RE Show: NFL Week 5 Reactions - Hour 1

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Plus, your phone calls over Reaction Monday and more. And now, sitting in for Rich, it's Andrew Siciliano. Oh, man.

I'm laughing right out of the gate. Hi there. Hey, everybody.

It's a Monday. Welcome to the Rich Eisen Show. Today's guests, Rich Eisen. Yeah. We do have some other special surprises for you. Maybe even some other special guests.

I don't know. We'll be texting furiously away during this show to make you the most entertaining three hours that you want on a Monday morning or afternoon. Wherever you might be watching and listening to us on the Roku channel, on Odyssey, on the app, on Sirius XM, wherever you are finding us today. Happy Monday to you.

Hope you had a fantastic weekend. As mentioned, my name is Andrew Siciliano. We have our normal cast and crew here today, including Rich, Zooming, or maybe it's a FaceTime.

Not sure it could be a Google Meet. Later, from a hotel room in London after calling the Jaguars, beating the Bills. He'll join us later, obviously. But here, after a, to quote Hacksaw, fantastic sports weekend, Chris Brockman, ladies and gentlemen. Hey. Hey, everybody.

I'm going to be gone later in the week. I'm the new head coach of the New England Patriots. Hey, they are the number 32 team of the NFL if we were to do power rankings today. And yes, I mean that. Also here today, back from just a wild weekend that he's chronicled on his many Instagram followers, to his many Instagram followers. Still don't know how that number is as high as it is from Mike Del Tufo, everybody. People love me. People love me. I'm here.

People love you in a very, how did that number get to where it is? We'll unpack that later as I'm here all week. I'll be here all week. And TJ, TJ Jefferson, I'm not here to kick you when you're down. I said this when you walked in this morning.

I said thoughts and prayers to your Cowboys for last night. And you said, wow, coming at me right out, right out of the gate, walk into the door. Just like these Jordans I got on, just fresh out the box. Fresh out the box. Which ones are those?

I can't see them. We got some Jordan 2 black cements today, guys. Fantastic. But this, oh man, just throw that right in the trash. It's your damn act together. I had to watch Shinsuke Nakamura lose on Sunday at a WWE PLE. Who's that? And then I had to watch the Cowboys lose.

My weekend wasn't great. No, seriously, who is that? Shinsuke Nakamura, one of my, maybe my favorite professional. Is that a real person?

He's a real, yes he is. He's the King of Strong Style. And he lost on Saturday. The Cowboys lost on Sunday. I didn't have a good weekend, guys. No, I hear you. But I want to, I want to get this across to you. When you walked in and said that, like I was actually being sincere. I'm sorry for it, man.

Like I don't, I don't have a horse in that race. I was just coming at him. I was not coming at him. I'm used to Del Tufo just blowing darts at me.

And Rich, you know, having some type of smart alec comment in Brockman. So, wait, Del Tufo, you didn't post anything on Instagram about the Cowboys. Oh, yeah, I did. Oh, you did? I missed it. Oh, this morning.

Oh, this morning. Okay. Andrew, he takes such pride in being a troll.

It's incredible. I do. Hold on. Did I, do I follow you, Del?

I think I followed you, Del Tufo, over the weekend when they were telling me that you have, you know, 50,000 fake Instagram followers. Hold on, let me look this up. Wait a second now. Follow. Okay, now I do. There you go. Follow. I got it.

You got one more. Okay, good. I'm real. A real person.

Yeah, and I dressed myself today. Don't follow. 50,000 followers. So, no. If I were to take shots at you, TJ, it would be, as a grown man still watching professional wrestling, that would be my shot at you. How dare you, sir. Okay? How dare you. I will not do that. Like, I'm not going to come in on a Monday and go, I can't believe the ending to Ahsoka on Disney Plus as a Star Wars fan.

Because that's what I watched when I was a kid. Oh, wow. I'm not going to come in and go, it ruined my weekend.

I can't believe the force ghost. I'm not going to do that. No, I'm not. But if wrestling ruined your weekend, then God bless. You make yourself more relatable to millions and millions of people is all I'm saying.

Millions. I get it. Let's get to the football that ruined your weekend. Oh, boy. If we were to do power rankings, and just for the record, you could watch yours truly and Eric Edholm on the NFL Channel, which is here on the Roku Channel, the NFL Channel.

And it's a podcast downloadable wherever you find your podcast like this show as well after the show gets done. That was seamless. Well done. Yep. You like that? You're a professional. Every Tuesday as we do the NFL power rankings.

If I were to do them, which I don't, I just pick them apart as Eric does them. I would have the San Francisco 49ers who beat TJ's Cowboys, number one. And I would have Brockman's New England Patriots, number 32. Correct.

You'd be correct, sir. What about the Bears? The Bears have somebody who could win the game by himself at quarterback.

Doesn't happen all the time, but the last two weeks has been pretty good. The Patriots do not. They can score touchdowns. They can score the touchdowns.

The Patriots cannot. Well, I mean, what about the defense? The Bears defense is awful. It is.

It is. And all the secondaries hurt. But the Patriots defense without Matthew Judon and without Christian Gonzalez, not good. Not good, especially the last two weeks. Well, what about the coaching? Bill Belichick's a heck of a lot better than Matt Eberfuss.

Clearly, he's got the skins on the wall. But something has gone down in New England that is going to require some very difficult conversations this week. What's up next for the Patriots? A trip to Vegas to play Josh McDaniels and the Raiders. You want drama?

To quote Chris Myers some years ago, high drama and high def. That's coming up this weekend. Raiders, by the way, get the Packers tonight to wrap up week number five. But anyway, getting back to last night's game, the 49ers are so clearly above and beyond everyone else.

It's not even funny. And I know that the Eagles are still undefeated and they look very good yesterday. I mean, I don't care if people don't like the style that the Eagles are winning this year as opposed to last year. All they do is win and Jalen Hurts still only has one loss in the regular season these last two years. The defense, well, gave up some big yardage in the first half to Cooper Cupp and the Rams.

But in the second half, they clamped them down and they held the ball and they won. But the Niners are so much better than everyone else. I mean, what's the gap between the Eagles and the Niners? Let's ask that. I think it's pretty sizable. And what we learned yesterday is the road to the Super Bowl in the NFC, and I'm sorry, Philly fans, I do think you will lose and I don't know when the Niners will lose next, is going to go through Santa Clara. I'll say it right now. It ain't going through Dallas.

It is not. And if you are a Cowboy fan right now, maybe you're on television wearing a jersey and a big goofy hat. TJ, thanks for not doing that today. But if you're a Cowboy fan right now. He thinks that's funny, though, you know, if you're a Cowboy fan right now, I'd be demoralized because this was their Super Bowl.

I mean, it wasn't. It's week five. But the talk coming out of Dallas this week is this is our prove it to ourselves in the world game. The Niners have knocked us out, knocked us out of the playoffs the last two years in heartbreaking fashion, like Zeke is not going to play center on Sunday night in Santa Clara. Like we're coming in here with a plan. This game means everything to us.

Remember on Friday? I compared it to the NBA, right? Like NBA regular season games, especially when you get a conference first conference, right? When let's say LeBron and the Cavaliers would come in and play the Lakers when LeBron was still a Cavalier at this game and everything to the Cavaliers and Lakers like, yeah, whatever you win, you win.

If you don't, you don't. And so much of the NBA is who wants it more and who has good energy, right? It's like effort.

So much of the NBA is effort in the regular season, right? So the Cowboys put it out there. This was our effort game. This game met the world to us.

Richard Sherman on the prime video, the Amazon Thursday night post game show after the very shocked the commanders in Washington. He's a former 49er said, this game does not mean as much to the 49ers. This is the super bowl to the Cowboys, the Cowboys win.

Don't be stunned because the 49ers, although they are going to bring the juice just doesn't mean as much funny thing happened when they kicked the ball off, the 49ers are the better team and Mike McCarthy got out coached and Dak Prescott got outplayed. And the same things that you've seen in years past, Dak's like, I'm not going to throw picks. He throws picks, right? The Monday mornings where Dan Orlowski gets on the TV and says, why are you throwing the ball there?

How do you throw the ball there? Yep. It's the same nightmare scenario that you didn't think you would see. Or maybe if you're a Cowboy fan, deep down inside, you knew you might TJ deep down inside. Did you think this is how your Monday would play out? And of course, TJ, you speak now as the official spokesperson for every Dallas Cowboy fan. Well, that's a title that I've held for a while. Look, one, I've picked the Niners to beat the Cowboys since the schedule came out. I've constantly said they're a hurdle. We can't get over and until we're able to beat them, then we can't consider ourselves Super Bowl champions.

But what you said earlier, I just I have a question because you're obviously far more in tune than I am. Was it really coming out of Cowboys camp that this was our Super Bowl and like this game? Because I have a hard time believing that someone could put that much faith into a week five matchup as long as this season is. And I mean, I personally didn't look at it like it's like this is our Super Bowl. I looked at it like this is a team we haven't been able to beat and it's going to be a great measuring stick as to where we are.

And we didn't beat them and we got beat down as a matter of fact. But I can't imagine anyone on that team legitimately thinking like, this is it. Nobody said Super Bowl. Richard Sherman Thursday night said the Cowboys are talking as if it is their Super Bowl. But if you go back and look at the quotes during the week, I think the Cowboys talked this game up in a big way. They certainly knew the significance of the game.

Now granted, you have to be asked the question, how big of a game is this? And you have to fall forward and bite like Joe Burrow, for example, was asked, is it a must win? He said, yes, he delivered much different opponent. I get that.

Sure. But he put it out there. He bit, he delivered. We certainly know that this was a significant game. The Cowboys did not downplay the significance. Do we agree on that? I agree with that.

They did not downplay the significance of this game in any way, shape or form. I believe we have reaction. We now have post-game podium reaction from Mike McCarthy. I think it's a punch in the gut, it's a kick in the ass, whatever phrase you want to put on it. But I think it's clearly, but you look at how the season's gone. We've been knocked down. I mean, clearly they beat us on all three phases. So and I think we will clearly acknowledge it and I'm not a burn to take guy and I think that's a crock. We're not gonna do that. We're gonna go through it, make sure we're clear on exactly what the expectations are, make sure we're giving our players what they need to be successful.

So they played extremely well and we did not. We don't do polls or surveys here, do we? We usually don't, right? Of course we do. Okay. We're big on polls here. Would you call it a punch in the gut or a kick in the ass?

Which would you call it? Let's do it. Let's do it. Here we go. But why not both? Let's see. Cowboys lost last night. I'm putting it up.

At Rich Eisen show on Twitter. Nobody calls it X. He'll get angry about that. Punch in the gut or kick in the ass. All right, please vote.

Call us if you have a preference. Listen, Kyle Shanahan obviously knows Dan Quinn's defense quite well. They were together in Atlanta. This is the same thing the last couple of years, obviously in the postseason as well.

So this is not a big secret. But Kyle Shanahan undressed that defense last night, again, and that goes to coaching, period. I'm not doing the fire Dan Quinn, fire Mike McCarthy thing.

No, that's absurd. I think a lot of the blame on Dak today is warranted, but it will be over the top and it will be ridiculous. Yes, Dak Prescott and Brock Purdy was not a fair fight. Brock Purdy played far, far, far better. But remember, the quarterbacks don't actually get in a ring and box.

Okay. They're not playing one on one. It's not basketball. There are other factors here, like the other team's defense and Dak played poorly.

Brock Purdy played fan-tastic. What do we have here? Hoskins?

Yeah. Play Dak. Didn't see it coming. As you said, put everything into this and got punched in the mouth. About a couple of weeks ago, humbling against Arizona, but this may be the most humbling game I've ever been a part of. Felt good about the preparation, felt good about everything, honestly, coming into this game, matchups, and they beat us in every aspect. Beat us in every aspect. You never thought that the Cowboys were really in it. Like 21 to 10, maybe they get in the end zone, end of the second quarter. Maybe they get the ball back to start the third quarter.

We just never felt like they had a shot. And the Cowboys are going to be in prime time again, coming up this week. Big game in LA.

I mean, it is going to be a star-studded affair. Monday night, a week from tonight at SoFi, when the Cowboys come to town to play the well-rested Chargers, they are coming off a bye. Now, Mike Williams isn't walking in that door. Obviously, he is out for the year, but maybe Eckler, Bosa, maybe they are back to full strength. These Chargers, you also have the Kellen Moore factor coming up on Monday as well, and then the Cowboys get a much needed bye before they get the Rams, the other LA team, back in Dallas. The season is not over, right? The Cowboys are still very much a playoff team, but now with these two losses and with the Eagles winning in LA, they beat the Rams. I was there.

We'll talk about that one coming up in a little bit. The Cowboys are, in all likelihood, not going to win this division. If they could have gotten out of Santa Clara last night with a resounding victory, any victory, right? There were some people that thought the Rams were going to maybe steal one from the Eagles.

Tom, you're shaking your head over there. I'm saying it wasn't an impossibility. Was not an impossibility. It was only a four-point spread. Vegas had it, but if you watch that first quarter, even game.

Watch the first half, even game. And then second half, adjustments made, Eagles took over. Yeah. Eagles opened that game with a 13-play drive, marched down the field. Rams got the ball, 12-play drive, marched down the field. It was really impressive.

Yeah. Two great touchdown drives and the game, I don't say the game turned, but the tush-push, the brotherly shove with no time left on the clock at the end of the second quarter, Eagles get to the end zone, carried the momentum, and then shut down the Rams offensively in the second half. Eagles won the game. They're on their team and they are with the 49ers, their remaining undefeated teams. But look, the Cowboys can recover. It is a long season. I don't believe the Eagles nor the 49ers will go undefeated.

I do not think that is going to happen at all. But the Cowboys have an uphill battle now and they need to look at it as we're not going to be the one seed, probably not going to be the two seed, okay? A lot of football left to play, many stories yet to be written, but the Cowboys had a chance to write their story last night and they failed and they failed miserably. And let's give some flowers here, if we could, to Brock Purdy. He is the MVP right now. So is Tua, so is Jaylen Hurd, so is Patrick Mahomes, right?

He's in that conversation, but he deserves and he would get many votes if the voting were to happen today because we're now officially through the quarter point of the NFL season. If you were to walk into an NFL store, let's do the math here, 53 times 32, can we do that real quick calculator? Actually let's not make it 53, let's make it 69 including the practice squad times 32. There are 2,208 players on NFL rosters right now, including practice squads, okay? If you were to walk into an NFL store with all 2,208 players in the store on a rack, you could buy them.

I mean like fantasy, let's pretend, okay? But there's no name tags or, well the name tags, but there's no price tags or labels. You don't know, is this a Chanel, right? Is this a, are these Louis? Like I'm bad with the fashion. Gucci baby.

This right here is Zara, it was $49, this jacket that I'm wearing, the t-shirts of Vince. Looks great. Okay?

The pants are AG. Right? I'm not wearing anything fancy Diddy, but if you could walk into the store with every NFL player, no labels, no price tags, in other words, you didn't know that Brock Purdy was the final pick in the draft. You didn't know that Baker Mayfield was the first pick in the draft or Zach Wilson was the second pick in the draft. You follow me? Okay. You would buy Brock Purdy with one of your first five to 10 purchases.

You would, before the other 2200. So stop telling me where he was drafted, take the labels and the price tags off and stop trying to knock this guy down. Trey Lance had the same answers to the test that Kyle Shanahan gives Brock Purdy. Trey Lance couldn't get it done. Nick Mullins has had the same answers to the test that Kyle Shanahan gives Brock Purdy.

Couldn't get it done. Jimmy Garoppolo had the same answers to the test. He played really, really well. Could have won a Super Bowl. I know you guys are still bitter.

He overthrew that ball in Miami. Almost got there. Did really well on the test. Really well. Brock Purdy has done better.

You get my point. Kyle Shanahan's the best offensive coordinator in the NFL. All due respect to Sean McVay, Brian Johnson, right now, all the others. He's the best. We agree. He gives you the answers to the test, but nobody takes that test and throws the football and executes that test better than Brock Purdy. I don't care where he was drafted.

Take the labels and the price tags off. He is playing better than any one of the NFL and that includes Tua and that includes Mahomes and that includes Josh Allen. That team collectively came back down to earth a little bit yesterday.

Maybe getting off a red-eye Friday morning wasn't the best idea or maybe just the Jaguars had that much of an advantage being there for two weeks. Regardless, we'll talk to Rich coming up next hour. He'll give us his insight on that. Brock Purdy deserves and demands your respect, period.

End of conversation. You think he's MVP, Andrew? There's a little bit of separation now in the betting odds. Patrick Mahomes, your leader, Tua and Patrick Mahomes basically have the same odds, plus 450. Josh Allen, Jalen Hurts, Brock Purdy, all 7-1.

And then a big leap. Christian McCaffrey 15-1, followed by Lamar Jackson 20-1, Trevor Lawrence 22-1, Herbert 25-1. So this is one of those, I know we're going long here, this is one of those where you can give it to Mahomes every year because you put Patrick Mahomes on any team. He automatically makes them a Super Bowl contender. There's a different conversation to have. Can you go put Brock Purdy on the Carolina Panthers and make them a Super Bowl contender?

No, you can't. But he'll make them that much better, I do believe. So if we're going to have the caveat that Mahomes deserves to win it every year until further notice, fine. But this year it's Brock Purdy's award. They've won 15 consecutive regular season games. They've scored 30 straight, they scored 30 or more in eight straight. The last team in the NFC to do that is The Greatest Show on Turf.

Put that in perspective. All those guys, by the way, were at SoFi yesterday to honor Dick Vermeil. That was kind of cool. All right, 8-4-4-2-0-4 Rich will take in phone calls today. We are taking phone calls today, 8-4-4-2-0-4 Rich. We're on the Roku channel. We're on Sirius XM.

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Are you happy to talk to you again? Are you really, George? We saw your Instagram, George. We saw it. We saw it. I don't mean to interrupt what's going on.

You know, you're on vacation with your wife, right there in Cabo. Is that what's going on right now? Did I see that? Hey, between you and me, and don't tell anybody else, I am actually back in Nashville. That's that's from last week.

Don't tell anybody. And here I was, you know, go say hi to McVeigh and go say hi to, you know, Stafford. But there you are. Okay.

So this was last week. You were on the Okie-Doke. I was saying I was Kyle Shanahan instead, but that's kind of my... That's your speed. Okay. Well, okay. Good. Now I don't feel as bad. I don't feel like...

I'll go to Cabo with you too, and you look like you know how to have a good time. Well, here's my deal, George. Here's my deal.

And this is... It's not just because I'm a 51-year-old man. This is the way I've been my entire life. Tequila is a night ender for me. Like literally, if it's two in the afternoon, which I would never really do these days anyway, it's over. My night's over.

Finished. I know it's something like a blast, but you know, it's true. Tequila and I just don't mix with tequila.

Never have. Rich, you should see the look that my dad just gave the phone after hearing you say that. I hope my day started when I'm here. What are we doing? All right.

You should just come to Tennessee and we'll get that fixed for you. Okay. So what is your... It's a mindset and you just power through it. Okay. It's a mindset.

I never really thought about that. So what is your libation of choice when on vacation, George? What is it? Ooh. What's your go-to? I'm a big light, I'm a big pina colada guy, and I absolutely, I love tequila just in general.

Okay. I'll drink that about anything. Happy birthday, by the way, to George Kittle there on that Rich Eisen Show In The Vault clip there. He turns 30 today, one of my favorite people in the NFL, hands down, and he scored three touchdowns last night to celebrate his 30th birthday. Brock Purdy... Andrew, you know who I can't... What should happy birthday do today? Oh, come on, TJ.

George Kittle. I just... Come on. Come on.

TJ, you're bitter, man. What if I told you... What if I told you? That Brock... What if I told you? That Brock Purdy is thrown 22 career touchdown passes, 10 of them have now been to George Kittle. George Kittle, I tweeted this out last night, George Kittle needs to buy Brock Purdy a house. Like, Kittle got paid, Purdy is still living with, like, three other dudes and makes $850k a year. Which is good American money.

Good American money. Which we made. But for an NFL player, you know, that's bottom of the rung.

Correct. Like, hook the bro up, dude. He made you an all-pro last year, he's finding you countless times. You don't think those guys take care of him? And I don't mean, like, Venmo-ing him a million on a Friday night and saying, go get a nice dinner like you and the boys. Could you imagine? I don't know. You can't actually Venmo that much money. You can't Venmo that much money. Yeah. Your Uncle Sam will step in and- For sure.

Yeah, you can't do that. No, I do think that they take care of the kid. I don't mean under the table, salary cap- No, but- Breaking- Some gifts and- Donations- Like a jet ski or something now and then?

A jet ski. Because that's all they need to do. Have you seen Nahim Hines recently? I mean, come on. Off season, he's an Iowa kid, they probably like jet skis on the lake, but like, come on. Buy him a tractor.

Like, hook him up with some stuff, dude. I don't know. Hey, by the way, I'm Andrew. You're an NFL quarterback. You can't have a roommate.

Why not? Isn't that endearing? Remember when Phillip Lindsay lived with his parents? If Brock Purdy lived with his parents, who they showed countless times on the game last night, that would be cooler than living with a roommate. How about the outrage on Twitter? Did you see the outrage on Twitter last night? It was like Taylor Swift like, stop showing me Brock Purdy's parents.

People just get mad about every and anything now. I'm kidding. How about the broadcast pumping up the dad's spa business? The hot tubs.

The spa, mattresses, whatever it was, okay. At first I thought he said hot dog company. I was like, oh, they sell hot dogs. And then I was confused when they start showing hot tubs. And I was like, oh, I misheard what he said. A million dollars worth of advertising.

Well, if you could get in the hot tub time machine and go back, everybody would have drafted Brock Purdy. Great white buffalo. I owe you a Granger. Don I Hoskins?

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Call or click Granger.com or just stop by. So last segment, who cares about that, before we went to commercial like segments, like annoying TV terms and all that. Last time we were talking here a couple of minutes ago. I said that if you took all the labels and price tags off all the players in the NFL, there are roughly 2200 of them on active and practice squad rosters. And you said, hey, this is the NFL player store. Buy your players.

You have no idea where they came from, no idea what they cost, no idea what the labels are, what schools they went to. That would really be the label, I guess, if you would. You would find Brock Purdy would be one of the top 10 items purchased because of the way he's playing right now. I think he is the MVP. I truly do.

You guys, Brockman, Del Tufo, TJ, pushed back during the break. Would you like, and yes, we're ranking things, I know low hanging fruit to quote Mike Mayock. We are ranking things here, but you don't think he would be a top 10 purchase? No. Okay, well, let's do it. Mahomes. Mahomes, obviously. Okay. Micah. Okay. Now, are we doing offense or defense here? It doesn't matter. Just overall players in the NFL.

2200 players in the store. There's just no way Brock Purdy is going to be top 10. Okay. Well, his teammate, Nick Bosa, I think is on that list.

Okay. So, Jefferson. We got Mahomes, Micah, Miles, the three M's.

Get them out of the way. TJ Watt. Then we got, I got TJ Watt there. So that's four. That's four.

Then we got Justin Jefferson, right? Cheetah. Yep.

Say again. Cheetah. Tyreke Hill. Tyreke Hill. McCaffrey. McCaffrey.

McCaffrey. Burrow. Burrow. Mmmm. Mmmm. Mmmm.

I think he's Brock Purdy. Mmmm. Mmmm. I like Chris Jones. I like him a lot. I kind of think... Mmmm. Okay.

Okay. I'll give you Chris Jones. I like Chris Jones. Zoss.

Mmm-mmm. No? Love him. I think he's a great player. Who's the best defensive back in the league then? Fine.

Zoss. Okay. Is he going to be one of the top 20 items off the shelf?

Off the shelf. Playing defensive back and stopping the pass in this league is pretty important. I think it's vitally important. After what I saw last night.

I don't know though. My now, my least favorite NFL player, Fred Warner. Okay. That guy is a monster. How about Lamar?

Lamar? Better than Brock? Oh boy, you're making a face. He hasn't shown it to me this year. It's not his fault. He hasn't shown it to me this year. He hasn't shown it to me this year.

Rashad Bateman. There's something wrong with that offense. Everybody... Really? It looked great last week. They made 10 points against a team they should have waxed yesterday. Okay, you're right. What if... Again. Is it his fault that Rashad Bateman dropped a touchdown?

Week, week, week. No, Aguilar. Is it his fault Nelson Aguilar dropped a touchdown? Is it his fault Zay Flowers had the dropsies yesterday? Is it his fault... Is it his fault he threw a pick in the end zone?

He threw a pick in the end zone. That was a nice play by Joey Porter Jr. Also, Zay Flowers got, you know, four-armed like AJ Styles. He got a phenomenal form to the throat by TJ White. Not Sonny Styles. AJ Styles. Don't know who the AJ is. Don't know who the Sonny is. He plays safety for Ohio State. He plays Purdue coming up Saturday at Ross 8 on Peacock. Is it Lamar's fault that TJ Watt punched Zay Flowers in the throat?

Like right in the larynx and didn't get flagged. It isn't. I'm gonna put Lamar on my list. Okay. Okay. AJ Brown.

I mean, it's fine. AJ Brown? He's having a good year. He's crushing. Which, by the way, Brock... What did I tell you the day after AJ Brown got into it with Jalen Hurts, I said, he's gonna start getting the ball and it's gonna hurt Smith. And look what happens. When you say hurt Smith, you mean in a fantasy perspective?

I mean, in a real life perspective, too. Like he hasn't... What's he done since AJ Brown's been on fire? Vonte Smith is not caught in the ball for a while. Do we put two on the list? Aha. Do we put two on the list? Absolutely. Is he... Are we still in the 10 or have we expanded this to a 20 man shopping list? We're about 20 right now. So far, I got Holmes, Micah, Miles, Allen, TJ. That's five, JJ, six, Tyreek, seven.

Can't read my own writing. Who is that? We got McCaffrey. McCaffrey. McCaffrey.

That's what that is. Okay. Eight.

Burrow, nine. Allen, 10. What about Stefan Diggs? Diggs?

No, I wouldn't because of age. I'm sorry. I love Stefan Diggs. Jamar Chase? Jamar Chase? Yeah. Kelsey? I put it there ahead of AJ. Kelsey?

No, end of the career. I mean, last five years. Obviously. There are a lot of things here.

There are a lot of different parameters, these long-term purchases, short-term purchases. Either way, if we want to expand it to 20, maybe 10 is a bit extreme, I will pull it back a bit. Brock Purdy is within my top 20 purchases. He's playing that well. Period. I mean, that's it.

Stop trying to take away from the kid's success because everyone got it wrong. He's third in MVP odds right now. He has to be on the list. He's playing, but the people wake up every day or wake up every Monday and seemingly want to find a way to knock Brock Purdy and tell me that it's all Kyle Shanahan.

Okay. We just listed the other quarterbacks that Kyle has had of late that had been good, but not this good. So give him credit for being this good. Give him credit for the way his teammates speak of him, right?

Just listen to his teammates speak about Brock Purdy and the way he performs and the fire that he brings and the perfection that he demands. He missed Brandon Aiyuk on that one yesterday. He missed him. Threw one bad ball.

They came back in the third quarter, ran the same thing. He got it. Probably shouldn't have thrown it.

Leighton Vander Esch played it better. Still got it over his hand. Still got it there because he had to prove that the one that he screwed up, he can still do. He can still throw. And with that defense, yeah, I don't know that I see anyone beating them. They've won 15 straight games. They lost a game because they didn't have a quarterback, which is their fault.

By the way, I've already told you, I thought they totally butchered the way they ran, the way they put together their roster in the postseason. That's on them. You didn't need a rule change to fix what the Niners did. The Niners didn't have another quarterback ready. They tried to keep Garoppolo in the active roster, not put them on IR and keep them available potentially for the end of the year if they made it to the Super Bowl. That's on them.

All right. You didn't need a third quarterback rule. You didn't need the emergency quarterback rule change here to cover for the 49ers.

They gambled and lost last year in Philadelphia with the way they managed their roster, period. But anyway, Brock Purdy is what he is. And what he is, is pretty spectacular. The other NFL headlines we are looking at this morning, things that you need to kind of plan your week around here, Anthony Richardson, who showed up with a blinged out ant around his neck yesterday. Did you see that?

That was super cool, actually. Hoskins forgot to mention that. Hoskins, by the way, we were like, we'll pull the curtain back. Obviously, Rich talks to Hoskins producing in the other room.

If we could find the cult social at one point, no rush. He walked in with a giant blinged out ant around his neck. As we said on NFL Game Day Preview on the NFL Channel yesterday, he had a blinged out ant.

And I don't mean like your aunt. He had a blinged out ant around his neck. He could be out a month with a shoulder. He could go on IR.

So fire up the 70s style van. It is Gardner Minshew's team for maybe a month now in Indianapolis. Matt Milano is likely out for the year, and that is devastating for the Buffalo defense. A Bills team, which when Rich and I were talking, and we're all talking last Friday before they played in London, we all thought needed to be in the conversation for the best team in football. Their defense now in successive weeks has lost Tradevius White and Matt Milano, maybe the two most important players on that defense.

And they get Von Miller back, but they lose Tradevius White and Matt Milano. Matt Milano is the best linebacker in football that we don't talk about. The players in the league talk about him. The coaches talk about him, but he doesn't get the pub. Partly because he never talks, and when he does talk, it's weird. Let's just put it that way.

As Rich kind of alluded to Friday, check out his social media. He is an out there dude, but he's an exceptional football player. He's the brains in the middle of that defense.

Not just the brains, not just, oh, he's the heady linebacker that knows where to play. No, he plays his tail off and they are going to miss him. That is a massive blow. He's likely out for the year. Travis Kelce looks to be okay, came back on the field and got back in the end zone. The other one to watch here is Justin Jefferson with the hammy. Don't know how bad it is.

He couldn't finish that game yesterday, and hammy can't finish the game. Usually a bad sign. Usually at least a week. Don't want to speculate. Maybe more for Justin Jefferson. Keep your eyes open on that one. And looking ahead to week six, the Browns were back on the practice field today. They're coming off a bye. So the Browns, the Bucks, the Seahawks, and the Chargers all had byes yesterday.

Deshaun Watson not seen on the field as the Browns opened up practice on Monday. Dorian Thompson Robinson, who underperformed, to put it nicely, was the number one with PJ Walker, the former Carolina quarterback. The former Houston Roughneck of the XFL as the number two. Who do the Browns get this week, you ask? Sunday in Cleveland? Anybody raise your hand if you know?

Chris? The San Francisco 49ers. They get rock pretty in the San Francisco 49ers as the DeBartolo family, Youngstown natives, come back home-ish, home adjacent, 90 minutes away with their undefeated 49ers.

DeBartolos and Yorks. That is. Those are your NFL headlines to watch.

Also can I just pat myself on the back? Oh. Oh. So yesterday on NFL Game Day Preview on the NFL Channel, noon Eastern, check your local listings on your connected device. We make a Sunday statement, kind of like a bold prediction.

We just reimagine them and call them something else. My Sunday statement was, Joe Burrow throws three touchdowns and the Bengals win. Ding, ding, ding. Joe Burr is back. Joe Burrow threw three touchdowns and the Bengals win. Yes he is back. Ja'Marr Chase is back. But the big thing here, not that they won, is that Joe Burrow moved like Joe Burrow. His Madden speed rating is probably still, what do we think, like in the 70s?

Probably. Right? But he moved fluidly and he looked like himself, and that's all that matters. The Bengals offense can be fixed if he is something other than a statue. He moved.

He threw 15 completions, 15 to Ja'Marr Chase, and he looked just fine. And they're back. They're totally back. Save the season. They're two and three. The Steelers are somehow three and two, somehow, with wins over the Browns and the Ravens.

Somehow. The Ravens have beaten the Browns and the Bengals, but now they're three and two. They're not in first, and they have to go to London to play the Titans. I mean look at that division.

It's tough. That division will eat its young. I mean that division, that division is a bloodbath.

Nine and eight, ten and seven for the winner of that division, probably. I mean all the what ifs, right? Like if Deshaun Watson and the Browns hadn't given the Steelers two touchdowns, right? If they call pass interference, it should have been called, on Joey Porter Jr., right? On fourth down on the final drive, maybe the Browns win the game. They didn't.

I know. What if the Ravens don't draw three touchdown passes yesterday? All these what ifs here, but right now the Steelers with a bad offense.

There's no other way to say it. A bad offense that woke up in the fourth quarter yesterday to its credit. The Steelers find themselves in first, somehow, in that division. All right, coming up on the Rich Eisen Show, what we learned about the Dolphins yesterday, what we learned about the Lions yesterday, and we'll get to it eventually, why the Patriots are the worst team in football.

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He's not going to do that. I didn't go that hard. He was terrible. He was terrible. Part of you, so furious at David Price. I was so furious. But you were kind of feeling good, though. Like you were getting it off your chest, like you could have been- It was therapeutic, but like- See what I'm saying? That's what, what's with, is there something about- Name another sports fan that sees that guy- I don't know. Just like, I'm, maybe I'm just a much more Sonny disposition type guy. Were you screaming at Harbaugh? Oh, this is about him.

This is about how great he is. Oh, now I see where this is going. I was confused. No. No, Rich, I, okay. You spoon fed it to me. I want to tell you something, Rich.

Out of all the sports shows I go on, I think you are the nicest, most even keeled, pleasant, respectful to other fan base. No, I just think it goes back to like the tea party. You know, it goes all the way back to like, like you don't feel represented. You feel like you're taxed. You feel like a taxed sports fan. Do you feel it? Do you feel the jealousy? Don't you love that? You feel that? You haven't been represented in the sports universe.

It's always great when I have another teammate come into studio. Cause I'm teamed up against two-on-one with the New York. Don't you hate anytime like there's a big Boston, uh, game, what they show, they always show like lighthouses, lobster fishermen, and Paul Revere like, oh yeah, that's Massachusetts. I didn't see, I never saw any of that. You know, who goes to a tourist attraction in your own city? Exactly. You only do it when relatives come to town. Oh, do you want to go to the USS constitution?

Oh, do you? Here's where Cheers is. You want to go stand in line down there? Well, have a great time. I'm going to go to a dive bar. Where do you want to go next? You want to go to Cheers? Just to let you know, it doesn't look like that when you go inside.

So just take a picture outside. Oh my God. Oh my God. I love Bill Burr again, for those watching on the Roku channel, a little Bill Burr bit about, Hey, coming to Boston, wanting to see all the touristy stuff and yeah, let's go do it. I grew up in the DC burbs. And so whenever anyone came to town, Hey, let let's go see Congress or let's go see the Smithsonian or the air and space museum or the white house or the Capitol and my brother and I, and really all the kids that grow up there because you don't get it right. And every field trip you take as a kid, when you grow up, you realize how lucky you are is to see all those properties and our, our country and our history and everything there in Washington, that kids from all across America, get their one high school trip to come see, like we're like, really, really? You want to go to the Washington monument, really? It's cool.

You want to go to the air and space museum. We've been there a hundred times really. But then you, you realize, Hey, you know what though?

You're pretty lucky to do that when you, when you get a little bit older and you get a little perspective in life, which you know, none of us have when we are younger. All right. So the phone number here, where's my other piece of paper, the phone number for the sitting in for rich by the way, who joins us shortly in my school. You had to be a patrol. You had to do the patrol for like a year in order to get a chance to go to Washington to see the monument, like with the orange belt and all that.

I believe it was sixth grade we did it. So you had to be a patrol for a whole year. You had to be in good state. So did you win the trip? Of course I won.

Okay, there you go. And I used to walk kids to and fro across this street, heavily trafficked and all that. Of course I did that. That's pretty cool.

And then got to see the Washington Monument. Were you more crossing guard or bouncer? Because I was always one of the small kids. I was too. Okay, really? I didn't hit a growth spurt until like 11th grade. So I was always a little on the smaller side. So I wasn't really bouncing. You know, I was more like, you know.

You weren't throwing dudes out the crosswalk. No. Okay, 844204 Rich. Let's go to the phones, as somebody once said. Let's do it. Terzo in Iowa. Terzo, you're on the Rich Eisen Show, Terzo.

What's up, guys? Hold on, wait a minute. Whoa, whoa, whoa, Terzo, you have your own art here?

Terzo is a goodist. Yeah, I mean, it's a long story, Andrew. It really is.

That looks like a bitter Carl Saul billboard. Exactly. Wow, okay. He's a lawyer. Terzo's our counsel. All right, Terzo, let's go for it.

What do you got? Get it out, Terzo. Say what you're gonna say. What was that, TJ? I said, go ahead, get it out. Say what you're gonna say. No, no, no, TJ was a punch in the mouth, man.

I wanted a little bit more of a competitive game, but to be quite frank. But the Niners just played just so much better. And I just think whenever I called in and I talked about you losing digs, I thought that that was one of the most pivotal things of the season because that takes away so much of that power that you have on defense that it doesn't allow Michael Parsons as much room to roam. And we saw that with the Niners being able to throw the ball all over the field. And that's just a tough offense to stop because it seems like every guy on that field can catch the football.

And that's tough to stop. Yep, they attacked the edges. Diggs would have helped a lot in run support there as well. And now we have two of the top corners in the league, done it for the year. And Trevon Diggs and Tredavious White for the Cowboys and the Bills respectively. And man, that was a punch in the mouth. Hey, Terzo, just so you know, we could have had Charles Haley, Russell Maryland, Ken Norton, and Darren Woodson, and it wouldn't have mattered last night.

Yeah, you're not wrong. And I'm happy that you claimed at this point in time that your least favorite player is Fred Warner because that dude is a beast. When he was chasing your receiver down the field, he was getting burnt. But that is amazing to watch a linebacker run that fast down the field. And I'm the least favorite, respectfully, because man, he just gets busy against us. Fred Warner could have played tailback.

He could have taken that pitch like Jordan Mason and gone untouched left side into the end zone. Terzo, thank you for the call. And I'm- All right, brother. I'm flattered. Not flattered, actually. I'm flattered was the wrong word.

Andrew, use better words. I'm impressed. I'm impressed that you had your own full screen available. Does Jeff in Detroit have a full screen available?

He does. Are you kidding me? Come on. Hey, guys.

You guys really know how to make people feel at home. What's up, Jeff? What's going on, Andrew? Well, first of all, Rich is my uncle. DJ and Chris are my cousins. And yeah, it's kind of like that. Jeff, are you law enforcement? I was one of the original callers when the show first started. That's why I'm calling in to console my cousins, because this time last year, they had me on the couch telling me the Lions are going to get through it, this, that, and the other.

Now, the roles are kind of reversed. And it's funny because as I'm sitting here thinking, I wonder who America is taking more pleasure in seeing misery from, the Cowboys or the Patriots, considering, you know, what we've had to kind of deal with through the, over the years. But I want to talk about a quarterback. I want to talk about a quarterback who was in LA, sunshine, and took his team to the Super Bowl, stars all over the place.

And the next thing you know, you wake up and you're in Detroit. You get here and you're like, what's going to happen with this guy? And he has done nothing but been the most professional person, put his head down and the ball out. Jared Goff is our guy. And from his trade, he has let us have a roster.

From his trade, we've gotten so many jewels. I mean, what are they doing in Iowa, man? Are they just making tight ends down there?

They are, Sam Laporta being the latest. Jeff, I got to cut you off because we're short on time. Jeff, thanks for the phone call.

Is Jeff real law enforcement there as well, or that? He used to be. I'm so happy for Jared Goff, can I say that? I think it's fantastic that they are winning like they are winning. The Lions are a top 10 team. They're a top eight team. They're a top seven team. And Jared Goff's going to get paid again, people.

This may stun you. He is going to get another massive bag, maybe next year. Because there's a inflection point, as we call it, as what I call it, for contracts here for Jared Goff after this season. And I think that before last season, or maybe even midway through last season, let's say midway, before the Lions picked it up and went on that roll, maybe even in December of last year, where you really weren't sure, is this for real with what we're seeing? There was just an assumption, Jared Goff's got one more year, right? Maybe even into the off season. That's why you're draft-handed hooker and you're red shirt him, right? Jared Goff's got one more year.

I don't think so anymore. I mean, last off season, you talk to people close to that quarterback circle and the cross pollination of all the coaches and the GMs on the Shanahan tree, right? And people were trying to say, well, maybe Jared fits here. Maybe Jared fits there next off season, right? Maybe Purdy doesn't work out. Kirk Cousins, maybe that doesn't work out. Obviously this is probably his last year in Minnesota, right? Like where do we put Jared here or there, right? We got a long way to go here. The Lions are gonna pay Jared Goff again, guys. Write it down. They're gonna have to.

How much? Who cares? The money's the money. I'm saying he's gonna get a Daniel Jones type deal. He deserves more, doesn't he?

I agree. More than Jones, sure. Jared Goff is going to get paid again. A year ago, if I told you that, you would have laughed me out of the room.

Rich, live in London. Coming up on the Rich Eisen Show. Every Monday, Rich Eisen and Chris Brockman react to what's happening in the world of football on Over Reaction Monday. Over Reaction Monday, the podcast wherever you listen.