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Find out how to bring your ideas to life at dell.com slash welcome to now. The Rich Eisen Show Studio in Los Angeles. I'm not talking to you, I talk to anybody out there, the haters. Rich Eisen.

I talk to the haters right now. And now, sitting in for Rich, here's Brian Weber. Rolling into another hour of the program, we are live. We'll do it live and we're live because Rich believes in the integrity of his show. I'm not just buttering up because I want to come back on Thanksgiving, but as a connoisseur of sports talk content, a lot of shows play tape. On a holiday not rich, he wants to supersize you.

And if anybody knows about supersizing, good thing we are not on the simulcast today on the Roku Channel. I'll take you behind the curtain. Uncle Brian, I'm Brian Weber. You can be a part of the program at 844-204-7424. Hit me up on social media. B.W.

Weber, Weber with two B's. I have reached the stage in my life in my early 50s where the steam room, not the sauna, I need the steam room as my best friend. A little bit of fluid retention, if you know what I mean. But no red wine over the weekend. I'm doing my best. Plus, I was intoxicated transition with what I saw from Deion Sanders' football team.

I'm trying to keep my wits about me. So we're going to circle back to the college football thoughts we passed along an hour ago to start the program. And then more college football coming up in 40 minutes. Yes, I am trying to balance the show between what happens on a Labor Day weekend on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. And what happens in the NFL on Thursdays and Sundays.

40 minutes from now, 1.40 Eastern Time. We're going to break down the games. Not going to talk about realignment too much.

I'll save that for the next and final hour of the program. Always a good conversation in the making when we say hello to Pete Futek of CollegeFootballNews.com. In 20 minutes, a friend of the program, Peter King, laid out his thoughts on his terrific column that you can check out on NBCSports.com. Peter King has the Jaguars winning the AFC.

And I'll give you the backstory and the reasons as to how the Hall of Fame scribe arrived at that conclusion. In part because, as we just discussed with Trevor Sikkema of ProFootballFocus.com, we don't know when Chris Jones is going to show up for the Chiefs. I think it's a real probability he's not playing Thursday in the kickoff game between the Chiefs and the Lions. And a reminder, Rich will be part of Westwood One's coverage of the annual NFL kickoff game. And of course, you'll see Rich on NFL Network on Sunday with game day. And you hear him and see him every day on this program.

He is the hardest working man in show business. I'm going to use Peter King's thought as a catalyst. So the Jags had that massive turnaround last year, making it to the division round of the playoffs in part because the Chargers chargered and imploded in historic fashion on the road in Jacksonville. Who's going to emulate what we saw the Jags do last year?

Who are the candidates to be the most improved teams in football? That is coming up in 20 minutes as we start off things here in our number two. I had thoughts connecting Aaron Rodgers to Patrick Mahomes. Let's see if I can actually split the monologue because I have college football I didn't get to. So we're going to connect what happens on campus to the National Football League getting the Mahomes and Rodgers in 10 minutes.

If you missed the monologue, I don't want the entire show to be hijacked by Deion Sanders. I'll just say I was dead wrong about Colorado for two reasons. I got too caught up in how horrendous they were last year. Remember, this was one of the worst football teams we've ever seen on the FBS level.

Just the one win. Carl Durell got whacked in October. So I wondered, okay, how much could Deion change the culture in the short amount of time he had spent in Boulder? And then more significantly, what was it going to look like on the field with over 80 new players in the program? The most radical roster reconstruction we'd ever seen, and the answer is it looked damn good.

Now, context matters. TCU had defensive problems last year during their miraculous run to national championship game, and that felt like arena football at times. But with Colorado poised to head back to the Big 12 next year, that was vintage Big 12 football, where less we're talking about, say, what Gary Patterson achieved at TCU before he got pushed out. Defense is largely optional in that conference, but it was an amazingly entertaining game for two big reasons, in addition to Deion changing expectations and mindset and getting those players to believe. You got to have dudes.

You have to have the guys who can show up. Travis Hunter was brilliant. The versatility was jaw-dropping. He played 129 snaps. First guy this century on the FBS level, and that's a good sample size, roughly 25 years now. Had 11 grabs for 119 yards and a critical interception inside the 10 as the Horn Frogs were driving momentum going back and forth. And Deion's kid, Chidor, is a terrific quarterback in the history of Colorado football, including my dear friend, former radio partner, the great Cordell Stewart.

Now, Cordell didn't have to throw for.500 because he had a lot of talent around him, but Chidor, first player in Colorado history to go for over.500 yards. I think they beat Nebraska. They will beat Colorado State, and then we have the conversation back-to-back game, starting with the road test at the cauldron, that is, Autzen Stadium. If you weren't paying attention, if you have better things to do on a holiday weekend, I don't blame you.

That's my job, after all. Oregon put up 80 on Portland State. Now, that's good scheduling, but it also tells you about the depth of the Ducks.

And USC was just as dominant, more good scheduling, taking on Nevada, 66-14, the final for Lincoln Riley's team if you're a USC hunk as they get ready to bolt to the Big Ten. Finally, some marginal defensive improvement, although it comes with the asterisk of taking on the Wolfpack. But that's the question for USC, and back to the Mac Jones thoughts, and to put a footnote to what Trevor Sikkema, Pro Football Focus, laid out wrapping up the last hour of the show. Excellent analysis about the impact of Ezekiel Elliott, another reason to believe that Mac Jones will be improved this year. If you're a Patriot fan, you're just looking for what we saw from Jones the majority of that very solid rookie year before he faded down the stretch and got destroyed by the Bills in the playoffs.

But to have Sikkema there for pass protection, pass pro if you're breaking down the All 22, and a reliable third down back, another building block for that anemic Patriots offense to have a semblance of continuity this year. I'm Brian Weber, in for Rich Eisen, you can join the show 844-204-7424, you can get interactive on social media, BW Weber, Weber with two B's in just over 30 minutes. We'll expand the conversation, more college football thoughts from pfutechofcollegefootballnews.com. So, with the audience always changing, especially on a holiday, wanted to play the hits and revisit Deion, Rich back with you tomorrow, I'm sure he'll have strong opinions about Deion, after all how many years did Rich and Deion work together at NFL Network? And if you think I'm trying to critique the possibilities of Colorado, I'm not.

And I'm being as upfront and transparent as I can be. I was dead wrong about this team. I'm a Deion fan. Look, I was a D-list performer during my brief and combative at times, tenure, that's why I was brief I think, at NFL Network. Deion Sanders was always kind to me. Deion Sanders would come on the dopey morning show I hosted at three o'clock in the morning local time in Southern California.

I'm a Deion fan, I just need to see more. And unfortunately in our current outlook, we overreact to everything. In fact, be sure to check out the new podcast, Overeaction Monday with Rich Eisen and Chris Bachman, available wherever you get your podcasts. Rich back tomorrow and I will dispel the social media buzz. No, the reason Rich is not here has nothing to do with Burning Man.

He did not get stuck in the desert in Nevada. I have empathy for anyone who went through that. Although I have Burning Men friends, and let's just say they're interesting people, so part of me was getting a little bit of a chuckle, but you don't want anyone wandering for miles without food and water, and here I am laughing at others. Misfortunes because I am a sports talk radio host. I actually threaded the needle and gave myself time to talk about Aaron Rodgers and Patrick Mahomes in five minutes, but I owe you more thoughts about the college football weekend. So thanks to the contractual squabbling between a major media conglomerate and my cable company, I could not watch Florida State and LSU in its entirety.

In fact, I went down the hall in my luxurious apartment building and watched it with the one guy I like on my floor. Thankfully, I watched the second half because had I, and of course I hope it's obvious, no simulcast today, Rich and the guys back on the Emmy-nominated simulcast on the Roku channel tomorrow should be clear I'm not reading. I got a lot of notes in front of me, but I would have had to get up at two o'clock in the morning and had a staff of folks crafting my thoughts, but had I watched just the first half of LSU-Florida State, my opinion would have been dead wrong. Tight game, three-point game in the half, everything changed in the second half.

So what does it mean moving forward? Now remember, LSU lost the Florida State in the first round of effectively a home-in-home. I understand the game was quote-unquote neutral site in Orlando.

If you watch the game, if you were able to, thanks very much to this war between media conglomerates, a largely Florida State contingent, as you might expect, the drive, not too challenging, not short, but doable Tallahassee to Orlando in the middle of the state. A year ago, though, in the Superdome with loads of LSU fans, Brian Kelly's team found a way to lose that game. Still, Florida State picked up the win, and they really had bookends on the season. Quality start, fade in the middle, and then could not lose. They won their last six games, thanks in part to having a quality, experienced quarterback in Jordan Travis. We still have guys with COVID eligibility, a 23-year-old fifth-year senior, Travis tore up LSU. With all those dudes that potentially the Tigers can send to the NFL on defense, Travis was dialed in, five total touchdowns, 340 in the year, and Florida State was a completely different team in the second half. 45-24, if you stayed with it to the bitter end, I did. It was not a, oh, by the way, excuse me, score at the end. LSU scored with less than two minutes to go. They could have taken knees.

They punched it in because I think they wanted to run it up on Brian Kelly. Now, you can say style points still matter in the final year of the current format. And just as an aside, if I'm not lucky enough to be with you next year, 12 teams to me is too many. Look, I'm going to watch the games. I'm in favor of expansion, but I'm not going to care who the 13th best team is that got left out. Four is a great number for the purposes of conversation. And as a layout, roughly an hour from now, in the final hour of the show, and I'm Brian Weber, Infra Rich Eisen, you can pick up the phone, 844-204-7424, or get at me on social media, B.W.

Weber, Weber with two B's. My problem with realignment is college football has become virtually a carbon copy of the NFL. I'm a realist. I know why it's happening from a pragmatic standpoint. Doesn't mean why it's going on that I have to like it. Two things can be equally true. While I'll accept it because there's nothing we can do, doesn't mean I have to embrace it.

We'll get there coming up in the final hour of the program. But Florida State had questions coming in. Was last year an aberration at all? Was it a reflection of who they played down the stretch? You always wonder about a bowl game, but Oklahoma had a down year. Still, they put up 35 against the Sooners to win that bowl game. And I think the key was, I mentioned the experience of Jordan Travis, they have a lot of guys back from that team that ended the year with 10 wins, won their last six.

So every season is its own unique chapter, but there can be a carryover. And Florida State looked really good in the second half. Are they playoff good? We'll find out coming up in 30 minutes when we say hello to Pete Futak of collegefootballnews.com. Other things that stood out to me, I watched the majority of North Carolina, South Carolina, great atmosphere in Charlotte. Glad those teams are playing. We have to preserve regional rivalries, even with the billions of dollars of TV money now dictating, say, a school from the San Francisco Bay Area, starting next year playing in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Make it two schools in Northern California, along with a school from Dallas.

None of it makes any sense. Just follow the money. Drake May is as good as advertised. Tar Heels dictated the terms. I thought May was solid, if not spectacular, but he didn't have to be off the charts good, because his defense was amazing. And that was the question about Mac Brown's team last year. Tar Heels absolutely destroyed Spencer Rattler, the Oklahoma transfer, nine sacks. So if you believe South Carolina is legit, remember they came up with the upset wins over Tennessee and Clemson towards the end of last year. That's an impressive defensive statement made by North Carolina. And another reason why the ACC is having a phenomenal start to the season with the folks who are carrying the flag amongst the ranked teams, we'll find out more with a conference matchup tonight. Monday night college football, Clemson against a very good Duke team from a year ago with a lot of returning guys. That's on campus in Durham under the lights Clemson number nine in the nation. One more thought about quarterbacks in the Big Ten.

I am aware. Who has his name on the marquee? It's the Rich Eisen show. A proud Michigan man.

I watched, thank you Peacock, as I now have every streaming service. JJ McCarthy look very good. Now, the context is, you better handle East Carolina at the Big House, and I realized Jim Harbaugh wasn't there, serving the self-imposed now three game suspension.

None of that should matter. But McCarthy to me, looks like he has evolved and taken the next step just had much more of a fluid approach. He's trying to make his case to be a NFL player in the future. So positive signs for Michigan. And anytime Michigan looks good and Ohio State looks sluggish is a victory for the Wolverines from a standpoint of style points. And I'm aware Ohio State won the football game. That was a tough watch and weird to see Ohio State Indiana on CBS. I'm a big Brad Nestler guy but I think he missed the atmosphere of the SEC very different when you go to Bloomington, Indiana. Ohio State did what they had to do to win. But Kyle McCord did not answer many questions there.

Pedestrian under center, no touchdowns, the INT less than 250 passing yards. Now, when you have Marvin Harrison Jr. not only the best wideout in all of college football I think he's the best player. Yeah, even better than Caleb Williams. That's how big of a difference maker I believe Marvin Harrison Jr. is and Ohio State fans will tell you everything. Everything would have been different when we last saw them had he not gone down with the injury in the national semifinal against Georgia. Ohio State is going to be just fine.

But one thing to file away. Penn State with a quality victory at home over West Virginia. Michigan I think is the biggest threat to dethrone Ohio State.

Although remember, no team has won three consecutive national titles since Minnesota in the 1930s for a reason. But not only does Ohio State have to contend with a Michigan team that I think is going to be even better than last year. Penn State taking a step forward. They got to figure things out a quarterback.

They can clean that up. Now this was predictable. There's going to be a drop off at some point when you have NFL quarterbacks back to back at Justin Fields and CJ Stroud. Still, now that Jim Harbaugh has figured out how to beat Ohio State, there's pressure on Ryan Day and we got a lot of time to figure things out before the game in November but something to track moving forward. Two minutes on Aaron Rodgers connected to Patrick Mahomes.

I'm doing a hard transition here but that will prepare us for the upcoming content block. We're talking about the most improved teams in the NFL. The L word gets overused in sports media. Legacy.

It is almost as lazy as a Mount Rushmore. However, if you like history and that was my monkey trick getting into the business a million years ago and you think about quarterbacks across the decades and Joe Montana handed every talk show host a show last week with his view that Dan Marino was quote unquote the best quarterback of all time, talking about skill sets, talent surrounding him and what he would do in the modern NFL. Well unfortunately for Dan, 50 years from now, unless people are watching YouTube with the microchip in their brain, history is going to overlook Dan Marino to a degree because he never won a Super Bowl, only played in a single Super Bowl. As we think about Aaron Rodgers, we're a long way away from the lone Super Bowl appearance.

That feels like a lifetime ago in 2011. A reminder Aaron Rodgers turns 40 in December. So what's on the line for Aaron personally over the next two seasons and I do think it'll be two seasons, and he took the massive pay cut.

Now no need for a bake sale given his career earnings but he's taking less to pay the supporting cast around him, giving him a reason to be successful in New York. That's why he picked the Jets with their complete roster on both sides of the ball. Like Marino, here's the challenge for Aaron Rodgers and I'm talking 40, 50 years from now where I'll be in here with an iron lung, sitting in for rich, and I'll be 103 years old, no problems, I got grand goals. Patrick Mahomes has been so transcendent in the same window as the end, let's just call it the 17th and 18th holes of Rodgers' career, that has overlapped with Brady being the GOAT. There's a real chance if Aaron Rodgers doesn't at least get to a second Super Bowl and more to the point win a second Super Bowl like Peyton Manning did, Rodgers might be overlooked historically even with a Super Bowl on his resume. Because two Super Bowls change everything and it won't just be about the total passing yards, everybody's putting up video game numbers. Mahomes is just 27 years old. He's played in three Super Bowls, he's won two, has two MVPs, with or without Chris Jones, Chiefs are favored to win it all this year, so I'm not trying to construct straw man arguments. I'm an Aaron Rodgers supporter, he lost me with the immunized vaccine word salad, but that's I think the additional motivation for a player who's keenly aware of history. Because before the Packers finally allowed the divorce to happen, Rodgers pointed out, and it's not a stretch, but he described himself as the greatest player in Packers history. You better bet he's aware of history and legacy, so one more thing to process this year, clearly it's about just take the next step and get in the playoffs, Jets don't do that but for every decade or so.

But from a macro standpoint, that's one more layer of motivation for Rodgers who's in danger of being crowded out by the brilliance of Brady and what Mahomes could continue to do moving forward. I'm Brian Weber, in for Rich Eisen, 844-204-7424. Why don't you head over to social media, B.W. Weber, Weber with two Bs, I'm about to check the various platforms coming up. 20 minutes back to the college football, when we say hello to Pete Futek from collegefootballnews.com, straight ahead, more NFL, as mentioned Peter King has Jacksonville winning the AFC, Jags wore a phenomenal story last year, a massive turnaround.

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