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Layers of Iberfluss is our team name. Earlier on the show, actor Rob Riggle, chief's chairman and CEO Clark Hunt. Coming up Emmy award-winning actor Eric Stonestreet. And now it's Rich Eisen. That's correct everybody. It's our number three. Welcome back to the Rich Eisen Show live from Kansas City at the Total Wireless studio.

Get unlimited data that never slows you down for less than thirty dollars a month. That's the new Total Wireless. We are two hours into our first day of our three-day residency here in Kansas City. Home of the two-time defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs and also home to the Thursday night kickoff between the Ravens and the Chiefs on NBC. Something that you can catch right here on the Roku portal on Thursday night and then comes the Friday night kickoff to the international series as you've got the Green Bay Packers taking on the Philadelphia Eagles. That's in Brazil and then game the first week of the football season for all the Sunday games hit and then the Monday nighter. It's just going to be all kinds of awesome. Chris Brockman and TJ Jefferson are here with me in Kansas City Eric Stonestreet's going to join us in just a couple minutes time right here.

You at 844-204-rich being the number to dial. Great times with Rob Riggle in our number one and the chairman and CEO the owner of the Kansas City Chiefs Clark Hunt came by and hung out with us in our number two. And we're just keeping an eye on everything going on in the National Football League.

Monitoring. And and it's important to see Jamar Chase at practice for the Cincinnati Bengals today. However he has not gotten his contract and we will know Jamar Chase has gotten his contract not by him being back at practice. Sorry to say that's not going to be a tell-tale sign that he's back at practice because he was back at practice a couple weeks ago too.

Yeah then he wasn't. Nothing then he was gone again. Yeah and it was from you know Zach Taylor the coach is like you know my bad to say this is a good sign or that we're close.

It's day to day it's fluid whatever. You will know Jamar Chase has signed his new contract not by going on social media and seeing one of our terrific information men and women in the National Football League world um sending it out. You will know Jamar Chase has signed a new contract when you hear the sound of velcro ripping open because that's the wallet of Mike Brown in the Cincinnati Bengals front office. That's that's the noise that it makes. He's got come on if you're like wait a minute what's that noise at large that loud velcro noise.

He paid Joe Burrow. And when you heard velcro noise then. Like the pope. Instead of white smoke you hear the velcro. You know he's got a velcro wallet and a swatch.

Hold on hold on. Hey swatches were the move back in the day. I'm aware of that. He's 89 years old. He's got a velcro wallet. Well if that's the case he's rocking jam shorts remember those?

Yeah. You know and so that's that's the deal with and there he is. Now this is him back at practice just walking with his helmet. This is the proof. That's the proof. He's in full pads.

Okay. He's got his helmet. Look at him run.

He ran up the hill. Look at him run right there. That that that that looks like a guy who can't wait to get to practice. Yeah.

Which might mean there's a good sign that he's having good conversations. That's what I'm saying. Well you also know how this works you know that you even heard that with uh with Lynch John Lynch when things are getting a little bit dicey with Brandon Aiyuk it's a guy's got to be here right? He's got to get on the field. At some point you got to play.

At some point you got to go play. Right. Well the Bengals have the have the Patriots in town on Sunday so they could wait till week two. They're fine. Oh what? Come on.

There's no disrespect. Every survivor pool entry in the world is Cincinnati. Is the Bengals this week right? Boy they could upset. That's what I'm saying.

There's always one wonky week one result. That's right. And and so you're are you calling Jamar Chase their immunity idol? That's what I was saying. I I said that yesterday and you guys really gave me a lot of pushback. It was an overreaction Monday subject matter. That's what we do sometimes. Upset alert.

Well this is why it's important to know this information. Yeah. Right now. Because it's time for us to predict the American football American football conference north division. We waited to have the north predicted and the west predicted in our first two shows here in Kansas City.

You know why? Because the kings of the north last year and the kings of the west last year are playing each other on Thursday night. We're not just spitballing here. We have a plan.

We come up with a plan and we execute the plan. Yes. So it's now time for division predictions presented by Lowes. And here we go. Chris Brockman you are first.

Oh all right. Predicting the AFC north which you have said multiple times on this program. We'll get three teams in the playoffs just like it did last year. When Joe Flacco led the Browns.

Yeah. And the only team that didn't make it was Jake Browning's Bengals. Mason Rudolph led the Steelers and the defending MVP led the Ravens.

What do you have for 2024? I think both norths are the two best divisions in football. I think they're going to get five combined NFC, AFC. Maybe two only come out of the AFC.

Not sure. But I think it's the Ravens and the Bengals at the top. All due respect to the champs. Gotta keep them at number one.

They got Derek Henry. We didn't say any more. I mean come on. We're gonna see.

We're gonna see that tomorrow night. I like the Bengals number two. Jamar Chase will be back out there. Joe Burrow like you said Rich. He could be MVP this season. Yes sir. I don't see a scenario where Pittsburgh wins it and I just look at the quarterback situation.

It's a great unknown for them. And I know Deshaun Watson is coming off of an injury. But he was playing really well before he got hurt last year.

Five and one in the games he played before he went out. And I just like Cleveland a little bit better. They're third. TJ Jefferson your AFC north predictions please. Pretty close. Pretty aligned with what Chris has.

You know I like to start from the bottom and go up. I've got the Browns finishing in fourth. Not because I don't think they'll be good. Oh my god your friend Nate's gonna be so pissed at you. Yeah my buddy Nathan Zagura no disrespect. Remember last year I predicted that all four teams from the north would make the playoffs.

And then for 12 weeks I looked like TJ Thomas. I think this again this is a tough division. They all don't like each other.

They all beat the crap out of each other. I got the Browns finishing fourth. I got the Steelers coming in third because I couldn't put them last or else I wouldn't be able to go home again. And then I got the Bengals finishing number two and I got the Ravens winning the division. All right uh so in terms of my AFC north predictions um I am with you Chris despite how much I do like the changes that they made in their offensive coordinator and I do like their defense very much.

Yes. And I think Patrick Queen being added to the Steelers defense is huge huge but once again I have taken this approach for three straight years with um uh a guy who I would consider a friend because he everybody who meets him considers him a friend but for three straight years I've said I need to see it with Russell Wilson and I still need to see it again. So I am putting the Steelers in fourth place in this division because the Browns have a championship defense sir and I need to see it from Deshaun I know you said Deshaun Watson was five and one. He didn't look all I mean win-loss for a quarterback at one thing. He was terrific in Baltimore in beating the Ravens.

Terrific. The Browns have a great defense. I can't see them finishing in last place with that defense. I can't it was tough it was a tough.

I just can't. So I'm putting them there at um at three and the reason why um our crack staff has not put the uh predictions up on the screen yet is because I'm choosing the Bengals to win the division. Even though I put the Ravens higher than the Bengals right now in my power rankings into the season I do believe that by the end of the day the Bengals will win this division. I think the Bengal all the Bengals have to do is just beat the Browns man yeah because they they usually they can't and it's this is the year to try and do it do it do it do it do it okay this is the year for the Bengals to do that and if they do what I do believe they they they do which is you know beat the Browns and I think Joe Burrow is gonna have an MVP season.

So I take the Bengals to return to the top of the AFC north the Ravens are right there I mean I think it's going to be neck and neck right to the end of the right to the end of the season Browns and then Steelers maybe all four teams do make it that would be wild where there's no other wild card teams from any other division but the AFC north that's how good this division is but I do think they kind of knock each other off and the Bengals are the ones who eventually emerge with the Ravens still making it maybe the Browns do so those were our division predictions presented by Lowe's official partner of the National Football League it's easier to make the right calls with the right team so kick off your next home improvement project with Lowe's Lowe's knows home improvement so does our next guest he knows it all he knows Kansas City he knows the Chiefs he knows he knows the funny he knows what it's great to be be a great human our great friend Eric Stonestreet is here and he's about to join us next on the Rich Eisen Show live in Kansas City he's making his way to the couch so he can get a nice shot of him we treat him the best we possibly can ladies and gentlemen yeah Eric Stonestreet good to see Eric good to see you brother no you come on up here Eric Stonestreet is next right here on the Rich Eisen Show this episode is brought to you by FX's The Old Man starring Jeff Bridges and John Lithgow the hit show returns as the stakes get higher and more secrets are uncovered the former CIA agent sets off on his most important mission to date to recover his daughter after she's kidnapped FX's The Old Man premieres September 12th on FX stream on Hulu say goodbye to complicated expensive and uncertain shipping and say hello to an advantage with USPS ground advantage shipping from the United States Postal Service every business faces challenges but shipping shouldn't be one of them so keep things simple with clear upfront pricing and no unexpected surcharges for Saturday 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awesome I can't believe you're here I know I can't believe I'm here too and in this spot the beautiful uh the Harlow here as soon as I called you up and I'm like hey this is the place that we're looking at you're like that that's great fine go ahead yeah my friend back there he had his wedding reception here and now he's divorced well it's not the fault of the place no no no probably not I'm sure you'll be on the air for many years I mean how long were they married okay it's so awesome that you're here and listen look I've teased you I've talked about it on Twitter I've texted you you cannot come to Kansas City without having a special surprise okay something that we value we love as Kansas Citians and you know Rich we've been friends for how many years now a long time a long time at least 15 years yeah yeah and I'm not going to bring you the second best I'm not going to bring you the third best I'm going to bring you the best of the best okay so having said that yes please summon my surprise oh okay we're getting right to it whoa what do we got oh my god it's not it's not me it's Veatch wow fantastic how about that how about this because I've texted this man to say come on the show we have a story okay please pull that right in front of you right there hold on a minute uh that good to see you hold on great audience about to come back we got a lot of moving parts now that's a surprise right the best of the best that Kansas City loves we're back on the Rich Eisen Show radio network I'm sitting at the Rich Eisen Show desk furnished by Grainger with supplies and solutions for every industry Grainger has the right product for you call clickrainger.com or just stop by Eric Stonestreet is here you said you brought the best of Kansas City right we thought it was barbecue but instead it's the general manager of the it was a gracious intro but what happened was he called me yes and he said look I gotta bring a guest out to Rich Eisen and Henry Winkler bailed on me he was like can you do me a solid and just run up and I was like for you man anything so no it was funny because he he hit me about coming on and then I think an hour later I texted you texted me about coming on yeah so I showed Eric the screenshot he's like you know what are you gonna do I said well I'm gonna decline Rich's invite for a show and accept your invite it is better it's better thank you this stuff that's pretty cool man that's awesome well I I just said man you gotta come out like I figured you'd reach out to him but I thought it would be fun if uh if he was he was uh the surprise for the show dude and I heard you already had Clark on yes we did I'm sure that went well so it did very it did go well yeah I still have a job yeah yeah at NFL network I haven't gotten a text or anything like that but great to see you guys what do you want to talk about football he's like I don't I don't have my questions for the general manager it's all good yeah how did you guys when did you guys first meet let's start with that because I know you guys are you guys are tight I know that well here's the deal Mitch Schwartz member of the tribe as you know one of your favorite stories ever he was like dude I feel like you and Veach are gonna be friends this was years ago and I said well you know I've never met him yeah and I have a specific memory I don't know if I've ever told you this but of when you were hired it was during big slick you very well could have been there yeah we were loading into the vans at the hotel and it came off that you know Doris had been fired and or let go and hired Brett Veach and I'm like Brett Veach who is Brett like googling and I was like all right well this is a day that I'll remember forever and so Schwartz had said that and then we bonded and clicked over his daughter being a fan of the toy box I was at the Chiefs game and he was like hey will you meet my daughter real quick and then we became friends the cool thing about Eric is when you meet people that are fans of the chief I mean it's like one of those things where you can differentiate between a fan and a real fan yes and so like quickly after we got to know each other I mean he was sending me texts asking about practice squad players oh yeah some guys I didn't even know about how soon upon meeting you did he show you the phone the picture of him as a fan went back in the day on his phone in the end zone yeah yeah that's like the first day that's like the first day that's his intro to every cheese fan because it shows that these no he's it's real it's not legit you're like you're legit you're legit well yeah I mean and and we've had this run and I'll tell you the other you know Brett V story that for me personally and Lindsay personally and for you tomorrow night personally yes sir literally this man said to me four well four going on four years ago what are your what's your seat situation at Arrowhead and I said I don't have seats like I you know the hunts are gracious enough to offer me tickets every once in a while you're going to want to get seats for the next 10 years so Lindsay and I called and we're like I mean literal quote you're going to want you're going to want seats for the next 10 years why would you why did you say that fulfilling your general manager obligations I would you're generally managing Eric Stonestreet yeah that's what you're doing right there he said you're not going to want to miss a game with Patrick Mahomes you're not going to want to miss a game and so that year we got a suite I flew back from it was the last year Modern Family I flew back for every game on Sunday I didn't miss a game that season in Arrowhead we went on of course to win the Super Bowl that year and I thank him all the time for spending all that money of mine but yeah he called his shot dude you saw you you saw it right so again because I asked Clark Hunt when was the first time you met Patrick Mahomes and he said there was some sort of a Super Bowl party or something like that and Lee Steinberg kind of put the two of them together because he had already you know had heard Mahomes was on the Chiefs radar screen or the Chiefs already had him on the radar screen and he basically said it was you yeah he said it was you who saw Mahomes and you had worked on Mahomes for 18 months so what did you see out of him well I got I got coached up right by the great Andy Reid and and um it's just one of those things I think you know when you sit there and you evaluate tape all day every day for a career the good ones are going to stand out and then the great ones are just going to take your breath away so to speak so you know when you start watching his tape and I think I told the story a few times you know I think I was actually starting off watching an offensive lineman for Texas Tech and Pat wasn't even you know a name that was declaring for the draft and right watching this game and you're like oh that's a pretty cool throw and then you get on to say that's really interesting and then all of a sudden you're not watching the lineman you're just watching the quarterback and then you know one game turns into two games turns into a season and then um it was almost like one of those things that you think looking back on it that it was it was supposed to happen because it was like during that time when coach Reed walked by the office and I don't think there was anybody in that day and he just kind of said like what are you doing and I jokingly said at the time oh I'm just watching the next quarterback and it and it just so happened you know to work out that we ended up drafting him and and here we are and I mean it's crazy to think all the success we've had but I mean it's been a blessing and um I think we all thought Pat would be good but I mean this is next level and I mean I think you realize that you're around greatness every day obviously not just with the quarterback but with the coach as well so it's just been a perfect um marriage of a coach quarterback that just clicks and it clicked from day one and it's just it's so rare to find a generational talent but somebody who's also generationally enriching not just to himself but everyone around him the halo effect of pretty much everyone around him um and you legitimately did say to Andy Reed that's a this I'm watching our next quarterback what do you say to you well I listen again this is like in the spring so he was like yeah yeah yeah I got you I got you and he kind of just peeked at the tape for a second and um walked away and then it followed up with a um a follow you start sending those videos from your phone and you're sending it to him and yeah so I started sending him a bunch of those and it was funny because we got to like December and I was on the road I wasn't in the office I was on the road scouting yeah and I sent him like maybe four to six clips of him in his most recent game and mind you coach is prepping for a game week yes and Pat Mahomes he doesn't even know it's not on his radar and he shot me a text back like dude cut it out like we'll talk about this after the season you know and um no kidding but I mean I I just think it it was a slow build up and you know he got a little annoyed and then after the season once coach started to digest the film I mean he fell in love with them and then really I mean everyone did and then we brought him into the facility and um coach is known to have like his quarterback academy type deal where he brings him in and we bring draft prospects in and they spend two three hours with the coach and most of the time it's not bad because it's a lot of stuff and I remember when he came out of that quarterback meeting um in his pre-draft interview I mean coach was like this kid nailed this thing and I think it's still one of the things that people I think they still get enamored by the highlight throws and the arm strength and the athleticism and I think people think he's smart but he is on that level of you know the Mannings and the Bradys like his IQ and I think that's when you have both of those um traits it's it's super deadly and I think he doesn't get enough credit for how smart he is. Well the deadliest part too in terms of the combination is the red ass that I think the the quarterback series showed to a group of fans that I I don't think people were quite aware of that sort of Jordan, Kobe, Brady, Tiger-esque, Curry-esque um the Holmes-esque right I mean yeah I mean you got to include him now Eric you really do and when did you see that did that when was that revealed to you? Well I mean the Iowa State or I mean Kansas State versus Texas Tech.

That was to you yeah revealed to you. Yeah I remember the deep balls for there and I had no idea he would be on the chief the radar of the Chiefs but I'm like damn this guy is freaking great my dad talked about him in college too. Actually the last game I went to see him play um before he declared they were I think they played at Iowa State so I drove up to Ames to see him play. In the snow? In the snow I mean there might have been 14,000 people there it was brutally cold and both teams were not bowl eligible and they got off to a horrific start and I think Pat hurt her shoulder and it might have been like 34 to 6 at halftime and I'm thinking to myself well this kid's going to declare we kind of know that now and it's 34-6 at halftime um both teams aren't going to bowl he has his draft future ahead of him and his pro future ahead of him so I started packing up my bags I'm like I'm leaving because there's no way he's going back and he didn't play the whole second quarter right he left the shoulder injury so I started packing my bag and as I'm walking down the stairs to leave he's going back in the game again it's a blowout um hurt shoulder draft coming up I mean there's zero need to play in that game and sure enough he goes out there and starts the third quarter and you just feel like you know he this is a competitor at the end of the day. That's a metric to somebody like yourself I mean I mean most players that would be prepping for the draft I mean there's one aspect if your team's fighting to get to be bowl eligible or fighting for something I mean they'll gut it out but to gut it out just for your teammates and the only reason they were getting out just for his teammates I mean that's a special and unique trait that you don't see nowadays and um that's certainly something that um kind of led you to believe everything that you had thought already so he's just a special and he's been like that since he's been here I mean he wants to win at everything and um whether it's golf in the off season or basketball in the locker room I mean he's just wired that way and um that's why I always wonder why people try to you know poke the bear because he he has one of those unbelievable memories and he never forgets anything and he'll he'll do it in his own way in regards to addressing situations and um he's the best at it so was it appropriate for us to say or at least view his response to that rookie in Vegas with the Muppet when he said that'll get that'll get handled when it's when it's handled pretty sure that's a t-shirt here yeah is that a t-shirt I'm pretty sure we we thought that the second we heard the sound but we're like t-shirt it'll get handled when it gets handled it'll get a handle on it again and we're like uh-oh like that's the way we viewed it is that appropriate to view it that way I mean look I mean that's I don't know exactly what's you know inside Pat's head but that's how he deals with a lot of things like he does it on his own terms and um he has a way of you know just writing it down in in the in the mental box up there and and he looks for reasons I mean to get motivated and but all great great ones do I mean because when you achieve so much success and you've accomplished everything you always wonder like what drives those people and and they they look for reasons to get motivated and that's why I said I question why people want to give him more ammunition than he um is already out there because he's one of those guys that he really thrives off being challenged Rich Eisen show here in Kansas City for three days for the NFL kickoff and when you go to a town and your great friend is there and you think that great friend wants to surprise you you think it's with meat but only the true great friends bring the general manager of the time defending Super Bowl champs in Brett Veitch Eric Stonestreet here on the Rich Eisen show God bless you Eric you're you're you're a giver you're a friend you know it comes from a couple things first of all I don't think Brett Brett's a very humble guy right you you hear the tone of his voice it's like and I'm sorry Brett I'm going to talk about you for a second in front of you he doesn't get enough credit and like Andy Reid when things go bad it's his fault and when things go good it's the team's you know success team success right Brett's exact same way he's cut from the same cloth and so I don't expect him to go out there and toot his own horn I I want to toot his own horn because I've had this crazy privilege of getting to know someone in the organization personally and it's kind of the same way I felt like when I got to know Angie Kopitar like I watched him as a as a fan then I became his friend and then I started getting worried about him on the ice it's it switched to being like he just he just something happened to his neck he just got it you know or whatever and it's the same with Veatch on Twitter I mean I love Kansas City I love the Chiefs I love Chiefs fans for the most part but we like other fan bases just go level 10 so often and when I read Twitter and see these people going after Veatch after three Super Bowls it makes me angry it's because what I've learned is there's always so much more to the story it's like why didn't we cut so and so why didn't we sign so and so the money the cap and I'm just like as his friend it angers me you know it's like it's it's better when I have a healthy distance from it and can kind of be a blend of that you're like why didn't we cut so and so or sign so and so but anyway I wanted Brett to be here and then when you reached out to him I was like oh well he was you know but anyway I appreciate it no I thank you for that and I appreciate it honestly you know you can come anytime you want you could lie to my face and say I'm coming with Eric I don't care no no no no no I really appreciate it real quick thing about Mahomes from my perspective two things that I've seen from my own eyes please and then one that I've just heard through other people one thing I notice about Patrick is he's the type of guy in a large situation always sees everything around him like I'm not going to be in a group of people and like step forward and be like what's up Patrick or whatever I'll just kind of stand in the back and you know whatever he always finds he always finds me and he does that with everyone he comes into a situation and knows exactly where he is and he sees all much like Coach Reed they say Coach Reed can tell you everything there is to know about the game plan and also what the number one country song is on the radio right now they can tell you what the most popular tv show is like he's got this mind that just sees everything around him Patrick's the same way the other thing is that I forgot my second thing hold on I'm wearing his shoes right now that he's great well that he's great yeah uh oh that's it that he sees everything around him and then the thing I heard from the grapevine is that he loves watching one-on-ones like he likes watching tape of his offensive linemen's one-on-ones like at training camp and I think that is such a cool I don't know if other quarterbacks do that I don't know if other players do that but the idea that Patrick when he's done he's like hey bring up the one-on-one one-on-ones I want to see how the tackles and guards did today that that says so much right there a that he loves ball but b it's such a leadership move because the next day he can say hey great rep yesterday on so-and-so or great rep yesterday on so-and-so and then all of a sudden the tackles accountable to Patrick Mahomes because gee mini Christmas Patrick was watching my one-on-ones yesterday like incredible blows my mind and the the the aspect of the offense Brett this year the conventional wisdom or the narrative in my business is that the way that the offense was performing last year and sometimes uh struggle to score in second halves and things of that nature you just said screw it I'm gonna we're gonna get faster yeah and that was a a conscious decision is that is that true to connect those dots from last year's offensive struggles on occasion to to drafting Xavier Worthy and getting Hollywood Brown for sure I think you know there's a couple things I think when you're you live in this era of of you know cap constraints and managing um players of of this caliber I think on one end you do have to be able to reinvent reinvent yourself and we have Pat Mahomes and we have Coach Reed so obviously we're always going to be inclined to win offensively but because of maybe what cap space you have available and where you're picking and what's available right um you do have to be able to sometimes again re-identify yourself and and figure out different ways to win and and I think early on when Pat was here we were going up and down the field scoring and we had some defensive struggles and and then we got that we brought in Tyron Matthew and Frank Clark and we kind of um were different mentality type defense and then you know you have to do some things that are difficult like trade a tie re-kill well then you're picking and the best players on the board are Carl Office and McDuffie then all of a sudden you start to accumulate some of these great players on defense and you know last year we were able to win because of our defense but I think you have to be flexible um to sustain success and I don't know if you can go out there and win for 10 years in a row always by outscoring people I mean you're gonna have to just figure out different ways to win but certainly if given the opportunity um and having resources um and having the right names fall in the draft I mean you're always probably going to be thinking Mahomes first and I mean last year was the year that it worked out we um were able to sign some re-sign some guys on the defensive side and then when we got to the draft um you know Worthing and Kingsley um our left tackle where our first two picks want to protect them and give them more weapons and then we brought Hollywood in too so we're going to add a ton of vertical speed and more and add more protection and just keep giving Pat um things to work with and I think again that's always our first priority but sometimes you have to take what is out there and do the best with what you have well again I knew him running for his life in the Super Bowl loss that you had to Tampa you're like okay we're going to hit the offensive line you clearly did that we had Crete Humphrey on on the show last Friday I mean what a stud just as an example I want to put a pin in Worthing for a second you also have to have the contract your quarterback your generationally great quarterback is under so how how often do you address that with Patrick certainly in an off season where we just saw a ton of mid-50s APY you know Dak the whole conversation with him he's going to hit the he might be the first quarterback whose contract starts with a six it's possible Purdy could be that guy and you've got Mahomes and all the trophies in the case how often do you revisit this contract with Patrick well we as you know we just we did just readdress it last year yes and those are one of those situations that I mean obviously we'll have ongoing dialogue and we have a great relationship I think you know looking back on that deal obviously we're blessed to have that type of relationship but a deal like that only gets done obviously if the person on the coaching staff are all on board obviously which we are but the owner has to be all on board with something that long and obviously Clark was but the player has to be all on board and I think to get the player on board he has to have a lot of trust in the coaching staff in the personnel staff and I think you know we obviously respect that a lot and we handle that relationship with great care because we know that he put his trust in us and that's why the ongoing communication and is something that we'll always have and um like I said last year we were able to to move money up and and make him you know the highest paid quarterback over that four-year span in terms of cash wise like cash is cash rich I mean that's that's what puts the money in the bank that's what's the most important but the APY is not you know not top 10 or whatever and so when when these contracts come do you call them and well yeah I mean just say it just to check a pulse check here where he's yeah the API will always include years that aren't guaranteed though so I mean really players just care about you know what's real and right and again we have that communication so right over the next four years there's no one making more and that's real and then as this goes on we'll continue to um have open dialogue with him and you know that's the way we'll handle their relationship and um again we're just fortunate that we're in that position sure and then let's unpin worthy the um combine moment where I'm in the booth with Daniel Jeremiah I mean I've done these guys know I've been and you know I've been doing combines now for 20 years uh never thought fans in the stands would happen and um never thought that there would be a moment where a player like worthy would show up an athlete a competitor would show up and do what he did and in the same way that you're like saying Mahomes you were surprised to see him come back in a game where he's got nothing if you will to play for yeah when he's got his future ahead of himself and he did worthy coming close to breaking the 40 in his first run I thought he wouldn't run again I was the only one everybody else like he's gonna run he's a competitor whatever I don't know if it's because of fans in the stands or he just wanted to break it but him going out and running again and breaking it is and the fans going nuts truly one of my favorite I'm like getting goosebumps even thinking about it my greatest moments as a broadcaster in the 22 seasons I've done with NFL Network were you in the building yeah I mean that was special it's one of those things you know when you go to Indianapolis you know you're obviously your scouting staff is there and your coaching staff is there and depending on where they are when particular position groups are running sometimes they're scattered throughout the building so every team probably has similar discussions in that when you get to the combine you're telling coaches this guy is around top 10 pick this guy two to three this guy three to four and yeah and I remember talking to our coaching staff about worthy and they had done some tape work because that we bring the guys in for the formal interviews and a lot of times we have the the film the college film on the board so they have done some film work and obviously when you watch some of his his film his collegiate film you get excited and we had a great interview with them and I remember when he left the interview the coaches were like what are we thinking like um is this guy going to be around I was like it's going to be close I you know I think he kind of is going to be in that 25 to 35 and some of the teams will be scared off by the weight and listen you're always going to have o linemen and d linemen and quarterbacks go so to the account account for all those guys you're going to have some maybe the bigger receivers go I said it's going to be close and then he ran that four to one and I remember texting like you know coach Reed nags coach Blymeyer well take him off the board he won't be there and I don't think he would have been um if it weren't for six of the first 12 quarterbacks going well yeah but but again we moved up to get them got it so um I'm pretty sure that uh in fact I know this because I talked to some gms uh over over training camp um kind of let me know that they were trying to get up to get worthy too so um wouldn't have had him at 32 I mean you know you know would he have gone at 31 or 30 I don't know but I'm pretty confident he would have been at 32 but um yeah after that 4-2-1 I mean those guys typically guys that are late one usually go mid ones after the time like that and but again listen there are a lot of great players that were taken um and a lot of these young guys I don't know what your take is on the preseason but it's rare to see like all these first round quarterbacks all look really good in the preseason usually one looks good and a couple struggle and um I mean it's exciting time um for the league obviously with so much talent and so much parity but I mean the young quarterbacks here are are truly special and um got a couple now in our division so yeah for sure and in terms of that before we take a break and uh Eric Stonestreet here with Brett Veach you just mentioned the young quarterbacks um Ryan Polis who left Kansas City to go to Chicago he was in the scouting department while Mahomes was doing his thing right yeah when yeah and I imagine you and he were yeah were in the same department pretty much right yeah um and everybody is thinking Caleb is the next Mahomes do you think that's a fair comparison well I think he has a lot of a lot of traits and you know I didn't unlike Ryan I you got to really be around the guy sure um but physically I mean sure I'm just watching tape just watching tape yeah I mean he's got ad lib ability he's got a great arm he's got great instincts and um you know Ryan's done a really good job of of giving him some offense offensive weapons to work with and yeah um yeah I mean I think those Chicago Bear fans should be really excited and I think they have a deep roster too so should be a lot of fun uh that division is going to be I mean all these divisions are great but I mean that's you know with the way Detroit played last year and now Chicago getting in the mix it's it's gonna be a lot of fun to watch I know it's not your table but I've you know obviously you're you're a guy who's scouted Mahomes and Ryan was around too and it's amazing how he's got the guy that everybody's talking about is the next Mahomes with all these yeah these plays and his playmaking ability all right let's take a break here and uh finish up this show with uh Eric Stonestreet kind enough to bring Brett Veitch uh here if you weren't bringing barbecue the general manager is next yeah 100 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know what a good guy is and what a great player he is so i wanted to share this moment with uh with the right tackle for the chiefs my favorite football team not that i need to tell anybody that yeah i mean it's uh it's really cool i got to know him i guess at the end of last year and uh we hit it off right away we both like food we both like food we have a lot of shared interest he asked me where i got my meat and we go to the same meat guy he goes to the same butcher here in kansas city i said a serious question though mitch where do you where do you buy your meat in kansas city he's like oh this place called pickle Myers and i'm like okay you're in you're good so because i know how seriously you take your kansas city uh food yeah you guys go to the same butcher here we do yeah city yeah which is i mean when i got here i like to cook um i was confined to an apartment in my previous life when i got here i got a house got a whole backyard set up i mean this guy's got the greatest backyard setup you could ever imagine for cooking and he's sending me videos all the time different different stuff to try and the text exchange between me and him and some of his other offensive linemen are that are into smoking is hilarious like one night i put a brisket on and it was like we were kind of coordinating with the time difference of putting a brisket on and brisket on around the same time and i woke up to check my brisket and texted mitch at four in the morning la time which was kansas city 6 a.m time and i told lindsey my girlfriend i'm like i texted mitchell schwartz in the middle of the night about a brisket like what is going on for no reason i was up at that exact time and we were because i was doing a brisket the next night so we kind of throw ideas off each other see we'll see what we do i think he was doing like a 24 hour oh yeah super slow it got all jiggly and gooey and the bark was perfect that's the way eric stone street likes to roll and that's why we love to roll eric stone street back on the rich eyes and show game time tickets make sure you get game time on a mobile device near you as soon as you possibly can and start buying tickets to anything in your area the all-in pricing feature is my favorite part because when you toggle this feature shows you the total up front there's no surprise fees at all when you check out you get this great panoramic view from your seat in the app before you buy thanks to the seat view function take the guesswork out of buying tickets with game time right now download the game time app create an account use my code rich you get twenty dollars off your first purchase terms apply visit gametime.co for restrictions again create an account redeem our code rich you get twenty dollars off download game time today what time is it game time eric stone street here and eric you ran the great okey-doke you're like i'm bringing a surprise we all thought it was going to be barbecue correct kind of it's offensive no no no it's it's waitist waitist no we just thought it was going to be you know especially since i i agreed because you took the nfl network crew for the draft you took us all out and that's why you know you took us so we thought like that was going to be it to the point where we're like hey i don't know if we're going to have we were talking about maybe even pushing dinner back a little bit over and instead you brought us brett veach the general manager of the can't see which is probably better than even i gotta tell you though less filling i i i know brett uh how he works and i got to ask at training camp some of his staff like what makes brett great and they had all these you know interesting things to say about him but one of the things that i can attest to is brett is a is a big picture and small picture guy that he's in the minutia but in the best way possible and he's he again like coach reid and patrick he's got a breath of the room he's got a breath of everything that's going on and after we had you know doing this said well tomorrow last night i'm getting texts like okay so who's gonna walk me out like how am i gonna know where to go like is there gonna be an audience there he wanted to know everything about it and i'm just like that's my gm right there he's not walking into something without preparation he's he's taking all of this into consideration so he is the best at the moment that he needs to be the best he can be i love that fantastic and i appreciate you taking the time here the day before kickoff you have uh i'm told a great ed o'neill which by the way you know that's one of our favorite subject matters yeah i'm i'm doing everything i can to get ed o'neill to a chief's game this year like we have one tentatively penciled in which one well i can't remember which one it is it's in november maybe the the noon game in november that you know he's like eric you know it's hard to fly you know like this you know i'm ed o'neill right we got to find somebody to fly in private uh but so on the show jesse and ty and sophie and julie they always gave ed and i trouble because especially on a monday you'd walk into the trailer and if ed and i were in there together we would be middle of what we had to eat over the weekend conversation it was always people walking in and ed being like and then i put cheese on them and then you know you close the lid and you let it melt just let it melt for a little bit you know always talking about food yes always talking about food to the point where jesse and ty and everybody kind of made fun of us ed and i have only seen each other twice since modern family wrapped but he calls and checks in on me every time and then i get you know text messages from him um bring up the first text message of the peasant dish okay this is a typical ed o'neill text yes which is uh there it is so what's that say peasant dish chicken sausage potatoes and peppers yeah that's all i get it's that picture and so then i call i call him yes bring up the conversation oh you got that too listen to this okay here we go right actually call it that it's so low it doesn't even move you know and you just you can you can cook it and i do for like six hours oh and potatoes and potatoes of course and so i'm just gonna let it sit and simmer and simmer and simmer and simmer it has amazing results you know at the end of that time are you cooking it now or you're about to cook it i'm cooking it now it's all it's uh i'm let's see i'm three hours in you know what i always do when i make stuff like that i always make it so that it has 24 hours to sit and then i eat it after you know when i make chili i always try to make chili not to eat then but eat the next day i do the same thing i never eat it on the same day this won't be eaten today this will be you know i'll put this away at nine o'clock tonight yeah all right so that's a typical conversation no it's still going so the reason i recorded that is tie's tie's birthday was coming up and i thought well the best birthday present i could give tie barrell is to send him that audio clip of ed talking about this peasant dish he was making but if you listen to that again rewind he goes oh and potatoes potatoes of course of course he slipped in though of course of course and then next picture yeah three days later i get this osso buko he's making an osso buko that's ed o'neill in a nutshell right there just home comfortable making delicious dishes that he's not going to eat right now he's gonna make it and eat it tomorrow right what he's the best i know you have i love ed o'neill anything going on with ed o'neill we're trying to get him to a game okay he says he wants to come uh you know well you know one of the most famous uh clips recently who did you tell us to is it was he on ellen's show when she was doing it oh taylor yeah he had no idea who taylor swift was yeah right did you hear well that was that so it doesn't surprise me so getting the two of them together at a chief's game would be what we call incredible incredible i told you before he and travis we the three of us have a text exchange travis ed o'neill and myself my god yeah it's an incredible piece of art like it is incredible but have i ever told you on i don't know if i've told you on the show before yes but ed on a monday after an award show the best i think i've done this bit i can't remember eric i saw um what's his name comedian uh jerry seinfeld no african-american guy chris rock no eddie murphy ed eddie murphy i saw eddie murphy he was great he was great i hadn't seen him in years he was with um oh what's her name she does the voiceover stuff um i don't know ed she's blonde cameron diaz cameron diaz i saw eddie murphy and cameron diaz together great they are great you know they were in uh what's the movie called it's got the green fat guy yeah shrek shrek it's a great movie shrek they offered me shrek i mean that's see bret you should now send him photographs completely uh out of the blue on how you're creating the chiefs right you know like your draft choice you just send him the picture worthy well you know what he'll do if i'm not giving up too much he'll send me a clip of a player a call a college clip yeah like and then then i have to hear it from adam shefter that we signed the guy i'm like my chop liver that's right like every every breaking news the chiefs i'm i just send him like i'm just a peasant on the street yeah you've told me watch out for the chiefs to draft this guy and then they do my favorite this year is an unsigned free agent that we got an undrafted free agent out of marshall tackle okay fantastic you love the linemen right well i love the linemen i went to the ota i went to the rookie mini camp and i was like veach what's the deal he looks the part he's six nine he's 315 pounds it's like we'll see then the preseason it's like guess who made the 53 undrafted free agent got a great eye he's got a good eye put him on the coaching staff yeah i want to be on some staff it's randy it's randy when you guys were talking about the combine i almost interjected and said wouldn't know never been invited we got to get him the combo please just for the elmo steakhouse alone dude we'd love to i'd love to have you can can you have me come on it's done it's done thanks for coming on breath you're a good man have a great time tomorrow night really appreciate eric love you welcome to kansas city guys we hope you have a great time you're going to a great steakhouse tonight have fun we'll be back on the air live from kansas city at the total wireless studio on thursday and back to wrap up this show on the roku sports channel in a second the rolling stone music now podcast gets inside the biggest stories with rolling stone's senior writer brian hyatt movie director james mangold i'd want to turn bob dillon into a simple character with a simple thing to unlock that then makes you go on now i get him first time i sat down 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