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Hit it. That was terrible. That was crap.

That was garbage. This place sucks. Overreaction Mondays, Monday on a Tuesday. All right, Christopher.

Hit it. Hey, what's up everybody? Everybody good? Great to see you.

We missed you in Kansas City. Not really. The 49ers should be number one in everyone's power rankings this week.

Okay. That's an overreaction, especially since I know how I'm going to do my power rankings tomorrow. So come on, man.

What recency bias? What do you mean, man? You know what I saw last night? The best team in the National Football League. They took the team that everyone thought, oh, the Jets are going to the Super Bowl. Everyone thought that? And they made them look stupid. Who thought that?

With a backup running back who'd never really played before. Excuse me. Excuse me. Come on, guys. As you know, I came on the show today and gave the 49ers all the flowers that they deserve, and there's many of them to spread around. Offense, defense, special teams.

She's won by a toenail. Offense, defense, special teams. I understand you certainly in segments like this overreaction Monday is all about what the people are saying. It's all about what fans are saying. It's what our friends in media are saying and how one specific game can cause a knee jerk overreaction.

And some people in the media put the jerk in knee jerk. That's not us. However, Chris, the 49ers did what they did last night against a team that has a lot of hype around it. The Chiefs did what they did on Thursday night, despite winning by a toenail or not, against the team that hosted them in last year's AFC championship game after having the best record in the American Football Conference fielding the defending most valuable player of the National Football League. Come on.

One thing is not like the other, as the children's theme would go. Hall of Fame quarterback, two fantasy players, first round players on their team, a supposed top five defense, and they made them look like a junior high team. Which, by the way, you got to beat the team that's in front of you and do what you need to do to win.

And if you can beat them up in the process and show their heartbeat and show them they're beating hearts in your hand while ripping it out of their chest and show it to you pumping, all the better. That said, at this point in time, the Ravens are last year's number one seed. The Jets were last year's number 10 overall on the clock team. What else, Chris?

I don't know. What else? The Niners are great, but I mean, normally I don't give you a preview of my power rankings, but this just in.

Gotta overreact to the other team that played on Monday Night Football, DJ. Now I could have went in many, many directions here. This guy. At least 30 this guy direction. I thought about saying Rogers should have just retired, but Rich, the Jets.

He wasn't. Come on. The Jets aren't going to win as many games as they did last year. They won seven last year. They're not winning that many. I'll call.

I'll call that an overreaction. I didn't see many wins in that team. Let me say something to you. Let me say something to you. The best positive to come out of last night's game wasn't that one drive where Garrett where Garrett Wilson looked like the number one receiver in the National Football League and Aaron Rogers looked like the multiple MVP that he is. It was a good seven minutes. It was great.

It was awesome. Yeah. Right. And that's what the Jets offense can do. And hopefully for them more consistent.

Correct. So, but the best thing for the Jets is Aaron Rogers was healthy. He had a postgame press conference standing there as a healthy man. Dude, where is A.A. Ron right now? Not heading west to visit Dr. Neil Elitrosh's operating room.

That's what things were like at this point. One year from Thursday. That's the anniversary of the day after. And there is no day after the day after is your all in one. Let's try it again against Tennessee. What else, Chris?

Good luck. You don't mean it. That's not an overreaction either. You're looking up at us in the standings, which I didn't think would happen all year.

That's a true story. Hey, I don't think we're talking enough about these two players, two running backs who went to different homes, who had fantastic week ones. Either Joe Mixon or Saquon Barkley going to lead the NFL in rushing this year. I don't think that's an overreaction.

I hope not. Well, McCaffrey, McCaffrey missed one game already. Derek Henry, you know, didn't light it up in week one. These guys have a nice head start on them. Obviously, you know, they're not going to do this every week. But I, I, I wouldn't be surprised if one of these guys went wire to wire.

Who else could there be? I mean, I hope so, because they're on my fantasy team to beat you this week. That's correct. I know that. I know that was tough for me. And by the way, I only lost by two points despite that double dip.

We were playing horseshoes or hand grenades that almost would. Seven guys had one hundred yards this week. Who else?

Kenneth Walker, Ramondre Stevenson, J.K. Dobbins, obviously Jordan Mason on Monday night and Lamar Jackson. Yeah. So out of those guys, you know, Kenneth Walker didn't finish the game.

Did not. Right. And we're going to see how healthy he is. Yeah. But he did a postgame press conference.

I imagine he's not almost a quarterback, although great court. But Lamar is not going to lead the league in rushing. Right.

Yeah. I think Mason's not going to play. You already heard there's not going to be a, you know, a two tier system. There's not going to be a two running back situation in San Francisco. Aaron Jones and David Montgomery each had over 90 yards. They might make a nice run, but I would I'm not going to push back on this one. I don't think this is an overreaction. By the way, if you're focusing on, you know, Stefan Diggs and Nico Collins and Tank Dell and Dalton Schultz and C.J.

Stroud and then you turn around a hand to this guy. He might have some room. Yeah. He might have some light boxes, as they say. Oh, oh, is that the twenty twenty four phrase?

It pays like boxes. I don't know. All right.

How about this one, guys? We talked a little bit yesterday, Rich, about the New York football Giants. Yes, sir. Yesterday on Overreaction Monday podcast, I said we're already on Drew Lockwatch. I agreed with you. We're also on Bill Belichick watch for 2025 for the New York Giants.

Dude, I mean, dude, it's bad. We're already rich before the time. Rich, before you answer, I just want to point out that CM Punk proved this year that you can go back home again. So I can't sit here and just one weekend is where that we're on Belichick watch in New York already. That's that's that's much. He's got rings. That's a lot.

That's a lot. I will say this in advance of Wednesday's what the football with Susie Schuster and Amy Trask. I did email Amy last night. You know, I try not to influence subject matters, but I'm kind of put your thumb on the scale on occasion. You know, I mean, it's the Rich Eisen podcast network. I said, you know, hey, when when the co-owner of the team is caught on the hard knocks camera saying, I will delegate to you what you wish to do with Saquon Barkley's free agency. I just don't want to see him walk to Philadelphia. And he walks to Philadelphia and he scores three touchdowns in the opener three. And you then perform like this in week one. What do you say to John Marrow when you you see him in the hallway?

Like what do you pretend to be on the phone? Is there any similarity to a moment like that? I know, again, she was a team president and a Hall of Fame version of that. As a matter of fact, I should say she didn't she didn't shop the groceries for the Raiders.

I'm like, is there any similarity, a situation like that for Al Davis? And she said she will address the subject matter this week. Oh, Jim Nance is the guest. So I will I will I will just throw that out there as a like that, as they say, I'll call this an overreaction. It's just one week.

I think you work from home if that's the case. You don't want to see. But what do you do? Like this was a that's why I said Giants fans need a hug big time. What else, Chris?

I think I got COVID. Yes. Chris Long yesterday called this player cooked. And we talked to not Brandon, not Brandon, not Brandon Archer, who scored a touchdown. Brandon, we talked to Mark Cecil earlier.

He called it an apocalypse. The Browns need to move on ASAP from Deshaun Watson. They got to give him at least another day or two on a Sunday game or two or two a game or two.

That's what it is. A game day or two. We're getting close to crab legs in the clubhouse and 92 million dollars after this year. That's that's again, the Broncos showed you that teams can take a dead cap hit of 80 mil, right? And spread it out over two years and get a rookie quarterback and try and win games. We'll see how that plan plays out over the next two years, because that's a large chunk. That's a nice chunk of the pie, right?

Out of the salary cap. Yeah, for sure. So we will see how the Broncos fare. I don't know, because the Browns are slated to win right now, though, like right now. They're supposed to win right now. They're built to win right now. And so I understand that you could say then let's try and win it right now with Jamis Winston.

Yeah. I'm not willing to say that they're going to do that just yet. We'll see how he looks in Jacksonville. You know, if Sam Darnold went 19 and 24 against the Giants defense, that's your that's your bar that you got to leap past or at least match in week three. You would think Vegas, you would think weeks three, four or five. Those are winnable games that they should win. By the way, Vegas, the way that the Chargers beat Vegas wasn't by outpassing them. No, they pounded. It was a physical game. And that physical game that the Browns, you would think could win. Boy, did they lose it this Sunday. I mean, the Cowboys out out physical them, too. Yeah.

Big time, which I know is not really an English word out physical, but it is now it's a sports word. So I'll just push back on this as an overreaction, doing it after week one, like right now, like, hey, Deshaun, you're benched like Chris. All this train coming. I know.

Pull the ripcord. I don't. I think it's still too early. Chris. All right. OK. OK. Yeah. Last one. And this is mostly for Mike Hoskins in the back. All right.

I think Mike wants to play the drop in the worst way. You got it. Do you think we need one more? All right. We'll get one more. All right, Chris, what else you got?

Thank you. Josh Allen and the Bills, they proved the road to the AFC title still goes through Buffalo. I don't know if they proved it, but I think what they definitely proved is anybody that thinks that they're that they're going to have a demise. It's greatly exaggerated. Josh Allen, your week one MVP, right? He's up there.

He did something only Steve Young has done. I know that. I know that.

Two rushing and two passing touchdowns in the same game. I'm aware of that. OK. I was just explaining for the. Yeah, I'm aware of that. I'm aware of that. So, yeah, I gotcha. Very impressive. Short week this week in Miami.

Very impressive. So I think this is still premature that the road to the AFC still goes through Buffalo. Can I put a pin in it? Keep my or move the chess piece, keep my finger on it. And let's revisit this Friday. Can we revisit this Friday?

Sure. You know, Miami didn't really impress me last week, but dude, you can't discount the way that they the manner in which they walked into the locker room that day. You just can't.

You cannot discount that. Did you hear what happened to Tyreek? Yeah, you're right. And what's going on and how the hell did that play?

Did you hear what happened with Kaleis and Johnny? I meant on the field, but I understand that. But the fact like you know, you can't.

They're not robots. So I'll just keep my finger on the piece and say, ask me Friday. I will. You know, it just reminds me of the time when I used to cover baseball at ESPN.

And whenever I'd cover a game, I did a few Cardinals games and I asked Tony LaRue to say, Hey, Tony, how are you? And he says, ask me, ask me after nine. I can feel it. Ask me after nine. It's what he said. I never really had the pushback to say to him, what if we go to extras?

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I mean, you could add up every check I've gotten since Arliss went on the air in the mid nineties and I don't think it's $16. That's funny. By the way, speaking of the one thing I have in common with Aaron Judge, outside, I guess for the two things, rooting for the Yankees. He hasn't homered in like a week and a half. Do you know what, he hasn't homered in a week and a half.

Do you know what people are calling the jinx? He has not homered since he appeared on Puppy Dog Pals. Wait, that was Paw Patrol, right? His Paw Patrol episode? Puppy Dog Pals. It's different, sir.

How dare you? I've been on Puppy Dog Pals and I had great shows. Maybe I should reach out to Aaron or you should reach out to me on how you can focus and perform after appearing on Puppy Dog Pals. With all due respect, I like Aaron Judge as a player. I'm playing against him in the fantasy semi-finals, so if he wants to just keep not hitting home runs, that'd be great. He is not homered. When was the last time you homered? It's been like 10 days.

Just keep extending that. I'm playing against him this week. Yeah, that's what somebody told me, is he's not homered. You know somebody, Cooper told me that.

He's not homered since Puppy Dog Pals. Cooper's locked in. No, he would know.

He would know. Big fantasy playoffs. I'm trying to go back to back. Oh gosh, like the Kansas City Chiefs, huh? Just take a few more dames off.

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The last time we had you on was a couple years ago calling in. We might revisit part of that conversation shortly, but tell me about this book that's out today. The partial part of the story that was true was on my first space flight, we had 18 mice on board, and the first time I went to look in their cage to see how they were doing, 17 of them were pretty freaked out about the experience.

But one little one little guy seemed to get it and would float over and get his food and float back over and get his water and seem to be having a good time being in space. So that's where the partial true story comes from. I wrote a series of books. So this is the third one.

The first one came out a little over a decade ago. And the idea here is a number of things, but really to get kids excited about reading. They're excited about space. Kids love, seem to love astronauts and space and planets. So I use that to get them focused on reading. So now when you were witnessing this very, I guess, brave mouse, did you think to yourself, I'm going to write a children's book about this? Like at the time when you're sitting up there, Mark? No, not too busy.

You know, I got too much other stuff to worry about getting docked to the space station, getting all our payloads installed. It was only after I came back and I mentioned the term mousetronaut and this mouse did somebody then say, Hey, that's a, that could be a children's book. And now it is today. Very good.

The mousetronaut. Yep, comes out today. Okay, very good. In a way, you know, I'll say it, you can't say it. It's very similar to Kyler Murray and the Arizona Cardinal story potentially, right? Senator Kelly?

Senator Kelly? Would you say that? I watched, I watched a good, good chunk of the game yesterday.

Very excited about the Cardinals and their season and Marvin Harrison Jr. You know what, what he could mean to the franchise and, and Kyler Murray having a great, great year. But yeah, maybe it's a little bit like that. It could be, it could be. He saved, he saves, he saves the Cardinals. Listen, man. I mean, obviously it's just week one and last year we saw the Cardinals perform very well despite losing a ton of their games, but they, they just do seem to have a moxie about them whenever they're playing right now.

Senator? Yeah, they do. They do. We'll have to see here. I've been really excited about the Cardinals since I moved to Arizona over a decade ago. I don't get to go as many, to as many games as I want, but I do get to watch them every Sunday or whenever they happen to be playing.

And I think they're going to, I think they're going to really turn it around this season and can be, can be contenders. So did you ever play football? Did you ever try it? I did. I did.

I, I have a, I'm trying to see, I might actually be laying over there. I was on a Pop Warner. I didn't, I played in like up to about middle school on a Pop Warner team, but one of the highlights of my football career and I wasn't playing a lot, but I was on a team that not only went undefeated, it was not scored a Pop. Really? So zeros all around?

Zeros the entire season. It was a West Orange, New Jersey. The team was named the Mustangs and we were unscored upon and undefeated. And if I could just jump over there, I think I got the article. Go ahead. This is amazing. I have it laying out.

I printed, I didn't print it out for the show. Okay. Look at this.

Mustangs undefeated and unscored upon. Have you ever heard of that before? Never? On any team?

Never. What was your, what was your role in that? Were you a linebacker or something like that?

Where were you? Yeah. Yeah. But I, you know, this is one of these teams, we had some really, really good players and they often played both offense and defense. So I sat on the bench a lot, but I did go in occasionally. I don't think my name is actually mentioned in this article with all the, like the really good players that were on the team. But I was on this team.

Oh my gosh. Well, yeah. Being from Jersey, right? I mean like that's that, you know, Jersey's kind of like an underrated pipeline of, of football players. When you think about, you know, college players and high school players, you're, you're hearing a lot about California or Texas or Ohio, Florida, you know, Georgia, but not Jersey, but Jersey's, Jersey's up there with them. Jersey's, you think Jersey's up there? 100%. I don't, I don't remember anybody from my high school ever can be in a division.

Even on this team, I wind up division one. They're all like, they're all like Ramapo College and. Well, maybe it's, maybe it's your next book, Senator Kelly. Maybe that's your next book, Mark. It could be your next book. So the author, Senator Mark Kelly, a astronaut, saves the world right here on the Rich Eisen Show.

Get these books wherever you can. Few minutes left with the Senator from the state of, of Arizona. What is going on right now with the, with astronauts in space that they're going to be stuck until the next year? Is that what's, is that what, what, what, what do you know about this right now?

Well, I, I, I know a good amount. I, I, the two individuals that are stuck there that planned on an eight-day trip to space, is now turning into eight months. And by the way, their ride left a few days ago. So they got to float there, looking out the window on the space station and their ride home, undocked without them and then safely landed. And they had to stay behind because there were issues with it. And a number of issues we've had with this spacecraft, primarily helium leaks on this flight, but NASA decided it was too risky to put them on board and send them home. So they're going to have to stay till February. And that is, you know, psychologically, it's a little bit of a challenge when you were planning on an eight-day trip and it turns into an eight-month trip. But they're both professionals, Sonny and Butch, and they're test pilots in the United States Navy.

I've known them for over 30 years and, and they're going to be fine. But we've got to get Starliner, you know, whatever, you know, the issues fixed so we can get that flying again, because along with the SpaceX Dragon spaceship, we need, we need Starliner as well. How long, what's the longest you ever stayed in space? What was the longest? So my longest flight was 16 days. So I've made four trips to the space station. My last one was, I was the last commander of space shuttle Endeavour. It was also Endeavour's last flight. And it was, it's great. I mean, it's a fantastic job.

I loved launching in a rocket ship, living in space, and then most importantly, you know, safely getting home. But my brother, you know, my twin brother, who I think you've met, Rich. I've met him, yeah. Yeah, he, he, he did two long duration missions, so one of which was a year. So where I have 54 days in space, he's got 520 days.

A lot. Wow. And is he the one, is it true, he's the one that you sent Sue to, Once Upon a Time? That is correct.

And why did you send? It was mom. Hold on a second.

I think we have the, I think we have. Every space station needs a gorilla suit. And that is. Here's the video of it right here. Your brother's in there. And, and who is opening this, this, this gear right here? That's a guy named Tim Peake, who's a British astronaut.

And he has no idea what to pop out right now. Yeah, that thing goes viral about once a year, that video. I'll be in the Senate chamber and like, and Romney will come up to me and say, Hey, I just saw that gorilla video. So you sent it to him saying you should scare the crap out of your, your colleague in the middle of space? I, I've been on that space space station four times and it didn't take me long to realize that one thing was missing from the space station.

And that was a gorilla suit. So I set it up on a, on a Falcon 9 rocket, which blew up, destroyed the $100 billion docking adapter, but it also destroyed my gorilla suit. So then I got a new one on Amazon, shipped it to, up to the space station. And my brother got to have a lot of fun with it for about about a year. Wow.

That's a heck of a story. Maybe that could be, and then I sent the video to NBC, to NBC Nightly News. And then NASA got a little bit upset with me.

They, they're like, why did you send this video to, to, to the NBC? And I said, well, why, why would you send a gorilla suit to the space station and not do something with the video somewhere? That's like, if a tree falls in the forest and you're not around, does it make a noise? Right. So if nobody sees the gorilla in space, it's like, he was never there. What's the point? Exactly. I mean, seriously, sometimes you gotta, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta tell these NASA people the way to do things. Maybe that could be your next book, a gorilla, a gorilla suit in space or something like that.

Maybe that's it. There you go. Senator Mark Kelly, I appreciate the time. Before I let you go, where, where are you watching the debate tonight? Where are you going to watch that?

Probably right here in my place in DC. Okay. Very good. We appreciate the time right here. Everybody should go get the book. Mouse-stronaut saves the world based on a partially true story by astronaut Mark Kelly and illustrated by C.F. Payne. It'll be great for your kids. Go check it out.

Thanks for the time. Thank you, Rich. That's Senator Mark Kelly here on the Rich Eisen Show. Every space station needs a gorilla suit.

I have no idea. I think we need a gorilla suit. No, we don't.

Absolutely do not. I mean, it's better to have a gorilla suit and not need a gorilla suit. We need to have a gorilla suit and not need it. And zero gravity.

And zero gravity, however that saying goes. All right. So that was Senator Mark Kelly from Arizona. Let's take Jason in Arizona. What's up, Jason? Oh, hello there.

Hey, hey, guys. Thanks for having me on. You bet.

Thanks for calling. Yes, absolutely. And I just want to preface my comment by saying that I like you guys. I'm going to disagree with you. Okay. But I do like you guys.

I love, I love the show. I'm from Michigan. Go blue.

Attaboy. I feel like we are experiencing a little bit of a karmic, whatever you want to call it, from how much you just like twisted the knife into Ohio State over the past few months. But hey, we'll take it. We're going to live on that.

What did you say? You're going to live on the high of last year for... It's about living, living in the moment, Jason. You know what I mean? Like we had three years at the moment.

It would be amazing when nobody expects it to continue on against Ohio State. But you know, all good. But what, like, by the way, whatever you're about to say... I do want to disagree with you.

Disagreeing is fun. On Tyreek's situation. About what situation? Tyreek.

Okay. I'm from a little town, Port Huron, Michigan, right outside of Detroit. I've been thrown around police in Port Huron. I've been thrown around by the police in Grand Rapids when I went to Grand Valley State. I've been thrown around by the police in Flint.

I've been, I've been out there. Trust me, I'm ghetto. Like, I am the definition of ghetto. So my point is, let's just put what the police said on the side for a second.

If I, and I date a lot of black women, so I'm around a lot of black kids. If I'm giving them a class, a master class on how not to be with the police, I'm showing them the Tyreek video. This is exactly the way you don't do it. So that's just my point.

That's it. But that's just, he was wrong. It was wrong and wrong and wrong.

Put the police on the side. They could have been much worse. Remember, we were having these conversations about people dying when Colin Kaepernick was kneeling for the anthem, and everybody left them, hung them out to dry because they said, oh, that's back to the NFL's dollar, bottom line. And they left them out to dry. Tyreek got put in handcuffs.

He's fine. This is how you go down that wrong road, by acting like that. By acting like what, Jason? Because he didn't know that he didn't open his window upon the second command of opening his window. No, he told them to not knock on my window 18 times. And then he refused to roll down his window another 18 times. And the guy was so out of line.

He tried to order the police. That's like me calling up to your show and telling you how you're going to do your job. Right, but I'm not going to throw you down. I have to abide by your rules. That's the same thing.

And as black people in America, like we all know, Rich, you're not black, but that's fine. But we all know what the rules are. We know how we want to get home safe. And this is just, and he's not without blame. And we need to emphasize the fact that, okay, you don't like what the police officers did. That's fine. I get it.

But I got so much love for black people. It's unbelievable. And this is how you do not act in a traffic situation. Jason, I appreciate your call.

Jason, I appreciate your call. And we have no problem with anybody calling and disagreeing. I totally get that if Tyree Kill was going 30 miles an hour, he wouldn't have been pulled over.

This would never have happened. And I totally understand that the officers told him to roll his window down. But does that mean he should be yanked out of the car and everything else should happen after that?

I will push back on that. I'll push back on Jason, the fact that you heard what he said. It's not like he was being militant. It's not like he was being flippant. It's just like, hey, don't knock on my window.

He rolled the window down. I've seen way worse cases of people talking back to the cops and yelling at the cops that don't look like Tyree. And I'm questioning if Jason, he said he was black, but I don't think he is. But whatever, that's not neither here nor there. No, like the fact of the matter is, I don't I don't feel like he did anything wrong there.

We've all seen videos of people yelling at the cops again and both black, white, Latino, whatever, and being way more disrespectful to officers than he was at that moment. So as far as his call goes, I disagree with him. And again, we're fine with people disagreeing with us. We'll just, you know, obviously give our opinions. Yeah.

844-204-rich number to dial. When we come back, we've got we have a few things to hit here. I've got my top five week performer, week one performers. Nice. I appreciate you having that reaction. Thank you. Thank you. And we remember James Earl Jones who passed away yesterday. Right as we went off the air yesterday. That's exactly right.

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There it is. Now, what year do we think this? I don't know. He said he was in elementary school. I mean, this is he's a 60 year old man. If you can, I was going to say, I don't want to out his age, but he's fine. I mean, you can Google it. He's 60.

1977 season. That's the lead. Oh, there it is.

Okay. That's right. He's from Jersey. The West Orange PAL Lightweight Mustangs finished the 1977 season on November 26 by defeating the Trojans of Woburn, Mass.

Mass. In the eighth annual Thomas A. Edison Bowl by a score of 19-0. The victory gave the Lightweight Squad a record of 9-0 and they were undefeated and unscored upon. Like this is I never thought I would equate Senator Mark Kelly with Al Bundy. But I mean, at least Al scored four touchdowns for Pol Kai in one game, right? In a single game. But he's got this. He's got this as a card.

He didn't play a lot. I thought this was high school when he said it. And this isn't high school. They're like eight years old. They're the Lightweight Mustangs. I was thinking high school, but I know some of those names that are in there.

Tom Sharkey. They were from my area. What do you mean? You know some of these people? Yes. I know that there were two names in there.

Amorosi I know is in the end. Oh, and in 77, you'd be like, you're almost as old as that. They're my brother Frank. Mike, you're what?

Two years younger than the 70s. Right there. Tom Sharkey. Quarterback Pete Fineblatt. You know Pete Fineblatt?

No, but hang on. Who else? Jake Cunningham.

Yeah. Jim Cunningham. Richie Cunningham. So they would have been from Bob Fagan. I know that guy.

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Hit it. High five. One, two, three, four, five. Rich's top five.

All right, here we go. The top five performers of week one in the National Football League. He's my boy. He's my boy. My boy, Peter Baker Mayfield. 24 of 30, 289 yards, four touchdowns, no interceptions, no quarterback, had a better passer rating, whatever the hell that means in the first week of professional football than this guy, a buck, 46.4.

I mean, he was balling out and he's like barking everyone. This is my city. I love it. I love it. And I'm sorry I chose the Falcons to choose to win the NFC South immediate hand. I immediately, by the way, on yesterday's over reaction Monday, took it back. Hey, raise your hand if you picked the Bucks.

You did a great job. By the way, Joe McCoy stuck with him. That's no surprise. I'm surprised the way you love the Cowboys.

He loves the bus contractually obligated, but he does it. Number four on this list. OK, guys, T.J. Was I'm putting T.J. Watt right here. I mean, the guy in a sack and two tackles for loss. That's always on the statute, a sack and two tackles for losses. And and and he had a fumble recovery, but he also had two sack force fumbles call back one by his own offsides, where he was ruled a hair offsides. And then there was one defensive secondary penalty behind him.

The guy was wrecking the hole everywhere. I swear he was lined up in the backfield. So with all due respect to even what we're saying about the Falcons, I'm sure Kirk Cousins is like, throw it out, because I'm not seeing T.J. Watt the rest of the year. And hopefully he gets to see him in the Super Bowl. T.J. Watt was awesome. He was a game wrecker.

Number three on the list. I'm going with the kid, man, and going whether he found out Friday night or 90 minutes before the game, whatever, he still even if he found out Friday night, he had to think about it for a weekend and envision it and just stew on it. Jordan Mason, 28, carries the most by a 49ers player in 13 years.

By the way, that's the length of the Jets current playoff season without a playoff season, losing a losing streak right now. He was incredible. He he he did stuff that McCaffrey wasn't even asked to do. Twenty eight carries, 147 yards and a touchdown. He's number three on my top five week one performances list. Number two is that guy in western New York, man. And you said it earlier, two in the air, two on the ground.

Last guy to do it is pro football Hall of Famer Steve Young. When it looked pretty bleak, 17-3 Arizona comes in and starts hitting ball. Mona comes in and starts hitting Bill's mafia in the mouth. He's like, I'm leaping over people. I got this.

I've got this. The Mandalorian quarterback just took off and just took it under his own advisement in his own hands and his own legs. Josh friggin Allen was incredible. He had 39 rush yards, two on the ground, 232 in the air, two touchdowns there. I mean, spectacular. And number one, though, he walked from the Giants down to the dreaded Philadelphia Eagles for the Giants. And for the Eagles, they're happy to just stick it in the Giants fan's face, man. Saquon Barkley, 132 total yards, three touchdowns, a gorgeous grab in the air to start it, two on the ground after it.

What a dream beginning for Saquon Barkley in Philadelphia. Number one on my list of performances. Do you think we need one more? I'll do you one more. All right, we'll get one more.

Chris Long said it yesterday when he's on the program. He will never forget where he was when he watched Xavier Worthy carrying the ball for the first time in the National Football League. We were all in Arrowhead.

Yeah, not you, Mike. You were back here. We were there and this just in. Andy Reid, go figure, knows what to do with the fastest guy in the history of the scouting column. One in the air, one on the ground, three touches, two of them for scores. He's like Chris Carter. All he does is score touchdowns, right?

Unbelievable. And that's your one. You know, Mike, just because it's week one. Do you think we need one more? All right, we'll get one more.

That is week one, so you might have one more twice. They're people, too. Not punters. Chris Boswell of the Pittsburgh Steelers, six field goals, three of them over 50. No Steeler has ever kicked three of them over 50, and he had the entire scoring.

But this one you see on the screen. This is what made Chris Boswell make this list, because in this game, it was 15 to 10. Pittsburgh is up. The Falcons get off the field punting from their own 27 yard line with 340 to go. And the punter, Cameron Johnson, gets hit and and and he goes down and he goes down in a heap and there's a flag and you think, OK, Atlanta is going to be called for roughing the punter or running into the punter. Instead, it's a hold on Pittsburgh for throwing the Falcon into the punter, who, by the way, suffers a season ending injury.

Didn't know that at the time, but what do they do? They call on Boswell to emergency punt because the Falcons rightfully didn't take the yardage on the back end. What they did is they forced the Steelers to re kick with their place kicker and the first career punt for Boswell. He sends it to the opposition 40 yard line, 51 yards from his own 17 yard line, 51 yards, no return. Come on, and sure enough, the Steelers get the ball back and Boswell kicks his six field goal to end the day. That is one of the top performances of week one. Helped the Steelers win the game because he could have shanked that thing and that thing could have been over. Do you remember also Jake Moody was six for six last night? He was, but he didn't punt, did he? No. You remember when we were kids and it felt like kicking a 50 yard field goal?

He's going to do what? A 50 yard field goal? I know. This weekend, kickers were 21 of 23 from 50 plus yards. Justin Tucker ironically missed one, maybe the greatest kicker ever.

It just seems like it's automatic now, 50 plus yards. Before we go out the door here, when I went to the University of Michigan and I first got introduced to that scene in that school and the alumni base, one of the first names I heard about in the alumni base that leapt out at me as a famous alumni base was James Earl Jones. I'm like, wow, he went to Michigan, huh? Because obviously, if you're a fan of movies, TV or stage, one of the great stage actors of his time as well, the voice of James Earl Jones, the acting ability of James Earl Jones, you had to love him. The voice of Darth Vader, right, Field of Dreams, his speech about loving baseball. The Sandlot as well, just in terms of sports fans. James Earl Jones in the 1993 All-Star Game in Baltimore, he's spoken word in the national anthem.

Go seek it out. Major League Baseball tweeted it out yesterday after his passing. We had Patrick Renna on this program and asked him about being a bunch of kids on the set of The Sandlot and acting with James Earl Jones and what it was like being on the set with him. Did you know who he was when you... Oh, yeah.

Everyone knew who James Earl... Because you had 13, 12 and 11 year olds. Yeah, we all knew him. As Darth Vader? As Darth Vader.

Come on. Marty York went up to him. None of us had the guts to... He was there for a day and he had this huge trailer and he's larger than life and his famous James Earl Jones were all like speechless and he was so cool. But we also were all supposed to have a scene with him and the director changed it to just having Scotty Smalls and Benny in the scene with him. So we didn't even act with him. We just, I think we're like, he like looked at us and laughed in one scene.

So none of us had the guts to talk to him. Marty York goes up to him and goes, sir, I hear you're James Earl Jones or something like that. Or you know that he said you were Darth Vader in Star Wars. And he looked at him and said, no, I am your father. That was it. That was it. That was the only time any of us talked to him.

And I mean, come on. Yeah, yeah. It was pretty great. I didn't need to meet him after that.

It's good. He gave you really what you wanted. Exactly. He really did.

That is, that's a hanging curve. Yeah. Oh no, I am your father. I'll never forget. I remember that day just seeing him from afar being like, that's James Earl Jones. Field of Dreams had already come out. You've seen him in plenty of movies. And then, of course, knew him as that voice. And it was the perfect age because you're about to be a teenager who doesn't love Star Wars. And that's Darth friggin Vader. Wow.

93 years old. What a full life led. No doubt about that.

Right. Did you see the Empire State Building last night? They lit it up and put Darth Vader on it.

Mark Hamill tweeted out R.I.P. Dad. Yeah. Spoiler alert. Oh my gosh. 45 years ago.

Yeah. So rest in peace, James Earl Jones. That'll wrap it up for our show. I want to thank today's guest, Senator Mark Kelly in his new book. Children's book.

Everybody should go get it. Matt Eberfluss. Want to appreciate him and the heroes of the Heed the Call podcast.

Dan Hansus and Mark Sessler. Bruce Feldman is going to be here tomorrow talking college football. And then we start turning the page to week. I know, baby. That's right. King Joffrey Jeffers.

That's right. Rest in peace. James Earl Jones.

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