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That's right. Welcome to this edition of the Rich Eisen Show. We are live on the Roku Sports Channel to check us out every single day. We greatly appreciate you doing that. You can also check us out through our YouTube channel, youtube.com slash Rich Eisen Show.
We say hello to everybody listening. Whether it's live on this Rich Eisen Show, Terrestrial Radio affiliate Sirius XM Odyssey, tune in or maybe you're listening to us on our podcast version. All three hours of this show available thanks to the Cumulus Podcast Network and the Rich Eisen Podcast Network that popped out another Overreaction Monday. The preseason is in the books edition of Overreaction Monday.
That's out there for you to listen to right now. We recorded it as soon as our show was over yesterday. And we're going to have an Overreaction Monday on a Tuesday segment just to celebrate all that good stuff.
The season preview version of Overreaction Monday is going to be out there for you to listen to on Labor Day next week. And then the following day, it's opening week in the National Football League. Our scheduled guests on our first Tuesday show, Brock Purdy, Julian Edelman, Charles Woodson, Paul Rudd, holy cow. That's how we're rolling into the week that we're going to be broadcasting to you live from Kansas City, Missouri. We're going to set up shop for three days next week, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. So we're very excited with the return of football being played in this football loving nation. That's it. We've got ourselves a bonafide All-Star from the association going to stop by and Studio Hour number three.
It's Cacti on the Rich Eisen show. Karl-Anthony Towns will be here. And he is a fan of the Philadelphia Eagles. Oh, okay. He wants to be from southern New Jersey. Interesting. Maybe it must be the part of New Jersey that he's from.
Mike Del Tufo is our Jersey. Yes. Yes.
That was a very Ben Franklin Bridge. That was a very Phil Hartman-esque. Yes.
Yes. Chunks of guys like you in my stool. That's a good one. That said, we'll play maybe the Eagles win-loss game with Karl-Anthony Towns, one of the best from the Minnesota Timberwolves. Joining us in studio, big wit, Andrew Whitworth will be, it's very rare that Andrew Whitworth is the second largest guest that we have in studio of any day in which he will appear. Pound for pound, we got some beef on the show today. We do. We do. We should put Karl-Anthony Towns out at tight end, you know, next to the left tackle, Andrew Whitworth.
And we're going to start, we'll run left today. Could those two guys block Quinnen Williams? That's a good question. We will ask Quinnen Williams everything but that. And hopefully he will give us answers to everything we ask him. Hopefully. As he will join us in support of College Colors Day, which is back for its 20th anniversary this very Friday to wear your college colors on Friday in advance of week one of the college football campaign.
So that's how we're rolling today. Good to see you over there, Chris Brockman. How are you? Rich, I'm great. Good to see you, man. DJ Mikey Deas and Deez Nuts is back. I'm back. What do you got there in your ear? What do you got today? I'm well done with the other headset.
What does that mean? It's been annoying the hell out of me for years. The big old cans? Yeah. They're gone? Yeah, I'm like, I'm done. So we're going to see your ears?
Lower profile and you can get my beautiful ears. Wow. Which I use to win Emmys. I mean, basically. Oh. Yeah, that's how I come back. My goodness. That's how I come back.
What are we doing? No, I mean. Maybe you'll hear better. I didn't like the headset. Maybe you'll listen better.
It was bugging the hell out of me. Okay. Good. I probably won't pay attention anymore. I mean, I will.
Of course, Rich. I pay attention. Stop. DJ, how are you, sir?
What's going on? Good. I was just thinking, you know, providing like there's no UFC fighters on any other sports show today. Yes. Our show could kick your show's butt today. Every show. I think today would be the day.
Yeah. Today would be the day for us to pick a fight with Quinnen Williams, Andrew Whitworth and Carl Anthony Towns. I feel safe. Let's go. Let's go out and pick a fight. I wish I was 50 years younger and I'd kick your ass.
I mean, I felt safe in the club before, but I would feel real safe today. I got the T-shirt right here. You just got me the T-shirt. There you go. That is fantastic. If I was 50 years younger, I'd kick your ass.
Mayweather versus merchants. Great shirt. I love it. Okay. I'm just saying. So.
Just saying. Okay. Later on today, in addition to overreaction Monday on a Tuesday, we will tell you who we believe is going to win the NFC North. Let me ask you this question.
Sure. What's the toughest division in football? The NFC North?
If not, it's on the short list. AFC North, I'm going to say. AFC North is the toughest division in football? Because the Steelers made the playoffs last year. The Ravens made the playoffs last year. The Browns made the playoffs last year. And the reason why the Bengals didn't, one would think, is because their quarterback situation. Whoever you think the fourth team in the AFC North is, they're a little bit better than the fourth team in the NFC. Which you believe. Well, I guess we shouldn't. Don't go away. I think you can pretty much, I know where you're leaning on that front.
Yes. Because the Lions almost made the Super Bowl. The Packers not only almost made the NFC Championship game at the expense of the team that made the Super Bowl. They also messed with the Dallas Cowboys.
The whole all in stuff, the whole business where everybody is all in. You have to show this year that you are willing to be a Dallas Cowboy forevermore. Or at least for the next few years by performing in a way that they didn't perform last year.
Or a team hasn't performed for Dallas in 26 years by getting to at least the NFC Championship game. Everybody is all in. Except for C.D. Lamb. We can exempt him from that now.
He's all paid now. That's all because the Green Bay Packers won and done the Cowboys and just messed with Texas in certain ways. That we just saw the Jones family kind of react the way that they have. Then you got the Bears.
The Bears. Everybody is talking about, oh God. That's what Caleb does.
I understand what he does. I can't stop, won't stop. It's very funny. Is it? It's going to be funny. Has he even seen that sketch do you think?
Because he wasn't alive when the Swarovski brothers started doing it. No. At any rate.
Doesn't matter. He's great. Everybody is high on the Bears.
Oh yeah. And I'm higher on the Vikings than others are. That's because your adopted son Sam Darnold is your quarterback. He's not my adopted son.
Why would you say that? He was maybe your first of the adopted sons. Well I mean he was the back in the day, and by back in the day I mean about five years ago.
Not that long ago. That he was the great hope of the Jets. Third overall selection coming out of USC. And I don't think the Jets did him any favors. They did him, by the way off camera Chris Brockman is doing his googly eye gaze thing. And so they didn't do him any favors. Shannon McCarrollina, that whole thing blew up there too. He was MVP for three weeks.
He sure was. And then he goes to San Francisco and we'll see how that one year of tutelage, if you will, sending to Kevin O'Connell, who's from the McVay tree, who's from the Shanahan tree, and as Daniel Jeremiah says, you cannot in any way, shape or form be part of that tree without paying fealty to Kirk Cousins, who was Kirk Cousins' coach last couple of years. See what I'm saying? Just trying to put it all together that Kevin O'Connell should be able to get the most out of Sam Darnell. And there is Justin Jefferson all healthy. They've got the least amount of buzz. I mean we're not talking about Minnesota at all.
Nope. And so if you say AFC North and NFC North is what I'm throwing out there, what are the other two for toughest divisions in football? I say NFC West.
I agree with that. The NFC defending champs are sitting there. The Rams made the playoffs last year. One of your overreaction Monday subject matters in our pod, spoiler alert, is we're not talking about the Seattle Seahawks enough. And I had, as one of my sleeper teams, the Arizona Cardinals. The NFC sleeper team for me is the Arizona Cardinals, which is something I was able to get out on this show last Friday before Suzy and TJ hijacked the rest of the segment when I was talking about my AFC. That was the best.
I mean, it was one of the best. So let me throw this at you. So you would agree, TJ, the NFC West is a third team on this list? Because if you could see, I'm fashioning together a Twitter poll for us. Maybe we could just go with those three. But if you want a fourth? You've got to get a fourth. Can I convince you of the AFC South? Ooh.
That was literally going to be the one that I'm sitting here looking. I know that'll get probably less than, it'll get single digits on the poll. Why not the AFC East? Because the Patriots, you just, because it's not all four. They're not all four top to bottom.
It's not top to bottom. And that division's usually been owned by one team. NFC East, you can't throw that in there? I mean, you could. We have a two-time Super Bowl. Well, I would say outside of, you know. That's a two team division.
That's a two. Well, I mean, and Washington can somehow play its way in. Spoiler.
They're a spoiler team. I think the AFC East is stronger than the NFC East. I agree with that. OK. And then you'd say the AFC South, because you have the Texans, one of the teams that I think coming into the season most generally. We're going to talk about them later. Right.
And I think that they're going to be a team on the list of threatening the Chiefs in the AFC this year. Sure. OK. The Jacksonville Jaguars should be better.
Jaguar. Right. The Colts get Anthony Richardson back, should be better.
Right. And then my other sleeper team coming into the season is the Tennessee Titans. Who have been, if you've watched them all this preseason. So you'd say the South is tougher than the East. Because again, you've got Will Levis, you've got Anthony Richardson.
We're talking about top to bottom. I don't think there's a 12 win team in there, but you know, they could all be pretty competitive. In terms of a quarterback driven league. Young, fun quarterbacks.
Right. One of whom is a legit MVP candidate in CJ Stroud. You look at the AFC East, you've got a first ballot goat with a massive chip on his shoulder. You've got Josh Allen, who is as all pros as they come.
And you got Tua. Who is now a guy who takes a lot of heat. He takes heat, but I mean, he takes a lot of heat.
He takes a lot of heat also. Yeah. He plays well. He led the league in passing last year. Yeah.
A lot of people believe that he's the product of a system. Howdy. And then of course, you've got the up and coming Drake May. Right. For your red hot coming into the season, Drake May. We're going to be bad.
Two and 15. So you would put the AFC South over the AFC East. Top to bottom is a little more competitive. Do we have a play? How about this? We have a play in pole? A play in pole? A play in pole.
That's kind of funny. For the first hour, it's like, which is the tougher division? AFC East, AFC South. We keep that open for an hour. I'll hit that with a retweet.
Okay. One hour in, we'll give you the results of that pole. And the winner is now the fourth on the what's the toughest division in football. We're just punting on the NFC South?
I mean, how do we? Yes, we are. Okay.
AFC West punting? I mean. Yeah, we are. Okay. That's kind of.
Yeah, we are. Okay. Respectfully. But, you know. With all due respect. That West is kind of on lock.
Yeah, it's not just on lock, it's just you've got a rookie quarterback and then a Raiders team who is, you know, loaded defensively and has some weaponry on offense, but question marks a quarterback. I think we can safely say that. That's a fair assessment. Right. And those are two teams. You can't have that as the toughest division in football unless you say the Chiefs are so far and above that makes them the toughest division. I don't think you can do that. Well, I mean, so there's some truth to that statement.
No, I know that, but if you're talking about how many a division is, every team can win it and every team can go far by winning it, which is why the both Norths and the NFC West is in. I mean, of course you could chime in if you wish with a call to 844-204-RICH, but. All right.
Play and pull is out at Rich Eisen's show. All right. And I will hit that with a retweet. Denver division for 2024, AFC East, AFC South.
And you've already voted for the South. I imagine. Oh, let me do that right now.
You can. First in and tweet that out with an exclamation point. First in. First in.
First. Are you really? No. No.
I am, but I am. That's great that you created the poll. There's already one vote. Two votes.
By the way, South, two nothing. There you go. There's something wrong about voting for yourself on the poll. That's all right. Actually, hold on.
I am going to do it. It's 3-0. Yeah. Hey, listen. We'll take a break. Quinnen Williams of the New York, and we won't ask him about the play and pull. Let's not.
Quinnen Williams of the New York Jets, that defensive line, man. AFC East is now running away with it. Is that right? 30 votes. Oh, really? I like it.
I haven't even hit it with a retweet. That defensive line, man, for the Jets. If they get after it, and they don't even have Hassan Radek yet, they get after it, and the back end of the defense covers, it's going to be tough to move the ball on the Jets.
It really will be. And the question is going to be, how does Rodgers perform offensively behind that line? And who would know better about that line than Quinnen Williams?
He goes against him in practice all the time. So there's that question about the Jets. We're going to ask all our Jets questions of Quinnen Williams. All of them?
Every last one of them. I expect answers. Do you really? Yeah. Do you demand the truth? Can you handle this? I don't know. You guys might beat us.
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Right here, we're going to get Quinnen Williams, the big man in the center of the New York Jets defense. Coming up. I love it. I love it. In short order.
Rich, I also love it. Everybody still wants to play the win-loss. We're a week away from the season.
People still want to do it. Well, we have, I would say, so we're doing four more shows this week, and then we're doing, because we're off Labor Day, then we're doing three shows, including kickoff. Yeah. Tuesday, Wednesday. Thursday. Thursday.
Right? So that's seven more Rich Eisen shows before the win, well, we could still play win-loss game on Friday next week. It's just for any, not for the Chiefs and Ravens, for 30 NFL teams, and then the win-loss game is over.
Well, no one of them. Over. Over. Well, actually, the NFL season is the win-loss game. Well, you could still play Monday for Niners, Giants, Jets. Yeah.
Extended day. True. But I think we're not going to really want to take anybody's calls to play the win-loss game one last time. Now, they can't play after all the years.
We've got the entire NFL week one and college football talked about. There's got to be a hard out for this. Cut. Cut. Cut. Cut. Cut. Cut. Cut. Cut. Cut. Cut. Cut. Cut. Cut. Cut. Wow.
You've got fairly legs that are kind of locked in on a season. Yeah. You got a week left. You're done.
You got a week left to get the win loss thing. We got to wait that long to cut often. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Right. You don't get that long. Mike, you still have to do the Rams. I will do the Rams.
I have to do the phylogeny. I've actually given away only two games and I gave away both games. It feels like- Oh, you're still talking about, not the win-loss game, the December sales go-go thing- Oh, that one.
Oh, that one. By the way, I was looking secondary prices for San Francisco. I may have to reconsider. I told you, you were selling.
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And he did. It's just like, hey, let's get together. Let's have a drink. Let's go to lunch.
That's right, it's an LA thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll do it. We'll do it. We'll do the thing. Let's get together. I ain't coming up there. Let's get together.
And then we're not giving each other our information. No, we'll reach out. You know Rich, right? I'll get your number from him. Yeah.
But no, not Kat. My man was like, nah, I'm about this. That's difference between East Coast and West Coast living.
That's what I'm saying. Somebody does that to somebody in the East Coast and then they don't reach out. It's just like, it's your relationship is over. Yo, I thought you said you were gonna call me. Exactly, exactly. On the West Coast, it just brings people closer. I thought y'all was friends, baby. What happened? It's weird.
No, no, no, no. Let's go hang out. Like that's just that alone. It's like, oh, they wanna hang out. And then they don't call.
It's just like, it's expected. And it's just like, so all it is, is just the reach. It's kind of like those people that you have dinner or lunch with and they make the reach for the wallet, but don't actually bring it out. You know what I mean? They make the reach. They left it in the car. They make the reach.
And this? It's like the Geico commercial. Just gotta reach the check.
I got short arms and deep pockets. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Quinnen Williams, like, what's that? What is that?
What's that? Well, Quinnen knows he probably has to pay for lunch every time he goes out with someone. Well, if you wait till you see, cause I haven't really busted it out yet, but Quinnen appearing, he's got me some free Michigan gear. Oh, oh, rich.
Okay. Good stuff too. In honor of College Colors Day, back for its 20th anniversary. Let's get to him. He's from the New York Jets, one of the best in the business.
He's an old pro, don't you know? Quinnen Williams here on The Rich Austin Show. How are you, sir? I'm doing good. How you doing?
I'm doing better because first of all, you're terrific at what you do. And I always like having people who are terrific at what they do on this program, but you being on the show got me some free stuff from my alma mater. Look, for College Colors Day, they sent me a, look at this, look at this right here.
This is my school. Yes, sir. Now, next Friday, you gotta celebrate College Colors Day with that.
Oh yeah, it's exactly what I will be doing. Although I don't mean to antagonize you, you know, by bringing the Rose Bowl up right now from last year. You guys can get one out of the last, what, 14, 15?
I mean, I don't recall what you're talking about. I'm just talking about the most recent, you know, right here, but I guess that's what the spirit of College Colors Day is all about, right, Quinnen? Yes, sir.
Yes, sir, man. Just celebrate your team and just having fun with it. And no matter if it's football, basketball, any sport, man, you can go on collegecolorsday.com and buy some team gear, man, just celebrate every single day.
Cause I know I celebrate the best college in the world every single day. I could see it right now. That's what you're rocking right now, right? Yes, sir.
Okay, so let me ask you this before, you know, we move on to the professional part of it. How do you think Alabama's gonna fare in the Kalen DeBoer era right now for you? I think he's gonna do good, man. He always had an amazing offense when he was at Washington and the different things they did and development and process that they did with the quarterbacks and the receivers and different things like that. So him coming over to Alabama with a great quarterback and a great offensive line that they have and a great defense that they have, man, I don't think he's gonna do unbelievable. And we got a great fan base.
So having the support by the fans stuff is gonna be amazing, so. Well, I mean, cause you know, the general sense is now Texas is in and the SEC and Nick Saban's gone. So maybe this is the time to go get Alabama, Quinton.
You've heard that, I'm sure. Yeah, that's kinda how I was every single year when I was there, everybody wanted to beat Alabama, but it was pretty, pretty tough, so. What was the most upset you ever made Nick Saban, Quinton?
When was that for you? I was pretty cool, man. Me and Coach Saban was pretty cool. So I was one of those goody two shoes guys who did everything right on the field and off the field, so.
You never? So I kinda stayed on his good side. Never once during a game, during practice, did he just call you over and just, you know, you got a face full of coaching. One time he called me over, yeah. One time he called me over because at the time I played nose tackle at Alabama and nose tackle wasn't supposed to do certain things. And I was like, man, I kinda wanna get a sack also.
I can't get John Allen and all them all to sack. So I'm gonna do my own thing. So I kinda started doing my own thing a little bit and I started racking up a lot of sacks and Coach Saban just pulled me to the side. I was like, Q, you could be, it could work for you right here, but if it don't work for you right here, you're gonna be sitting over here with me.
So he kinda gave me those speeches all the time. About freelancing, is what you're saying? You did some freelancing?
Yeah, about freelancing. Oh. It's like if you do it and it don't work, you're gonna be sitting over here with me.
But until it start working, I think you should keep doing it. I see, I like that. Fantastic, very good. All right, so let's talk about the Jets this year, Quinnen, and you would have a front row seat to what I think Jets fans are hoping is in fact happening, which is a revamped, solidified, stout, offensive line. What are you seeing in practice from the new O line that the Jets have put together in the off season, Quinnen? Oh, it's been unbelievable, man.
It's been unbelievable. I was just talking with CJ Moses this morning about it, and I was like, man, don't it feel like them old Alabama days when there's so much competition, there's so much competitiveness, there's so much talent on the field at one time, and you feel like you're really getting better, and you feel like it's iron sharp as iron, and you feel like you really gotta watch them and break down and do different things to be the guy at practice. So we was just laughing and joking about it today, and you just see the talent they got, and then in joint practice, them getting a chance to go against a great defensive line like the Giants and stuff like that, and Carolina, you got a great defensive tackle over there at Carolina, and you got two great defensive tackles over there at Washington. So the test that they had these last three weeks and pre-season has been unbelievable to see those guys, man, just work real hard and just execute every single day and just get better every single day has been unbelievable to watch and a super great thing for me because I'm on the team with those guys. So give me a little bit more on that where you're talking to CJ Mosley saying it reminds you of the Alabama days because there's talent everywhere and how you need to be on your Ps and Qs for practice.
What do you mean by that, Quinnen? Just, you gotta, like, prime example, you're going against Tyron Smith every single day, the Hall of Fame left tackle. You're going against Aaron Rodgers, Hall of Fame quarterback. You're going against Breece Hall, probably top two, top three running backs in the NFL, man. You're going against Brayden Allen, the rookie, who runs extremely hard, passed down, and can run you over at any moment, and you're going against a great opposite line, man, Morgan Moses and ABT. You got Joe coming in his second year, and then you got John Simms that has been unbelievable. I'll be going against him. The whole training camp has been a battle every single day. You got Gary Winston on the outside, and then just different things like that. Allen Lazar has been balling, just different things like that every single day, man.
So just name those guys off the bat, man. It's going to be battles every single day, so. Well, in terms of battles, Quinnen, and again, I bring this up, not because I'm definitely not trying to stir it up, because I personally think it is good to see teammates sort of being animated, having conversations about the way they think practice should go and not. I think that's good, and there's a lot of comments about Rogers and Garrett Wilson having animated conversations during training camp and things of that nature. What's your perspective? What is, in fact, going on there, Quinnen?
I'm not on the opposite side of the ball, but my perspective, like we all, man, we all trying to win at the end of the day, and we all brothers at the end of the day. We all trying to get on the same page and those, and I feel like practice and joint practice and different things like that, it's time where you have those conversations. I'm like, what you see?
What you say, okay, I see this, I see that. Like, what's your favorite route? What's your favorite pass rush move?
What's your favorite move? Like, okay, you want to go inside with you? Like, and just get on the same page so when you're going against another opposition, you all can know each other, how each other feel, how each other see things, how each other main rhythms is and different things like that. So when you do good in the real game, you already know each other. Just the same thing with us as a defensive line.
We always have animated conversations about what each other feels like. Q, you gonna power rush this play? You gonna jab rush this play? Jermaine, you gonna spin this play? You gonna power this play? Or like Ken Log, like Ken Log, you want to power, you want to make a middle game?
Like, what you want to do? Like, and then we just all feed off each other. So it can all be like night and day when we get inside of a real game, so. So what is the expectation level here, do you think, for the Jets this year, Quentin? Because you can't really compare anything from last year at all because of the way things kind of fell apart offensively and then injury-wise.
How can this be quantified here? I think for us, the main thing, we just all keep the main thing, main thing, man. Get better every single day. And the objective is to win football games every single day. Like, do the things we can do on the field, off the field, with our bodies, with our minds, with our technique, with our small details to win football games every single week, every single day. So that's our expectation is to just get better every single day so we can win football games.
I got it. I just remember where I kind of felt where you were beginning to start asserting yourself as an All-Pro in the NFL and starting to win football games that Jets fans weren't used to seeing. And that was in Green Bay, in Lambeau Field a couple of years ago, where basically, you know, you turned Aaron Rodgers into Santa Claus.
You kept sitting in his lap. And I'm just wondering if you've ever talked to Rodgers about that, or has he ever brought it up to you in any way, shape, or form at any point in time? He brought it up a couple of times. I just like brushed it off because he is a Hall of Fame quarterback, and I don't want him to get high about us talking about something that happened in the past and twitches at practice. So I kind of laugh it off all the time. He always be like, man, Q, you know, you hit me the hardest in my career when y'all came to Lambeau. And I just laugh it off all the time, but he's an unbelievable person, unbelievable teammate, man, and an unbelievable quarterback, especially the way he thinks, the way he go by his work, the way he work in the weight room and on the field, man.
It's been unbelievable to have him, so. What do you mean? What do you mean the way he works and how you pick up from that?
Please elaborate on that, if you don't mind. Oh, just his main ribs, man. You see him in the weight room.
He's squatting four or five and doing different things in the weight room, man. And you just see like, man, that's a 40-year-old quarterback just getting after it every single day, coming in early every single day, last one to leave every single day. And that's the reason why he's a Hall of Famer because the way he works, the way he treat people, the way he analyze the game himself, and it just spreads to the whole team because you got a guy like that doing it every single day and everybody wants to be a Hall of Fame-calibre person in their position. So it's like, okay, but he's a Hall of Fame quarterback and that's how he work. Okay, I'm gonna work the same exact way.
I'm gonna treat people the same exact way and I'm gonna go buy things the same exact way, so. So you're saying the first two digits of the triple digits he's squatting matches his age. Is that what you're saying?
The four-zero is what he's doing in the weight room? Quentin, is that what you're saying? Oh, I think I believe that's what he is, though. I believe that.
I believe that's what he is. Okay, I like it. Well, what do you think is gonna happen, last one for you here, Monday Night Football?
Last game, week one, right? There you are, you're in the tunnel. You're in the tunnel out there in Santa Clara, California. What's gonna be going on in that tunnel, do you think, Quentin Williams, for you, for the Jets? For me?
Yeah. For me, it's gonna all be about execute, man. Putting in the work right now and putting in all the work that I gotta do when it come down to king condition, getting on the same page with every single batter on the defense, every single batter on the D line, and then just closing my eyes in that tunnel, man, and just executing.
All the work has been put in, all the work has been done, just going out there and putting on the field. Well, it's coming Friday, College Colors Day. Go to collegecolorsday.com to get deals and all kinds of gear to celebrate your college colors. And anything works out for Kalen DeBoer in Alabama, as you say, you know who you can really tip your cap to for that, Quentin, because there's one institution of football higher learning that retired Nick Saban and then beat Kalen DeBoer to send him to take over for Nick Saban, Quentin Williams. Michigan.
That's right, one and the same. So you're welcome in honor of College Colors Day. Michigan being a Georgia school, Michigan being a Georgia school, man, I'm a Michigan fan also.
Okay, I like it, very good. I'm a new Georgia fan. Okay, just letting you know you're welcome on behalf of College Colors Day, if everything works out in Alabama for the former Washington coach, okay?
Yes, sir. Take care of yourself, Quentin Williams. Appreciate the time. Good luck this season. I'm calling Jets and Vikings in London. I will see you across the pond, week five.
Okay, see you there. Take care, that's Quentin Williams, one of the best in the business, all pro defensive tackle, the Jets, right here in the Rich Eisen Show. All right, learned a lot about the Jets right there. Good, learned a lot about the Jets. Yeah, Aaron Rodgers is squatting 405 pounds.
Woo, cool. Yeah. Hey, listen, man, if he's squatting 405, then that first hit he takes on Monday night should not, you know, knock him out for the season. He didn't take a hit last year, Rich, that's the thing.
He did, what are you talking about? Yeah, he fell down and it went pop. He fell down? He fell down. Are you kidding me? Leonard Floyd fell on it.
Do we have a photograph? This guy over here, what is this? What are you gonna turn into saying, everything's AI now, doesn't exist anymore?
Are you really going down that road? Dude, what do you mean he fell down? He fell down and it went pop. He didn't get, like, wrecked.
He didn't get clean, he was clocked clean. Oh, you wanna, before I put the photographic evidence up to you, I'll give you, I feel like, I feel like I'm with my kids right now. Do you wanna take one last try at it? No. Dude. We need to see him play football.
I know. He should have played in the pre-season. That one, I'm gonna say no to. Absolutely not.
He doesn't need the pre-season. Well. I mean, yeah, he got dragged to the ground, for sure. No, there's one where you could see, like, his foot.
No, I'm sorry. Here I am, like, barking. There it, come on, look at that. You can see the bulge, you can see it pop. Literally one arm takes him down. Oh my God. He's wrapped with two, this guy over here.
I'm pulling for you guys. You know what just broke, actually? News? No, no, no, I'm gonna have my fun, this guy over there. The Patriots just cut the guy who got them Drake May.
Yeah, thanks for your service. Chad Rylan. There's the door. Chad Rylan. Oh, Chad, oh, I thought you meant Zappi. No. No, no, no, no.
Oh, he made that. Bailey Zappi got him in position for Caleb Williams. Chad Rylan cost us Caleb Williams. Cost us Caleb Williams.
Brian, Bailey Zappi and the rest of the team were following your memo advice to lose every game to get Caleb Williams. They were doing great. Up until. They were on it. A Thursday night in Pittsburgh. Yeah. Where Bailey was Zappi-ing all over the place.
The two stupidest wins maybe in Patriots history. He got cut today, unfortunately for. Again, the cut day, I'm not making fun of cut day. It's a very sad day.
It is a very serious thing. It's a very tough day for a long time. But Chad Rylan, who hit one from damn near midfield with no time left. After missing everything. In Denver.
The whole month of December, he couldn't make a kick. He had the memo. And then in Denver on Christmas Eve.
I know, brutal. I'm at the mic. You're there. Kurt Warner's at the mic.
He made one from way downtown fruitcake. Bang. And that turned out to be Bill Belichick's final win as Patriots head coach. But just enough.
Did you get that memo? To give the Patriots the third overall selection. So however, Caleb Williams might be. And however, Jayden Daniels might look. If Drake May turns out to be your guy. You can thank Chad Rylan.
I think Drake May is gonna be great. Also would have been cool to have Caleb Williams. I hear you.
When I say welcome to the rest of us. This is the stuff I was going back and forth about. Yeah, you know, Trevor Lawrence would have been nice. But maybe Zach Wilson. But the thing is, Rich.
Drake May's better than Zach Wilson. And I say this with all due respect. Oh no, no.
There's nothing. TJ's already shaking his head. There's nothing respectful that's about to come out of this man's mouth. With all due respect.
Let me grab my tea here. Not even close to anything in the remote vicinity of the galaxy of respectful is about to come out. If respect was in Australia, what he's gonna say is like on the other side of the. Yeah, the Greenland. The Greenland. That's how far away.
The North friggin' pole. All right, we've now set it up. What are you about to say? You'll never be like us. Because we have six rings and you don't.
I don't think that's disrespectful. What I think that is is factual. It's factual. 13 parades since 2001. It's a lot of rings. But they're done. It's been a good time.
Yeah, you're not gonna. But when I say welcome to the rest of us, this is what the rest of fan bases do. Which is like, oh, we could have had this guy as our savior, but instead we got this guy and let's hope that guy is just as good as the savior that we thought we had. Lots of rationalize. The Portland Trail Blazers probably feel that all the time. God, why would they trade away our best defensive player for a third round draft choice right on the eve of a football season when we gotta at least support the guy we just drafted? That's the sort of stuff you didn't say for 20 years.
No, everyone wanted to come to our team. No, I'm not saying what happened in the 20, what I'm saying is when I said when Brady left to go to Tampa, honestly, as we celebrate our 10th anniversary coming up in October and my ability to see things. Sometimes I don't. You're saying you're visionary. If we're taking like the top five things that I saw coming, one of the top five is to tell you welcome to the rest of us. Boy, was I right.
It took a long time though to get to the rest of us. Coaches, despite how great they are, are second guessed. You start seeing like, wow, that's an Achilles heel that our coach had that we never talked about. That sort of stuff.
Why did they make that decision on fourth down? That sort of stuff. But look at this run that he had. He's gonna be able to eat off of that probably for the rest of his life. Who? I don't know.
He's doing that already, with all due respect. We'll take a break. I'm living off of three 30 years ago. We'll take a break.
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Phone lines are lit. We got some win-loss games going down. So much happening. What are you guys talking about over there? Nah, nah, nah. Oh, nothing. Nothing. We got a presale offer for the LA Bowl hosted by Gronk. Oh. You wanna go, Rich?
No, I don't. As season ticket holders, we get perks to early ticket access to events held at SoFi. Maybe Syracuse might play in that game.
That sounds like a Syracuse bowl game. Oh no, we're making the playoff. Oh, really? Yeah.
I didn't know that. The schedule's pretty easy. This just in? Yeah, yeah.
Oh, it doesn't matter. The schedule's pretty easy. We're making the playoff.
I didn't know that. We're making the playoff. Really? Yeah.
No kidding. They're gonna win. When you say playoff, the college football playoff? The college football playoff, yeah.
Oh, where the 12 best teams make it? Yeah. Oh, really? Yeah.
Huh. Get on board. The bandwagon's filling up. This weekend versus Ohio.
Get ready. What bandwagon? There's a bandwagon? Yeah. I didn't know that. Otto the Orange is driving it. Otto? That's Otto. Oh.
And we're coming right out here to the Rose Bowl for a quarter final. The Orange is named Otto. Oh, I didn't know that. Otto the Orange. Yes, Otto the Orange. You know that. I didn't know that.
It's easily the most famous college football mascot. Oh, is it really? Stop. Huh.
Otto the Orange. You want to chime in on this? No. Uh. I mean, Florida State's already, you know. They're out. You're 0-1. They're out. But we're not out.
That's the thing. They're out. I can tell you with 100% certainty, Florida State is not making the playoff. Ooh. Well, you can't tell me anything with 100% certainty.
Yes, I can. That is obvious. They're obviously not going to make it. Okay, well, we can clip this and we'll play it when the playoffs start. So are you saying Syracuse makes it, Florida State doesn't?
Oh, that's more likely. His schedule's pretty good. Here's the deal. As long as Penn State gets... Why are you mentioning schedules? Because they have a good schedule that can put them where they need to be. Mike is now the schedule.
Thank you, Mike. Do you play Florida State? Me and Chris went through one day. You play Florida State? I don't think we play anybody. Oh, okay, there you go.
Back on the Rich Eisen Show, 844-204-RICH is the number to dial. In eight days, we're going to Kansas City. Nine days, the season kicks off. 10 days, there's a game in Brazil.
12 days is when week one hits. I mean, this is insane. And one of the marquee matchups of week one that nobody's talking about, which means it's not a lot of people's marquees, is what's down the street from us.
Jim Harbaugh's home opener for the Los Angeles Chargers and his ability to sell soap in this town will be put on display right away because no team that comes in to SoFi owns the stadium more than when the Raiders come in today. Factual. I am not lying. I am not lying. This is the honest truth. 100%, this is it.
And so what happens? Now, it would have been more difficult had Easton Stick been the starting quarterback. But it looks like it's Justin Herbert because he followed Mike Del Tufo's roll your football, your plantar fascia problem on a baseball, whatever. I imagine the Chargers have a better medical plan than whatever you got cooked up using baseball. I stopped there on the way home, Rich.
That's on the way home. But that said, it was all on the line. Who knew? When Herbert wasn't even playing the final preseason game, all on the line in the Metroplex, when Justin Herbert and a bunch of Chargers and Dan Fouts' wife strolled onto an elevator and it got stuck for a couple hours. And thanks to the first responders, they got out. Apparently though, one of the reasons why they were able to make it despite the insufferable heat on this elevator, one of the reasons why they're apparently able to make it out was through the leadership of Justin Herbert, according to his head coach, Jim Harbaugh. And this soundbite reads, if you read it, which I did first, like the Onion wrote it.
Okay? When you hear it and you see it, it is an unmistakable Harbaugh file, the Onion. Hit it.
Sometimes people that are standing on third base think they hit a triple, but they didn't. The Harbaugh Files. The remarkable things that came out of it was to a guy, Tarheeb, young rookie players, like, Justin Herbert's a leader. I mean, he was a rock, kept everybody calm. And Jerry Fouts told me the same thing, you know, pulled me aside after they got out and just how great Justin was. And everybody, I mean, everybody kept their poise and just, you know, get in those situations and it's a test of wills, you know? And I was proud of each of the guys and the two women that were on that elevator.
I mean, that's a win. You know, you feel good about yourself. You were challenged and it was a test of will and you pull it down, you know, or pull it in.
One of the two. But, and it was hot, you know, as each person came off the elevator. I mean, sweating and, you know, some had the shirt off. I mean, Justin Herbert, his hair was a little wet, but his shirt was completely dry. That's another thing that blew me away. The guy is just a beast. So, yeah, I mean, who's got it better than, yeah, those guys that were on that elevator.
Welcome to Los Angeles and back to the National Football League, Jim. I'm not gonna ask you if you think he staged it. I'm gonna ask you, do you think- What do you mean staged it? Do you think he was jealous that he wasn't locked in the elevator with them? Um, maybe deep down. Maybe deep down.
Has anyone been, I have actually had it, been stuck in an elevator. Excuse me though. Oh gosh. Hold on a second.
Forget about that. Oh, that's not fun. You saw him firsthand at the run. You see that, that's not an ad. That's him. That's him.
I know, but- Like literally, if you were standing on the field, if this had happened the day before, and you were standing on the field with Cage, as you were, and you got a chance to chat with him, he would have sounded just like that. And you know it. I know because he's from another planet. Correct. But in the best way possible. Right, that's what I'm saying. It's the most entertaining possible. Right, it's great.
But that's also a good coaching tool. Hey, I'm going to get the Dallas PD in on this, and the building. I'm going to get some guys in an elevator.
He's already accused the jet of Rogers, wasn't hit when he had his Achilles popped. And now he's going full like tinfoil hat here. What's happening to this guy over there? Pulling the power when the elevator's hit. That's what happens when you're in a fantasy draft that takes nine and a half hours to complete. I'm still recovering. It gives you a lot of time to think. You lose your mind.
It gives you a lot of time to think. What I'd like to ask in honor of Jim Harbaugh's very keen and insightful observation about the elevator as a metaphor and the actions of his quarterback as a window into the soul. He called it a test of wills. Okay, a testimony.
His shirt was completely dry. Which quarterback, who's the best system elevator quarterback? Who do you want to have in an elevator?
Great question. You want to be stuck in the National Football League. Because you want someone tall enough But not too big.
To get you through that, to help you up, to get you through the hole that you're going to need to be taken out of. Possibly. But you don't want to be too big. You don't want to be like Anthony Richardson. Right. Because he's too big. He's too wide.
Correct. But you also need someone strong enough and tall enough. And you got to have the neck up ability and the calmness in the pocket. Well, neck up. We're talking Davis Mills territory now.
Well, that would help you reach the ceiling as well. All right, so Kyler Murray, Bryce Younger out. Because if Davis, you know, put Mills, put you on his shoulders, you're getting closer to the exit. Josh Allen. Kyler Murray, Bryce Younger out. They have to be.
Unfortunately, sorry. I love Josh Allen in this situation. Got it right? Mike, I love Josh Allen in here. Can't have Lamar Jackson because he'd need to go to the bathroom. And so we can't have that in the elevator.
If it's like two hours. MVP's out, black and gold. Here we go. Nah, he would tell you, he would try and keep you. He would really keep vibes high.
He would keep vibes high. But after like 45 minutes, you're like, dude, we're stuck. Can you just stop it with the positive talk? Okay.
What do you say, let's ride. All right, so you got to have somebody that's not overly positive. Right, not overly. How would Dak be under the pressure? Dak would be great. How would Dak be here? He'd be all in. I think. Well, they're all in. Everybody's in.
You're in an elevator. I'm going to tell you, though, the guy I would want would be Josh Allen. Josh Allen. He grew up on a farm. So you figure he kind of knows how to fix stuff.
I would imagine tractors, things of that nature. He's probably very handy. So yeah, I would definitely want to have him. He's positive, he's large, but not too big.
So he could pull himself up in the shaft, but you know. I also like Purdy's legs. You saw Purdy's legs right now, though. Purdy's diesel now.
Yeah. I do love Herbert. Tall, never seen that guy sweat. He doesn't talk much. I didn't know what he sounds like.
Apparently. That was one of the things that Harbaugh was marveling at, that he came out not sweating. Hand is still, he'd be like, oh, we're in this elevator.
Cool, let me just try to get us out. But then you'd want Kyler in there, because he don't take up a lot of space. You know what I mean? He's on the small side.
So maybe if you need a smaller hand, the wrench in there to connect the wire, like a huge hand. Are we overlooking Mahomes again? I mean, he could probably do everything. Are we overlooking Mahomes? The elevator would start up again. Yeah, Mahomes would find you.
You know what's better in an elevator than Mahomes is the flag football guy. Whoosh. Whoosh. Whoosh could do it. You want him in there.
Yeah, we want Whoosh in there, even though he's fast. I think Josh Allen's the guy, don't you think? Josh Allen feels like the MVP. Like on a power rankings list of quarterbacks you want to be stuck in an elevator with the most. Allen and Herbert are right there. Are kind of neck and neck. Yeah, one and one B. He grew up on a 3,000 acre farm, guys.
This is why you take in the Rich Eisen show for this cogent, important analysis. He's too big. Big Dom's too big.
Big Dom's too big. Can't get him out of that hole. Everyone would just be criticizing Tua if he were in the elevator. Yeah, Tua.
I can't just. Well, Brian Flores told him he's terrible in an elevator. Tua is just terrible in an elevator. But McDaniel told him, he wants, he's- Give him hugs. In grubs.
Lots of hugs. Again, but you want somebody who's great in the pocket, who's not phased by anything that's going on, who stands tall. Well, we know Tua's good in the pocket. Right? Quick release. Okay. You gotta, you know, you gotta have that calmness, but toughness, and stature, and leadership abilities. C.J.
Stroud would be good. No, no, yeah. Well, he might be one of the best young quarterbacks in an elevator. I think Rogers would just be talking about the conspiracy of building a young, and the police in on it, and then after a while, he'd be like, all right, bro, I get it. He's right, right? You're not wrong.
Listen to a podcast. But you probably wouldn't want to be in the elevator with Will Levis either, because he's jacked, right? So he's probably eating a lot of supplements, drinking a lot, eating a lot of mayo. Well, it's gotta come out the other end.
The gas comes out. You don't want to be stuck in an elevator with someone who's just- Gardner Minshew, yes or no. Vibes would be super high. Yeah, like you'd have fun. But you don't want a rookie quarterback in there, I'm sorry.
Sorry, rookies are out. Well, cousins, we don't know what his Achilles is gonna handle right now. That's right. He'd be sitting on one leg trying to like- Yeah, it'd be tough. By the way, though, we're overlooking the most obvious. If things start to get high and you're a little nervous, who other than Joe Burrow to keep everything cool? Aw, Joe.
He's cool. But he's coming off that hand injury. We can't have it. Yeah, we can't have that. We can't have it. There you go.
What a segment. I'm not self-aware, I refuse to be self-aware. I don't even like mirrors at all, which you can probably tell from my appearance. I don't have a crazy high IQ or I really don't have that many skills. I would say my main skill is I believe my instincts. I don't hesitate to follow my instincts, ever. The extent that I have, I've gotten in trouble. The Sean Ryan Show on YouTube or wherever you listen.
