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Good to see you over there. Rich, I'm awake. I'm sorry about the beginning of the show. It's all right. And TJ Jefferson, candles lit over there.
How are you, sir? Yeah, Caleb inspired me last night. He looked comfortable in the locker room in his robe, so I decided to break out. You got your cowboys' robe and everything going on.
Okay. And him looking like a unibomber on the sidelines. That's incredible.
Okay, fantastic. I thought we're all getting chopped from the gear. We're all set here on Rich Isaac's show. We'll talk about everything on this three-hour program.
So Coming into this Monday night football game, we were wondering who was going to start for the Bears at quarterback. Certainly with Tyson Bagent, the backup quarterback, who the Bears gave money to to be the backup quarterback, being in the concussion protocol and not practicing, but he got out of it over the weekend. And apparently, Ben Johnson had seen enough of From Case Keenum during the week of practice, to say, We're going to go with the old hand. who's practiced rather than the the the new kid On our block. And we're going to go with somebody who was playing when New Kids on the Block was actually a thing.
The right stuff. And I'll say this. Coming in, you're wondering: okay, Case Keenum hasn't played a game in forever. And he's going against the Philadelphia Eagles. Whose defense is not really to be questioned as much as the offense has been questioned, despite the team starting 2-0.
And this is going to be a tough assignment. You heard Marcus Spears on this program on Monday saying, If they don't run the ball, this thing's a wrap. And I'm like thinking, okay, this is going to be potentially a long night for the Bears. Ben Johnson, in his time as an OC and an HC, has never. Put a quarterback on the field who wasn't a first overall selected quarterback.
Wow. Case Keenum's the first. Not named Gough, not named Caleb. And then I saw his pregame interview on Monday Night Football. And Case Keenum was present.
And by that I mean not just checking a box and Sayin' here, coach. Panel? He was present. To look at this moment and soak it in. You know?
Like a wedding day, you have to stand in the corner and just make sure you take a few minutes to soak in what's happening. 'Cause your head could be spinning otherwise. On any momentous occasion, you've got to be present. to enjoy it and to have your best day possible. And Case Keenum at age thirty eight, and two hundred twenty three days new.
What was in front of him? is not something to be concerned about or nervous about, or anxious about, But something to be calm. and present In the moment. About And I saw that. And I'm like, he's sitting there thinking, Just a couple years ago I'm accepting, you know and offer to be the backup.
Quarterback and a Insurance commercial, right? The backup a trailer. Like that's, he could have, he's probably sitting there in that, on that commercial set thinking, when am I going to ever get another opportunity to start? And I'm going to j I'm going to keep grinding. Because I love the game.
And Ben Johnson gives him a call and says, We need you. Do you want to come into our system? Even though he's not one but two. Heart beats away from getting An opportunity? And he's sitting there thinking, my kids are my young kids.
Are gonna are old enough now to remember this rather than when I was starting. Rather than my previous You know? nationally televised start against the Eagles on an NFC Championship game, he'd had to be sitting there thinking I'm Minnesota miracled the team into Philadelphia and I was one game away, four quarters away from the Super Bowl in my career. But couldn't get past this team. Everything had to be just swimming around his brain and his heart and his gut.
And he just seemed calm. And smiling. and present. And I thought Okay. I got a little higher register.
Maybe the Bears can win this game if they could run the ball. And what they do is they come out and they start winging it with Case Keenum. Ether Burden here. Oh, Colston Loveland, who had only one catch for the first two games. There he is.
He still plays football for the Chicago Bears. And they wing it around. And they march down the field. And they flip one of Luther Burden inside the 10-yard line, and he pushes his way in the end zone, and Case Keenum. Has a touchdown.
Right off the bat, passing touchdown to the kid Luther Burden. Beast of burden. And that was something else. And yes, the rest of the game begins to play out, and they do establish the run. And not just with the duo of Swift and Magnongai that ran Amok on this team.
Last year, the day after Thanksgiving. To the tune of 281 yards rushing in Philadelphia. But This time around, They ran for a buck twenty-eight. And the 240-something yards wasn't on the ground. He was in the air.
Case Keenum. twenty four or thirty four. 247 Two touchdowns in the air, and yeah. He vultured Swift and Monongai. One on the ground.
Three touchdowns for Case Keenum. What an incredible night. And the Eagles Turned out to be You know.
Sort of the Washington Generals. In this Globetrotter type performance. Metal Lark Keenum. Curly Keenum. That's amazing.
You know what I mean? You hit it good the first one.
Okay. I say that with the ultimate of respect to the Eagles because they did. Show up in the first half of this game. And they did have a wild sequence. That we'll get to in a minute.
That left them with no points inside the five-yard line, inside the two-yard line, which is an automatic for them. Because their automatic tush pusher was in the blue tent. Again, looked at. But the Bears defense bawled out. Three takeaways.
Their eighth game with three or more takeaways since the start of last season. That's the most in the NFL in that span, and they are 8-0 in those eight games. And Keenum against the Blitz. Let's Blitz, the old man. Let's see what we can figure out.
Vic Fangio rolled the blitz out at him. Eleven times Keenum passed. And he saw Blitz coming his way. He was 11 for 11 in those times. Didn't miss.
Buck 45 and both passing touchdowns came when an extra man was sent his way. Khalif Raymond had 90 receiving yards. Burden, 61 receiving yards. Swift had 84 on the ground, including a big. 15 yarder at the end of the game that may have axed.
TJ from our guillotine league, The Last Second, but that's for another. I mean, people don't care about that. Oh, right. We don't do. But the Bears are two and one now.
And Caleb Williams showed up on the sideline looking like the Unibomber and finished looking like Thurston Howell III with his robe. I know that's an old school reference.
So name anybody who wears a robe in pop culture. That's it. Mr. Hefner? Brewster's millions?
I don't know. Again, Caleb was watching, and Tyson Bagent was backing up because he didn't have enough practice time. And Case Keenum's like, I got you. God, he was present. He was present and accounted for, and after the game.
You know? Seeing him with his family, family, family, on the set. You know, of the post-game And seeing him at the podium afterwards will play later on for you the. Locker room moment where he got a game ball, but Case Keenum had this to say about his journey to Monday night football and the victory. Last night.
I mean, you want to, I mean, as a kid and you're dreaming about it, you know, that you you feel like you can. Um I don't know. I don't know if you think about the week that it takes, the work that it takes in the off-season to clean up your diet and Work extremely hard to get your body back to where it needs to be. You know, to go through a training camp as the three and grind out some reps that you're getting a few reps a day. Um you know.
To get a shot again to do it like this. I mean Yeah, you dream of it. That's why I'm still here, still doing this. Why I'm still getting up, and you know, when I get knocked down, I've been knocked down my whole career. I just keep getting up, keep coming to work, and uh Just keep bouncing back.
That's why you do it, man. I love that. And that's what a backup quarterback needs to do, keep the ship afloat. We've already seen instances in this previous Three weeks, crazy how many times. We've already seen it already in just three weeks.
I mean, we're getting to the end of September. October football's right around the corner. We've already seen so many instances of a backup or a third stringer getting in and not keeping the ship afloat. And that's what Case Keenum's done.
Now you got to wonder against the Jets.
Okay. Gotta start him, right, over Tyson Bajant. I know you gave Bagent the money. But Good Lord. Brockland thinks that Pajant should get it.
No, I I you know, we we can debate it, but I do want to get to the Eagles before Josh Pate. We can have that conversation over the next couple of days as the Bears have a short week to get the Jets get ready for the Jets. Um but you know It was a great story. What an incredible night for him. Incredible night.
It's awesome. Great story. Um, And coaching matters, man. That guy can dial it up and he can breathe life into. You know, a team and Ben Johnson can get this team believing, and he can get quarterbacks ready, and he can dial up plays.
And he was in his bag, man. They were doing inside handoffs, they were doing jet sweeps, he was hitting his back foot and hitting people. And it was not going to be, let's get the hands on 10 and 2, don't screw it up. And you know. They they went for it.
Now, the Philadelphia Eagles, let's hit them. I don't know how many times. In this show, over the past few years, certainly since Jalen Hurts has taken over. that I have treaded lightly. into addressing Philadelphia Eagles fans to tell them to relax.
Right.
Sometimes I've been right because the Eagles go on to the Super Bowl. One time they want it. You know, another time it was, you know, Carson Wentz out, in comes Foles. Another time was, you know, Last year, relax after the Bears. Smacked him down.
I'm like, the schedule is good enough for you to make the playoffs. I don't know about the Super Bowl, but you're going to be in the playoffs. I was right about that. And then the Eagles fans were kind of right about them not making the Super Bowl. Right now I don't know.
I don't know. I think this is still a playoff team. Right? They're just two, they're two and one. They're not 1-2, they're not 0-3, they're 2-1.
Um That second half is concerning. Not going to lie. You know, one thing you should definitely do is make sure that another player on the other team who used to play for your team isn't listening to your plays as you call them in the huddle. Man. I might actually pick him up.
Yeah, but he said that didn't matter. I know. No one's going to say that. And that might just been an angle, too. It was pretty sick, though.
But he also, you know, T.J. Edwards was right where he needed to be, and Hertz threw it to him like he was on the Eagles still. That's true. You know? I'd say yeah, I heard it.
Man, that sequence. We we we found out. B The person who can we've been w wondering. Who can stop the tush push? In the NFL.
And we found out. The individual who can stop the tush push in the NFL is an independent neurologist. Because just when the Eagles were set up. To tush-push their way in the end zone. Jalen Hurts is in the blue tent because he got.
Blown up. On the sideline. Sure did.
Okay. And he's in the blue tent. And Andy Dalton is handing off to Saquon a couple of times, and now it's third down. And I'm like wondering Should Siriani pop off a timeout here or not? But he doesn't have the benefit of what we have, which is the Monday Night Football cameras zooming in and seeing Jalen Hurts popping his head out of the blue tent, sort of clear-eyed.
Full-hearted. Saying a We can't lose if I get in. Anybody around? I'm ready. And Dalton throws an interception.
And the Pearson. Get off the field, and the Eagles come away with no points when 99.99999% of the time they're getting six. as they did with no time left at the end of the half. That was crazy.
So that turned out to be those points at the end of the half. Um As Nick Siriana pointed out, In his post-game press conference, that hey, if I fired off a timeout to see if Hertz is coming back, I don't know if Hertz will be able to come back. But um But I needed that timeout for us to score at the end of the half. What have you, but if you can queue up Hertz on the second half. Struggles.
Listen, this I know is frustrating to Eagles fans because Hertz will never tell you.
Something that you can hang your hat on and say, Okay. This is what's wrong, and I have full confidence it's going to be fixed. Because he will never add fuel to the fire. And You just got to trust the process with Hertz, which is what I would always counsel Eagles fans to do because he's really good at playing. And I know that it's frustrating to watch sometimes.
But this is what he had to say afterwards. We haven't been good enough coming out of half. We have not scored on the first drive of half. We've gotten the ball every time. Situationally, I've got to.
Play better ball. Gotta play better ball. Third down is a very big down for us and I think that's been a very big down for us in these first two games. And today we were not good enough, and I wasn't good enough. In fourth down I wasn't good enough as well and so You know, we were able to put some drives together.
Situationally, I've got to be better. Um we find ways to Move some points. Yeah. That's a fact. What more could he say, though?
Nothing. That was nothing, man. There isn't. I mean, the positive is that Saquon almost at 100 yards rushing. That looked better.
They were getting first downs on first downs for the first time all year. That's a good thing. Um operationally though, I mean in the f in in the second half they they Take a delay of game on fourth and one. My old colleague from NFL Total Access, you know, the first two analysts in the history of NFL Total Access, Ken Norton Jr. and Seth Jorner.
Seth, I saw his comments after the game. I don't know, did you see this? He said that the moment that they Had a delay of game on that fourth down. It's cemented in his mind. And he flat out said it.
He says he mentioned the reason why Sean Mannion's in the booth and knocked down on the ground is because Nick Siriani wants to have some sort of control over this offense and Hurts, and he doesn't want Hurts having direct face to face with Mannion. Jeez.
Okay, so this is the conversation going on in Philadelphia. I'm paraphrasing. Everybody should go check out what Sean said. Also, there was a fourth and one that they didn't go for. That was kind of weird.
Dude, he's saying that that was an indication to him. that Siriani was chiming in on the offense. In a way that he wasn't for the first two weeks, why it looked a little choppy. Mm-hmm. And that's something to keep an eye on about Manion's freehand compared to Siriani's.
Interesting. level of interest here.
So I'm just trying to give people an idea of what's being discussed in Philadelphia. And their next game is the battle between two teams that have a terrible taste in their mouths over the last two games of week number three. Rams are coming into Philadelphia. Oh, baby. That's a big win up for grabs.
And then the Eagles have Jacksonville in London. Hello bruv. Winnable games on the schedule, people. It's still we're marathoning. We're not sprinting.
And at the end of the day, the Bears may just have. The Eagles number? That that too. That could be the case that Ben Johnson is out scheming. Oh my.
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Well, I mean, if all you saw was Colin Simmons' arm and that's what he was simulating using his arm, then you're really complimenting Colin Simmons, Josh. Yes, that's what I'm choosing to do. I'm willfully choosing to do that. That's a heck of a compliment. This might as well be burnt orange.
I know it's not, but it might as well be burnt orange. That's the number one team in the country, Rich. Don't we have to show them? No, I know that. And then again, they call him Mr.
Simmons. Wow. And spell it out, M-I-S-T-E. Oh man, fantastic. And then we didn't even talk about how the season began with clock.
Issues or the clock in Michigan Stadium. And then my team, boy, I wish there was more time left on the clock against Iowa, which is taking on Ohio State, which may have the Heisman winner playing wide receiver. And Jeremiah Smith is now maybe bagged a defensive coordinator. We got a coaching change on that front in Illinois. I mean, you see where I'm going?
Like, I don't know if I'm if we're just more hyper-aware now in these days, but it seems to be just off. I mean, we even talk about PJ Fleck going, you know, what was that? Oh, yeah, but, you know, smearing his players' blood all over his face like this freaking brave heart. Who's amongst us hasn't? That's things gaming for my family.
Every year I see that scene. You know, and if we're here at Michigan and talking about Kyle Whittingham, it's different than the raw-rock coach that we're used to having, and he's going against the guy who's smearing blood all over his face. You know, like this week, it's. It's off the rails. Yeah, there was that small incident with Dante Moore in the Coliseum.
Oregon's backup quarterback just pants USC. That's like an annual pantsing. You can set your calendar by it. That's embarrassing. That was a big, big, big deal.
It's a big deal for Oregon to win the game. It's a big deal for USC. Like, I think that's cooked for USC. You remember last year? Like around this time last year, remember Oregon, ironically, went to Penn State.
And that's after months and months and months of buildup. Really a year's worth of buildup for James Franklin that this is going to be the year. It's championship or bus. You're going to get over the hump. And everyone circled that Oregon game.
Like, we'll find out if Penn State's for real and our expectations are validated by the result of that Oregon game. Oregon beats them. Season off the rails and down the cliff, and there's just a plume of smoke. They got beat by UCLA. They got beat by Northwestern.
Franklin's out of a job by October. The impact of that was more than one loss because of how much that had been invested from an emotional standpoint into the outcome of that game. If you talk to USC people, everything that applied to what I just said about Penn State last year applied to this last weekend's game against Oregon. They've waited, they've had half a decade's worth of patience, they have let him go through multiple defensive coordinators, they just peeled the sticker off brand new facilities, they just signed the number one class in the country, they sold out the Coliseum after everyone making fun of them for lack of attendance in week one and week two. Put yourself in their position, they do all that, and then.
The other guy is missing his starting quarterback. And the backup still beats us by double digits, we're out. That's the collective attitude there. He will not get that thing back. That'll be it for Lincoln Riley at USC.
No kidding. You think that really is the end of the road for Lincoln Riley with this much time left in the season, Josh? Yeah, yeah, because he's not done losing. They're not done losing.
So I don't know. It's a when, not if for me. But yes, I think you'll look back. Just like we did with Franklin. Franklin didn't get fired the night of losing the organ game, but that began the chain of events that would lead to it.
And I believe last weekend, yeah, it led to the chain of events that will lead to that. Josh Pate here on the Rich Eisen Show.
So, you know what? I'll be honest with you, man. Like, we need to, again, Revisit this, and we're going to keep revisiting this. That this is a new world where there's 12 teams that are going to make the playoffs. It's a playoff.
system now And oh Tell me why Ohio State's not the best team in college football, even though they've lost and they lost to Texas. You know what I mean? Like they could legitimately still be the best team in college football right now, Josh.
Well, I think they are. I just don't, I think there are fractions of differences, maybe.
So there are different angles of argument you could take here. I would power rate them number one for whatever that's worth.
Now, if I filled out an AP ballot, and Lord knows someone with some sense needs to, I would have Texas number one because if you're ranking teams, that's a merit-based conversation. You win the game, you belong over the team you beat, unless there's weird circumstances.
So in September, like we can talk like that. But down the road, Ohio State, the beautiful thing about their schedule. For an outsider, at least, is they'll have multiple opportunities to either validate or invalidate that line of thinking because they play a bunch of tough teams. And they go to Iowa this weekend, that's not one of their three toughest games remaining to me. And yet, game day is there, and it'll get all the prime treatment and everything.
So. I think they may be the best team in the country, but here's the thing about it, Rich: to go back to what I said about 10 minutes ago when we started throwing those ingredients in the college football blender. If Ohio State's the best team in the country right now, they haven't really.
Now, look, they've got an alien as their wide receiver one, but the second, third, fourth rungs on that wide receiver ladder, it doesn't feel like it normally does at Ohio State. They don't have the usual difference makers up front defensively, which. Is understandable because they've pumped him out to the NFL draft the past two cycles.
So, like, you ask yourself if the right matchup comes along. I just, I'll give you an example. I just watched. Keelan Russell at Alabama be given time to throw. I've watched Darian Mensa at Miami be given time to throw.
Trinidad Chambliss at Ole Miss. No one's beaten those guys if they're given any kind of adequate time to throw.
Well, what if you match up poorly with a pass rush that can't get home? I don't care what you're made of. I don't care if you've got future NFL guys all over your secondary. You're not stopping those dudes because they can also run the ball.
So. It's like a conditional number one, no matter who you talk about being number one. How seismic was Florida's win overall miss? That was a big one. That was a big one.
And it sent echoes. around Gainesville of what it used to feel like in the 90s. Like what it used to feel like when a Steve Spurrier team won, because Spurrier wasn't afraid to talk, just like Summerall is not, and they weren't afraid to embarrass you. Like, they weren't interested in getting up and milking the clock. They were interested in completely sucking your soul out of your body and making you regret that you ever booked a trip down there.
And that's kind of what they did to Ole Miss.
Now, In their grand wisdom, our friends at the AP saw fit to vote that team number eight. And I have no amount of substances that I could have in my pantry up here that could make me watch Florida right now through what, four weeks, and say, yeah, I've seen seven better teams. I've seen seven better resumes than that. That's a good team.
Now, here's what people are scared to. To do, Rich, they're scared to tell the truth about Florida. The truth is, Florida can win the national championship, but people are very hesitant to say that because they're still so clung to, they're so moored to preseason expectations. But there are a few teams every single year for the good and for the bad that you have to toss your preseason expectations in the trash for. If you had hesitance about Florida, put it away.
There's no reason to be that way anymore. The quarterback and the offensive coordinator have come in and it's clicked immediately. And by the way, further evidence of that. Is look at where those guys came from. They came from Georgia Tech.
You watched Georgia Tech play, they lost to Stanford last weekend. Like that place is badly missing what turned out to be a high-level. a coordinator quarterback combo and they inherited Did that OCQB combo, one of the best receiver rooms in the country, maybe the best running back in the country. That offensive line, which was John Somerall's fear in spring, has performed way above expectation. They can be gotten in the secondary, but the difference is they can score.
So you don't need them to be Iowa. You don't need them to make sure you hold someone under 20 to win.
So that, like, that is the classic example. In this year's schedule gazing, of a team that Georgia is going to have to play as they do every year. And you never chalked that game up as one of the three or four hardest for Georgia back at media days.
Now, all of a sudden, it could be a game of the year in the SEC. And here's the big travesty: Jacksonville's under construction, so they moved that Georgia, Florida game for two years, had a perfect opportunity to give us a once-in-a-lifetime home-and-home experience. Naturally, they just moved it to Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. How romantic a college football move.
Well, they serve cocktails there, I guess.
So, before I let you go, Ohio State, Iowa, Florida, Missouri, you've got Alabama, Mississippi State. There's also Miami potentially trying to stick a fork in Clemson, right? Do you want to take a swing at one before I let you go for this weekend? Yeah, hey, we're going to do two of them. I actually haven't announced the second leg of this, so keep this between us, but we're going to go to Pitt, Virginia Tech on a Friday night.
Winner of that game is going to end up ranked.
Some would argue they both should be ranked anyway. Yeah, you were talking about that game for the last couple weeks, saying like it's in the ether and now it's finally here, huh? We spoke it into existence, my friend. Virginia Tech almost threw it away against Boston College last week, but they pulled it out in a nor'easter. And so that's going to be a surprise early contender in the ACC.
Then Saturday, I mean, Bam and Mississippi State's two of the best quarterbacks in the country going out at 11 a.m. Current forecast, 90% chance of thunderstorms. Don't love it. Got four days to rectify that. Don't love it.
I think Florida is in one of the biggest letdown spots against a wounded animal that you could be in as Florida goes on the road to Missouri. I'm trying to paint the picture in my mind for how Iowa beats Ohio State, and I can't do it. I'll do credit in the world to him for somehow winning that game against Michigan last week. Like, I think Ohio State's going to come. win that game.
Um I'm trying to think like elsewhere. There's like a weird Auburn, Tennessee game that's going to be off the radar, but the line's seven.
So we just need to keep an eye on some of these games. Like USC's got Washington. Do we just assume USC bounces back before they got to go to Penn State? Oh, by the way, Friday night, Penn State unexpected loss last week, even though I told you that was the upside alert of the week. They go to Northwestern on Friday night to open that new stadium for Northwestern.
And that one is going to be really shaky because if Penn State incurs a second conference loss with one of the quote-unquote easiest schedules in the country, Not a not a comfortable first month and a half of the season for Matt Campbell there in year one.
Okay, so you're going to uh you're going you and the Busson guys are going to uh Pittsburgh and Virginia, where are you going on Friday? I'm going to go to Pitt, Virginia Tech on Friday, and I cannot, in good conscience, let that game happen at Mississippi State on Saturday without me being there.
So I got to go down there late Friday night and check out Camario Taylor in person against Keelan Russell for the first time.
Well, lots to talk about on Josh Pate's college football show. And, of course, check out Busson and Pate on Friday at 2 Eastern Time on ESPN. Great to chat with you as always. Great stuff. Thanks again, Josh.
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He I mean, if Dan Lanning dug the hole. Josh just threw some more dirt on it. I mean, he's just telling me what he's thinking. Man. 844-204-Rich, number to dial right here on the Rich Eyes and Show.
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Okay, 844-204-Rich is the number to dial right here on the program. Um. Let's go to the WeatherTech phone lines right now here on our program. Let's go to Pat in New York City. What's up, Pat?
Oh, he's up. Pat, you there? Oh no. Pet. Pat.
Pat. Pat. Hold him. It's just Pat. Put him back on.
Pat. Hold him. My word, folks. You heard him? Alex in Nashville, Tennessee.
What's up, Alex? Alex. Hey.
So I was wondering do you think the socks are going to get swept by the Yankees or not? I've been thinking it's going to be a 2-1 series to the Yankees. I have no idea who's going to win. The Yankees put their roster together. Giancarlo Stanton, who has not played a baseball game since April 24th.
is on the roster. an errant judge who missed most of the season, Only to come back and then hurt his calf is not on the roster. No idea. The Yankees to get through. If the Yankees are going to make the World Series this year or win this thing.
Heaven forbid And the orange and blue skies that have been set up in New York City already for championship quality action that nobody saw coming, it's going to be their pitching. Uh but the Red Sox have some pretty damn good pitching of their own.
So, I don't know. I do believe this does go three games. I just don't know who takes it. I would think so. I'd imagine every game will be.
Two to one, probably. Oh, yeah. A lot of strikeouts, I'm guessing, in this series. I mean, that's your team strikes out a lot. I strike out a lot.
My team strikes out a lot. Throw a lot of strikes out. And have pitchers who throw strikes. Crochet is on the roster for the wild card, so I'd imagine he's going to come out of the pen. At some point, Rodon is going to come out of the pound.
That's how deep these staffs are.
So I don't know. I'm already nervous and I can't wait for tonight. Alex in Nashville, thanks for the call. For American-made floor liners and a cargo liner that laugh in the face of fall weather, visit WeatherTech.com today. By calling the Weather Tech fan line.
Yeah, this game tonight, Schwittler and Peyton Tolle, it might take an hour and 38 minutes with the way these guys throw one nothing. Like, it's going to be so tense.
So, Sarah's first up in your house. She texted me this morning. She took uh. Tatum for a a hike walk with her friend. That's her dog.
So she could already kind of distract herself from how stressed she's going to be at eleven AM Pacific. Baseball. Because again, Okay. Playoff baseball. Is unlike any other sports playoffs.
Here we are. I understand the NFL is one and done, so that's nuts, okay? The NHL and the NBA have best of sevens. I mean, baseball has such a weird setup. In the fact that these are best of threes, all in the same building.
And The Cleveland Guardians get to win their division by barely being above 500, and they're awarded a week off, which I'll tell you, watching Aaron Judge take live pitching only to not be ready makes me think. If the Yankees had a week off. That'd be helpful. And the Yankees don't get the week off because the Rays had a better record than them in their division, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
So that's weird enough. But then you have. For whatever reason. For whatever reason, The baseball playoffs, if you have a weakness. The ball's gonna find it.
In a way it doesn't in any other sport. I I don't know what it is. If you have a left fielder who has a bad arm. That's going to come to the fore. If you have a bullpen problem.
That's going to come to the fore. If you have somebody that you're trying to hide in the field because they've got a great bat, you've got to get that bat in the lineup, but that player has a problem fielding its second base, the ball's going to find it. It's unreal. And then, in the same way, in hockey, in NFL, and the NBA during the regular season, You know When it happens in the playoffs, you're not thinking game's over in the first quarter. You're just not.
The Knicks are a perfect example, right? Like, yeah. How many times do they come at? They didn't start until five minutes. Twitter and the fourth.
Just Tonight. Red Sox get a runner on in the second inning. I'm like, this game's over. Season's over. I don't know what it is.
It's so irrational. It's very irrational. It's so irrational. It's just like that happens on May 2nd. I'm like, okay.
Who cares? We'll get it back. Whatever.
So it's 1-0 in the second inning. Big deal. In baseball, playoffs. Game's over. Game's over.
Season's over. We might as well just stop watching. I might as well click this thing off. If Roman Anthony just leads off by getting on base, I'll sit there and say, season's over. Honestly, if he leads off tonight, which is what he's been doing, right?
Yeah, he has.
Okay. And he gets on base off of Cam Schlittler, I'm like, the game's over and the season's over. Over. And I know that's totally irrational. Yeah, but you sit down, you watch the game, first batter, and then you get up and you just start walking around.
Like, I just sit down. And every pitch, every pitch is a towel-waving. nerve-jangling moment. I'm already dreading. In a way that no other sport is in the playoffs until there's a game seven, then now it's a different story.
Gosh darn it. I'm so excited and so nervous, I don't want it. The Rich Eisen Show Podcast. Mm-hmm.
