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That's coming up in hour number three of this program. eight four four two oh four rich number to dial phone lines are lit we'll take your calls shortly it's a what's more likely friday we'll play that in just about twenty minutes' time i got some good ones today i'm uh i'm sure you do There's lots to talk about in the National Football League. This man covers the Packers for the athletic. Matt Schneidman back here on the Rich Eisen show. How to get to send up the bat signal to talk about what we saw last night.
Oh, looks like you got your playoff beard already, Matt. What do you got here going on? Yeah, it's the playoffs for this team, not the one I got for it.
Okay. See you guys guys. That'll be next Tuesday. That'll be next Tuesday. All right, Matt, let's just jump into it.
Um State of the Packers is fill in the blank. Dyer. I think. And the reason I say that is because, look, I understand it's only week three. I understand they're one and two, and there's a lot of season left.
But their biggest issues have no Clear solutions. Their offensive line is horrific, to put it lightly. There's an ESPN analytics stat. That they have a 16% pass-block win rate through three games. Since that stat became a thing in 2017, that's the lowest team pass-block win rate through the first three games of a season.
Their best offensive lineman's out for the season. Their second best offensive lineman can't get on the field because he's always hurt. And they have no running game.
So they can't get anything going on early downs. They're always in third and long. Oh, and their feature running back currently on the commissioner exempt list. And who knows when or if he'll play this season?
So, yes, Micah Parsons is probably going to start practicing next week and will probably be back in the coming weeks. But what can that really fix with this Green Bay Packers team where a lot of things are wrong and there aren't many solutions? All right, Matt. Thanks for joining us. Is it really possible Josh Jacobs might not return at all?
This year, Matt? Uh look, I I don't pretend to be a legal expert. What's probably going to happen is he'll get suspended and he'll be back later in the season. I'm just saying that if this video gets out. And that's up in the air.
It's up to the Hobart Lawrence Police Department because of the court ruling yesterday that it's up to the police department and the victim's request to seal all records was denied by a local judge here in Wisconsin. Look, we saw what happened with the Ray Rice video. I don't know exactly what's on that video. I'm not going to pretend to know. But police said in their incident report that they have essentially reason to believe or evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that that video shows Josh.
Shoving his former girlfriend to the ground. You know, the report didn't specifically state that's exactly what it shows, but there was some probable cause involved in that. If that video gets out, who knows what the Packers do? Who knows if he's ever able to play in the league again? That video, I think, plays a huge role.
I'm just saying that vaguely because we just don't know what's going to happen with this case. And, you know, there was a. A conversation about the Packers Prior to the season, Um Okay. Try to g Shake off the hangover of last season. Is that?
Still there, do you think? That They're still hungover. Their problem last year was not having Micah Parsons to close games and not being able to finish games, right? They were 9-3-1 going into week 15 against the Broncos in Denver. They were Second in the NFC, first in the North.
Jordan Love was third in MVP odds behind Stafford and Drake May. And then Micah Parsons goes down. And they've lost six of seven games since then. They blew a bunch of double-digit leads. They did so again in week one.
And yes, they came back from a double-digit deficit in week two. But we saw some cracks. Last season in the offensive line, knew it was going to be an issue going into this season. And man, it's an even worse issue than I imagined. Jordan Loves, I think we can all agree, a top 10 caliber quarterback in this league.
He looks so frenetic and dare I say scared back there because he's just anticipating getting hit on every single play. He got hit 15 times in week one, and the Falcons had 12 quarterback hits last night. They have the second fastest average time to throw in the NFL, 2.5 seconds, because he has to get rid of the ball or else he's going to get killed. That's not a philosophy or a method for success.
So what are the options on that line?
Well, they're running out of them because Zach Baco Biwele, who as I said is one of the best right tackles in football, he's out for the season. He fully tore his patellar tendon at MetLife last week. Aaron Banks, who they gave a four year seventy seven million dollar deal to be their starting left guard, Can't stay healthy. And then their other couple guys: Jordan Morgan, who is their 2024 first-round pick, who's playing left-tackle for the first time, hasn't started off great. Right guard, Jacob Monk, who's a fifth-round pick a couple of years ago, he's been terrible.
Their center, Sean Ryan, is fine, but they're down to backups at right tackle and left guard. And you're With a rookie and the right guard from last year, who lost the right guard job this year, who's now playing backup right tackle because you didn't really have anywhere else to put him. It's. A Brian Goudekunt's problem first and foremost, I think. This is a draft and develop organization, and they haven't done a good enough job drafting and developing at the position.
And combine that with what looks like a big swing and a miss with Aaron Banks. And it's a very, very unenviable spot they're in on that line.
So, what is working, right? The receivers. Correct? I mean, Watson is healthy, and that's been his problem, and you see. He's been a touchdown maker.
Golden had a 100-yard receiving night. Last night, um I mean, and are we fresh out after that? That's it. I mean, I don't mean to be facetious, but. I'm trying to I'm trying to it is just week three, right?
And and Tampa. Is Owen 2 taking on Minnesota at home before welcoming the Packers and trying to get right.
somehow themselves And then there's that week five game where the Bears come in and that's a... That's a must-win. You got to figure that's we're we're we're we're in must-win territory here. Um early on. because Dallas is coming up after that.
In Lambeau, and certainly Tucker Craft's statement about the fans. not helping by booing. That's that's going to be an underpinning of that game. Their next home games after last night. Yeah, I think Christian Watson, to touch on your first point, Christian Watson and Matthew Golden are studs.
Like, they're a really good one-two punch. But Jordan Love doesn't have time to really get them the ball too deep downfield. And both Matt LaFleur and Jordan Love said last night in their press conferences that they can't pinpoint one thing they're doing well on offense right now. And yes, it's only three games into the season, but that's alarming. And I would argue every game's a must-win at this point for a team that pushed all their chips in with the Micah Parsons trade and gave themselves kind of this three-year window, which they're in year two of now, to really compete for a Super Bowl while being okay financially.
And the Tucker Kraft thing, I'm glad you brought that up. Tucker Kraft, since I've started covering him, and I've covered every single game that Matt LaFleur has coached. I'm not sure there's been a player who's played for Matt LaFleur here in Green Bay who's more beloved by the fans than Tucker Kraft. He says the right thing all the time. He carries himself unbelievably on and off the field.
People love how he conducts himself in interviews between the white lines. Yesterday was the first time I've seen him misstep. And this is just my opinion. I think it's a completely tone-deaf statement.
Now, Maybe it was just heat of the moment. The emotion of a loss, maybe he feels differently today. I'll give him that benefit of the doubt. But to say that. The fans shouldn't boo because it doesn't help the Packers win.
They spent hundreds of dollars of their hard-earned money to come watch you play. You didn't play well. The Packers played terribly. And keep in mind, Christian Watson and Brandon Cecil, their rookie starting corner, said the exact opposite of what Tucker Kraft said. Christian Watson said.
If we don't want them to boo, we got to play better. I was very surprised by what Tucker Craft said yesterday. And man, he is catching some heat from the fans online today. No doubt. I would expect that.
Um but that said Uh I I was trying to interpret the booze. from some of the Packers fans that I know. And they're not booing the players. I think they're booing the decision to potentially run it back with the coach and the GM. You know, you're nodding your head.
How much have they pushed their chips into the center of the table on both of those guys? Yeah, so Not to shameless plug here, but on my show, The Green Bay Beat this morning, we had a discussion about. What that booing was for. And we came to that same exact conclusion. The fans are not booing Tucker Kraft, although we had a couple drops last night.
They're not booing Jordan Love. I think where it really comes from is. booing the stagnancy that one of the most iconic franchises in sports has come to, right? They've got the number seven seed and an early playoff exit each of the last three years. What do they do?
And by the way, I was in favor of this decision. They extend Matt LaFlore and Brian Gudekunst. And this was kind of an offseason. I like to think I have my finger on the pulse of the fan base. There was a lot of apathy within the fan base this offseason just because.
They think, and rightfully so, why should we expect anything different if the head coach and GM who haven't been able to get us over the hump? Are back again. And look how this season started. I think that's really where the root of the booze comes from. And quite frankly, I can't blame the fans for that right now because if you were to take Matt LaFleur's approval rating among the fan base, man, it is dismal right now.
And I'm not sure Brian Goudekuntz is much higher. But again, like as you pointed out, this team is 9-3-1. last year going into that Denver game, and they're still reeling from the loss in that game of not just on the scoreboard, but of Micah Parsons.
So I'm sure management's like, okay, that team's still there. We still have that team. Uh LaFleur hasn't forgotten how to coach.
So So I'm with you. I was the same way too. And I still am. I mean, it's just, it is one and two. I understand though, offensive line problems are very difficult to fix mid-season.
That's a problem. But uh so is LaFleur how long was it The extension forward. Do we know? No, we don't know the length of the deal publicly. We don't know the figures on the deal.
We don't know if they miss the playoffs this year, if there's an out in the contract that Ed Policy can exercise. But I would say this, So we sat down with Ed Polise before he officially took the job as Packers president and CEO last summer. And something Ed told us after he extended LaFleur, and also indicated before, is that he's not going to make emotional decisions. This wasn't some president that just came in from the outside. Ed Polisey has been with the Packers since, I believe, 2012.
He served on the hiring committee for both Brian Goudekuntz and Matt LaFleur. He has been to every single game LaFleur has coached, and Guticoons has been the general manager for. After they lost to the Bears in the playoffs last year in spectacular fashion. Ed Policy said that he was not making his decision. About LaFleur and Goody's future based on one game or even a full season of games.
He was making it on seven years' worth of evidence. Of Matt LaFleur and watching him.
So I find it hard to believe that Ed Policy is going to have a guttural reaction to not just this stretch, but I can't sit here and say if they go five and twelve and miss the playoffs, that he's going to fire LaFleur then. Because from my dealings with Ed, he just doesn't seem like a guy To to base These big decisions off of one year or a fragmented period of time, even if he should. He takes a much wider view. This isn't a franchise that does things like off the cuff or emotionally, really.
So fans will hate hearing that. And man, they have grown tired of Matt LaFlore and Brian Goudekuntz. But Like you said, there's plenty of time to turn it around. I just don't see any signs that say they will this year. But I've been wrong before, and I could be wrong again.
Again, a fan base upset with a vaunted franchise that's looking for a championship run again after having so many of them with star players and sticking with a coach that fans are kind of sick and tired of, and a general manager, the same thing.
Sounds like the baseball team you're rooting for too, Matt. Be honest with you. Number 28 this year. Let's go. We'll see.
Let's see if 99 or number 27 comes back with a bat first. Yeah. Let's start with that. I'm with you on that one. But Thanks for the time, Matt.
Really appreciate it. Thanks, Rich. Always a pleasure. Right back at you. That's Matt Schneidman of The Athletic versus the Packers right here on the Rich Eisen Show.
Mm-hmm. Packers and the Cowboys and the Yankees are very similar. You know? Although the Packers I like Matt Lafleur, man. I just like him a lot.
Met Goudaquince that one time at the draft we had him on, right? That's right. Remember, he dapped it up with Matthew Golden. His horn was coming on the set, and then later on that night, boom. There he is.
There he is drafted. He looks good. Matthew Goldman looks nice. That offensive line, not so much. Ask the Chargers how it works to fix an offensive line in the middle of the season.
Didn't work last year. No, but they're all healthy now, isn't it? No, they're not all healthy now. They lost their center in the worst possible time, right on the eve of the season. Yeah.
And um So, yeah. I don't know the way through, other than the fact that there's at least. 14 more games left. There's a lot of games. There's a lot of games left.
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Catherine in Idaho wants to chime in on something. What's up, Catherine? Oh my gosh, where did I start? Yeah. My Longpacker fan, um through the Favre years, the Rogers years, But I don't know about love.
I don't know if we can teach him the passion that he's going to need to. To be the quarterback for the P for the Packers, he just does not seem to have that fire. And The the last guy that he interviewed was so spot on with everything he had to say about The management and everything. That's exactly how we feel. I'm an owner, and I.
I don't. I don't have any faith in Tula Flora now at all. It's hard because you love your team so much. And for Dr. Craft, Catch those balls, baby.
We won't boo you then. I mean, bottom line we pay a lot of money. We pick people pay millions of dollars to be there, and we want to see you play. Are you originally from Wisconsin, Catherine? No, no.
I was born in Oregon. I live in Idaho, but we've been back and found all the way back. And I've been in there several times. This is. This team was nine, three and one.
Last year. I kind of forgot about that. They were the two seed in the NFC. Um But you can't keep just running the same old boring plays and expect that you're going to get anywhere with it. And you can't expect to have a quarterback who He is afraid.
That's what I think. I think he is afraid, and I think he's just so. He doesn't have any situational awareness, number one. He does not have. passion number two, I mean, I want to see some fire.
I wanna say and I don't think, you know, We can get Parsons back, God bless him, but one person is not going to make this team better. I hear you. I don't know. I don't think love is the issue. And I know that you want to have somebody just.
like Tom Brady scream LFG and whatever. Oh, no, no, no, no. I just don't know anything anything in between that. I just don't think that that's that's his M.O. and And Love, I don't think is the issue.
I just think right now they can't run the damn thing. And anybody who's got to throw it 53 times and get only nine in support on the ground is going to look that way. Thank you. That's Catherine in Idaho right there, feeling like she needs a hug. Ross in New Jersey, where it's about to rain cats and dogs.
What's up, Ross? Rich, what's going on, man? Oakall as well. How are you? You know, I can't forget the Packer collapse.
You know, just long story short, I had a five-legger last year, ten to win 600 Packers over nine and a half. And I legitimately got half pointed, if you remember the tie week three of the forty forty, got legitimately found a way to get half pointed on a season win total. But you brought it up before with that insider man. I think they don't get enough crap for being in that same tier of the Yankees. I'll even throw the Steelers in there, or like being that, and he used the word apathetic, you know, eight and nine wins, nothing more, nothing less, and kind of drawing it to the weight of the pinstripes because of what they've been in the past and not so much in the present.
It just feels like the same song and dance every year that I think. Best case scenario, if you're a Packer fan, is they almost bottom out, so it forces the change, and you don't just run it back every year like they've done for the past ten plus. Listen, you know how I feel about the Yankees if you listen to this show. I talk about them all the time, Ross. It's basically going to be pitching.
for for them going into these playoffs right now. That's it. And they spent the money on Cole, they spent the money on Freed, they spent the money on Rodon, and then they found themselves lightning a bottling Cam Schlittler, who's going to be the American League Cy Young in his first full year as a starter in the NFL. They paid the money to Judge. For whatever reason, Stanton can't stay healthy.
And if they all pull it together, they could make the World Series just fine. The Packers are a different story, man. Um And and Thanks for the call, Ross. Thank you, man. It's an interesting analogy.
I kind of made it with the Yankees and Matt Schneidman because he's a Yankee fan. He had the Yankee hat with him. I I George George would have fired Aaron Boone fifteen times over, but George also kept churning front office people and kept churning churning the roster. I mean, what do you want the Packers to do? Just like fire everybody right now, even though they have clearly extended them for a considerable amount of time.
It's just week three. It just has not looked good, and the way last year ended on top of it. Just didn't work out, man. You'll get a team in a similar boat, right? Buffalo is in a very similar situation as Green Bay has been.
Maybe the coach didn't deserve to go after last year. Maybe he should have gone earlier, but they made the move and fired Sean McDermott. And now they're the number one team in everyone's power rankings for two weeks. And, you know, did Matt LaFleur deserve to be fired after last year? I don't know.
Maybe not. He got an extension. But sometimes change is good just for the sake of change. Doing the same thing over and over again and getting the same results, that's the definition of insanity. And Packers fans are going insane right now because that's what they're seeing.
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What do you have over there, Christopher? I got a lot, so let's rip through it. I want to start with last night because what Bijan Robinson and Drake London did last night was awesome. And more guys, more likely to be the higher number. Blake, I combined them.
Bijan and Drake total yards from last night, 407, or any three players' total yards in any game this week. I'll just go any three players and more total yards. I'll do that. Just'cause you're you're you're giving me that and Will you be the one to tally this up on Monday to reach out? Any three players in any game are going to combine for more than 407 yards?
Right. And I'm just looking at the weather, by the way. I don't know. Could you, you know, the the giants and the with Jameis and we're like, what's he going to look like? It's going to be pouring rain still from whatever's blowing off all the sports on Saturday.
Yeah. Oh, maybe. Yeah, there's even rain in western New York. for bills and and chargers. It's a good thing New England's not at home, and that same thing with the Jets.
Because it's going to be a washout. In the Northeast this weekend. Interesting. Even with all that. Even with all that, right?
Looking at Pittsburgh, what's the weather in Pittsburgh going to be as well? Even with all of that, I'm still going to take three over two.
Okay. You know, I'll I'll I'll still do that. No rain in Cleveland. Thank you. Okay, what else you got, Chris?
All right. Speaking of New England, one in one, more likely, one in one wannabe AFC contender who most needs a win on Sunday. Pick up. Patriots, or Jaguars. I mean, what are you talking about?
Who needs a win? They're both, by the way, on the road in tough spots. Jacksonville's in Cincinnati, week four, and New England goes to Buffalo. Boy, they would just love to have New England at one and two and just stick it to them and make you eat Del Tufo's hat. You swear you wouldn't.
Yeah, I'm a grown man. I'm done eating stuff. You're done, even though you said that. That's fine. I could say a lot of things.
Word season opening loss. Word is not your bond. That's interesting. Actually, I think it was on that. I think that was on, it wasn't prior, it was after.
I think it was two weeks ago today. Yeah, you're baiting me. It was two weeks ago today. You said you would eat the hat if the Patriots started one. It was after the Seattle.
He said very coffee. He doesn't even wear this one. In this segment, I think you said it. Whatever. Better choice.
I'll go to Jacksonville because they're at home.
Okay, great. You want to win your home games against an opponent that's in your conference. Wasn't that hard. What else, Chris? A couple really good matchups this week.
He's not into the who needs it more, when both teams need it. Who needs it more? What does that mean? One team's in a division where the two best teams are 0-2. More likely Super Bowl 61 matchup.
Rams, Broncos, Ravens, Cowboys. All go, Rams, Broncos. I almost had that as my matchup and I'm like This might be the bills year to finally make it. I was toying with Rams Broncos. Yeah.
The season preview show the Tuesday after Labor Day on NFL Network and this show together. Yeah, man. Rams, Broncos, far more of a Super Bowl matchup possibility right now than Ravens, Cowboys. All due respect, sir.
Well, it doesn't feel like you're giving.
Okay. What else, Chris? Sneaky fun game in Cleveland, Ohio. Yeah. On Sunday.
Guys, is it more likely Deshaun Watson gets cheered by Browns fans in the fourth quarter? Or Bryce Young comes back down to Earth. I'll go, Bryce Young comes back down to Earth. Deshaun's been complaining about the.
Well, you do realize if Bryce Young comes back down to Earth, there will be cheers for the Browns in the fourth quarter. Right. Will they be for Deshaun or just for the?
Well, I think they'll just be so happy to be potentially two and one and Todd Muncin wins his first. Home game is a Browns head coach. Yeah, winning. changes everything.
So I guess for me to say Bryce Young comes back down to earth. You know. I mean, he could still be playing bad if Bryce Young. I get it. I get it.
I feel like Bryce Young is unlocked. I don't know. I mean, and I feel the same way, too. I'm just saying it's going to take a lot for Browns fans to be cheering Deshaun, I think, in the fourth quarter.
Okay. What else, Chris? Guys, more likely 0-2 team you'll feel better about on Monday. Texans are Chargers. Doof.
Man, I don't know. Oh man, oh man. Um Mm-hmm. I don't know, I I've got this sneaky suspicion the Colts are winning. Really?
And the Chargers are showing up like showing their metal, their hardball metal. I don't know if they're going to win. I don't know if they're going to win, but it's just like, okay, there it is. There it was. That's what we're talking about offensively.
It's clicking. Gives me a little bit better sense of who they can be, although 0-3 is brutal. You know what I'm saying? Dude, the Colts played really well on Monday night football. Yeah, they scored a lot of points.
Really well. Their defense is giving up a lot of. Oh, man. I'll. I'll go Texans just'cause it's such a tough assignment in western New York.
What else? Guys more likely to be the bigger total. Josh Allen combined touchdowns. or Jameis Winston touchdown and interceptions combined. Again, it's supposed to rain almost two inches on Sunday in New Jersey.
Jeez.
So I don't know. Um I'll just say the higher total is going to be Josh Allen's total touchdowns because that's just the role that he's on. He must be butter.
So I'll go Josh Allen total touchdowns. That'll be the higher total. That could be fun. Because I don't know how many touchdowns Jameis is going to, I don't know how many times Jameis is going to throw it. That might be a Scataboo, Najee Harris, Tyrone Tracy, the law firm of what?
Tracy Scataboo. I guess, let me get this right: Tracy Singletary. Uh Harris and Scatterboo. Yeah. You know, and we're in your corner.
They're in your corner, right? No, it's got the corner. Better call scats. Better call scats. They're expensive, but I like them.
I think that's going to be the Giants' way through on Sunday. All right. Yeah, no, it's not great. Could be ugly. Slip and fall at work.
What else? Could be ugly in Miami, but a couple good backs in this game. Dynamic running back with more total yards and touchdowns. Kenneth Walker or Devin H. I'll go to Kenneth Walker.
That's what I shall do. That's what I shall do. They're giving it to him, man. That question of like, okay. Great hot great hire, interesting choice, but are they really going to use him?
Yep. Oh yeah. Yeah. They sure as heck are. I'm so mad at Jeff Hafley.
So mad. Why? Because he's not giving it to him 30 times. He looked hyperbole when he came on this show.
Well, you can't do hyperbole when fantasy football is at stake. He promised me 40 carries a game. He promised me he'd be getting carried off the field.
So I spent all my free agent or all my fantasy money on him, Rich, and I've not gotten a good ROI.
So I'm angry right now.
Okay. I get it. All right, so. Got it.
Next time he zooms in, me and him need to have a chat.
Okay. I'll reserve some time for you. Uh could be a good one in Detroit. Jets are sneaky tough. But is it more likely the Lions score 31 points or give up 31 points on Sunday?
Oh, score 31 points. 32-31. Score 31. What? Don't forget the last time one of his former assistants came in this building, he dropped 50 on him.
No faith.
Okay. He had nothing but flowers to throw at Aaron Glenn, called him one of his best friends. Said it was a great day for him, and also a terrible day for him when Aaron left, because a piece of him left.
So That said, though, they got to win this game coming off of their last game against the AFC East. That didn't work out. Mm-hmm. You know, listen, Brees Hall and Garrett Wilson and Geno Smith have been flowing, you know, flowing. They've been flowing.
I get it. I'll just say the roar shall be restored on Sunday.
Okay. Are you sad you gave up your Jets fandom? I didn't give up my Jets fandom. I know what you're talking about. Passionate Jetson.
I don't know what you're talking about. Passionate Jets. I had my eye on him. That's the same thing. Supposed to have your heart in there, not just your eye.
I have my eye on him. He liked me. Dude, after having your heart ripped out and shown to you pumping for half a century, this whole conversation is like: sometimes change is good.
Sometimes you got to change it up.
Sometimes just run it back, same old thing. Who says that?
Okay. Man, I did. What else? Oh, yeah. Sign the contract.
Here we go. What is that? This is your transfer of fandom from Jets to Rams to Rams. Look, I did it, man. I had to step up and be the first one.
It's just waiting for you. You know what I'm saying, Chris? I had to be the first one to put pen to paper. Oh, I know is this. You got options.
The man with 19. Penance behind him. You know, including a new one because a coach gave him free shoes. It's not even the shoes we can do. And he also roots for Florida State.
We had a connection. All right. I mean, he missed the free shoes university over there. More likely running back to match Bajan's numbers this week. 213 total yards, two touchdowns.
Derek Henry or Christian McCaffrey. Oh, well, I can give you that one easy. Oh, I'll go Derrick Henry on that one. It's my greatest nightmare. Yeah, I'll do that.
I mean, they're not, and wisely so. You know, bell cowing Christian McCaffrey in September. They're just not doing that. It makes complete sense to not do that. Derrick Henry is getting the ball in Rio, and it is going to be de Janeiro for him, potentially.
Man, I thought I would choose James Cook. Again, it might be raining and And I understand they they throw it around a lot, but I I I'd say James Cook is potentially on that clock too. All right. What else, Chris? Do you think we need one more?
Oh, sure. All right, we'll get one more. Isn't that great? Guys, it's National One-Hit Wonder Day. Oh, is it really?
You know that? One-hit Wonder Day. That thing you do? Yo, Day. Yes.
The Oneidas. Timmy Smith. More likely to be the bigger Super Bowl one-hit wonder. Timmy Smith, Larry Brown, David Tyree. What does this mean?
What do you mean? Who do you think is the bigger Super Bowl one-hit wonder? Oh, I'm just looking back or out of these three. Yeah, out of these three. You said gonna be.
I'm like, wait a minute. I thought you were. Oh, no, no. I thought you were gonna like, oh, Sam Darnold, because he's never getting back. I thought you were gonna go there.
I can. Do you want me to? See, that's normally your default. Oh, I can't. I thought that's where you were going.
No, I wasn't. I meant it. What does this mean? So, who do I care? Why do I care to you?
What does this mean? Thanks for playing around with the bit. Really appreciate it. History. We like history.
This is Super Bowl history. Who was the biggest one-hit wonder? It's got to be Timmy Smith.
Well, I mean, there's only one guy because he pinned the ball against the side of his helmet. I mean, we've seen guys intercept passes, we've seen guys run footballs, we've never seen somebody pin a football against a helmet to make you miserable.
So I'll do that. Specific people never did anything again in the world. I know that, but one thing is more of a unicorn than again. We will see guys that we've never seen play that much more. Set the rush record.
Maybe we'll see that. Because we've seen people run. A lot. We've seen people Intercept footballs. Have you ever seen somebody pin a football atop his helmet in a crucial moment in the history of the Super Bowl?
I will proffer to say no. I've seen people not knock the ball loose.
Okay. Plus, it pisses you off to give you this answer, so I'll give it to you. No, it pisses me off when you know exactly what I'm doing, but you don't play along with the bit. I'm a bit extender. and a bit man.
Okay. Just sign these things. We got wood, we got chargers, we got rams. Just come home. Stop it.
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Okay, so Jaden Daniels, a Apparently, does not need surgery and will not go on injured reserve.
So says Adam Peters, the GM of the Commanders. Yes. I mean, I think we're still he just got back late last night, and the guys are meeting with him this morning, and we met with doctors Like we said, all over the country, and he very thorough, and we really got a lot of good opinions.
So now it's just a matter of, you know, sitting down and thinking about what the best course of action is. As of right now, surgery is not on the table and we haven't discussed IR.
So it's just a matter of how we're going to get him back on the field. And that's still to be determined. Uh courtesy of one hundred six point seven the fan. Um Dan Quinn. Had this to say at his press conference moments ago.
Jaden won't be placed on IR in his week to week and that is great news. Like most things when you want to wait it out you go through the what-ifs in your head and sometimes those are worse than the actual news. But you just wait to get all the information you can and then spoke with him on the phone and again we had a chance to visit this morning.
So I thought like just you know what a great bit of news for him and for us. That is great news.
So if he's not going to be missing four games'cause that's why like If you're If you're not going to IR him, that means you think he can come back within a month. Exactly. Right?
So let's take a look at the commander's schedule. Home for Seattle good Lord Um then he won't be making the trip. Yeah. Uh London. That's the first of three straight weeks of London games on NFL network.
So it will be Mariota versus Daniel Jones. in Tottenham Hot Spurs Stadium. And then maybe what does he come back against the Giants or at San Francisco on a Monday night? Because you think he's gonna come back in the next four. Then there's a buy.
Like, so you're going to rush him? Or it's not rushing. He's going to be fine. He doesn't need surgery. Of course, there's also that thorny issue of.
Why does his non throwing arm collapsed like an accordion under his body weight. Which isn't as significant as other quarterbacks. I mean, that was just a freak injury, man. Listed at 210.
So But no surgery. That's great. That is great news.
Because when that happened, Brady dropped an S-bomb for a reason. Yeah. I would guess week eight, after the buy. Right. Seems most logical.
Okay. So 0-2, though, with the defending Super Bowl champions coming to town. And did we hear, by the way, did Jackson Smith and Jigba basically say Sam Darnold's going to go? I think he. Kind of broke that news, but didn't seem to.
Ms. Darnold's looking good, saying he's feeling good. And What the Seattle Seahawks do is they come to your house. on the East Coast and win football games. That's what they do.
That's certainly what they've done with Mike McDonald's, their head coach. That is for sure. For sure. Let's go. To Eric in San Antonio, Texas.
What's up, Eric? Eric. Hey, Rich, how you doing? What's going on, bud? Ah, not so much.
So I want to preface the Preference this is uh You know, I am a long time Bills fan. But today I come to I present to you as The salvation and the answer for the Green Bay Packers.
Okay, I'll bite on that. What's up? Hi, you know, first and foremost, I'm a I'm a fan of professional football in the NFL. And watching last night's game You know, a lot of teams are dealing with injuries and loss that are. affecting them and it's just the nature of the business.
You kind of have to find ways to work through that. And you know, for the Packers, They have A number of key you know, players on the offensive line that are out. No doubt, Eric. I've got about an hour to um a minute to go before we're at the end of the hour, and Packers fans are wanting to know how you have their solve. What's the solve?
So here's the thing, watching the game last night, it was very obvious that Whenever the Packers went to a no-huddle offense, an upbeat offense, all of a sudden, Rubb looked like. the quarterback we've come to know and love. And they would Move the ball with relative ease and then suddenly abandon the that. temple huddle up and then stall out. And so Bye Steel.
That and I know this may be an overreaction Friday, but I feel that the answer is to To embrace that old K-Gun style mentality of the bills of the eighties. and go to that no huddle offense because They were moving it and they were like I said, they were doing it with relative ease whenever they went to that, and then they would abandon it. I actually think it was the coaching more than any other aspect of the game last night That Ruins their chances. Thank you for the call, Eric in San Antonio. Perfect.
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