REShow: Rich Eisen from London - Hour 2

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Hope you're doing well. It's a Thursday it is the start to week six tonight, as Taylor Swift will be in the house allegedly reportedly according to TMZ and the Chiefs will try to end or rather the Broncos will try to end a 15 game losing streak to the Denver Broncos. It's been seven and a half years since the Broncos beat the Chiefs for recreational purposes. Only I guaranteed last hour that the Chiefs will beat the Broncos tonight.

I just cannot in any way, shape or form. See the Broncos getting wind and I think on a national stage tonight after the Randy Gregory trade a week ago and after Frank Clark, we does his contract. According to our friends at NFL Network this morning to make him more tradable. I think tonight begins the conversation on a national stage with Al and with Kirk to avoid the team and Taylor Swift cutaways.

What do the Broncos do now and who else is up for sale as we approach the trade deadline? Regardless, we're happy that you are here. Okay, watching us on a Thursday. Kyle Rudolph is here next hour. Talk a little ND, Notre Dame and USC coming up in the Ohio State game as well. He'll be in the broadcast booth with me Saturday at Ross Aid Stadium at Peacock and in the broadcast booth at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium coming up on Sunday. NFL Network NFL Plus for Lamar Jackson and the Ravens and Derek Henry and the Titans. Rich Eisen with a new background. Yeah, you missed this yesterday while you were chilling with Marvin Harrison Jr. Thank you for helping with that.

Yeah, where are you? I made my own pottery. Fantastic. You know what we call it?

Harry pottery. Thank you. Listen, I'll be out of here.

Ladies and gentlemen, that's called bringing your egg. Game. Yes. Rich, I want to give you an insight to what our first hour was like. Care to weigh in on the poll? More.

Yeah, you have no choice. I'm gonna ask you more likely. And this is an insight to our last hour. More likely aliens, Bigfoot or the Broncos win tonight. Stupid.

Oh my God. Did you see the Bigfoot video? Did you see Bigfoot yesterday? No, what happened? Brockman did the poll. What happened?

I had nothing to do with it. No, I missed it. There's a video that's going around. It's on all the media.

Major news services. A couple on a train in rural Colorado took a video and this is a clear one like out in the brush. There is a Bigfoot. The question is, is it a real Bigfoot?

Here's the video. Can you see this? Hold on. Yeah. See, he takes a seat. He takes a seat because he's tired.

He blends in with the brush. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. And it's definitely not a human being just deciding to put on something. Sort of a Sasquatch suit because those things don't happen these days. The world is completely insane and upside down. That's what I think it is. Why he's doing that in the middle of the brush.

In the middle of nowhere in Colorado. Guys, let's talk about more important things. Let's talk about more important things. I cut myself about 10 minutes ago. Are you okay?

What happened? Yeah. Well, I mean, you know, I decided I decided to, you know, yeah, clean up a little bit for the Ravens and the Titans. You know what I mean?

Yeah. And so but don't worry. I'm probable for the broadcast on Sunday. That's my current injury designation. Did we require medical assistance?

Is there a tourniquet? I'm fine. I'm fine.

I don't know. Just really just a tissue. That's all.

It was just quick and done. But other than that, I would vote aliens. Actually, that's what I would vote.

I would vote aliens because I don't think the Broncos are winning tonight on a short week. But crazier things can happen. I was asleep thinking the Bears are going to be 0 and 5 and Ibroflus is going to be on the hot seat. And I woke up and I'm like, really? Let me grab my glasses. And then I started reading.

And then 40 to 20 was the final score. So crazier things have happened. And actually, you know, the things that you should ask is things that Al Michaels is probably going to talk about more than Taylor Swift tonight.

I would go aliens, then Sasquatch. You know, that'll be a fun one tonight. So she is supposedly in the belt. She was at the Grove last night. In Los Angeles.

She was a movie for the big. You're flying back east. At any rate, today, I was hanging with the Ravens. I'll tell you a little bit about that later on in the in the hour. But the one thing that I that caught my eye from the last 24 hours are the Philadelphia Phillies and seeing what happened in the National League Championship Series on Wednesday night. And how Bryce Harper is becoming one with the city of Philadelphia in terms of the sports fans falling in love with him, with him performing to the top of his craft when chips are down to just the way he handles his businesses is quite Philadelphia. And for him to last night take into the game, the the sort of spite and anger of hearing about, I guess, was this caught on video? Was this was this, like, overheard on video or something like that, where the teammates heard Arcea sort of have his fun at at at Harper being caught and doubled off the rare 853 walk off to it was not caught on video.

Somebody mentioned it. A reporter overheard a conversation for what we all understand. The conversation was in Spanish. So there's a question as to something was something lost in translation. And regardless, it got to Harper.

And then, yeah, you saw the Stair Dad. There's a great clip as well, which I don't think we do have. But Braves radio based not not not not trashing the reporter, but basically saying, like, why is this a thing like I get it. You want to get fired up about something.

Find your motivation wherever you find motivation. But here's why. Rich, he found it. Well, here's the thing is that it mattered to Harper. Right. And what he and Castellanos showed up in Dion Sanders gear where they were wearing the phrase that I guess Dion said in relation to the Colorado State head coach that they mess with the wrong person. And now they made it personal. And and it's funny how Harper said after the game that he was he had second thoughts about wearing it because he knew that Dion is an Atlanta brave from back in his playing days when he went to the World Series. But the fact that he showed up and he hit those two home runs and stared down our CEO while circling second base is truly one of the more northeast Philadelphia type middle finger moments that will endear him to the fan base. And if a Yankee did it, Brockman, I think if a if a Red Sox did it, I think he that that player would have had to say hello, certainly if he if if if he brings them within the brink of a championship series. And that's what I thought. And then I saw his sound bite after the game. And it was it was an instant classic. This was Harper after the game. How much motivation did the comment from the Braves shortstop give you going into the game? No, I mean, it's a super competitive game that we play and, you know, from both sides of the ball and I enjoy commentary and things.

And like I said, I listen to WIP and you hear a lot of stuff on there as well at times. And I just enjoy it. It's why it's a part of the reason why we play this game.

And there's nothing like it. Everybody's competitive that we play against. And I just really enjoy those moments and the opportunity to play this game and have those moments.

Was there any motivation? I mean, any time anybody says something, right? I mean, that's what it's all about. You enjoy staring him down.

Yeah, I mean, I stared right at him. We don't even know if it really was said it doesn't matter, right? How many times in the Jordan documentary where where where it didn't happen, but it's not Jordan fueling his fight. Well, listen, I just found it interesting that he also listens to the local sports talk radio there, which means he's perfect for the city. Now, obviously, the Braves are an incredibly talented team and can win the next two and can make the National League Championship Series. But I kind of respect what he what he's doing. It may be disrespectful if you're Arcea, but it is something that he is channeling. And it's kind of wild to me because it's happening at the same time as Nick Sirianni is taking the Eagles to championship games. And having that id of the Philadelphia sports fan on the sidelines, much to the rankling of the rest of the sports world. I can already sense your irritation at this topic, Chris, because I know the Braves are near and dear in your household right now. But this is this is just an interesting period where the head coach of the Eagles is acting in such a way on the sideline. It's kind of similar to Harper circling the bases in a National League Divisional Series.

And this soundbite from Sirianni yesterday about his sideline demeanor caught my ear before I even saw anything from the National League Divisional Series. Check it out. I'm animated and a lot. Right. And so I don't think I can myself I can be animated on the sideline and then ask anybody else not to be. I think that's part of the game. Emotions, part of the game, getting to the root of the problems, part of the game.

And it happens just like you have a coaching a way to have a coaching point. Sometimes it's going to be delivered with a smack on the butt. Sometimes it's going to be delivered with a yell. Sometimes it's going to be delivered whatever it is right there.

Same way it can happen with with animation on the sideline. Right. And so to me, that's that's healthy.

And when you're connected and when you're together. Right. The only thing that matters is that we're getting better from it. But emotions, shoot, man, if we if I had to take emotion off the out of our sideline, I'd have to go sit in the press box.

So I don't see many head coaches doing that. So, yeah. And and he's the guy when I saw Harper circling the bases and standing, staring at Arcea and then speaking afterwards, I'm like, who does he what does it remind me of?

And it's it's Suriani. They kind of look alike, too. And just, you know what I'm saying? Like, look at that split right there that we have.

They kind of, you know, have the similar sort of look in their. Striding atop the Philadelphia sports scene right now and and and and Harper is one more. Win away from joining the Eagles in a championship series season, you know, and having and having a sports town, have your baseball and your football team make a championship game in the same calendar year.

Man, I'm I don't know how far off the Yankees and the you know, and the Jets are the Giants or the Mets are from that front. I know, Chris, you've had it more recently. I know, you know, Andrew, you've you've you've been searching for that.

Your whole natural born life. It is and it is something that, you know, I I just wanted to pause and kind of point out, you know, my first comments. You know what I loved about what Harper said there, the first one when he said he listens to WIP. It sounded to me as if he said he doesn't listen to IP, the sports radio station in Philadelphia, to to listen to a breakdown of whether or not Brian Johnson's play design is now different from Shane Steichen's. And perhaps that is stifling.

Jaylen hurts his growth. He listens. It sounded like rich specifically for inspiration and to be motivated by slights. Like I want to hear the hosts or the callers say that we're not going to win this series or that our rotation is screwed up or that or that. Harper didn't come through in the clutch on a random Tuesday against the Brewers the night before. He needs that fuel like I'm on the way to the ballpark and put on sports radio because I need to get fired up when I walk in the clubhouse.

Isn't that what it sounded like? Bless him. Yeah, you know, I it's so rare. It's so it's so rare to see that certainly in a northeast athlete athlete.

And that's why you've got to hold on to him while you can, you know. And wasn't that Trey Turner's thing this year, too? He was listening to the radio and he was slumping and getting bashed by fans. And then he turned it on and then he put up a billboard thanking everyone for talking crap about him.

Yes. Well, no, no, I think it was the billboard was actually thanking the fans who who gave him an ovation because he was in such dire straits. And then he said something about how difficult it was maybe to hear all this stuff. And so some fans, he comes to the ballpark, he hears the ovation from them, and then he starts tearing the cover off the ball and put. So the billboard was actually a thank you, a genuine thank you to the fans. Not as sort of a, you know, here's your middle finger back to you, you know, or to use the Mets parlance, thumbs down, you know, like so. And it just one last soundbite from Sirianni, who again, I bring this up all the time.

I'll bring it up again here. When he first started, when he first showed up at his introductory press conference disaster thinking, didn't we think he was Philadelphia Mincemeat? He sounded like a high school gym teacher.

Honestly, he was like Ace 2.0. Yeah, it really we were like, is this guy going to last in Philadelphia more than two seconds? And now he is absolutely hitting every note perfectly from the way that he has this team winning to this brotherly shove.

I mean, what is it more Philadelphia play than just, you know, shoving it in your face down your throat, you know, and he does that with his demeanor on the sidelines, like basically effing off everybody the minute they seal the deal. This was Sirianni's soundbite when asked about seemingly playing better on the road so far than at home in twenty three. Since you've been here, you guys have been better on the road than at home, which is abnormal. Tell me what the records are before, before. What's the sample size?

What is it? Everything you were 63 in the first year, seven and one on the road last year. It's but it's not like substantially better, is it? Yeah, I frame it that way. We can play home games on the road, right? I mean, you know, we play home games on the road because our fans travel. It felt like an Eagles home game. It didn't feel for everyone who wants to take their shots at Rams fans sometimes. Yes, there are more fans of the other team in the building. It did not feel like a Niner game. Niner games feel uncomfortable at SoFi, but there were definitely a lot of Eagles fans.

Well, there's a guy in the right square on the screen right now on our Roku Channel feed. Chris, you sold your tickets, didn't you? For Sunday, didn't you? Last Sunday? Yeah. Yeah.

You know, I just don't remember. It was Chris. You bought your tickets with the sole purpose of selling them every week. Whose house? Game time tickets house.

That's whose house it is right now. Next week. I'm going next week.

Are you really? No, my mom's going to the Cardinals. No, no, no Steelers. Steelers. Oh, Steelers. Oh, it's right. Okay. All right. Got to watch George Pickens play. Yeah.

Wow. That's how Mel guys. This is how much you can tell that Chris Brockman loves Mary Brockman loves his mother. That man on the screen in the right square on the Roku Channel right now is a wonderful son, a loving son, a doting son that he would say the number, maybe that Cowboys, maybe on the docket number one, Eagles, most expensive and lucrative opportunity to sell his Rams tickets this year. And he says, no, I will take my mother to the game. Is your mama?

You're a beautiful. No, he just, she's in town. She wants to take in a game. And he's like, sure, I'll deal with the parking and I'll deal with the traffic and I will eat. Maybe the most lucrative opportunity to make my season ticket dollars back.

No mom will go to the game. What a beautiful son. You are Chris. It's killing me. It pains me. It's killing you. I had to give up profit, but I love my mom.

Every day is mother's day for Christmas. So you're beautiful. It's don't just, by the way, do not, do not shy away from this, Chris. You should ask. Let me put my glasses on.

Look at your beautiful beaming face right here. You deserve to take a bow. Yeah. Well done. And this is all understanding that you're going to take a bath on your Cardinals tickets this week. We're going to lose money on the Cardinals tickets. Well, once you go, go parking, map it out, map it from out, map it out, map it out. So why not? I didn't take it. It's not like, it's not like going to the Oakland, Alameda County Coliseum and sit them in the black hole.

We did go to a beautiful building. He could play video games to kind of Murray, what's kind of, I mean, they're the same size. So they could do, they could have some Roblox. Well, I didn't say anything about the size.

They could Roblox it up in the game, man. I need, I definitely cut myself. You did here.

Okay. At any rate, that's my two cents. I was literally thinking that watching, watching you know, watching a Harper, just stare it down. Him and Sirianni right now are kind of ruling a roost right now destroyed. You don't have, and I think we figured out how to turn the Patriots around. Just have Belichick listen to sports talk radio in Boston.

He'd be inspired and he'd be fired up and you would get the motivation to turn things around there for you. That's it. That's part of the clean start. That's the start and fresh, you know, let's do it or whatever that means.

They're going to listen to the Raiders. You can't say starting fresh. You can't spell starting fresh without E E I. So there you have it. I think I just figured that out.

There is an eye. I'm smarter when I cut myself. There you go. All right. All right. Coming up next. It says on the rundown here, Kirk Cousins blocks out the outside noise. Nice. Yes. He's going to block out the noise. And then does he accept a trade?

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Get the podcast wherever you listen. And we're back on the Rich Ives and Joe Andrews sitting in for Rich Rich's in London. And we have TJ here and Chris here and Jason here and the entire crew is here as well. Just discussing on one of the Roku only segments here about ESPN putting up a picture of Dak Prescott when discussing fantasy players that have yet to win a game.

I honestly think it should be if you're going to go there like a Bryce Young or something like that. But as somebody once told me on the dot com side years ago, NFL dot com in the newsroom, they could and we used to have a big screen. Rich, you remember this up in the newsroom of all the stories on dot com and the numbers they were getting.

This is way back in the day in Culver. And somebody once told me that they could put up a story about the Steelers midseason swapping out punters. Their punter goes on IR and they they bring up a new punter. And that story on the front of NFL dot com would get the most clicks that day, period. And and it was the same for the Cowboys, the Cowboys and the Steelers. To your point, TJ, they simply move the needle, love them or hate them. They have a massive fan base, both domestically and internationally. And even the most basic story for either of those two teams moves the needle. And if it comes to to using Dak Prescott to troll people or to troll Dak Prescott, you know what?

Low hanging fruit. They're going to do well. I mean, look, we know all about the Steelers, Brockman. Tell that story.

But Heinz Ward, when we were when we were just when we were just the old little rich eyes and podcast coming up with an idea to credential football players to be our Oscar red carpet for 2012 2012 Oscars. Was this still the shower curtain base? This is the shower curtain. Oh, yes. Oh, very much so.

Back. This is the first. Just everyone hold on a second. Now that you said that, we've got to add. OK. Yes. All right. Now that you said that. OK, so Richard, I used to do the Rich Eisen Show podcast back at NFL Network.

This is 2011, 2012, 2013, 2000. Yes. They came to us. We were doing a podcast audio.

This show was born out of it. There was a little tiny VEO booth at the old NFL Network on Culver. And it was very small. And we had we had a curtain with the logo on it. And every time we would go in there to record because it was green screen behind there, we would pull the curtain and like and like clip it so it wouldn't move and stretch it. So it looked all great. And we had these little tiny DV cameras. That's how we recorded.

It was so ghetto. That's right. And so, you know, that's just that's just all that.

That's just the production support we got. It was so funny, the the the programing department, NFL Network, when the lockout said, hey, you know, we're in need of we're in need of cheap programing. Would you be willing to do your podcast on television every week?

And I said, I'll do it as long as you call it inexpensive programing. And so anyway, in 2012, we're like, yes, let's try to get credentialed for the Oscars red carpet. We'll just go there to interview.

I'll do a piece. So I went with the camera crew. We got Heinz Ward to say yes to be our correspondent. It was amazing.

They're super early. You have to wear a tuxedo on the Oscars red carpet. We rented tuxes and we're walking up and down beforehand, just kind of chilling the only just real quick. The only people who knew Heinz Ward was going to be there was me, you, Heinz Ward, whoever credentialed Heinz Ward and whoever we had as the videographer, videographer, Heinz Ward manager was there. That was it.

That was it. So they had bleachers outside of the Dolby theater on Hollywood Boulevard. They had bleachers set up for a small number of fans, like 500 or so. And at the top left corner, we hear Heinz, Heinz, and we look up and there's like a half dozen Steeler fans with terrible towels, waving terrible towels at the Oscars. Like why would they be there with terrible towels? They didn't just recognize him. They had terrible towels.

They had terrible towels to go to the Oscars. Nobody knew he was going to be there. There was like four of us knew that we were doing this. Why were they there? I don't know.

Because Steelers fans are everywhere. And it wasn't a setup. I know.

Not a setup. Let's go to the Oscars. You know what we should do?

We can't go to the Oscars without bringing our terrible towels. It's totally nuts, but it is the story I tell all the time whenever the Steelers famous fandom comes up. But one last thing on all of this, just to be straight up, thanks to doing this show every day and placing much of what we do every day online, not just with the Roku channel and the Roku channel collection, the Rich Eisen show collection page, which is the video on demand service associated with our show. But we have a YouTube page that we're thrilled about closing in on six hundred and fifty thousand subscribers in short order. At any rate, you can see the search terms and the number one searched football team on our page is the 49ers every single week.

The faithful. It is that, man. It is that.

So, you know, put it all together. If we had a fantasy page and a fantasy league that we were running, we would not be putting a photograph of a forty nine or up to indicate a losing team. But neither just I just it just leapt out at me. I'm like looking at my Instagram feed and I'm like, first the first things first, like three percent of all fantasy teams on the ESPN fantasy site are winless right now through five weeks.

I thought to myself, oh, man, poor coupe. And then I'm like, why is there a photo of Dak on there? Like why is that the indication of zero wins?

He's got three, you know, and he's not haters. It just makes no sense to me. It also speaks to the fact of how much a fantasy is just luck. Like I mean, of course, Aaron Rodgers, week one, I had Aaron Rodgers. I drafted him.

Yeah. I put him in my lineup. Look, look, look what happened. Or you can put I've always said you could put the best quarterback in football in the lineup and the coach may wake up that morning and go, you know what? We're going to run the ball 40 times.

It's not your fault. I didn't make a bad pick. I put the quarterback in the lineup. I drafted him in the first round.

There's a there's a luck involved to it. Speaking of speaking of Aaron Rodgers, sir, here we are entering week six of the National Football League. I talked about the Eagles in the previous segment, and they're the ones visiting the New York Jets and taking on Zach Wilson.

And you know how I said at the end of the show, was it earlier this week? They all mashed together, you know, when you're traveling internationally and making pottery that, you know, I think it was maybe Monday or Tuesday where I'm like after seeing what Zach's been doing the last two weeks and knowing that Aaron Rodgers is rehabbing like crazy, thanks to modern medicine and his gumption and his heart and his dedication that and modern medicine and dolphins and you're not going to pull the plug. You're not going to pull the plug on on Zach Wilson and Nathaniel Hackett and what they're doing to keep the fires burning. So Rodgers can come back and maybe, who knows, late December, early January, be the hero and win the Super Bowl anyway. And this will be a story for the ages.

You're not going to pull the plug on all that. Certainly if Zach is healthy and certainly if Zach is performing in a trajectory that is moving further up. And it was, Brockman, what was it, week two over Reaction Monday podcast? You're like, you know, the Jets should trade for for Kirk Cousins or we were starting to talk about it.

We were on set super early. I wanted Tom Brady. Last week you said the Falcons should trade for Kirk Cousins and then this was coming off of this was coming. This is yeah. And then Ritter played his best game yet. But I mean, this was coming off the loss in London, I believe. So that was post week four over Reaction Monday. But here we are, one and four. And Justin Jefferson is out officially IR'd for a month. And here we are with the exact scenario that everyone was potentially envisioning for the Vikings to cut bait to get far enough along in their season to say we're a third of the way to Caleb Williams. We're a third of the way to Drake May, maybe like where this is, you know, and Cousins is on the roster next year. We don't believe or expect. So this is the time to maybe trade him.

And now with Jefferson going out, Cousins was asked if he would lift his no trade clause just to get out and get to a spot this year if the Vikings are asking this what he said. This is bliss, and I'm just really ignorant. I don't really have access to a whole lot. And I try to do that by design.

So it's pretty intentional. And aside from high school friends who may text me what they're reading, and I'll text them back and I prefer to remain ignorant, you know, so I would appreciate not getting text. Aside from that, I really don't know what's going on. I've been insulated at times to the point of being naive and a little stupid.

But I'd rather err on that side than consuming everything and just having to, again, it takes your focus away from what is important and what will help you play well. And so that's kind of how I wanted to do it. I'm impressed he still talks to people from high school. Wow. Wow. Wow. Do you need a hug, Andrew? No, no, no.

Rich, we're just older than him. That's all. I mean, do you still talk to people from high school? I do.

I got a couple. But anyway, I digress. Your point.

You were saying. Well, no, I mean, what's the guy going to answer, right? Because if he says, yeah, I'd be willing to do that, then that's the main story going into the, you know, Chicago Bears game this weekend. And then suddenly everyone's looking at him the huddle, like, wait a minute, you're not all in this this huddle with us right now. You're thinking about trading your way out of here.

You're thinking about pulling a ripcord. So I understand he's saying that he's ignorant and he's trying to ignore it. But I don't think what can be ignored here is that barring an injury to a starting quarterback for a team that has currently, what would you say, three wins right now or a two win team that's about to get a third win through six weeks? Who's the market? You know, who's the market? What is the market? I don't know.

I don't know that there is one. I just I just don't know if there is one either, because let's say they lose it. Look, they could also beat the Bears this week. I mean, it wouldn't surprise any of us if they go into Soldier Field and Kirk Cousins has one of those days with Addison and Osbourne killing it and suddenly he still throws for 400 yards.

I mean, like that, that that can absolutely happen. But the next week, they get the Niners on Monday night. They're going to lose that game. Right. Yeah. But regardless, we know they're not better than the Lions and they're not going to make the playoffs.

So you have to make the decision. Now, the thing that that Rich stood out to us yesterday is that when Jay Glaser was on the show yesterday, he pushed back and he said, well, when I was there in training camp and he said, maybe it's changed since then, but when I was there in training camp, I kind of got the feeling that they wanted to bring him back next year. And we all went, huh? That doesn't make sense to me. I don't mean to the glaze knows where more bodies are buried, figuratively in the National Football League than anything, any, you know, he knows this stuff. I just know that the last several years at the combine, you know, the Vikings in the draft have absolutely been kicking tires on who might be next.

You know what I'm saying? Like and cousins comes at a very expensive price tag. So why wouldn't you want to find your kid in the draft? Certainly if the kids coming out in this common draft are insanely talented and you are already, you know, one sixth of the way there. If you lose, even if you win the next game and you get two wins and then you lose two more and you're suddenly you're now two and six, two and seven coming with with Jefferson coming back. And if you're Jefferson, you're like, I'm coming back to a two and seven team.

I haven't gotten paid. So maybe suddenly, you know, my arm, you know, like maybe he's not. And again, he's a professional and he's a I love the kid every single time I've seen him. But this is the reality of the National Football League in the same way. If the Cardinals don't win many more games, despite how much Moxie they've got on the board over the last five weeks, what if they're one and seven, one and eight and Kyler Murray's going to come back and play then?

Or do you just stick with it when you're already halfway to a first overall or second overall pick? This is what's this is absolutely in the ether right now. And part of the reason why I thought cousins to the Jets, which, you know, in week two when Zach struggled in Dallas in week three and he lost to New England and week four after one quarter, and it was, you know, Telsey Palooza with with everything going on on Sunday night football, you know, I thought to myself, there's no way, despite how bad the Vikings are playing, that they're going to trade Kirk Cousins because Justin Jefferson needs someone to throw to him when he's looking for a contract. And what a what a way to basically tell Justin Jefferson, hey, this is your big year for you to put the bag on the table. We're going to give it to you.

But we're going to absolutely say, you know, your numbers dropped. And he could easily say, well, you traded my quarterback away. And this is the way things go in the NFL. I'm sure they're going to sign Justin Jefferson or at least attempt to do that. But put it all together. I thought there's no way they're going to trade Cousins when Justin Jefferson is in this situation and he's out for four months, four weeks.

So it's changed everything. But who else is out there? But even if, heaven forbid, you know, Dak goes down, there's Cooper Rush. If Purdy goes down, there's Sam Darnold. Right. I mean, if if Tua goes down, they've got Mike White.

Do they do they go and say, screw it, but we're going to bring in Cousins. I got two for you. I got two for you.

Let's go. OK, so number one, and this would be it would be extreme. But if Deshaun Watson's shoulder doesn't get better. There's the Kevin Stefanski, Kirk Cousins connection. I'm not saying this is going to happen, but there's at least a tie there really speculating right now.

It's all reckless speculation. It would require Deshaun's making 50, 60, whatever it is. And then or and then you got to bring Cousins in.

It would have to be a one year rental only. Clearly, you can't keep him there. So he would have to agree to go there. Wave the no trade clause understanding he is auditioning for everyone else for next season. And what that is, and you're listing quarterbacks that could get injured. What if Joe Burrows' calf goes again?

There is nothing behind Joe Burrow there. That might be interesting, but these are all injury hypotheticals. Without an injury, I don't know that there's a spot other than Atlanta. Kyle Brandt, our good friend of Good Morning Football, yesterday had this tie in, which I hadn't thought of. He's like, you know, Kirk and Julie were married in Georgia. There are Georgia ties there that I wasn't aware of. Just because they chose to wed in Georgia doesn't mean he wants to play for the Falcons. But he started drawing some ties that I didn't necessarily know.

And then I went, yeah, all right. Yeah, just because I got married in the boathouse in Central Park doesn't mean I want to have a boathouse. You know, it doesn't. It doesn't. You don't know. Do you want to hang out in Central Park again?

I can safely tell you Susie does not want a boathouse. So but I mean, that's the that is the one hundred percent reality of the situation right now. Unless, TJ, do you have a possibility at all?

Anything leaping out to you that might, you know, because it I'm struggling to find one, you know, another one, you know? No. Right. I mean, what about just a long shot Indianapolis?

We know it's a one year rental. Number three and two. Wait, maybe. Anthony Richards. Gardner goes down worse.

Yeah. Gardner goes down or he's just ineffective and Richardson's going to be out maybe the whole year now. They're not good enough to win that division might be good enough to maybe I don't I can't see Richard. You just saw the Jaguars.

I couldn't see the Jaguars faltering. Mm hmm. Just anyway. That's looking for a long shot. I mean, it has to take an injury. It would take it would have to be a major unforeseen injury. It would have to be in the next two weeks. So there's downright right.

The rubber has met the road. That is for sure. It would have to be also for more than what the Vikings would get back when Cousins if Cousins leaves in a compensatory pick, which would be the end of the third round, which is roughly pick one hundred one oh five in that window there. So it would have to be something like it like that. Yeah. Yeah. I don't see it happening.

The Jets should still do it. All right. Coming up next, we'll make up more potential injuries and locations for Kirk Cousins. Rich is in London.

We are all here and we do not root for injuries at any time at all. Just to clarify. It's the rich eyes and show everybody. I've got the day there. I am sitting at the rich eyes and show desk does not have pottery, but it is still lovely. It is furnished by Grainger with supplies and solutions for every industry.

Grainger has the right product for you call or click ranger dot com or just stop by thinking of or speaking rather of click click clicking. Easy for me to say, Rich, we clicked on the Twitter this morning on the X this morning and we saw this this Butte from Ervin Magic. This is how I found out about what why the Dodgers got swept when I did the Dodgers disappointed that our Dodgers didn't hit or pitch well.

That's it. That is why we lost the series to the Diamondbacks. They had my only my only concern about this tweet and I'm wondering I'm hoping Magic's OK is it didn't he didn't say we lost the series three nothing like that score. Normally he gives you the score.

Literally he's the he's human sports phone is what he is, you know. So from back in my day, that's I was wondering, why did the Dodgers not win the series on the Diamondbacks? They didn't. Oh, there it is. Now you put my because Lance Lynn gave up four homers and hangers. I mean, you know, gosh, almighty has happened to the Dodgers again.

What in the world happened? The Dodgers need to go back to playing 60 game seasons. That's the only way. Oh, boy. Look at you, bro. So last year, they're not even like you're not even giving them you're not even giving them that one. You know, it's just it's it really is astounding how the regular season means nothing in Major League Baseball. Just means nothing. It means nothing.

You just got to get enough to just get in. That's it now. Yeah. And I don't know what they're going to do. I think that are they going to start talking about, you know, trying to tilt it towards teams that do better in the in the regular season?

How do you do that? I mean, can I push back against that? They have their payroll is what was 270. They want one hundred and four games. They shouldn't need things tilted in their favor.

Yeah. They want one hundred and eleven games last year, unreal, comically huge payroll. And they got bounced by an 84 win team, no, an eighty nine win team last year in the Padres this year.

An eighty four win team, in essence, teams, teams that they won an extra month's worth of games. They had made like a month's more wins. And they lost both both years like, you know, why they lost. I'll tell you, I'll tell you why they lost. They didn't pitch well and they didn't and they didn't hit well. Yeah. And that's how they lost the series.

They didn't hit well, sucking his his level of anger at with this tweet and the tweet last Friday after the commanders lost. By the way, I was just talking about that on the ride in to visit the Ravens today with the rest of the crew, with Kurt Warner and and Jamie or at all. And and Jonathan Siegel, our producer from CBS, Andy Greg Giant made the trip by the way. Nothing like that, because, you know, in these cars, you got to get a boy. Let me just give you something international travel of those dude. These cars, you know, there's three there's three seats and then there's three seats across. If you don't get in the car first, you're driving backwards. That's no good, man.

I can not. And then there's roundabouts. There's roundabouts on the other side of the road and you're driving the wrong way.

Drive it driving. You know. Oh, my God.

And Andy Gregs. And he was sweet. He goes. He saw like I was turning green. He's like, we'll switch seats on the way back. I'm like, please.

But anyway, I brought this up in the in the car ride. Could you imagine if Daniel Snyder had tweeted out, you know, we lost because we didn't have any fire. You know, we didn't have you know, we didn't compete in the first half. What would have happened if he had done something like that?

But Magic is just so widely beloved. And by the way, the reason why they lost because it was too big of a hole to climb out of. And that's why the commanders ended up losing 40 to 20. There's your final score. There's your final score to half time and your halftime score.

Just get all your sports news instantly. So four percent. It only cost him 250 million if he was a Notre Dame fan. The reason we lost is we only had 10 players on the field. Yes, that's right.

Instead of the required 11. That's right. As we lost, you know, let's check in with Lou Holtz, let's check in with Lou Holtz has to say, oh, my gosh. By the way, Lamar looks so chill and so happy. He's just he's a he was grinning like a Cheshire cat and his face lit up when Zay Flower's name was mentioned. How did how did your interview with Kwan go? And did you call him Kwan?

Kwan is just he is he is he is just a man. Did you call him Kwan when he came in? I did not. I did not. I don't know. I mean, I don't know.

It just makes you guys close. Did you get the table that John Harbaugh described yesterday is like he said he felt like he was in Ted Lasso. Did you see that?

No, I didn't. We were not in the we were in a different part of their their their they're in a beautiful spot. They're in a castle because they practice daily at a building. They call the castle. I would only think it would be fitting that they that they get housed in a castle there.

It is it's it's it's like a hotel with grounds similar to that spot in Canton, Ohio, that you know, that we stayed at years ago with NFL Network. But anyway, long story short is the Titans come in tomorrow. They're flying now, man. They're doing exactly what the Bills did. And and the last time the Ravens played in London, they got waxed.

It was the number one largest margin of difference in a loss for John Harbaugh in his 16 years years. And they came in on a Friday morning. So they went full Costanza. They're like, we don't know what the science is, but we are going to go.

We are doing full Costanza. They showed up Monday night. They've been here all week. So we'll see if that's if that's any indication of what's going on. Yeah. Yeah. As hey, you know what? Get off the plane.

Go do your business and then get back on the plane. It did not. Hey, man, the Bills tried that.

The Bills tried that. It didn't work. Didn't work. It didn't work. It was a match up between the team that arrived the latest against the team that arrived there the longest. Never.

That's never happened before. Rich seconds. The radio audience. Thank you. Kindly, sir.

Rich and everybody in London and we are still here. Yeah. We had a caller yesterday. Rich say that you saw Rogers sit down last week before before last week's game where he said something like, oh, you know, we wanted to experiment with the team here for two weeks. And that that caller inferred that Roger was suggesting. We intentionally gave the Bills dealt them a bad hand to see if we'd be right that the team that was well rested know the Bills chose to get there later in the week, knowing that the Jaguars had been sleeping in the same beds for 10 days. That's that's on them. They were the ones who decided to come Friday morning.

I mean, you could have done, but again, it's just the concept of everybody gets to stay in their own beds, in their own facilities during workout for practice, be with their families all week. It's the least disruptive thing until you got to travel. And instead of it's like flying to Seattle instead of flying over the entire continental United States, you just flew over the Atlantic Ocean. But it's it's five hours ahead.

And that just messes with people. Again, I've been here a week and I'm just starting to feel like myself again. And then I do this, you know, so hopefully, thanks for your concern, Chris. I appreciate it. We're concerned.

We are. I'm worried about you. Thank you. I'll show up tomorrow. I'll show up tomorrow. I'll be on the show.

I have no doubt. In our final 20 seconds. Rich, have a great game. Last time you and I will speak. Enjoy, brother.

No. And I'll see you. I'll see you next week. But the rest of you guys, I'll see you for what's more likely in my top five other games to look forward to on on Friday show.

See you then. We'll be right back with the shoot off coming up, everybody. Every Monday, Rich Eisen and Chris Brockman react to what's happening in the world of football on overreaction Monday.

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