REShow: Chris Fowler - Hour 2

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Are you kidding me? This is the game of the year. This is the Rich Eisen Show. I'm fired up for this game. Live from the Rich Eisen Show studio in Los Angeles.

Now to get a rematch, to me, this is the game of the year up until this point, no question. Today's guest ESPN broadcaster, Chris Fowler. What's more likely NFL Network insider Tom Pelissero. And now it's Rich Eisen.

That's correct. It is me. Hour number two of the Rich Eisen Show is on the air. Eight, four, four, two, oh four.

Rich number to dial right here on our program. Tom Pelissero will be joining us in hour number three to tell us everything that's going on in the NFL that we need to know. Devin Aitchen coach Mike McDaniel said it looks like he's going to play for the Miami Dolphins this week.

That kid lit things up before he hurt his knee earlier on this season. The Miami Dolphins are at the Washington commanders this week. And then you'll see him on Monday night against the Tennessee Titans. I'm wondering if that's the game that Fowler is going to call on a Monday night. He's about to join us in from from Las Vegas, Nevada. We're checking him in right now as he's calling the Pac-12 championship game.

In the meantime, let's hit the phone lines to kick off our number two. Nick in Corona, California. Is he the guy? Oh, yeah.

He brought our friend 15 and two. That's right. And Nick, you're right.

You're the guy who said you played the the schedule win loss game. Yeah. Nick and Corona back here on the show. How are you, Nick? Nick, you there?

Put him through, Mike. Hang on. Oh, there he is. There we go there, Nick. Yeah. There you are.

How are you, Nick? Hey, Broncos country. Let's ride.

Yeah. For those who let's bring everyone up to speed here as we're waiting on Chris Fowler, the win loss game that we play every now and then before the season begins, where fans of a team call in, they say who is going to win, which game they're going to win, which they're going to lose. And then we get a record at the end. Nick and Corona diehard Broncos fan said they were going to wind up being 15 and two. And then and then when things, you know, kind of fell off the wagon, one in five, you called in and say, oh, that's the way that one went. Now you're back.

And they've won five in a row, Nick. How about you? How about you? What are you thinking?

Morale is high. I am taking my Broncos this weekend. If they lose, it's OK. If they do lose, do you think they still are in the playoffs? Of course they are. It'll be tough because Houston will be in front of them. And that's a tie break that they'd rather have than not.

But yeah, I mean, they're playing much better. I was saying before at the top of the show, and Chris is about to join us in a second, how Dak Prescott has been bawling out and how he's got 26 touchdowns on the season and how that's MVP candidate material because he has only six interceptions. Do you know who's got 20 touchdowns and four interceptions this year? Mr.

Unlimited. Russell Wilson has I mean, he has turned things around. The defense is bawling out. And Nick, I do have to let you go before I let you go.

You do know the game that they won at Buffalo is one of the two games that you had them losing when you had them 15 and two on the season. Right, Nick? Oh, absolutely. OK, great. You did get the at the Chiefs loss. Correct.

Everything else is, you know, up in the air. Thanks for the call. That's Nick and Corona here. Joining us here from Las Vegas, Nevada, a man who's calling a huge football game tonight and many of them over the next several weeks, both college and pro are our buddy Chris Fowler back here on the program. How are you doing, Chris? Great, Rich.

Vivo Las Vegas. Yeah, huh? If I were to stand up, if I were to do this. OK, let's see. Hold on a minute. What do we got?

Oh, wow. See the spirit. I don't want to mess the shot up.

Is it OK to leave it? Because our baby is being performed there tonight. You two is playing opposite our game, Rich. It's what are the odds?

I can't do both. That's fear. I mean, that is amazing. I've never seen it. That it's it's is it as advertised. How impressive it is to see it because it's bright sunlight.

You can still see this crazy LED. I someday I'm going to get inside there with the Super Bowls out here. Yeah, I'm going to try to wrangle a YouTube ticket in and around that. That'll be easy, right? And just try to try to catch them then. But it's exciting.

The town is buzzing. It's good. Well, let's get into tonight's game, Chris. And again, as you know, me being a National Football League guy, things like favorites and underdogs.

Those terms confuse me, but it does appear. It does appear that the folks in that town behind you think Oregon is going to win this football game by a wide margin. What's what's the scoop? There are very few precedents for an undefeated team playing for a conference championship and a playoff bit being this big and underdog. The only parallel has been Notre Dame played Clemson and Clemson didn't have D.J. I mean, didn't have Lawrence in the first game and and they lost at Notre Dame. The rematch.

Trevor came back. They're a big favorite. Notre Dame lost and still made the playoff. But this is so unusual to have a Washington team that has run the gauntlet in the Pac-12, one of the deepest years ever in this league. And as a nine and a half point dog, it shows you how much they respect the dominance of Oregon down the stretch because they've been handling business. And the Huskies have been kind of scraping by being clutch in the moment, but not dominant. That's why the numbers so big.

OK, so that's why that that's the way that's working. But it does appear that Oregon has played some of the best football in college over the last month and a half, two months. To what do you ascribe that, Chris? Yeah, well, I mean, I have a couple of things. One, they've done an amazing job getting this team physically ready.

We had our meetings yesterday. You know how everything is analyzed and all the data points are put together for how fast a guy runs in practice, how high he jumps, what he's doing in the weight room. It's normal to have teams wear down in the regular season, 13 games in. It's very, very difficult to have guys running faster now than they have lifting more now than they were.

And that's where Oregon is. Somehow they've stayed really fresh, energized. I sense they do have a little more juice, a little more fuel in the tank than Washington does. Both of them have played eight straight weeks since that first meeting in Seattle, which was one of my favorite games of the season.

And since then, it's been a grind. No virtual buys, no off weeks to play at FCS team. It's been Pac-12 competition, high-stress games every week, and somehow Oregon has come out of this thing looking really bouncy and ready to go. And they've got Bo Nix and they've got a very balanced team. I think they feel like, talking about Sundays, they were better at the line of scrimmage than Washington. That's what they think. They thought they were in the first game and lost despite that. They think that it'll be the difference in round two.

Well, I assume you're going to see Bo Nix in Manhattan next weekend, right? Does Tonight have a large role in whether he picks up the trophy that night, do you think? Yeah, the Jay and Daniel of LSU doesn't have the opportunity to make a closing statement. They got three losses, but that doesn't mean he can't win it.

Lamar Jackson, RG3, Tebow, Caleb. Guys have won this trophy with multiple losses. And as great as his year was, Daniel's going to be in New York. I think the winner of this game tonight becomes the main challenger for him. If Nix goes out and lights it up in his 60th start, 60th start at the College football player, wow, then I think he will be the favorite. They keep odds under. The odds have been screwy with this trophy all year.

They wildly fluctuate. It doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. I don't know who bets on the Heisman, but people do evidently. And they've got Nix as the favorite, but not a huge favorite. And he wouldn't be the favorite if they lost the game. So it depends on what happens on the field.

Apparently, I have a degenerate in the studio who just reacted to that. So do you bet on the Heisman, Chris? Yeah, everyone. Everyone bets on the Heisman. When people ask him when he bets, like, go for it.

He can hear you. Go ahead, Chris. Yeah, Chris, you just kind of bet throughout the year. You're basically looking for odds. You're looking for the best value. I know how it works. I know, but you're looking for value throughout the year.

So after Oregon loses to Washington, you're like, they're still good. I'm still going to bet Bo Nix because he's 10 to one. Did you get him?

Did you get him at 10 to one? Yeah, I don't want to really reveal, but sure. What do you mean?

What is that? Sure. I have good value on Bo Nix. I have good value on Bo Nix, yes. Okay. Okay. Very good. You didn't play value, but there's about JJ McCarthy, no offense, which was like the for a moment there.

And then it radically changed. And I think that we don't know who. I think Pennix and Nix are both deserving of being in New York, along with, of course, Daniels and them. Who's the fourth guy? We don't know. There'll be a fourth finalist.

And that's sort of like TBD. Is Carson Beck going to light it up for Georgia? Or is Millrow for Alabama? Or if JJ has a huge game and they stomp Iowa, as they expect, they will.

Does he get there? That's a little bit intriguing who the other finalists will be. And then as if there's not enough stakes on the line tonight that you referred to, the winner of this moves on, right?

The winner of this goes to the college football? Yeah. I mean, I think, I think so. I think the committee has weighed in on Oregon, right? They, they know how much, even though they don't have that mega quality win yet, if they beat Washington, they will.

And the committee already loves what they do. So I think they would take Washington's place in the top four. The seeding is really interesting. Like Florida State is trying to get through with a backup quarterback and even Tate Rademacher at that backup quarterback, got it hit in the head last week.

I guess he's been practicing. I'm not sure about their game for Louisville. A lot of people would like to see FSU lose.

I'm going to be honest with the other content and just go away, but if they survive in advance, then, then they're in the conversation too. But, but how this seeding works is going to be really interesting. The Georgia Bama game is crucial. Bama again, has the chance to just wreck everything by beating Georgia and sort of trying to force their way in there. And, and as an SEC champ, it'd be hard to say no. And then what do you do with Georgia?

So it gets very complicated if the dogs don't win as five and a half point favorites in Atlanta tomorrow. Well, what do you do with Texas then too, right? I mean, Texas beat Alabama. I mean, this is the, it's very simple to understand when you talk tie breaks, one team has beaten the other, you know, the one for Alabama is to Texas. But this text, I think Texas is a great team and they're, they're an example of a team that's been pretty dominant down the stretch. They're one loss to Oklahoma on a late touchdown. Otherwise they're perfect.

And they're sitting right there one, two somewhere. And I don't think that, I don't think you become a radically better or worse team on the basis of one play. You know, I just don't, I don't think Alabama is a much better team because Milro throws a fourth and 31 prayer touchdown to survive against Auburn. Okay. They're not, they're a more deserving team.

They're not a better team because they made one play and Texas isn't a much worse team because Dylan Gabriel threw a touchdown to beat them in Dallas mid season. So I, we need the 12 team playoff this year. We don't have it. Right. It's going to be a little bit messy. People are going to be mad and feel excluded that that's going to be part of the process on Sunday when the bids go out.

All right. And then again, as if the stakes aren't any bigger for tonight, this is the last PAC 12 game. Chris, you're calling the last PAC 12 football game PAC 10 PAC, you know, whatever the number has been throughout the years. This is it tonight. What are your, what are your, what are your thoughts on it? I want to give you the floor. Any memories? What comes back to you when you hear this, Chris, what do you got for me?

No, I got a lot of memories. I mean, I've seen so many things in this conference going back to the eighties and, and yes, these teams have big futures, right? We're already getting excited about the fact that Michigan's going to visit Washington next year. Oregon's got the same kind of schedule, but there won't be West coast football in the way that we've known it.

And our grandparents knew it since 1915, when the, the predecessor of the PAC eight PAC 10 PAC 12 came to be, and there's no real league at the top level of the sport representing the West coast. And that sucks that really, I mean, I'm sorry, it's exciting new stuff for all these teams that are splintering off and going other places. I think it will be fun next year.

I think it's, it's a sad ending to a real chapter. And those of us that have loved watching guys like Jim Plunkett and John Elway and Aaron Rogers and, and on and on play in this conference, it's been a great year and it's, it's a shame and ironic that it's going out and what's been one of the best years for this conference. I, I think that will be aside from documenting the game and all the stuff you talked about, that'll be in the air tonight. There'll be a nostalgic sense in the building that this is it, you know, when we're not going to see a power league on the West coast ever again, you got one, a PAC 12 game, your favorite one you ever called PAC 10, anything? Honestly, to be honest with the first Oregon Washington game this year is one of the greatest games I've ever called.

I mean, there's so many other ones. I mean, powerful memories on the field with Aaron Rogers, having four shots first and go to beat Pete Carroll when USC was number one. It's a top 10 game.

He marched him down. The field is going to be an amazing Rogers comeback. Pete calls timeout on defense and they go, they go incomplete sack, incomplete, incomplete, and keep Rogers out of the end zone.

Not easy to do in the red zone, right? If you found that through the years, that game, that was just the Coliseum at its best. It wasn't a game that is going to leap to a lot of people minds, unless you're a fan of SC probably, but that moment, just seeing that play out in the Coliseum, I'll never forget that.

And there's been so many others too over the years. And so, walk me through your schedule over the next month and a half, because you got Monday night football in a couple of weeks too, right? I mean, what do you got? We jumped the plane after the game in Vegas. We had to Atlanta. Kirk and the game day guys set up the day in Atlanta. I think the winning coach and quarterback is going to jump on the plane with us to be in the show. So there'll be in a celebratory mood. It'll be a nice plane ride on a nice plane. And then I'll just get to watch Bama Georgia ringside on the field there with Tebow and all these other people who are down there.

It's such a massive event. I get to scout for the playoff. You talk about the bids on Sunday next week's Heisman week. And I got, I got a dolphins Titans game in Miami at hard rock, a home game for me on December 12 or 11, excuse me. So that's what's ahead.

It's all good stuff. Okay. So if you're just going to be on the sidelines for Georgia and Alabama, if I gave you a phone, could you take some footage of the sidelines for me, just in case Michigan plays one of those two teams, Chris, would you mind or is it too soon? What could possibly go wrong with that plan?

I mean, no one will ever know or find out, right? You know, just, you know, just, I don't know if it's too soon or, you know, uh, well, what about tonight? Because why don't, why don't you busy? You're busy. You're busy.

I'm busy, but to call somebody in Vegas. Cause I think if Michigan wins and Oregon wins or Washington, I think they're playing in the Rose bowl. That's the 75 game. And are you calling that one?

Do you know if you're calling that one? We'll be in Pasadena. I think that's, I think very clearly if Georgia wins top seed, New Orleans, Michigan wins two seed Pasadena. I think the PAC 12 champion will be the third school regardless. And if it's FSU or somebody else, they're going to normal that that's completely unofficial. I wouldn't bet against it.

I know. Cause I mean, those are traditional, certainly with tradition is being up ended completely forevermore. Uh, you know, let's do an old school Rose bowl, right?

Big 10 PAC 12 PAC 10. And then, you know, uh, Georgia versus Florida state sounds like, you know, Bobby Bowden should be on the sideline for that one in new Orleans. You know what I mean?

Like that's, that sounds like it's some old school stuff. Um, and then, and then you got the national championship game and then you're off to the Australian open. Right. That's what you got. Fantastic.

This is great. Awesome, Chris. Well, um, do you want to give me your best guess what you think the final four is going to be come Sunday? What are you going to predict the outcome of this game tonight? Um, but I do pick Michigan. I mean, I think Georgia beats Bama.

I think they're just better. Um, I mean, weird stuff can happen there, but I, I think that I don't know about FSU and Louisville. I mean, that's a tough one. Um, and I don't know whether Florida say it's a lock if they win either.

I mean, I, that's not what some of the old fans want. I that's, I mean, 13 or no ACC champion fighting through what they fought through any other year. It's, it's a lock. Uh, but if you've got Texas lurking out there, if you've got other teams in the conversation, I mean, a lot of state fans think they're a better football team than Florida state.

Um, the committee doesn't have a rank that way right now and how you jumped them. If FSU beats Louisville, I don't know. But, um, if they, if they win to me, history says they should be in, um, and that's that.

Okay. Chris, have a great call tonight. I'll be watching the whole family.

We'll be there. One more glimpse of the spirit. Let's just see what we got there. What is, what is on that?

What is what baby baby, baby, baby, because that's the, that's the tour for you too. All right. Fantastic. There we go.

The, the famous Dolan sphere of Las Vegas, Nevada. Uh, take care of yourself, Chris. You'd be well have a great call tonight, man. Thanks, man. That's my friend, Chris Fowler at Chris Fowler on, uh, all, uh, the X and all those machines CB Fowler on Twitter, CB Fowler on Twitter. That's right.

Okay. At Chris Fowler on Instagram. I love his messages after games. And also he's walking, he's climbing mountains, walking down, you know, streams and telling you about life.

And I'm sure he worked out for two hours this morning. Like, Oh, I'm sure he got him. Yeah. He's Jack.

Yeah. I'd have been, if that was me, I'd have been sleeping in just fresh back from the buffet. That's the difference between Chris. That doesn't go to the buffet.

There's no chance. He has a big plate of fruit. He's probably got a kettlebell in his room. He's like getting crab legs for breakfast, a kettlebell in his room.

You guys are like, did he travel with a kettlebell? I was right. Do you hear what we're saying? I do hear what you're saying. I never leave a meeting.

Am I right? Did you get a workout in today? Did you get a workout yet? But I will. No kettlebell in the room. You travel to the kettlebell, Herb street with a golden. There's always pushups.

There's always pushups. I knew it. I knew it.

I know. And you, you still have the bruises from when Herb street hit you from that Mill Road touchdown. You still have those bill, those bruises. I'm hardened because he's hit me so many times over the years.

I don't bruise anymore. You know, thanks Chris. Have a good rest of your day. Hey, he's out. You guys. Yeah. So I can see him. He's walking around on his iPad or whatever, whatever his device is on his device. And he's laughing. Very funny. There you go. He's got a kettlebell in his room.

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Wonderful of Kevin O'Leary of Shark Tank. Go for it Mike Del Tufo. What happens if like something happens to me and 2500 miles away, my family's there and they don't know I could be sitting in the apartment alone, dead for days. So I came up with an idea for an app called Just in Case that would be basically you download it and you could check in with this app and other people could see that A, you're alive still. You could basically be tracked with it. Just to get the whole story before I completely eviscerate you.

Go ahead. How would you make money doing this? A subscription per month. People are going to pay per month. 99 cents per month.

Very cheap. If your mom calls you for two days and doesn't get an answer, she's probably going to call the super and say go check on his corpse. Like think about it. They don't need 99 cents a month for that.

But in theory wouldn't you want, if it's something you don't have to do. Mike, when you're dead you're dead. Like who cares? How does the app know you're dead? The app doesn't know you're dead. You have to tell it you're not dead. The app would tell you that you're not checking in.

Every time you unlock your phone it would ping and you put people on a list that know that if like your mother is in Florida, she could be sitting in the house, you know that at least she's checked in on her phone. If you're their kid, you don't have to talk to them on the phone. You don't have to call them.

And if it's a kid, you know the kid. If you think you're, if you're, if you're worried your mother's dead, why don't you call her? Well, let's say people don't call their mother and father live 2,500 miles away every day. I just want to make sure you're not dead. Like, are you kidding?

You should call your mother every day. No, no, no. I'm talking about like all day. You don't know. Oh, you want to know the exact moment.

Exactly. The exact moment. Well done, Mike. I'm taking this one.

Well done. Back here on the Rich Eisen Show radio network. I'm sitting at the Rich Eisen Show desk, furnished by Grainger with supplies and solutions for every industry. Grainger has the right product for you.

Call click ranger.com or just stop by. So for those who listen to our show, we come back on our Roku channel feed a couple minutes early every time. Sometimes we'll play a clip from previous shows.

We just showed, I gotta be honest with you. It's, it's, it's a guaranteed like top five in terms of ways that anybody here who works here knows to get a laugh out of me. It's, it's either book Frank Caliendo or, or show me that by the way, I text because he's, he, I follow him on, on Twitter. He he's in Irvine and I'm like, does that mean you're in Southern California? I immediately texted him and I'm like, you got to come back. Who lives in a pineapple under the sea or show me the clip of Mike Del Tufo pitching Kevin O'Leary, Mr.

Wonderful from Shark Tank about his just in case app that he wanted to, to pitch him. You didn't want to pitch him because he was a guest in 2017 and we weren't ready. We had to twist your arm.

You're like, I don't want to do it, but I've got a great idea. So we set up a mic stand right to the right of where Brockman is and you stood there and he, and he, and he totally, I mean, it's when you plan stuff out for a segment, you're hoping it's as good as you, you were planning. Yep. It far exceeded. It's top five. Like it really is. It's a clubhouse leader. Nothing will ever knock it out of a top five.

I think the sign and the 40 pound weight. Oh, there's so many different great moments certainly involving you. We haven't revisited or I don't think we have video of it.

Do we? It's somewhere in our archives. I bet is, is when Del Tufo retired his cargo shorts and we hung them in the rafters here because you used to wear the same cargo shorts. They're gone. I haven't wore a cargo pants forever. They're done. They were fully. We hung them in the rafters here. I mean, you guys, they're gone.

I've never worn another pair. Oh my gosh. You know where they're at?

Like your character. No, I've gotten, we took them down and threw them out. We started to have guests come and walk in and go, what the hell is that? Yeah. Oh, it's Mike Del Tufo's cargo shorts. He used to wear all the time.

Everything like we did the clip up top in the, in the, in the back, like white you've evolved, Mike, Mike, you've evolved. Exactly. I wear pants except for today. You're not wearing pants today.

No, no, no. I'm going right to the gym. Quick, quick. What's I got to do with anything?

No, I didn't want to change fit. I got to be quick. Quick, quick, quick. Oh my God. Jimmy in San Antonio. I'm recovering after a week in Nashville for my birthday. Oh, look out.

Yeah. I need to shout out my boy, Roger Cracker. He had his Grand Ole Opry debut. Roger Craig sings on country. What, who?

Roger Cracker. Oh, okay. All right. That er at the end is such a big difference maker.

Right at his last name. I was recovering. Okay. The difference between Roger Craig and Cracker is a vast difference. By the way, I saw a lot of buses with working engines in Nashville, except for one. Is Roger Cracker also good at two styles of singing?

Sort of like the Roger Craig was great at running and receiving? Yes, yes he is. Okay, good. Okay.

Okay. I have a what's more likely for you. What do you got? What do you have? The appetizer.

Okay. What's more likely? My San Antonio Spurs go back to back number one pick or my Dallas Cowboys win the Super Bowl. Cowboys win the Super Bowl, pal, because the Detroit Pistons just completed an O for November. They put the O in November.

Have you ever, I mean, have you? Yeah, man. Well, look, they'll have as many ping pong balls, right? Don't they have the same these days?

They have the same percentage. Yeah. So there you have it. Never know.

It's actually not advantageous to have the worst pick anymore because you only have about a 15% chance. Are you surprised at how poorly the Spurs have played so far? No, not particularly. No.

Okay. They don't have much around him. That's the problem. No, our big three, if we have a big three, their average age, I think is 20 years old. Geez, they're barely shaving. Johnson, my God.

And so Shannon, Wendy. So we're just, we're too young to do anything. We don't know what to do. So I go Cowboys win the Super Bowl, right? All right. I'll take it, coach. Why not? Thank you, Jimmy.

Greatly appreciated. Bye-bye. What's your problem? You don't like keep hearing that.

Why don't you want to hear it? Speak it into existence. Say it with your chest. I mean, look at me. Just look at me. I'm looking at you. Look at me.

That's what I'm doing these days. I said it with my chest two Septembers ago and my chest is put you in that position. And my chest is horse. Now it's horse. It's horse. You got a horse chest. I've got a horse chest because I, I, I, I, I, how many more, how many more years will I keep speaking with my chest when it comes to Michigan over Ohio state?

I think you got to, Oh, by the way, Ohio, we will see you in August, 2024. Oh baby. We, the Royal we're just you Royal. But also look at me now. I'm I'm, I'm enjoying being the villain. Are you though? I am.

I just, Chris Fowler said, I'm going to be at Georgia, Alabama. I'm like, Hey, he's wearing black today. I am wearing black, but I'm also saying, Hey, you got a phone, shoot the video. Well, you're making light of a serious situation.

Oh, okay. Am I making lighter or am I owning it? Connor Fowler says, you're making light. Oh God, I believe that you think you're owning it, but you also think that it's BS because real well, it's real.

And it really happened. It gave you guys an advantage. We don't know what the advantage, just do me a favor.

Give me the place where the advantages happen. I don't understand how having for me, Oh, give me the place where the Astros cheated, but everyone thinks that's an advantage. You can hear it. You can hear them banging. Well, we don't know if that's someone in the crowd. Yeah, no, you can hear them. Oh, really? Oh, cool.

Everyone at games has their phones. Were they all working this game? I think so.

Maybe you don't know which ones. That's what I mean. You see what I'm saying? Yeah.

But what are you saying? Exactly. Well, all I know is we just won our third in a row over Ohio state, not having them. So that's a banner for that. Um, yeah, it's called the big 10 East championship and we'll get a banner coming up, hopefully in 24 hours. Okay.

We'll get one of them. What does it mean? It doesn't really, it's a big 10 championship. What is it? What do you mean? What does that mean? What do you mean? It doesn't mean anything. Oh, you tell me who won the 82.

I own pet rock and Sherry, you know, pet rock ownership of, of, of green bench. It's about the championship. It's like at the end of money, the money ball. Exactly. Like if you don't win at the end, exactly. It means nothing.

That's Hey, what can I tell you? Not everyone's going to win at all. That's true. True. I know.

So there's, I still literally, it doesn't matter. We beat you last year. We lost you.

Of course. It doesn't mean that you beat us last year. We played each other in like five. That's that's what you're doing. This guy saying the last time we played, what's more likely hit it, hit it. What's more likely?

Never say never, but never. All right, Christopher, what do you have over there? I like, I like when Diltoofo just repeats what I say to feel involved in the conversation. I love that. Good job. Good job, Mike. All right.

You guys good? Happy Friday. Yes, sir. What's more likely? Who's the more likely running back to have more total yards than a touchdown? You John Robinson, Breece Hall. Nice young rookie showdown, a young player showdown in New York.

OK, I'll go be John Robbins. Anything to do with the Jets offense right now is the least likely option, unless you're saying what's more likely the Jets will score a touchdown before having an absolute backbreaking soul sucking Hail Mary happen against them. Please, you're talking to the wrong guy right now. I was just trying to start us off on a kind of a fun like hometown.

Oh, very, very fun. I mean, let's talk Jets offense. What's more likely? OK, I mean, I can't believe we're now hearing Robert Solis saying Breece Hall needs to get the hard yards. He's trying to hit a home run every time.

You know, he's trying to hit a home run every time because the rest of the offense, the way it's being coordinated and the way everything is set up. Sucks. Yeah, just need to clean house, Rich. That's no that's not why they have to clean house on it.

They don't need a clean house. They don't. What else you got over there? Six and five AFC road team more likely to make the playoffs, Colts or Broncos. Mm hmm. Wow. Way to put me in a position. I'm calling both of these are the these are the home teams of the next the final two games I'm calling.

Nice. So does that mean I have to make an opinion here? I'm seeing these guys behind a microphone. You're not calling their game today. I mean, I think they both win this weekend. You do. I do Broncos beat Texans.

I'm choosing them on Sunday. Interesting. On game day morning.

You might be lone wolfing that. You really think so? Texas are at home. I get it.

They just lost at home. Good offense. I know. Okay. Um, I'm taking Houston.

Yeah. Let's see. And then Indianapolis is at Cincinnati home for Pittsburgh.

Wow. Both of these teams could go on a little run here. Well, I think Detroit's got a few before I see him. I mean, Denver's got Denver's on the road next three games.

So just that alone. I'll just go with the Colts. Colts are only a one point favorite at Tennessee. Kind of weird.

Kind of weird. What else, Chris? How about this? Steelers go for 400 yards of offense two games in a row or Kyler Murray three plus total touchdown. Oh, I'll go Steelers offense 400 yards, two games in a row. Um, I'm just, I'm just concerned about my fantasy play with Kyler Murray this weekend. Big time. You guys are like, who else do you, who else do you get? Yeah. Is Gardner Minshew available? Three total touchdowns for him against this Steeler defense is a very tall order.

Um, certainly if they protect him in the same way they did last week against the Rams, I'll say Steelers 400 yards of offense again. Although Jonathan Gannon's back in the Keystone state, JG back in PA, man. What else? Oh, he's not paying attention. He just started playing the NFL films music and he's now checking his bank account. Like, how's it look?

How many zeros? I'm not part of the conversation now. Cause Chris said, whatever.

What else, Chris? Hey, these two teams showdown in Foxborough. Who's more likely to be coaching their team next year, Brandon Staley or Bill Belichick? I'll go Bill. That's more likely I will go Bill Belichick more likely because he is the goat. And maybe the Patriots do get the draft choice that they want. And they're like, we'll hand it to Bill. Cause we don't want to, we don't want to see him go.

He's the frigging goat. Then they come up with maybe the construct in the front office you're looking for. That would be nice.

In the same way that they came up with a construct at the offensive coordinator position that you were looking for. That's way more likely than the other. What else, Chris? I think I agree with you. Okay. Here we go. Panthers box. These guys have the same number of touchdowns. You believe that who's more likely Bryce young throws for a TD. Mike Evans catches a TD. They both have nine on the year. I'll go Mike Evans.

I'll go Mike Evans. I, this is just a fascinating conversation to be had about the Carolina Panthers. Are they going to go ahead and find some sort of new found vigor because they changed coaches vigor doesn't get used enough. Well done.

Thank you, sir. Is that what's going to happen? Because that happened with the Raiders and maybe it'll happen for Carolina. You're hoping it is.

Cause you want to see, you know, new England sneak in there to the top spot pounding, right? You want the, you want the, you want Kyler Murray to have three total touchdowns and then Bryce Young's thrown for two against Tampa. Now we're talking.

Well, Justin Herbert comes in and writes his ship. Yeah. That's your result.

That's what's more likely. I need, I need four from Herbie. I have them in fantasy, I guess. Is that triple play more likely than, uh, then I don't know. I can't, I could come up with one right now. What's more likely that triple play happens or, um, um, two, two teams currently outside the top. Two teams out of the top four in the playoffs, make it in two of them. What's more likely here's a, this one's on the fly. You can answer this one too. TJ what's more likely Bryce young throws for two touchdowns and Kyler Murray scores three total and Justin Herbert writes the ship, which is what you're looking for. Yep. Or two teams currently out of the top four in the college football playoffs, make the final four. TJ, you go.

I have my answer. I don't feel either of those are going to happen. I think, I think the NFL one happened. Maybe the NFL one. I don't see two teams outside.

That's more likely. I see two teams outside of the top four. Really? Yeah. Oregon wins tonight. That's one.

And then Alabama or Texas make it or Ohio state makes it because Florida state loses. There you have it. Oh, I think that's way more likely than what I just put.

Obviously Herbert writing the ship is the, well, just for you, give me for you. I'm going to bet that three way just to see what happens. Uh, well, who's more likely to have more receiving yards on Sunday. I'm in Ross St. Brown or any two saints players combined.

Oh, interesting. I'll go to saints players combined. The, the, the lion's defense is concerning me and I'm on Ross, you know, is one of my favorite receivers. He's also a fantasy receiver that needs to counterbalance yours truly going against DK Metcalf last night. Oh, you played against DK last night. But, uh, I, I, I, I think the lines D and I know the saints are down a ton of receivers too, right? Yeah.

Yeah. I believe in TJ. Jefferson's could be him and T suggestion of 80 Perry. I picked up Juwan Johnson. If you need a tight end streamer. Okay.

Mike, cause Dalton Schultz could be out. All right. A couple more here. Is that right? Well, he hasn't put him.

I don't think he's practiced today. So you know what that means? Uh, game of the day, Sunday, uh, what's more likely Brock port pretty throws for more passing yards or Jalen hurts has more total yards. Wow. So Purdy has more passing yards than Hertz has total yards. Yeah. So that's passing and rushing for Hertz secondary, you know, no bueno Josh Allen.

I don't see you. I noticed you don't go total touchdowns. Um, I don't know. I'd say Jalen. I'm I'm going, I'm going with my boy. It's his fourth son, Brock. Hey, but let's be honest. Jalen was kind of your kid. I know that.

I know that we just did both my children. We just didn't put that title on him. He wasn't on the by the way, but he was, you know, Jalen hurts when he came on this show in the pandemic and he called himself a dog.

I mean, I love this story and how he, and then I got to meet him and talk to him and I'm like, okay, papers never fully went through, but I still consider him money. Pandemic slow down there, but you love him. How dare you? How dare you pit these two against each other? Throw Josh jobs in here. Now we're fighting starting this week.

He's not, he's on his bike. I'll take Purdy. Ooh. Yep. All right. Last one.

Uh, most more likely to be the higher total. Okay. We just talked to Chris Fowler, total touchdowns in the PAC 12 championship or Iowa points. Wow.

Look at you. We're going to PAC 12 championship being on tilt. Yeah, baby. I hope the number of Iowa points matches the uniform number of the individual with his finger pointing to the sky on the screen.

That would be three for the radio audience. Yeah. Uh, I think I was going to score double digit points. You do.

I do how some defensive score or something like that. Ten is double digits. I don't know.

I don't know. I'm just trying to, I'm just trying to keep the karma at bay. Can you please Vegas thinks at least nine touchdowns in the PAC 12. I like it, Chris. Good one.

And we'll find out tonight that first part of the equation and then we'll figure out the rest. Good one. I liked that.

What's more likely. That's fun. All right, let's take a break and phone calls. Our number three as Tom Palacios within it from NFL network with all the latest NFL information.

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It didn't. What does that mean? Yeah. Yeah. Can you help me out with that? Because all I know is I walk in the back for some coffee and I see our co-executive producer with a screwdriver, you know, working on the Carig and, and, and I don't know about what is this scale?

It's clogged somewhere in the water. Okay. Into the coffee. Okay. Oh, yes.

So why did we call the scale that I don't, I don't get the descaling thing. Very. It should be clean.

It should just say, clean the thing. Yeah. Yeah. Right.

We couldn't wait until after the show though. Unless there was, I think it stopped working. It stopped working work this morning. Uh, I blame TJ with his water.

I guess I was probably the last one to use it. It was me, but it was just water. Yeah. See, it might be the water only. What do you mean water only? I'm joking.

Oh, you know, you could just take the mug and put it in the, um, microwave. Oh, apparently descaling. Thank you.

Mike Hoskins is chimed in. Descaling removes calcium deposits. Oh, so we had to build up, you know, honestly losing my knee. Once we had a buildup, I had a heart scan.

I got a little, it sounds, it's good. It sounds like, um, you know, I've been descaled like a bypass surgery for the Carig. Yeah. So we got like a clogged valve. Yeah.

I'm a professional cloth. Is that, is that, is that I'm just going to fight through it. I mean, well, you got coffee. No, I did.

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Get in the zone auto zone. Now, if you're George Santos, do you show up Monday? Like Costanza? Yes.

Like nothing happened. Yes. No, he loses his badge. He can't even get it. What do you think? George didn't have his badge. No, they done. You can't get in there.

You didn't get in. No, I know that they probably have his picture up at all the doors. I think they know what he looks like there. But like, do you try it? Like this is sneaky.

I think with that dude, you can't roll anything out. You don't know anything. I mean, it's like, what do you mean I've been expelled? That doesn't count. I thought that didn't count. You know what I mean?

Oh, I thought you were serious about that. Well, Costanza quit. That's the difference, too. Right. He wasn't expelled. Yeah, he expelled. Yeah.

Yeah. If you quit still, just show up. Pull a Costanza and just show up. I think for comedy's sake, you got it. I don't know if he's into that. I don't know. His whole life is for comedy's sake.

That's what I mean. Like, Costanza, you're living what? I'm living like 20 miles. Fitz in Dallas. You're on the Rich Asian show. What's up, Fitz? Hey, now. And ho, ho, ho. Happy holidays. I think I can say that. It's December.

It's December 1st, right? Yes, sir. Right on.

Guys, this is more of just kind of compliments, actually. We're getting ready for the Big 12 tournament. I'm always positive, saying the Pokes are going to win. I really want to send Texas off, pack into the SEC like we did, OU. But fifteen and a half points. Brockman, what do you think? I mean, I'm going to lay the points with Texas. Sorry, Fitz. Oh, all right. OK. You think so, huh? I think it's a blow out now. Oklahoma State's not really that good. I mean, they got up for Bedlam, obviously, but. Yeah, but this is also you get up for this, too. I mean, Fitz, great, great point.

We haven't talked about that. This is Texas's last Big 12 game. Yeah. And like, hey, bud, don't let the door hit you on the rear end on the way out can come from the man who was 40 and, you know, all that business. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like 40.

I don't know if State has the offense to just keep up with Texas. By the way, is Gundy 50 now? He's in his 50. I think you guys are the same age, to be honest.

Oh, OK. Yeah. Did he do it like an I'm 50? Shouldn't he be required every single decade?

He's, you know, knock on wood. He's older than you. He's 56. OK, so four years from now, we got to get an I'm 60.

Yeah, but he said our office is that great. But we do have the number one running back in the country with Gordon. OK, I just don't think he's going to score 40 to beat Texas. That's the only thing we'll see.

We'll see what we can do. But I went high register. You went high register fits. You just gave up the ghost. Take care of yourself. Thank you. I appreciate it. One last thing.

OK, Rich. Yeah. Yeah. We're here.

Sorry. Hey, T.J., did you get your towel? And did Irv ever give you a towel to give him anyway?

Got the towel, baby. This one? Yes.

Yes. All right. Got it. All right. Thank you. Very good. Enjoy the rest of the trees. Happy holidays, gentlemen. Go poke. Enjoy. Appreciate you. Last Texas game in the Big 12.

Last Pac-12 game period ever this weekend. How crazy. Kind of a bummer.

It is a bummer. I mean, Fowler used the word sucks. Yeah, he's not wrong.

He's not wrong. Let's go to Nick in South Carolina. What's up, Nick? Oh, hey, sorry. I was taking a sip of water. Oh, good. Are you? We don't want you cramping.

Did you descale that? What's up, Nick? No, it's out of a water bottle, but I appreciate your concern, sir. Thank you, Nick. OK, I. Rich, I remember last year after the Dolphins came back and beat the Ravens next day on the show, you were just going over the stats and it was just obviously crazy numbers. Yep.

And last year. Yeah. And you going through all those numbers and stuff like that inspired me to order a tour jersey on the spot.

How about that? And now look. So I had to do it. And now look, you know, I think it's I don't know if you guys have seen any of the hard knocks yet with the Dolphins. The episode, the in season, the in season, the in season hard knocks. So that was on this past Tuesday. It was a great episode, but it was really sad because like Jalen Phillips was featured in most terrible. And then, oh, man, it was just that was hard. Thanks for the call, Nick.

I greatly appreciate it. Glad you got that to a jersey based on listening to us, because it looks I'm sure it looks pretty good walking around with him. Did you see Javon Holland hurt both his knees in the same play?

Not the one for the touchdown, but he hurt both his knees on on a single play last Friday. Can we take that turf and met life and just blow it the F up? What can we do? I mean, it's so bad, but it looks like Holland is a shot to go this week. So that's good. I know what the fix is. I don't know what it is.

You have any events to have grass. I feel like it's too bad. It's too bad.

They got the money. Do it. You're just going to constantly replace the turf. I don't know. Yeah. Or you take it out and you put it underneath the ground like you do everywhere in Europe for the for the Premier League. You know, Tom Placero coming up. Honestly, the money's there. The money is there. There's a the NFL has the biggest banana stand in the history of banana stands. It's there. It's got to be there. So you take it out.

You put it underground so you can cultivate it all year round. The Jets have their turf. The Giants have their turf. Why not? Yeah, they could definitely do that. You can even afford to turf. I'm not arguing with you right now. Just a second. You just feel like there are reasons why, you know, these places have.

Which is what? Of course, because there's a lot of events on these things. And the field is ruined. So then there is when we went to talk about how bad FedEx Field is and Pittsburgh is. Those grass fields are awful. Chris, they have when the league goes back to Tottenham next year, there is turf just for them. Just for them.

But that's a one off, right? So that you can have turf just for the NFL and then a flat surface just for the concerts. Take the turf, put it somewhere else. Store it just as if.

What is it? A few million bucks. Honestly, it's not my money, but whoever's money it is, they've got more of it. I'm not arguing.

I'm just pointing out that sounds like you're a reason. Anyway, let's see. We're about to get to our number three on this program. And in the meantime, we've got to take a break because I'm going to check on our Kerig Angioplasty going on back there. Scuffle. Is that a new fantasy team name?

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