, again, that's what's so dumb this is. It's so stupid. Bears, CM.
And by the way, Brian Sia. You know, don't you think, again, and thanks to the call, Connor. Don't you think In college football, this proves 12 is enough. Right? Yeah, absolutely.
You could make a good case with all due respect to Georgia and the teams from Texas, and maybe the one in Oregon. Right, you could make a great case. That the Big Ten championship game was, in fact, a matchup of the two best teams in college football. That's probably true. And that I don't know who's better than Indiana.
And I don't know if Ohio State would lose to Indiana if they play each other a second time. And this goes back to what I've always said: that the BCS, while everyone hated it, always got it right. It's always got it right. The two best teams always played each other for the national championships. In the same way that everybody's complaining about the methodology here.
Because why would you switch it up after telling me what the scoop is one Tuesday after another, after another, after another on a T V show on ESPN? And now you're switching it up at the last second. You change the goal posts on me. Um Oh, you say that. That's what everybody's having a problem with, all of it.
What's the difference? You know what I mean? Isn't the whole point to have the two best teams play for the title? But the point of that is, is it. In the BCS, it was the same thing.
Except I didn't understand any of that. And I was around for the BCS. And I know that fellow, Bruce Edwards, who came on and who was somebody from ESPN Research, who suddenly got thrown on television to explain what the He took out his slide rule and his protractor, and they figured this out with a computer. And I didn't understand a damn word of it. But it was always one verse two.
But who cares at the end of the day if some computer spits this thing out? It's just like, why are we wasting our time with a computer and a room full of people? When the NFL has shown you. Especially when the sport is going towards the NFL anyway. Just cut out the middleman and have a bunch of people smart enough in the room.
Get some commissioners in there, get some chancellors in there, figure it out. And the ultimate who's in, who's out will be who is in this league of sixty four how big did the league to be? And who's in a in a league, if you will, a step down and you create it like Europeans Football is what we're supposed to call it now. It should be like the Premier League. We should call football something different in this country, I heard.
It should be just like that. Yeah. Relegation. It was relegated up. Relegation, move up.
Move in. Exactly. Totally agree. Done. I just don't know how to do it.
Does that make sense? It's billions and billions of dollars at stake. William in Topeka, Kansas will take your phone call. What's up, William? Right there in the country.
What's up, William? Thank you so much for taking my call. Thanks for making it. Before I get to my comment, I just want to say how much fun I have listening to you guys. Thank you.
Keep it up. Keep it up. I love all of you. We plan on keeping it up. Thank you.
Be good, man.
So I just mainly want to complain, and maybe Brockman can help me understand this. But as a Chiefs fan, The last couple of years watching us become so hated has kind of made me a little sad. I don't remember the the pain and suffering of Of the Matt Castle, Pod Haley era, or the Romeo Cornell, or 2 and 14. I don't miss it. But I don't like it when everyone cheers for our downfall.
And I also don't like all of the bandwagon fans. that have appeared over the last few years. And I mean, I wish they would go away. Maybe missing the playoffs will make some of them go away because every time a team is so successful, they They get that. And as a Patriots fan, maybe you can relate to that, Brockman.
I don't really know.
Well, yes, he can. And let me jump in here and help out. Because if you are a team that annually beats everybody's brains in, and wins it all. You will attract haters. You'll attract bandwagon jumpers.
Everybody hated the Patriots for two decades. Two decades because they beat the crap out of people. You could make the case. You could make the case. You could make the case, William.
That out of any American Athlete. Of this century, I'll go this century. Any American athlete this century. Name me one who's more likable. Than Steph Curry.
There isn't one. Maybe Mahomes.
Okay, is on par with that. And how many people hated the Warriors after a while because they beat everybody's brains in?
So, this is part and parcel congratulations of having a dynasty, which I don't think you or any longtime Chiefs fans thought would ever happen to you. Ever. And dynasties peter out, they come to an end, or they somehow sustain one to another. The chiefs definitely have the infrastructure to go from one to the other. Um and I just think this is one of those rare down years.
And the bandwagon jumpers are all, you know, the haters are also because Taylor Swift showed up and a lot of people thought, oh, now you're trying to become Hollywood at the same time when it's just one guy who's just, you know, in love, to be honest with you. And somebody who's so world famous showing up to a game, of course they're going to show her. And then haters who are either hate because they like to, or to be honest, they're misogynist, or they hate, you know, winners being surrounded by other winners. They start freaking out because she actually takes up an aggregate of 45 to seconds to 60 seconds of a three and a half hour broadcast, and people start flipping out about that. I think I put it on.
start showing up on television commercials. Which is in everyone's face a little bit too much. I just, I don't know if I can know, hear more all about the brace anymore.
So I just understand. You know what I mean? Like, put it all together. It's about winning. They hate you when you win anyway.
And then all the other stuff just kind of gets added and added out. Man, the fact that this ride has existed, who cares how many bandwagon jumpers there are and how many haters there are? There's a reason why they existed. It's because your team winning. dynastically, generationally.
And still can, if not this year, obviously. But still can, William. Yep. Does that help? It does.
Satisfied customers. It's fun. You got to enjoy the winning because you never know when it's going to come again. I mean, look, TJ, all due respect. I mean, he's still waiting for it to come back around.
I was bald the last time we won. Nice. Let me explain, Harry. But at least. I admit I was written for the Cowboys to win out and steal the division.
So I'm sorry about that, TJ. And by the way, too, you know, I was bald the last time the Jets won as well because I was peeing in my diapers.
Okay? Thanks, William. You know what I mean? How many Jets fans would love to have the country suffer from Jets fatigue? Are you kidding me?
That's kind of how I feel when people try to crack on me like the Cowboys haven't won in 30 years. Yeah, but like we said before, your team's never won nothing. Nothing.
So. Who's Phil Wurst right now? Hey, man. I'd like some Raiders, bandwagoners. Do you know how any Jets fans are watching Fernando Mendoza right now and thinking, oh, yeah.
That's our guy. Yeah. And then he speaks after the game. They're like, that doesn't sound like a New Yorker to me. But guess what?
You know, wasn't a New Yorker and was supposedly too dorky for New York? Eli Manning. Manning. How's that worked out? How'd that work out?
to them things. You may get a bust in a couple of weeks or a jacket.
So, yeah. Let's get Fernando Mendoza going and using words like flipping in New York, and they're like flipping like burgers? Is that what you're talking about? Like the bird? Huh?
You're going to flip me the bird? You're going to flip me the bird? Him coming out there, he's got serious Kirk Cousins vibes. It was intense, man. It was intense.
He's a sweetheart, like, root for people like that. Who cares? He's like a child out there crying over the Hoosiers winning the Big Ten, and his dream is coming true. I don't care. He's being himself.
It's awesome when people are authentic. I loved it. I loved it. Now, that also does appear to be like some movie where kid shows up in New York City all shiny, and then, like, six months later, it's like trading places, you know, eating salmon through his Santa beard on the streets of Philadelphia. You know what I mean?
But Yeah. Hmm. That could be poor Mendoza after a few weeks with the Jets if he gets drafted to him. You think they're going to win it all? Who?
Indiana? Yeah. Oh, boy, I would love it. I would love it. They're not favored.
Ohio state is favored.
Well, they should be. Dude, they've got first-round draft choices everywhere. Everywhere. They're loaded. And not even in just this upcoming draft.
You could already see them for future ones. It's exactly that. But in this day and age where we're. Rightfully. Sickened by the state of the game.
To have a team like Indiana. Could you imagine they win it as the portal and the NIL become the focal point of everything? And that's supposed to leave programs like Indiana curbside, not. winning it all. And they locked up Signetti early about a month ago.
So there's no threat of him to the NFL. I'm going to ask Joe how much he paid into that kitty. Good question. Let's FaceTime Joe Buck right now.
Okay.
Take a break. 844-2048. Oh yeah, speaking of positivity. There's a rabbit! The Eagles are back, people!
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Explore Sonos speakers, sound bars, and more at sonos.com. The number of Questions that I have asked. Anybody that's been on this show, or anybody that I sit next to on NFL Game Day Morning on NFL Network. The number of times I have asked All those people. What is up with the Eagles and how can it be fixed?
And they have come up with all these answers. Wringing their hands over: is it the defense? Is it the play calling? Is it the chemistry? There's got to be something going on.
Is it the quarterback? Is it the receiver? Is it the offensive line being banged up? Is it the offensive coordinator? It's got to be the coach.
How do you fix it? How can it be fixed? Is it fixable? I have lost track on the number of times I've brought this up and asked these questions, and nobody. Has come up with apparently what the obvious answer is, and it is a positivity rabbit.
Who would have thought? This is in the Eagles locker room. An Easter bunny, happy Easter rabbit that is Blown up. And it's sitting in the middle of the locker room. Apparently, the offensive lineman brought it in there and put it right.
Next to, in front of, Saquon Barkley's locker. And Saquon was asked all about Said positivity rabbit. Hit it. Why is there a giant bunny inside of your locker? I don't know.
I have no idea. I don't I'm not into like holidays and like bunnies and Christmas. I do the Christmas stuff, I got kids, but like I'm not really big like joyful holiday person, I guess.
So I don't know why. I think that's really the only spot we can put a big bunny, but I was told It's uh vibe bunny, uh and the vibes are high, so. There we go.
So you didn't sign off on him being in front of your locker. If the Eagles go into SoFi tonight and beat the Chargers. How many positivity rabbits will explode across the Philadelphia metropolitan area? Oh, they'll be everywhere. They'll be on everyone's lawn, they'll be on rooftops.
Businesses. I mean, one year it was a dog mask, right? Because they were on dogs. Yeah, yeah, during the playoff run. Yep.
Tell me that this is what's going to turn around the Eagle season. Sell out of Home Depot and Woe's. Hope that rabbit's like a Trojan horse and it's sneaking something in that locker room to continue to divide. A Trojan positivity rabbit that runs counter to the spirit of said positivity rabbit. I'm just saying.
You ain't gonna think I'm gonna have something positive to say about this. Doesn't. Let's say the Eagles. Just collapse. Yeah.
Now we know what you're sending to Carl Anthony Townsend. A negativity walking around. I could get behind that. See what I'm saying? Giant giants.
Where does one get a giant. Inflatable Rabbit. Oh man, like that. Oh, you're hoping. Oh, I'm looking right now.
Because either way, this is going to be fodder. For they are out of their minds. And something's massively wrong. Or it's like They changed the vibes around there. They're having fun.
They're cutting loose. They're doing, like, hey, that was the other thing. Another Super Bowl season, the same one with the dog masks. It was like, we're having fun. Patriots aren't.
Right. Oh, and afterward, it was like, want to have fun? Come here. Winning is fun. Winning is fun.
Yeah. Okay, cool. I know. That's all they needed was a positivity rabbit. Yeah, there's a lot of inflatable rabbits online there, TJ.
Buy it wholesale. It's like a recent. D.J. Jefferson wants it to be a negativity rabbit. That's how he sended Carl Anthony Township to crap out tonight.
There was also Devontae Smith spoke to the media for one of the first times. He talked about juicing. He's got a juicer. He's making juices. Like a juice cleanse.
Yes, yeah, yeah. Oh, not like the McCoy. No, not that. No, you're not going to get so lucky that he's suddenly not playing because of something silly like that.
Well, you can look at it. Andrew.
So we finished with positivity, and then we finished with a little bit of chess talking. Yeah, I love that. You know what I mean? Some teams can play that they don't respect this card. Tom Briggs.
Here we are. We've got four minutes to go. We haven't even talked about the AFC South. leading Jacksonville Jaguars. We talked about him on our Overreaction Monday pod.
That If it was not for a 19-point collapse in Houston. They would be on a win streak. Having Since their loss that I called in London. Jacksonville, as we know, comes off that by After losing in London, they win in Vegas. in overtime They dropped one in Houston, which they had a chance to sweep the Texans.
Oh man. Then they Dismantle the chargers. They go to Arizona and win that one. They went at Tennessee, and then they just spanked the Colts. And in this game, may have blown up the season because the Achilles blows up for Daniel Jones.
And the Jaguars are currently the 3C.
Now they're two behind the 11-win Broncos and Patriots. The Jaguars do have a visit to Denver where they can actually put on the line here. What I think fans are saying, which is they're being overlooked, Liam Cohn was asked that question point blank. After destroying the cults at home. When you have a team that feeds on disrespect.
How do you continue to go when maybe the respect starts to come, which might be where you are? We'll ever really get it.
So that's the beauty of it. It ain't coming. You know that.
Sounds like you don't honestly want the respect to come. Yeah, I don't think it helps. And then I've heard the rat poison before. I mean, everybody loves you when you're doing it well, and then you're always going to find something. That's the competitive advantage that you have.
Every player has to get themselves into a place, right? You always hear the stories about Jordan and how he would create things to get himself into a place to go compete.
So our guys just keep finding ways to get a little bit pissed off and go play their tails off. I love it. Don't respect us, please. Keep firing the disrespect. It's not helpful.
The respect is not helpful. By the way, so should I. not point out that this is happening. Without Travis Hunter. Like their second overall pick is not part of what's happening right now.
And they're still doing it. And Brian Thomas has been mostly MIA this season. Should I not point out that Trevor Lawrence is. been really good over the last few weeks? Am I messing it up?
ETN comeback season TJ? You know, if it keeps going this way, Jaguar fans, we might not go to break with the Jaguars on the clock, our next NFL draft card. Yeah, that's the thing, right? Oh, my God. Always when we're up.
Always when it's up. When they traded up for Travis Hunter after Cam Ward got drafted, I'm like, well, let's take a break. Jaguars are now on the clock. We don't need to stick around for this Travis Hunter thing. Remember that Brockman, we were in the bar in the bar watching.
What is happening right now? I don't hear you. We were just like, what's happening? Jacksonville is one win away against the New York Jets at home from going into the 10-win club this year, and they could keep going and winning a division and having a playoff game in Duval. How about my higher register when I said the loser of this game between those two, the season's over?
Well, look at you. I don't know. Couldn't have predicted the Achilles population. Yeah, I couldn't have predicted it. Not at all.
That's so good.
Now I know. You put that in the ether. That's why you're root against the positivity, right? See you on the good side. I understand now.
I get it. See you in New York, everybody. Thanks for listening to the Rich Eisen Show Podcast. You can watch and listen to The Rich Eisen Show live weekdays from noon to 3 Eastern on ESPN Radio, Disney Plus, and on the ESPN app, The Rich Eisen Show, the podcast.
