REShow: Albert Breer - Hour 1

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So painful to watch and makes it even more painful to think that Rodgers could actually return and if that happens the Jets could be done because they can't score touchdown. Today's guest, senior writer for the MMQB, Albert Breer. Chief's defensive end, Chris Jones. Actor, director and comedian, Bill Burr. Author, Don Mischer. And now, it's Rich Eisen.

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It's awesome. I love Bill Burr. He is one of my favorite guests, one of my favorite comedians. He just had another sold out set of performances in my favorite building growing up, Madison Square Garden. His wife is flipping double birds. It's awesome and he's great and he's got just like maybe his wife was showing off how many projects he has on Netflix.

You know, it's great to have him here. The film Old Dads that he is all over because he wrote it, he directed it, he's in the movie. Great cast Bobby Cannavale, Bokeem Woodbine. He's also in coming up a new animated musical comedy with Adam Sandler. That's on Netflix too. All of that's available on Roku as well. He's right in the middle of this show on our number two.

Two segments. Gonna be awesome and right after him Chris Jones of the Chiefs zooms in and the Chiefs and the Eagles are going to wrap up a week 11 on a must-see Super Bowl rematch on ESPN and their family of networks. We've got the world's sexiest man slated to be fair and balanced tomorrow Jason Kelsey will be on the program. He was a finalist. Pardon me.

So that's the way we're rolling today. However Albert Breer is going to be joining us on this program and we also have Brea. Brea will be on the show and also I know he was introduced as author because he does have a book 10 Seconds to Air. He's truly one of the greatest directors of live sports and music and award shows. He's directed Olympic opening games and ceremonies. He's the one who was in the director's chair when Muhammad Ali lit the torch in Atlanta. He was the one in the director's chair when Prince lit up the rainy night in Miami for a Super Bowl halftime Michael Jackson. His name is Don Mischer and I can't wait to have him in studio. He is a legend and his new book is 10 Seconds to Air and here it is in my hands.

He's in studio hour number three. So it's all awesome. Good to see you Chris Brockman. How are you over there?

Great Rich. I'm wearing pants and I have new shoes on. Oh great. Good to know.

Good to know. There are the shoes right there. Good. Are those green for your Celtics green taking care of TJ Sixers from last night without two of our best players. What a great road.

Poor Zingus without Jalen Brown. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

Yeah. Good to see you over there. How are you sir? Good to see you. I have pants too. Good to know.

TJ Jefferson. How are you sir? Good to see you. It's good to see you guys started on that six or seven.

That's all right, man. You know what? It's the NBA. Are we 10% into the season? Is that what we're in? Yeah.

12% maybe 10 games. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Draymond Green's out for the next five. Not enough.

One for each knuckle on one of the hands that was wrapped around Rudy Gobert's neck. So we'll talk about that on this program later on. But we have to start with kickoff tonight. Huge game. Thursday night football.

Our friends at Prime Video, which you can get right here on Roku. You can watch Thursday Night Football tonight. Week number 11. Ravens hosting the Bengals.

And here is what is at stake. Nine weeks ago, they faced one another in Cincinnati. This is when Burrow was limping around. We were all wondering what's happening with him. And can his calf give way at any moment in time with something far worse? Because the whole mind's eye with Burrow taking that field with his calf muscle in Cincinnati, all strained and tightening up, one would think. The entire nation had just six days before that watched Aaron Rodgers achilles snap.

And we're all watching Burrow limp around against this Ravens team that had just had J.K. Dobbins go out with an achilles injury. And how would they look with their running game? And would they be on the market knocking on the door of Leonard Fournette, knocking on the door of Kareem Hunt at the time? Would they go ahead and trade for Jonathan Taylor?

Remember what was being discussed nine weeks ago? And sure enough, Gus Edwards has 60 plus yards rushing and a touchdown. Nelson Aguilar's catching touchdowns from Lamar Jackson and a furious late run by Joe Burrow connecting to T. Higgins, not once, but twice for touchdowns.

They wound up just shy of their goal and they fell to 0-2. And oh my goodness, were we wondering if the Bengals were toast, even with an 18 week, 17 game season. And now here we are, smash cut, nine weeks later, Cincinnati, short week on the road against Baltimore and both teams coming off of stinging losses at home. The Ravens just lost to Deshaun Watson, who went 14 for 14 with a broken bone in his throwing shoulder in the second half, also limping around on a left high ankle sprain to beat the Ravens at home to avoid a season sweep at the hands of Baltimore. And now here comes Baltimore taking on a Bengals team that had just lost at home to the quarterback of the moment, the rookie QB that is being mentioned in as an MVP candidate in CJ Stroud, the Bengals, just as you thought they had turned a corner and had captured the Bengal-ness that we have seen over the last couple of years in which the jungle ruled the AFC North Roost, the Cincinnati Bengals coming off of a Sunday night win in Buffalo, a home for Buffalo and a big win at San Francisco taking care of business against Seattle, right?

They lose it all. And now they have to do what Cleveland just did, which is go to Baltimore and avoid a season sweep at the hands of the Ravens. And the Ravens have to be sitting here and thinking they just had a knockout blow, all teed up on Cleveland and whiffed.

And they can't let it happen again tonight because if they whiff, the Bengals get off the mat just four days after they got staggered at home by Houston. And they would be six and four, avoid the season sweep at the hands of the Ravens. And they would be just a half game behind Baltimore in the AFC North. And they've got to be sitting there thinking the Browns are now diminished because they're starting their rookie Dorian Thompson Robinson because Watson's done for the year. And the Steelers, the Pittsburgh Steelers with their smoke and their mirrors at six and three, they could be just a half game behind them as the Steelers go and take on the Browns. Sit back, hands up in the air, behind their heads, kicking back Joe Burrow with a cigar if he wins this game tonight. And the Ravens conversely, they have to be sitting there thinking the same thing. The Browns are diminished with DTR and no Deshaun Watson. And the Steelers with their smoke and their mirrors.

And the Bengals are the team that would concern me the most if I'm wearing purple in Baltimore with Burrow and everybody else. And we've seen how they looked before they slipped up at home against Houston. And we're not letting them off the mat.

We're going to send them to 500. We're going to get an eighth win. We're going to be flat out in this race for the one seed, well positioned as the chiefs take on the Eagles at home on Monday night football and the Dolphins.

We can take care of them if we get them in the bank. Let's get an eighth win. Let's go to eight and three. Let's go into the weekend watching Monday night football saying good luck trying to get your eighth win Kansas City. And it's entirely possible the Ravens finished this week in first place in the entire conference in so doing dealing the knockout blow to Cincinnati that they could not to Cleveland sweeping the season series from them sending them to five and five and on top of it sitting at eight and three with a basic three game lead on the Bengals.

Two and a half in the win loss and then that extra half because they have the tie break. That's what's at stake tonight. Who's not in the game is worthy of being discussed because as I mentioned in that week two game that Cincinnati tried their hardest at the end to overcome Lamar being Lamar and the defense beginning to bow up in that first half and then they came back on that defense at home furiously. Those two touchdowns were to T Higgins and he's not going to be there tonight.

And it looks like Sam Hubbard the famed fumble in the jungle returner from last year's playoff game between these two teams. He's not going to be he's not going to be there. Marlon Humphrey is what we are hearing at present. Doubtful if you're doubtful on game day.

Magic Johnson. And then Ronnie Stanley man. So and Trey Hendrickson does appear to be up despite hyper extending his knee in an ugly fashion on Sunday. Oh boy and what is up with Joe Burrows hand. There's some sort of you know he was coming off the plane last night a local camera crew just shot the players coming off in Baltimore and he's got a wrap on his hand that looks like if you ever have a friend who's got like tendonitis or carpal tunnel you know some ergonomics that's being needed. Or maybe they're going bowling maybe it was tech maybe it was Bengals bowling night and Joe was just getting ready. He's not on the injury report. And that's the issue.

Well I mean unless it's just hey you know. Fashion? No it's not fashion it's just like it doesn't affect like he's playing it doesn't affect his ability to play it's just precautionary or just I don't know. It needs to be on the injury report. And probable with what with tendonitis? Probable wrist. Carpal tunnel?

Probable quote. It's not wrist. Why would it have to be wrist? It could be like right here in your in your thumb.

Thumb. Oh my. Gotta be on there. All right. These are the rules Rich.

I don't make them. We'll talk to Breer about it since he's an Ohio State quarterback. You must know. So that's what's at stake tonight. I think I've just laid it all out there for you. Wow.

To kick off week 11 and man and then sit back winter sits back watches the Browns and Steelers go you beat each other up go ahead and again the Ravens will be well positioned in division very well positioned in conference with a win they lose they would lose back to back division home games in a span of five days against Ohio teams that they had a chance to sweep and didn't letting both teams off the mat and I proffer to say they won't be hearing tomorrow most likely about something that will diminish the Bengals for the rest of the season in the same way that they did hear about the Browns and their quarterback who apparently is having surgery just up the road. Dr. Neil Elitrash has got like a revolving door man. He is busy. He is busy. He is.

Yes. We need to get him on the show. He would come. We could get him. You want him? That would be very interesting conversation.

We should have been had him then. I'll reach out. Well, Frogers comes back. It's not my boy. He's Susie's. Of course, Susie knows. Susie is. Susie's been under the knife, right? We'll save him for a Susie day. Yes. Man. I've got questions for Neil.

Oh, yeah. She can get Neil here. But maybe I don't know if Susie interviews him. Is that covered by insurance?

Great question. Oh, she should kick that up the HR. You're HR.

Oh, yeah. Well, you want to look into it? Let me look at my manual. I'm going to look at the manual.

He got HR by default, too. Eight four four two oh four rich number to dial. Let's chat with our I believe he is in the midst of a two hour radio stint local in Boston. Hey, he's stepping out for 15 minutes to zoom with us. Oh, I'm sure everybody's calm up there. You think, hey, Brockman, how long do you think it'll take Albert and Rich to before it happens?

I want to make a comment right off the bat. He's done that last couple of times. But actually, no, I was the one who made the comment two times ago and he started goes, I don't think you want to go there, Rich. And I'm like, why?

Because there's have you not heard that he was the one who informed me about the whole Connor Stallion thing. My initial reaction was like, OK, great. So now you know that Scott Van Pelt's face that they're holding up means run. I had no idea what was just about to unfold over the next month. Then he took a shot at me last time. So maybe just we'll just be calm.

Yeah, that's not professional football. Love it. Eight four four two oh four rich number to dial. Bill Burton Studio coming up hour two.

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Visit prizepicks.com for restrictions and details. So, uh, in the commercial break, I just got a photograph sent to me through the NFL network channels. I had no idea that there was an NFL, um, photon while there were NFL photons all over the field in Frankfurt.

It took a shot of me before the game in Frankfurt on Sunday Patriots Colts, uh, on the field, the home of Eintracht Frankfurt of the Bundesliga. Okay. And I, I got to tell you, I look like a football manager. Oh yeah. Oh my gosh.

That is amazing. Don't you think like with the, with the credential and my seriousness and absolutely, you know, I've, I've got, you were locked in. I don't know what was, I don't know when this was.

Season four villain of Ted Lasso. Don't I look like, don't I look like, um, don't I look like a soccer coach right there. You got to turn your, if you don't hear yourself in your ear, your microphone is not on TJ. You look like you're trying to devise a way to stop Jamie tart right now.

Doesn't it look like it? That's a great shot. That is amazing. I like it.

You got to get that framed and like blown up and frame. Should we post this on our, on our, um, socials and ask like, what's the name of this soccer coach? What is rich thinking? Yes. I don't know what I was thinking. What, what, what? Yeah. No, I'm not looking good. I'm looking tired. Let's be straight up, but.

Those are like deep in thought. Like you were thinking of some sort of like switching up the back play backline or I'm thinking like that was not offsides. Right. Like, I'm serious. I saw that. That's good. It looks like I'm, I'm a full on football man. I'm not blowing smoke.

That's real. You look great. Okay.

And you know, he wouldn't because he would, I would tell you exactly what I'm thinking. The rakish hat. I didn't have my rakish hat. I kind of did that.

I looked like a football manager right there on the, on the turf. Okay. So there's that back here on the rich eyes and show radio network on the Roku channel live stream. I'm sitting at the rich eyes and show desk furnished by Granger with supplies and solutions for every industry.

Granger has the right product for you call click ranger.com or just stop by. Bill Burr is going to be joining us in studio next hour. Love the guy cannot wait. It will be great. Uh, Albert Breer kind enough to hop out of a radio gig in the middle of his, uh, of his radio day here on this Thursday, joining us from sports illustrated.

I'm a QBs, Albert Breer. How are you, Albert? Good. Good. Good.

How are you doing rich? Like I, uh, like I told you, you got some, you got some fans back here or not. Right. I mean, you know, or not, or not. You're saying that my, my, my, uh, the critique of my calling the Patriots Colts game, um, it's up and down, but how, how are the folks on the sports hub handling the, uh, the Patriots to an ateness, Albert, is it nice and even keel?

What do you have? Yeah. I would say even keel is probably not the, um, the right phrase to describe, um, what's going on here and what's been going on here over the last few days.

Um, you know, I, I, I think it's, it's interesting rich. Cause it almost feels like a fait accompli now, like there's going to be a separation. And, um, you know, I, I honestly, there's only three people that really know if that's the truth, you know, and that's, you know, two of them have the last name craft and the other one is the greatest coach of all time.

Um, but it does feel at least in this market, like, um, this thing is coming to an end. And the question now is going to be what it looks like at the very end, because right now, um, the three of those guys have a football team that can't get out of its own way and looks like it's going to continue circling the drain and a pretty healthy rebuild in front of them. And, uh, so, you know, I, I mean, look like again, like it's only those three guys that, that, that, that know, and I mean, as far as Belichick's future, it may only be the two.

It may only be Robert and Jonathan that know, um, whether or not decisions have been made, but, um, you know, certainly it's, it's, there's no precedent for it around here. Um, but it certainly seems like there's going to be some pretty significant change in the off season. Well, I mean, and again, it's not just any coach you're talking about. You refer to him as the greatest coach of all time. And it's not just any coach we're talking about in new England, obviously as well, you know, the Patriots love putting red jackets on people who brought those Lombardi trophies and bill is obviously going to be one of them, or at least that would be the plan. And, you know, you don't just fire him like he's cotite, you know, in the middle of a bi-week too, you know what I mean?

Like that's, that's not what happens either, but I, I, I totally understand what you're saying about getting the sense that this is, this is over. So wouldn't there be some sort of maybe conversation to say, what do you want bill? You know, and, and if there is some other team that might be interested in, uh, offering compensation or anything like that, is that a possibility? And I would advocate for that. I would say this would appear to be the time because they're on their buy now. Um, you know, obviously they're two and eight and, you know, I, I think it would behoove Robert Kraft to go to bill and say, how do you want to do this?

Like, if this is it, how do you want to do this? And at least put cards on the table and, and be honest with each other. Um, they had an up and down, you know, relationship obviously, but to great success across the board. And, um, you know, I think that the idea of like how the separation is going to happen is very, very important to Robert Kraft. And I, I don't think that he wants to outright fire him. I think he would, you know, he would rather have this be mutual.

He would rather have some way of celebrating the last 24 years and everything that Bellatrix given to the organization. The question becomes whether or not bill's going to go along with that. And I think, I think, you know, that all relates to Bill's next steps.

Now, everyone that I know that knows bill really well, and I'm not getting this from the horse's mouth, but the people I know that know bill really, really well, they all think to a man, nobody that I have talked to that, um, that, that knows bill really well. And again, this isn't coming from the horse's mouth, but they all think he still wants to keep coaching. No one thinks he's like done coaching that. And, and, you know, like if he still wants to keep coaching, that's where this could get a little awkward, right? Because if the Patriots want a mutual parting, does that mean if he goes to another team, they're looking for compensation?

Um, and if they want compensation, does bill just say to them, okay, well, just fire me, you know, um, that's where it could get awkward. If this was like a true retirement, that's one thing then, you know, you can work out something that's like, okay, like we're going to announce it, you know, in week 17 or week 18. And, and then we're going to allow for the fans to say goodbye to you.

And we're going to have a ceremony and we're going to do all this different stuff. Like, like if this was a true retirement, that's, you know, what you would be looking at. If bill still wants to coach, then it's something else. And it goes to do the crafts want compensation for him if he's going to go to another team. And if bill knows that they'd want compensation for him, does bill say, I don't want whatever team it is, that's going to come and get me, give up draft, giving up draft picks for me.

So, you know what, Robert, just fire me. Um, it could come to that, you know, so I think that there's a lot of things that could get awkward here. I just think like overall, the better way to handle it, if you're going to do it. And if they've made the decision that they're going to do it is to start that discussion now, because I think you and I both know where this gets really awkward is if you wait until, you know, new years, you know, you wait until you're a week out or two out. And now all of a sudden, like you're having this conversation when decision time is right there. To me, like doing it during the bi-week, doing it right now makes a lot of sense because it gives at least everybody runway to work something out.

Well, this is going to play out in front of a lot of people straight up, Albert, not just because of who we're talking about. Uh, but by the fact, uh, I mean that the game that I just called on NFL network, um, you know, nationally, uh, internationally, if you will, is the first of three nationally televised Patriots games over the next month. They've got a, I mean, this is front and center. They've got a Thursday night game at Pittsburgh and then a Monday nighter at home against Kansas city. And then a Sunday nighter I'm in the booth for this one too, on Christmas night. That's a nationally televised game on NFL network on New Year's Eve.

Pardon me, Christmas Eve night. I'm calling the whole country is going to watch three straight Patriot games in a row. And they, you know, uh, who knows what they'll be, uh, going into those games. And rich, not to interrupt you, but those stand-alone we saw it on Monday night, like those standalone games can take on a different tenor and tone, you know?

Yeah. I mean, I think the Buffalo, like if that happens at one o'clock on Sunday, is the reaction the same? I mean, it's not good for the bills either way, but I don't know that the reaction is quite the same if that's not a standalone game. So like we know, I think for a fact, like those standalone games do take on a different tone and tenor because it's the only game on, you know? And so all the conversations, social media, all of it is, is on that one thing.

And so, yeah, I mean, I think that that does create those sort of interesting checkpoints along the way between now and week 18. Albert Breer here on the Rich Eisen Show, a few minutes left with Albert. So why did Ken Dorsey lose his job? I mean, what is going on behind the scenes that you can tell us that led to this other than just a, you know, wasn't working out, we could see it or anything like that.

Trevon Diggs, his brother saying, you know, Steph's got to get out of there. This seems to be an iceberg and we're just seeing the tip, Albert. Yeah, I would say like, you know, if you want to look at it like just for what it was, I mean, it's easy for all of us to say the offensive numbers are good and the defense and special teams were the culprit on Monday night and all that's true. I would say that the people in that organization know right now that the offense is going to have to carry things the rest of the year. And that's in part as a result of the injuries they've had on defense to Matt Milano and to Tredavious White and to Daquan Jones. And I think if you actually watch the games and you watch the offense and you look at the reasons why they're turning the ball over, it's because they're not consistent enough.

It's because there's not enough of an identity there. And I think the idea in going to Joe Brady here is to try to create some sort of change in the offensive meeting room. Joe Brady is very organized. He's very creative. I think that he'll put a little bit more into the run game and he's very inclusive. You know, he'll include other people in the room in the conversation. And I think all those things are what Sean McDermott is looking for here.

I also would say this. It puts a lot of pressure on Sean McDermott because he's now offloaded two coordinators in the span of 10 months. So, you know, he's sort of the Will Smith meme now. He's standing there and it's him.

Like, he's the only one in the room to point the finger at now. And I think what's so fascinating about it, the urgency, like, see, to me, like, the window isn't closed on the organization because as long as you have Josh Allen, the window's open. But if you look at the age of some of the guys in that roster, right, Stephon Diggs is turning 30, Tredavious White is turning 30, Micah Hyde and Jordan Poyer, who are so important to that build, are 32, Von Miller is 34, Mitch Morris is 31.

They've got a lot of older players on that team. And so the window's still open for the organization, but you're probably about to go through a reset. And if you're the Pagulas, part of, you know, conducting a reset is who's going to be running that reset. And so, like, I think that that adds the pressure on everybody in the team. I think that that adds the pressure on everybody in the organization is it's not just winning in the here and now and for the players and the group of players that they've won with over the last four or five years. It's also who's going to be running the next phase of this. So a lot of pressure on a lot of people in Buffalo over the next seven weeks, eight weeks. And, you know, I think, again, like, to me, like, a big piece of this is where the organization is going forward coming out of this. And I don't know how close you guys have looked at it, but that schedule is no cake walk the rest of the way.

Nope, not at all. I mean, and the Jets coming to town this weekend is a huge game because it's the first with Joe Brady and it's such a short week. And obviously the Jets could sweep the bills and send them to below 500 going into Thanksgiving. Of course, you know, I mean, they can get back to 500 and they got a Black Friday game against Miami coming up and Rogers potentially returning. What is your two cents on Rogers potentially returning?

What are you hearing right now? Mid-December, really? I mean, is that really possible? You know, what's funny about it, Rich, is like, just, you know, the conversations that I had on Aaron and where he's at physically, they were people that people with the Jets were very careful about putting any sort of date on it. But you always got the idea they were more optimistic than you wanted to believe, if that makes sense. Like, it was like, I remember like, oh, well, you guys would have to get in the playoffs. It's like, well, you know, maybe, maybe he could help us get in the playoffs, you know? So you got like little hints along the way that they didn't want to put it on him, you know, like, and say like, yes, he'll be back week 14.

Yes, he'll be back week 15. They didn't want to put any of the pressure on Rogers that way. But you got little hints that things were going really well in his rehab to the point where they felt good about the possibility to get himself back in there. And now it's on the team, you know, to get themselves in a position where it's worth it for him to come back, right?

Because I think we can agree that's the big thing here. The one thing that does help the Jets too, the AFC is not nearly as strong as we thought it would be. You know, Cincinnati's fought through the burrow thing. Buffalo isn't as good as we thought they'd be. The Jaguars look great. Then they get smacked by the Niners last week. So I mean, is it possible that a nine and eight team could get in the AFC playoffs?

And I think that that's more of a possibility than we ever would have thought it would have been two months ago when this conference just looks stacked. You know, you've got to get past the Browns who now are going to be starting Dorian Thompson Robinson at quarterback. You got to get past the Raiders who have an interim coach. Like it's not as dawning a path to the playoffs as it looked like it would be, which again, I think is another reason why the door would be open for Rogers to maybe push it a little bit as far as coming back earlier than people expect. Yeah, the problem is, as you mentioned, a couple teams, one that they're going to be playing in Cleveland, one that they've already lost to in the Raiders, and another team they lost to in the Chargers.

These are the teams that you're going to have to fight for that seventh spot or maybe sixth spot. And you got to start winning games on that front. Albert, I know you got to go back to your radio gig. I really appreciate the time as always, brother. You be well. Awesome. Thanks, Rich. Right back at you next week, I think. Right.

Say it again. We should talk next week. Next week. Let me shut my schedule. Oh, I am free, sir. Are you free next week? Yeah, let's find a time to talk. Enjoy watching tonight's game.

Ravens versus your quarterback. It'll be great. All right. Okay. Take care. Have a great weekend. We should talk next week. You should talk next week.

That was very polite. I have a little piece of news about what might be coming tomorrow with the Michigan TRO hearing. Are we breaking news?

I don't think it's really much news, but it just got a text from some folks who've got boots on the ground in Ann Arbor. More suspensions? Yeah.

Wow. Pipe down, Penn State. I thought we told you to pipe down last week. Hey, here's one thing, too, with the Jets. They're the latest team to have a players only meeting.

You see that? The offense got together. And then Michael Carter got released afterward? I don't know. Did they take a vote? Did he lose it, Survivor style? It's Arizona's game. His torch has been extinguished.

No, how about that? And here's the quote of the week from Zach Wilson. And again, you pull a quote and you see it and you put it in a headline. But that's the headline at newyorkjets.com. Here's the headline.

QB Zach Wilson on Jets way out of offensive struggles. Ready for the quote? That's what it says.

Colon. And then here's the quote. So this is what he said.

But they were the ones who cherry picked. This is a line in the middle of a soliloquy. Sure, of course. I can't wait. But when it just when it just is in the headline doesn't really inspire confidence.

As a matter of fact, you know, Bill Burr's co-star from Old Dad's Bobby Cannavale. The drop might be appropriate. The Bobby Cannavale drop that we have. Here's the headline.

QB Zach Wilson on Jets way out of offensive struggles. Quote. We need to be better more.

Yeah, sure. Why not? Or maybe it's better this way. We need to be better more.

There should be a comma in there. No, we need to be we know what we just need to be better, more, more, better, more better. You know what? It's like better. You know what? They need to be better. Plus better. That's right. Insubordinate and churlish.

No, no, no, no. I don't think it's insubordinate or churlish. I think it is straight on. Honestly, what do you need to do? We need to be better, more, more of the better. We need less of the bad, less of the bad, more of the good. It's a simple way of looking at things.

It truly is. You should do that. Take some of the bad and do that less. Yeah. And take some of the better. Do that more.

Do that more. Yeah. Mo better. Mo wins. Right. I mean, how many more times can we figure this one out again? I know I'm cherry picking this, but this was the Jets headline.

That's what I want. I was jet lagged, staring at the ceiling at four thirty, sneaking a look at my phone, because Susie would be just like, just put it away and try and go back to sleep. And here I am. I'm like, where is Zach Wilson? Cubies, that's the headline. I know, but who's making the headline?

Like, why are we doing Zach Wilson like that? I don't know. I'm not helping him out. I'll hold it up on my phone. There it is.

Can you see what it says? Absolutely not. QB Zach Wilson on Jets way out of offensive struggles. So small. We need to be better, more. OK, I feel better. That's what comes out of you feel better or we feel better, more. I feel better, more than I did.

No, I feel less better. I mean, but but he's not going to come out and say, here's what we're going to do. This is what we're going to do. Let's give let's give Sean McDermott a heads up of what we're going to do differently. Here's our new wrinkles. How about this wrinkle?

The wrinkle is take the better, more of it more. We need to be better, more than we are bad. You just try to score touchdowns.

How about that? I mean, it hasn't happened in three weeks. Hey, Zach, try to score touchdowns. Oh, God.

I mean, that is the goal, right? OK, we'll take a break right here on the Rich Eisen show and we'll the whole quarterback situation in the National Football League has reached a new epidemic. Over the and it's not just this year, it's over the last two seasons prior. I'll explain you what I mean and also reveal what my boots on the ground in Ann Arbor are telling me. This is fun.

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Believe has podcasts covering all 32 professional teams and many of your favorite college teams too. And to be only producing 15 points a game, that's something that is definitely disheartening. Sideline to sideline, end zone to end zone. As a quarterback, I would expect him to be acting like that. Take the accountability. Put that on yourself.

Don't put it on your teammates. Search BLEAV podcasts wherever you listen. This guy over there, Brockman with his Red Sox cap over there. Do you have the David Price sound that when he was bitching about David Price after the Yankees beat him up in, what was that, game two?

Play it. Go for it for Bill Burke. I want him to quit. I want him to retire on the spot. He's not going to do that. I didn't go that hard.

That's what I want. He was terrible. Part of you, so furious at David Price. I'm so furious. But you were kind of feeling good though. Like you're getting it off your chest. Like you could have been... It was therapeutic, but like... See what I'm saying? Is there something about... Name another sports fan that sees that guy... I don't know.

Maybe I'm just a much more sunny disposition type guy. Were you screaming at Harbaugh? This is about him. This is about how great he is. Now I see where this is going.

I was confused. You know, Rich, 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 tax sports fan. Don't you love that?

You haven't been represented in the sports universe. It's always great when I have another teammate come into studio because I'm teamed up against two-on-one with the New York... Don't you hate anytime like there's a big Boston 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. I 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 baby, Bill Burr about to come back out here. Back here on the Rich Eisen Show. Just had a nice chat with Bill. His brother's here. Hey, nice.

Yeah. And so it's all a Burr family affair. Again, Bill back from New York City.

Performed, sold out Madison Square Garden. His wife was at the UFC fight showing everybody how many projects on Netflix he has. Two of them. Two of them. Two big ones.

Or 11. I saw that. Again, old dads on Netflix. Currently a movie that Bill wrote and directed. He's in it. Great cast. So funny. Check it out. And then Leo is the new animated musical comedy on Roku available.

Starting streaming next week. That's the next thing he's going to be on Netflix. That's killing it. Adam Sandler's in it too. And Bill's about to come out here. Oh, and Bill's a Michigan guy. He's from the New England office, but when you say Michigan guy, Michigan Wolverine guy. So I just heard from some people in Ann Arbor. Tomorrow, as you know, is the hearing for Jim Harbaugh and Michigan in front of a judge to say, hey, this whole business, Connor Stallions and the tickets and the scheme, all that stuff hasn't been fully investigated yet. A judge is also a Michigan professor. By the way, I believe adjunct, but excuse me, it's going to go great. That judge said, yeah, okay, we'll wait until after the Penn State game and a day before the Maryland game to hear it out. What was it? It was a federal holiday last Friday.

So everything was closed. Excuse me. Things can get done on a federal holiday, like finding a judge. And excuse me, if this Michigan judge would had his, his or her, we don't know which one it is.

Maize and blue thumb on the scale. He'd have been coaching at Penn State last week instead of sitting in a hotel room catching who knows whatever bug that he has that bounced off his wall of vitality, you know? So excuse me, fixes in, they would have been coaching last week. Tomorrow there's a hearing. I am hearing some members of some fraternities might show up at the hearing and maybe get in there. Honestly, I have no idea. Is this being televised?

Is it? I would want it to be televised. How much would you pay to watch this like five, 10 bucks on pay-per-view?

Honestly, honestly, what would get a higher rating? This hearing, if it's televised with fraternities and sororities and everything in there or the Michigan Maryland game itself, easily the hearing, especially if hardball is going to take the stand, whatever that means, like let's go. Yeah. What do you, is he introduced like, like somebody who comes in to judge Judy's courtroom? This is Jim Harbaugh. This is Jim Harbaugh.

Michigan's going for its 1000th all-time win this weekend, by the way, true, true, true, with Michigan sitting on 999 wins. He may or may not have known about this Connor Stallion's freak. I'm TJ Llewellyn. TJ Llewellyn. That's the people's court. You're mixing up your television judge shows.

Five minutes to Wapner. Would you ever, by the way, would you ever do that? Do what? Go on the people's court, any court show chance and place in the hands of the television judge the actual right to decide your dispute and you have to stand by it. Would you do such a thing?

It depends on what exactly the man who went on the price is right and didn't win. I would, excuse me. Excuse me. Sorry.

That was a little, a little brash. Let me handle this. If you don't mind, let me handle this. Let me, let me be your, your counsel here on this people's court. This man got out of contestants row.

Yes. Thousands of people. He just, he got out of contestants row and played a pricing game. You know, someone on the staff.

Don't you dare do that. Hey, you got out of contestants row to salute. You just had a problem.

You, you, you entertained. You could possibly get on this show. You just don't want to give me credit for that. You did go as far as you could possibly get on a final showcase and got nothing.

Cause you want, cause of a double over. You did great TJ. I know I did great. So no, let's get back to the task in hand. No, I'm not a man. No, no, no, no, no.

Forget this man. You'd really do it. You'd really do it. If you're having a dispute, if it was a face like Chris, like Chris, maybe hit my car with his door and he scratched my paint and it was like five.

Yeah. If it's funny, let's take it to the people's court or the quarter whatever. But I don't think it was I don't think it was anything like truly contentious. I don't think I know you can't put you, but you would not do it. You would not put like, if you're having a dispute with a landlord, you're having a dispute, you know, some you're owed some money.

You'd, you'd actually say, I'm going to go on one of these television shows, air it all out in front of God and country. And I'll have to abide by this binding decision. It depends on who the judges to be quite. Okay. So who's the judge? You'd say, okay, I don't know.

I know every time I call my mom, she's watching some judge. I don't know. I don't know all the TV, Joe Brown. Yeah. Joe Brown was up there. It's just like have a judge show on YouTube or something. No, we did that.

We did that. I think on game day morning. So I thought that was a real big type show. I think it was a real YouTube show saps out there watching my phones about the buzz.

I think, how do you not remember? My dad went on breaking news. My dad went on one of these shows, which one, which dad only got one so bad that he told me not to watch.

That's all I know. And I know he's listening right now. It was over a video camera, like him and his old partner, like who owned it. The other guy had it. And you, you don't recall, like your dad, your dad went on one of these shows and you don't remember which one it is. I I'll find out, but he was like, don't watch it. It didn't go well.

All right. We were in Miami. Was he called for contempt? Is that how bad it was? This was recently. This was one years ago at Superbowl. Cause I called to say how to go.

And he's like, not good. All I know is that tomorrow at this hearing, some people, some kids are going to show up in his Washtenaw County corn house and treat it like it's college game day. I imagine what is like, what is their plan? What's the plan?

What's the fraternity plan? I mean, the judge is sitting there going, you know, the gallery is filled with, you know, what beer bongs, right? And TJ plus wait, TJ plus is coming in here and the plaintiffs talking about raising chickens and having viruses bounce off his wall of vitality.

What do you expect this to do? You're more wrong. Yeah. Double secret probation.

And someone's got to have a guitar. And in the mean meantime, in the middle of all this, Michigan is undefeated has its best team in, I honestly, this is the best team they've had since 97, 1 million percent, the most talented loaded team since 97, which is the year that Brian Greasy and Charles Woodson and Steve Hutchinson and the rest of the crew and Tom Brady, your backup quarterback, all had to, you know, share a title with Tom Osborne, retiring, nice little gold watch president, perhaps a little bit, a little bit. But hey, there was no BCS yet. There was no BCS yet.

True. No BCS yet. So you had a split title. That Nebraska team averaged 50 points a game.

Yep. Well, let's see what happened against Charles. They scored 45. That's for the dustbin of history.

I'm talking about the here and now. This team has a chance to win its 1000th game in the history of the school and set up an undefeated matchup between Michigan and Ohio State. Where Harbaugh may or may not be on the sideline. How about yesterday, you know, Bruce Feldman was saying how if you're Ryan Day, you want Harbaugh on the sideline.

I kind of agree with him. Why is he then why is he on the phone with the rest of the Big Ten coaches saying he should be suspended? Because I'm sure that's the way he sounded, oversaw a massive cheating scandal. He did. Do you know that? Do you know that he oversaw it? I know that he's the head coach and is responsible for everything that goes on in his program. So yes, he oversaw it.

So but you snout. So you want the suspension to be over. So he's back on the sideline. Now I'm saying for Ryan Day, it helps his legacy more if he beats Jim Harbaugh. Because so far he, you know, hasn't gone great the last couple of years. Last couple of years, correct. For one reason or another.

Well, because he didn't have the better team. Or that might be the case. That's what I'm saying.

Or something else. It hasn't been fully adjudicated. Will you acknowledge that you don't have all the information? I don't.

I want it. So let's wait. I won't. Exactly.

That's my point. Will you acknowledge that maybe they know more than you know? Who's they?

The people in charge and making decisions. Well, then they have to go and put it into a document in front of a court of law with apparently fraternity row showing up at the same time. Yeah, that's it. That's it. And that's our preview of tomorrow's hearing.

It's called team coverage. Let's welcome Judge Joe Brown to the show. Bill Burr's got some two cents on this. He's coming up in studio coming up next. Would you go? You'd go. Take this phone call right now. Really? Yeah. Judge Jeff in Kansas City.

I've only got 90 seconds. What's up, Jeff? Hey, Rich. I actually took a case to Judge Joe Brown. Well, my buddy and I had bought some housing. We had a tenant issue and we were guaranteed to get paid.

So we got the judgments that the tenant that we knew couldn't afford to pay and they paid us her money for being on the show. Does that make sense? Yes. So it was the famed line from Raging Bull, even if you lose, you win pretty much. Exactly. That's exactly what it was.

It was a guaranteed win. Long story short, the reason we ended up on it, my buddy that I invested in the houses with, his uncle was a producer for the Jerry Springer show. So we kind of knew that world. Let me tell you. Fantastic, Jeff. Thanks for chiming in. Our callers are factors around here. Well done.

They're factors. Joe Brown, I asked what it was. He said it's called three judges across from Judge Judy said, don't do it. Wow.

I would not do that. Fantastic. Bill Burr.

This is getting even better. Bill Burr next. Just as excited about Paul Heyman or John Cena or an undertaker or Becky Lanchard. I don't care what their birth certificate says. They're going to draw a younger demo because they're fun to watch and they're great entertainers. 83 weeks on YouTube or wherever you listen.