REShow: Chris Long - Hour 2 (10-3-2022)

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He's a two time Super Bowl champ back on the Mercedes Benz vans phone line. Our friend Chris Long is here. How are you doing, Chris? What's up, my guy? How are you?

I am doing well. I got to tell you, didn't get much cardio in until I watched the Chiefs last night. That got my heart race going. What do you think of when you watch an offense operate like that against the number one scoring defense like they did on Sunday night, Chris? Well, I think, you know, this is the team that I counted them 603 days ago or whatever it was, Super Bowl. Pat's been waiting. Patrick's been waiting to play this team and, you know, waiting to have an offensive line to roll out when they do play this team. And, you know, Shaq Barrett had talked about how they were going to have a big game on the edge and that sort of thing.

Like, I don't know if that was the right thing to do. Patrick Mahone seems like a grudge holding guy, doesn't he? And a guy that could not wait to play Tom Brady again. I mean, obviously, he loves and respects that guy, but nobody wants to win more than Patrick Mahone. And, you know, to do it the way they did it, first off, you don't spot the Chiefs' seven points like that on special teams.

So as soon as that happened, you felt pretty good about them dictating in terms of game. But they're able to run the ball. Edwards O'Leary is running hard.

I think a little competition is good for him. And throwing the ball to a bunch of guys that, quite frankly, some of them you hadn't really heard of before this year. And Juju Smith-Shuster is doing a really good job. You know, Travis Kelce is automatic. You saw that right away in the red zone. But a ton of targets that you just – and really for Brady, too. Like, a bunch of guys catching balls at you.

Like, who is this guy? The difference is it's just working a lot more seamlessly for the Chiefs and their guys up front, one through five, playing real well. I mean, they've retooled pretty quickly. I mean, they lost a couple of their guys off that Super Bowl run and kind of had to reshuffle.

There's a lot of new faces, but they're playing well up front. Well, I mean, you look at all of the different people, as you mentioned, who did contribute for the Chiefs yesterday. And Isaiah Pacheco, their seventh-round pick out of Rutgers, looking like Zeke Elliott sometimes, you know?

Yeah, yeah. He was big and – Bill Belichick's got to be pissed, man. He knows he likes his Rutgers job.

I know. I know, he's calling up Shianna. He's like, how the hell did we miss this guy?

And I'm sure he's using weird. But so when you put it all together, you're always attuned to the narrative that the Chiefs missed Tyreek Hill in the last two weeks, supposedly were exhibits A and B about that, and then we see last night. So is this the Chiefs offense you think we're going to see more often than not the rest of the year, even getting better?

I don't want to overreact. I mean, just a week ago, they lost to the Colts. So, you know, we do this through the first month of the season. We ride these ebbs and flows.

And, you know, week one they go out and just they dominate the Cards. And, you know, people who are adept realize that that's not really that's not like a big deal by their standards. They have some dips in production over the next couple of weeks, and then they look at last night.

I think this is going to be a work in progress. But the top end speed of this offense, and I mean that like metaphorically, like what they can get to as an offense and the type of points they can put up when they're humming, their top end speed is still the same. They just get to it a different way. And when you look at Tyreek, I mean, I think a big difference that he would make is you can get a lot more jet sweeps, explosives in the run game. Those big explosive plays in the run game, honestly, I think ironically are what they've been missing a little bit without him. So, you know, Andy Reid led a top five offense with Alex Smith. That's not that's not a slight, you know, against Alex Smith, who I really respect, but like he's not patching my home. And we know what the problem is.

We've had an entire offseason or part of an offseason to diagnose it and make the situation better. So I think Andy Reid is plenty smart enough to do that. So then on the flip side, your former Super Bowl teammate, Tommy, what do you think when he's waking up and he looks at the ceiling for the first time, other than wondering, you know, what smoothie he's going to have for breakfast? What do you think he's thinking this morning?

I don't think he's thinking, like, get me out of here. But I do think that, like, you know, the difference in what he had just two years ago in the game I talked about. And now it's striking the difference in the roster quality offensively. I mean, I know that, you know, we've talked about this.

They've added some pieces, veteran pieces. You know, you got to win back that sort of thing, Gage. But it showed up again and again over these first couple games. Mike Evans can't do everything himself, and he's an incredible ball player. But, you know, you got to have other guys that you can go to and who are going to be healthy. You know, Julio was a great addition, but can Julio stay healthy? You know, Gage was limping around last night a little bit.

Godwin was limping around. I mean, he's coming off an ACL. We've talked about, you know, Brady's a good player. They've still got tight ends. They can get involved in the pass game, but you don't have Gronk. I feel that offensive line, man.

So, I mean, if you're Brady, I mean, you saw it on the Snead strip sack last night. He's on the sideline, and I'm reading his lips, and he's saying, and he's open, and we got this guy open. Like, it's just a frustrating time for him.

You know, like, I feel like in his competitive mind, he feels like we can still be great if we're perfect, and he likes to pursue that perfection. But it's going to be hard with this team, man. And, you know, I had the underwin total on the Bucks, you know, and I can't say that the struggles offensively surprised me. Defensively, though, they have to play better than that, because the only way that they're going to make a deep playoff run is going to be winning those games, you know, 24-20, you know, 27-24, something like that. Like, those are the types of ball games they're going to have to be in with these high-powered offenses. They can't let Patrick Mahomes kick the door down and expect to win a shootout.

Chris Long here on the Rich Eisen Show. So many different ways to go with you on the Ravens and Bills game, but I'll go with you through this door. Marcus Peters being very upset with John Harbaugh after Harbaugh went for it on fourth and goal, rather than kicking a field goal and leaving it up to the defense. What did you think of when you saw that, Chris Long?

I'm fine with it. You know, I haven't really checked the temperature of the room to see what most people are thinking, but I think, you know, I think, you know, the ease with which they moved the ball down the field to Bills, that is, and they slowed down to kick that field goal, but they would have scored a touchdown. And if you watch the Ravens play this year, you know that that secondary's had trouble when somebody's in two minutes, and you saw it with Miami, that sort of thing. I mean, they were in two minutes pretty much the whole second, not two minutes, but you're in softer coverage. You have to defend the team. It's got a lot of ground to make up. And the Bills went down, and the worm position scored a touchdown pretty quick.

So I got no problem with it. I think if they make that play, everybody says what a genius Harbaugh is. Everybody's rolling the B-roll of him, you know, letting Lamar make the decision.

That's the way things go. The only problem I have with it, and we saw this in the Miami-Buffalo game a week or two ago, is when Buffalo kind of laid up a little bit to ensure that Miami didn't have a ton of time, but tried to score a touchdown, you ended up with the butt punt, right? That's what you want out of a fourth and goal to go, right? If you don't get it, I would have felt great, even with the struggles that Baltimore's had defensively, if they'd have got stopped on the one. So a lot of people are talking about, hey, Lamar, you know, he wants that throwback.

No, he doesn't. He has to throw that ball. You know, like, the only thing I wish is that it wasn't picked for a touchback. You know, unless somebody was wide open that play, I think it's ridiculous to put that on Lamar. Like, you call that play, and Porter made a great play. He was on the end in the word Ravens in the end zone. I mean, he was turned around on the end, facing the other way, pivots, comes back and makes a great play, second pick of the game, somebody they're really happy to have back. So I have no problem with that, and I think the play of the game for the Ravens, or for the Bills, rather, was blowing up that second down play. You know, first they knock it down at the one or the two and give themselves a chance to put up a goal line stand. That second down play, number 93 doesn't get enough credit.

He gets so little credit that I've yet to learn his name today. But Milano got all of the credit on that TFL. He played great. Edmonds was really active in the second half.

But this kid swims a tackle, blows up a card, and the puller that's supposed to come from Milano. And that's the type of stuff that can kill a low red zone possession, and it did. So that was a huge goal line stand. The only throw Lamar wants back is the third and seven to Mark Andrews. In the red zone, they're up 14-3 early in the game. They get Andrews in the corner, and he's open, and Lamar goes out of the back of the end zone. They go up 21-3 there.

I don't know. You know, I don't know if Buffalo can get back in that game. So that was probably the one throw he really wants back. I thought Lamar played fine, man. The Ravens have to learn how to close out games.

They get Dobbins back, so we'll see. Well, he had a rush in his face, so he didn't see the wide open receiver on that fourth and goal. And you're right. Had that been a touchdown, we'd be talking about what a genius John Harbaugh is in the same way that we're talking about what a genius Brian Debo was to go for two in week one and look at the Giants, right?

They're three and one right now. It totally changed everything. But I think some Ravens fans would say the play that changed everything was the roughing the passer call on Brandon Stevens. Oh, yeah, that was a bad call.

That was terrible. And I mean, these things should be reviewable, I think. Certainly, you know, 345 Park Avenue and the NFL officiating center should be at least chiming in on that Hawkeye system. I don't know if that's allowable yet. Like, the competition committee hasn't reached that. But I mean, I'm sure you've been a recipient of those flags before. It's terrible.

It's just absolutely terrible. It's third and 15. I think it's third and 15 if that call isn't made. So, you know, at the very least, they're going to get another chance for the Ravens, I would think.

Josh could have converted and, you know, that could have been all broke. But, you know, like, I don't know. I think they have to be able to review that. I tend to agree with you. If they can review that without slowing the game down, because some of these are so obvious. You know, some of these are so obvious to me that if there's somebody watching a tight shot of the game, before you can announce what the penalty is, you can pick it up.

Yeah, I know. They're also doing that. Chris, they're also doing that for change of possession. You know, like, yeah, ruling on the field that was a fumble suddenly isn't.

You know, second down. And you're like, what? And you're like, yeah, because they reviewed it in the interim. Like, they can be that quick.

And I think they should do that for roughing the passer. I mean, what's like the most frustrating, like, what's that conversation like between you and the official after a moment like that? Well, it's so frustrating.

There's nothing you can say to him because, you know, it's so final. And you're almost like, just wait and see, man. Like, just wait and see. And you want to be there when he watches. You want to see how he screwed the game up. You know what I mean? Like, you want to be over his shoulder in that little tiny TV that he goes to to watch these replays.

So you can tell him to his face that he blew the game for your team. But this is a reality. Like, you know, passes are going to be protected. And they're definitely going to be protected in the wake of everything we've seen with the head injuries earlier this year and, like, N2 and that sort of thing. So, you know, it's part of the deal.

But I wish they had a mechanism, Rich. I agree. Chris Long here on The Rich Eisen Show. A few minutes left with the Greenlight podcast host here on The Rich Eisen Show. What's going on in the Steelers locker room right now, do you think, with Trubisky getting benched and Pickett came in through an interception but definitely gave the burst? What do you think is going on in that locker room right now? Well, I think they're welling with the punches, man. You know, I think this is a team that has some talented players. And I think the frustrating thing is, for whatever reason with Mitch, it just didn't feel like they got up to top speed.

And, you know, I think they didn't help this kid with some of the drops over the last couple of weeks. But they're just not explosive with the guy. And it's not like Pickett's going to be, you know, 50 yards down the field all game.

There's going to be a lot of dinking and dunking. But, you know, the first pass he goes out there and tries to wing it. And I think it's reasonable to say that that wasn't a terrible throw and maybe shouldn't have been intercepted. He's going to make a little bit more competitive play on the football. I think he could give them a spark. I was wrong. I thought Trubisky would be able to hold on longer in Pittsburgh.

But you can't – I'm not saying you can't go back now, but it's really hard to go back. And I know Beef closed on that staff up there and maybe he's in – and Tom was there and he's like, hey, I've done the two quarterback thing before. You know, but there's no Ryan Fitzpatrick on this team. There's nobody who's got, you know, the top end kind of production of a Ryan Fitzpatrick. You've kind of got two game managers.

One's younger and has the highest ceiling, so it seems. And then Jerry Jones said to Cooper Rush, hey, put a quarterback controversy on my plate. He's now 3-0. I still don't think that there's a quarterback controversy there, but what do you think? I mean, I could be wrong.

I can only tell you what I'd do if I was Jerry. I'd give the guy that's been wildly productive for you and been through a lot a chance to come back and show that he can match Cooper Rush's production. And really, it's not even about Cooper Rush's production. It's just about winning games. It's about the rest of the team going well. And we always talk about this. When a backup comes in the game, people elevate their level of play.

It's like without even knowing it. You know, people overcompensate for each other. Offense is overcompensating. For defense, offensive line is blocking a little bit better.

You know, defense is playing a little tighter because, you know, maybe you don't have that explosive offense. Another thing is the Cowboys are getting healthier outside, right? So when Dad gets back, I hope they give him a fair shake here. I don't know why they wouldn't.

Do you think there's a controversy in New England there? With the Zappi? The Zappi? The Zappi moment? No, no, no.

Hey, man. If Matt Jones can't go next week, that's Zappi's gig, man. I think. You think so?

I think it's Hoyer's gig. Come on. That's all. Come on.

What did you see? All right. So here's the deal. And by the way, I just wanted to shout out. I want to get to this game so I can shout out with Sean Gary.

Sure. Your Michigan guy. He was great, didn't he? I mean, that defense is no joke. He played his butt off. Yeah. He played his butt off.

But like, but Zappi, man, he set so deep. His release is really long. You know, like the ball does take a second to get there. I'm not piling on the kid, but Brian Hoyer, they were efficient early in that game. It felt like Hoyer was stinking it up. I think Bill had a great game plan and that was going down to the wire no matter what. So that was an interesting ball game. That was maybe the most interesting game yesterday for me. Bill just saying, hey, we're going big personnel, like 20 times, like we're just going to run the ball obnoxiously and we're going to see if we can top it. And it did soften the Packers up a little bit and they were able to hang in there. But who's more soft than the Lions defense right now?

What's next for them? Let's see. Let's see a little Western Kentucky action against the defense that's given up 50. You know, let's roll. Come on. So I feel bad.

I feel bad that we were just talking about this, man. Try to think back to the last team that was so prolific offensively and so bad defensively. I was thinking about the Saints in 2012. You remember when Spaggs was with the D.C. in New Orleans and, you know, obviously put up big numbers, but that team ends up seven to nine and most of these teams that are real good in one area and real bad in the other, they end up kind of seven to nine or now would be, you know, seven and 10 or whatever, eight, eight, nine.

But that math is tough for me, you know, but it's you end up in the middle. And I think for Detroit, if you said the BSC and this is going to be just under five hundred team, you would have said like they're taking great steps, right. But I think the tough thing is that Dan and the Lions showed us that they're actually pretty capable.

And so now we want more. Right. And and I think that's tough for them, man. They've played themselves into a situation where their standard is higher than it's been in the past. You know, seven and 10, eight and nine Detroit Lions would have sounded pretty palatable to somebody living in Detroit this year. But not the way they're losing these games, man.

It's frustrating getting forty five points out of Jared, Jared Goff, that offense like they're legit offensively with a bunch of guys down yesterday. Last one for you, Chris Long. Last one for you. What do you think when you saw Jason Kelsey ask Doug Peterson for his rain jacket or his I mean, a jersey slicker exchange?

What do you think of that one? That warmed my heart, Rich, you know, knowing what those you know, what we all went through that year and just kind of the effect that Doug had on our team. And you can see it. You can see the effect he's had on Jackson and they jumped Philly yesterday's can finish the turnover stuff dried up for them and actually went the other way. So but, you know, Doug, coming back home, I was I was there, Rich, I was I was at the game and I got to see Doug briefly and kind of like the reception he got.

Really rainy, nasty day in Philly yesterday, the gutsy wind. But, you know, like seeing Doug getting hugs from all the players and it just it was awesome for a city that, you know, they're going to they're going to boo you if they can. There's a lot of respect for that guy.

No question. You could see that. And you're right that Jacksonville came in and jumped him. But they also jammed 200 rushing yards down one of the one of the best stout young defensive lines front sevens. I mean, we're we're we're entering the they're really legit realm for the Eagles right now. Wouldn't you agree? They're really good.

They're really good. They can beat you a lot of different ways, man. I mean, think about that. To go down 14 up and and it's raining like sideways, man. It was cold.

It was rainy. And you're thinking, I've got to throw the ball a little bit. But they they just stuck to the game plan. And when you have an offensive line like that, man, I don't think those guys get enough credit. You know, Lane Johnson, not in the top hundred this year, for whatever that's worth. There's not a guy you can't block in the NFL. And you know, not saying that this young kid, Trayvon Walker's, you know, top top five rusher in the NFL.

But he did a really nice job on him yesterday. They had some injuries up front. I think Jordan left the game for a little bit, at least.

And so they just they just seem to just that one is good and off the line because there's a league and and they do a great job. They flipped the Eagles window. I thought was closed. Like it was closed. It's like they change quarterbacks, like the whole thing. The offensive line, a bunch of pieces change, the personality, this team change, coach change and it's everything.

It's open again, dude. And guess what? They got New Orleans pick like so.

And that keeps getting better. I mean, this is a team that when you look at them on paper, you're like Bradbury played well, Redick played well. All these guys you bring in, Rich, that are new faces, you're looking at this team. They're kind of like a mini All-Star team and you're looking at them saying like there's no way this team is going to be good next year, right? They're not set up for the long haul.

They probably burned a bunch of draft capital, that sort of thing. They've stuck the landing on this thing, you know. So I'm really hats off to Howie Roseman. All right. So who's on the pod this week, Chris? So we're finally actually getting Bob Miller tomorrow. So you know, I don't like having I don't like having people on after they they lose. I got you. So you're going to you got it because I was going to say I noticed he didn't appear. But yeah, there was there was there was a you sure you want to come on this week, man? You know, I don't like having people on after they lose.

That sucks. I've been there a bunch of times. So hopefully on Wednesday, you'll be hearing, you know, some Bob Miller and then you get Stanford Steve on Friday and that sort of thing and just wrapped the pot with Kyle and my co-host Macon as well. So we are we're rolling.

Well, if you want to you're great without a suggestion, but I'll give you one anyway. You should ask on Miller if he's ever had a coach that came up to him after the game said, look, we we could have kicked the field goal, but it's a four percent better chance of winning if we get the touchdown and see how that worked is if that's ever happened to Von Miller in his career. Yeah. Well, I don't know, man.

Marcus Peters was upset, but I didn't I didn't mind that decision. I know. I just don't know if the math is going to help.

Hey, look, if we kick the field goal, we got a sixty nine point three percent chance of winning. And then, you know, like I just don't know how that works. I don't know how that, you know, analytics are great, but context matters, right? Of course. No.

And he knows that he knows the team. I got it. Yeah. So, Chris, thanks for the call, brother. As always, love, love having you on Mondays. Thank you. Appreciate you, man.

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Ask your loan officer for details. Eight four four two oh four rich is the number to dial. Let's go to Alex in Queens, New York, home of T.J. second place New York Mets. What's going on, Alex? Hey, Dickie eyes.

Hey, what's up, what's up, guy? You know what? It's crazy how on a Sunday I thought I would be celebrating the Mets, taking a sweep of the bridge.

But it wasn't the Mets that made me happy. It was no J.E.P.S. That's right. Yeah, baby.

Love it. But let's talk about it. Let's talk about the dove. My man, bazookas that bazookas poison the fourth quarter. Right here, like there, Marcia team down the field.

I loved it. However. Oh, yeah, I know it's we're we're we're good. What's what's that inability to to hit the short throw, the swing pass, the five yard check? The boring, the boring stuff. That's what the coach said last year.

Play boring. He'll get there. We're going to get there. We're going to get there. We're going to get there. We're going to get there, man. He making these made plays in the fourth quarter. Here we go.

And just, you know, here we go. Breeze Hall's going to get the ball more now, I think, and the young kids are good and and they rearrange their offensive line. They put Vera Tucker out at left tackle and I mean, it worked out. It worked out. I saw that. I saw that. I know.

I'm seeing a little little Sanchezian decision making sometimes Sanchezian Sanchezian. Very interesting. Very good. Give me a little worry.

All right. A win is a win is a win. I'll take it. Two and two, I appreciate, you know, on to Miami.

OK, Alex. And hang in there with your Mets. Mets fans thinking they could have lost the season. They're going to one hundred win team here. Mets fans.

Here's the difference over. Wow. T.J. T.J., I told this to Cooper last night because he's interested in this sort of stuff, even though he roots for the proper New York team in the household.

Wow. On one hand, on one hand, on one hand, you're now in a wild card round at home against the San Diego Padres. And then if you win that, you take on the Dodgers or on the other hand, you're off.

You don't put anything on the line. You watch everybody else play. But the Dodgers and you get your pitching all settled and you get everybody all healthy best you can. And you play the winner of what is that, Philadelphia and St. Louis, St. Louis.

At home, instead of being the road team in Los Angeles. It's a big difference. Yeah. Pretty big difference. It's all right.

It's all right. They still they still got buck. And I think that's when you can really see it. Like I got the Grom. They got the Grom. We choke people like I don't feel the choke. The Braves are an exceptionally good baseball team. They're the defending champions.

They're also what they're like seventy five and thirty something in their last one hundred plus. They're winning like they're winning like an insane clip. Mets are still ninety nine hundred win ballclub. OK. Braves are just phenomenal. I don't think the Mets choked. I mean, they have ninety eight wins.

I know most amazing. I understand that. Yeah. The Braves. It's just they've only been in first place for much of the season. And all I hear are the trumpets from Queens, from all my all my friends who were texting me. Yeah.

It's Timmy Trump. It's Yankees. Yankees are sitting back smoking a cigar feet on the table. First of all, you were being a baseball fan halfway through the season. I'm going to hear you. You're a fan. I'm not paying. Give up. Strict attention.

Strict attention. Yeah, you did. You were in the playoffs. The Mets are Yankees.

Oh. Well, I'll take the Yankees because we're at least in the second round of the playoffs. We don't have to lift a finger. I'll take the Yanks.

Man, you are you're saying the Yanks chess where as you work with your long sodas come to Queens. Right. See, we don't. This is the which I don't like. I get it.

It's OK. It's the rich. I don't know.

I won't want this rich. I want August. Yeah, baby. Baseball. What? I'm just talking about a better record than Yankees. I'm just saying things with my chest these days, which you normally like right now.

Not in this particular case, because our team has a better record than yours. I need NFL films. Music, please.

NFL films. Music. Just get just get me in the mood here. Just hit it.

Hit it. Just give me some NFL films. Music. And I get in the mood because we're at the quarter post point of the NFL season and I've got a top five list. Top five surprises, the most surprising aspects of this twenty twenty two season at this point in time. You just made the list. Here we go. Number five on this list of the most surprising aspects, the fifth most surprising aspect of this season to this point.

Number five. Pete Carroll's kids are all right. How about that? People talking about Pete Carroll's kids.

Right on the clock, or there's another way of saying it. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Pete Carroll's kids are all right.

Or the Seahawks are not in the crapper. Don't call the court for this crap, Joey. Come on.

No, sir. Pete Carroll's kids are all right. Two and two. By the end of the night, that might be good enough for a piece of first place in the division.

And hold on. Geno Smith is cooking. Geno Smith, you know, through the first quarter of this season, seventy seven point three percent completion. That was pizza.

Louisiana fell. Right. That's the highest mark through four games among quarterbacks with at least one hundred twenty five passing attempts ever, ever. And Rashawn Penny is running the ball. And in Detroit yesterday, zero sacks of Geno. Forty eight points. How about them apples?

Two and two. Seattle Seahawks. That is a surprise.

You certainly didn't see it, sir. Everyone talk about them being first on the clock next April. That's not walking through that door right now.

And with Prez out for a considerable amount of time. No Jamal Adams. They're two and two. Number four on this list, another two and two team. You want to talk about surprises? How about the second place Atlanta Falcons?

How about that? They're putting Cordero Patterson on the shelf now for the next four games. They hired him today after he had a surgical procedure this very morning after the win over the Cleveland Browns yesterday, they took the two headed rushing monster of the Cleveland Browns and said, OK, Nick Chubb, thanks for coming back to the state of Georgia.

But here comes a bunch of guys you've never heard of. And Arthur Smith's team is two and two. That's good enough for second place. Saints and the Panthers are looking up at the Falcons right now.

Nobody. I thought Desmond Ritter would be the first guy in as a rookie and Kenny Pickett's already beaten. Desmond Ritter to that door, seeing him, I guess, Bailey's happy beat everybody. But long story short, Falcons are in a pretty damn good position right now at two and two. Same record as the Bucks. We'll talk about surprises. Let's run it right there and first place is on the line next week in Atlanta.

What if the Falcons win that game? That's number four in the list. Number three on the list, Kansas City fans would say, why is this surprising? But the rest of the football world said the AFC West was going to be the toughest division we maybe have ever seen. And the AFC West is not what we thought it was.

That's number three on the list. Now then, Kansas City fans will be like, well, yeah. That's exactly the way it's been the last six years.

Everyone else calls us daddy. But that's not the way this thing was all drawn up. We're supposed to miss Tyreek Hill. And I thought the Raiders had a chance to win the division and they're two back and do take on the Chiefs next week and they can take a nice step forward in a Monday night week five finale to try and make it a bit of a race. But you know, I guess the Chargers, you could say, are in this mix and the Broncos are despite Javonte Williams now being out for the rest of the season. But this doesn't look like the toughest division in football that's going to threaten the Chiefs six straight division wins right now. That's kind of a surprise, I think, after we talked about the AFC West all offseason long. Number two, the second most surprising aspect of this season through four weeks.

And I'm going to say it high register. The NFC East is the best division in football. And the only undefeated remaining team through four weeks is in the NFC East. And the New York Giants are three and one.

How about this? The Packers in surviving against the Patriots yesterday kept them above 500. And as the Giants now head to London along with the Packers, it's the 32nd London game in the history of the NFL. It's the first one featuring both teams having winning records because the Giants are three and one going there too. And the Cowboys lose Dak Prescott in their home opening loss and Cooper Rush has won three in a row.

MVP. So I'll say it again, despite the commanders showing up in Steelers looking uniforms with Carson Wentz looking like that Colts quarterback that they sent in banish to DC, the NFC East is the best division in football. And the number one on this list, the most surprising aspect to me, everybody thought it could be possible, I guess. But the additions, I guess, and with a new head coach who's kind of a mad scientist, I guess. But number one, the most surprising aspect in my estimation through the first four weeks of this NFL season is the Miami Dolphins can win it all. Now I know Tua got all banged up and he is in fact been announced that he is out for next week against the Jets and it will be Teddy Bridgewater against the Jets. But when this offense is cooking and Tua looks the way that he looked, and I think Teddy Bridgewater will be able to sling it and may have a tremendous opportunity once again in front of him. But that defense is no joke and this coach can get these guys open and in my estimation, they're already one up on the bills and they have that in their back pocket all the way to week 15 if they just can win as many games as the bills who are going to play a lot of games at home. The bills are three and one with three road games, very tough road games that they've negotiated with only one loss in those three games. I didn't think the Dolphins could have a chance to win this conference and have a chance to maybe win it all if they can put up points like they have and play defense like they have and that's my list of the five most surprising aspect through four weeks.

Let's take a break. More phone calls when we come back. The world of college football has crashed into the professional world and we'll talk about what's going on in college football.

A Wisconsin opening has created some rumbles halfway across the country. That's next here on the Rich Eisen Show on the Roku channel and more. Oh my goodness gracious for those just rejoining us on our terrestrial radio outfit.

We just had, I mean, our phone lines are, I know they're lit, but that was on fire. Fire John Harbaugh, replace him with Rex Ryan and Matt Hasselbeck. It appears Baker Mayfield's starting career is in a crossroads.

If Sam Darnold's high ankle sprain wasn't so damn severe and high, he would be eligible to return from injured reserve this week and add some very interesting choices to Matt Rule's mix, but apparently according to Adam Schefter that he's not ready to come off of IR. Baker Mayfield with nine tipped passes yesterday. Two of them were turnovers, one off of JJ Watt's hands wound up in being an interception and then another one on fourth and one was a turnover on downs. And it did not look pretty yesterday as Arizona once again comes, I guess there's two choices for Arizona. Get blown out at home or get blown out or fall down on the road and then come back and win. They're two and two.

Two and two at home, now two and oh on the road, they came back from 20 nothing down in Vegas to win and yesterday it was 10-3 and they scored 23 unanswered on Carolina. And it looks pretty damn ugly and they're booing in Carolina and Baker's one and three saying they're going to figure this thing out and if you're a Carolina fan you're like okay really? Because I saw what Mahomes looked like last night, we're not too close to that. I see what Tua looks like, we're not close to that. I see what Josh Allen looks like, I see what Lamar looks like and he's in the same draft class. Not close to that but there's still time.

One and three is not a death sentence. Carolina Panthers though are looking up at Atlanta and Tampa. If you're a Carolina fan you're like okay so Atlanta's welcoming in Tom Brady next week for the right to take over first place? Really that's what's happening in Atlanta? With Marcus Mariota and we've got Baker Mayfield and Christian McCaffrey and DJ Moore, those are no slouches.

Then a defense that can you know light things up. Next up for them is Jimmy Garoppolo coming into town and that's already causing Matt Rule to take questions on this very day. Hey weren't you interested in Jimmy Garoppolo as well? What happened there?

You were worried about his shoulder? And they could potentially go one and two on a three game home stretch before they come out here to take on the Rams and then the two teams above them in the standings in Tampa and Atlanta. Meanwhile in the state of Wisconsin the Badgers surprised everybody and told Paul Christ we're done here. They fired him middle of the season, things are not looking great for Wisconsin.

I think Illinois was the latest to come in and curb stomp him at home. Jim Leonard is now the interim head coach and I think they were kind of concerned that he might bolt himself. He's in demand and I think he's going to do very well there. I know they named him interim but and I'm hearing you know there's a lot of people that might be interested in the Wisconsin job and they and whoever those people are. I think it's Leonard's job personally but I don't know but at the same time Matt Rule is now 11 and 26 in Carolina so people are already saying well maybe uh maybe you want to go back to college huh that was a question asked of Matt Rule today he was asked if he's been reached out to with Nebraska open two Big Ten jobs open has he been reached out to by colleges.

Any of the colleges that have openings reached out to you? I'm not getting the thought about that if I'm I'm the Carolina Panzer head coach that's it. I didn't hear the word no. Well I mean but well I mean maybe they have reached out to him but he but could you imagine he's like yeah they've reached out to me he can't say that even if be honest about it. He can say no he can just lie and say no but it's better than the Panthers coach. I mean he's the Panthers coach he's I'm focused on what I don't I don't have a problem with his answer.

Yeah he's focused on what's in front of him. Indication. Indication.

So what? That means hey if they reach out to him that means he's in demand. I'm wondering if David Tepper is going to call somebody you know maybe JJ Watt, Big Kat, all the all the Wisconsin folks can pool their money together. Call on a favorite Murph. Murph who's been banned from the show. The Murph is Wisconsin. I haven't heard from him talking about you know he refers to Harbaugh as Mr. Khaki Pants how's Mr. Khaki Pants doing?

Free Murph. Undefeated, undefeated. Maybe all the Wisconsin folks can get together and get David Tepper a new uh new coach. I mean Baker has got a coach on a hot seat and he's got and he's one and three they need to win fast.

That's a situation where you're not marathoning you better start sprinting out. Speaking of Michigan I'll just go there. We were? So you know yeah you know I just did you know know how Michigan Michigan's undefeated in the Big Ten. I didn't know that we were even talking about that. It's interesting it's interesting too you know how how please I mean Michigan is just a member of the Big Ten um that just has to usually play everybody that's really difficult to play unlike anybody else but you know so so I watched I watched uh Gus Johnson and Joel Klatt on the call of Michigan beating Iowa this week in Iowa after Gus Johnson and Joel Klatt were on the call of their Big Ten opener against Maryland and then next week they're sending their crew to Michigan Indiana in Indiana that's three straight big Fox big noon kickoffs where they're sending their crew to a Michigan game and then they just announced you know what they announced a few uh moments ago what's that Michigan Penn State is their big noon kickoff in two weeks I'm just wondering you know Fox with their big audience and they're keeps choosing Michigan I don't know does Ohio State play do they play? I have a question. Do they play too because I know that Ohio State's doing well too beaten up on some other teams also just wondering if if I don't know maybe Michigan rates better maybe people are more interested in Michigan either way I don't know is that what it is maybe you can ask the people there in Fox why they keep choosing Michigan maybe Joel Klatt wants a house in Ann Arbor I don't know Michigan's close to where they are the week before what are you talking about what the hell does that mean? If you need a good nap just turn on a Big Ten game they are the most boring games of all time got it when your overs are like 40 that's not good football sorry pal that you should have reached out to me like that you chose the Michigan game to go over boring I don't know what planet Michigan Iowa is going over it certainly wasn't earth should have reached out to me should have went over it was there was this is boring you should have pushed you should have pushed should have pushed yeah thanks for Maryland though I'm just telling you okay I did that game just if you want to see Michigan just turn on the biggest game Fox has that's all oh you we have a Bruce coming up we constantly hear you talk about the largest alumni base yeah we have it so just simple math yeah no we rate better if they watch we rate better Michigan rates better that's the only thing I can understand like the Cowboys maybe so the Cowboys right we're the varsity and you haven't won anything in 25 years I guess or you have the defending Big Ten champs on all the time you got to go with the defending Big Ten champs every once in a while the Cowboys win the NFC East quite often actually okay yeah it's like the final four there's no trophies we made we made the final four unlike the Cowboys having 25 years trying a correlation between Michigan because clearly we rate why else I don't understand why else I don't get it it's Michigan Iowa Michigan Indiana I'm just throwing Ohio State playing next week they're playing at Michigan State oh why wouldn't that I don't know Alabama is now number one do you see that I did see that Georgia make came awfully close to losing they deserve to lose that game awful man I turned on the SEC Network for the first time ever I tweeted that out and boy did I get a whole earful from SEC fans in Syracuse 22 22 where were you when you say you're back not ranked in the deep depth yeah very very bad yeah at the bottom so anyway maybe I'll call Joe Klatt next week see how Ann Arbor is doing because I miss it Ross Matthews talks to celebrities friends and people with interesting stories to tell who's saying hello Ross this week Chelsea Handler I'm not home enough to have a third dog my housekeeper basically is their parent I'm not gonna get another dog so that she has to take care of another dog until one of these dogs exits it's a good move I have three rescue dogs and only two hands and when you're one person that's too hard to do I recommend two max okay your foot Ross hello Ross available on YouTube or wherever you listen