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That's right. Yeah. We're in the third to last month with no football being played in it. Pretty much. I mean, July is.
With all due respect to the other leagues playing football. Right. What's up, Chris Brockman? May the fourth be with you. You know what?
I'm going to say this on the flagship show. Let me say this to you right now. I'm the biggest Star Wars fan there is. I feel bad for people with lisps today. Yeah.
It's not really cool. Mike Tyson. Yeah. Yeah. Try saying, May the fourth be with you to him.
Not great. Not great. What's funny? This whole list is all Star Wars overreactions. Oh.
Fantastic. Hit it. Yeah. That was terrible. That was crap.
That was garbage. This place sucks. Overreaction. Mondays. Monday.
All right, what do you got over there? First up, I don't blame Anakin for going to the dark. Committed to the bit. I like it. I like it very much.
I really like it. Keep going, man. Sure. Job of the hut really wasn't that disgusting. What does everybody say?
Han shot first.
Okay. You know what I mean?
Okay, very good. I don't think so. I like the commitment to the bit. I mean, we could do all. It's all good.
Okay. Here's the deal: watching some sports over the weekend, and you know, you've done a first pitch, right?
Okay. At the Dodger game. Oh, you're going Malik Willis to start. You've done one, right? I was there for it, actually.
I was there when we did a little piece for the old podcast. Yes, we did. And yours was a little high and tight.
Well, I mean, I would have hit a right-handed hitter, but I will always feel that a lefty would have been fooled by the offense. Sure. Yeah. You own the inside corner. I think that's what I think that's my point.
Basically, what you're saying is. I wasn't with my first pitch being used as a prism or a window. Into which it could be read whether somebody's going to be great at quarterback for the Miami Dolphins or not. No, yeah, exactly.
Okay. I like that. And we're in that time of the year where we're like looking for stories and storylines and possibilities and projections of what could be for the coming season.
Okay. And then I'm looking at like you guys are already throwing out 27 mock drafts. And who do they have at the top of the mock draft?
Somebody, yes. Combine that. With Maleen Willis's really bad first pitch, and Dolphins fans should be very worried. About Malik Willis this season. Oh, dude.
Dude. That was rough. That is so rough. And I just saw something this morning. He's claiming he slipped.
Come on, Malik.
Well, we all got two eyes at work. He's got his excuses going. I like it. He's already on the excuse train. Here's, I could give you, you want the long answer or the short answer?
I want the long answer. All right, the long answer is this. I need to see what all of these pieces that the Dolphins put together in the draft of players that nobody was just like, oh, I saw him. I heard him. I know what's going to happen with this guy.
You know, he's going to fit in here. He's a perfect fit for this team, this offense, this defense, this coach, this system. And we have no idea about the coach, the offense, the system, or anything like that. We also know the grocery shopper's a guy from Green Bay, meaning they're just not going to take a wide receiver in the first round, even though they traded away Jalen Waddell and got the 30th overall selection and didn't use. That pick on a wide receiver didn't use either of their first rounders on a wide receiver.
They are building a program. They are looking at some of the howling fans and waving their Their game plan in the leather satchel, just like in the movie Hoosier's Coach Dale saying, My team's on the floor. And we just don't know who that is. And so Malik Willis is a perfect avatar for all of that for the Miami Dolphins.
Okay. So we just don't know, we have no idea. how it's all going to work. And the odds are that it's going to take some time to gel, to put a program together to get the right guys in there. It's going to take more than one draft.
It's going to take more than one free agency period. It's going to potentially take more than one season.
So Malik Willis making his 20-some odd million dollars if they wind up with a top five draft choice. And all of those quarterbacks that are going to be on the board, they're going to take one. And I think there are some evaluators that look at all this and know how long it's going to take and will suppose that they're going to have one of the top two picks in the draft and that they will take a young quarterback right there.
So Malik Willis better come correct in the first half of this season. Otherwise, he might not get more time in Miami. That's what everybody's reading into. And then when he sails this first pitch like Nuke Lelouch, trying to hit those mascots everywhere. And it is now used as a, whoa, this guy can't throw as if none of the games in which he looked terrific for the Green Bay Packers against some stout opponents didn't exist.
And the fact that it's a different type of ball that he's throwing. And, you know, I'd be concerned if he's a $20 million a year pitcher for the Miami Marlins if I saw that. But Miami Dolphins is a different story overreaction. That's the long-winded one. What's the short answer?
The short answer is, did you see Patrick Mahomes' first pitch? Yeah, and you know what?
Someone before he played football. And someone sent that to me. And I'm like, look, Mahomes's was right on line with the catcher. It was just high. Malik Willis's is 20 feet to the right.
He wasn't as bad, but the bottom line is, did it hit the Backstop, or did it hit the catcher? The backstop known as the catcher, or the wall behind him? It was pretty bad.
Okay, so to the point where Mahomes Mahomes even reposted it saying, I thought we got rid of this video. That's pretty good.
Okay, so yeah, like, so come on, man. Mahomes didn't have a great first pitch. It wasn't as bad as Malik Willis's. I mean, you got to know, you got to practice. But it just goes to show you.
It goes to show you that Malik Willis has a small window of opportunity here. When he signed with Miami, I thought he's got a large window of an opportunity. But now everybody's starting to talk about: well, next year, there's all these quarterbacks. If he plays well enough and if he wants to preserve his job there, play well enough where you're picking 15 through 25, and all of a sudden, You know, you're not in position to take one of these. Yeah, you win seven, eight games next year, and you're in the middle of the draft, and quarterback's not an option, right?
Stay healthy as well, and you know. Stay out of the zone of going outside your lane, man. Yeah, next time say no.
Well, I mean, yeah, of course he'll say no. He's done it once, it's over. It's over. Overreaction is what I'm saying. What else, Chris?
All right, Rich. I'm a first star. You're welcome. You're welcome. We're doing what we can here.
May the fourth be with you. Okay. You're a voter in the awards, I heard. Yeah, I heard that. Stop it.
Took an MVP away from Drake. They did not. And here's the deal: last year. The dude who put Justin Herbert's name is a first. Place MVP vote.
Well, yeah, because that got flushed down the toilet. Excuse me, just real quick here. Because I will always push back on this because you say this with a with a with a hint of Of seriousness. Your son texts me every week, and I told him this too: is that anybody who had a vote for MVP this year, it was obvious that it was a referendum on two people. And he went to another receiving vote.
He went to a small party candidate. Ralph wasted the vote.
Well, that's an old school way of putting it. Like, you want Jill Stein, you want to put something a little bit more contemporary.
Okay, I don't know if the Russians influenced his vote. Here's the deal, Rich.
Sorry to get you going. Oh, my God.
Okay, of last year's MVP vote-getters, okay, there were six. And I voted for the primary: Matthew Stafford, Drake May, Josh Allen, CMC, Trevor Lawrence, and Justin Herbert. Only two are going to get votes this year. Yeah. Give me their names again?
Matthew Stafford, Drake May, Josh Allen, McCaffrey, Trevor Lawrence, and Justin Herbert. Only two. I like it, guys. I don't think that's an overreaction. I don't think it's an overreaction.
And I think it's going to be Stafford and Allen. Stafford. You're doubling down on Stafford. You don't want your pick to look like a fluke. My pick did not look like a fluke.
It doesn't look like a fluke. And that's serious. Campaign. that I was a part of Where I had to vote for one or the other. Couldn't even win his division.
Okay. But yeah, I think it'll be Stafford and Allen. You want me to call my shot, don't you? I do want you to call your shot. I do want you to call your shot.
I'm calling my shot. Yeah, well, on May the 4th, correct. I'm calling my shot. I'm saying Stafford. And Josh Allen.
Will get the MVP votes as a repeat customer. Excellent. And everyone else, I say, make sure that the fourth be with them. What's the rest of the top five look like? The rest of the top five looks like.
Caleb, putting Caleb in there. That's going to be the hot name all season. I know it will be. That's a tall order. That's a very tall order.
Joe Burrow and Brown. I'll say Lamar and Joe Burrow are back. Both of them are back. All right. Both of them are doubling down with Staff and Alan.
And I'll go Dak Prescott just for a while. Just to really knock you off and give you a little bit of a little taste. Just a little taste. I like Dak. I wish he did.
A little taste. I wanted him on the Patriots for him. By the way, I'm extending myself the same courtesy I extend all guests of the Rich Eisen show, as if I'm right, we repeated. Never happened. Correct.
Never happened. And I left Drake May off just to, obviously, you know.
Well, look, things couldn't be worse for Boston sports right now. I was about to say, I'm waiting for something to happen. I might be purposely flopping like supposedly Joel MB does. I don't think anyone can dispute that. The biggest guy in the court, he's always on the ground.
Okay. Well, he's wobbly. He's wobbly. He doesn't have an appendix now. He doesn't have ligaments or an appendix.
Of course he's going to flop around like the tin man. He's like the scarecrow. Come on now. Fish. He doesn't have.
If I only had an appendix, this doesn't have the same ring to it. It doesn't have the same ring to it. Rich, you know what? By the way, I just made an 90-year-old pop culture reference. What else you got?
I mentioned Ralph Nader before.
So here's the deal. I'm watching, again, watching the clips. I'm seeing rookie mini camps Fernando Mendoza. Yes. I saw that he's taken more snaps under center during Raiders' minicamp than all three years of playing college football.
Yes. He was throwing apparent apparently the footballs he was throwing were very nice over the weekend. Yes. Here's the thing. Even if he doesn't start until October, and he is going to start this year.
Okay. Fernandez Mendoza's winning rookie of the year. Um offensive rookie of the year. Over Jeremiah Love, huh? A lot of running backs in there.
That's right. A lot of running backs. A lot of vulture touchdowns. Over Carnell Tate or Jordan. Tyson.
Tyson, not even the number one receivers on their own team. Over any like Mikai Lemon, not even the number one receiver on his own team. Mm. over any of the other uh quarterbacks that might get a start. Like or ten.
I don't know. Carson Beck. I don't know. Shuck came out of nowhere a little more last year. I don't think this is an overreaction.
I really like him a lot, man. Yeah, I do too. I think by the way, I think he's going to start week one, but I don't believe he will. But. I like everything about him.
I like the fact that he dodged the political lane by saying, I'm just a rookie. I'm playing politics within my own building. Yeah. Where he was asked if he was going to be with the Indiana Roosters at the White House visit, and he basically was like, I think it's landing on a practice day. I'm a rookie.
I need to show. It's a good answer. It's a bad look for a rookie to go to the White House. I need to earn my start. My stripes, whatever.
But that's the fire hose that he's drinking out of. And I love the fact that they're like, okay, we're just not going to baby him. Get under center. This is the way we run our offense here. If you remember, you know, Clink Kubiak's dad.
uh back in the day when he got Peyton Manning in. Um, Peyton's like, Yeah, that that undercenter stuff, like that ain't happening. I'm I'm the sheriff, right? I'm also pushing 40 myself here. I'm on the backside of 30.
Well, they invented like the pistol. I'm in the shotgun, so they put him in the pistol, right?
So, so it got him closer to the quarterback and it allowed him to potentially like pivot a little bit, pirouette a little bit, and create some of that boot action that he wasn't fooling anybody with. Right. Um, so clearly, this is you know, a Kubiak thing, and and Mendoza can move.
So let's get him under center, let's start it now in May, and let's keep on hammering this kid and get him drinking out of the fire hose. And as you pointed out, though, based on all reports, it's not affecting his throwing. Nope. There's a great headline meme went around on threads that I sent to the group about how perfect everything looked. Yeah, and how pristine.
Yes, so. Google that, look it up. Sure. But be careful. Be careful who you're around.
But yeah, that's not an overreaction. I don't think it's an overreaction to say the first overall pick quarterback who's going to get some starts is going to wind up rookie of the year. I mean, Tyler Schuck almost did himself. Yeah, but didn't happen last year. Cam Ward didn't win rookie of the year.
No, I no, no, but I'm saying Tyler Schuck. Didn't start. As a second-round guy, didn't start until basically midway through the season. He had nine games. And he almost beat out Tetaroa McMillan for the award.
Correct. So. There's no reason why the first overall drafted quarterback shouldn't be. Right. Rich Eisen here.
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What else you got? Rich, talk every year about turnover. Turnovers in the division winners, turnovers in the playoffs, turnovers, head coaches. Lots of turnover. You know last year?
Seven. Divisions had a new winner from the previous season. Can you name the only repeat division winner of 2025? I would go with, let me just theory off the top of my head. Yeah, talk it out.
I'm going to talk it out here. I was surprised that seven out of eight were new. It's the Eagles. The Eagles. Yeah.
Yeah. Fly Eagles Fly. We're the only repeat division winners. Correct. Richard, this year, Rich Eisen, we're going eight for eight.
Every division will have a new winner in 2026.
So the Bills and the AFC East? I think so, yeah.
Okay. Well, it's not going to be the Dolphins or the Jets. Why not?
Well, you just saw the first pitch in Miami, and the Jets aren't the Jets aren't suddenly going to turn around and go from the outhouse to the penthouse. Yeah, Patriots first place schedule. I think the Bills kind of snipped that big bag. You want to go Ravens in the North? Is that what you want to do?
Do I want to go Ravens? Who else are you going to go? You're going to go the Bengals or the Browns? No, I want to go Ravens.
Okay, go Ravens. Yeah, I want to go Ravens. We're actually doing that. Yeah, why not?
Okay, let's do it.
So, you want to go Texans in the South? Texans in the South? Yeah, of course you will. I don't. I want to go Colts.
Colts? Interesting. Interesting. You believe in Danny Dimes or CJ Stroud? I believe in C.J.
Stroud with David Montgomery and the other pieces that they're putting around him. Interesting. All right. Dude, that guy wins a playoff game every year. Yeah, but then what?
Okay, Houston.
Okay, I'm down. This is not a then what? It's a it's in the division. Correct. Yeah.
Okay, I'm Houston. All right. Then we're going to go. Chiefs. I'm going to go Chargers.
All right. Either way, you've got a different division winner. What are you going to go, Dallas? You're going Dallas? You're going to go Giants.
Call it. Call it. You've been dancing around the Giants subject. I really have been. I want to go Dallas.
I'm going to tell you something. I really like Dak. I want him to succeed. In all seriousness. You put Caleb Downs in the back end of that defense.
They're going to be amazing. They got Rashawn Gary and Kenny Carl. They basically got half the Packers' defensive line for Micah Parsons.
Okay. And then they got Quinn Williams for the full season. Overshone. They drafted a kid out of my school in the third round, Jayshawn Barham, who is going to just bring. Downhill nastiness.
I think they're going to be a best defense in the air. And then the offense is the Pickens. I don't know what's going on with him, Matt.
Well, we're going to talk about him in a second.
Okay, so we'll put a pin in that.
So Dallas, I think, can win the division. I like Dallas. I like Dallas. I like Atlanta. I like Atlanta.
So what are you going to do? No, hold on a minute. Don't skip the North. Oh, North. You want to go to Packers?
The Packers? The Packers are back? They're banned. I've been picking them the last couple of seasons. I had them in the Super Bowl.
So you'll go with them. Not the Lions. Are you? You're going to go to the Lions? No, I think they're Windows Closed.
I'm going to go Green Bay. Windows Closed is a very Bold statement, sir.
Well, I've been saying that for the last two years. All right. They haven't shown me anything in the playoffs.
So, Falcons in the South. Yeah. And then in the in the in the West you go to the Rams. Yeah. Or the Niners.
I was really impressed with the. You're not going Cardinals, are you? No, I was really impressed with Kyle Shanahan last week. Dude. He hasn't changed at all.
By the way, and all he's done is gotten better and smarter. And more learned and more experienced. I really think Tom Harmon is going to play this year. Are you saying? That The Kyle Shanahan appearance in the Rich Isen Show last week after a six-year absence on the program.
His ease with which he just told you how. Four-dimensional his chess playing in the draft alone. Forget about game planning week to week. Just in the draft alone, that flipped you from a Kyle Shanahan doubter/slash hater to believer. Um this would be breaking news.
You know, that's not being received well from the Niner gang. What is? Kyle Shanahan's openness and the way he described the draft process.
Okay, well, guess what? A lot of fans are taking that as confirmation. It's like they don't know what they're doing. All right. The guy almost was the one seat left.
I know. I know. All right. I'll call this out. I don't think this is an overreaction.
I think we just threaded the needle with a bunch of reasonable answers.
Okay. Interesting. All right, Christopher, second half. What do you got? Second half, here we go.
Rich, we're always looking for who's next. We can't enjoy what we have now. We want to think about what's coming up down the line. You lead the charge on that front. That's my job, Rich Eisen.
That's not an overreaction. And here's the thing: we've been talking about this kind of at the end of last year, once the season ended. Who's the next JSN? What do I mean by that? Wide receiver to kind of come out of nowhere, offensive rookie of the year, great season, high marks, records, whatnot.
JSN had an old miss teammate leave town. Yeah, and then he was able to shine as the number one. I'm looking at a very similar situation that's going to happen in Philadelphia. Devontae Smith is going to have an old missed teammate. Leave town.
A.J. Brown's going to New England. I'm not breaking any news. And he's now the guy. Devontae Smith.
We'll be the next. Jackson Smith and Chick. Great pedigree, Heisman trophy winner, similar build to JSN. Quarterback, maybe we don't really Stop, stop. I'm just saying who with Sam Darnold won a Super Bowl.
Come on. That's what I mean. Two great games. Better pedigree. Better pedigree for the quarterback here and Devontae Smith.
But also a running back that demands the football. Not because his voice is aging vocally, but his skill set requires a feeding that does not. I guess combined with K-9 and Zach Charbonnet received it in Seattle. I'm trying to talk this out here. No one thought JSN was going to be offensive rookie of the year.
Oh, no. I think the next JSN is sitting here in Los Angeles in Pukanakua, pal. I mean, he's already a star. All right, so you're saying I'm saying the next JSN has got to be someone, maybe not on anyone's top 10 radar coming into the year.
Now thrust into this number one role spotlight. Puka's already the number one. And then boom. Breakout. Interesting.
Interesting choice. Oh, man. Don't write it out there. He's going to be the offensive player of the year in Philadelphia. New offensive coordinator, it's all going to collect.
New offensive coordinator, he's going to be the number one guy. Number one guy, pass-first offense in Philadelphia. Is it? I don't think so. All right, why not?
Offensive line's not as good. It's hurts going under center two more now. Great. Let's get him throwing the ball. Let's get him throwing the rock.
Throws a pretty deep ball. I'm going through my head right now to try and push back here. I like things my way. My coffee, my schedule, and my treatment.
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Not someone we're not thinking about right now. We're not thinking about Zay Flowers. We're not thinking about Zay Flowers. That's a good one. But he's kind of the number one.
Already? Yeah. This is going to be Devontae Smith's first year as the clear-cut number one wide receiver. Honor Delta. I'll just say interesting thought, and don't need to go too deep into it.
I can't sit here and say you're out of your mind. Just an interesting thought. What else you got? Rich, you are Mr. Running back.
Okay. You love the running back. You push for the running backs. You want them to get paid. That's correct.
You want them to be closers. Of course I do. 20 carries a game. Let's run the rock old school style. Yeah.
Three yards in a cloud of dust. Yeah. You know, since 2021, in the last five seasons, we've only had five running backs top 1,600 yards.
Okay. Can you name them? Give me that again. Five running backs over 1,600 yards in a season in the last five years. All right, go for it.
James Cook last year. Yes. Saquon Barkley, obviously, the 2,000-yard season. Derrick Henry that year had over 1,900 yards. One year we didn't even have a running back make it.
Josh Jacobs, Jonathan Taylor. Yes, sir. The running back. Is back a running back as if you will. We're going to have five top 1600 this year.
That's crazy. That's nuts. It's still a passing league pal. Still a passing league, but I like it. You wanna you wanna let's call it, you say James Cook does it again.
Right? Derrick Henry does. James Cook does again. Derrick Henry is Derrick Henry. Never put it past him.
Don't forget. I don't want to put it past him. Don't forget. They just got a left guard who I think is going to make the pro football hall of fame before even taking a seat up in Venga Ioanne. I don't think they're going to run it.
James Cook barely got it this year. I got it.
So then you want to leave him off. Jameer Gibbs is going to get nothing carries. Gibbs is going to do it. Bijan's doing it. I think Genti does it.
Ah, you're out of your mind, dude. All of a sudden, come on, not all of a sudden. He had 2,000 yards in college. Come on, dude. Really?
Yeah, c really. I mean, come on, I need to see it first. It's supposed to be 1600 rushing. You know what I think? I think K9 and Kansas City gets it.
Not a chance. Not a chance. 1,600 yards where they're going to commit to running the football every single time. Patrick Mahomes. Is going to be out there if he's even starting week one.
All right, I like it. I like just us throwing spaghetti at the wall, but needing I need to know the names of the strands that are hanging A-chan. 1600 yards with Malik Willis, who can't throw it to first. Let me give you one that you're maybe not thinking of. at all because he was hurt.
last year. How about a Marion Hampton?
Now we're talking. Because that's somebody that's going to 100% commit to running the football with a new offensive coordinator. You know, I was looking at Marion Hampton. Oh, I love that. The ESPN crew did a mock fantasy draft already.
10 team. Yeah. Omarion Hampton in the top 10 for running backs. It's going to be a very S splendid pick. I think we got some names.
I think this reaction. I think we nailed it. I like it. All right. I like the way you're thinking.
Okay. You must have gotten your sleep this weekend. You're deep in your bag, pal. Deep in the bag. Excellent.
Two more. Maybe you're using the fourth.
Okay. I got Jay Felly laughing off camera. I gotta say, I gotta say, the argument for the dark side, good argument.
Okay, enough. It's okay, Patriot fan. Just saying. Just saying. All right.
Talking a lot about George Pickens, right? Finally signs the tender. Is he going to get traded? Yeah. Does he want out?
I think he does. Maybe. I don't know if he's going to be out. He's going to play this year for the Cowboys, the more I think about it. Yes.
And he's going to go nuts. George Pickens is going to set a Cowboys receiving record this year. I don't know if it's receptions, 135, or yards, 1750, both set by CD in 2023. He's breaking one of those.
Okay, if he plays for the Cowboys, we're going to see it. We're going to see it, and I think they're going to throw it enough. And if I'm sitting here saying Dak's going to be one of the final five as an MVP finalist, how can I say no to this? Um so I'll say no to it just because I think it's really dude. Yeah, come on, dude.
Come on. We know the talents there. I know. He was the best Cowboys receiver last year. It's not like they don't have a tight end either.
So they're tough to get those numbers. Good offensively. It's tough to get those numbers. Gonna be tough to get those numbers. Overreaction.
Nice try though. I like it. I like where your head's at. What else you got? You got Pickens as the top.
Eight receivers last year. I'm talking about heading into 2026. I hear you. Let me ask you this question, and this is the ultimate answer. Second round pick fantasy.
You're taking them? Hmm. No, you're not. You're not. You're going to leave them on the board.
You're going to take someone else. You know it. I know it. I want him as my wide receiver one. That's what you're saying.
Do you take him? Running back to the river. Do you know the way you're in a 10-12 team league, whatever it is? You know, Pickens is going to be sitting there around. You know, Cahidi Lamb goes in that first round.
Chase goes in that first round. Bijan goes in the first round. Saquon goes in the first round. Puka goes in the first round. JSN goes in the first round.
I could keep going. The number of players that you know Pickens is going to be sitting there when you're on the clock coming back on the snake draft in your second round. Do you take him or not? Third round.
Okay, very good. Third round.
You now have your answer to your own question. Overreaction. You got finished up strong. Last one. Finish up strong, Chris.
Let's do it. Uh, Patrick Mahomes is working out. He's gonna participate in some mini camps. Why wouldn't he? Why wouldn't he participate?
Why wouldn't he? He's a leader, he's a participator, he's gonna be there. And here's the thing: yeah. Is it long-term or is it not? Even if Mahomes is ready.
To start week one. The Chiefs to start Justin Fields for all of September. You're out. of your mind. How did he do?
How did Justin Fields do the last time he was starting? He's a good September quarterback. He's a great September quarterback. He's a good September quarterback. He's four and two.
Yep. And then got benched for Russell Wilson. How'd that go? And then the next year for the New York Jets, he came out, almost beat the Steelers in a very week one. And then week two hit.
Right out of the game. And then week three hit. I think. And week four hit. The Chiefs need to play this as safe as possible.
Of course, I understand Patrick Mahomes. Guess who started this one? He's going to be pushing to start week one. You've got to tell him no. No, you got to.
You got to tell him no. We can get through September glorified preseason. Let's get absolutely. Let's get through these four games, two and two at worst. Let's put them in.
And then bring them. Let's put a pin in this. Let's put a pin in this because the schedule is going to get released in the next couple of weeks. Let's see how September looks. Oh, it is going to be Cupcake City for the Chiefs.
Oh, you because the NFL will put their thumb on the scale. Yeah. You know, and by the way, I don't blame them for doing that. To try and figure out, like, hey, why would we put the Chiefs on in a big game? Why would we put them in prime time?
Why would we put them in tough games in the first month of the season? No chance. Yeah, we don't want to see Justin. I don't even know what their schedule is. We're not going to see Garrett Nussmeyer.
They're going to have the Dolphins. They're going to have the Jets. All the easy games are going to be front-loaded for Kansas City. When do they play the Patriots? When do we get them?
That's December.
Okay. Primetime. Sunday night. Let's go. Let's go, man.
Oh, Sunday night. Oh, my God.
Alright, put a pin in this. Not a chance. Not a chance. You think Mahomes starts week one? Absolutely.
I do. Absolutely, I do. I'm not a doctor. I don't play one on TV, but you know he'll be pushing for it. You know he's going to be training for it.
Yeah, you gotta protect him from himself. You still got to win games in the National Football League. You know one of the first four will be a division game. You know it. And it might be the Raiders at home.
Where they never lose.
Okay. Good to know. I'll write that down. Dave.
Well done, Chris. Thanks. Very well done. Everything. Very good.
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