REShow: Raheem Mostert - Hour 2

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I think that was a fun one for everybody to watch me learn that. The vagaries of being on live TV like it's the Truman Show. Damn near half my life right now, but it's all good. I'm very lucky to do what I do for NFL Network on Sundays and soon to be calling games in London and in Germany. My gosh, the Germany game that I'm going to be calling that's slated for the first Germany game is lit, as the kids say, between the Dolphins and the Chiefs and then being on the air here every single day. I've got Michael Kay of the Michael Kay Show. He's the one who elicited the Joe Namath soundbite that's proved that Zach Wilson has broken him.

He's coming up in hour number three, 844-204-Rich is the number to dial. I'll have a conversation here. Speaking of the Miami Dolphins, we always talk about the 72 Dolphins, right? We always talk about the 72 Dolphins, correct, guys? About being undefeated, right? Only team to do it. I mean, why are you asking me that question? No, I know that, but because I bring that up to say we almost had the 73 Dolphins. Oh, look at you. You know what I mean? Well done.

We had the 70 Dolphins instead. With the champagne on ice? My goodness gracious. And joining us fresh off of that remarkable performance and remarkable start of the season, not just for the team, but him personally, Purdue Boilermaker in the house. Raheem Mostard here on the Rich Eisen Show. How you doing Raheem? I'm great. How about yourself, Rich?

I am great. What in the world is it like to be part of a game like the one you were in in the National Football League, Raheem Mostard? I tell you what, it's a lot of fun, Rich. To be able to be out there with the guys, just having fun, doing what we do best and just enjoying the moment, it's truly something special and something that's going to go down in history. I know that we didn't get the top notch of having the most points scored ever in a game, but hey, to be able to say that we're up there at the pinnacle is definitely something remarkable. You know how tough it is to win in the NFL and how tough it is to come up with points against grown ass men looking to make sure you do not get a yard, let alone score 70 points and a 50 point win, Raheem. That is nuts. That is crazy. When you think about it, man, honestly, it really is crazy because these are grown men out here that are competing and battling each and every day.

To be able to put 70 points on the board, 50 points and win that big of a margin, it's almost unheard of, especially in this league where it's tough to run the ball, it's tough to even pass the ball and it's tough to put points on the board in and itself. I don't know if you're a talker out on the field. Are you a talker out on the field, Raheem? I usually like to talk a little bit. I let my actions speak for itself. The reason why I asked that is a setup to say, do you even stop talking at some point when you're beating somebody like the way you were beating them, Raheem?

Yeah, absolutely. I think you should stop talking. Just tell them to check the scoreboard. I think that's enough that needs to be said. Right, and so what did you sense from the Broncos defenders in the middle of that onslaught, Raheem? I mean, I could just tell that the guys are about ready to just be done with the game. As we were, we don't want to keep putting on a show like that. You want to just run the ball out and unfortunately, for them, they still had to stop us.

Even stopping the run, it was kind of tricky for them. Raheem Mostert of the Miami Dolphins fresh off of the 70 to 20 win over the Denver Broncos. You are the perfect guy to ask about the coach here because you've known Mike McDaniel for quite some time back in your San Francisco days. When was the first time you met him, Raheem? Yeah, the first time I met Mike was when he actually joined the staff, I believe in 2017. He was the run game coordinator and me and him became very close simply because I would go to his office and we would have one-on-one talks about the upcoming week and the opponent, whoever we played.

I just try to get little bits and pieces of nuggets that I possibly can to elevate my game. I just took wind of how fond he knew the game so well and how he can literally break down each and every position of the defense, the defensive line, what they're going to give us. It just became a great relationship between him and I. Andrew Hawkins once told a story about him getting some coaching tips from him about footwork and getting off the line with certain footwork and how it will cause you to be open pretty much 100% of the time and how just that little nuance is something that helped his game.

Do you have something like that for me from McDaniel that he's told you that you've picked up some sort of detail that you can give the audience here, Rahim? Yeah, so you know when a running backer, I mean anybody that's running a route and they want to get a little bit of a separation aspect, one thing that he taught me and some of my cohorts is put your foot down on the same side that you're going to. So hard left to go left as we call it. So you put your left foot down if you want to do a double up move, put your left foot down and then put your right foot down and then you know explode off that right foot and go left and then it's vice versa. You know, if you want to go right, put your right foot down.

Hard right to go right. So those little things right there, you know, for him to be able to teach guys like myself or the receiver, the receivers, it just shows you the capabilities that he has and the intellect that he has in order to go out here and help, you know, play players produce at a high level. What about sometimes tossing it to you as opposed to having it handed to you and giving you some sort of an angle? I kind of see that a lot.

What do you got there? Yeah, so in regards to like the toss plays, you know, it's still outside zone but it's almost kind of like a trick play for the defense. You know, when the linebackers are reading their key reads and they see my footwork and it looks like it's going to be a full outside zone play and really it's not a stretch, you know, that gets them to overplay the play and then the O-line can basically get them at the right exact moment in order for them to get their block. So, I mean, there's a lot of different things that go on in this offense that, you know, it definitely helps, you know, jet sweep motions also. It just puts a funk in the defenders. So, there's a lot of key aspects in the offense that, you know, the defenses have to manage. And in terms of, you know, helping the offensive line, you just mentioned Raheem Mostert about how the offensive line can be helped by the scheme.

It sure looks like it's also helped by the scheme with keeping Tua fresh and upright. The ball seems to be getting out. There seems to be even free rushers can't get to Tua before the ball is out. Walk me through how different your quarterback is from this year to last right now, Raheem. Yeah, you know, last year was just a learning curve for him. You know, he's coming into a whole new offense, a whole new system, something that he's not particularly used to.

I mean, even prior to, you know, Coach McDaniel being hired, being hired, I know that he had to deal with three additional offensive coordinators. So, I mean, that just puts a funk in a guy's mentality when you have to go from offense to offense, you know, year in and year out, especially the way Tua has been able to, you know, manage those things. And for him to come into this offense, you know, the second go round, you know, year number two, it just shows you how true of a pure passer he can be, a pure technician out there on that field. Because at the end of the day, that's what you want as a quarterback. You know, you want your quarterback to be someone that can distribute the ball, that can get it out at a proper time. And then also his footwork. I mean, he's taking everything that he needs in his game and he's just elevating it to the next level. More so, you know, his health and the concerns he had last year when he got hurt and then the concussion against Cincinnati, you know, I hate to bring that up, but you know, he took this approach this off season. Hey, I'm gonna get better in this aspect.

I'm gonna protect myself. And he did some jujitsu that is really paying off. If you see the first two games that we had, there was a play, I believe, against the Chargers where one of the de-linemen pushed him and he kind of like did like a roll and tuck. This is something that he's been doing this whole off season. So, the guy's just really trying to be a technician in all facets of the game and even more so in his health. And he's taking those steps in order to be great. Well, he's been in the spotlight clearly for a long time and he certainly was in the spotlight the minute, you know, he looked off for safety and found Devante Smith in the end zone for Alabama for a national championship. And everyone thought he's going to go to Miami and then he did. And then, look, it's clear how many people are looking at Tua and are still even now surprised to see the way that he is playing.

As you know, Rahim, you may not know, but you know that's out there, but you may not know. I've been saying he needs to be more salty, Rahim. We need to see the more salty side of Tua, you know, where he says, I don't know about you, but it looks like money. You know, like he talked about the offensive line giving people the middle finger with their play. Like, I need to see more of that.

Do you see any of that side of him that he kind of keeps quiet, Rahim? I need salty, Tua. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

No, Tua is coming into that game. He's coming into the... I'm a little more me now. I'm more relaxed.

I'm more chill. But he also has that winning eager. And if you know anybody that has that winning edge, man, they're about ready to start talking to whoever comes across their path. And as of lately, it's been the doubters and naysayers for him. He wants to prove people wrong. He's always in the business of proving people wrong, and he's doing a hell of a job doing that.

Yeah. You tell him, because again, I haven't spoken to him in a bit, and I'm going to see you in Germany when you play that game in Frankfurt. And I'll tell it to him, too. I need more salt.

A chest pound. I need to see the saltiness in him. I think that he's doing all right, obviously, without my advice. But you know what I'm saying, Rahim? I need to see that. I get it.

Yeah, I get it, Rich. You want to see a little more nastiness come up out of him. Yes, he's too sweet. But the thing is, though, with him, he lets his play do the talking. People say he can't throw a deep ball, and then there's a 60-yard bomb to him and Tariq on that connection.

So I mean, he's doing that talking, but it's just in his play, more so. Okay, Rahim mostered here. A few more minutes left with the Miami Dolphin running back. So your colleague, who also scored four touchdowns this week, I want to say his name right, because I heard last night that it's not A-Chain, it's A-Chan. Is that Devon's last name?

Is that correct? Yeah, Devon A-Chan. Devon A-Chan, okay. Well, we're saying his name a lot right now. How good is this kid, Rahim?

You've seen a few. Yeah, he's unbelievable. I mean, the kid's coming in as a rookie, and he's picking up this offense so well. And I've been in this offense for quite some time now, Rich. And the way that he handles this offense, he's taking criticism. He's taking crap from a vet like myself. I got to give him some vet love. Like what are you saying?

What are you saying? I make sure that the snacks are upright in our room, in our meeting rooms. He has to have some gushers and some sunflower seeds at times. Okay, all right. So I give him a little heckle about that, but honestly, he's taking this offense very well.

I've seen a lot of rookies coming into this offense, not understanding the playbook, all that well. And Rahim, he's just, he's lights out. I mean, the kid is really, he's going to be special. Okay, all right. So have we seen, I mean, you did this without Waddle. What the hell?

Oh my gosh. So if he was in, would you have scored 90? Is that what happened?

Who knows? He's a difference maker on that field too. I was a little bummed that he wasn't out there.

And he was bummed too, but I told him, hey man, you got to get yourself right. You got to get that health right. And we're going to need you in on the long road.

So be prepared to put some points up against these other teams too. Okay. Now let's just get into this before I let you go here. They were talking about this on the broadcast, that you believe 40-yard dash, you, Tyreek, you, Tyreek and Waddle, you win this race.

Is that a true fact? Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

Hands down. I win this race. Okay. I mean, give me, give me, give me, give me more on that. More meat I left on.

What do you mean? I'll tell you, I'll tell like this, Rich, when it comes to a race, right? Tyreek is more of a, he he's fast.

Don't get me wrong. Tyreek is fast, but I could break down his speed. He has more of that, that quick twitch to him too. For me, I'm more of a, a long strider, you know, I, once I get going, it's hard to catch me. It's hard to, you know, try to beat me. And same thing with J-Dub, you know, he's more of that guy that's, he's, he's in between both Tyreek and I, so it'll be a good race for sure.

But I, I think I, I think I got the upper advantage. What about A-Chain now that he's in this mix now? What about him? A-Chain is in the mix too. He's, he's more of that, that off the burst, you know, quick guy. So we're all, it's going to be neck and neck. It's going to be, I will say this. We are definitely the fastest team in the NFL.

And if we had a four by one, it didn't matter what position each, you know, player was in, each person was in, we, we, we win. Okay. For sure. All right. You know, and again, you're 31, man. This is, you're 31. Wait a minute. I'm talking to a running back who's playing in the NFL and scored four touchdowns and you're over 30.

I didn't know that existed. Rahim. Yeah. Look at you.

If Adrian Peterson and Frank Gore can do it, I'm being soaking up. Okay. And you're faster than Tyreek Hill.

You're faster than Cheetah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Okay.

Rahim Mostert. I appreciate the time. Send my best to everybody there. Tell again, Salty Tua.

Tell Tua more salt in his verbal diet. Will you please tell him that for me? I need to see it. Okay. Well, I look forward to seeing you in Frankfurt. That's going to be a great game.

Obviously you versus the Chiefs. Certainly if everybody keeps playing the same way that you're playing and I look forward to seeing you in person and thanking you for being on the program today. Likewise Rich. Appreciate you, man. I think you're doing a heck of a job too brother. Keep it up.

I appreciate that. You're talking about my speed, right? Is that what you're talking about there?

My 40. Correct? Yeah.

Oh, that's and that's what I wanted to bring up. Yes. Okay. Yeah.

Your form is just lights out. Like I just, I love when you do the 40 yard dash. Hold on a minute.

I look forward to those moments. Okay. Hold on a minute.

So what? Excuse me. You be quiet.

You guys may not chime in. Excuse me. I have got a track and field star from back in the day and a 31 year old who says he's faster than Tyree Kill saying, what about my form? I need you to repeat that please.

What is that? You got some good form. You got some good form. We could tweak it a little bit to make you a little bit faster.

We could tweak it a little bit. By the way, I'm all ears. I am all ears. Just know I've disappointed so many people. I've disappointed Michael Johnson.

I've disappointed so many fast, famous people. I don't want to disappoint you, but you're saying my form is like, it's good, right? It's not the arm swing is just, is, is, is up there. I will say that knee drive is perfect. You got, you got a good knee drive arm swing. We could work on it, but it's more so about putting up, picking up and putting down.

That's, that's what you got to work on the most. Okay. You and I are going to have a chat in Frankfurt, Germany, sir, by the way, I should, I should just like stop broadcasting today. This is phenomenal news. He's just, I think he's still on the fumes of a 70 point game.

Take care of yourself for him. This has been a blast. We'll do this again. Hopefully you got it. Right.

You keep up the great work too. That's a Raheem most amazing. Wow. I didn't, that was a twist. I did not see great.

Oh, Henry like plot twist at the end. It's like M night. Wait, what, what just happened? And you thought you saw dead people.

I did. Well, I've seen you run. So is he. So is he.

Remember a few weeks ago in fantasy, I said, radio Raheem might be him. He's, dude, he, he is a trap. When I say he's a track and field star, let me get this right here. Let me get this right.

That's that. He was, he was in a hundred meters, a 10.68 second, 100 meters. Dude. I mean, you have to be a little bit delusional to think you can outrun Tyreek.

He's not delusional. Don't we have, do you have that field Yates tweet? Do you have that field Yates tweet from the other day?

Put it up. The next gen stats. There he is. He ran, he was, he could be, he was ticketed for speeding in a 20 mile an hour zone in week two in new England. And then you see Tyreek Hill and Devon, what Devon? A-chan is apparently how he wants this name to be pronounced. Devon. We were saying Devon H. Devon A-chan. Devon A-chan. Well, he's fast.

I was hoping that was Devon so I could yell, get the tables. It doesn't matter how many times you score. Let me tell you something nice. It doesn't matter how many times you score or how many, how fast you are. If you're a rookie in the NFL, you better have those sunflower seed snacks straight up. Yeah.

Snacks got to be on point. Don't matter what you're doing. But when he says straight, do you mean like they can't just be thrown around in the, in the, in the closet or in the box? What does that mean? He's got to be straight. I think, well personally, I think he meant straight. Like it's gotta be proper. It's gotta be on point. I'm not like legitimately straight. I don't think he meant like one box would be straight.

Like good. To make sure that he provides it? That's not Steven Ross? He's not providing the snacks in Miami? You know the rookies got to go pick up donuts. Gushers are very specific. What are those for those who may not know what a gusher is?

It's like a little gummy thing, but there's like a juice kind of in the middle of them. But not a mad dog who's so gummy. Not a mad dog.

Not a mad dog. So he's, he looks like that. He's 31. He runs like that and he's eating gummies. Well, he can fruit with fruit gummies with snacks with a little bit of juice in the middle. Good Lord.

If I did that, I'd be large as a house. You were in college when gushers first came out. Oh, is that right?

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I had that 49er mouth guard and then you see it in the boxing episode. You've got to be out of your mind right now, right? I mean, this is real. This is real. The whole business of like, are they real? Are they for real?

They're absolutely for real. I've been very lucky because one of my childhood friends who I grew up with is the run game coordinator for the 49ers, Michael McDaniel. And he's been a part of Kyle.

He's worked with Kyle in Atlanta and in Washington. And it's not just any run game here. This is a serious like, we're going to hit you in the mouth. This is what we do type run game. It just fills me with joy because Mike and I will talk and he'll call me and I'll, we went to a game last year. My friend Chad and I went to the 49ers Lions game and Mike called us as we're driving to the game and he's like, do you guys want to know what the first play of the game is?

100%. And I love this. He goes, he goes, if the Lions flex left and they put seven in the box, it's a right side gash to Breda and Breda took it 65 yards. Watch that, watch that game back. It was the first play of the Lions Niners game. And he, and we're in the stands.

That is a flex. We're going like this, grabbing each other, like this is the point you said, and you're watching Breda just go. So it's been not only on the 49ers, my favorite team of all time, my favorite sports franchise, but having like a friend like that, that I know and just kind of, you know, I've met Kyle several times and we're at Mike's wedding together.

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Grainger has the right product for you. Call clickgrainger.com or just stop by. David in Texas has been hanging on for a bit. Let's take David's call. What's up, David? Hey Rich, I appreciate you taking my call again. I called you last Tuesday and we're going to call it Timmy Tuesday. Mr. Boyle needs to start for the New York Jets. As I said to you last week, I said he was underneath your offensive, current offensive coordinator, watch Barbara on the offense.

And I really honestly believe that Zach Wilson is done. And I loved your reaction after you took my call last week because it was brilliant. You said, I didn't want to talk about it. And you talked about it and I thought it was awesome. Well, thanks for the call, David. I appreciate that.

I appreciate it. And the other thing I wanted to add is when it comes to the New York Yankees, when the Braves left Wisconsin to go to Atlanta, I became a Yankees fan. And the one thing I will tell you, because you made it, I think you made a comment yesterday or the day before about Aaron Judge being the captain and whether his comments are going to go public or not.

If you look at the history of the Yankees, all the captains never, ever, ever in the toughest city to be in the media spotlight ever went public with their comments. And I think Aaron Judge will say what he needs to say. And either Cashman goes or Aaron Boone goes. Don't get me wrong, Cashman's done a relatively good job, but I think both of them really need a reality check. Well, here's what I'm going to basically predict here.

And thanks for the call, David in Texas. Michael Kay will be joining us from the Yankees playing out the string in Toronto. Top of hour number three, because it was on his show that Joe Namath said he's done with Zach Wilson. And my prediction is Cashman is one year into his new four-year contract. And Boone has one year left on his deal. I think they both stay.

I don't think, I think Hal is not his dad. He's going to see, he's going to say Cashman had one really bad year in 25, 30 years and Yankee fans would say it's a bad year if you don't win the World Series or make it or threaten to make it. I don't think he's going to let either one of them go.

And I can't wait to get Michael Kay's thoughts on what he thinks Judge is going to say. I think Judge probably has a lot to say about whatever analytics are being placed in front of Aaron Boone that then manifests itself in their play on the field. And I think Judge is probably really pleased with seeing a lot of these young kids that finally got up into the majors. Of course, Josh Donaldson is going to make the playoffs with the Brewers. And by the way, he's mashing home runs for them. Of course he is. Of course he is.

That's, by the way, that will only infuriate me. I nearly cursed in front of my 12-year-old son Cooper when he was playing all these home runs because he, you know, on the MLB app, he's just non-stop on it, just watching as many highlights as he possibly can. You know, just turns to his dad, you know, Josh Donaldson's doing really good for the Brewers. I'm like, get out of here. Starts playing me all these home runs and I start seething.

I'm like, be a good dad. Dude hit 160 this year. Oh, it's just absurd.

It's absurd. But they didn't deserve to make it. They were on every move that Cashman made. Frankie Montas last year hurt. He pushed the Rodone button. He turned into Ed Woodson 2023. You know, blowing kisses to Yankee fans who were getting on him. Terrible. A terrible year he had. The back end of the bullpen.

I mean, I don't even go in there. We'll talk about it with Michael Kay coming up in our number three of this program. Devante Adams signs with the, or tells the Packers he wants out, even with Aaron Rodgers clearly coming back. Right?

That's a fact. I would love to know in a 30 for 30 one day, or maybe when Pat's interviewing Rodgers when he's hopped up on Vicodin probably, or whatever he's on, you know, to truth serum, like, did you think Devante Adams is coming back? As you know, there's lots of other more pertinent, timely questions to ask of Aaron Rodgers. But Devante left.

Said I want out. And he goes and gets paid by the Las Vegas Raiders. And he gets hooked up with his BFF from college. And he goes to the Raiders knowing they've just hired Josh McDaniels. And I just wonder if there was any conversation, Hey, I'm going to force my way out of Green Bay so I can complain for Derek Carr. Are we all good? You and DC good?

Because you're the OC and the HC. You guys good? Yeah. I'm wondering if that came back. Because I'm telling you, right from jump with Josh McDaniels being there, all I heard from the chatterbox that is known as the National Football League, when nobody's got a microphone on them, is that McDaniels wasn't a Carr fan and also not a Josh Jacobs fan. Oh, yeah. You heard those rumors, whether they're true or not.

I'm saying it into a microphone, but I don't think I'm telling any tales out of school. Josh Jacobs hardly touched the ball in the preseason. They didn't pick up his fifth year option, which is something that seriously came home the roost this summer, didn't it? And I think we learned that either it was untrue that he wasn't a Josh Jacobs fan, or he learned to love him.

Probably the latter. And then it was either untrue that he wasn't a Derek Carr fan and just was done with him. Something happened in that locker room last fall where, if you remember, after one of the many blown lead losses that the Raiders suffered last year in making fools out of people like me saying that they were going to beat the Chiefs in the AFC West finally. Remember Derek Carr came out tearful saying, basically, something's up with everybody in that locker room. A handful of us are there. Hard of us work every day and what these guys are going through each night.

I want to know about that too under sodium pentothal for somebody. What was that all about? All I know is I'm in a booth, Christmas Eve, chilly night in Pittsburgh and kind of windy. All right. It was, it was, it was, it was, you were there. I was, you were in town.

Okay. So I'm in the booth and Derek Carr throws multiple interceptions in the second half. Kenny Pickett finds George Pickens, cuts down. Raiders are essentially eliminated from playoff contention. They still have something.

And Christmas day, the next day, I open up my old Twitter machine back when it was called that. And you, and you see that Carr has been told you're done. It's crazy.

You're done. And then Devante Adams, as we all know, in this non-playing season, made all sorts of comments that he pushed back on eventually that he's not really sold on what the hell's going on in Las Vegas. The Jimmy G's coming in and I guess he's the perfect vessel for the good ship McDaniel's. I mean, this, this isn't, this is what's called in the NFL media world, a narrative. But when you keep on seeing results that lead to sound bites, that reinforce a narrative, you got to wonder if the narrative is more than just a narrative. Because as you know, the word narrative is thrown about by those in the NFL who are on the business end of said narrative with the infusion of not all true.

It's just the chatter you hear into microphones on shows like this one. This is Devante Adams after the loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers, second in a row on Sunday night. I don't want to act like it's all crazies, you know, it's week three, but I don't got time to wait around, you know, it's not a personal thing. I mean, it is a personal thing, but it ain't just about me. But I mean, it's not my mentality to sit here and try to take all season to figure it out. You use these early games like this to establish identity. We, we're not doing things the right way to establish a winning culture early in the season. So we got to do something to turn that around doing something about it so that when we go out there the next time, it looks different.

It's not supposed to just be a week of just talking about it. We got to go out there and do it. You know, that's that's the that's the theme of this year is doing it not just talking about it and figuring out what we need to do. We did all that last year.

This year we got to be about it. What does that mean? What does that mean?

I mean, let me say it with a different inflection. What does it mean? Because that was a soundbite from a wide receiver targeted 20 times. 13 catches for a buck 72 and two touchdowns including a fourth an inch could not be stopped play.

That shocked everybody instead of just running it for a first down and continuing to go on just a roll of the dice in Vegas, which was a great call by Torico that night. What's that about? It's not as if he's not fed because normally receivers are like, I can be part of the solution if you let me be. He was the only answer that was consistent. So what's he talking about? And who's the one that's talking S? Can't be the quarterback because he wasn't around last year if he's referring to last year. It's not Jacoby Myers. He wasn't around last year. It's not Jacoby Myers. He wasn't around last year.

He was the one who was throwing one to Chandler Jones who's not around for some bizarre reason. What is happening there? Because I don't have an answer. Do you?

Does anybody? Because narratives are narratives. Possibly true. Is it McDaniel's not communicating something? Or what does that mean what he said? Is it just like you're talking about it and and he's like, you know, I came here to play with my BFF and the guy who sent him packing is still trying to sell stuff that people aren't buying because either they're not buying because the guy who's selling it is not to be bought from or the guy who's selling it keeps putting guys in the room who won't buy from him and he and the guy we brought in to bring into the room are are the people who are supposed to buy it from him and I'm seeing it.

I wouldn't buy from them myself. And he doesn't have time for it. Well guess as the sands run through the hourglass, who's coming into town in week five in Las Vegas, Nevada on a Monday night for everyone to see the Green Bay Packers?

Oh boy. He's gonna watch Jordan Love play and just be like send me back. I don't know how off that is.

Again, narratives, I don't know. Or he's gonna watch Herbie playing game. I want to go there. In week four. Yeah, this is coming week. Right. Well, he's playing in front of a home crowd there and I know I keep on saying it. I'm not being facetious.

The Raider fans, this is a Raider town in Los Angeles. Period. End of story. And I am not stuttering. Nope.

Okay. So as I said, Herbert and everybody best be going silent snap in their practices because it gets loud in so far. That's gonna be a wild game. It is going to be wild game because the loser goes to one and three. I mean, this is a big week four game, man. Loser one and three, winner goes two and two, gets a division W. And if they're one and three in Vegas, when Green Bay comes into town, how do you grump and how grumpy that is the grumpiest wide receiver has been targeted 20 times I've ever seen in my entire life. He caught everything. He got thrown everything. Yeah.

Well, I had to. What is going on in Vegas? And by the way, what the football with Susie and Amy Trask going to be talking about this very subject.

As soon as we're done, get that podcast wherever you get all your podcasts on Tuesday, because I'd love to know what Amy's thinking. What's going, what's Mark Davis thinking? What's all that thinking? What would I'll be thinking?

Well, fire everybody. I don't know. I mean, but it's just, they're just, they're just one and two.

They are just one and two. Again, just like breathe, but that's not a running, that's not a wide receiver who's saying we have time because I'm just wondering if he's thinking October's coming. Trade deadlines are hitting and his clock is ticking. If he doesn't have any other reason to play there other than to play with his BFF, or I thought part of it was to be closer to the West coast and family and what have you.

There's a lot of West coast teams that can win you championships if he joins, you know? So I don't know. But that was just like, what does that sound bite mean? I'd love to know.

844-204-rich number to dial here on the program. Top five performances of week number three, then in hour number three, Michael Kay, and then also what a wild football weekend it was. Wait to get that top five list.

It's going to be great. It could be information to change your life forever or the Something You Should Know podcast could just be something interesting. My guest is Kim Zachman. She is author of the book There's No Cream and Cream Soda. I don't think I've ever really known the story of why they're called hot dogs. There is so many legends about the name of the hot dog. When the Germans immigrants came over and they brought all their sausages, they also brought their dachshunds. It really is because they kind of look like dachshunds. Something You Should Know, wherever you listen.

Over Reaction Monday, every single Wait for It Monday, wherever you listen. Did you see Neil Elitrosh go up to Burrow after the game last night? He's a Rams team doctor. And Burrow's talking to him. And I'm like, oh, of course he is, because he did Burrow's knee. And he did Rogers Achilles.

And he did Otani's arm this week. By the way, on Neil's website, he does a video. There's a video animation of how he did the speed bridge.

The speed bridge surgery. It's 10 minutes. I watched it. It's fascinating, right? Fascinating. Is there a 10 minute video on how he did Susie's knee as well? Oh, let me just double check.

How is it or not? She's going to be so pissed. That's right. Rogers Achilles, Burrow's knee, Otani's arm, Susie's MCL cleanup.

I think it was MCL. We can ask her if she's here, right? I don't think she's here yet. Man, I am hoping, because I'm kind of hungry, and so I'm hoping she's bringing food. Oh my God. No, I think she's picking up flying saucers from Carvel for the pod. Because I believe the brilliant writer, Damon Lindelof, who we're friends with, made the huge mistake of taking his jets against her Patriots.

And the flying saucers were on the line. Oh, wow. How about that?

I believe, but this can be confirmed in the What the Football pod. I mean, last week she brought croissants and they were so good. You'll enjoy Susie's choice of t-shirt for the pod. She's like, how about this for today? I'm like, okay, great. You'll see. Okay, great.

Back here on The Rich Eisen Show, 844-204-rich number to dial here on the show. Let's talk positivity. I feel like there's been so much negativity. Devante Adams is upset. I'm upset. I'm upset.

He should be. My whole season, I'm watching my quarterback. I'm getting ready. I thought, we're getting ready for the Chiefs to go 4-0 after we finally slay Belichick, because Rodgers is teaching him a lesson. Zach's not around anymore, and Zach's there.

They're one and two, and I'm looking at Rodgers lying on some sort of a bed in what looks like hospital clothing. I don't know what the hell's going on. I don't know what's happening. It's just too much negativity. To use the Pitino phrase, negativity in this town. Yeah, I'm seeing Trevor Simeon, who started in place of the mononucleosis.

I just use it as a verb. Yeah, the mononucleosis Sam Donald, and he broke his ankle. We're thinking maybe Trevor Simeon could be the answer.

Which is great, is that you'd kill for Sam Donald right now. All I'm saying is, there's too much negativity. Let's do positivity. I've got my top five standout performances of week number three, presented by Carnival Cruise Line. Hit it, please.

You know what? Let's go positive. Let's go young kids. Let's go Tank Dell. Let's go Tank freaking Dell. Seven targets, five catches, a buck 45, and a touchdown, as the Houston Texans beat the Jacksonville Jaguars in Duval. You know, you're thinking the Jaguars lose to the Chiefs at home. Well, that's just because it's the Chiefs, but they're going to reassert their dominance and their division. And in comes CJ Stroud, and this kid, Tank Dell, they might have... I mean, the way CJ Stroud, he's got over 900 yards passing now, and this kid, Tank Dell, is giving him a target, and you've got rookies all over the map, and the Texans with Tank roll into Duval County and come out with the win. I weirdly think they're going to win that division.

You never know, man. But Tank Dell, I'm going to give him number five on this list, just because I like saying the words Tank and Dell together. Dell's a great name. TJ loves Tank. Number four on this list. Number four. I picked him up.

I picked him up. Number four on this list. I gave the top spot on this list last week to the quarterback. I'm giving it to the running back. There are tire tracks all over the Carolina Panthers defense, and the tire tracks belong to Kenneth Walker III. This kid in Seattle, he had 18 rushes for 97 yards and two scores, and then 60 yards pretty much in the air. Seattle, going back in front of the 12s, they saw them lose to the Rams in a wild week one in which they had only nine yards in the second half, and the number nine is in front of the number of yards that Kenneth Walker had on the day.

And if this kid can start road grading, look out. What a performance by him against Carolina for number four on the list. Number three on this list. He is a third round rookie draft choice out of Baylor, and Terrell Bernard of the Buffalo Bills became the first player with two sacks, an interception, and a fumble recovery in the same game since Brian Urlacher did it in 2007. In his fourth career start, Bernard led a third round rookie draft lead, a rampaging Tatanka into the nation's capital, and told Sam Howell, young man, this is the National Football League.

The first two weeks, it was also the National Football League, but still, we are going to tell you there will be days like this, and the Buffalo Bills defense led by Terrell Bernard came out with a 37 to 3 win. That is one of the most standout performances of the year defensively, and I'm giving it to this rookie. Number two on this list. I can't just give it to one, so I'm giving it to both. What a pass and pass catching combination Justin Herbert and Keenan Allen were in Minnesota with the season on the line. These two guys staring 0 and 3 right in the face. Herbert threw 400 for 405 yards and three touchdowns, and of the 405 yards, 215 were Keenan Allen's who had 18 catches and a touchdown pass himself.

OMG. Of course, there was a Brandon Staley decision that almost flushed the whole damn thing down the toilet, but they survived that, and they are one and two, and just when this team needed it, Herbert Keenan Allen was unstoppable and up there on par with two at a Tyree kill in week one against them. Those numbers are even, you know, if I'm not mistaken, Tyree get 215 in week one and the 405 is better than two is 366. What a performance, but number one on this list, I cannot give it to one. Can't give it to two. Can't give it to two up. I'm giving it to the whole darn entire Miami Dolphins offense.

All of them. They were training, as you could see, look at this. They were dancing, they were doing everything. We had Marie Mostert on earlier, and he even said he stopped talking to the Broncos. He says, I'm a talker during the game. He stopped talking because of 70 points, the most since 1966 in an NFL game, 726 total yards. That is stunning, stunning to see in a league where, as you know, offenses are usually behind defenses early on.

The Dolphins offense, this was without Jalen Waddle, a thousand yard receiver. That is the top standout performance of week number three on this list. I think we need one more.

Okay. All right, we'll get one more. Kickers have outstanding performances too. And with Justin Tucker potentially, I believe, future Hall of Famer in the house, coming up one yard shy of a 61 yard field goal to win the game for Baltimore. There was a guy who set a record for kicks in a game. Matt Gay of the Indianapolis Colts had not one, not two, not three, but four kicks of over 50 yards, including the one to send it into overtime and the one to win it into overtime. And he also had a 30 something yard field goal early on in the game that he didn't know if he was kicking because they threw him out there on the field. And then there was a lot of substitution going on. And then the Ravens caused them to, you know, have a delay of game because they use the rules properly to substitute themselves back late and gay had no idea. And then he had to go out and kick a field goal. And he did it. He made five of five, including four from 50 or more.

That's a record that's never happened in the National Football League as the Indianapolis Colts with Gardner Minshew go into Baltimore and come out with the win. And those are my top five standout performances of week number three, presented by Carnival Cruise Line. Whether you enjoy Caribbean beaches or delicious dining options, the spa or riding Bolt, the first roller coaster at sea, Carnival makes it easy to plan a vacation where everyone can choose their own kind of fun because no one does fun like Carnival.

Like Carnival. There you have it. Matt Gay had 24 fantasy points. That's probably more than Zach Wilson, 80 percent of the league. Speaking of which, the 70 points that the Dolphins had. Remember I said that if the Bucks don't score 23, that gives 16 teams in the National Football League who have fewer points than the Dolphins had on Sunday all season.

That's now 16. So the Bucks now on that list. If the Rams don't score 17, they'd be on that list. They scored exactly 17. So they have 70 points on the season. And if the Bengals don't score 43, they're also on the list.

They didn't. So the grand total number of teams with fewer points on the season than the Dolphins had on Sunday, 70. 17 teams in the National Football League, including one that has exactly 70 in the Rams. Holy cow. Michael Kay coming up for our number three. I think Zach Wilson had eight fantasy points. No dude, stop it. Ah, I'm in a good mood. I should be in a good mood. I finally won a fantasy. Hey, I won my fantasy baseball championship.

Did you really? Congratulations. Thank you.

Very happy. Cooper and I won 16 straight weeks and then lost in the playoffs. Ugh, sorry.

It's all right. I had finished second three years in a row. Congratulations.

I almost Buffalo Bills'd it. What do you, wow. What do you get for that? I get a t-shirt. What? The guy who's the commissioner makes t-shirts for the winner each year.

Ed O'Neill is confused. And it's the same group of guys that I do the Fantasy Football League that you hate with. And I'm the first one to ever win the football title, the basketball title, and the baseball title. You know what that is? It's the most schmucky egot ever.

Yes. Then I'll take it. I'm very sad. It's like a schmucky egot.

I'm very proud of myself. But in all seriousness, it's a six month Fantasy League where you got to pay attention every day. And you get a t-shirt for winning? All you get is a lousy t-shirt? That's it.

Are you serious? I might make myself a trophy to be honest. You should get something a little something for the effort. I might make a six foot trophy. You should.

One for each month the Fantasy season lasts. You got to really focus on this. What does the t-shirt say? I have no idea. Is it at least a good cotton fiber?

Is it at least a good made of daupho? Oh no. Hey guys, it's Suzy Schuster and I am so excited for my new podcast coming out this fall. It is called What the Football with Suzy Schuster and the Princess of Darkness, Amy Trask. If you're looking for a new podcast to listen to about jargon, heavy legged, waste benders, this is not for you. We're going to have big girl conversations and we're going super deep to bring you weekly guests that you won't find anywhere else. It is What the Football with Suzy Schuster and Amy Trask wherever you listen.