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You threw out at 844-204, Rich. Number to dial right here. Great weekend. And college football, LSU, and Ole Miss was as great an atmosphere as you can imagine in college football. And that game did not disappoint, to say the least.
We'll talk about it again throughout this three-hour show. Good to see you over there, Chris Brockman. Hey, Rich, what's up, man? TJ Mikey D. Good to see you, sir.
Go Rams. TJ Jefferson candle light it up. Is a candle lit? Candle's lit. The quote to Bengals, just another manic Monday.
I didn't see that one coming. Let's get it. I didn't see that one coming. I guess your head's got to be unswiveled. All right.
Let's talk Mahomes. Wait a minute.
Sorry. I could do that better. Hold on a minute. Oh, come on. I'll hear you.
Oh, really? He's right. Doing the slides. That's it. Let's talk, Mahomes.
You got to do it like, yeah, yeah, let's talk about Patrick Bohemes. And I mean, the thing is, hey, listen. He's the man, bro. For Collinsworth, he's just in a bad spot because everybody thinks all he's going to do is glaze Mahomes. And then Patrick Mahomes shows up.
In the first Um six days of his 2026 season. looking like he didn't miss a beat. He didn't have a single thing repaired in his leg. I mean, he looks as good as he's ever looked, and you gotta give it up to him. I understand Chiefs' fatigue still exists in this country in a significant way.
There really isn't a pill for it. There shouldn't be. We got to pill for it. There's nothing. There's nothing.
Yeah, but look at the side effects of pills. It'll kill you. Everybody's got to take. A pill. Yeah.
If you have Chiefs fatigue, because guess what? They are back. And they had A significant A significant opponent in their building last night in a desperate Indianapolis Colts team, desperate to prove week one was an outlier, desperate to prove that they have a. A championship squad. desperate to take this national TV audience and show everybody all of the above.
And they did. Jonathan Taylor is as good as there is. I know Mike Tomlin said that. Uh canine was the best back in the game. I'll push back on that.
I know Kev Walker looks terrific. He does. But Jonathan Taylor is as good as he's ever been, and he was running away from people. I know those touchdown runs that he had. We're on the plus side of the field.
If the blocking was the same way, Um on any part of the field, he'd he'd have run it in from 80 yards out the way that he was going. And Daniel Jones was making plays. And bless the Colts, Alec Pierce. Gets hurt after just a catch, and who the heck knows when he's going to come back? But the Chiefs took hits from Indianapolis and kept absorbing them and kept throwing it back in their direction.
And this game goes into overtime. Even with my homes going off. Looking like the way that he looked, and Travis Kelsey. looking the way that he looks. And Kenneth Walker looking the way he looks.
And the defense looking the way it looks, even though they were giving up yards and points. And in overtime. You know. When The Colts won the toss and Kim Bynum. you know, gave the sign of of uh I defer.
And Mahomes is like, we'll take the ball. Yeah, just immediately. Yeah, oh, okay. You know? Basically, or actually, no, like you can have the ball, like you defer, meaning.
If you defer, you're deferring your decision in overtime. That was a funny moment, actually. I think Mahomes actually was talking about that after the game because he's just like, yeah. Um Well, we'll make the decision if you're deferring the decision because we're asked. That's why, you know, Mark Ross said that the.
The ref he kept on saying, Do you want the ball? over and over again in the same way. You know, James Franklin was saying hello to the reporter Michael last week. Until he got the answer he was looking for. Good.
Well you're supposed to say kick off. You can't defer in overtime. Like if you defer that then it's my decision, you know?
So then I was like, well then I want to kick off, you know?
So that's just we have a a guy named uh Frasier that uh tells us the rules and um you're supposed to say kick off. He said defer.
So I said I'll kick off then. That the that that's the rules I guess, but didn't work. That's pretty funny actually. Frazier. Frazier.
No, I'm listening. Listening. Yeah. And based on that soundbite, beautiful necklace right there. Yeah, black diamonds and scramble bags?
He had those last week. I was looking them up. I bet you can't afford them. Come on, really? Me personally.
Well, CZs, TJ, you know what I mean? All right. Listen. See The Chiefs have the benefit of having a quarterback in Mahomes where he knows the rules. He also knows he would like to have the ball second because he wants to know exactly what he needs to do in overtime based on what the team that gets the ball first.
Does? That's how he won a Super Bowl and how Kyle Shanahan got torched the entire offseason because he said we'll take the ball first in overtime in the Super Bowl. Problem for them is they only scored three, so Mahomes knew all he had to do was go down the field and get three to keep the game going and screw it, we'll just score a touchdown and walk off and get the confetti.
So that was that problem. But the ultimate problem is the Chiefs have a quarterback that knows we'd like the ball second, but if you want to give it to me first, I'm pretty good at that too. I'm pretty good at that too. Especially when I am lighting it up. To the tune of three hundred eighty two passing yards and three passing touchdowns for the nineteenth career game with that stat line, tying Dan Marino for the fifth most all time, and he just turned thirty.
That works. And remarkably, the Colts hold him to three. And half of overtime is done. And I hate the fact that there's only 10 minutes in regular season overtime. Give me five more minutes so we could see more changes of possession because that would be interesting to me.
But I understand the league is just like, let's wrap this thing up. It's something called the regular season, and we've got a ton more football left to be played. But that said, Shane Steichen getting the ball back after having his team hold Mahomes to just three points and then going up top to La Croc. La the LaQuan Treadwell was a Ballsy call. The only way to put it.
Eight balls he calls and then the ball gets juggled. And then the ball gets juggled and caught and fumbled, and the game's over. Except for the fact that we're reviewing this thing, and sure enough, Laquan and Legerius come together. And Legerius touches Laquan's hip with what looked like, you know, The tip of his gloved fingers. Just as Treadwell Collected the football.
The ruling on the field is a game over fumble, so you need to see something indisputable. to overturn it. And the refs do that. Which means this? For all y'all out there with Chiefs Fatigue.
I don't want to hear it anymore. That the refs are in the Chiefs' pocket. Because if they were, the refs. In Arrowhead on Sunday night, in front of a massive audience. Could have just said game over.
We didn't see anything. Let's have you guys all talk about it. You ladies all talk about it for the next week.
Well, they tried. They didn't. Mahomes even knew. That he wanted this thing to continue. That's amazing.
He wanted the Colts to get the ball in the red zone. After all this, because he knew what the conversation would have been. A big play in overtime where we think we strip the ball and they end up being barely touched. I was actually kinda glad because I I didn't want to see Twitter's reaction if they would have called it a fumble.
So we we got to prove it the right way, get the stop there and then go back out there and get a field goal. This is what's so nuts is that Mahomes is fatigued of the Chiefs' fatigue conversation. Don't read the comments, bro. Hey, guess what? He could do whatever he wants, because we're all paying rent in his world.
And the thing that I didn't get is the couple running plays afterwards because I know. Steichen kind of realized that if we don't score here, I need to take time off the clock. But that's counteract. That runs counter. to the aggressive play call.
But the aggressive play call was supposed to end it. It didn't end it. But rather extended. The game And then Um Wound up having a fourth and eight that it looked like for a split second. That it looked like for a split second Shane Steichen was going to go for it.
That would have been so ballsy. And he was asked about that after the game. And This is what he had to say. On this front. Shane Steichen flat out after the game was asked about what in the world he was thinking.
by sending that team out there. And after the game, he basically said it was a look that he was looking for.
So, if he got the look, they were going to run a play? At the end, they didn't get the look. They didn't even try to draw him offside, they just kinda stood there. Draw him off sides for what? Make it fourth and three and do it again?
Fourth and three, you kind of go for it. And it's kind of like one of those horror movies that, here, go ahead and roll it. We had the right look. I was like, shoot, if you love it, man, let's go at it. Let's go win this thing.
But if it's not the right look, like, shoot, let's kick the field goal here. Yeah, they kicked the field goal. And it it again, it was just like one of those horror movies. Where you could just, you knew the calls were coming from within the house. I mean, TJ called in the group chat: like, this game was over.
I thank you for pointing that out, Byron. Because the Chiefs L Back. They really are, guys. Mahomes doing his thing. Travis Kelsey, 27th career game, including playoffs with 100 receiving yards and a receiving touchdown.
That ties Gronk for the most in the history of the NFL by a tight end. He's going to pass that, one would think. Because he's got games against the Chargers left, and he, you know, he could tell the Spanos family, I own you, right? And the Chargers don't look good at all. We'll talk about that on this three-hour show.
Marriage has revitalized him.
Well, and I love that moment too, where, you know, they show he scores and Okay. His uh is lovely points to her ring finger and Taylor Swift's like, That's my husband. I love it. I don't care what anyone else says. By the way, she's on camera like aggregately.
I don't even. 60 seconds. I can't believe we're going to have this conversation anymore. But that's the Chiefs fatigue. People have so much Chiefs fatigue, they even have Taylor Swift fatigue.
I don't know how you have that, quite frankly. I mean, didn't we all do this three years ago? We do it every year because the Chiefs are back. The Chiefs are back. That's why.
You had one year off, folks. One year off from it. Yeah. One year off. By the way, Travis Kelsey has 120 yards.
After the catch this season. That's the most in the first two games of a season in his career. Um And then you look at the Chiefs in terms of being back. You know where they're going next? It's the Miami Dolphins home opener next week.
Yeah. That's next for them. And then they're by the way, this could be the Akbar bowl because he predicted it was going to happen. More ball. Week four.
They're at the Las Vegas Raiders. That's their schedule the next two weeks before a buy. And then their home for the Chargers. And then A Sunday nighter at Seattle before an opportunity to open November with a seasoned sweep of Denver, Before the Jets. and they visit Atlanta.
Home for Arizona. the Thanksgiving night game, At Buffalo, kicking off their toughest stretch of the season, which is three on the road. At Buffalo, at the Rams, at Cincinnati before a home date with. New England and San Francisco. Chiefs are back.
I think everyone can safely say that. Their rookies are balling out. Their receivers are balling out. They're making plays. Kelsey looks as revitalized as ever.
And Mahomes looks like he didn't have a single Ounce of surgery. As for the Colts? Real quick. The Broncos did him a favor. Mm-hmm.
Broncos did him a favor. By coming back on Jacksonville in a terrific come back by the Broncos because it looked Bad. It looked like the Jaguars were out physicaling this Broncos team. For a second straight week, the Broncos looked like they couldn't do what they wanted to do. They had an idea of what they could do and they should do, but couldn't execute it.
And then, boom, it happened. Against the Jaguars team. that had won nine in a row dating back to last season in the regular season. And Bo Nick's Connected with Jalen Waddell. This is what we're talking about.
And the Broncos overcame a massive injury problem in their running back room. Like spinal tap drummers. Look it up, kids. They kept on dropping off one after the other. A gutsy home win.
Jonah Coleman, congrats to the kid that we interviewed sitting in the front seat of his car. Wondering where he's going to get drafted. Prior to the draft, he scores his first career touchdown, bone nicks. 288 yards. The Broncos defense steps up, picks off Trevor Lawrence.
That flipped the script, to say the least. And um And the Broncos did the Colts a favor.
So the Colts are 0-2. And the Bengals did the Colts a favor. You could say that the Colts had an opportunity to jump into first place after two weeks, so they're not too far off, and that was a truly gutsy performance by them as well. Because, you know, I'm talking about the Chiefs being back. Daniel Jones doesn't look like he's coming back from Achilles anymore.
No, he looks himself. He played well last night. And Josh Downs stepped up when Alec Pierce. Had to step off. I hate to see them lose that game.
They played really well. And your guy from Penn State, Tyler Warren, is really good, too. Yeah, beast.
Okay, and the offensive line.
So, listen, the Colts are feeling it right now because dating back to last season, they've lost nine in a row. It has been too long since they have tasted victory. Yeah. And I'm sure they feel the pressure as the owner's taking notes, literally. Um But Chiefs are back, folks.
Note to everyone. Literally. That is a fact. Yeah. That is a fact.
And a lot of people didn't think it was going to happen, but it's a September, and it that means Mahomes is winning football games. He's now 23 and 6 in his career in September, and that's only going to improve, one would think, with next week's visit to Miami. And we'll see what the Vegas Raiders can do in week number four. Because they're 2-0. Yeah, buddy.
They're 2-0. If the Colts had pulled that on overtime, we would be talking about the first place all by them. They're lonesome Las Vegas Raiders. Ah, so close. And so let's take a break because we have so much to talk about.
It was so many upsets on Sunday. And um and then two massive Quarterback injuries, one that has since given us. We've since gotten an update on one and sunnier skies. For one of the franchises that lost their franchise quarterback, Um Yeah. On Sunday.
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So. Let's talk about The two Dynamite quarterbacks chosen first and third, first and second overall. Uh in the draft uh A couple years ago, that are out And the question is They're down and out for how long? Who knows? Caleb Williams was first up.
in the Chicago rain. 6-3 game. Ben Johnson decides to go for it rather than kick a game-tying field goal because that's what Ben Johnson does. Sure enough, they pick up the first down. And from that, Caleb Williams is running for his life or trying for a touchdown.
Who knows? His hamstring gives way. Or the rest of the free football world thought it could be his Achilles giving way because the way he could not. I think he could stand the pain. He could not.
Withstand the pain by standing on his own. He needed help off. He's getting carted. You got the. The towel over the head, which is an indication of I cannot believe this has happened to me because this is as significant as it gets.
And then Yeah. Ben Johnson says Where were you? We know it's not his knee, that's good. And then you see photographs of him leaving Soldier Field on his own power with no crutches, no nothing.
Well, that's good. Then you hear Florio on Sunday night saying, well. It might just be a grade one strain. We imagine that's Better than any other type of strain. I don't know I don't know the numerical system for strains.
I think three's the worst. Yeah, right?
Sort of like DEF CON, though it's worse if it's one, right? DEF CON five is better than DEF CON. I just it's been a while since I've seen war games. Yeah. Um And then Our buddy Tommy P of the Ringer.
Tommy P. Tommy Peace putting out there today. Test confirmed today, no major injury, and the team's not even ruling them out for next Monday night against the Eagles. Hey. And there's cheers from Hallis Hall all the way to Bristol, Connecticut, because that game's on Monday night.
Cheers in our call screener, Adam Chudwin said he took a nap. He was so depressed after that game. And he never does that after a Chiefs Chudwin. All right. So.
Wake up, Adam. It looks like Caleb has avoided serious injury. And I don't know if this is a cat and mouse. I'll tell you what. Philadelphia's not going to lose any sleep trying to like Or let me just put it this way: Vic Fangio has been through so many defensive coordinator wars.
Mm-hmm. that I think prepping for Caleb and getting ta uh um Tyson Bagent. It's not something that's going to keep him up. That said. What a relief, but...
The um Minnesota Vikings. Hmm. Just took a road game. Indivision back home with them. They go 2-0.
Big comeback win against the Packers. And then a big When on the road in rainy soldier field means they're not just 2-0, they're the best type of 2-0 in division on top of it, holding serve at home. when it looked like they were about to lose. And then going into Chicago. and holding on in the fourth quarter for a second straight year.
This time with Carson Wentz. What about them apples?
Okay, Aaron Jones looked good. And went Aaron Jones looks good. You know, I mean, listen, 9-3 is not going to light up any fantasy scoreboards or any scoreboard at all. Of course not. But it doesn't matter.
You are what you are. And what the Minnesota Vikings now are are 2-0. Moving forward in an NFC North, where we're wondering.
Okay, it's not significant on an MRI machine, but when do we get. Caleb back for this Bears team. The Lions just got lit up on Thursday night. They're having trouble defensively. The Packers had a.
Come back down 10. How about this? They lost six in a row with four of the six, the Packers, with them having a two-score lead. In four of those six games, and this time they're down two scores against the Jets team. that's feeling good about themselves and met life and they come back and win that.
And the Vikings now I've started 2-0. Not too shabby. And we'll keep an eye on what's going on with Kayla Williams, but I Apparently, as of right now. Few hours before Monday night football kickoff on ESPN and ABC and everybody else. Caleb Williams looks like he has averted major problems because that looked like as he's carted off.
With his towel over his head and the way he was reacting, that we were going to see Tyson Bajant for the rest of the year, which would have been a heck of an arm wrestle. Mm-hmm. So there you go. Do you where are you falling on because now it's a big thing i online right now that Caleb was overreacting and now he's basically Paul Pierce. Like he's turned himself into a meme.
Who cares? Honestly, yeah, in his mind, he probably thought that that was it.
So I don't know if it was the tears because of the pain or the mental anguish. Guess what? He is Caleb Fregen Williams. He's the Iceman. He is, by the way, looking swole as well.
Um and Being a meme. Listen, he survived people making fun of him because he was crying on his mother's shoulders in college. First overall pick. Dynamite kid, dynamite setup. Life is good for Caleb.
Let's just hope, let's get him back. Who cares if he's a meme? That's my take on that one. Use emotion. I don't even know that.
Yeah, it's a thing today. All right. Well, those people should get lives.
Now then. You're Dan Quinn. You're staring into the abyss, you're 0-2. Not just 0-2, but the worst type of 0-2, you're 0-2 in division. Mm-hmm.
And your quarterback, Jaden Daniels. At the end of the game in the loss to Philadelphia, and in the first half of this game in Dallas. flat out looks like the Jaden Daniels of his unicorn rookie season. Right. The offense is looking good.
He's looking sharp. He is. as elusive as ever and smart about it. And There's two seconds left in the half. You're getting the ball on the other side of halftime.
And you don't kick it. and you put your quarterback under center. to take one shot at tying the game. in Dallas. Because Dak is showing up.
With CeeDee Lamb. Looking all gaddy.
Okay. Yeah. So I can understand why, but this is a total. 2020 hindsight second guess. Because Dan Quinn, as he's going through the Pros and the cons and the risk factor.
He understands. I can take the points 17-13. I get the ball second half. I can take the lead then. Let's just play it simple, play it safe.
We got this. The risk is I get no points out of this, and that is a big time problem. You know, in the long run, but we can go into the locker room and just tell the guys out of boy, we're trying to be aggressive, and that's the downside. If somebody told him the downside. would be that one of his own linemen would step on the foot of his quarterback.
who then embracing his fall. would use the left arm That he dislocated last year. to try and brace himself from falling. And it would twist in such an ugly way That Tom Brady would curse on Fox. Yes.
He said we would look at the replay. And Then we would have an injured quarterback for who the hell knows how long. He clearly Would take the points. Yeah, that could have been avoided. You could Sit here and so if you're Dan Quinn, you stare at the ceiling and go, What the hell?
Just happened. I should have taken the points, or you're just. Saying, I've been in football forever, and this is the way it goes. And these things happen. And Jaden Daniels, we're still waiting to hear how bad is it.
Does it need surgery? Does it not? where ligaments gone. It did not look good, obviously. And by the way, I thought it was a very human moment out of Tom Brady.
Did they not have a delay button? Did somebody just did you miss it? Did you miss it in the button? Were you on the fader and you missed it? They don't have a delay on the center channel, which is in 5.1.
So technically. I don't care about centers or 5.1.
So there's no delay button. No, because you don't think an announcer is going to drop an S-bomb. Got it. That was a very human moment. I was listening to that.
Because I said that's great. I said the same word. Everybody said it. Everybody did. We didn't see it initially.
I thought it was his knee or his leg. And then when that. Me too. I don't like watching stuff like that. When that happened and he said it.
I said a different word. What a freak injury. A freak injury. That was Tom being real right there, man. Like all of us, and so Dan Quinn had this to say after the contest.
With Jaden, he did injure his left elbow. It was a dislocation. X-ray showed no fracture. Traveled back home with the team. More imaging tomorrow.
Once I know like an update that we can move forward with, I'll give you that. But I want to give you what I know. Man, are we bummed for him? I thought he was like really playing his ass off. And we will rally so hard around Marcus until Jaden's back.
Yeah, he went uh Vermeel there. We will rally around Marcus Mariota and we will win games. And by the way, Marcus looks. He looked good. He found Diggs in the end zone.
Diggs had two touchdowns. Diggs looked nice, too. You know, none of them. No celebration. Led to any flags this time around.
You know, Rashad White looked good. Hey, for an offense that apparently was in trouble and it doesn't look good, nobody blocks anybody. They They look more like two years ago than last year, that's for sure, until now, when they look like last year, because Jaden Daniels has a dislocated elbow. which kept him out for a month last year.
Okay. So let's hope it's the same thing there. I guess? For the commanders? because otherwise it was beginning to click a little bit here.
That said, Dallas, sir? A little bit better. We did what we were supposed to do. Which is what? Beat the Washington football team.
The way we always win a home game. Yeah. Well, Dak has now won 20 in a row at home against division opponents. Matching the guy who said the S-bomb on Fox last uh Sunday, this past week. Man, Brady went 20 in a row at home against the AFC East.
Mm tracks. Probably should probably should have been. Dak, I mean, unfortunately, the Cowboys do not have Washington at home again this year in the regular season at least. In his eight career home starts against Washington, 24 passing touchdowns and no interceptions. I mean, yeah, respectfully.
I mean, we catch these guys. That's how you break Tony Romo's franchise record. Uh with his 249th career passing touchdown. 26 to 31, 279, 4 touchdowns. 10th career, fourth touchdown, no interception game.
Hey, man, when not pressured, he was 21 of 22. And threw those four touchdown passes for 247 yards. CeeDee Lamb had the fourth most receiving yards in his career. And hey. Um Commanders only scored 20.
Which means that breaks the streak of um Uh Eight straight games of allowing 21 or more. Hey, baby steps. Yeah. Now it's just the ninth straight game where they've allowed 20 or more. Yeah, we got to work on that.
Yeah, baby steps. Baby steps.
Now, you go to Brazil to take on a Ravens team that just got upended at home by the Saints. And that's how we take our break. But whoa, before we do, I'm getting Mike Hostins just got in my ear. Uh a rich eisen show A radio affiliate ESPN 1000 in Chicago, Ben Johnson told. That station Caleb Williams is weak to week.
Week to week, okay. Aren't we all? No, I mean, we're day to day. I'm hour to hour. I'm like minute to minute.
I'm week to week on NFL game day morning. I'm day to day here on the Rich Eisen Show. You're right, you're right.
Okay. Appendix to appendix. Oh, my goodness gracious. I am killing it without an appendix. I didn't know that was dragging me down for 30 professional years.
Would you have gotten it removed earlier if you'd have known how to cut that thing off? I'm all about making the best show possible. You know what I mean? Are you now thinking about what else you could cut out? Absolutely not.
Oh, God. No, sir. I'm done with that. Although, last Wednesday, greatest nap I've had in a long time. What else you want to know?
Thank you. All right, let's take a break. We'll talk about all these upsets. And Todd Munkin with the sound bite. Of the year so far, that's a Clubhouse leader that's coming up next.
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Back here on The Rich Eisen Show. As a sports fan, I know how this goes. You step away for 30 seconds to grab a drink, and of course, that's when the big play happens. That's one reason why I use Sonos at Home, because it's a whole sound system designed to work together.
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Feel the system? Visit sonos.com to build your system. On the radio side of things, we just talked about the raiders. On the TV side of things, they're 2-0. They shocked the Los Angeles Chargers.
Although it was more of a home game for the Raiders, as it frequently is in SOFI for the Chargers, still trying to build their fan base at home. And then, you know. The New Orleans Saints. UTJ had them being a sleeper team and winning the NFC South, correct? You've been talking about him for a while now, Chris.
Right? And I'm like, I got to see it.
Well, I'm seeing it. I am seeing it. And what they are are a team that you can get up on them, but they are going to stick with the program. And beat you in the fourth quarter, which is the way you win a lot of football games, right?
Now you can all say that, you know. Um Yeah, yeah, yeah. You had them at the flop, and then the turn started making things more difficult for you, and you let them stay in the hand, and then they sucked out on the river. Doesn't matter, they're still raking the pot as they did in Baltimore and almost did. in Detroit the week before.
As they outscored the Ravens 15-0 in the fourth quarter. And combined with last week's near miss in Detroit, They've outscored opponents 25-3 in the fourth quarter alone. And Tyler Shuck, man. A passing touchdown and a rushing touchdown in the fourth quarter. His 10 passes and rushing touchdowns in the fourth quarter and overtime since week 10 of last season.
He's one shy behind, guess who, for the most In that span. His name is Josh Allen, which is only fitting because he apparently is a poor man's Josh Allen. Mm-hmm. Which the defensive coordinator for Baltimore in leading up to the game this week, Anthony Weaver. Uh Unfortunately, he called him that, even though he meant it as a compliment.
And Shuck even. understood the manner in which it was given, but that doesn't mean he didn't put a chip on his shoulder for this game. Yeah, I saw it. All of our a bunch of the coaches was was telling me about it the whole time, calling me poor man. And um I loved it.
It was um I knew what he meant by it, but Um Yeah, obviously he's an elite player, but Fires me up. Did the Saints find one? Did they find one? Did they find one? They found one.
It feels like they found one. It feels like they found one. Does it feel like they found one? That's why I picked them. It feels like they're never out of the game.
Which is probably something they haven't felt in quite some time, you know, since nine would say. La that way last year and and took it to the won a division and took it to the playoffs. You're not out of it. Doesn't matter who the receivers are, who the running back is, this guy's out there slinging it, and you always have a chance. Yeah, I've heard people who know far more football than me all summer.
bring this guy's name up. That's why I picked him because everyone that knows football said that He was the real deal. And he tried to tell us predraft. He did, didn't he? Yeah.
Saying, I've been to different schools. I've been hurt. I've been coming back. I feel like I'm a professional player already. I've played a lot of football.
And Chris Olave. Remember, we had Tyler Shuck on, and I was on the clock in best ball. Right. And I'm like, should I choose Olave? And he's like, you should choose him.
Thank you, Tyler. Best ball is like a That's bothering. A poor man's guillotine league. Eight catches for 86 receiving yards and a touchdown. He now has 268 receiving yards for the first two games of the season.
That's the third most in franchise history. Behind Wes Chandler's 297 and 79, And Can't guard Mike, a fellow Ohio State Buckeye. two sixty nine in twenty eighteen. Oh, man Now the Saints go home to take on. Guess who?
The Raiders. Oh, man. What a fun game. Is that now must see? What a fun game.
Kirk Cousins in the dome. It's the home opener for Saints fans who are like: wait a minute, we've found one. We've got one. Oh man. They're gonna start drinking the swing oil now.
Hammering the over. Bro. What a fun game that's gonna be. Sneaky good week three contest. For the Raiders to try to go 3-0 to go home and then take on the Chiefs who are going to be taking on.
The Dolphins next week at 2-0. Come on now. That's a win. Akbar's losing his mind. He is.
Oh, by the way, he's texting me. He's DMing me. He's doing everything because he said they were going to go 12-5. He had them starting 3-0 as well.
So the Raiders and the Saints week three contest. Who knew? Here we go. Oh, and by the way, how's that Paris game looking with the Saints looking like this taking on the Steelers in a few weeks? Oh, for sure.
On NFL Network, I might add. We, we. Um But No bigger. Road Victory, one would think. With all the stakes.
And everything going on in Cleveland. And they're all the talk about Deshaun Watson. And all the talk about the Browns is the Browns, and the Browns are gonna brown. And Baker Mayfield coming off of that week one disappointment after signing that big contract, loving the idea of planting a flag on Cleveland and wrecking the buffet. in that quarterback room.
to send them back home. And put Deshaun Watson on the field in Cleveland in front of fans who don't want him. And Todd Muncin saying Um I I choose the players and the players play. And all of that is out there in the ether. And the Browns Not only go in and take a lead, they've got to sit through a 19-hour weather delay with two minutes to go and Baker having the ball and driving.
Like the rain that was coming. And they make it through all of that. And get Baker Mayfield off the field and win the football game. And Deshaun Watson is a winner as a starter for the first time in two years. And And Browns fans.
We'll talk about Watson in a second, but first things first. This coach man. This coach. He pushes chips to the center of the table. Big time.
And Todd Muncin. You know, I know a lot of Brown's friends were like, Why are we hiring this guy? He's old. If you're wondering why we're hiring this guy. This is what he had to say after the win.
And the sound body's going all over the place. But I had our. Crack staff here at the Rich Eisen Show cut the full sound bite. It got cut down. uh on many social media sites, roll it.
Well we needed it. Right? There's only so much you can talk about things in life, right? Ultimately, we're judged by wins and losses as coaches, and we're judged how we play on the field, right? It's not the name on the back.
Player's name on the back is based on how they play on the field. Not their history.
Now what they've done in the past is what you do every week. That's the same as us. At this point now, It's all about winning, and it's them about winning their matchups and the players on the field. That's what it's all about. It's at that point.
It's you out there and it's us collectively together. And I thought our guys did a great job. of hanging together. We had a we had a couple of scuffles Wednesday. Which is good.
That's awesome. 'Cause guys didn't like it. Right? They're a little pissed off. Right?
You ought to be a little pissed off. Played awful. It wasn't the standard. Browns are gonna browns. That.
Okay. So the the guys took that to heart. Thank you. I like that. Thank you.
He's great. Matt Leinert will be next. That's in that realm. Because it's like that's not the standard, and you know, Tomlin says the standard is the standard, and that might have. Pop that whole Browns is the Browns thing in his head, and he's like, F that.
And, you know, I don't, the number of times that I address Deshaun Watson on camera, direct to camera over the last few years, I've lost track. Deshaun. Nobody in the media wanted you to throw for 400 yards and five touchdowns. Nobody did. This is what we're talking about: 24 of 30, 238 pass yards, two passing touchdowns, and making the plays at the end of the game that the opposition and the opposing quarterback who really wanted to beat you.
did not do. That's the stuff. Right there. And he earned a start next week in Cleveland. And let's see what happens against Carolina and Bryce Young.
That just Reversed. Their problems from week one against an Atlanta team that's a kind of a get-right team for the first two weeks of this season, it appears. But that's the stuff right there, and that's the stuff from Todd Munkin. That's it. I think that's gonna play very well.
locally and nationally for the Browns. Fans that want to hear that. The past is the past.
Sort of like frozen. Let it go. Yeah. 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.
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