I Really Thought The Cowboys Were Going All In

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All right, everybody. Hour number three of The Rich Eisen Show is on the air. The Breers have left and Chad Daniels, the comedian, will be in studio on hour number three. Great chat in hour number one with Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee. One week from today is the Hall of Fame game, and Patrick Willis will be there waving to the crowd. And then the next night, he gets his jacket. And the day after that, he gets his bus and his jacket. We'll be all one together.

So it's all cool. I love it. That'll be next week.

Hall of Fame weekend is the best. Jerry Jones is talking. And I could see on the NFL Network, lower third as they say in the television graphic, quote unquote, we're all in, I'm all in. Stop it. I love it. I love it. He's still saying it? He's still doing it.

I love it. Hopefully we'll turn that around by the end of the hour. Has anyone actually ever asked him what he means by all in? Rich brought that all up on. By the way, how spot on was that combine rumor? I was on that for you guys from jump.

That was nailed. I just feel you misinterpreted what I was saying. Okay. You know, listen, all I know is that TJ spins on tonight in my weekly poker game. Let's say I go all in. I know what that means. And I lose. Okay.

And as they're raking my chips, I'm like, no, no, no. My definition of all in is I keep what I've brought. That makes sense to me. Right. I say even. Right.

Yeah. I'm in the game here. I stay at the buy in. But I get to keep what I brought. Your sense of all in is that I'm risking all of it. Please do that tonight. But my sense of all in is that, no, I'm just not enhancing what I already have.

So I keep everything that I have when I go all in. What about you? How do you think that'll work at the table? You wouldn't know until you actually try it. Try it. Try it. Film it.

And then let's report back. I'm not a poker player, so I can't tell you. But so I don't know if I got a guess. It's my interpretation of all in that's off.

Because, you know, the game's called Texas Hold'em. I thought you said you was OK. OK. OK. OK, buddy. Let's go to Chris in West Virginia, who's been hanging on for darn near two hours.

Appreciate your patience. Chris, what's going on? Hey, what's up, Rich? First time caller.

Watched you guys all the time. How are you? I'm great, man.

Just been home for a while, but it's worth it. Thank you. I like you guys a lot. Happy belated birthday.

I know you guys had a handful. Thanks, dude. Appreciate it.

Appreciate it. What's on your mind? Well, I want to wrap you about the Steelers. I think they're underrated this year, and I wanted to do the Steelers. There's a pick for the Steelers. Ah, you're doing the win-loss.

You want to do the win-loss for the Pittsburgh Steelers. From the great state of West Virginia. Here's Chris in West Virginia.

Let's give him the music. My hometown is Mike Florio. Same school I went to, Wheeling Island.

I live on Wheeling, West Virginia. All right. Fantastic. Win-loss game for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Chris in West Virginia. What happens when they open at the Atlanta Falcons? They win that game. Revenge game for Arthur Smith. Then the next game is at, how about that?

The Arthur Smith revenge game that nobody saw coming. At the Broncos. That's a win for Russell. Home for the Los Angeles Chargers. I think that's the first loss.

Then they're at the Indianapolis Colts. That's a win. Three and one with the three wins on the road. One loss at home.

Now you're home for the Dallas Cowboys, Chris. A four and one at the Raiders. Win. Five and one home for the Jets. Win. Six and one home for the Giants on a Monday night. Win.

Seven and one five game win streak off the bye at the commanders. Win. Eight and one home for the Ravens. Win. Nine and one at the Browns on a Thursday night. Loss.

Nine and two at the Bengals. Win. Ten and two home for the Browns. Win. You're not being swept.

You're splitting. Eleven and two at the Eagles. Loss. Eleven and three at the Ravens. Win.

That's a 12 and three Christmas day on Netflix against the Chiefs. Huge win. Huge win.

And then home for the Bengals. Loss. All right. Thirteen and four says Chris in West Virginia. All right, Chris.

You're on record. I appreciate you guys' show, man. You guys are my favorite to watch.

You guys with Florio and God bless you. What you do for St. Jude is awesome. This is my mom's favorite charity. Thank you, Chris.

Say hi to your mother for me to go full SNL. Thank you, Chris. Appreciate it. Thanks, Chris. Be well, man. Thirteen of four.

Oh, baby. That'll have the Steelers in one seed, right? Thirteen of four gets one seed.

Thirteen of four is in one seed. In either conference, I might add. I think you're right.

I love it. I love it when people play the win-loss game. They get stuck in too many wins and then they slow their roll. They're like, eh, loss. Yeah, loss. Yeah. A team thing should be...

Correction. Yeah, the previous Steeler fan that I have down here, Ron in Toledo, had them 12 and five and also had them... The only losses that they agree on were at Cleveland on the Thursday night, week 12, and then at the Eagles, week 15. Speaking of the Eagles, let's get into this, man. Will we ever know what was going on with that team last year? Will we ever know why that team flopped at the end? We're going to see Jason Kelsey in media this year, so maybe he'll shed a little more light.

I don't know. Every single one of them are like, you know, it just wasn't working. We were trying. We were this.

We were that. It literally was after the Big Dom incident. There are people who say that the Big Dom incident, you know, messed with Sirianni on the sideline. But how can the head of security be such a crucial cog on whether a team wins or loses? I mean, you feel like you hear everybody talk about him. It's more of like a culture thing. What, keeping Sirianni in line?

Or just, you know, vibes. I mean, he's not there and it kind of messes with guys' heads. Well, if I'm owning a team and, you know, the head of security gets the gate for the rest of the year because the commissioner says he can't be there, then, you know, heads are going to have to... He now has an official title.

Well, I guess so. And they did change their coordinators. Again, though. Vic Fangio is now the defensive coordinator. That's now three years in a row of three different coordinators.

Kellen Moore is the offensive coordinator. And again, then there's the question of like, were Sirianni and Hertz on the dreaded not-same page? Right, are they cool? I don't know. Because the number of times Jalen Hertz has been asked this question so far, I've kind of lost track.

How's your relationship with Sirianni? I think we're in a great place. You know, I think anytime you have any frustration, anytime you have any adversity that you have to overcome, it's supposed to test you. And I think it's a matter of being on the same page. You know, and I think if we're on the same page, we maybe would accomplish the things we would have. And, you know, we didn't.

But it's a learning experience. You know, and I think it's as simple as if I made it happen, I can make it happen. And this team has made it happen before. And there's no doubt that we can make it happen again. But it takes what it takes.

And it takes being together. You know, and my message to the team after we did our conditioning test, and even after our first day of practice, and which I thought was a good day of practice. But, you know, talent. Talent. You know, I've been on very talented teams, you know, pretty much my whole career.

I played around talent. And talent wins you games. It'll take you very far. But it don't last.

You know, teams is what win championships. And that's what we're trying to do. You know, trying to take that next step. You know what I mean?

But they worked on the same page last year, right? But you're not, there's no, like you can't put your finger on it. Like, so what was it? Why weren't you on the same page? Then you talk to some players and sometimes it just falls apart.

You know, the chemistry is not there. And then you lose. And it's tough to come back. And it's tough to, and then you start, then you practice.

Great week of practice. And you go out there and first quarter, you get hit in the mouth. It's like, here we go again.

And you know, and it's as simple as that. And we fans or members of the media were all like, but there's got to be a moment. Who wasn't getting along?

Who was finger pointing? Because he's like teams, like you can be talented. Early in the year, we thought AJ Brown was pissed at Jalen Hurts. It wasn't early in the year, it was in the middle of the year. And then he went on a huge run.

AJ Brown had that huge run to begin with in the end of the year. They did nothing. They did nothing. But I'll tell you what, if it was chemistry, losing Kelsey and Fletcher Cox, those weren't the guys that were screwed. Because you're right, talent, you can't be terribly happy.

As a Cowboy fan, they're more talented than the Cowboys are on offense. Are they? Oh yeah. Come on.

Yeah, I think so. Seriously, let's be honest. Straight up. The game, you know, Rich, we don't know. We're a month away from the season. We can't decide these trends until the games are played. Sir, they added Saquon Barkley. We added, well, we brought back Rico.

So I don't know what you're saying. Great point. No, Zeke. Zeke? Zeke?

Yeah. That's what I said is one of the more underrated difference makers, potentially. What if he shows up and starts eating again? Feels like he's going to be the starter.

But Saquon, sir. You lost your center. Lost Kelsey. No, now that's big. I wonder if he's ever thought about not retiring, because he was- Both Kelsey? Yeah, the reports are he's been around the facility all summer. Great.

Why not? If he lives in the area, what's the big deal? Wow. He misses it. Foot in, foot out. What are you doing? He's just, I don't know, hanging out with his friends and his fellows. I don't know.

They're working. What do you think? He's getting in the way? Yeah. He's a big guy. Okay.

Can I borrow those weights for a second? Come on. Honestly, you look at the Eagles and they should be a 10-12 win team, at least. I think so.

And winning that division. I think so. Yeah? Yeah.

Okay. If they're on the same page, will we ever know what got them off the same page last year? It's crazy. Are we adding that to the- The mystery list? Yeah, the Bermuda Triangle of the NFL? Why was Malcolm Butler active, but then inactive?

But then didn't play and his bags were packed. All kinds of that. I don't know.

I think it's 100% big dom-related. That would be like if Murph just came in and hung out in the corner, Rich, while you were doing the show. I feel like that would be perfectly fine. What did we talk about? We were talking earlier about a friend. His friends were there and it was like their work. And I was like, yeah, that'd be like if Murph came and just- Yeah. The only time Murph was disruptive is when he called in and he cursed, which got him banned from the program for several years. Yeah. I had to go in the free Murph game. I know.

He almost got a lifetime banned. I think I'm seeing Murph tonight. I'll try that all-in thing with him. Yeah. Let's see how that works. Oh, he'll be very- Oh, sorry.

I'm sorry. My definition of all-in is I get to keep what I've brought. Reasonable and rational. That's the hold. That's the hold him, right? All-in and hold him is like I hold on and go all-in with what I have. And whatever I risk, I keep. That's all-in.

Please, please do that. You know, I'm not adding to my stack by going all-in, but I'm also not losing my stack by going all-in. Jerry was asked if he thinks this is Dak's last year in Dallas. Hold on. Hold on to this. We're going to hold on to this. He gave the answer you think he would. Before we go to a break, though, remember I did my top five difference makers, underrated difference makers.

I'm kind of kicking myself. Oh, did you- I left one off. Dak? No.

Oh, Dak. No, he's a rated pro- He's a difference maker, brother. An underrated difference maker. Nobody's talking about what this guy can do. Why not Anthony Richardson?

I'm kicking myself. We talked about him yesterday as one of the kind of intriguing players and storylines he's heading into this year, you know. And apparently the way he looks, they are- Like a Jalen Hurts type breakout. Jacked up about the way he looks in Colts camp. Shane Steichen had this to say about Anthony Richardson getting ready for, I guess, hopefully for him first full season as starter. Yeah, I think decision making, quick processing, you know, being in this system for two years now, he looks sharp. You know, we'll go back and look at the tape, but he looked really good today. We had a ton of practices like this with Anthony and Jonathan Taylor together.

So just as the play designer, just kind of how intrigued are you to have so many practices to build that thing out? Well, I think it's exciting because the playbook is open to everything. You know, you got a quarterback that can do everything. He can throw it from the pocket. He can get out of the pocket. He can run the football.

And then you got Jonathan Taylor who's one of the best backs in the league and have both those guys in the backfield. It's going to be critical for our success. You know, people ask this to do a lot. It's like, hey, how are you going to limit the run game? And I kind of think like, shoot, are you going to limit Steph Curry from, you know, shooting three-pointers?

Well, that's when Anthony shrinks, right? So we're not going to, you know, get away from that. That's what he does well, so. Yeah. I love that. Like, hey, just because he was running for, you know, pylons and he hurt his shoulder and he was out for the year, we're not going to protect him. You got to do that. That's what we were talking about last year about Jonathan Taylor with his hold out and all that stuff about, you know, hey, at some point, none of us will be here and the NFL will live on.

What a, what a, what a negotiating stance from your boss makes you think, well, I'm not getting my money. And then eventually he did, as we all know, the whole idea is Anthony Richardson and Jonathan Taylor meeting at the mesh point, who's got it. And by the time you figure it out, whoever has it creates a big problem for you. And they're probably gone. Like they're 10 yards downfield by the time you figure it out.

Right? Like if you're, if they, and Steichen is the guy who, who did all that with Jalen Hertz in their Super Bowl season. So he brings that to Richardson health, healthy and Jonathan Taylor healthy. That's a, that's a, an interesting wrinkle to the AFC South. And I love it.

You, you don't, you don't tell Steph Curry shoot fewer threes. I love that. What a great, what a great soundbite that is. If I'm a Colt fan, I'm like, okay, yeah. Oh, if I'm a Colt fan, I'm fired up.

This season could be fun. But wouldn't you also, if you're nitpicking, you use Halliburton is your analogy, right? Or Reggie Miller. Right. Oh, there you go. Yeah. Knee Smith.

I mean, that's an unkind thing to say to me. Was it him or Neve Hart? Neve Hart. Sorry. The one. Yeah.

Nick's had that series until he threw that three, that prayer in. Yeah. That any rate, but you get my point. I do. I love it. He's who knows how this kid's going to show up.

Sneaky fun, dude. Yeah. Who do they start the season with?

Let me get that one for you. Week one. Houston. Houston. Let's go.

Are you serious? Yeah. Home for Houston.

Okay. So giddy up. So their last game of the year, they lost it at home to Houston. Houston goes on wins a division, wins a playoff game.

Everybody's talking about a super fun month to start the season. Who the Colts? Yeah.

Home for Houston at green bay home for Chicago and Pittsburgh. Oh, okay. That is fun. Dude. Kurt Warner and I called that Pittsburgh Colts game last year. It was intense. That was the one where, you know, Pittman damn near got hospitalized. Yep.

That was intense. And then they're at Jacksonville, which is there. It's been there.

Bugaboo, right? And then at Tennessee, my sleeper team of the year. But just look at the quarterbacks, you know, Richardson versus Stroud, Richardson versus Love versus Caleb.

And then versus Justin Fields. Nice. Mac Jones. Mac Jones.

Who will love it? All right. I just wanted to throw that out there about Richardson. I thought to myself, damn, I did not. I thought maybe you saw our segment yesterday.

No, that one I missed. I might've been, I might've been on your route. I think you were out. I was out. You're napping. Oh God.

Everybody gets your endoscopy and your colonoscopy. Make sure that everything is straightened out. You should do that certainly as you're in your mid fifties. Early sixties. Oh my God. I miss the music. The audacity.

The music. I just started laughing so hard. It's okay. It's all right. Now we'll take a break.

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Chad Daniels is here on the program. The pride of Fergus falls, Minnesota. I don't know if I'm the pride, but that's where I am from.

That's where you're from. Yeah. And you still live in Minnesota.

I do. Yeah. I moved down to Minneapolis about two years ago when my daughter went to school, hence the empty nester. Right.

And uh, yeah, I just Minnesota guy. So yeah, in there my wife and I, we have a 15, 30 soon to be 16, 13 and it's soon to be 11. They're all out of the house right now at summer camps and stuff like that. So I'm living like an empty nester preview.

Yeah. It's a little preview. What are you guys doing? Oh, nothing. Just enjoying the silence. We're enjoying the silence. Uh, we're gonna, we're gonna wrap up presumed innocent, um, on, uh, on Netflix, I believe.

I know that's Apple app. Pardon me. Sorry. Sorry to the Netflix people. Um, but we just finished, we finished Ripley on Netflix. We did that. Nice. So we're doing, yeah.

Just hanging in the backyard and up on shows. Yeah. Sitting silently, you know, since we've been married 21 years now and I told, I actually told a story that my wife had not heard before just the other day. No way. Yeah. Was it yours? Not making it up. After all this time, I know.

What is it? I forget. I just remember she said honestly, and I forget, she did say like, I never heard that before. No, it was my first day of work, uh, of, of TV when I was on TV in Redding, California.

I think that's what it was. But any rate, um, so you, you're finding the comedy in having no children around essentially is what you're saying. Yeah. I've started to, it was sad at first. And then, um, I was single and then I got a girlfriend and, uh, it's pretty great without having children. Pretty great. Not having to, you know, worry about when they're coming home and what we're doing and stuff like that. So it's, uh, it's been good. No pickups, no, no picking anybody up. No, nothing.

No, it's, it's pretty wonderful. They call me when they need something and money. Yeah. Okay. And then I make them tell me about their week to earn it. Okay.

Yeah. I don't give them money for free. They have to, they have to give me some information. It's not like, dad, can I have some money?

Yes, you can. And then hang up. What information are you trying to glean? Oh, just how work's going.

My daughter's in school, how that's going. Okay. I just need a little bit of hangout time with them. What if they gave you your Vikings news? What about that? What if you turned your children into an actual sports information service? I will tell you both of my kids within five minutes of it happening texted me that cousins was gone to Atlanta because they knew how excited I'd be excited. Huh?

So excited. Why are you going to pay a guy 140 million to make the same mistake every single year? He's on that show. Quarterback reading, reading the playbook to his kids and everyone's like, that's adorable. How about you read a math book to him? So when you know it's a third and eight, you don't throw it three yards.

That's not the equation. Kirk, my boy got a point. That's crazy.

And what's great is he went to Atlanta because they're used to getting screwed by cousins down there. So it's perfect. Ladies and gentlemen, Chad, I have an issue with him. I will tell you this. I was on the sidelines once. Yes.

And there was a, there was a kid over there, like wheelchair and Kirk without being told anything, stopped what he was doing and ran over. I bet you he's one of the best humans that I would ever meet. Right. But I just don't want him as my quarterback. That's all I'm saying. Totally fair.

Oh, so you're pleased with the result. Sam Donald is the quarterback. I would be happy if they played without a quarterback. Just the old wildcat snap it to a running back. Yeah. It was just too much because, you know, everyone's like, look at the stats and saying, well, look at the stats at the five minutes left in the quarter or five minutes left in the half, five minutes left in the game.

Those aren't awesome. I was at the San Francisco game last year where he got credit for, I guess, 75 yard touchdown pass, but he threw an interception and Addison took it away from the guy and scored. I do remember that because I had Addison in fantasy. That was the greatest moment of my fantasy year.

I had Addison too. But I remember turning around like, and Kirk's going to get the credit. I was so mad just at that. You couldn't even happen to your fans.

I know everyone's cheering and I'm like, but he's going to get it. This sucks. Yeah. That's that type of fan when you don't like a guy.

I've had a chip for a while. Right. Well, I'm a Michigan Wolverine, so I like the quarterback that the Vikings drafted immensely, JJ McCarthy. I think he's going to be your, your guy. I just don't think this year. I think this is Sam Donald's year. Yep.

And I think your team's got a chance. I think that, uh, Donald could, you know, take them deep. Now, what you just did, Chad, did you, did you hear what Chad just did guys? Did you hear that?

You heard that teaching? We have on this program, what's called a higher register. Okay.

If somebody goes higher register, they don't really believe what they just said. And you just saying, you just went for Sam Donald. You just went, I think Sam Donald is going to, you know, kind of, you kind of went, there was nothing wrong with my marriage before I got a divorce. It just happens sometimes.

People grow apart. You just slid right in. You got it. All right.

I just noticed you just went a little higher register when it went to Sam. You were going to give me credit for saying, I think as a white man in America, because we don't do that that often. We just tell you what it is as a fact. We don't say I'm sorry. We don't say I'm wrong.

We say it's so it is pal. That's it. No, I wasn't, I wasn't going there. Okay.

I just heard your, your higher register when it comes to Sam Donald. So you don't really believe it. That's what I'm saying. I don't think that the Jets gave him a chance to show what he could do. That's a fact.

I think that the Vikes have a great wide receiver core. That's another fact. And if Cousins was looking good with that wide receiver, he's sitting in Atlanta somewhere right now saying, why does my, why is my ass just chapped right now?

I don't know what's going on. I bet you if I met him, we would be buddies on the first sentence. Yeah, but it's just, you'd have shirts off chains on.

I don't take my shirt off to shower. We're learning more about Chad Daniels with each passing moment here as we're sitting on the Rich Eisen Show, everybody. So do we go down the line here, Timberwolves and everybody else for your sports fandom? Yeah, all Minnesota teams like to go to T-Wolves games, have tickets to the wild. What does that mean?

Love the Twins. Do you just get the tickets to the wild and don't attend? Oh no, no, no. I go to, I'm in with four other people and then we have a draft and I always, I know my schedule ahead of time, so I draft when I'm home. What do you mean you have a draft? We have a draft for tickets for the games. So you and three others get, you're all in on a season ticket plan and then the tickets arrive or the schedule gets put out and then what happens?

And then we do a drawing and then we go five games apiece according to that drawing. So what's it like in a hat? What are we doing? Yeah, but I guess, you know what?

I've never asked. What does that mean? One of these guys just tells me what position I'm in. Oh no.

There's no video evidence or anything? I mean I'm not stupid about this. Chad. You trust these guys? I don't know. Alright, so you're told, hey, you're drafting, have you ever gotten the first pass? I've had five positions. Okay, alright.

So that's I think what threw me off the trail there is I thought, well, this has to be real. Yes. So yeah. Okay.

And then you just choose packets of five. Yeah. Yeah. And of course you, you know, you try to get the Oilers because you want to see Connor McDavid.

You want to see history. You try to get the Stars so you can yell suitor sucks with everybody since we're still paying his salary. One more year guys, hang in there. Okay.

We're 15 million shy of the cap because we're still paying one and the other guy just retired. So it's like, that's tough. But you know, you try to get the games, the Knights of course, because you know, I got a, I got a friend who has a kid who loves the Knights. So I try to get those tickets. Okay.

So there's a kid up in Minnesota who loves the Las Vegas Knights. Yeah. Okay. I don't know why. That's interesting.

He really does. It's a choice. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Very good. Twins as well as your team as well. Twins as well. So I was just at a Twins game and my, my buddy who I just was telling you about with the kid that likes the Knights, he was on the jumbotron and he was singing Backstreet Boys with another one of our buddies.

And you know, we're late forties. So he's like doing all this stuff. And the guy came on to announce the batter. He stopped because they were going to let the whole song run out. He was on the jumbotron for like a minute and a half. I've never seen anything like it. So this was by popular demand?

Yes. He was kept on. The crowd was cheering. They started to announce the guys. People started booing. They stopped the announcement of the guy batting. Let the song play out. Everyone started cheering again.

One of the greatest events I've seen at a live sport. Did the Twins give a, get a pitch clock violation over this sort of thing? No. Because baseball doesn't stop for anything these days. Yeah.

But they, they did for the Backstreet Boys and my buddy. That is fun. Yeah. That's very, it was very cool. Did I see, put those photographs up again, Mr. Hoskins, if you don't mind. What are we looking at here? So Back to Back is my daughter there.

That's Olivia. And then my arm around mom around in her army. My girlfriend also a comedian. Okay. And you're on the field here?

On the field. Cause I threw the first pitch the other night. Okay. There I am. Are you a lefty? I am not. I was just trying to keep my right hand dry from the sweat.

So I was throwing it up with my left hand trying to stay loose. Okay. Oh, here's the pitch. Let's take a look. I'll do the play by play. You're getting the crowd going. Careful.

You almost threw your arm out. Here's the pitch. All right. All right. All right. I mean, you first of all, you went to the mound. I did, I did go to the mound.

I thought if I'm going to be out here, you have thrown from the rubber. Damn straight. Absolutely. Okay.

Cause I've seen people's throw from other lower parts of the mound or a flat grass. Can't have it. Nice try rookie. Exactly. Yeah.

And who do we remember? Who is the one who was catching it? Watkins.

He's the third base coach. Okay. So the whole thing started, I haven't thrown a baseball, I'm going to guess in five years.

I used to throw a pitch in Legion ball where I would, I would fake the throw and then I'd go under my armpit and throw it over my shoulders to the plate. Like one of those Savannah. The Savannah bananas. Right. Okay. And so I used to throw that pitch and it always used to get called a bock even though it isn't cause it's continuous motion, but it would always start a fight and it was awesome. So I'd throw it every game I pitched.

Did you think of doing that there? So I was going to, Oh, so I went to a park and I was going to do it, but they told me, I don't know if I'm, they told me that sometimes it's hard to see out of the mascot uniform and the mascot was going to catch me and they go, he's not going to catch it anyways, but if you hit him, it won't hurt. And so I was like, all right, so I'm just going to throw that one to be silly. Yes.

And then all of a sudden Watkins comes out, grabs the glove and I was like, well, here we go. So then I just threw it. Your plan changed. Yeah. Okay.

I didn't even leave myself time to think about it. I go, there's a guy that's going to catch it. I'm throwing it hard.

That's it. And then I just, Chad, I, cause you know, I mean, you know, you, you screw that up. You're a YouTube famous forever. I'm glad I didn't cause because that is, maybe I should have, cause people don't expect a comedian to be able to throw a strike, but that's why you should throw a strike on behalf of comedians everywhere. You got to strike a blow, Chad. I mean, this is for your community. Let people know.

Natural athletes in the standup world. Yeah. I'm glad you did that. Well, that's fantastic. I had a lot of fun. Listen, and we've had a lot of fun with you here. Empty Nester available on Netflix with Chad Daniels, 10th comedy special.

Check it out through the Roku portal right here, if that's how you're watching this show. And, and then you've got, you're currently on tour as well, and you've got the middle of somewhere podcast. You just recently launched another one, pretend problems 10 problems with your girlfriend, Kelsey cook. Yep.

That's right. What does that mean? Pretend problems? It's just basically, you know, we argue a lot and then we try to figure out what is a real issue and what is a fake issue. Like if, like if we were, let's say we get married and we're married for 21 years and I tell her a story she's never heard and she says, there's no way that's yours. Knock it off. That's a pretend problem. That's a pretend problem.

Uh, what if you're married 21 years and she says, put your stuff in the hamper and you keep throwing clothes on the floor instead. Back it up. Okay. And then comes on a national television show and tells everybody, but not, but I did not get name checked. You just assumed it was me.

We kind of had an idea. Pretend problems, middle of somewhere, all available where you can get your podcasts and, um, and also at that Chad Daniels on Instagram empty nester on Netflix available on Roku. Thanks for coming on, sir. Thanks for having me.

Can I have this mug? Yes, sir. Thank you for asking.

Yeah, that's a very Midwest thing to do by the way. It was, but I also was kind of a passive aggressive cause I put you on the spot, but, uh, you know, uh, I, I appreciate you asking five. We have had, what was that?

Uh, uh, J K Simmons, right? I'll call him out. We used to have coasters PVB. Oh, he five finger discounted coaster. Ah, you've won an Oscar. Yeah.

I think that was before. Is he resting his Oscar on the rich eyes and show coast? Okay. Uh, Chad Daniels, thanks for coming here.

Thanks for having the mug is yours to keep. I appreciate it. Back here on the rich eyes and show. What are the Joneses saying at Cowboys camp?

That should be fun. Well, yeah. I mean, all they have to do is just try and win one of the next two without Tony and, and then he comes back and no one's running away with this league.

No one's running away with this division right now. You know what I guarantee we'll win one of the next two Tony and I'm guaranteed we'll make the playoffs. Okay. I will write that, write that down right now.

Shaquille O'Neal's don't make the playoffs. I'll come. I'll come with a Dallas cow girl on your show with a Palm Palm for 10 seconds. Oh my gosh.

Wow. I will come. I'll walk out for 10 seconds and everybody take pictures, make fun. Then I got to leave 10 seconds. That's all you get 11 seconds, not 12.

You get 10 seconds right up on the skirt, Palm Palm and a blonde ponytail wig. So that's if again, the Dallas Cowboys, they don't make the playoffs at all in this season. Okay. Now what are you going to do if they make the playoffs? Oh my gosh. Yeah.

So the, but I, I, I, but I think they're making the playoffs. I'll do it with you Shaq. How about that?

Deal. How are you Shaq? First of all, it's not my fault. You need to blame it on the Dallas shops. I've been downtown Dallas looking for some big booty cheerleader shorts.

They don't have any. So I'm mad at my word. I guess I will come there one day, but you least expect it and fulfill my bet. Well, but the thing is I have to do it with you Shaq. So I do need probably a little bit of a heads up, you know, but you know what? I don't want you to do it with me because you know what? You waited long enough, you know, you're at the point to where you don't think I'm gonna believe it. So just to prove it to you, I want you to be front and center and I'm going to give you 12 seconds. This is the best possible scenario Shaq. You've extended it two seconds and absolved me from having to do it. Exactly. I just want you to sit there and watch. Fun stuff.

Back in the day with Shaq. Back here on our Rich Eisen Show radio network, along with our Roku channel feed. The Jones family spoke today at Cowboys Camp. We'll get to that in a second, but let's sneak in Sean from West Palm Beach, Florida. He's been hanging on for two hours. What's up Sean?

Not too much Rich. It's been a really big day. Okay, glad. Sounds like you're very excited about that Sean. Oh yeah, but I just want to preface this win-loss game for the Bears by saying that mine is going to be a little bit more steeped in reality. Okay. Alright, as a setup for that Sean, according to my list here that I have, you are the fifth caller to play the win-loss game for the Bears. Two 12 and fives, two 11 and sixes, and that is the way we set up Sean in paradise at West Palm Beach, Florida with the Bears win-loss game home for the Tennessee Titans. That's a win.

Alright. There you have it. At the Houston Texans. That's a loss.

At the Indianapolis Colts. That's also a loss. That's one and two home for the Rams. That's also a loss. Oh boy, one and three, three game losing streak home for the Panthers.

And thanks for Caleb. Two and three in London against the Jaguars. I'm gonna go win there. Three and three off the bye at the commanders. That's a win.

Four and three at the Cardinals. That's a loss. Four and four home for the Patriots. That's definitely a win.

Wow. A lot of chuckling. Five and four home for the Packers. That's a loss. Five and five home for the Vikings.

That is a win. Six and five at the Lions to kick off Thanksgiving. That's a loss. Six and six at the Niners. That's also a loss. Six and seven at the Vikings on a Monday night. That's a loss.

Six and eight three game losing streak home for the Lions. We win that one. That's a win.

Okay. Seven and eight home for the Seahawks on a Thursday night. That's also a win. Eight and eight at the Packers. That's a loss.

Alright. Eight and nine, Sean in West Palm. Hey Sean, we haven't had too many under 500 win loss games. Yeah, I'm 35 and I just can't remember the last time the Bears actually did something that I was proud of.

Alright, thanks for the call Sean in West Palm Beach. It's been a long time since Rex Grossman. Wow. It has. It has.

Almost 20 since the sexy Rex. Yeah, I mean home for the Titans at the Texans at the Colts. I wouldn't be surprised if they are one and two to start.

Yeah. Those are tough games. Home for the Rams. They'd be one and three and then they got the Panthers and they visit the Jaguars in London. That's a tough one.

And then at the commanders, that's going to be fun. You look at Caleb Williams first few games. Again, the matchups home for Will Levis at CJ Stroud at Anthony Richardson home for Stafford home for Bryce Young in London against Trevor Lawrence. Off the bye, it's the guy drafted behind him. Unless, you know, Mariota wins the competition.

Of course. Then there, then he's at Kyler Murray, maybe Drake May's playing for the Patriots. Then you get into all the division matchups and the only non-division matchup for the Bears after week 10 are the 49ers in San Francisco and then the Seahawks at home. And they play their entire, look at that, they play their entire division schedule week 11 on. Yep. Yeah, a couple of teams are like that too.

So there you have it. The Steelers are like that as well. Do we have the Dallas Cowboys sound bites? We do.

Yes, we do. Alright, TJ, brace yourself. Alright, the Dallas Cowboys have opened their training camp. CeeDee Lamb's in Houston working out and he's, I guess at this point to use the vernacular, he's all out.

He's in Houston working out. Again, Jerry Jones, the phrase all in was born out of what he said about the team's offseason approach. When they were at the Senior Bowl in Alabama in January and when he said we're going all in, I thought, okay, Derrick Henry is going to be out there. Go get a couple of free agents, big veteran names, add them to the Cowboys and you're all in with a team that needs to win now and you're going to supplement it with big name guys. Maybe you get the Andre Hopkins from Tennessee somehow. I don't know, you get, take D-Hop and Derrick Henry from Tennessee, bring them, put a star on the side of the helmet and see what happens. And instead, as we all know, they didn't do very much in free agency at all. They got their draft in the books, didn't get any running backs of note.

They get Zeke back and as of now, no new contracts for Dak, Seedy or Micah. Jerry was asked about his definition of all in again. I've been doing this 30 something years.

They, and I don't feel like I've ever worked a day in my life ever, but I have spent my life doing it and I dream about it every day. I'm into it here. I'm all in. I'm all in. Sometimes being all in means you narrow, you remove the months out here that are in the future and you narrow it down to where all we're talking about is right now in the next playoff season. And that's it for everybody. We're all in.

We're all in. Wow. Wow. TJ, you're the cowboy fan here?

Wind horse, Jeff. Yeah. Yeah.

For sure. What he's saying, and this is again, what I heard, this is what I heard at the combine. When I came back with my top five rumors, some of them haven't hit. This one was spot on.

I was told by multiple people. His sense of all in is he's going to put everybody in the pressure cooker who wants to stay at Dallas and who doesn't everybody. And that may be a reason why he hasn't signed extended DAC yet or CD. Micah at least has taken the pressure cooker off with him by him saying, I know they got to sign DAC and CD Lamb first.

So I'll wait my turn. That also helps set the market. Certainly if CD Lamb helps reset the market more than Justin Jefferson did for non quarterback salaries. So he can top that.

So kind of in a way. Does he help a linebacker though with the receivers? I mean, you could call him a linebacker, but he's a pass rusher.

Nick Bose is a guy that's sitting right there with Justin Jefferson in that category. So yeah, CD could help set the market for Micah. I would let him try. That's for sure. Jerry was asked if he thinks this is his DAC's last season with the Cowboys. I don't think so. Just to be very specific, I do not think that this will be his last year with the Cowboys at all. The, the is there, am I being psychotic relative to my mirror?

No, no. It's pretty clear. I think I want to say it if it hadn't been clear of how much we appreciate what DAC Prescott has meant to this team in a positive way. And the players do play better when he's out there.

I think he meant psychic instead of psychotic. Although some might think that it's a Freudian slip that he just keeps on letting other teams set the market. What he knows he's got to pay DAC is that's the, that just is a full on confirmation. What we all believe is that DAC is going to be the quarterback of the future there. And he should be, but when he says all in, that means everybody that's there is all in for this year. And again, we will just be talking all year long. Cause again, the whole idea of like, we're just only for this year. We're not talking about down the road, just talking about 2024.

And in terms of that, you give a better chance to win with 2024. I would proffer to say you find the one, two or three people that you can look down the road with, that you can look at everybody else and say, we're in the pressure cooker together, but these guys will be in future pressure cookers. And you all understand why. You extend those people to give you a little bit more leeway to put more people in your pressure cooker together.

Give them one of your contracts. Tell Derek Henry, we'll give you two. Again, I keep returning to him. What a difference we'd be talking about the Dallas Cowboy chances of winning it all this year if that guy was there. And I understand he's a 30 year old quarterback.

I'm running back. I don't know. Who may not have wanted to go to Dallas. I don't know about that guy works out there.

Why wouldn't you want to do that? Ravens are a little bit better of a football team, maybe. It's possible.

Hey, it's all good in the hood though, for us to be talking about it. I would be stunned if CeeDee Lamb's not out there week one for the Dallas Cowboys in Cleveland. Me too. But if Dak doesn't get his contract, then we'll just see what happens in the end. Then he could just turn into the latest version of Joe Flacco if it works out for you, which is walkier, Super Bowl, Super Bowl MVP.

How do you like me now? Oh, you win the Super Bowl. It's all good. And he also, you know, Stephen Jones added that both Micah and CeeDee want to be the highest paid non quarterbacks in the NFL. That's what happens when you let somebody else set the market.

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