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That's a problem. Earlier on the show, senior writer for the MMQB, Albert Breer, Falcons quarterback Kirk Cousins. Coming up, Fox Sports college football analyst Bruce Feldman.
And now, it's Rich Eisen. Our number three of The Rich Eisen Show is on the air. Lots going on in our neighborhood in the National Football League. Certainly in the last hour when we were talking to Bruce Feldman and Kirk Cousins. We'll discuss a lot of that with you at 844-204-rich being the number to dial here on the program. As soon as we are done, Suzy Schuster and Amy Trask will record the first episode of season two of What the Football podcast.
That will be available for you to listen to later on. Jim Nantz is their guest in week number one. He's fresh off of calling the Chargers season opening win against the Las Vegas Raiders. So, we will hear from Jim Nantz.
844-204-rich is the number to dial here on the program. Just looking up at the screen right here and seeing all the other programs that are on. As we're talking here on the Roku channel. On NFL Network, they're showing the Bears and the Titans game from this past week.
They just showed in the booth, Mark Sanchez. Does he have a man bun going on? Did you see that? Is he going man bun? Hair is a little longer than normal. Hair is a little longer than normal.
It might be the only man bun in the NFL broadcast booth, right? If you got it, might as well do it. We don't know. We got nothing. Nothing.
Zero zilch. TJ, we can do it. Could you really? Could you, Mike? Would you, if you go man bun. You could. Mike, you could really go. I would donate to you a charity of your choice if Mike Del Tufo's man bun existed.
We would have to rename a fantasy team, Matt. Can a charity be my boat? No. No. Mike, do it.
Do it. If I grow my hair, I go three to almost two to three times a month to get my hair. Mike, grow your hair out. My hair grows like I'm sorry you guys are here.
Now it's at the end of the year and we'll see what happens. Mike, once again. I don't like long hair.
When things come up about you, about you, you immediately go into the default of thinking that we are accusing you of being unable to do it. No, no, no, no. I fully believe your hair grows beautifully. Rich. I mean. Rich.
You sound like Trump. I've got the most fast growing beautiful hair. My hair is the most beautiful hair. People are telling me that I've got the most beautiful fastest growing hair. You have no idea how fast my hair can grow. Dude, I get it. If you can grow a man bun, I will donate to a charity of your choice.
Please do it. You guys don't. I hate long hair. I buzz it at this point.
So that's a no? Just take it off. Take it to the end of the year. How long?
Okay. Four more months. Your beautiful fastest growing hair of anybody who can grow hair fast. How long would it take for you to grow a man bun?
Faster than anyone else. Thank you. I could probably grow my hair. Thanksgiving? No, I'd be at the end of the year.
I get it long enough. So go to the end of the year. Let's do it. Now you guys. You have to. I want to. I have to take care of this hair. Why?
You guys don't. You're not on camera. You're in a booth.
No, no, no. I'm on camera here. There's some maintenance. Yeah. He doesn't wear a hat all the time. I go out when I go out.
But Mike, you could slick it back like Pat Riley would look awesome. My hair. Yeah.
Mooch. I was very much like when my hair was long. You remember? You remember, Rich?
You remember me back in the old. Palm. I'm asking you. Would you grow a man bun for charity?
Can we put it to a vote on Twitter? Well, you know. I mean, I would lose that. I mean. You would lose that.
He'd want that a million times. I'm trying to make the vote here. Let me think about it. Let me really think about it.
I have to go to my 40th reunion in three weeks. After that, I'll start. Okay. Oh. If I were to do. If I were to do.
In New Jersey. Yes. To go to your 40th high school reunion. High school reunion. Could you imagine going to a high school reunion with this guy? Yeah.
By the way, I mean, we got a couple of big guns in my class. Who? Like I say. Who? We got. Who? I'm not going to mention their names.
Mike, we could look it up. The plastic surgery. Basically.
The nip tuck of New Jersey? No, of like. He's huge. He's like a multi multi-millionaire. A multi-millionaire. He can do research. He lives down in Miami. So.
He was in my grade. So. By the way. By the way. Now that. You can't research a big plastic surgeon in Miami because there's probably about a thousand of them.
No, no, no, no. This guy's. This guy's married to a real housewife in Miami. He's got divorced from. Yeah.
Oh yeah. He's big time. So we could Google him. You could totally Google him.
What's his name? I'm not. Rockman will see it.
And if he says it, I'll say yes. But how you Google. You know.
I mean, I'm looking at real houses in Miami. But look about husbands. Just don't waste your time. Don't waste your time.
It'll come up. So is his name Todd? Is it Todd? No. It's that guy. No.
I don't know. And who else is who else is coming to your 40th high school? What's the name of the high school?
Amazing. Livingston High School. Livingston High School.
43. Well, you know, my buddy my buddy Chris Christie went there that won't talk to me anymore. OK. But he's not your grade. Right. Well, he was my brother. OK. My brother Frank.
OK. So this is the class of 1984. 1984. Reunion of Livingston High. Yep. OK. Fast times at Livingston High. Hell yeah.
Pretty much 1984. Yeah. And so you'll be there. So where are you in terms of the most famous alums of this high school returning for 40 years?
40 years. Who could be watching the show will tell you I'm probably one of the top. OK. In the sense of what I've become.
Jason Alexander went to your high school. Yeah. Oh, no, no. By the way. Class. Just so you know.
Yeah. Jason Alexander. My father was president of the school board when Jason Alexander got inducted into the high school hall of fame.
OK. I like the fact that back that Frank Biondo who ran universal went to my high school. Frank Biondo. But in saying that, I had an Emmy before Jason Alexander.
So I'd like the first Emmy in the history of Livingston High School. Harlan Cobone. Harlan Cobone. Yeah.
We got some. How could we ever bring that up when he's on our program? Danny Zucker went to your high school. Yeah.
But in class of 84, it's you and this guy, this Jibrone who's giving people new noses down in South Florida. What's wild is I'm looking at the notable alumni in. Chelsea Handler.
I would see Michael Del Tufo. Yeah. You see. How are you going to look at Wikipedia? No. What's what's amazing in Wikipedia is they have some humokes on this thing that like I'm like, what are you on there for? You did nothing. You do know.
Like I'm an accomplished sound mixer, Rich. Who on our staff can get Del Tufo on the Wikipedia page? I mean, we can really just put it ourselves.
How about this? Not on our staff. R.E.S.
Consulting is outsourcing this to the Rich Eisen Show viewer. And listen, somebody needs to put Mike Del Tufo on the Livingston High School Wikipedia page. Lucille Davies on there.
How am I not on there? Livingston High School has a Wikipedia page? Yeah.
They have a famous alumni page. OK. Very good.
Somebody has to put Mike Del Tufo on it. Thank you, Rich. See, this is that.
This is why I love you guys. As audio executive of the Rich Eisen Show. Emmy winner. Emmy winner. Come on. Multi. Emmy. I should be honest.
This is why I'm inducting our business today. Oh, yeah. Mikey, your sister is Lucille Davies? Yeah.
She's on here. Of course. Yeah. She was a secretary.
Well, it helps when you were the secretary of education in New Jersey for three years. Yeah. She's on here. Yeah. You're not. OK. No.
Nope. It's like it's disgusting. Who knew that this would be the result of me seeing Mark Sanchez's man gun on television? See? This is what TJ loves. This is why we- TJ, you love this. I love when just things happen out of nowhere.
Yeah. You never like it. You like it. You know, I'm not going to lie, to quote Mike.
I'm going to repeat it and edit it and try to edit or add you to this page. We won't let you do it. Well, I think it has to go through some chain of command before it actually- Oh. There's some actual- Oh, I guess. Quality controlling. I put Michael Del Tufo, class of 1984, award winning sound mixer on there, and- Thank you, TJ.
So maybe in an hour it'll pop up. Let's do it. Michael Del Tufo. Bruce Beck. WNBC.
That's my buddy. Bruce Beck. WNBC. WNBC.
Wow, dude. Livingston High. We had some big- No, you mentioned him first. You mentioned this guy who's nipped Chelsea in South Florida. No, I said Chelsea.
I said Chelsea. But you're older than her, right? Yeah. Alright, guess what? It's a Wednesday.
It's the NFL season. This is finally happening. You guys wanted me to do this for years and I fought back and now I can't get enough of it.
Because you guys get so pissed off about what I say and I don't care and it's great. Wow. It's Power Yankees time.
Hit it, please. Power! Power! Power rankings!
There are many like it, but this one is mine! Power rankings! Alright everybody, here we go. I've got my week two power rankings.
Because guess what? We've had a week one. And prior to this week, I had a top ten list before there wasn't a single game play. So there's a lot of movement. Week zero.
There's a lot of movement. Way too early. Listen, I did it anyway. And number ten on last week's list, for instance, was the Atlanta Falcons.
That didn't age well. Yeah, they're out. They're out.
Yeah, they're out. Number ten on the list is the only winless team on this list. The only team to go 0-1. So I am putting one of these teams 0-1 above a handful of teams that actually won last week. The Ravens, number ten. Sorry?
Ravens? No, they're on this list as well. That's the first one. Oh, there's two of them. Oh, okay. My bad. Okay. Los Angeles Rams are number ten on this list.
Oh yeah, I bet. LA Rams are a top third National Football League team. That was a tough assignment. They lost Puka Nakua. They lost their left tackle. They lost a ton of players in the middle of this game and damn near pulled it off. And they just ran out of gas in overtime. And so there's that. The Los Angeles Rams just lost two in a row and both against the Detroit Lions. One in the playoffs and one for week one.
But this is a lot to like watching this team. Yeah. So they're number ten. Number nine on the list? I apologize.
I apologize they weren't on the list to begin with. It's my boy. Baker's Buccaneers baby.
B squared. Baker's Buccaneers. This is my city. He says. And it is now. What a way to follow up getting paid.
Right? He got his money and he showed up and played like money. And I can't say he doesn't even know it. He knows it.
If there's anybody who knows that he is money. He's aware. It is Baker freaking Mayfield man. And Browns fans are freaking out right now. Yeah right.
Freaking out right now and calling into local radio stations that went a little viral. Somebody called in first caller on a Monday show and went nuts about Watson looking the way he looked. And Baker looking the way he's looked. And the Buccaneers are number nine on this list. No change. Number eight on this list.
They stay like before. Miami Dolphins are number eight on this list. I still believe in them.
I like what I'm seeing out of them. I understand Buffalo also won and they're not on this list. But the Miami Dolphins won a game that way they gutted it out. Jacksonville is a really good football team although they're not in my top ten.
And Miami gutted it out especially with all the craziness that went down just outside the stadium before the game. Number seven on the list. Down a spot. Down a spot.
You'll find out why. Houston Texans are seven right here. They're number seven on this list.
Yeah. I understand you think they're winning the Super Bowl. They're going to the Super Bowl right? Didn't they win last week?
They did. And they came up with a nice win in Indianapolis. On the road?
On the road. In division? Showed that Joe Mixon can actually run to football.
They might have improved. Road division game. This team and I understand. Drop.
I understand. Road division win. Correct.
And added a run game to an offense that had Stephon Diggs score a couple times. And they dropped. Correct.
Interesting. Number six on this list. Above the Texans even though they lost, the Ravens. What are we doing? Ravens are a great football team, guys.
What are we doing? Go ahead and sleep on the Ravens. If they played the Texans today, who would win? I'm selling you the Ravens would win. That's why I put them above the Texans.
No, you're wrong. Okay. What happened in Kansas City is not, you know, I'm not concerned.
It's not concerning to me because I'm discerning. And they played last year in the playoffs on the Ravens once. I understand that. So maybe you're right. Correct. Yeah, buddy. That's what I'm saying. The reason why these two teams dropped down a couple spots is because the team that I had ninth ranked last week on my power rankings, much to the consternation of our friend T.J. Jefferson. Dallas Cowboys are five on this list.
Four spots. Is consternation good or bad? Because if it's good, that's what I am. I'm consternated. No, you were very upset about that. You used a word last night in the group chat. I had no idea what it meant. Jeez. Big word. I had to look that up. It's marvelous. That's what it means. I was very happy last night. Use the words I don't understand.
I'm going to take it as a sign of disrespect. Up four spots. Dallas Cowboys up four spots.
I'll take that, Rich. Number five. Sure.
Because the Lions are down two spots. I had them number two on my list last week. They're four.
Okay. They're four. I just like their stuff. I like what they're made of, man. Gritty win. Gritty win against the Rams team that is number 10 on this list. I think they're one of the best in the NFC. They're down two spots because the Eagles are up one. I really like the Philadelphia Eagles. What a W that was.
I mean, any of the teams, either of the teams that have won in Brazil, it's a great win. Flying 12 hours, playing on a turf that a lot of people are still complaining about. Come on, now. Saquon in this offense, get out of here, man. And Jalen Carter, a lot of folks, what are you going to do without Fletcher Cox?
Well, he's just going to play like Fletcher Cox. Oops. Right. And there's Jordan Davis there too. That's quite a handful in the middle of that defense. Big man.
Wow. Number two on this list, up one spot are the San Francisco 49ers. They are, this just in, really good at the football.
Jordan Mason, 28 carries, most in 13 years by a 49er. Crazy. How about them apples?
Number one, it stays like a buffoon. You're a defending champion twice over, Kansas City Chiefs. They came out of the box and looked really, really good. I understand if Isaiah likely wore what, like a size 14 shoe or a 13 shoe, do you know what a shoe size is? If he was a 12, this wouldn't even be a conversation.
That's what I'm saying. Or wore white shoes. Yeah.
If he was Isaiah, white shoes likely. I understand things might be different. To the people who didn't get that, I feel sorry for you because that was really funny. I don't know. I hadn't thought about it until just now. But the Kansas City Chiefs are the top team of my power rankings right here.
That's a good look, Rich. Thank you. There it is. Bengals out. Falcons out. Bengals were seven.
I don't know what I was thinking there. It's right there. I mean, no Patriots on the list. No, they're not on the list, pal. Right? That could be the thing.
They're not on the list. You know, Rich, I forget who it was yesterday. You were saying through just like one of the prettiest passes of the Sunday. But Jared Goff's touchdown to Jameson Williams, did you see that ball that he threw to him? Jared Goff is a really good quarterback, bud.
Holy cow. It was a throw of the football. He, yeah. Indoors.
Well, I mean, he was indoor, so. I mean, that whole Goff-Wentz conversation's over, right? Wentz is the Chiefs' backup?
Is that right? Yeah. I saw him in Kansas City. Yeah. Yep.
That's always a fun game. I saw Chad Henny in Kansas City, too. Well, he was on the field pregame, right? He was there. I did see him. Yes, sir.
But, yeah, Wentz is the backup in KC, and Goff has got a chance to win a Super Bowl for the Detroit Lions. Crazy. So. Crazy. Okay. So not much pushback.
I mean, no Bills. They had a great home game. Who would you take out? Josh Allen kind of dominated. Who would you take out?
I'd take the Rams out. Come on. Really? Yeah.
Josh Allen would be the best player on the field if the Rams played the Bills. All right. I think that's kind of it. What about you? That's my only pushback.
Well, who's missing? I didn't have a pushback, but he's got a good point. The Bills did look good, so maybe.
I think Allen specifically kind of looked like the MVP of the league. Other than that, I don't really have a problem with you. Well, we're going to find out, right? Don't they play the Rams this year? That's right.
Yeah, they do. Who's taking Hoskins? Don Tufo. And you're taking Liz? What? Who's taking Liz to the game?
No. What are you talking about? She can buy my tickets. Oh, my God. This guy over here. No, Mike takes a whole group.
Yeah, Hoskins goes with a crew. I've got to be honest with you. Not to tell any of our, you know, nobody really cares about the internal machinations of the Rich Isenshaw.
I wouldn't necessarily say that. The last person I'd want to antagonize around here might be Liz. Does she even like football? Liz. Okay. Oh, my God.
I mean, he's got a point. Liz went with me to a game. Because she loves the Bills. Yeah. That was to be social.
I don't know that she actually loves football. You see, you guys are starting trouble. Rich, I'm out of this one.
I'm watching Billy White Shoes Johnson highlights right now. You have the best seats. So, I mean, you should be taking people.
I make the most money. Oh, my God. All right. All right. All right.
We're taking a break. Honestly, before this gets into real trouble. I make the most money.
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Deshaun Watson has spoken, and it has nothing to do with football. Once again. So we'll get that. And then we'll take some more phone calls here on the program. So that's what we've got going on. How about that? It's finally cooling off here in L.A.
It's been 110 at my house for a week and a half, and it's now 80. Okay. That's like Egypt time. I'll take it. That's great. Yeah. Are we going to keep an eye on the Livingston High School Wikipedia page?
So I got to say, shout out to Patrick King sent me a tweet. Dr. Hochstein in Miami alumni is from Livingston High School. Ding, ding, ding, ding. That's him. It's because you forgot his name? No.
Leonard Hochstein. I know the guy's name. Okay. Well, you said you weren't going to tell him. I wasn't going to tell you guys.
Is it because you couldn't remember? Lenny Hochstein was there. Okay. Okay.
Whatever. Lenny. Can we be Lenny?
Slowly at the 30th. Maybe. Hold on a second. Maybe. He was with the Real Housewife of Miami.
They have broken up. Yes. Okay. Maybe at the 40th, if Dr. Hochstein flies his Learjet in and you see him, maybe he can surgically help you with a man bun. You want to surgically. No, no, no. Can we start planting some more seeds in the back there?
No. I got good hair in the back. Am I balding it all? That's what Dion calls donor hair, right? You're not balding at all.
You look great. Grow it up. That's what Dion told me. I've got a lot of donor hair is what he said to me once upon a time.
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All right. Jimmy in San Antonio. We haven't heard from Jimmy. Jimmy Jimmy. What's up, Jimmy? What's up, Jimmy? What's up, Jimmy? What's up? What's on your mind? What's up?
TJ Brockman. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. T.J.'s done, just so you know, Jim, you cannot speak and can't breathe. Mikey, Mikey, please tell me your middle name is Ross and your lady friend's name is Rachel.
That's how white they are. It's amazing what that Jimmy Jimmy and Fuego will be here. Oh, he'll be here right now. Try to make a cutting. Well, tip your server.
I'm not a guy. One more thing before I get to my point. Why choose likely future fantasy football? Why choose likely? Write that down for future for future use.
Right now, layers of Iberfluz will try and win two in a row to start the season. I started a Google doc for fantasy names so I can find them. And then can you also write the context of it down? Sure. By the way, it's really funny when you all show the traffic to Iberfluz. Yeah, it was fun. It was fun. I don't think I think he was sort of caught in between of like, how do I react to this and how do I get out of here?
I think he was kind of in that kind of that that nether region. Right. So what's on your mind, Jimmy? Well, Rich, we are of the same age.
You are three years older than me, which puts you right in line with the approximate T.J. Jefferson age. Nice. And no, that doesn't Jimmy that. Oh, OK.
I'm narrowing it down. I'll keep the notes, T.J. Come on, you know, you know, he's older than me, bro. I know. I know.
I think you're closer to my age. Anyway, what I was going to say was I was in Boston over the weekend and I played pickleball for the first time. Oh, OK. And and it turns out that the Boston Pickle Club is fans of the Rich Eisen Show. Oh, well, who is it really? Hey, now. Good to know, Jimmy.
Good to know it was Brockman. Your glutes and quads, they will hurt after your first ever. It's the real thing. He thinks it's just like it's just it's a mini chord. And thus it makes it less of a strenuous and rigorous. What a cardio activity.
Maths, what a foolish math only is. That's correct. So how did our but how did how did our show come up as a subject at the Boston Pickle Club at the BPC? OK, so I'm at the BPC. Great.
You're local, you know. And I said, Am I now a member of the pickleball club because I had to register? And he said, No, you just registered.
I was like, I'm not a member. OK, fine. That's OK.
It'll still be funny. He said, Why? And I said, Well, I listen to a show.
I call into a show and the host is a huge pickleball fan. Yes. And the guy, Nick, I want to give him a shout out. Nick had Rich Eisen.
I go, Yes. And he goes, We love Rich Eisen. He talks pickleball.
That's correct. And then I said, I'm Jimmy in San Antonio. Nice to meet you. And he goes, I've heard you before.
Ah, yes. He's a fan of yours too, Jimmy. Thank you, Jimmy. And then another shout out to Johan who owns the place. Apparently some pickleball god.
I don't know, but he's very European. His name, you know, I couldn't have picked that up from just the name. Just thank you, Jimmy.
Michigan man. So I expect. Thank you, Jimmy.
Thank you, sir. That was always fun when Jimmy calls in. Give it a shout out to Nicky and Johan at the BPC. See, Chris, if you didn't denigrate pickleball, you might be more popular in your old home area.
Right. You know, I'm OK. But as you know, as you know, any time I comment on matters of Boston sports, I get denigrated. So it's good to know I've got an enclave there at the Boston Pickle Club to counteract the the WEEI situation or whatever is going on over there.
You know what I mean? They got your back. The BPC won't let you down, you know, unless Jerry Callahan is a member of the BPC. Then then we're going to be right. Oh, that's a problem.
I actually need to check that black tie. By the way, Zolack and I are yeah, Zolack and I are really cool. I saw him last year in Germany. Honestly, we almost we almost eloped to Holland together.
We had such a good time. Oh, yes. Where where Johan's probably from. OK, OK. Does Johan have a man bun? We should ask this guy. Yeah.
Pickleball man bun. That's a big thing. OK. Some serious matters in the NFL. First up, Tyreek Hill speaking today.
And first of all, the fact that the Dolphins make him available to speak to the media just shows that they are they are 100 percent putting this story out there and 100 percent giving Tyreek Hill the full platform from which to talk. And he wants to make change based on what happened. And every single time we talk about it over the last couple of days and whenever I've checked the responses, I do check responses, T.J. I'm not just emotionally affected by them. Yeah, but I do want to just see.
I know I do want to see what what people are saying. And, you know, the nonstop and we even got a caller yesterday saying, well, you shouldn't have done what he did. And I believe that's what he was asked, did he have any responsibility for what happened? My whole life is all about accountability. Like, how can I get better? Yes, I will say I could have been better. You know, I could have let down my window, you know, in that instant. But the thing about me is, man, I don't I I don't want attention.
I don't I don't want to be like cameras out, phones on, you know, in that moment. But at the end of the day, you know, I'm I'm human. I got to I got to follow rules. I got to, you know, do what, you know, everyone else would do, you know. So now does that give them the right to literally beat the dog out of me?
Absolutely not. But at the end of the day, I wish I could have been better. I wish I could go back and, you know, do things a bit differently. Which is, again, based on the body cam footage, go the speed limit. And because that that was you zip by in the first few frames of the body cam footage that I saw. And secondly, roll the window down. But he's right again, if you'd rolled the window down, does that guarantee that the second guy coming in doesn't come in or the second guy, if he does come in, isn't hot? I don't know.
Again, as I said earlier before, yes, you're pulled over, you need to follow the instructions of authorities because they don't know what you have in the car with you. They don't know what your intentions are. And if you're not following them.
Then, yes. They can leap to a conclusion, they should not. But if they're leaping to a conclusion based on someone's race.
That's a problem. And if they do yank somebody out of the car. And do clearly inflame the situation and anybody saying, well, that's what you get when you don't follow an order like rolling your window down, then that means you should behave in a certain way to avoid somebody behaving poorly in their own right professionally. And I would just counsel to say, driver, do better. Authorities do better. He was asked about what should happen next. The lawyer has come out and said that he's looking for the dismissal of the officer. Do you?
What does that mean? No. So you want the officer?
Gone, gone, gone, gone. He got to go, man, because in that instance right there, like not only did he do treat me bad, you know what I'm saying? He also treated my teammates with, you know, disrespect. You know, he had some crazy words towards them and they didn't even do nothing. Like, what did they do to you?
They just walking on the sidewalk. So I don't know. He got to go, man. Like, hey, it's not too many times that cheetahs say people got to go, but you out, what they say on Wild'n Out, gone. Mm hmm. You're shaking your head.
I said it yesterday. What that guy did was complete. I don't care. Cause effect.
Unnecessary, not for a moving violation, not for any no matter what, even with the window, he was that was unnecessary chokehold. Come on. What are we doing? Sorry. I know people will rip me apart, but I don't care. I was a cop and I had to testify to somebody who did something like that to a family. I've told TJ the story and they basically ripped the family out like that. And I wasn't involved, thank God. And I testify and I told him what I saw.
And I told him what I saw because these guys were there were two guys that were literally like that cop that did that to a family for no apparent reason. You agree, TJ? You know, part of me wants to go, well, maybe if they suspend the guy, give him another chance. You don't ever want to see anybody lose their job. This is such a touchy, touchy, touchy subject in an instance.
You know, of course, he's going to feel a certain way because it happened to him. Correct. Right. So I honestly, guys, I don't know what the answer is to this.
You can say roll down the window, be compliant. But there's other instances where people were compliant. Stuff still happened to them. I don't have the answer for this.
This has been going on before I was born. This is unfortunately going to go on long after I'm gone. So I really don't know what the answer is, guys.
I really don't. Well, I'm sure there's going to be lots of conversation about it tomorrow. Again. Bill's Dolphins tomorrow night on Prime Video. Be interesting to see how that's being handled by. By the broadcast tomorrow night. And then there's what's going on in Cleveland. Because, again, Deshaun Watson did not look.
Good at all for the Browns at all. And. Yesterday. The attorney, Tony Busby, in. State of Texas, and that name may sound familiar to you because he represented over two dozen individuals that accused Deshaun Watson. Of sexual misconduct that led to his 11 game suspension in the NFL. And. When he when Deshaun joined the Cleveland Browns and and Watson. Once again, has been accused by a Tony Busby client, fresh new allegations. And. A statement from his attorney, Rusty Harden, who may sound familiar to you because that was the one who was representing Deshaun a couple of years ago and a couple of years ago when all this happened, vehemently denying, categorically denying that anything that just came out is true.
But that is out there again. And Watson, in his media availability today, was asked if he knew about this new allegation prior to the game, because, again, he just didn't look mentally there. Afterwards, he was talking about the death of his father and a close friend as well and and how that. Definitely was playing on his mind, he was asked if this was on his mind as well in the season opening loss against Dallas. Any idea that this lawsuit was coming when you were on when you were playing Sunday? No, sir, I found out exactly whenever everyone else found out to the possibility the league could come after you once more for the personal conduct policy.
I haven't had any thought. Honestly, my focus is, again, is just being figuring out, you know, Jacksonville's plan on defense and focusing on my craft to be the best quarterback I can be on Sunday for this team. You know, that's something that, you know, the NFL has to, you know, do on their time and, you know, have to focus on what's in front of me right now. And those were pretty much the only questions he answered on that subject today. Kevin Stefanski says that Deshaun Watson is starting.
Against the Jacksonville Jaguars and the the. The agreement that. Watson signed with the NFL, or they came to an agreement with the NFL for his suspension is that. He is allowed to be suspended again.
If a new allegation comes out that raises to a certain level of. Shall we say, significance. So the NFL, we will keep an eye on that one, too, but as if. The Deshaun Watson. Question of his viability of the starting quarterback of the Cleveland Browns, and if he would no longer be that, if he didn't have 92 more million guarantees, that if he didn't have 92 more million guaranteed dollars to come, that his. Performance would be leading to a parting of the ways there in Cleveland, as if that's not enough of a conversation. Here we have this.
And we will see if that does, in fact, play into everything. But Kevin Stefanski says this is our starting quarterback. I know an overreaction Monday you were saying they should move on to. Jamis Winston right now, just seems like it's all money now is standing. It's not worth the headache with this guy performance and off the field stuff. Much more can these Browns fans take? Well, a game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, that's for sure. It's just too soon for Jamis, man.
And I mean. How can you say a week two game is a huge right? I mean that it's this guy's name wasn't Deshaun Watson. You'd look at the numbers and you'd watch the film and you'd say, this guy is not a starter in this league unless the numbers associated with that guy also has 92 million American dollars coming his way, no matter what. That's exactly why this contract, as of now, is being discussed as the worst contract ever given anybody in the NFL. And the trade and the trade that goes with it is being discussed as that, too. Because of everything of the everything else.
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But, you know, practice and meetings and then come back after dinner and more meetings. So when he would come back from dinner, he was like a little kid. He could not wait to tell you about all the celebrities he saw while he was at dinner. And so I had we were just standing there in between the tight end and his shoulder was framed John Candy in the crowd. He was on the sideline. Oh, he's on the sideline. And so I was and I sat there and I I looked and I go, dang, I don't remember Harris saying he saw John Candy. This is what you're thinking in the Super Bowl with minutes to go needing to drive down the field, OK?
Yeah. So I walked over and said, hey, man, there's John Candy. And Harris stood like this for eight minutes, perfectly still.
He's a little bit angled that way. He would not move. He was like, I didn't do it to unwind him. I just thought he would appreciate seeing John Candy. Did you ever meet Candy or that was the only thing? Yeah, no, I had met John a few years before that. My contract was up and he was one of the owners of the Toronto Argonauts.
OK, he was trying to get me to go to Canada. Come on. Yeah. They just didn't have enough money. But if the price was right, I might have been wearing an Argonaut. Yeah.
55 yard line. I'll do that. So he legitimately said, you know, hey, you know, we had a couple of meetings about. You did. So this is real. Like it wasn't just like, oh, by the way. No, no, no, no. I love that.
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Game time. Paul in Syracuse, you're on the show. What's up, Paul? It's great to hear from you, Rich.
Thanks for having me out. OK, what's going on? What do you mean hear from me? I guess that's a good point. OK, I'm a radio host.
That's normally the lingo I give to people calling into motion. You do sound like you got a set of pipes, Paul. I'm not going to lie.
That's a set of pipes on Paul in Syracuse. What's on your mind? Appreciate that. Well, our good buddy, James Taylor of Underdog Fantasy, I saw you give an update on the Hassan Reddick situation today.
And I'm going to be honest, Rich, it was quite troubling. And here's some of the things he had to say, that there's been no movement between Reddick and the Jets. We've heard that. And that Reddick has really dug in.
And it's almost like we can't do it. How dug in is he? Well, James Palmer said he's comfortable, quote unquote, missing more games after missing week one and that he's going to continue to push this thing. But when does this end, Rich? I don't know.
I don't know, Paul. And here's the one thing that I'm not going to, you know, I would counsel Jets fans to not be concerned about is to to sit here and wring your hands over it. I mean, honestly, he's he's he's barely a Jet.
I mean, what are they what are they supposed to do? Just what they should have done was handle it before they even traded for him and not taken this off of the Eagles hands. I mean, honestly, the Eagles are like, OK, we're going to we'll go rush the passer without him and we don't have to deal with this.
And thanks to the call, Paul, I appreciate it. Sounded like he was muffled there, too. Honestly, it's just it's not like we've seen what Hassan Radek can do for the Jets, and he's been a he's a Jet fans are, you know, are holding out hope for one of their favorite players in the history of the Jets. It's just. It's weird, right? It's really weird, and he's already given up. He had eight hundred thousand dollar game check last week.
He's already accrued five million dollars. It's crazy. He's willing to dig in and miss more. He's going to come back and have to play for the Jets for free on the arm. I don't know. It's a weird situation.
It's really weird. But if you look at the way the Jets defense played in the defensive line played in San Francisco, clearly they need him. Brock Purdy had a clean pocket the whole night. I I don't know why the Jets defense looked so poor. They've got enough guys that can handle one would think to be one of the some of the best offenses in the NFL with the guys they have.
And the guy charged with figuring it out is is Robert Sala, what an interesting sound bite to say, it was an interesting question. Remember I said to you yesterday that not many teams who go on one and have a lot of hopes placed in them and a lot of expectations. About them and also have a kind of win or lose your jobs season in front of them for everybody to look that poorer. And it's very rare that you can say they still came out on top in a loss because their quarterback's healthy. Rare situation. Robert Sala was asked that very question in a different way and gave an honest answer. You got to say that no one won this year feels a lot better than one or last year? You know what? Unfortunately, it does, because I think I know we're going to get the defense fixed. That is not a problem.
If that's a problem, it's not a problem. And and I know we're going to get a lot better from week one to week two. We got a great opportunity this week against Tennessee on a short week. It's going to be a tremendous challenge. But like I said, guys, you know, it's a 17 game season, got 16 of these left. And getting the defense fixed is not going to be a problem.
Not going to be a problem. I hope so, for his sake, I know, yeah, but as I told, as I said yesterday, I'll repeat it again. If you like playing for Robert Sala, if you like living in New York and playing for Robert Sala, living in New Jersey, playing for Robert Sala, if you like him. You need to win.
You got to play better. You're not just playing for yourselves and your pride and your livelihood and your money and your family. You're playing for this guy. Because if the Jets do not perform well, certainly if the reason why they do not come up with wins is because of the defense. Woody Johnson is just going to say on to the next.
The general manager doesn't have a contract. You know, so if you like them, play better. And the schedule makers didn't do the Jets any favors, guys. Because I, you know, starting off in San Francisco on Monday night football with the Niners coming off of that stinging Super Bowl loss, you know what sort of mood they would be in and how good they are. And then listen, not many teams. I mean, I don't have the numbers here in front of me. But if you play on Monday night, OK, the next week you go on the road.
That ain't easy. For instance, Atlanta this Monday night, they're home for Kansas City the next week, obviously, that that that's a tough opponent, but at least they're home, right? So the Jets do it again later this year, play on Monday night football, and then they're on the road the next week. They play Buffalo on week six and they're at Pittsburgh week seven.
Kansas City. They let's see, New Orleans is and Kansas City on week five on Monday night. They're home against Tampa the next week. Seattle is at Detroit on week four Monday night. They're home against the Giants the next week.
You know, let me just give another one here. Miami is at the Rams in week 10 on Monday night. They're home against Vegas in week 11. Buffalo is at the Jets week six, they're home against Tennessee week seven. The Jets, when you play a Monday night game and then you go on the road the next week, you lose a day.
And anybody out there saying, oh, it's Tennessee, OK? This ain't easy. You're staring 0 and 2 in the face, and then you got a short week game Thursday night at home against the marauding New England Patriots. If you would have told me before the season that the Pats might be 2 and 0 and the Jets might be 0 and 2 and they played Thursday, get out of here.
It's entirely possible, sir. So again, hey, Jets, you like your coach? Play harder.
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