It's Great To See Justin Herbert Back At Practice

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Even the main ones, Rich, even the main ones. Let's start today's program with a quarterback who, in the National Football League, ranks third all-time with 277.8 passing yards per game in his career. With a minimum of 2,000 attempts, that's third all-time.

Whoa. He rests between second-place all-time Drew Brees, fourth-place all-time Andrew Luck. A little bit better than Matthew Stafford, who has 5.7 fewer yards thrown per game.

Mahomes leads the category, by the way. This player's name, you want to guess? You want to guess his name? Want to guess his name?

Justin Herbert. That's it. Oh, okay. Hey. Oh, good job, TJ. Well, my initial thought was always gonna be Dak, and I was like, no, it's not gonna be Dak.

It's just not gonna lob it up to you. Hey. How about that? And all the conversation of he didn't throw the ball down the field enough, and what's going on with the offensive coordinator, and then last year got all sorts of injuries and things of that nature, third most all-time. Justin Herbert.

Nice. Problem with him is not his arm or his hand. That's been him.

It's the foot. And his win-loss record. Well, let's just say that that's part of why Jim Harbaugh's here, right? True.

We're talking about facts. The weird charging, we assume, and the fourth down calls, the fourth and three, let's go for it on our own 21-yard line sort of stuff, we assume will be all gone. Fumbling at the one-yard line. That happened in Tennessee, poor Melvin Gordon. I think did it twice. He got one back and then lost one.

In a row. Oh, my word. So yes, there's that. Okay.

But the dreaded planter, Fasha, put him in a walking boot. Big Ben was jealous. And I don't know if, Mike, you went across the street to our new neighbors there and instead of a cup of sugar, you went there with a baseball and said, this is what you do. You roll it out, you do this.

But let me just say this. I've taught Brockman. Look, you just roll it. He has one under there. I do it during the show. It feels so good. It works. Is that your foot rolling baseball that you have? I know, yeah. Oh, my God. It works.

It feels so set aside. I can help him. Justin Herbert's back, people. Justin Herbert is back. He showed up, did seven on seven drills. Look at him. Doesn't look like he put on much LBs in that walking boot.

It looks like he's radio. And for me, this is just as great news as possible because we want everybody full strength. That's for sure. And here's what we would like to see. In a rare opportunity for the Kansas City Chiefs to go back to back to back. We'd like to see the strongest possible division opponents for them, too.

Give them the toughest test that they can get. I'm sure Chiefs fans would like to push back. But the AFC West is turning into the old AFC East, man. That's what's been happening, where one team has an all-time great quarterback with one of the all-time great head coaches and one of the all-time great tight ends and one of the best defensives out there, one of the best defensive players out there, littered with all sorts of star players, Hall of Fame players. And the rest of the division is like, can't get out of their own way. Changing coaches, changing quarterbacks, trying rookies, doesn't work. And one year after another, after another, after another, that's six wins for the team that's dynastic. Doesn't that sound like the old school AFC East to you? Chiefs are the new Patriots, man. That's the way it looks to me.

In every way, shape, and form. That's the way it looks to me over the last several years. As a matter of fact, if I'm not mistaken, last year when Russ, Sean Payton's old quarterback, beat the Chiefs in the division, that was the first time my homes had lost in division. And then he lost again at home.

Part of the reason why we're wondering if they could flip a switch. So what I'm saying is it's good news to see Herbert back. Because Easton Stick starting week one versus Gardner-Minshew for Chargers-Raiders sounds like the old school AFC East. Brady's crushing it. Jets trying.

I mean, we could mish-mosh them all together. Ray Lucas on for size. Dolphins trying. Tannehill on for size. Jay Fiedler.

And so on. So good to see him back. And now we just will see what it looks like offensively at some point. That's the next challenge, is to see the Harbaugh style at work. To see the Harbaugh run first, protect your quarterback style. With a guy who throws for 277 yards per game, third best all time.

With a receiving unit that has question marks all around it. And we'll see how that works out. But for the moment, to see Herbert back yesterday, August 19th, when the opener is around the corner on September 8th, that's good news.

Give him a couple weeks, get him up to speed, get him out there, and see what the Chargers look like with the Ravens running back room behind him. They open with the division game. That's right.

Raiders. That's right. That's what I'm saying, Gardner Minshew coming into town.

So here we go. You know who's happy? Jim Harbaugh's happy. His sound bite is the latest edition of the Harbaugh Files. Now, for those who may have missed it, just like all segments on this program are born out of just us spitballing live on this program. Last year, last several years, we had the Bill Belichick press conference moments. Great segment. Clearly not going to have that this year.

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Sometimes people that are standing on third base think they hit a triple, but they didn't. The Harbaugh Files. Be able to have Justin back out there practicing. Great. Great. It felt like the music should be playing. I even thought I felt, I thought I heard music. Voices of Angels maybe felt great.

It felt great. Yeah. The Harbaugh Files. Gosh. I like that halfway through that he realized how kind of ridiculous he sounded. Voices of Angels, man. So he just ramped it up. I love that. I mean, the what they were they really thinking is. Thank God.

Easton Stick is just not the guy. With all due respect, I should have reversed that. Yeah. Who in the AFC West can surprise which of the other two to make it a three a three team race? Denver.

TJ? The Chargers. You're saying besides them? We're throwing the Chargers in the mix. Oh, OK. I got confused. The other two.

You got two other ones. Which one can put together a 10-11 win season? I don't think it's the Broncos, Chris. You think it's the Raiders then? Or you could say neither. OK, good.

Because that's where I was leaving initially. I don't see either one of them winning 10 games. Because the Denver Broncos are going to be starting a rookie quarterback.

It's going to happen. But he's older than, it's not really a rookie. Doesn't matter. So it's Brandon Weeden. Once upon a time, I think he's the only rookie quarterback to have an ARPCARD in his first career start. It's 27, right?

Yeah. Former Florida State. Honestly, 60. Next is better than Brandon Weeden. Brandon Weeden. 61.

61 career starts. One would think we'll get him ready. One would think.

But opening up against the Seattle Seahawks, against the 12s, that's going to be a different ball of whack, sir. I don't know, man. I just think for Gardner Minshew to show up and show out in what one would think, I mean, his last chance saloon to be a starting quarterback in this league. Feels like it.

Feels like it. That he's going to have a chance, a week one start for Gardner Minshew in the NFL. That if he does not show up and show out and make sure that this Raiders team that won as many games as they did last year for the good news, to hire Antonio Pierce as their new head coach.

But on the other hand, that run that caused them to give the job to Antonio Pierce, placed them too darn low in the draft order to get somebody in the draft. Can he do it? That is one of the biggest question marks of the season.

And if he does, you want to talk about feel good story? Dude who looks like he learns the playbook by the light of a jukebox, like Kenny Stabler back in the day, does it for the Las Vegas Raiders in 2024. Slinging it around, Davante Adams is no longer cursing into an NFL Films microphone on the sideline. The Condor leads the defense with Christian Wilkins to the playoffs. I would choose them over the Broncos of any team that can actually surprise.

I don't know about the car. They've got Davante Adams. They've got that kid Trey Turner.

They've got the law firm Jacoby Myers. They've got that kid, Zamir White, who showed up last year in place of the injured Josh Jacobs. I just think Bo Nix is better than both those guys at quarterback. Hey, we know how important quarterback is. Brock Bowers. Love Brock Bowers. I like their tight end. Do you want to put that out as a poll question at Rich Eisen's show?

What is the phrasing? Which AFC West team can surprise the most? Raiders, Broncos, leave the Chargers out because I think that would be, in light of the singing angel voices, the choice that people would choose. Really? Good, throw them in. I don't know. Dude, you don't think that'll be 80%? Surprise most or knock off the Chiefs?

What do you want to put there? I don't think anyone believes that. Which AFC West team? Can be a second playoff team?

Can be a 10-win team. All right. Don't include the Chargers.

I'm telling you, it'll skew the entire poll. Just leave the Raiders and the Broncos. Thank you. Rich, you're going to have to expound later on that.

The Chargers had five wins last year. The what? Kenny Stabler and the Jukebox.

Oh, I'll tell you right now. I'd never heard this before. Yes, that's the phrase that they would use back in the day is that when Kenny was, I believe, did John McClain tell the story? John McClain told the story, yeah.

The longtime chronicler of the Houston sports scene of the Houston Chronicle. Talked about how Kenny would be out all ends of the night. And he would basically learn the playbook by the light of the Jukebox.

So at least he took his playbook out with him. No, I just think that was the phrase that he would be, as Rod Woodson once told me, hooting with the Owls is another phrase. But you can't soar with the Eagles if you hoot with the Owls. And I believe Kenny Stabler, now sharing the same bus room as Rod Woodson, would push back. There are busts if they talk at night. Speaking of Kenny's old head coach, Nicholas Cage, if they had those conversations, he would push back about not being able to soar with the Eagles if a hoot with the Owls.

I got to say, I'm putting the Chargers on this list because they had the least amount of wins last year between these two. OK, fine. You're just, when the poll turns out to be 80% Chargers, and then, I don't think that's going to happen.

OK, very good. Jim's going to plus him up seven. I think you're crazy.

You're crazy. Jim's plussing him up seven. The Chargers are going 12 and five. Hey, anything's possible. Angels, if you're quiet enough, you can hear the Angels' voices singing from across the street because of who's back practicing across the street and for our neighbors. We'll take a break.

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No. That's an easy one. What is that label? What is it labeled? Angel-ah. Angel-ah. Angel-ah. How many A's and ah's? How many H's? A-H-H. Yeah. Angel-ah. Good job, Mike. Maybe that's what Jim needs to voice it.

All right. Here we go. When we come back, this train will be back on the rails. For Overreaction Monday on a Tuesday, that's next. This is The Rich Eisen Show.

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Hit it. Don't, please don't tell me there's orange juice in here. You promise? You swear? On our friendship? Sad, I wanna hear you say it. I promise on our friendship. They're not lying. Whenever you're ready. You can drink whole milk, you know?

Hi, how are you? That's 2%. Ooh, nevermind.

Does that reduce fat? Like the red one, 1%. That's 1%?

Yeah, that's what I said. It's the 1%. That's, let's try that again, ready? What's up guys, I'm trying milk.

I'm trying. 1%. Ooh, is that like half and a half? I don't like that one. That one tastes like butter. Is it butter? That's heavy cream. Heavy cream, okay.

I'm lactose. I'm telling it. That's good. That's 2%.

Wow, no, wild. I don't like that. Ugh, that's half and half. Yeah, there we go. Mm. It's 2% or whole?

I think it's 2%. Pretty impressive. Ooh, chocolate milk. Oh, no.

What is it, almond milk? Pretty good. That's not bad. Four to five. Go Bills.

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Call clickgrainger.com or just stop by. Okay, let's take some phone calls and get to overreaction Monday on a Tuesday, right? Let's do that. Oh, we got a bunch of win-loss.

We do, we got a lot of win-loss. But let's go with Derek in Missouri, one of our regulars. First in, first out. What's up, Derek? How you been, sir? Hey, we're pretty good, sir. So, correct me if I'm wrong, a couple weeks ago, did you guys mention that you'll be in Kansas City for the week of the kickoff? We are. We're gonna be doing our show from Kansas City. Our location, we will announce it next week. And we will be there Wednesday.

Say that again? Are you gonna have a live audience by any chance? I don't believe so.

Unless Del Tufo zooms in because he's too important to actually go on the road with us anymore. Right, Mike? Got it? That's messed up.

Is that messed up? Come on, man. No, he's got too much other stuff. Come with us, Mike. He's been comfortable. I'd be doing a heartbeat if that was the case. He's gonna, well, Derek, we'll let you know.

What's on your mind? So, I gotta say, Rich, I'm pretty thrilled what I'm seeing right now from Bo Nix and Caleb Williams, but most of all, Bo, just because, I mean, hopefully what he's doing right now, it could just pretty much, if anything, I hope we will carry on to him being a starting guy on week one and for the rest of the season. And for Caleb Williams, I gotta say for Chicago, I'd be pretty happy right now what I see from him right now. Well, I mean, he for sure, you know, he's got the eye popping stuff. Bo Nix made a couple of very nice throws as well in his time.

He's a starter. I mean, there's really no reason in my mind for, with unfortunately for Jared Stidham, or no matter how much Peyton has been talking about Zach Wilson and approving of him, there's no doubt in my mind Bo Nix is gonna be the starting quarterback for the Denver Broncos. And for them, I can only hope this stops the carousel that's been turning ever since Super Bowl 50 over there. You know?

I wanna think about it. If I could, before you guys get to overreacting Monday on Tuesday, I just wanna say that, you know, just, they're not showing any signs of any hesitation. I mean, they're not like trying to push the envelope or force the issue.

It's like, they can just carry that on for a full four quarters for a real game. Then they're gonna make some strides this season for sure. Well, we'll see Derek.

And thanks for the call. We'll let you know if we're having any live audience folks when we're in Kansas City. So there were, have been, let's see here. I'm looking at the leading passers for the Denver Broncos over the past in the seasons since Peyton Manning departed, since Super Bowl 50. There's one, two, three, four, five, six different quarterbacks that led the Broncos in passing in the eight seasons since Peyton Manning went. You'll never guess half of them.

I just pulled them up, so I'm not gonna guess. Trevor Simeon did it twice. Case Keenum once. Joe Flacco once. Drew Locke once. Teddy Bridgewater once. Russell twice. And by the way, the yardage totals are not impressive.

I mean, not impressive to say the least. Russell Wilson topped out at 3,500 two years ago. And even in the year Peyton Manning won the Super Bowl, his numbers weren't that eye-popping as well. Well, they really won kind of in spite of him that year. Remember Brock Osweiler came in and won a bunch of games.

Dude. And then before Peyton, Tebow, Kyle Orton, Jake Cutler, Jake Plummer, Brian Greasy, those were the ones between Elway and Manning. Tebow had 1,700 passing yards in 2011. And was one of the most exhilarating quarterbacks I've seen in my 20, now two seasons. When John Fox turned to him because Kyle Orton just couldn't, it just couldn't cut. He got hurt and he just like, he didn't want to go to Tebow.

Right. You can't go to a quarterback who practices with the ball on the ground as much as Tebow was practicing from what I was told at the time. They just couldn't do it.

But I've never seen anything like it. The fourth quarter Tebow time was real. And Tebow won a playoff game as Pittsburgh Steeler fans know the words out of Jim Nantz's mouth describing the new playoff overtime rules on the CBS broadcast of that game. All you gotta do is watch that playoff game going into overtime. It was the first playoff game using the new overtime rules that a field goal didn't cut it from the winning, from the team that started overtime.

The other team had a chance to match. He was explaining all of that and Tebow found Damarius Thomas right over the middle and it was over. One of the many examples why the Patriots got a nice break in their run. How was that their fault? Dude, the Steelers would have been a much tougher opponent the next week. You eviscerated Tebow. It wasn't a matter of fact. As a matter of fact, you did John Elway the greatest favor because Elway was, you could see like. That game was well. He was kind of smiling.

44 to 10 or something. You know? He was kind of like that Homelander GIF of just like looking, you know, like is it okay to smile? Yeah. You know?

Do the people around me like what I've just done? That's the way it looked. Sorry, 45 to 10. Every time Tebow scored, Manning allowed and then Peyton Manning being available allowed Elway to pull off a bloodless coup of Tebow mania because people in Denver were not ready to move on from Tebow. At any rate, this is what Bo Nix is trying to stop, a revolving door.

I'm trying to look though. Manning led the Broncos in passing four years in a row. First guy to do that for Denver since Jake Plummer did it. But I mean, they didn't win a playoff game. My gosh, after Elway won the Super Bowl, they didn't win a playoff game until Manning arrived. Until Tebow won that, threw that touchdown pass.

They lost in the wild card three years and then lost their conference in the, I guess they won a divisional round game in 19, in the mid 90s, in the mid aughts, pardon me. At any rate, long story short, that's what Bo Nix is trying to stop. 844-204-RICH is the number to dial here on the program. We did overreaction Monday, the podcast over the weekend, the Fanatics Fest crowd was awesome.

Chris Brockman turned heel right on him right off the bat wearing a Paul Pierce gamer. Long story short is it's a fun listen, a fun watch. Check it out on our YouTube channel as well as wherever you get your podcasts. It's time now though for our weekly overreaction Monday segment here. This one on a Tuesday. That was terrible. That was crap.

That was garbage. This place sucks. Overreaction Mondays, Monday on a Tuesday. Hi Chris, how are you over there, sir? What are you doing? What's up everybody? Everybody good?

I'm good. Week off to a good start. It's funny that we've been talking a lot about Bo Nix because I wrote this on Sunday watching Bo Nix play. He's taking the Broncos to the playoffs, people. Let's do it. Broncos country, let's ride. Again, who are you taking out, man? Who are you taking out, man? Who are you taking out? You're putting the Chargers in. Who are you taking out?

Let me think. Who am I taking out? I might- Pittsburgh out? I might take- Cleveland out? I might take one of the North teams out, yeah. Buffalo out?

I might do that too. Okay. But outside of the, who are you taking out? That would be a stunning turnaround, a rookie quarterback who is the last one taken of all the six chosen in the first dozen picks. But with the most experience. With a team that I would say has fewer weapons than Chicago, fewer weapons than Jayden Daniels has at his disposal, fewer weapons at the disposal of- Slightly more than New England, I guess.

Yeah, right. So I'll push back and say that's an overreaction when he's going to the playoffs this year, based on a couple of pre-season starts, including a nice one against the Packers. He looks pretty good. I would like to see what he would look like against the Packers ones, if that's who it would be. Let's just say if they put Denver in Brazil instead of Philadelphia week one on the Friday night- That's fun.

Of week one. I would say he would look differently. But I'm glad you're high on him. I'll push back and say that's an overreaction.

I think he looks pretty good, better than expected. When am I going to agree with you? Because I don't know if I agree with you a single time on the podcast. It's been a while. What are you doing?

I'm kind of hurting on the inside. You're on the reservation. All right, how about this one? Two, again, who's coming out? Playoff teams, it's a 50-50 swap every year, right?

Okay, sure. Two of the league's big six will miss the playoffs this year. When I say big six, I mean Kansas City, San Francisco, Dallas, Baltimore, Buffalo, Philadelphia. Two of them will miss the playoffs. If they're healthy, their rosters are too good. Buffalo's not healthy.

We just saw also that milk tasting doesn't count in terms of wins-loss. Just check out that Josh Allen video. Kansas City's making it, San Francisco's making it. Baltimore is too damn good to miss out. And Philadelphia's the same way.

Brock Purdy has not looked good so far. Dude, stop it, just stop it. And I'm still waiting to just look down at my phone and see Brandon Iuch signed. I'm waiting for that. Dallas, top-heavy, AFC North, gonna be the best division in football.

I will push back and say that's overreaction too. They're all making it? I'm not saying they're all making it. I mean, if I had to suggest one's not making it right now, it would be Buffalo based on the offensive change without Stefan Diggs and us wondering who is going to be the one to, if you will, step up for Josh Allen. And Matt Milano going down really freaked me out.

If I had to choose one. But everyone else stays healthy, their rosters are playoff worthy. All right, Chris, let's go.

People underachieve every year. Who are you taking out? Dallas and Buffalo, that's who you take out?

Who are the two you take out? I weirdly think San Francisco has a weird year. Would you? Yeah, you're weird. So what would you say?

I might have a weird year. Uh-uh, rushing NFC. Those six, how would you have answered that?

An overreaction or not? Two miss, two miss. See, I know you have the thing where you say every year so many teams don't make it back. That's true, it's a fact.

So it is a fact, but in this case, it is hard. Maybe the Browns. Well, you're also looking at the glass half full in the fact of saying that if half miss, half of the previous year's playoff field also make, and those might be the six. But Cleveland is not an option. He gave you those six teams and said two of them will miss.

All right, give me them again, Chris. It's San Francisco, Kansas City, Dallas, Baltimore, Buffalo, Philadelphia. Oh, yeah, the original six.

That was the, oh, man. Rich, this is hard because all of them. That's why I'm in this position. Can I say Philadelphia? Sure.

All right, I'll say Philadelphia. That's possible. It's just one.

What else you got? That's just one. Chris, those are all our top teams. Like, I just... That's the point. I'm making it easy.

All right, here we go. Rookie quarterbacks, we're gonna be talking about them all year long. I think both the rookie passing yard record and the rookie TD record get broken this year. So the rookie passing record? The rookie passing record is 43-70, Andrew Luck. Okay.

Rookie touchdown record, 31, Justin Herbert. Jeez. You're saying both of them. Both go down. Caleb takes one of them out. Maybe the other guy on the screen is the other one. And Jayden Daniels takes out a touchdown record?

Maybe. Say both of them go down. Dude, you just... The thing is, Caleb can... It's a passing league. It's offense. All the rules are for the quarterbacks. So now, is it passing touchdowns as well?

That's what you're saying? It's passing or total touchdowns? It's passing yards and passing touchdowns. Oh, passing. So running them in doesn't count either? No.

Let's see. Oh, man. Who had the touchdown record? Was it... Justin Herbert.

Justin Herbert. 31. Oh, man.

It's just so rare. I'll just say no. I'll just say no again. I'll say that's an overreaction.

Both of them go down too. I say, if I jump in, Caleb Briggs both of them. Now we're talking. Well, I was kind of hinting. I was kind of hinting over the weekend that Caleb might be our first 4,000, 1,000 quarterback ever. Runner as well. He's not going to run for 1,000. You're not counting runs, right?

I'm not. DJ Moore, 10 touchdowns. Cole Komet, five touchdowns. Adunze.

Adunze. It's eight. Keenen Allen. Keenen, nine, 10.

I mean, DeAndre Swift catches a couple. There's a big possibility that that 31's going to go down. I think that's fun. All right, what else, Chris? I think that's fun.

I would love to agree with you on something. I think maybe you finally, the streak ends here. I think you got this one. A lot of talk going back and forth between Tyreek Hill and Noah Lyles.

Yes. Who does Noah Lyles think he is? Okay? First off, congratulations.

No one's recognizing you if you walk down the street. Why are you picking fights with NBA and NFL players? And Tyreek Hill is absolutely smoking him in a 50 yard race if they race.

Absolutely smoking him. Tyreek Hill, he's been talking smack Noah Lyles. Tyreek threw the proposal out there. Let's race 50 yards.

I'd love to see it. It's not going to happen because Noah Lyles knows he would get smoked. Guess what? Why would Noah Lyles do it?

It's a win. Because he's been talking all the trash. But because he's the best at what he does in his endeavor. Tyreek Hill is, according to his peers, the best at what he does in his endeavor. Apparently the fastest guys are all on the Dolphins. They don't even run track.

Dude. Noah Lyles would get smoked. Here's the one thing about Noah Lyles that he's an excellent talker. An excellent talker. And he's an excellent- Doing a great job.

He can race the race and he can talk the talk. Where he said that why are NBA players calling themselves World Champions? Did you hear he did not know who Jokic was?

Yeah, I saw that. How is that possible? Like perhaps the best foreign born player in the NBA today with all due respect to the other foreign born players in the NBA today. That's impossible.

That he did not know that the guy who was calling himself a World Champion as of last year was in fact from the other parts of the world coming to America to be a World Champion. So you gotta put it in perspective when it comes from Noah Lyles. Give me the cheetah. But of course I love the cheetah.

Give me the cheetah. Come on, 50 yards. You saw how Lyles started slowly. This is not an overreaction.

You can't sit here and say that that's not possible. I would love to see it, but why would Noah Lyles do it? He's been talking all the trash. It's the same reason why I should arrange against Schefter. I can't win for losing.

Yeah, you gotta talk to him about it. Even by just being beat out by Speedy... Speedy Shefty? Speedy Shefty.

I don't know, man. I think Noah Lyles would do it. It seems like his ego is large enough that he'd be like, heck yeah. I would love it. I don't know this dude. Let's do it for charity.

He's the fastest man in the world technically. You got another? I got another one.

I got a couple more. All right, here we go. This year's NC that we talked to Sarc yesterday, Texas head coach. This year's national champion, cause we're going to 12 teams.

Yes, sir. Is gonna come from outside the pre-season top four. Pre-season top four is?

It's Georgia, it's Ohio State, it's Oregon and Texas is four. One of those four teams is not gonna win this. I'll agree.

I'll agree. We have no idea. We have no idea. We have no idea. Dude, we have no idea how this is going to work.

We have no earthly idea. And you even heard Sarc say yesterday that they have to, that this is like a professional football season in length, 16, 17 games. If you're gonna be, that you have to sit around and look in October, November, if you're making the tournament, how much you push the pedal of the metal with certain guys that might be a little dinged up, do you sit them knowing that you're gonna end up needing them for that December push? The games in early November, do you have to win it? Do you have to be undefeated? Do you have to be one loss? No. I don't think so.

Would it be great to have those four bye week positions so you don't have to host a game or go on the road in somebody else's campus? Sure. But is it necessary? No, we have no idea how this is gonna play out.

None at all. So I'll agree with you there too. Nice. All right, last one. I think it's Penn State's nine, so I agree, they're gonna come. There you go. Well, Michigan's awesome, man.

I mean, it's your time, you had your side. We will be at the end. Okay. Last one, happy birthday. 76 years young to Led Zeppelin front man, Robert Plant. Nice. Led Zeppelin is the greatest rock and roll band of all time. Where did this one come from? It's Robert Plant's birthday.

Robert Plant's birthday. Okay, I'm aware of that. All right. Any pushback on the greatest rock and roll band of all time? I mean, you got the Beatles, right?

You got, what have they done? We got the music fishing on the right to your left there. I wanna hear what you have to say. The Beatles are here. Everyone else is below the Beatles. Yeah, right.

End of story. But in saying that, I do agree with Chris. They are the greatest rock and roll band of all time.

Why? Because the Beatles were pop more than they were rock. I see what you're saying.

They were rock and roll. Out of that pure fact right there that I spat out of my mouth, I agree with Chris Brock. Okay, there you go. Thank you. Very good. Good job. I'm the music guy here. That's why.

Because I got music tattooed on my arm in conj. Very good. We will, good job, Christopher. Well done right there. Very, very well done. Thank you. So, do you finally agree with one? That's overreaction Monday. On a Tuesday, overreaction Monday. Get the podcast wherever you can get your podcast as well.

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This is a first. We go to break, and Chris Brockman, you'd like to reopen? I'd like to reopen. I got one more. Mike, can you get the one more? You got the one more?

So overreaction money on Tuesday is done. All right, we'll get one more. And you got one more.

What do you have? I got one more. Hang on. It's all right, go ahead. You don't need music.

We don't need music. Are you ready? The entire WNBA, I'm talking players, coaches, and refs, they're all a bunch of Kaitlin Clark haters. They're all a bunch of jealous haters. Yep. I gotta sit here. They have.

Wow. They are just working themselves up about Kaitlin Clark just to hate on her. Skylar Diggins is bumping her. Their girls are complaining on the bench. Referees are getting into it now. They're all a bunch of haters. Kaitlin Clark is taking over this league.

I got it. And every passing game that she does something awesome, it makes the decision to leave her off the Olympic team that much stupider. I've gotta, you know, I was over the weekend seeing the return of the W, seeing how great she is still even better. She's already set the rookie assist record. She's better.

She's better. Like the month off that the Team USA gave her, you know, when she was, and by the way, I was thinking that as they were in danger in the gold medal game, like how would they have handled that as she's taking pictures with Aaron Judge, you know, going to Yankee games while the gold medal was in the offing for. I think there were two of 12 from three in the gold medal game. Didn't need any outside shooting. Dude, when France was about to take the gold medal, if not for the Kevin Durant sort of foot on the line, right? Two inches of foot on the line.

At any rate. That would have tied the game, not taken the gold medal. That would have tied the game. So I was just thinking to myself, man, that what is the malfunction with leaving her off the team? And then the W returns and I saw she got teed up. And how could you listen to this soundbite and not agree with you saying what you've just said, that the rest of the W, NBA, are a bunch of Kaitlin Clark haters. She got teed up.

You turn off the music and play. This is her soundbite explaining why she got teed up. She hit, she looked like in frustration. She kind of used, the ball was underneath on the floor, underneath the rim on the floor. And she kind of like flipped the ball with the toe of her foot, you know, while she then slammed her arm in frustration on the stanchion underneath the backboard.

And she got teed up. And this was her post-game explanation of it. I got a technical for basically being mad at myself because I missed the three and then I went and hit the backboard and he told me it was disrespectful to the game of basketball.

So I don't know. It reminded me of the technical that I got in college where I said, damn it, where it's like a personal frustration. Had nothing to do with my team. It had nothing to do with their reffing.

Had nothing to do with other team. It was just because I'm a competitor and I felt like I should have been making more shots. So, but I think he fired me up to continue to play a lot harder. I thought we got a lot better after he did that.

So I want to thank him for that. So listen, you know officiating, we're always as appreciative as we possibly can be of officiating and how difficult it is. No matter the sport, no matter the level, it's not easy to do. But could you imagine being an official and telling Kaitlin Clark that she's being disrespectful to the game? Like what malfunction must be occurring in somebody's temples to say such a thing? That I'm not only going to be the arbiter of whether something is a foul or not, I'm going to be the arbiter of whether somebody's toe was on the out of bounds end line or not. I'm going to be the arbiter of whether Kaitlin Clark is being respectful to the game or not. Are you out of your mind? I don't get it, man. Imagine coming to work that day and saying something like that to Kaitlin Clark, who spends, I mean, I shouldn't even go down the road of what she does and how she conducts herself and the fans that she's brought in and all of that. What is your major malfunction, nut-nut? Honestly.

Honestly, because I can't, so how can you not think this? What is, what is it? Is it jealousy? Is it anger? Is she maybe doing stuff we don't know?

You know? You would think that would get highlighted if she was being, you know, if she was dirty or somehow talking trash or something, you'd feel like all the hater sites would pump that up. That's another example of this. Brady, Brady was great and he was got a lot of crap for not getting penalties and stuff, but he was great.

Like people already got- No, it's the difference between being, no, no, no, Mike, no, that's apples and oranges. I mean, yeah, where Brady would be, he'd get flags thrown on somebody else because they're trying to protect him. This is an official telling her, you know, you're not respecting the game, so I'm teeing you up. Like, instead of just saying like, oh my, you know, honestly, if the official thought that she was like angry at the call or whatever, but for- NFL was already popular, I mean. To say such a thing is just out of your mind. It happens.

All right, that's the latest example. So I say, yes, it does appear to be, and it would be great to just see her make a great run to finish the season and go on a playoff run. Yeah, go on a playoff run would be amazing. Just make it even matter, I guess. You know, while Angel Reese goes on her 20 and 20 games, it's been fun. But you know, normally you've got something to say on the subject matter. This particular case, I don't. Okay.

And I'll tell you why. Do you agree? Because the last time we talked about Kate, and I know you guys are gonna be like, well, you read that stuff, but this is a fact. The last time we talked about Kaitlin Clark, you said she should be on the Olympic team. I said, she probably shouldn't be on the Olympic team.

I randomly went to our YouTube. Oh, okay, no, no. Listen, it's just a fact.

It's a fact. And the comments there were so negative towards me because I said she shouldn't be on. I had more people. That she should not be on? Yeah. I had more people calling me a racist in these comments. And I realized that she's a very trigger to a lot of people. So I think you do have some, I understand what you're saying there, Chris, but the way it was received on our socials, I'm gonna leave it alone and leave it at that. That's our number one here on the program.

Mike Florio coming up. And I know you say, why do you read it? But the fact is, it's like, you read it. You know, I mean, if you want, we can have a conversation about it offline. We don't have to have this conversation. So I'm just saying. Because I have an opinion on your take on that front and we don't need to just have it here.

But I understand why you would be sensitive to being called a racist online. By the way, I get you on that. I just can't believe. Is that Schmott Schmoster? Who was the one who called the title? Is there a WNDA version of Schmott Schmoster?

Great question. There's gotta be, right? Schmott Schmoster. Schmott Schmoster. By the way, that's how Cooper and I refer to Clay Holmes as Schmashmooms, who's coming into the game. Does his name rhyme with Schmashmooms? Do we know who the ref was that said this?

Let's go down this wormhole. Is there a Scott Foster of the WNBA? He could schmo the save. Who is the Scott Foster? I don't know.

Who is the Scott Foster? That is such an unbelievable reason though, to give someone a tech like she said. She's mad at herself.

But that's your opinion. They're desperate, baby. Right, but she's mad at herself.

But it's not just that. It's like, why would you have the default to bring into the equation that she could possibly be disrespectful of the game? Have you not been watching?

Just look in the stands and look, look how she treats people who come up and ask for photographs and pictures. Come on. Yeah. Yeah, that makes no sense. What the hell? It makes no sense. That's what I'm asking you about. The hell going on, Mike? Makes no sense.

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