Cowboys are for real and the Chiefs are offsides

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Limitations apply. This is The Rich Eisen Show. I'm here. Live from the Rich Eisen Show studio in Los Angeles. There's a flag down at the line of scrimmage as the pass is to an open Travis Kelce, who flings it back over to Tony. My goodness. I think it's coming back. Number 19 offense. The Rich Eisen Show to take away greatness like that.

I mean, let us play the game. Today's guest, two time Super Bowl champion and Greenlight podcast host Chris Long, plus your phone calls, latest news and more. And now it's Rich Eisen.

That is correct. Welcome to this edition of The Rich Eisen Show live on the Roku channel. This Rich Eisen Show terrestrial radio affiliate Sirius XM, Odyssey and more. Oh, my goodness gracious. It's one of those three hour shows that we could fill six. And there was a huge weekend in sports from week 14 in the National Football League being lit. Shoei Ohtani staying in Southern California to the tune of seven hundred million dollars.

They get me and his money. Yes, indeed. The Dodgers will do exactly that. Also, the Los Angeles Lakers won the first in season NBA tournament. And the NBA Cup or whatever the heck they're calling it, they won it in Las Vegas, Nevada, which is also where. Listen, let's just put it this way. There were more points scored in the first possession between the Lakers and the Pacers than the Vikings and the Raiders in Las Vegas. So, I mean, it was such a wild sports weekend. And we're thrilled that you're here.

Eight, four, four, two or four, which is the number to dial phone lines are already lit. The overreaction Monday podcast, Chris Brockman and I will do that after today's show. Susie Schuster and Amy Trask have already acquired their guests for this week's What the Football on Tuesday. Dan Patrick will be their guest this week.

And so, again, perfect timing for everybody who wants to talk about the NFL, which is, you know, everybody. Good to see you over there, Chris Brockman. How are you, sir? Rich, I'm great. D.J.

Mikey Diaz and Deez Nuts. Good to see you. Good morning, Rich. And T.J. Jefferson.

How about Cowboys? Here we go. Yes, I love it. And one of the best things about this show and I'll tell you in advance, not just Chris Long of Green Light Pod being on the program, is that all of us, every last one of us. Came in today, lined up on sides.

So that's going to be great. We'll talk about that. I know that maybe you were lined up all sides on offense. OK, he's the Caderius Tony of the Rich Eisen show. That's something we never thought we would equate Mike Del Tufo to sides and made him move back. So now I saw him and I will talk about that.

Me first, and then I was like, very good. We'll talk about all that on the check. Listen, folks, we don't we're not one of those shows that starts with the Dallas Cowboys just because we don't. We always line up on sides and talk about the top stories or whichever parts of the narrative we feel is worthy of being discussed first. We don't do the Cowboys just because we don't do the Cowboys for clicks. Yes, I just have to say this to start this program based off of what I saw on Sunday night. These Dallas Cowboys are for real.

They are for real. And anybody out there that feels that this is like the previous eras of the Cowboys, the Romo and the Dez caught it era, that's the height of the clapping era and Jason Garrett there. And then Mike McCarthy comes to this team and he's one of those guys that's kind of a retread that Jerry Jones desperately reached out to, hoping that some way, somehow McCarthy can conjure up that Packers team at one in the building in Dallas. The only championship that's been won in that building.

I was there. It was the Green Bay Packers and Mike McCarthy and Aaron Rodgers over the Steelers. And hopefully McCarthy could be that guy, even though he was on the couch. And we're supposed to be taking a look at all those kids who have all those newfangled schemes. Kellen Moore, for instance, we see Mike McDaniel is going to be taking the Dolphins into battle on Monday night and McCarthy shows up. And we see some of the same old, same old with the Cowboys are having trouble punching down on opponents that they should punch out easily.

And crazy stuff happens at the end of games and the issues with clock management and things of that nature right now. That team is not walking through that door in the metroplex with the Dallas Cowboys are right now with Dak Prescott and this offense and that defense. And yes, that coaching staff, they are playing championship caliber football and anybody out there that refuses to come to grips that this could finally be the year for the Dallas Cowboys. You best check yourself because this could finally be that year for the Dallas Cowboys. Dak Prescott is playing the best football of his life, period.

C.D. Lamb is playing the best football of his life, period. This defense keeps on taking the licking in the injury department. Stephon Gilmore played defensive player of the year of football last night. That pass rush playing the best football of their lives. The running game we were supposed to see and we saw that in the first month, month and a half of the season. Hey, if I had told you in week 14, we would be seeing Zeke Elliott ball out for the Patriots.

You'd be sitting here thinking, well, Cowboys certainly miss him. I mean, gents, Rico Dowdle and then with the Rico is really playing good football. Tony Pollard isn't hitting the home runs every single time, but they don't need him to because the passing game is hitting the home runs. And what they're doing is getting this offense to second and three, third and one or first downs on second down or first downs on first down. That's what the offense is doing right now. Ferguson, you're supposed to think the Cowboys were like, what are you doing? Getting rid of Dalton Schultz. This fella at tight end is terrific dog. And you've got to give it up with what you're seeing.

Right now. And what they're doing is winning in AT&T Stadium 15 times in a row now. And Dak Prescott is an MVP candidate for sure. And I know how the Niners have been looking, and I do believe home field advantage means a ton. Because if you think the Niners are the Dallas Cowboys kryptonite and I'm still one of them.

I'm one of them, you're one of them and you're you're Mr. Cape over there. And you better have them come into your house. You go into San Francisco's, I think a different ball of wax. That's where crazy stuff might be able to happen again.

But that's for down the road. As for right now, they took the Philadelphia Eagles apart last night, apart. And part of the difference might be that the Cowboys forced three fumbles in Philadelphia. The Eagles recovered all three. And last night, the Cowboys forced three fumbles last night in what you would call plus territory on their side of the field.

The Eagles were driving. And each time the Cowboys forced to fumble, they recovered it, not just anybody fumbling. Jalen Hurts, A.J. Brown, Devante Smith. Literally the three best players. I will just give you, everybody keeps talking about the blueprint of beating the Eagles, right?

Nick Bosa, here's a blueprint. You get their three best players to fumble while they're driving in your territory, you're going to win a football game. Even when you give up a scoop and score to Jalen Carter.

Oh, my God. That was one of the most freakish athletic things I've ever seen. Big man fast. He picked that football up like it was a handle and kept running. Gone.

He had no one to outrun but our lives. So Dallas even gave up a scoop and score and won by 20. That's how well they're playing football.

Here's Dak Prescott rightfully taking the victory lap humbly after the game. It was big. We needed it. Yeah, that's not sugarcoat that. We needed that. Obviously, I've talked about it before. Mike talks about it, about grabbing a huge chunk of confidence and moving forward and being able to do that against a team like that here at home, a place that we've had a lot of success at over the last two years, puts us in front of the vision, right?

Does Todd. OK, yeah, but with a couple of games left with both teams understand, as I've talked about, it's about us running our own race and, you know, checking it out there at the end. But we've got to turn the page quick, especially in this league, especially with where we've placed ourselves.

I can't sit here and celebrate on this. This was our expectation of tonight and we played to our standards. So now it's about doing that again next week.

That's right. Next week against the Bills in western New York. That's going to be watchable.

We'll talk about that later on. And also got to keep chopping wood, as you say, because they've also after the Buffalo Bills, the Dallas Cowboys have two more very difficult games at Miami and then home for Detroit, which definitely seems to be a shadow of its first half of the season self. But games get tougher, as we all know, as December ends in January, gets closer and then they finish up at Washington if the Cowboys win out and the Eagles win out. You know who wins the NFC East, the Philadelphia Eagles, because they have a better conference record. They'd have the same division record. They have the same record against each other, one and one, the same division record. And they'd have the same records in those first two tie breaks and then different places, because the Cowboys loss, by the way, to the Arizona Cardinals might cost them at the end of the day. But the Philadelphia Eagles have a better conference record because one of those three losses was to the Jets. How about that? The difference would be that the Cardinals win against the Cowboys, cost them in the conference record, and the Jets win over the Eagles did not cost the Philadelphia Eagles in the all important conference record tiebreak.

But again, for that's for down the road for the moment. Let's give some flowers also to the head coach because he doesn't get any zero. He gets zero. I mean, you see the press conferences for Jerry Jones and you'll see it in a second on the Roku channel right here. It's just a scrum. There's a million people around the owner of the Dallas Cowboys. Then you see Mike McCarthy's press conferences.

There's like 10 people in there. OK, what do you got to say, coach? And I think that's the way he kind of likes it. Maybe deep down, he's like, I would like some flowers a little bit here because again, let's not forget the the gentleman who wrote that deep dove on Sean McDermott. Ty Dunn, he wrote for Bleacher Report. We had him on back in the day. He's the one who wrote that deep dove on Mike McCarthy, getting massages and on Packers company time and him and Rogers. Rogers was basically changing the plays because he had no confidence in McCarthy anymore. And then when Jerry Jones reached out to McCarthy, McCarthy's like, I I've studied every snap of the Dallas Cowboys offense. And then when you ask him that, he's like, man, I never did that. And you're like, oh, God, here we go again. Well, Mike McCarthy is going to take this team and then they're going to he's going to have Kellen Moore on there and then he's going to send Kellen Moore to Los Angeles.

Beat it. And then he's going to take over the play, calling himself just as they turn things over to him. They get rid of Zeke like, how the hell is this going to work? Who's going to play wide receiver outside of C.D.

Lam? And is he really even the number one wide receiver that he thinks he is? And is Dak Prescott? Can he really be the guy under Mike McCarthy? The answer is yes, yes, yes, yes. Hell, yes.