REShow: Chris Long - Hour 2

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I think we had it for 18. Today's guests, host of the Greenlight Podcast and two-time Super Bowl champion Chris Long, Steelers linebacker TJ Watt, overreaction Monday and more. And now, it's Rich Eisen. Our number two of the Rich Eisen Show is on the air. Chris Long of our usual Monday show is going to join us shortly.

We've got overreaction Monday coming up. TJ Watt of the Pittsburgh Steelers, he's playing tonight. He's joining us in hour number three. Browns and Steelers is the late game. An hour long, an hour staggered start. Seven Eastern for Saints and Carolina. And then an hour later will be kickoff between the Browns and the Steelers. Same thing's happening next week, too. You've got Philadelphia and Tampa starting early and then Rams at Cincinnati starting late.

Love it. Double headers just to kick off the season. Let's do it every Monday. That sounds fun.

Yeah, well, as somebody who's working it for a radio, I'm fine with one. Oh, do you have to do both half times? I don't think so. I'll let you know. You have no idea.

I'm just taking it one day at a time, hoping for the best. You know what I mean? I don't have a crystal ball. But you do, though, Rich. I do, actually. We do have a crystal ball. It's too heavy.

I just wish we put it next to your desk and that way we can at least see it. You've been working out. You know what I mean? You're getting Buff Bagwell now. Buff Bagwell. Didn't know that's what my nickname was around here.

Buff Bagwell. Very good. I've been holding my powder on the Jets. That's coming up in hour number three.

We've discussed many of the games that we saw in week number two. Let's go to the phone lines here. Kevin in Rochester, New York. What's up, Kevin? Hello. Hello, Kevin. Hi. Hello.

You look like Uncle Leo. Hello. Hello. What's up, Kevin?

I was waiting for an hour, so it kind of caught me off guard. Good. You're on something, man. You're on guard.

One, no badgers. Hey. But I know. Okay, good. That's good.

Also, I wanted to do an overreaction Monday on the Cowboys, because I'm a Cowboys fan. Yeah. And I'm actually from Rochester.

I live in Jacksonville now. Okay. Wow, okay. I know. Trust me. Okay, so good, Kevin. What's your point, sir?

What do you got for me? You'll have to explain for that, Kevin. It's all right. Don't worry about it. Is the defense that good? Yes, yes.

Yes, it is. No, no. I don't want to hear that. I know where you're going, Kevin. I don't care that the Giants were the Giants in week one and the Jets are the Jets right now. Listen, I went through the Quincy Carter era.

I went through the Romo, and I love Romo, but how many heartbreaks I had. Are we going to get there, or is this, like, serious? This is serious. This is serious.

Hey, Kevin, here's what I'm going to do, because Chris Long is ready. I'm going to say call back, and just I appreciate, first of all, congratulations on Go Badgers. Secondly, secondly, it's fine.

It's all good. We're all over the state of Wisconsin. And I love Big Ten football, and the Badgers are great, and I love Luke Fickle, and you know, things are just only going to get better from here. Thanks for the call, Kevin.

Our running game is good. That's it. You got it. You take care. This is Kevin in Rochester by way of Jacksonville. How many people are getting, you know, we don't care, you know, where you're from or where you're calling in from, as long as, you know.

Add it to the graphic. I understand Kevin's pain. But they're real. They're PTSD. Yeah, he's got PTSD, so we're taking it week by week, man. That's it. Week by week.

That's it. Let's bring in our friend Chris Long, Greenlight Podcast and Inside the NFL on the CW on Tuesdays back here on the Rich Adzinger. How are you, Christopher? Rich, what's up, man? I'm good. How are you?

I'm great. So, which is the storyline that leaps out to you? I'll give you the dealer's choice from the week two Sunday. What do you got for me on that, Chris?

What leaps out to you the most? Probably Chris Jones looking like Chris Jones, which I don't know why we were surprised. But in a game like that, when the offense was sloppy, I mean, they're benching tackles, they're leaving points on the board, you know, all types of stuff. The defense stepping up, the pressures went up from, I think, like 13 last week as a team to like 24. So collectively, the impacts fell.

But also, if you went through every money down in that game, he affected all of them. You know, I think he had five pressures on third down, one on fourth. They don't win that game without Chris Jones.

That was a great performance. And it's like 100 degrees out there, my man came off the long break and looked great. Yeah, and defensively, I mean, that's what would give me so much hope as a Chiefs fan normally. But just to see what you're talking about against a team that wants to, for a second straight week, put your pelt on their wall to put wind in their sails. But that's what it is like to defend a Super Bowl championship. So to see that, as you know, how difficult it is to defend a Super Bowl championship, to see that in Jacksonville after what happened against Detroit, despite, you know, the offense not looking like it's on tilt.

I thought that was huge, Chris. I think the offense came along in the middle of the game. Jacksonville kind of gave them life with that fourth down and they did a really good job in the middle eight. They had some nice drives.

And then on top of that, you know, I think the biggest theme is offensively and as a team, but mostly offensively, the new guys have to buy in and make the plays that they're being asked to make. You know, Tony had the drops last week. It looked like for a second he's the shot in the arm they needed. They targeted him like three times in a row. They got something going. They put the ball on the ground, you know, tackle.

Obviously, that's a well-beaten path. But Watson with a fumble like guys that are supposed to step up in this era of Kansas City Chiefs football have to step up. And I think defensively, you nailed it.

They can hang their hat on that. Snead did a great job. You know, we were like, what's going to happen with Ridley? He kept him bottled up and spags talks about it. They have two guys that can play inside and out.

McDuffie in the slot last week, Snead in the slot this week. I thought the defense looked great. Well, I think you're referring to when you said fourth down, the Jaguars going for it in midfield late in the game on fourth down. And so I don't think Peterson would have ever done that, say, last year, right? That is an indication what others may see on tape of this offense and think, well, we'll give him a shot.

You know, our defense has done very well so far. And that did maybe that's something when do guys when they come off the field or when the offense goes on the field saying, you know, what the hell do they think they're doing? Like, let's show them. Does that does that actually mean there's definitely a little bit of a like, oh, we're being disrespected.

They think they can pick this up, that sort of thing. But I also think people know, Doug, you know, can be a little bit aggressive. This was a situation where for me it was a little bit of a head scratcher because you're playing that game in phase, you know, punt the ball, play defense. That offense hadn't gotten going.

So, you know, that that's the way it shook out for him, though, taking that risk. Chris Long here from Greenlight Pod, as well as inside the NFL here on the Rich Eisen Show. What in the world is going on in the Jets locker room right now? I mean, Sauce Gardner deleted his Twitter account or X account. Breece Hall deletes a tweet where he had four football emojis, meaning one for each carry he got yesterday.

Zach Wilson with three interceptions to finish the game. What do you think is going on there right now, Chris? It's just a tough emotion, man. It's like a letdown. It's it's another letdown for the Jets, obviously. Rich, I'm not trying to, you know, make light of y'all's fandom. But it's like it's like Groundhog Day.

It's just with some little different twist and, you know, all the build up with hard knocks and the whole thing. And now I think for those players, and this is where I get into trouble as an analyst, Rich, is like, I believe you should give your guys a shot to win. You should burn the ships to do that. You know, I look at them having that first round pick that they didn't anticipate having. And you've got a locker room full of guys, especially on defense. You could point to any number of them and be like, these guys are playing their best ball.

Are they going to waste it now? They didn't play great yesterday, but I'm talking about, you know, they have talent on defense and it's hard to play defense on a team that's going three and out. And there's sudden changes offensively. You got guys like Garrett Wilson. It's like my entire legacy is tied to the quarterback play. And for this team, I think the window was open this year. So I look at this and you see this stuff on Twitter, the football emojis, you know, it's a little early for wide receiver tweets from a running back.

And you have you have the you have a number of like red flags here. And I just think they got to go out at some point. Now, it's early because the teams that might give you a quarterback like Minnesota, they're probably thinking we can't do that week two. It doesn't look great. Like we're trying to win. Right. And Kirk's look good.

But I do think you got to go out and get somebody. I don't think it can be Carson Wentz or some other found piece like a Joe Flacco. Like this team deserves a shot to win the whole thing, a shot. And, you know, they put that work in. They've constructed the roster. And here's what I don't understand from coaches. You trade from for Aaron Rodgers and Joe Douglas, my guy, and you say we're doing what we have to do to win.

We didn't have what we had here or we don't have what we need here. You know, we're going to go out and make this move. Well, what's changed? You know, like nothing's changed. And basically what you're saying week two is it's not important enough. You know, we're just going to roll with what we had last year.

You can dress it up however you want, but you're making a decision to go with the status quo. And listen, some people thought I was being hard on Zach Wilson, but some of the same mistakes showed up. And I know that game is not the way they want to play it, but the same Zach showed up in certain spots. Well, and the guy who I think single handedly put Zach Wilson in a dustbin for many Jets fans and maybe some of the defenders in the locker room is coming to town at 0 and 2 next week. Belichick, who, as you know, this is a red letter game to begin with, but this is also a red alert game for his team. My gosh, this is just not unfolding the way that you'd want for the Jets. Honestly, like, I don't know what some of these defenders in the locker room might be saying.

They, you know, Garrett Wilson says they're all together, but this is on Robert Solis plate, I guess. I don't know, Chris. Well, I mean, like I've been on defenses where the offense didn't hold up there into the bargain. Like, you know, I've been on teams where we held Marshawn Lynch 24 yards on a Monday night and lost. You know, like it's frustrating.

You try not to make it personal. You try not to take it out on the guys on the offensive side of the ball. At least I think what they have going is they know it's the quarterback, right? Like there are other deficiencies, but I like the O-line. I like Garrett Wilson. I like Lazard. You've got tight ends like you like Breece Hall.

They have pieces offensively. So you're not going to look over in that room and blame everybody. But where it gets really hairy is like we've seen this movie and Zach Wilson didn't have a lot of leash. Well, I mean, Broncos fans saw this movie, too. One last one for you on this. And you know where I'm going, because, again, the offensive coordinator was brought in first. You know, Nathaniel Hackett was brought in. We all know why they brought him in.

Right. And so now he's he it's his job to coordinate an offense for a quarterback who might not grasp most of the playbook. Half of the playbook, even at three quarters of the playbook. And then he's the one who was dialing up the passes. He was the one who went away from the run. Do you think Nathaniel Hackett can, if you will, hack it under this circumstance, Chris?

Well, the evidence isn't there to suggest that he would be able to. You know, like even if they brought in another quarterback, it's not his guy like him and Aaron have like a history. And obviously that's why he's there. It's like inviting somebody to a fancy dinner. He's got a famous plus one.

And then they have a rain check and you're like, it's just you. Like, you know, I I don't mean this like disrespectfully, but but it's and Hackett's a good coach. But the whole situation was predicated. There's a reason he was a head coach. He's good coach. But like there's a difference between being a good, good coach, good coordinator, the whole thing. And, you know, I kind of wondered how it would play out with Rogers. Right. Because, you know, you kind of assume, hey, from a scheme standpoint, they got it down.

He's going to have his menu. But. Like, do you really believe that there were going to be bumps in the road, even with Hackett calling the plays kind of de facto as a group, getting it done? And the problem is, is with Zach, you can't run a lot of the stuff that you want to run. Like in that first game, they ran like an RPO in the second half and he messed up the read. And, you know, the run game's a plus. But like, do you turn his back to defense? You can't make checks that Aaron made. You've got to work the half field stuff like everything about it is different.

And I just wonder how it's going to work out, even with a new guy. Chris Long, right here on the Rich Eisen Show on his usual Monday spot before he goes to do inside the NFL on the CW, as well as the Green Light podcast with Kyle and and his crew. So we haven't discussed Seattle, what Seattle did in Detroit yesterday. I mean, the Lions left banged up, to say the least. And Seattle just put its foot down after getting pumped at home to the Rams. How how do you think this will serve Seattle moving forward?

Chris? I think it's going to serve them good. Obviously, last year they come out in the first game and they're in a totally different spot where they're gunning for somebody. And now they come out week one and everybody thinks the Seahawks are going to roll the Rams, pick them apart. They pick on a young corner. They don't run the ball.

Then they go. Ten days rest. Detroit's waiting for him. It's everybody's sweetheart team. And they don't have any tackles. I mean, Lucas is down.

Cross is down. They lose both. Both in week one. And so this is such a big boy win for Seattle. I mean, to go in there on the road, Gino throwing the ball to about 10 different receivers, really efficient. A lot of balls to tight ends. I thought they did a great job. And I thought the young guys in the secondary, one of them that got picked on last week, he came out and made the play of the game.

And I don't want to not shout out Nwosu who who got home there to force that. Also had a forced fumble with a spoon with his first big play on fourth down of his young career. Like guys are growing up on that team. And from the Lions standpoint, be who you are. You know, like I'm a big fan of the way Dan does things.

I'm a huge Dan Campbell fan. If you're running flea flickers and you're going forward on fourth down, you're wheeling and dealing. And you you burn a minute, 15 run in three plays with a chance to win this thing in regulation because you're worried about the Seattle offense.

Well, guess what? You can get the ball back anyways. So my problem with that is at the end of that game, go try to win it. Especially with a kicker that's given you six points back in Myers. So big win for Seattle and then for Detroit. Don't forget who you are. You know, you can't now that you're you've arrived, don't be the team that's playing afraid to win.

And it's the one time I disagree with Dan on not being aggressive enough. And here's a sports talk radio conversation in our few minutes we have left with you, Chris Long. You can only play because we're talking about Eagles, Cowboys, Niners obviously being 2-0. You can only put your marker on one for saying their 2-0 start is real. Commanders, Bucks, Falcons, Falcons, Falcons, Falcons are good. Yeah, Falcons are a good team.

Like, I don't know if a lot of people are watching the Falcons, but, you know, if it's not for the quarterback, I probably picked them to win the NFC South and went with the Saints. But, you know, they run the ball so well. Bijan Robinson, the way they go off tackle and, you know, the fortitude to pitch the ball on a fourth and one.

Arthur Smith, everybody's favorite analytics head coach. I mean, he's going for it on every fourth down. They get the ball on the edge.

Tough matchups for second level defenders on Bijan in the run game. And I thought Jordan Love as well deserves some credit and the Packers because they're a good football team and this is a tough road test for them. You know, Love's got the ball right on tight end's hand at the end of the game. This could go either way, but I just thought the Falcons did such a great job in the run game.

And, I mean, Ritter's going to throw you a couple. They come out after that Wicks touchdown and ran the ball 15 times in a row. He's like, we don't trust you this drive.

Settle down, buddy. And they go and score. And that's the thing is like, they're a good enough team to go to the playoffs and maybe win that division, but the quarterback just worries me. So you think the clock's ticking on Heineke? Chris?

I don't know. They both throw you a few. But, you know, like if somebody's going to throw you a few, at least give me some magic with it. And I think Heineke's got that magic. Now, Ritter's really athletic.

He was able to hurt him with his legs a couple times. I'm not saying give him the hook, but I am saying like, this is one of those teams where the young quarterback has to catch up to the team because they're good and they're ready to win. So, and I think this is being the last one I got for you, a testament to what's going on over there that I'm not going to go in any other direction with the National Football League and ask your two cents on Colorado's win over Colorado State. Words I didn't think I'd ever ask anybody in the history of this program, but this is the Deion effect, to say the least, where plays galore just being discussed nonstop, even today after a week two in the NFL. Talking about it on an NFL show. My show this morning, we're talking about Boulder. I'm like, it's awesome.

You have at it, Chris. What's on your mind about it after seeing it? Well, as a guy who went to sleep in the third quarter, all I wanted to do was stay up for the handshake.

Like I was like, I'm fading and I'm sleeping on the couch of my kids room because we got home to sleep over and I'm sitting there on the laptop and I'm like, I'm not going to make it, man. And third quarter, you know, I was out like a light, but I woke up and could not believe what they did and such a gut check win for Colorado. And I think Deion is brilliant. I really do. I like I have so much respect for the guy, but also as a head coach, like he's playing chess, in my opinion.

Okay. Like number one, Norvell brought the drama to his front door with the commentary right on the sunglasses and the hat. Now you could let that go, but he leans all the way into it.

I think that's smart in general because teams that think it's personal rich, they play harder. But this is a look ahead week. You know, you've got Colorado State coming in and I know you can't do this every week, but you got USC and Oregon coming up. This is a perfect look ahead week at home. He leaned into the rivalry and then after the game, what I loved. And you want to see people getting along, man, even after all the BS that went on on the field and I didn't like the hit and everything. But him and Norvell at midfield, I'd really love to know what was said and Deion going to the podium and saying, hey, listen, man, I'm not going to drag this out. I'm rooting for the guy.

You know, we'll let we'll let bygones be bygones. I think he's an incredibly socially intelligent guy. And I think people underestimate how well he knows the game as if we would, you know, but it's like our guys never coach guy played corner in the National Football League. He knows today's game, even though the passing games change. He sees the game from the back end. And so I think it's just a great opportunity for them to seize the moment in Boulder.

And I think it's a repeatable careful with this, but I think it's a repeatable blueprint if you have the right guy. Now, he's one in a million. But like Ed Reed, one of my favorites, he could motivate me to go play right now.

He'd bring in NIL opportunities, transfer portal stuff. I know there's the Bethune thing, but I'd love to see like an Ed Reed get a shot. Me too. I would.

I would as well. And Prime was on the show Friday, said he's up for having Warren Sappy as his D-line coach. And he said that coaches here don't have to, you know, you're not burning the midnight oil here. Like you come in in the morning, you got practice, then you do some stuff here.

And then by the middle of the afternoon, go live your life. And that's that's what he said. And and Dion also sees the game from the outside in as a receiver. Right. So he's got both ends.

And the fact that he's going into the Oregon and USC games without Travis Hunter is a damn shame. How is that kid not ejected? How is that not even targeting? Like what is going on? I don't know. I think I think it was so like late and and nonstandard that people were just like, I have no frame of reference.

Do I throw do I throw this kid out? Like I've never seen anything like this. And, you know, it's I love rivalries and I love the talk back and forth and I love the physical play.

Everything was inbounds for the most part, but that was not cool. So I just love talking about Colorado. It's good for college football. People are all afraid of this era, afraid of Dion, afraid of like things changing.

It's better. We're talking about college football. It's week three, four weeks from now. We might not be talking about him, but we have gotten a month out of these guys. No doubt. No doubt. Who's on your pod this week, Chris? So we've got Victor Cruz.

Yeah. And he's going to be joining us Wednesday and later in the week, Stanford Steve, the most famous guy in the world. He's on, you know, he's out there on game day. So green light with Chris Long. Check out his podcast every single day, whenever you can, whenever it's out there.

And then, of course, inside the NFL on the CW. Chris, remind me if Susie and I ever go to dinner with you and your wife, never to cancel on you. OK, I'm going to write that down and not cancel on the longs. I don't do dinners, but I imagine if there's these guest lists and Hackett shows up without Rogers, it's like, yeah.

What am I going to do with this guy for the next two hours? All right. Thanks, Chris. Greatly appreciate it. See, it's the one and only Joel number nine one on all social media and La Flama Blanca on Instagram.

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Nick in Corona, California. You got to win 15 in a row now, baby. Nick, you said they'd be the Broncos be 15 until you got to win 15 in a row, Nicholas. So you're telling me there's still a chance.

Speaking of what Jeff Daniels is on just last week, Mr. Harry Dunn. Yes, yes, we're saying that Nick. Yes, in all seriousness, does Sean Payton need to get back in the booth or is Russell Wilson really the problem? I don't know Russ was balling out in the first half and and and then stopped it, you know, fumble. Now I know that there is a face mask and that didn't get called but we can't blame the rest.

No, I know. And there was a bad interception on the on the sideline that was being reviewed for a while before they upheld it. I don't know, Nick, you know, I'm I'm you know what they look like right now through the first two weeks. I'll be straight up with you. They look like last year's Raiders. Take a lead. Can't hold it. I mean, they were up 16 to 10 on the Raiders at home last week. Could have started 1-0. Lost it. They were up 18 yesterday and lost it. They're 0-2.

So that's what it looks like right now to me. Hey, real quick. Yes, sir. I just wanted to say I love your show. Thank you.

I love the crew in the back. My boy Brockman every Friday on what's more likely. He continues to talk bull junk on my Broncos.

Well, I don't know if you recall, but he did say something like Colorado would beat Colorado State by more points than the Broncos would score. Well, no, no, no. Hold on. Let me handle this. Let me handle this, Chris. Nick, he gave me choices. I was the one who chose it.

You could say the fact that that was even a question is bull junk, but there's a lot of bull junk going on. So you know what I mean? And thanks for the call, Nick.

Greatly appreciate it. What was what the what's more likely was a winning Colorado winning margin or Broncos point scored? Yeah, I think that was pretty good. It was.

I took the cheese. Yeah. We'll talk about Colorado. Colorado State in a moment. The other one was who has more wins, Colorado or the Broncos.

I said Colorado, didn't I? Yeah. So right now they're they're up three. They're plus three on that. They might now they might run into a headwind or two over the next two weeks.

My buffs, probably, but it's been fun. And by the way, Dion's appearance on Friday is just a delight. Twenty three minute conversation with him in advance of that Colorado State game and the video that has gone the most viral from that. Well, the story of him saying he's never going to go to the NFL, which we knew, by the way, obviously he might go to the NFL at some point. Never know. Look, he might go to the NFL at some point. Things might change.

I don't know. Does he want to coach the Patriots next year? But you and I, you and I have watched football games with him at NFL Network. When you were on NFL Game Day morning as Marshall Faulk segment producer.

Decade ago now. We would watch games with Dion who would arrive for the night show that I used to do with Dion. We went our separate ways in house where they put me on in the morning and he would still come at night, but we would watch games together. And I'm telling you, any time somebody made a dumb mistake, he would stand up and scream at the screen, cut him, just yell, cut him.

And I would turn it like after a while. We finally asked him, like, Dion, what do you mean, cut him? He goes, if I was coaching, that is so dumb.

I would cut him on the spot. But how many times? How many times would he repeat that all the time?

It was so fun. Multiple times per game. And every time he said that, we never thought he would ever be a coach that could cut anybody.

Never. And he was just beginning to, you know, start coaching youth football, which he got into. And look at him now. He's the ultimate youth football coach right now.

And so we know. So what did he say when he said that he would start with 53 and come out at halftime with 38? 38 at halftime.

He would cut 15 people at halftime. Just like you, you, you. Get out.

There's your Louis Vuitton. Go. So we get that. But the thing that went most viral was him admitting in his process of ranking his children on Instagram.

As it should, Rich, because a lot of people can't relate to being a football coach, but how many people can relate to being a parent? Yo, Shiloh is climbing the rankings. He is.

6'6", baby. I know. Well, we put that out on Twitter. But apparently he did talk about it after the game. His daughter gave him a big kiss in the locker room afterwards as a big present. So she's first.

I mean, his ranking system, I don't know how it works. A little flimsy. But it's great that he talks about it. A little flimsy. All right. Let's hit it. It's Monday. It's time for overreaction.

Monday here on the Rich Eisen Show. Hit it. That was terrible. That was crap.

That was garbage. This place sucks. Overreaction. Mondays. Mondays. All right, Christopher, what do we have over there, sir? Hey, guys. Everybody good? Everybody's good.

What up, Chris? Unless you're 0-2. Well, that's true. You're 2-0. There are some 1-1 teams that feel 0-2, I can tell you that.

Yeah, for sure about that. You know who's probably feeling pretty good today? Who's feeling good? My man, Daniel Jones. Look, he's still way overpaid, all right?

But can we get the man some help? He did it all by himself yesterday, and now Saquon might be out. I mean, he completed 17 second half passes. Someone had to catch them. I thought you were out there for a minute. Dude, let me just tell you this about him being overpaid.

This, at this point in time, is an overreaction. Now, I might be overreacting to not saying this is proper because of what I saw in the second half, but, you know, to quote when Harry met Sally, whatever Daniel Jones was having at halftime, I'll have that too. You know, whatever Dayball was selling at halftime, I'll have what he's having. Yeah, it wasn't looking good. Here's Daniel Jones' second half numbers.

I have it ready because I figured we would discuss it today. I had so many different ones written in the first half. I know, right? They're trash, they're garbage. It's going to be bad. I know, and then you had a...

I had a cut over. How about that second half? 17 of 21 for 259 yards and two touchdowns, eight rushes, 58 yards, and one score on the ground. In a half! Daniel Jones, in a half, doing what every Bears fan thinks Justin Fields was going to do every single half, every single quarter, every single game, doing what Jalen Hurts, you know, Jalen Hurts scored a couple on Thursday, but it's one of those Bush pushes.

This dude is all over the map. Now, Saquon's hurt, let's see what happens in San Francisco. They need him to do that like all game, you know? They're 10-point dogs on Thursday. They need him to show up like vintage Kaepernick and Kaepernick's old home.

That's what they need him to do in a short week, most likely without Saquon. But I'll say what? You know, that quarterback's being paid $40 million a year. That's not overpaid. That is dirt ass cheap. So for the moment, I'll call that an overreaction and ask you to move on.

What else you got? Let's get him some help. I agreed. T.J., your man, Pooka Doggett. Pooka Doggett.

What a great nickname. Pooka Bratsy? Pooka Bratsy. Let's keep going on.

How many can we come up with? My name is Pooka. I live on the second floor.

I live upstairs from you. Here we go. What does he have, 25 catches in the first two games? Yeah, I think he set a record for catches for a single game, catches for a rookie, right? Pooka's first two games, this should change the way we look at Cooper Cup's whole 2021 season. Get out of here.

His whole record break. Cooper Cup, system wide receiver. Out of here. I can't believe you just said those words. Is Cooper Cup really good?

Well, for that to happen, Chris, then Pooka Bratsy would then have to lead the league in receptions, yards, touchdowns, and then go and win a Super Bowl. This may be the first overreaction Monday subject matter. I don't even dignify with a response. That's how crazy it is.

Although, here's my response. I do believe that all the letters of Cooper and Cup are in Pooka Nakua, except for the N, right? You might be right about that. You can't spell Pooka Nakua without spelling Cooper Cup. It's like a Cooper Cup anagram.

I'm looking at it right now. You know what I mean? All I'm saying is, you know, Cooper Cup only had 16 catches in his first two games in 2021. Oh, there's no A either? There's no A in Cup? Just saying.

Cooper Cup? It's close. That's what I'm just saying.

What else is next? All right. All right. All right. All right.

This is for Hoskins in the back. Thank you, Don Vito, for having me. You can't spell Cooper Cup without saying Pooka Nakua. Thank you for having me, Don Vito. Thank you for having me. It's very special.

Nakua Matata for Pooka Donchich. What else? Over there. Josh Allen and the Bills are back.

That's true. They're going to win the AFC East. Oh, hey, overreaction. Now, now if you just said they're back and just lay at them. Let's see what happens week four of the Dolphins, pal. Let's see what happens. Can you just stop trying to jump over people? But he was he was himself yesterday smiling and he's yelling and he's doing his thing and they're running.

They're like, screw it. Here comes Latavius Murray. We're going to roll him downhill from the five yard line. And Damien Harris scored like that's what we're talking about. Dawson Knox in the end zone.

Gabe Davis. This is what we're talking about. OK, so let's put the five alarm fire out.

Never really was out of, you know, on fire as far as I'm concerned, as you know. But the Dolphins, I have said they're the most complete team for two weeks in the AFC. And so I will have to push back and say that's an overreaction. They're going to win the AFC East. And it doesn't help the bills that there won't be a snowstorm when the Dolphins come visit in two weeks, we think.

I mean, as you know, there's a very crazy climates going on these days. What else, Chris? I'll call that an overreaction. One of the surprise 2-0 teams, Rich the Atlanta Falcons. They got Bijan Robinson best all around back in the NFL. He made a move.

I don't know. He made two moves on one run. His moves have moves. His moves have moves.

It's a great way to put it. All-around back in the NFL. Well, he's one of the few backs that's being used all around. He has 10 catches for 75 yards. He's second in the league in rushing. Who had the NFL in rushing yesterday?

I cannot say at this point in time that's an overreaction. I'll do respect to CMC. I mean, if I'm saying that the Dolphins are the most complete team in the AFC right now, I know the words right now are not on the screen right now.

On our Roku channel broadcast. But, I don't know, who else is out there doing it? I mean, Josh Jacobs, you could say? McCaffrey. McCaffrey's kind of... Yeah, I'll push back. Now that you just told me that, I'll push back.

McCaffrey's the best all-around back in the NFL right now. So that's an overreaction, but you almost had me. Almost.

You had me at Bijan. Almost. Alright, how about this one?

We're talking a lot about it. 0-2 teams. 12%? We'll be positive. 12% make the playoffs.

Way to round up, round up. Last year we knew the Bengals did it. This year, Rich, no 0-2 team will make the playoffs. No 0-2 team.

You got the list? Yeah, so the ones that kind of stand out, it's Patriots, Chargers, Bengals, Vikings. Those are kind of your big four. Hey, the Vikings still have a shot. And if the Steelers win tonight, the Bengals are already two and a half behind the Ravens. You're also looking at Steelers, you're looking at Texans, Broncos. I'll push back and call it an overreaction, but you're not too damn far off, brother. I'm going to say none of them make the playoffs.

I told you, off of the top, I'm genuinely concerned. At least the Vikings, Kirk Cousins is still winging it around all over the place, and they're just one game out of first. And their losses are against Tampa and Philly, so it's not great for conference record. They still haven't played a division opponent yet, so I'm not going to be concerned about them too much. What else, Chris?

A couple college items, guys. We can't talk enough about what Colorado's doing, right? I texted you, during their week one game, Chidor was 100-1 to win the Heisman Trophy.

What is he now? He's going to win the Heisman Trophy, guys. Chidor Sanders is going to win the Heisman Trophy. That'll be an overreaction as well.

As much as I love the Sanders family, as you know. He's 18-1. I'm just going to stick with it. It's Caleb's world we're living in right now. And there's some other guys that are balling out.

They were off last week. Right now, he deserves to be in this conversation. Now, if you're saying Chidor's going to be in New York in December, I'll say that's not an overreaction. Yeah, but... To win it all, to win the Heisman Trophy. What if they go to Oregon and win? He's got some big plays on his resume. Big plays. He's got some nice wins. And then, of course, that 98-yard drive and two-point conversion to tie it. And he said he went Brady mode after the game? I mean, in Brady's, you know, part of his NIL deals. Yeah.

I'd love it, but I said it's Caleb's to win or lose, and we'll see it in two weeks. But winning Heisman back-to-back has only happened one time. I'm well aware of it. Ever. I'm well aware of it.

In history. Thanks, Chris. You got one more? All right, last one.

How about this one? SEC, not as good. The Big Ten teams are going to kind of beat up on each other. In the final year of the conference, a Pac-12 team's going to win the Natty.

Win the Natty. They got eight teams in the top 25 right now. If you would just stop with the Pac-12's the best conference in college football, I would have sit there. Yeah, but that's obvious. They're the most ranked teams.

They're top to bottom. They're the best conference. Could you imagine if Dion had showed up two years ago, and if this had happened two years ago, the Pac-12 would never have broken up.

Never. Colorado versus Colorado State, the whole country stayed up to watch that game. Get out of here. The next two weeks are going to be lit because of Colorado alone, and then Oregon State and Washington. You know?

USC, Washington, Utah, Oregon. No, I'll just push back on that. That's an overreaction. Win the national championship, win it all. Win it all.

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I don't know what I'm saying. What's going on over there, Mikey D? How was your weekend? What'd you do? Football game. I did a crappy game.

What football game? It was bad. What?

I'm just not going to match. You don't know. You don't remember. It was an FS1. I do remember. What was it? Who was it?

No. I did Nebraska. It was actually fun. They won.

It was a 25 team. Okay. Good for you. What do we got? What is yours? What's your name? I think Washington.

You don't even know who you are. He's a no, but he's excited about it. I love your excitement. Hey, but you got Nebraska's bounce back after Dion Curb stomped him. Are you doing UCLA Utah?

Oregon State, Washington State. That's not. That's a good game too. The pack two. That's a good game. It's the pack two.

Yes. The two pack. The lone wolf. Yeah, that's a good game. That's a good game.

That's a good game. I think it's the same team. Okay. So.

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Is it Twitter too? I put it up on Twitter also. Okay, great. It's all four of us with Dion Blenders on.

Yeah, I gotta get a skate bike in here. I sent it to him. I sent it to him. I got an LOLOL. That's a lot of laughing. LOLOL. A lot of laughing out loud. I already got a couple pairs coming.

Coach likes it. This guy ordered some already. Oh, I ordered them.

Why'd you do that? Because I think. Well, he wasn't here on Friday. Oh, that's right. He said he was gonna send us some free. Yeah.

Although, I think he thinks those are the real ones that we put on. No. So we might not get them.

I don't think he could. Oh, no. Because they're not even available till December.

Yeah, they don't ship me. Also, he reposted our Instagram post of that picture and he put it on his Instagram feed on Saturday. Look at us. We're players. We're players.

You know what I mean? What I say for people is don't hate the game. Hate the player? Well, no, you don't. Don't hate the player.

Don't hate the player. Oh, no, I got it. LOLOL. LOLOL. Back here on the Rich Isaac Show. So we had Deon on him Friday and Deon said, wait till you see what we got planned pre-game for Colorado State because Jay Norvell, as we all know, was saying how he doesn't wear sunglasses and hats when he speaks to adults because that's how he was raised. I'm like, oh, boy. So Deon had his mother speak to the team. And then the team comes out of the locker room through the tunnel into the field. Lil Wayne is out there too.

Weezy F-baby. Giving a little mini concert to the crowd. I mean... It was incredible. It was the whole day. The Deon effect.

The whole day. It started on game day. I know. And he was there. And game day, Deon effect is so in effect. It's so in effect. Offset was being interviewed during the broadcast when offsetting penalties happened while offset is being interviewed. That was incredible.

That was probably the most proud you've ever been of a tweet. And they showed the live action in what's called, for a television term, an offset. That was being offset to show offsetting penalties.

I'm like, this is a Deon effect. And I said that Colorado State was gonna be thinking like they're the Washington Generals to the Harlem Globetrotters. And then the show ended and a game broke out.

After a... Well, hold on a minute. A fight broke out, then a game broke out. And then... Then there were more fights. Then the longest yard broke out in terms of football games, right? Well, Irv was there, right? He was in the longest yard.

No, he had already come back. You know what I mean? Like, this was... That hit that Travis Hunter took by Henry Blackburn.

How in the world was this kid not called for targeting? That's what I mean. I mean, this is the best two-way player in college sports right now, right? Travis Hunter? How many other college two-way players are there in college football right now? I know there's gotta be a few, but I don't know. Right. But let's just put it this way.

He's the best. Not 100 snaps. And so how is this not... Clearly, just knowing the roster alone is targeting, it's not just anybody that they picked out. 12, go get 12. And number 11 of Colorado State got 12. I mean, the ball hit the ground by the time Hunter got hit. Yeah. It was so late.

And so, my goodness gracious. And Colorado had its hands full, because Colorado State was making plays in a way that Colorado was not. They're missing Travis Hunter, who did come back on the field. I guess he thought that he could get through it, and now suddenly he's hospitalized. He's out for weeks. And sure enough, Shadore Sanders, with this game on the line, down eight, winds up driving the team 98 yards.

Unreal. Brady mode. 98 yards to tie the game and send it to overtime, in which they do win it. And the entire time I'm sitting there thinking, when I was awake, by the way, because I get to hit the hay for game day morning. I was thinking this entire time, how is Deion gonna lose this one?

I was talking to the team, Lil Wayne's coming out, the Blenders, go get yours today. Coach Prime, season two coming out, he's gonna lose this game? Well, apparently Deion was thinking the same thing. This is what Deion had to say after the win. Truthfully, it's one point in the game I said, we can't let this dude win. Ain't no way we let this dude win. This press conference is gonna be unbearable if we let this dude win. But I knew even when we got the ball on the two or three, four yard line, I said, as long as the ball is in Chidori's hands, we're gonna get down this field.

I knew that without a shadow of a doubt. And when we went to center field to talk about overtime, I told him we want the ball. I want you to have the ball. Most teams put the defense out first so you can see kind of what they do.

If you don't get, you get three, you know what you have to do. I want the offense out first. I want you to put pressure on them to get them out of their conference zone.

All right. So Deion's ready for his first overtime game, clearly, right? They took a haymaker from their in-state rival literally at one point or two. It looked like fisticuffs. And that hit, honestly, I do not know if that, how many times have we seen targeting called in college football and we're like, that, the kid's gonna get suspended for the next half or the next game, depending on when it happens for that, for the rest of the game, the kid's gonna get ejected for that.

And this kid's allowed to stay in? How the hell was that not targeting? And honestly, I don't mean to call out a college player like that, but clearly he was targeting Travis Hunter. Clearly, it's Chidor Sanders got targeted later in the game. And that kid was playing such a good game too.

Man, how the hell was that not targeting? And now Travis Hunter won't be there for Oregon and USC, which is a damn shame to say the least. But despite all of that and seeing his son, you know, like roughed, literally, figuratively before the game, they're batting down practice passes.

We're talking about practice. This is what Dion had to say after the game about Coach Norvell and Colorado State moving forward. You know, I could be petty if they petty, but I ain't got time for that, man. I'm on to bigger things. I'm happy for the brother. I really am. And I'm happy that they fought, that they played a good game.

I'm happy he's a head coach. I'm happy for any brother that's doing it and successful, man. I truly am. I don't know where all this stuff comes from.

I have to respond because, you know, it's my mama told me that, you know, you just ain't gonna take me and I'm going to sit back and ain't gonna say nothing. But I'm happy for that dude, man. I don't know him, but I'm happy for him. I wish the best for him.

I really do. Nothing. My success ain't got nothing to do with his. So why would I want him to succeed? I don't know how people get down like that. My blessings ain't got nothing to do with his blessings.

Strike in every chord perfectly. I think it's great. And just in case anybody's wondering, he's not referring to Norvell as his actual brother, because I learned that the hard way one time at the Combine. There was one guy working out whose brother was in the National Football League and I'm like saying, has there ever been an instance where a brother covers another brother in the NFL and Deon chimes in from the field?

You mean a black guy covering a black guy? I'm like, no, Deon. I posted that on our Instagram last week. That's not what I mean, Deon.

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