REShow: Rich Eisen from Europe - Hour 3

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That would be me. Hey, everybody, hope you had a great weekend. Thank you for being here today on a Monday after a wild week nine, a week that reminds us, as seemingly the NFL does every week, why we love this thing. Also, a great week of college football as well. The K-State and Texas game going right down to the wire. The Georgia game, the Bama game. Hey, Jalen Monroe's back, everybody.

Remember when he got benched like a month ago? I mean, Ohio State was losing at the half. Ohio State was losing at the half before pulling away to a double digit victory over Rutgers. The Fightin' Sean O'Hara's, just a crazy weekend in college football. For the most part, the chalk won, however. The undefeated teams there at the top of the latest playoff standings all winning.

But, yeah, wild. And then baseball this morning, where Craig Council leaves the Brewers to manage the Cubs. David Ross, thanks, but you came up a game short of getting into the wild card a month after the season. You're gone, and Craig Council's getting $8 million a year to manage the Cubs. A reported five years and 40 to go after a decade from one team to your rival down the Tri-State to manage the Cubs.

More on that coming up in just a bit. Our Sunday began, however, with a really good game, a great game, actually. What a great way to start the NFL's third decade. At NFL Networks, that is, third decade with Rich and Dan Orlovsky, who evidently does not know Benny Hill and Jason McCourty, on the call from Frankfurt where the Chiefs beat the Dolphins.

Rich Eisen on his own show, live now, not from Frankfurt, from Berlin. That was fun yesterday, man. Great job. That was fun. It was fun. It was great. And it was fun hanging with Orlovsky and seeing firsthand all of the dietary weirdness, having, you know, crew dinners, building some chemistry with Jason McCourty and Sarah Walsh and Stacey Dales and all of us together.

And, you know, and basically watching Orlovsky try schnitzel for the first time. He liked it. He liked it.

Yeah, it's delicious. There was a there was like the restaurant in our hotel brought like these little salmon balls out. He tried it.

If it was socially appropriate, he would have spat it out. He didn't. Wait, does he not eat fish at all? I don't eat salmon.

I didn't even try that. OK, I love salmon. I had salmon last night. I had salmon the last two nights. As soon as I saw it, my issue with it is it's a fishy fish.

I have a problem with that. I also it was a texture. It was the it was it was sort of a puree type thing. No, no bueno.

I did have a I almost I almost Instagramed it out just for you, Chris. Thank you. A Brussels sprout soup was really good. You don't like Brussels sprouts?

No, no. I have issue with Rich going on vacation and only posting food. Yeah. Yeah.

He has a problem with that. But I haven't done it. You've been great. Well, the only thing I did I did send out was a big plate of pretzel sent to our booth just before the contest. And by the way, you know, pretzels are everywhere. And because we're used to, you know, I guess northeast pretzels where they're just sitting around and you can grab it and you could just slap it on a table and it breaks up like a Charleston shoe you left in the freezer. You know, these every last one of them, they hang them.

They hang them up on like wooden, you know, like a wooden stand or or or these metal stands. And you grab it and it's they're soft. I don't know what the hell they're doing. They're good, but they're soft. They're amazing. They're very soft and they're good cold. They're good with salt.

They're good without. I did see Orlovsky at one point, though. This is the weirdest thing I saw this weirdo do this entire weekend. And I feel comfortable having called for four quarters of incredible action with him on on a highly rated broadcast. The numbers are coming back.

I think it did like a ninety four share in Kansas City. So long story short is I feel comfortable calling him a weirdo on this. He started picking the salt off the oh, come on. Really? No, the pretzel is the vehicle for the intake of salt. Understood.

Understood. You don't have to explain this to me, but I watched him playing. Or did he dip in mustard or cheese? Like what was he doing?

And a cheese ruins. I just saw him like I saw him like do this thing with his finger. You know how much Holmes does this thing? You know, when he's waiting for the next play, he does something like this.

I saw him making this motion with his fingers and he was scraping the salt. Now that's bad. Hold on. Yeah, I got asked this all about the food because Peter King had this in his column.

Can we throw this up? Oh, so Peter King was in the open air press box there. And he said that they were selling cocktails in the press box. Did you guys order a cocktail during the game, Rich? No, we did not have no G.T. at half or something. No, no, no, no.

I didn't have a roadie and have anything like that. No, nothing channeling. You know, guys, I'm locked in. I am locked in. We heard this was it.

This was this was I was just locked in as I could as I could possibly be. And so, yeah, it's great. Orlovsky's already heading back to Bristol. So it's just me and Jason McCourty coming up on on this coming weekend.

And do you still have Dale's and Sarah Walsh because Dale's? Yeah, yeah, they're still here on GMFB this morning. You should have seen the look on Jason's face. Stacey Dale's noted Canadian is doing this like emptying a beer stein live during their hit.

And the look on Jason's face was just listen. Yeah, he's not in Rutgers anymore. Yeah, you know, we're over here in Germany. So it's just awesome. It was great on the train to Berlin. I saw like a tour of jerseys. Mahomes, there's Mahomes posters all over the Frankfurt rail station, all over the place. And, you know, and Mahomes, I think, enjoyed the experience.

Just like Brady did last year, talking about one of his highlights of his career. I think Mahomes enjoyed the experience as well. And it was an amazing experience to be out here in Germany. I mean, you can see red all around the town.

I mean, the Chief Kingdom showed up. Dude, the German fans, they knew it. They were loud the entire game. They're passionate. You could tell that they watch football on the American football on the daily. And then they really understand it. And it's it was great for the NFL to give us this opportunity.

I'm sure there'll be many more as my career goes on. And I'm like, I'm excited to get back and be able to play. And not only Frankfurt, but Munich or wherever else the NFL goes. Yeah, I don't think you're going to see the Chiefs over here any time soon.

I mean, they coughed up an arrowhead game to come over here. And I don't know. We'll see. Maybe they'll be like the Jaguars of Germany.

Who knows? And come back here. There is a game in Munich, I believe next year. And one one last story to tell you about this international series in Germany is once again, they played country road and everybody full throat singing John Denver en masse, 50,000 people singing John Denver. And I ran into Peter O'Reilly, the executive in charge of these big events, including the international series, the draft and things of that nature, special events, the Super Bowl.

And I ran into him on the 20th anniversary day on Saturday. And he told me that a member of his staff last year walking into the game in Munich overheard a group of German fans singing country road together, just about four of them. And she then reached out to everyone else to say, hey, hey, I this is weird that they're singing country road, John Denver.

They knew the lyrics, so maybe you should play it later on in the game. And that did they did that with Brady and the Seahawks there. And that that's what sparked them to even think about playing John Denver in Munich last year. And now it's it's a it's an it's a tradition. They'll do it again next week, I'm sure with the Colts and the Patriots. It was just somebody strolling in from the NFL event staff saying, you know, this is I just heard overheard this. Maybe we should do it. And then, you know, a few hours later, 80,000 are doing it. And the rest is history.

It's kind of funny. You mentioned Colts, Patriots here. That's the game next week coming up here.

Week number 10 over there. I don't know if you've heard this yet, but want to play Bill Belichick this morning. Dude, I got the email.

I got the email from from NFL Network, right from NFL Network, from from our assignment desk, from our from our editorial staff. And I couldn't believe the number of times he was asked about his job status. And if he's coaching for his job this weekend in Germany, I have not heard this sound.

This is this is unprecedented. So we have that sound bite. Let's hit it. Have you been given any assurances from ownership about your job status for the rest of the season? My focus is on get ready for the Colts. You personally believe that you could be coaching for your job against the Colts?

I'm going to control what I can control and get ready for the Colts. Wow. Do we know who is asking the question?

I don't. But Rich, I had the same reaction that you did. I woke up saying we get the same feed blast here. And I looked at it when I was rubbing sleep out of my eyes this morning, because Belichick's always the first Monday morning coach to have his day after presser. And the idea that that he was asked repeatedly, like, hey, are you going to be a Dennis Allen?

Was it Dennis Allen fired on the flight home from London? I mean, that's not how it was worded. But the idea that we're even having this conversation after Jonathan Kraft was seen like, you know, people are people are saying, what was Jonathan saying to his dad when CBS caught them coming back from break yesterday, were they talking about the coach? I mean, it's just bonkers. Listen, I will say this. You can't predict anything in the NFL ever, right?

It's a narrative generating machine that creates one moment after another, one drama after another, one story line after another that you just you just can't expect. I would be absolutely stunned if the Patriots craft Belicheck relationship ends in the middle of a playing season. Agree. Just, you know, I just don't see that happening.

And then, look, you can you could say all you want about the roster that's currently wearing Patriots gear and how Belichick is the one who picked them. You know, they are they are banged up. I mean, they are missing some of their best players, without a doubt.

Without a doubt. But Ramondre Stevenson, I think, is playing some of his best football all year. And so is Zeke.

And and the the turnover that did him in, you know, was a great throw by Mack and just Juju didn't catch it. You know, these are the things where when you're not that good of a team, you make mistakes and you can't overcome them. And I think that's the the the the team that the Patriots are right now.

And you're just not used to it. I looked it up on the train ride today. The last time Belichick was two and seven was his first year in New England when the team went five and eleven. It was a week twelve game against Cleveland of all teams, and they lost that one as well. So, you know, I I don't know who was the the broadcaster of that game at all, who was in that, you know, broadcast production meeting with a two and seven Belichick. Maybe I'll reach out to Don Cricky to see if it was him. You know, I don't I don't know. But that's what we've got on our hands here.

And, you know, I it's it's every game is important for a franchise that is coached by the winningest coach that's out there right now in terms of active coaches and one of the winningest of all time. Not used to this sort of stuff. I just would be stunned. And, you know, I thought Bill handled the question really well, because I'm sure deep down he wants to say, like, excuse me. Like, really? You talking to me? Really? Exactly.

Like like full on Travis Bickle on him, you know? And that's a taxi driver reference. So bottom line is just looking around like, really? Are we really asking me if I'm coaching for my job in Germany, that I might get fired on the flight home? I just don't see that. Just to put in, you know, if Mayo is the coach and waiting, they're not going to bring him in as the interim in the middle of a season.

I just don't see anything like that happening. And then apparently, you know, Ian Rappaport was the one who reported a couple of weeks ago on game day morning is that they they signed up to a very lucrative contract extension. So the bottom line is, you know, if this is the end of Belichick and the Patriots by the end of the year, this is by no stretch ever the end of Belichick with the New England Patriots. I mean, relationships obviously fray when you part ways after a long time.

But, you know, they're always, you know, repairable. And, you know, one day we will see Aaron Rodgers waving to the adoring crowd and in in Lambeau the same way that we saw Favre do it. And he left them under circumstances far more awkward and and dismaying for him. So, yeah, I just don't see that.

What a question to ask him. I can't believe I sent that to the group. I'm like, I can't believe this is the backdrop of the Patriots game. And we've got another one on Christmas Eve night in Denver.

And speaking of which is, you know, this just broke a couple of minutes ago. So there's no flex out of the Denver Broncos and the Vikings in a couple of weeks. They're they're they're going with Josh Dobbs versus Danger Russ Wilson.

That's an interesting one. Yeah, they didn't they didn't flex out of that. They didn't. And I'm curious if it's because they assume so the Vikings and the Packers are week 17 Sunday night. Maybe they just assume they're going to lose that one. So you don't want to you don't want to call the Vikings twice and say, sorry, you're out. I'm not sure.

I don't know. I think in all honesty, take a look at the week 11 schedule. I don't know what you flex into. Everyone is saying I'm not being a homer. Brown Steelers seem to be the obvious one there. Oh. I guess I'm not being a homer. No, I look, man, right now, if the season ended today, every single AFC team in the every single AFC North team would make it. Which has never happened, and I know that's something that we've been talking about on the show for quite some time, that it's entirely possible. But by the end of the night, there can be another five or three team.

And that could be the New York Jets. A two a.m. kick, gents. Are you staying up?

Staying up or are you going to go to bed and then wake up? Two words. Hell no. Oh, you don't want to. We don't want to sit through 17, 13 tonight to 20 a.m.

I mean, could you imagine if it turns out like a game like Jets, Giants? Like, are you kidding me? Like, I'm going to stay up at four thirty in the morning trying to see Zach Wilson struggle to make a throw. You know, I mean, get out of here.

I mean, he has been playing better of late 30 and they get so little and a cup of coffee. But here's the plan. Andrews, waffles, breakfast. Yeah.

Oh, no, it's just I'm so jet lagged now a weekend. I don't know how these players came out, how the Chiefs did it. I just don't know, because maybe they're not, you know, 54 years old. But I mean, with a lot of ish going on, with a lot of ish.

Thank you, TJ. Hey, did the Mets just hire a bench coach from the Yankees to be their new manager? I would ask you what you knew about Carlos Mendez. I don't know anything about what I know about his husband. It turns out he's not.

So I don't know. You don't want to think about, you know, I know about him. I'm sure he's really good.

I'm sure he knows analytics really well. And the Yankees snuck last year. So congratulations.

I don't know what the hell is going on there. But and then the Craig, the Craig Council deal. So he's getting eight million a year to go to the Cubs. The Brewers reportedly offered him five and a half. So last year's highest paid manager was Terry Francona at four and a half. The Brewers went to five and a half. Maybe some people thought the Mets might go to six or to seven. The Cubs win at a hell with it.

We'll go to eight and shake the guy we already got here. That's crazy. This is what is happening. It's not just anybody. They shanked either, right?

Yeah, it's deeper. Us a hero, a local legend. Yeah.

Thanks for thanks. Thanks for breaking the curse of the goat. I mean, get out. I don't listen. I don't know what the hell's going on. So the Padres let their manager walk to San Francisco.

The Brewers let their manager walk to Chicago. I mean, I honestly don't know what the hell is happening whatsoever. All I know is these are just deck chairs to be rearranged in the baseball narrative of the off season, waiting for Shohei Ohtani to make a move. We're all waiting. We're all waiting. What's Shohei going to do? Let's go, because at some point that thing's going to break.

And I don't know where I'm going to be, what country I'm going to be in, what time zone I'm going to be in. But that's going to be lit when that guy decides to make a move. Who does Shohei Ohtani want his manager, the Yankees? I don't think he cares. I don't think he's the Dodgers or the Dodgers. Now that's the one.

If I had to put my marker anywhere, it's the Dodgers. I don't think he's I don't think he wants any. You think he wants a piece of the Eastern Corridor, the Northeast Corridor? Does Shohei Ohtani like Craig Council?

What has Kosuke Fukudome told him about Wrigley? Nice. Look at you. Look at you dropping names.

I think Yamamoto sweepstakes coming soon, too. Mm hmm. All right.

There's a couple more football things on. Yeah, let's do that. Well, let's cut your eye, Rich. Yeah, go ahead. Oh, no, we could take a break and come down.

Do that. Let's take a break. All right. Let's let's do this. What have I got to do?

It's your show. I'm just staying up. I'm just staying up.

Just chilling in Berlin. Two in the morning. Zach Wilson, baby, get excited. Hell no. Two words.

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Learn more at Discover dot com slash credit card limitations apply. It's the Rich Eisen Show yours truly sitting in for Rich, who's with us live from Berlin. Chris Brockman, the other side of your screen here as well. There was this old bit that Letterman used to do. Rich, remember called May We See Your Photos, Please? Where they would send someone down to Times Square and ask tourists, like, can we see the pictures you're taking?

Remember that? So we've been going through your IG here. May we may we see your photos, please, from the trip?

All right. So this is the train ride. Look at that, huh?

Looks lovely. Yeah, I had no idea where I was. There's the same TV tower in Berlin, the East Berlin side, right? I don't know. I think it is. I think it is. You know where it was?

It was on the right side of the car. There you go. Right out of the cab.

I don't know. Honestly, I've never been here. That's where I'm going. I'm going to stroll around, maybe get a guide and take me around and tell me what's going on. It's a really cool time. Yeah.

Just trying to figure stuff out. Just putting it all out there. Have you walk around? I got to work the pretzels off.

How many did you have? Well, let's see. All right, here we go. According to TripAdvisor, we met with the dolphins on Thursday. Had one there and then Friday, the pretzel bread at breakfast.

How to do it. You got to go to the Reichstag building. Oh, we're off the pretzels.

I'm trying to give you things to do. Brandenburg Gate. And there's a really cool museum, too.

That showed what all the East German side life was like there. My wife's got this covered. Don't worry about it. She's got a cover. Museum Island.

My wife. The zoo is great. The Berlin Zoo. Tea Garden. What about Zoo Station?

Wasn't that like the U2 album? Isn't that? No, I'm here in Berlin. Del Tufo is not here. Okay. Rich, we found one more photo from your IG. This is from Friday. What does this store sell? It's a store. It's a schmuck store. So I put that up and I asked on my Instagram. What is sold here?

Wrong answers only. And I was told the German word for jewelry is schmuck. So I thought in Yiddish, it means something else. No, I know that. That's why I took that picture.

And I remember Maury the wig man. What am I? A schmuck on wheels from Goodfellas. But it's very interesting that if obviously schmuck means something different here in Germany. So much schmuck insurance. So one would think, ensure your schmuck here in Germany.

But again, I'm just learning the culture day by day. You know, a little German. Just looking for daylight, as Brent Musburger would say. I heard the guy that that owns that store is a real putz. There you go. I mean, look at you guys.

Ladies and gentlemen. Rich, if you don't see the Brandenburg Gate, you can see the hotel across the street where Michael Jackson held Blanket over the balcony. Oh, is that right? Yeah, it's just something for you to look.

I don't know if that's part of the tour. OK, I'll check that out. Interesting. Fantastic. He was so nuts when he did that. Oh, my God. No worries.

Hold a kid out the window. You want to get to the rest of week nine? Yeah, TJ.

Yes, sir. Let's talk about your Cowboys. OK, Dak played an outstanding football game. He did. Except for taking that sack at the end.

You know, Rich, you know what? If they were to listen to me and got themselves an offensive lineman at the trade deadline, then maybe he wouldn't have taken the sack. Maybe, maybe he wanted to take the sack. The sack happened.

Was he supposed to sack took him? He's fine. He's fine.

Brother, he's fine. And CD Lamb and and multiple tight ends. I thought the Fox broadcast nailed it by showing Schoonmacher's knee down in the ball on the wrong side of the line of scrimmage.

That was one of them. One of the moments, obviously, Dak and and another short yardage situation coming up just shy was another one of those issues and and and the the clock management thing just keeps on creeping up, man, and the end of the games like that moment where he's stepping out of bounds, if he had not just stepped out of bounds, it would have been the two points instead of a five point deficit. It would have been a three point deficit. So they're not trying to score a touchdown at the end and no clock management issues. All you got to do is kick a field goal. But I found it interesting. Greg Olsen, who's terrific, was talking about going fast with four minutes to go, because if you don't score here, you can kick the three and use your timeouts to get one more possession.

But if you're just putting all your eggs in this basket here, you should definitely mind all your P's and Q's. And they just. You know, they had it on the 11 yard line and then a sack and then I do you throw it in the end zone, you know, when they're even though there's seven Eagles lined up there, I know this is a total second guess here. You throw it in the end zone and maybe maybe you get a jump ball from C.D.

Lamb and let's go or it's a penalty. I I don't know. I just didn't like any of that stuff. But that's just the circumstances of it. They the schedule, as we discussed before I hopped a plane here, where Michael Irvin really hit this on game day morning two Sundays ago, is that, you know, the Cowboys have a soft part of the schedule while the Eagles are on a bye and then take on the Chiefs and then take on the 49ers before seeing the Cowboys again, Dallas can really make up some some ground here.

So I'm not concerned about that. I'm just concerned about their team, you know, moving forward. And what's missing? Like, what is missing from Dallas? Because we've we've discussed it over and over again that there's just one piece missing. I'll tell you what's missing, Rich.

If I could I I'm wondering if it's the same thing. Well, the fact that we saw a picture of Lombardi Lenny with those Hamhock thighs that he has in those short shorts that he got signed. Yeah, a guy like that would have been kind of helpful in situations because we're not getting anything out of the running back position.

It's it's kind of frustrating, you know. Lenny was there. He was there to be had.

I know we didn't take the chance there to be had. He was there to be had. And let's just we don't know what he's going to look like in Buffalo just yet, despite seeing the as you pointed out, the Hamhock thighs and and that would have been a smart move there. You know what I was thinking that you go home, Ron, you tell the Titans, I don't care what do you want for Derrick Henry?

And you put him with the star inside of his helmet. And yesterday's game would have had a totally different tenor. Absolutely.

Well, he would had a bigger audience, too, but that may have been pie in the sky. My concern is it's the same thing there. The big game, Tony Pollard is not there anymore. I don't know if he's still dealing with his knee injury or war. It's the new way of calling plays there. But I mean, you look at at him this year, he's got two touchdowns. Both of them came on opening night against the Giants.

He's gotten zero since none in the air, none on the ground since week number one and then the big plays. His his longest run of the year is 31 yards in the loss to Arizona. His largest reception was an 80 yarder in the win against the Chargers.

That's the old school big time game breaker last year. I mean, before he blew out his knee. My goodness, he was just big plays all over the place. He had two runs of 50 yards or more. He had a forty six yarder and a win against the Giants. He had a fifty five. He had a long of forty six yards. He had on the ground, pardon me, in the air last year. Tony Pollard in week number two against Cincinnati.

He had a sixty eight yarder against Minnesota in that game where they just absolutely curb stomped Minnesota 40 to three. They're missing the big play and from somebody other, if you will, than a CD lamb CD lamb is turning into an A plus number one receiver. But that's my concern here is the run game.

They're not getting very much from it. I mean, Rico Dowdle is not scaring anybody and nor is Pollard anymore. And, you know, maybe Lombardi Lenny would have been the difference maker.

I would just love to know if you just put everyone on sodium pentathal. Did the Cowboys call for Derrick Henry or what? I mean, that would have been just again. I mean, you just need something that puts a card on the table and looks at Philadelphia and goes, you know, brotherly shove this.

You know, here comes number twenty two. You know what I mean? Like that's they had that with Zeke in his in his years of being Zeke, where he would just bowl you over. The Cowboys missed that juice. You know, it doesn't appear that Pollard has it right now. And that's my concern. Hopefully he can find it over the last nine games.

You know, it seems like when guys have injuries like that, it does take a full season for them to kind of recover and get back. So, yeah. And one last thing, too, here.

You know what? What does what does Arthur Smith say about Bijan Robinson? What what is he saying about him? He was just on the podium today, rich within the last hour and a half, by the way, he shaved his mustache, which those are just joining, had not heard and said that Taylor Heineck is going to start again this week. He did the all the way. This is when you're supposed to this is when you're supposed to wear the mustache.

It's Movember. Right, exactly. So he's when when it's bizarre, he's working backwards. Right. Like you're supposed to run the screen for Bijan. He ran it for John O. Smith.

It still worked. And so, by the way, Al Jir scored two to put him up, you know, like so. It's not as if he's not getting the results here.

But and this is definitely born out. I pay specific attention to Bijan because Cooper Eisen, who is on the verge of victory, if he can get 10 points tonight out of in a PPR league from Garrett Wilson and Dicker, the kicker. Oh, he's on the verge of getting he's getting rid of that zero in the win column fantasy this this time around, hopefully.

But I just don't understand why do you choose somebody seventh overall and then parcel it out? Is there something going on behind the scenes or what is it? So he was asked this morning, is he healthy?

Is Bijan healthy? And he said, yeah, I think he played a lot of snaps yesterday for any rookie. The season is long.

You're going to have ebbs and flows. He's had a huge impact already. He had eleven for fifty one yesterday. So he's deflecting saying, no, we're playing him. You know, we're not going to evidently he's not going to give him 30 carries a game.

That ain't happening. He's getting less touches than Tyler Al Jir. Not weird, not the overall pick.

No, Tyler Al Jir is good. But at the same point, you don't draft the guy to have him stand there. I keep saying they should weird. They should have a Jamir Gibbs game for him.

You know, or they're just saying, by the way, he's touching it for the first six times to stop him, period, you know, right. I would love to see that. I'd love to see it and just let him try and carry this offense that does appear to need to be carried a little bit.

Does seem sometimes it's it's a struggle, you know. And I think staying with with Heineken is the right move. I do believe that they have a chance to win this division. I mean, the fact that that CJ Strauss lit up the Buccaneers defense in a way that few quarterbacks do, let alone somebody playing in what is eighth career game, man, that was something else. And it's also to the benefit of the Falcons. You know, the Saints pulled one out despite, you know, Bajans coming on strong again for the Bears at times in New Orleans. This division's open.

So I think starting starting Heineken is the right move. But it's just weird. It's totally weird. And I know we live in a fantasy football world and he must be sitting there shaking his head like, you know, I know my team, I know my scheme, I know what I like, I know what I can do.

I know what should be done. And I know that, you know, kids like him hit a wall that he had a ton of like he had a million touches in Texas and, you know, and nobody was running around the field of Texas that are the size of the guys that are trying to take his head off here. I'm sure he's trying to deep down do the right thing for the kid.

But I I don't understand it. I mean, he is a difference maker of difference makers and he doesn't touch. He doesn't even get on the field.

He doesn't even get on the field inside the 10 yard line half the time. And what's so frustrating if you're a Falcons fan is that division is so bad. It is winnable. If you beat the Vikings, I mean, that was a quote unquote playoff game. That was two playoff teams. If you look at the top seven entering that game yesterday, if you win it, you go to five and four, you hand Minnesota a big loss.

If you're going to be battling them in a wild card head to head, potentially in December, you can win this bad division. If you find decent quarterback play, they can't find decent quarterback play. And you mentioned Tyson Bajan, they lost to the Saints. Tyson Bajan had eight carries for 70 yards yesterday in a losing effort.

Bijan Robinson at eleven for fifty one. Yeah, you know, one last thing on Josh Dobbs. God, I love this.

So amazing. I know. And we were joking last week that for him to come in once again, he's he is basically making his career over the last two years as the well, man, we're out of options. We need you quarterback, you know, from what happened with Tennessee, with the Titans and Malik Willis not getting it done. And they still needed somebody who could matriculate the ball in a must have winner go home playoff game for the Titans last year. And then whatever the Cardinals were thinking at the end of their training camp, they're like, let's get somebody who can kind of understand our offense at the last minute. And they went and got somebody in from, you know, the Cleveland system that they were you know, they took their offensive coordinator from and they took Josh Dobbs and look what he did until, you know, the Vikings needed him. Hey, man, we're out of options up here.

We need you. And he wasn't going to start because it's Jared Hall, the kid from BYU, he's starting because he knows their system way more than Josh Dobbs. And you might sit there and go, really, a kid who's never really taken many snaps there, but he's been around, knows more about quarterbacking than Josh Dobbs.

This system? Well, yeah, because there was a remarkable shot on the sideline of Josh Dobbs going over his cadence with his offensive lineman who he had just met, and he didn't know the names of some of his receivers either specifically, and he had to go out there. And Kevin O'Connell said after the game that he is describing plays in Dobbs's helmet, not just describing plays, but describing concepts in Dobbs's helmet prior to him having to deliver the play in the huddle and then go run it after the snap and Dobbs wins the football game and he makes plays to win the football game. He is truly remarkable.

And as we were joking last week, so many people can say, you know what? You know, of course, he can learn this system. I mean, it's not rocket science. And he could sit there and go, yeah, I know it's not rocket science, because I know that, too, and I know that's particularly tough that he's somebody who can understand rocket science. He should be able to get this system of Kevin O'Connell's down.

And he did. And I can't I can't be more excited to watch this team keep playing. They've won four in a row.

They're above five hundred. They have got their games against the Lions sitting right there in front of them. They keep winning football games.

They might make the playoffs. And this kid's going to play some meaningful football games for the Vikings right now, and I can't wait to see it. He's a good kid. He deserves the opportunities. He keeps getting them.

And I'm sure Trey Lance is sitting there third string in Dallas going, really? He gets another shot. But he's he's that was one of the great stories of the weekend in week nine, along with Dari Ogunbo, I knew I was going to Dari Ogunbo Wale. Ogunbo Wale, you know, that that somebody in his seventh year is a running back and he shows up to the stadium thinking, OK, I don't even know if I'm going to get on the field very much, even though Damian Pierce is out, certainly with my quarterback winging it all over the lot for 500 yards and five touchdowns, but oh, really, you need me to kick a field goal.

And then he did. And the reaction shots of that broadcast where, you know, they showed a shot of, you know, of the sidelines going nuts. His coordinator going crazy. You know, the head coach is kind of like smiling like the Cheshire cat, and then they show a shot of Baker Mayfield, who is kind of like. And then Baker marched down the field and then CJ March down the field, you know, the cool thing about the field goal, Rich, is after he hit the field goal, he he kicked off and he put it in the end zone.

Well, that's because there was a 15 yard penalty on top. OK, don't ruin it. I'm sorry. We were sitting there. I'm telling you, because, again, just let me just describe the scene and I'll let you guys finish the show. So we're done with our broadcast. We had this conference room that we were using for our meetings all week long. That got turned into a makeshift appetizer and and, you know, drinks and, you know, nice little get together for the crew to celebrate a great broadcast.

And we were watching, you know, Game Pass, the international game pass and watching the games. And we were all sitting there. And when, you know, when the Texans, you know, started to line up for this field goal and Agun Bawale sets up and we're sitting there that you could hear a hush in the room when he split the uprights, it was Bedlam in our so cool room. We were high fiving each other with all due respect to the Bucks. We just couldn't believe what we saw. And then after the touchdown to to take the lead, but with some time left, we're like, you know, what do you do?

Do you squib it? Because I even said, oh, no, you kick it deep. And somebody's like, no, no, the running back is still kicking.

And I'm like, oh, my God, that's right. But he kicked it from the 50 yard line. And when he boomed it into the end zone for a touchback, it was another cheer in the room just to see this oddity happen. It's just, man, that's why the NFL is called the narrative generating machine. You just can't make it up.

It's been uncool. Yeah, a schoonmaker should have. There should have been a flag for passing her. Oh, come on.

Stop it. That's got to be tackled before the ball. But that is yeah.

And Kenny Pickett didn't get a first down two weeks ago here in L.A. We know that as well. So that's true. There's one of those.

We've all got it. Yep, it didn't happen. And I'm sure when I wake up tomorrow morning, I'll learn the Jets had one of them happen to them tonight, too. So it's going to be a great headline tomorrow.

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You know, people worship that movie. Putting on airs. The podcast is on YouTube and wherever you listen. There's somebody on Twitter and it could be Bob at real underscore Bob Costas. Then you read the Twitter bio and you begin to think something could be up. How are you, Bob?

I'm good, Rich. Late last night and then again this morning when I woke up, dozens of texts, some claiming it must be real, some saying this can't be true. Yes. And one said this is the best indication that hell has frozen over since the 04 Red Sox or the 2016 Cubs. But I am here to assure you and everybody else that the fires of hell are still very much blazing because I am absolutely not on Twitter.

They have taken the bogus account down. And I began thinking, you know, what would actually what would I have to do before I ever gained to be on Twitter? What like binge watch the Real Housewives of Orange County? Make a return trip to Sochi just for the nostalgia of a episode.

Star in a bunch of basketball or or just for you, just for you, Rich. Yes, Bob, make a special trip to the NFL and a combo. All those things will happen before I'm ever on Twitter. This is the real Bob Costas. We can confirm that now.

Twitter needs that. Oh, my gosh. Your son tweeted it out that this is not you. When I saw the the first screen grab that that Keith sent to me. Yes. One tip off should be, look, I'm a reasonably humble and self-effacing guy. But what I knowingly sure changed myself. Seven Emmys to get the number of Emmys, right? Exactly.

I said that I said twenty one seems a little like you got to pull a scam, get your ducks in a row. That's so cool. We are back here on the Ridge Eyes and show at the Ridge Eyes and Show Desk, which is furnished by Grainger with supplies and solutions for every industry. Grainger is the right product for you. Call or click Grainger dot com or just stop by. I believe we've been letting people hold for a while.

Turzo in Iowa. Happy Monday to you guys. Happy Monday, guys. Great show today. And you've been a lot of fun listening to you guys.

Sounds like Rich is having a heck of a time over in Germany. Sounds like it sounds like a blast. Absolutely. Yeah, really does.

What's going on? It was a great day of football, man. Being able to wake up, get to the office, turn on the TV, listen to Rich and play some DND. Great start to the morning. Happy the sea chickens got destroyed by the Ravens, which kind of makes me a little nervous to play them a little bit later on in the year. And TJ, sorry about you not feeling good, man.

Sorry about your loss. I was kind of pulling for you guys. I was hoping you get we're going to be able to take out the Eagles yesterday.

Where are you, where are you, Turzo, where are you, really? I actually really was because I don't like seeing the Eagles. They won. That's a good point. Know what he does. Yeah. I don't really want to go to Philly twice this year.

That's a heck of a picture. Dak about to pogo stick Don. You know, Don BB his head right there.

He's okay. Don, look it up, kids. Don BB, old time Bill's wide receiver. That's a good one. Turzo, we thank you for the call.

We thank you for holding patiently as well. I didn't know that people get up on a Sunday morning and play DND. Did not know that. Is that a thing? I'm still blown away that you have that kind of headshot built here for a regular caller like I think he's great, but like, that's like, is that a professional photo? Did you guys send a camera to Iowa?

He's an attorney. Yes, so that's why we went with better call. And you have to be a regular caller. They got it.

No, no, no. Totally get it here. I should tell you that you can stream the game tonight. You can stream the NFL and Westwood one for free. Sponsored by Auto Zone all season long. You can listen to every Westwood one broadcast to the NFL, the NFL app by asking Alexa to open WWO Sports or on your Westwood one affiliate stations, digital platforms stream Kevin Harlan, Kurt Warner and Rich all season long for free and get in the zone with Auto Zone.

Auto Zone's free battery testing and charging is available for free at your local Auto Zone. Get in the zone. Auto Zone restrictions do apply of all the crazy numbers from the game and games yesterday, like 475 or 470, whatever being a new record for CJ Stroud or what Josh Dobbs was able to do the only player in NFL history to score three touchdowns in consecutive weeks for two different teams.

I mean, that's just crazy. How about this one from what the Cleveland Browns defense did to the Arizona Cardinals? You know, by now they held them to 58 yards.

Rookie Clayton Toon. That is a tough first start in your career on the road against Miles Garrett and that defense. But the Cardinals opened well. If you watch the first possession of the game, 12 yards to Trey McBride, Keontae Ingram breaks off an 11 yard run. They had 25 yards of offense after their first three plays. They got right across midfield, eventually went backwards and had to punt. So 25 yards on their first three plays, opening possession, two minutes in, they punt. On the next 45 plays, the rest of the game, they were held to thirty three yards, twenty five yards on their first three, thirty three on their last forty five.

Like, you know, I'm a fan. I was certainly watching the game, but it was one of those where you put on the small screen because, you know, there is simply no way they will score. And I can't remember watching an NFL game. It's been a while where you're watching them. There is no way they score a point.

That's the kick a long field goal. Anyway, with that said, thanks, everybody. Thanks for making my life easy. As always, I'm back tomorrow. Yeah, well, it's on the show tomorrow. We'll figure. Oh, we'll talk about the Jets win. The Jets win over the Chargers tomorrow. How wrestling really works and how you get the ratings.

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