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Yeah! That sounds like an undefeated quarterback. Today's guests. Super Bowl winning quarterback, Drew Brees. Pro football hall of famer, Steve Young. Rams quarterback, Matthew Stafford. Plus, actor Josh Duhamel. And now, it's Rich Eisen.
Yes indeed. What a fun show we have in store for everybody here on this Thursday. Kickoff to week four of the NFL season. It is awesome.
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I'm an old man. 844204 Rich is the number to dial to have a conversation with us today. Drew Brees is on this program.
He's going to be a first ballot Hall of Famer when his time is ready for that. And he'll join the same bus room as our first guest in the second hour, Steve Young. Who's on this program because his episode of NFL Icons on Epics comes up this Saturday. And Steve is going to help us promote that. I narrate that show. You should watch it.
It is awesome. Matthew Stafford, he's got a shot to make the Hall of Fame. If he keeps winning. And he's the defending Super Bowl champion quarterback getting ready for a Monday night game against the 49ers. And he's on this program at hour number two.
How about that? Drew Brees, Steve Young, Matthew Stafford. That's how we're rolling before Josh Duhamel comes in the studio and makes our two shot look very difficult for the host.
If you're starting a franchise, which of those three quarterbacks would you pick? Ooh, look at you. Look at you. Oh, man. I know, sorry.
I just thought of that. Wow. You're going off a sports talk radio conversation.
I know. Put that on our Twitter feed. Throw that out there. Put that on the Twitter feed.
Call us and make an argument if you want. So basically, basically we say thank you to these gentlemen for making time for this show by mashing them together for sports talk radio fodder on our Twitter feed. That's right. There you go.
That's 21st century. They can handle it. They got thick skin. Two of them have busts. Well, one of them has a bust. One's going to. And the other one is in that direction.
He's heading in that direction. And as I mentioned, Josh Duhamel is in studio hour number three in advance of the debut last night that appeared on Disney Plus for the second season of Mighty Ducks Game Changers. I'm in that show.
You are? Yes. Five episode arc. When do you pop up? Do you know? Last night was episode one. I don't.
I don't know that off the top. You just got to. You just got to watch it. Never know. There's Rich in a hockey arena.
I can't wait for the residual game that we play in like seven years. Oh, me too. Two dollars.
Two dollars and three cents. Good to see you, by the way, over there, Christopher. DJ Mikey D is in these dots. Good to see you, sir. Light the candle, TJ Jefferson.
Light the candle. How are you, sir? How are you today?
Snapping that thing on? I'm great. How about you? We never ask you, how are you today, Rich? You know what? I'm fantastic. You know why? Because I had a great family sports viewing moment last night.
Yeah, you did. It's so great. It's so amazing to share a sports moment that means so much to you with your fam. And that happened to me last night because I have been locked in every Aaron Judge at-bat that I've been home for and around a television set for and sometimes watching it on my phone nowadays and things like that as I'm away from home and trying to share it. Look, I know I'm known as a football guy, having been with NFL Network for, this is my 20th season, but I've always been a baseball guy before that. My first love baseball.
Love it. The Yankees mean so much to me. It's sometimes unnerving. And grew up a Yankee fan. I get misty when I see the Reggie Jackson, Thurman Munson moments. Last night, Gary Cole passed Ron Guidry for most strikeouts in a season by a New York Yankee pitcher. That's my guy, Ron Guidry. One of my guys. Mattingly. Today is on this date.
He had his sixth grand slam of the 1987 season, setting a record for most grand slams in a season. I saw that on my Twitter feed this morning. I got misty.
I don't know. I turn into Vermeil when I think of the Yankees as him being a kid and growing up and seeing Aaron Judge at home run number 61 last night. 61 years after Roger Maris hit 61 himself. It was amazing. I will never forget it. It means so much to me. I'm again fortunate to be able to talk so much sports with you on this show and been around for a while. I remove emotion from a lot of my sports viewing and sports reporting for a reason because that's what we call professionalism. But this just means so much to me and who Aaron Judge is and appears to be is somebody that I want my kids to follow and grow up and be that guy who hit 61 home runs in a season and is all about his team at the same time and seems to do everything right and hands the home run baseball to his mom and bets on himself. That's the other thing.
The two most impressive things about this to me outside of the obvious gaudy number 61 is twofold. The manner in which he conducted himself over the last week after hitting 60 and not getting too many great pitches to hit. I know, Chris, you're saying he should have been a little bit more aggressive from time to time. He didn't get out of his game at all.
He was walking a lot. He was getting base hits and he was just staying even keel. He didn't really get upset very much at all, even though he knew every single at-bat was being shown across the country being broken into other broadcasts on ESPN and MLB Network and the Marist family's around and his family's around just waiting and he never got out of his game spitting on sliders diving out of the zone, just not going for it and just saying, what got me, the 60 home runs will get me 61 and I need to win games and I was so impressed by that and of course the fact that he bet on himself.
In a city where you tell everybody's favorite baseball team, outside of the Mets obviously, but you tell a lot of people's favorite baseball team, hey, I'm not signing with you, I'm betting on myself and I'm going to turn down generationally enriching money that would generationally enrich every other person who roots for me and this team, I'm going to bet on myself and normally that eats the town up, the town eats you up and you'll struggle and you'll go through some struggles. But he's had an MVP season. We'll look back on this and despite Shohei Ohtani's immense talent, unicorn talent, there was a three week stretch during this season where he might win the triple crown where we thought he might not be the MVP.
That's laughable, laughable. He broke a tie last night. Gary Cole was perfect through five and then gave up three runs in the sixth tie game. Guess who steps up in the seventh inning and hits his 61st home run, a two run shot, and then the Blue Jays who were feeling great about themselves and they needed to win last night to clinch a playoff spot, they fell apart.
He's so valuable, he wrecks the game for the opponent, incredible. And I say to Aaron Judge, who I've never met, we've invited him on the show multiple times, thank you, thank you. Can't wait to see 62, he's going to go home to do it. And I hope the Yankees take note and what they should do is take a look at, to use the George M. Steinberg as the third phrase, look at every fanny in the seats filled up to watch a team that's already clinched pretty much everything it can clinch, which is the division and a first round bye, they're not going to catch the Astros for top seed in the American League, one would think. Watch the turnstiles move and every fanny in the seat is filled to watch Aaron Judge take that extra revenue that the Yankees would never have gotten in a three game set against the Orioles after everything's been clinched, place it aside and give it all to Aaron Judge when he asks for it next spring. Now then, let's get to what Roger Maris Jr. had to say after the game. This has been a subject matter that Christopher, TJ, Mike, we have bandied about, this is a phrase Deon had never heard before I used it with him yesterday, we've had this conversation about is Aaron Judge now at 61, is he tied with the all time single season home run king? Oh, wait a minute, Sosa McGuire and Barry Bonds each hit more than 61, what are we talking about? Okay, so Roger Maris Jr. was asked the question, the hot button subject about whether McGuire, Sosa and Bonds should have like his daddy an asterisk next to their home run total, not because of the number of games in which his father had done it, but rather because we all suspect and in some cases had confirmed steroids were at play. Here's Roger Maris Jr. I think it means a lot not just for me, I think it means a lot for a lot of people, you know, that he's clean, he's a Yankee, he plays a game the right way and, you know, I think it gives people a chance to look at somebody who, you know, should be revered for hitting 62 home runs and not just as a guy who did it in the American League, he should be revered for, you know, being the actual single season home run champ.
I mean, that's really who he is if he hits 62 and I think that's what needs to happen. I think baseball needs to look at the records and I think baseball should do something. Baseball's never going to do something. I will break that news to Roger Maris Jr. Baseball will never do something.
You know why? Because baseball didn't do it when they should have. This is a very emotional subject for me because I was in the Sports Center seat during this time of Maguire and Sosa and it was incredible.
I loved it. Doing Sports Center on nights that Maguire and Sosa were homeworking against each other in that magical season of 1998 was amazing. I met Mark Maguire and became really good friends with him and love him, loved him and still love him despite him lying to me in a sit-down interview when he retired that he never did anything wrong. And I know Bonds has never been caught with anything, but why is Judge 20 home runs clear of the next guy here? Why have we not seen this? Why are 50 home run seasons rare when suddenly 60 home run seasons became normal? Because those guys did it in a time when baseball wasn't clean. Is baseball clean now? I sure hope so. I sure hope so.
It does appear that they are much more stringent in trying to look for this than ever before. What I'm hearing and seeing on Twitter and people saying, you leave it up to baseball to tear down other guys' greatness and achievements while celebrating another person's. Don't blame me for thinking that Bonds was on something and knowing Maguire was on something and that Sosa was on something.
Don't blame me for that. And Bud Selig, who's in the Hall of Fame and blamed Donald Fear of the Players Association because those guys were in charge when this was happening. When Brady Anderson was hitting 50 home runs in a season, okay?
They were in charge and did nothing, zero. And we were all watching it and I was part of it. Guilty as charged, going on the air at night and lionizing these events and talking about how unprecedented it was and how beautiful it was. And by the way, Maguire's home run chase was beautiful with the Marist family there and his son and his wife, who he wasn't married to anymore, and it was just a nice model of how families can come together, even though if they're apart, it was beautiful. And I loved being in the front row of that. And it saved the sport. Let's be honest. It did.
It was a long ball with the commercial and yes. But at the time, if they had done what's being done now, we assume, we wouldn't be having this conversation. And these conversations are gonna go on for a long time.
There is no answer. Baseball's not gonna come out and say, there's now an asterisk next to all those things. You know why? Because then we're gonna take a look at the guys in the Hall of Fame, who was a commissioner at the time, I gotta do that. And it kills me because I love this sport so much, but it is a conversation. And by the way, don't blame Marist's son for saying this.
He was asked a direct question. It's not like he's out there pounding the table in every single spot that he possibly can. It's gotta be emotional for him too, that he was there watching Maguire and then hearing a few years later that it was tainted. You know? So don't blame him, blame two guys, the guys who were in charge at the time, the Players Association and the sport. You know, and if you want to blame me because I was part of the paparazzi that was putting it all out there, I mean, go ahead. It really pains me.
It's a painful subject for me. Really is. Because I love the sport so damn much, and I believe Aaron Judge is in fact one home run away from being the all-time single season home run king. And there are tons of people who are in the Bay Area who feel exact opposite, love Bonds. It was incredible what Bonds did, and Bonds is an all-time great, and he was. He was an incredible baseball player. He was amazing when he was rail thin with the Pirates.
He's one of the all-time greats. But I believe, even though it was never caught, that he was definitely on something. I believe it. His trainer refused to testify against him. I believe it.
He went to jail for it. And I'm, you know, and if it's ever proven that I'm wrong, I will be the first to say something about it. But that's the way I feel.
You may feel separate, differently, and that's great, fine. You can believe it. So, it's unfortunate that this thing is going to forever be a split decision in many people's minds. But don't blame me for that.
Blame the guys who did it, and blame the guys who were in charge. 844-204, Rich is the number to dial. And this opening segment is exactly what's baseball's conundrum, is just, you know, all-time generational arguments that now include, you know, synthetics, with different errors. And also just the beautiful moments, incredible.
Like Aaron Judge hit in 61 last night. 844-204, Rich, number to dial on this subject, and so much more. On this program, I have my top five missing pieces of the NFL campaign. There are five teams missing pieces through the first three weeks, and it looks like it might linger for a while for some of these.
That includes like assistant offensive coaches? I don't want to give anything away, Chris. Oh, okay. All right. I don't want to give anything away. Got it. But top five missing pieces of the 2022 NFL season so far.
Like members of the staff who know what they're doing offensively. So far, please. So these are not teams that should have been in your top 10 yesterday. I know you guys still have a problem with my power rankings, but you can go pound sand.
It's my power ranking list. You've got your own. You've got your own. I've got mine. We can keep revisiting this. I'm fine with it. I've got a thick skin. I'm good.
We've got four guests. Josh Duhamel in studio. He's a handsome man. He is. So I wore one of my most slimming shirts today.
That's a good look for you. I had a friend of mine ask if she could come to the studio, because I was like, no, you can't come to the studio. Uh-oh. No. I didn't know that Mila would say that. It was not Mila.
Okay. And three quarterbacks. Steve Young and Matthew Stafford now are two. And when we come back, Drew Brees will join us. I'll ask him if the Saints are missing Sean Payton. And so much more.
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They're the presenting sponsor. So I know all about the Lowe's home team that our next guest is part of, but I'll let him explain everything about it because he's a lead pipe-wielding professional in that regard and he's also a future Hall of Famer. Our friend on the Mercedes-Benz Vans phone line back here on the Rich Ozzin Show, Drew Brees. How you doing, Drew?
I'm great. Did you say I'm a lead pipe building professional? You're a lead pipe-wielding professional. You are- Wielding professional. Yes, that is correct.
That is correct. I like it. I don't think I've heard that title, but I like that. Or I could just say a lead pipe pickleball racket-wielding professional.
I could do that. Oh, hey, there you go. Add that one to the resume, buddy. Oh, yes. We'll get to that in a second. How are you doing? What's going on in your world, Drew?
What's going on? I'm doing great. I'm coaching my kids. We got some big football games coming up on Friday. We got some basketball over the weekend. Just living the dream as husband and father and keeping busy during the day with various things, getting a chance to do all the things I couldn't do while I was playing and getting ready for the professional pickleball tour and just kind of the usual.
Very good. Do you miss it on Sunday mornings, Drew? Do you miss the game?
I do miss the excitement and the butterflies of getting ready for a game and then obviously running out of the tunnel and just those moments that happen during the course of a game, just kind of the ebb and flow and just some of those emotions. But look, it's so much fun right now because all my three boys are age 13, 11, and 10, and they're all playing fantasy football, right? We're in this fantasy football league against each other. So we've got our teams and there's a lot of trash talk on Sundays, kind of the point totals go up, go down, go up, go down, so it's fun to have this experience with them instead. So now do you have more sympathy, empathy for those who might have ever come up to you and said, you were my first round draft choice and you had only an eight point week?
Look, I totally get it. I totally get it because I see the amount of time that my kids put into developing their rosters each week and like they're studying the injury reports, you know, and should I start this guy or shouldn't I? You know, they're starting to like evaluate the defense they're going up against or the matchup. I mean, it's just all this stuff that goes into, you know, how you think it's going to play out. So if all of a sudden a guy doesn't perform for you like you thought he would, and that's what costs you the game, I see how people get upset about that.
Well, and it's also a great way for you to stay in touch with the game and locked in and watching as much football as you can. And so when you're watching Mike Evans and Marshawn Lattimore go at it, what are you thinking as you're watching that from your couch, Drew Brees, what are you thinking about? Well, that's just one of the best DBs in the league and one of the best receivers in the league going at it, you know, two highly competitive guys. You know, I don't know Mike Evans all that well. I had a chance to be in a football with him and he looks like the type of guy that you would absolutely want to play with and play for.
He seems like an unbelievable teammate, an awesome teammate, and a guy who is obviously, you know, one of the best receivers in the league and, you know, is highly productive. I think when I watched that moment in the game, that was a turning point in the game. Unfortunately, in a negative way for the Saints, you know, Marshawn Lattimore gets kicked out of that game.
Why? Why does Lattimore get kicked out of that game? There was a lot of trash talk, but Lattimore is the one who got blindsided. He's the one who, you know, who got hit from a guy running 15 yards across the field to do it. And it's not like it's the first time that happened. It's like the third time that happened over the last couple of years. So tell me why Lattimore gets kicked out of that game, because that that's the biggest difference in that game is the Saints were already down one DB. So now they're down their top two DBs as a result of that. And you've got Tom Brady on the other side who's going to find other guys to throw to. That's not a problem with Tom. So that that that seemed to kind of work in the favor of the Bucks that that happened.
Yeah. I mean, did you see how Evans went up to the ref and said, you know, what do you want me to do that? He's going to Tom Brady right there. You know, that was kind of his defense.
And I guess the question should have been, what do you think when you saw Brady go up to Lattimore? You've seen that before, I imagine. Yeah, true. No, I mean, there's there's trash talk that happens all the time about kicking guys out of the game for trash talk. I know we were kicking guys out of the game for trash talk and everybody getting kicked out. Look, I mean, emotions are running high. That's a that's a game that is obviously really meaningful for both sides.
You know, one of those two teams going to win the division, right? So it was it's a meaningful game. And look, I think there was frustration on the part of the Bucks offense because to be perfectly frank, the Saints defense has kicked their butt for about eight quarters in a row.
Like turn on the tape, watch it, look at the score. They kicked their butt. And I think that was a moment in the game where I think that frustration was setting in. You know, I think the Bucks had scored, what, three points in in seven and a half quarters up to that point. Well, I mean, and then last year, Drew, obviously, you not being there and and and then the musical chairs at quarterback due to injury was very difficult for the Saints to, you know, get through. And now Sean Payton is gone. What do you see?
What do you see? Do they miss Sean on offense from whatever you're watching about the Saints, Drew, in your estimation? Look, they're not they're not possessing the ball.
You know, it seems like there's just little mistakes that are occurring on on drives that become drive killers. And like when you really want to break down your performance of an offense, you only get 10 to 12 series a game on offense. So, you know, you really want to be scoring on half of those series, you know, whether it's a touchdown or a field goal.
And if you're able to do that, you know, break it down. Let's say you score half touchdowns, half field goals on, you know, 12 series. You know, so you're scoring six times. I mean, you're you're scoring anywhere from twenty four to thirty points.
Right. And that's that's going to win you a lot of games, especially with the defense that you have on the other side of the ball with the Saints at the top five defense. But if three of those drives are being killed because you got a stupid penalty or something happened where there was a miscommunication and all of a sudden you're in a third long situation, set a third and short and you don't convert, now you have to punt as opposed to, you know, continuing to drive, you know, those are those are detrimental scenarios.
So I think it's just a matter of really just cleaning up, you know, those mistakes that are drive killers because your opportunities are limited. Drew Brees, pro football Hall of Famer to be right here on the Rich Eisen Show, courtesy of Lowe's, which we'll get to in a second. One last football question for you, Drew, is I think of you all the time whenever I hear a quarterback in a spot for four or five years, three, four years, and everybody's like, well, it's not working out there and that guy's never going to work out. Right. I mean, you are the ultimate in many ways, the personification of go to another spot, hook up with a spot and maybe a coach and a system and a town, a city. And you can be a first ballot Hall of Famer.
So what advice do you have for, say, someone like Mayfield in Carolina or tonight to a great example? Right. He's in year three. And everybody thought, forget him. Look at him now.
Right. So what advice do you have for those guys? Drew Brees. Yeah, man, it is such a it's such an inexact science when it comes to even, I think, quarterback evaluation, because to your point, you know, there's there's so many different systems and there's so many different scenarios that you can find yourself in that can send you one direction or the other. You know, you can send you the direction of getting beat up and losing confidence and everyone losing confidence in you. And then you just kind of developing this perception around you as to who you are and you get labeled as a career backup. And then that's all you are, right, versus you get a second chance or, you know, you just get in the right situation with the right coach in the right system, whatever it might be. And then all of a sudden you flourish.
Right. And then the perception of you is this is this, you know, one of the elite quarterbacks in the league. I think at the end of the day, there's certain character traits that you're looking for in a quarterback. You need mental toughness. You need mental fortitude. You need work ethic. You need leadership ability. You need, you know, this ability to, you know, kind of overcome adversity to have a level of poise. You know, so there's these character traits that if you have these, it's only a matter of time. It's only a matter of time before the other stuff aligns. And then you're you're on this path to success. So you know, I don't I feel like this this opportunity for Baker Mayfield in Carolina is a great one. I think he needed a change of scenery. So we'll see how that plays out. But that could be that could be really good.
You know, to do it. That's an interesting one, because you watch this guy in college and it was like this guy was near perfect every every game right now he's he's playing on a team that has NFL talent all around him, right. But playing in a very competitive league in the FCC. So I think there to me, it seemed like he he had all the traits, both physical and mental right away, and that that would absolutely translate to the NFL. And I know there were struggles early on. But to me, man, it's so early in the game for a guy like that. Right. And so we'll see how the rest of the season plays out.
But man, I think he's played outstanding. And look, sometimes the best thing that can happen to you as a player is you get knocked down. You know, you experience some failure, especially if you're a guy who's always had success in your life or always been the man.
I think that that is a necessity. You reaching your full potential. You have to get knocked down and you have to face adversity in whatever form that is.
You got to get knocked around a little bit and have to really dig deep and challenge yourself. I love it because I mean, you think about it tonight. Yeah, and think about it, Drew, tonight against Burrow. And it was, you know, those guys faced each other in college and Burrow was and Herbert held up as, look how great these are fresh out of the box, these guys. And two has been X, Y and Z and it hasn't been that great.
Now he's the one who's three. You know, it's got to be really confident. Yeah. I mean, look, it's an instant gratification league and and society that we live in. Right. So if you don't get it done right away, it's like, ah, I mean, people are very quick to judge, unfortunately. But that's that's why that's why you got to have some mental toughness and mental fortitude. And you got to have some discipline as an organization, too. You got to be able to block out the noise and say, man, we're committed. We're committed to this guy and we're going to give him everything he can to succeed. It's hard to do.
It's hard to do. But I think I think the good organizations find a way to to do that before I let you go. Drew, NFL Game Day morning, the presenting sponsor is Lowe's. So I know all about the Lowe's home team. We also see some video of you conducting the great works in the community that the Lowe's home team is set up for. So I will set you up to give you the floor on on those who may not know what the Lowe's home team is and what you're doing with Lowe's. Drew.
Yeah. So I'm GM of the Lowe's home team happened for the last two years. Lowe's has committed one hundred million dollars over the next five years to home improvement prior to improvement projects and communities in NFL cities. And I'm joining alongside a bunch of current NFL players, guys like Micah Parsons, Justin Herbert, Travis Kelsey and others to kind of spearhead these efforts in our in our communities, in our cities. In fact, I was in New Orleans last week working with an organization in the Lower Ninth Ward called Lower9.org, helping to build a kind of multi-use facility that's going to be used as a food pantry, a gathering place, housing and an incubator for businesses and charities. So really a cool project. And I love working with organizations and companies like Lowe's that make that type of commitment. One hundred million dollars over five years in these communities can make a huge difference. Love it.
Lowe's dot com slash home team for more information. I'm a pickleball guy, too, man. By the way, I play it once a week and I, you know, sometimes get made fun for it.
Certainly by my guys here, a man of a certain age, you're younger than me, Drew. It's a hell of a workout. It is a hell of a sport. I love it. And you know what I'm saying? Let's let's I don't know if pickleball really needs the table pounded for it, but let's get together and play. I've got I've got one in the backyard here.
So anytime you want to anytime you want to, you know, come get some action, let's go. We know the same people. We know the same people that you're playing with. I know those guys, too.
You know, Matt and the crew. Let's do it. That's right.
Let's do it. Just stay out of the kitchen. That's all I'm saying.
Just stay out of the kitchen, Drew. I've got I've got my head on a swivel. I can see that stuff. I can see it. I like it.
Let's do it. Take care of yourself, Drew. Best your family. You be well. All right. All right.
You got it. We've got a bunch of the british dot com slash home team right here on the Rich Eisen Show. Fun stuff with Drew Brees. It kind of. Lends the conversation about Tua and what's kind of on the line with him tonight. It's fascinating to me, I can't get enough of that kid, as you know. And when we come back, we'll discuss that and salty Russ. I didn't know that was possible. Salty Russell Wilson. Interesting. 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we all know in that 2018 national championship game when Tua came off the bench and everybody's like how do you pronounce this kid's name why is Jalen hurts being benched just down 13 nothing and he looks off the safety to pop it into Devante Smith's hands in the ends on a win it in in overtime everyone's like the Dolphins he had the Dolphins at hello they were tanking for two on the spot yeah big time so everyone's like dolphins are gonna get the first overall selection and Tua's gonna be their guy well Tua wasn't their guy apparently burrow wound up being their guy that they apparently started pounding on the door of the Bengals saying who there can we talk to that will say yes to our overtures for the first overall selection the answer was pound sand and they chose burrow and there's burrow in Cincinnati while Tua is on the bench behind Ryan Fitzpatrick interestingly enough will be on the prime video set tonight in Cincinnati and burrow is the one who's getting all the look at this kid getting his burrow handed to him by the Chargers I believe in that opening game and burrow got beaten and battered and still kept going and kept on ticking and the Chargers won that game and then went home and started to rod Taylor and their home opener against the Chiefs and he took a shot to the ribs that didn't land right and then in comes Justin Herbert he comes out of the box and everyone's like hey look at this kid he didn't even he was gonna start he almost beat the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes and then eventually Anthony Lynn let go of that where I'm not gonna start this kid unproven over my veteran to rod Taylor just because he had the wrong lung punctured by the way all punctured lungs it's the wrong lung yes but Herbert starts doing his thing and then eventually the Dolphins turned to Tua in the middle of the season everyone's like why are they doing that amazing it's burrow blows his knee out and it's just like what a shame would have been great to see him Herbert oh my god no one expected him and Tua gets to start like why remember that why and Fitzpatrick was even wondering why and much of the team was probably wondering why why are we doing it because Ryan Fitzpatrick was winging it around eventually on occasion despite one incredible by the way game look it up between Tua and Kyler Murray that was a fun game to watch Tua and Kyler Murray in that first year that Tua was doing his thing eventually a couple times Brian Flores turned to the beard and said going for the kid he's lost and Fitzpatrick would turn things around everyone's like wondering what's up with Tua and then burrow comes back from a knee injury right and Tua gets the start and Herbert is now Herbert as we currently call him Herbert he's Justin he gets the first name treatment burrow comes back from a knee injury like well we'll see what he's just in Cincinnati we'll see what he can do and Tua gets out there and doesn't look all that great doesn't look all that great at one point the middle of October last year get this Stephen Ross asked for permission to talk to Deshaun Watson in the middle of everything that was going on with him all of that really happened the middle of everything let's kick the tires to see if Deshaun wants to be acquired and if it's safe for us to do it they passed on it but hey Tua you're still our guy burrow then goes on to the Super Bowl Herbert goes on to the Pro Bowl and then Tua comes back to Miami because Deshaun Watson's not going there and burrow gets all the offensive line protection and I'm one of the many sitting here saying he's gonna do it again this year because he's burrow and Herbert how much MVP chatter was around him around fantasy draft season and all we're sitting here is talking about Tua's ball fluttering in the air as it lands in Tyreek Hill's hands because he has to slow up to catch it during practices and Tyreek talking him up like he's Mahomes and Mike McDaniel FaceTiming him on the PJ on the way to his new gig saying you're my guy talking about the most accurate ball he's ever seen thrown we're like all right and who steps on the field tonight the only three-and-o quarterback in the American football conference at Joe burrow won last year yeah it's Tua yeah baby to a Tungo Violoa versus Joe burrow again fire up the Brad Nessler machine three fingers worth let's go fire it up let's get Vernon Lundquist out there yeah the honorary captain right let's go it's the SEC except it's Alan Kirk and Kirk Herbstree will have tons of stories about these two one would think and Tua takes that stage tonight and can say I'm here now Justin Herbert and his fractured rib cartilage one and two how's he doing I could send Joe burrow to one and three in his conference title defense so yeah I know the Eli Apple Tyreek Hill matchup will be of some people's focus but I can't wait to see what Tua looks like especially since his lower back is apparently an issue and he says he's going and it looks like he's going yeah we called it no but that looked like money yeah we call him the wolf and she kind of said that that's what happens when your back hurts Colleen wolf yes talking about her figure skating her figure skating days yes so you your back I didn't think he hit his head that hard but brother all I know is it looks like Tua is gonna answer the bell okay yeah and I'm glad with all due respect to the Teddy Bridgewater Tua vs. Burrow I just laid out for you Tua's entire journey to this very moment tonight and again as we mentioned yesterday unbelievably the only other 3-0 quarterback in this league is the guy replaced on that national championship night in Atlanta four plus years ago almost five years ago in jail and hurts I love it love it can't make it up and then there's Burrow and the and the Bengals who start off 0-2 and in his five-day span can get to 500 at the quarter post point of the season just hit the reset button and off they go and the Dolphins can then fall to three and one you know the Bengals win tonight kind of feel it kind of feel it because the Bengals were in New Jersey having a huge lead after the first quarter they kind of put their feet up on on the table after that yeah they didn't seem to be threatened by the Flacco led jets offense the defense was getting slashed up mm-hmm while the Dolphins were playing a de facto playoff game in a hundred degree heat now they're the ones who have to hop on a plane and practice apparently in Cincinnati's College the Bearcats Stadium where somebody is snaking their plays on a onto Twitter yeah that was crazy I mean talk about ridiculous and really yeah that's BS right there but the Dolphins are gonna go on the road on the short week and that is not easy after that game it can obviously be a letdown I mean Mike McDaniels has his uh has his hands full in his second road game as a head coach in the NFL his first one went swimmingly certainly in the fourth quarter in Baltimore so here comes another AFC North opponent that is quite stout with its own MVP quarterback but to what doesn't have a history with Lamar he's got one with this kid he's seeing tonight love the backdrop to tonight's game love for this game Steve Young and Matthew Stafford and you our two I know it's gonna get to salty rust but I just got I just got caught up in it just trying to set tables yeah I don't think people are really talking enough about how massive I think it's big and I think it's one of those potential wild card if necessary see my bills I break yeah yeah yeah big time oh yeah could be the difference between having to go to the jungle in January or Miami could be difference between that could be an AFC championship game preview to don't laugh your current one seed in the AFC against the 13th seat ridiculous you know that's almost similar it's not it's not almost it is similar to it because you're three seventeenths through the season correct correct okay so what what us what's the 317th mark of baseball see ya know NHL or NBA three whatever that is so it would be like what late November early December we're not good at math here we can't whatever it would be whatever whatever whatever one quarter the season is right divided by seventeen is seventeen point six percent of the year out of the way right so times 82 after 14 games okay after 14 games you're giving me the update on the eighth and final playoff spot race in both the NBA and the NHL that is the exact Miami they started this season nine and eight so that's pretty 14 games in the NBA season let's start focusing on the play in rounds in I'm here for you you won't be either audible has everything you love listening to and more it's the home of storytelling there's no better place to find all the stories your imagination craves like the hottest new releases of the year audiobooks exclusive originals and popular podcasts including the Rich Eisen show they're all on audible whatever you're in the mood for audible has an incredible selection of 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