Richard Sherman: Didn't Expect The Bills To Be In A Dog Fight

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How are you, Rich? It's Victory Monday. Let's go. Is that good to see Victory Monday for you? Not so much. All right, Jay Felley in his Raiders lid. Good to see you. How are you, Jay Felley? I'm doing great.

Other than the game. Outstanding and good to see you, TJ Jefferson. What's going on? Well, I really only have one thing to say.

How about them Cowboys? Indeed, it is one of those days, man. I got to tell you one time. I got to tell you. All right. Very good. Very good.

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That was awesome. And so here's the scoop, folks. Week one of the National Football League, you have to look differently at it than the way that we looked at it for years in advance. The preseason and the fact that most of the teams don't play their quarterbacks in the preseason until either the very end or if at all. And the number of times that offensive line groups play with each other, sometimes when you have to shuffle in players because some players go down during the game. This is the first time a lot of players are playing together on the same field in the same snap, period. And you got rookies coming in.

So the play is going to be choppy and the number of times that you take a look at a week one performance and say, how can we evaluate that? We don't know. But it is a world in which there's not much nuance.

And guess what? There's a whole host of shows and conversations and social media outlets where the nuance goes out the window. We try to provide it. But there are some performances where you must give out the flowers for week one. And you must take a look at the conversation that we've been having for months leading up to this week one and use that as perspective to talk about the first four quarters of a team season and give their flowers out. If I had told you that Dak Prescott would throw for just one hundred and seventy nine yards on fifty nine percent passing with a passer rating in the mid 80s and that C.D. Lamb would have sixty one yards receiving and Zeke Elliott would have just forty yards rushing in Cleveland where the Browns were fielding a championship level defense with the defending defensive player of the year, Miles Garrett. If we had told you that leading up this entire all in off season where we're wondering if C.D. Lamb is going to get paid and if Dak's going to get paid and C.D. Lamb gets paid just a week before the season and Dak gets paid and about six hours before kickoff. And we had told you those numbers. You would say the Browns just put the bang thing on the Cowboys in front of the dog pound and they're feeling great about their season.

And instead, the exact opposite is true. The Dallas Cowboys went into Cleveland and absolutely destroyed and gutted the Cleveland Browns in week one, ripped out their hearts and showed it to the dog pound pumping. Looked at that dog pound and treated it like it was a fire hydrant, quite frankly. Showed all the warts and all of this Cleveland Browns offense with banged up tackles and Deshaun Watson coming off of a season where it was yet another question mark for him and the Browns. And all the Cowboys did was just take that and pound it into the ground and turn it into sand and just throw it all over the place like they were ashes. That's what the Cowboys did yesterday with a Cowboys head coach who doesn't have a contract. He's seeing Dak now making 60 million a year. And how Dak performs definitely has a lot to do with what Mike McCarthy conjures up and calls up.

And he called a brilliant football game. They lose Dan Quinn on the defensive side of the football and hire Mike Zimmer back into the fold. It had been a couple of years since Mike Zimmer stood on a sideline and called a single thing. And he took that defense and has in just one game, just one game in, I understand it's just one game.

That defense is absolutely, even without Daron Bland right now, absolutely one of the top five defenses in the NFL and you don't want to see them. It's that simple. That's what the Dallas Cowboys did yesterday and you got to give it up to them and to their level of focus. Honestly, because I thought it's just Jerry Jones who can operate successfully in this world where everything's up in the air and who knows?

I don't know. There's no urgency. There's no level of urgency. And even many people think there's no level of urgency for Jerry to try and win another Super Bowl.

All he's got to do is just make his gajillion dollars and, you know, sell stadium names with the Steinbrenner family and it doesn't really matter that much to him. Sometimes I feel that way. And a lot of Cowboys fans do feel that way. But one game in, this team looked deep and it looked stout and it looked super. And you got to give that up. You got to give up because, you know, the Browns, like I said, held C.D. Lamb to 61 yards receiving. Browns have a good defense. It looked that way many times yesterday. And the Cowboys have a kicker that can knock it through from 60 something yards.

I don't even know why. Why McCarthy didn't let him try a 71 yarder yesterday. I thought he was going to. I thought he was going to tell. That was one of my knocks, Rich.

And you have said this over the years about the time management for the Cowboys has been suspect since McCarthy's been there. And it happened again yesterday. I don't know what was going on. Do it. But yeah, why not? Why not?

Why not? Because because because coaches sometimes have to get a hold of themselves, the better part of themselves. The last thing you want to do is give, I think, Denzel Ward standing underneath the goalposts and opportunity to return. Because that's the thing that can absolutely change the tenor of that game when Cleveland was dying for something like that to happen, because it sure wasn't going to happen based on their own doing offensively or Dallas's own doing defensively wasn't going to happen.

That's a very good point. And you've got to give it up to Dak, man. For Dak to get paid. And find out six hours before the game and then perform in the manner in which he performed, which is just stay within yourself, man. Don't try and do too much. Take what they give you.

Take what they give you and don't try to do too much because you've got to prove you're worth 60 million a year. He was awesome and had this to say about getting paid after the game. Yeah, I mean, when I told you guys Thursday that I was focused on this game, excuse me, that was the truth. I mean, I had one other conversation with my agent after meeting with you guys Thursday. And it was essentially that, yeah, they're working. They're working hard. Can't say that.

I'd say that they were close at the time the last time that I talked to him. But obviously, as I've said and alluded to since back in training camera this spring, my confidence in both sides of this, that that something would get done understanding that that they were hammering at it, that I had confidence in it. But it really wasn't in my mind for me. It was just about getting ready for the Browns, whether it got done today or not, wasn't going to change. The way that wasn't going to affect me, honestly, I've told you guys before, I don't necessarily play. I don't play for the money. I think when you focus and you control what you can control, things like that just happen.

So, yeah, I found out probably an hour I get where I mean, honestly, probably 20 minutes before was publicized to everybody else. And, you know, I don't believe Dak plays for the money, but I do believe he plays for the respect as well. And that's what the money. Indicates the respect. For what he does, how he goes about it, face front.

The slings and arrows one gets when you're Dallas Cowboys quarterback. That's what I would say in response to hearing what he had to say there. But way to go, man. Way to perform. Awesome.

Soup to nuts. And while I'm potentially overreacting, if that's what you think or giving out flowers, which is the way I think there's one other thing I want to say about it. Whatever, because that's the way you got to look at the Dallas Cowboys until I see it in January. That is the end of that. Got to give it up to them when you see an opponent that has got weaknesses and you not only exploit it, you just take your thumb and you stick it in that wound.

You just dig it in deeper. Got to give it up to him. Now do it in January. That's literally everything I'm going to say every single time I see what the Cowboys are doing. Even if they lose a game that they should win and you're wondering, can they do it in January?

Whatever. Bottom line is that's a playoff team. We're going to see him play in a winter. Go home game in January.

If not for your case, hopefully for your case, TJ February. You can put this team 100% if it stays healthy, has what it takes to break the 28 year long drought of not appearing in a championship game weekend. Now go do it. That's it. And that's where you have to leave the Dallas Cowboys week to week to week, man.

Whatever. But we're on to the Saints on the move on to the Saints. And then you got the you got the Baltimore Ravens. Then you got a Thursday night game at the Giants. Oh, my goodness gracious. And then you're visiting Pittsburgh home for Detroit.

Now, let's go for that one. Before we get to Richard Sherman, the Detroit Lions looked like they could get got last night. The Rams are a really good team, man. Gosh, is Matthew Stafford. When you watch him sling it at the top of his game, it is just fun to watch. I think even Torrico said it's just fun to watch. Took a lot of hits last night. Dude, when he's no look, I know that because they're banged up on their offensive line already. Pukunakua got carted off, man. So awful to see.

But fresh reminder, Healthy Cooper Cup is first ballot Hall of Fame type player. Oh, dude. Oh, my goodness. First ballot. Oh, pal.

I don't know about some point. Listen, he looked great yesterday. Cooper Cup at the top of his game back is one hundred percent a first ballot Hall of Famer if you're including the consistency of it. This dude, 14 catches, one hundred plus yards. He's open every single time McVeigh can scheme him open.

Doesn't even matter if he's open. Even if he's not, that toe tap was. Oh, my God. That toe tap is already your clubhouse leader of best catch of the season.

Toe drag swag of the year. That was unreal. By the way, the best throw of the year is Anthony Richardson to Alec Pierce.

So far as you're in your in your clubhouse later while we're just talking about this sort of thing. No doubt. Against the Texans, who came up with a nice week one on the road division win, which the fun digs. But that said, Rams showed up looking like the Rams did in last year's playoffs. OK. And defensively, they were doing it for Sean McVeigh.

And if there is one thing about Sean McVeigh's game, I would just look, which is kind of crazy to say, because this guy, five out of seven years, he's taken teams the playoffs, some that you expect, some that you don't like last year and can less need pick players who who who can play together and be coached up. Yes. The answer to that is yes. Now, McVeigh just gets a little too aggressive. You know, when they have the ball and all they got to do is take the air out of it.

Right. It's always a tough conundrum. You know, you got to keep the clock moving, but you also can't just go into a shell. You can't just go three and out. It just seems that he sometimes can't get that sequence right.

Last night was one of them. The Lions took advantage of that, kicked a field goal, went into overtime and won the game with 100 percent. Dan Campbell football.

Come out, get Raymond running around the end, a little dipsy do try and get, you know, some defensive eyes one way, go the other way and then just ram it down your throat. They passed it one time to Jamir Gibbs, ran it one time to Jamir Gibbs and then ran it five times with David Montgomery. Smash mouth, nine yards per carry, five carries, forty five yards.

That's all she wrote. Lions come up with a big win at home to start the season for them. Fans going nuts. Week one, this is the first time this offense played together. Jamison Williams showed up, showed out. They've got everything going for him, especially that five up front. And if Goff doesn't make a mistake, they're going to be tough to beat. Certainly when Dan Campbell is handing the football to a guy that is a perfect extension of his mantra.

After we ran the conditioning test and whatever that was, July 26th, I guess, you know, the day before we started our first practice. And he was he just, man, you talk about a guy who was in outstanding shape. Look, all of our guys were. But this guy just looked I mean, he looked like he didn't break a sweat for this thing. And the first few days of practice, he doesn't look fatigued. He just and so he's in unbelievable shape. He's worked, worked extremely hard. And and he's just man, he's reliable.

He's reliable. He runs heavy. He's tough. He's physical. He gets in a rhythm. And I think he's a catalyst for us. You know, he starts carrying it and he gets better and better. And I think the line feeds off of him and he feeds off of them and and we get what we get.

So that guy's a stud. And so are the Lions and they're going to be tested over the next four games, man. Their next game is against the Buccaneers at home. Another rematch from last year's playoffs. And the Bucks look terrific in week one at Arizona, which looked terrific in week one in Buffalo, despite succumbing. Then they're home for Seattle.

And then after a buy at Dallas, look out. We have got some great football in the weeks and the first month ahead, certainly with the Lions coming up with the W. And same thing with the Bears and same thing with the Vikings. Sure enough, the Packers are the only team in the NFC North to lose week one. And they're the ones who are going to have to go into the next few weeks and month without their starting quarterback. Something we'll talk about over the next three hours, not just with our guests, Richard Sherman coming up, but also with Julian Edelman, Chris Long and you at eight four four two oh four rich number to dial. The football season is back. Everybody don't go anywhere. We will talk about it with another future Hall of Famer in Richard Sherman of Amazon Prime Video Thursday Night Football.

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How about it? We're back. You know, watched Michigan get dismantled by Texas, then watched the same happen to our friend Prime with Nebraska.

In between, it felt a little bit better to watch Notre Dame lose to Northern Illinois. That was kind of a shocker. Wow.

That's always fun. Yeah, that was wow. It's kind of like their App State in a way. Yeah, that was wow. You know, except App State was division two and Michigan was ranked one, other than that.

Then, you know, then Sunday, game day morning into eight early, four late, one on NBC. And now here we are talking about it. It was great. We're so back. Did you do anything else? No, absolutely not. TJ, did you do anything else?

For football? No, just this weekend. Because, you know, you're always like, you don't leave the house. I did leave the house. Oh, you did? And I watched football. This guy went to the barn yesterday.

It was glorious. Oh, this guy. He put it on the Gram. What does that mean, this guy? He put it out there for everyone to see.

A little flex. Yeah, by the way, I saw Ashton Sheehy showing up. He did another show. I mean, at some point, TJ, we have to question whether you do know him.

Look, I feel the same way. I mean, I'm not even asking him anymore. Oh, you are asking him then? I have. Oh, okay.

Not lately. I don't know. I don't know.

I'll get him here eventually. At some point. Let's hope. By the time for Three and a Half Men? The reboot? I'm just trying to think. The reboot.

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Call clickgrainger.com or just stop by. He is the five-time Pro Bowl or Super Bowl champion and one of the analysts for Prime Video Thursday Night Football. Joining us here in advance of dolphins and bills to kick off the Thursday night season. Just three days time, none other than future Hall of Famer Richard Sherman here on the program. How are you doing, Richard? I'm good, Rich.

How are you? It's been too long. It's been too long.

It's always too long. Football is back. What is your football viewing world?

What does that look like on a Sunday? Where are you? Where are you taking it in? I'm at home, but I got a nice setup.

I got to give myself credit for that. I got a really nice setup. I got red zone on one TV. I usually have whatever, you know, NBC or, you know, ESPN has this whole thing going on right now. But I watch I try to keep every game I can at the same time. But a lot of times red zones make sure you at least get the highlights you need.

So I have a good time. So what did you pick up from bills or dolphins yesterday that you're you're eager to see how they can follow up on it coming just in a few days on your network? Well, I mean, Buffalo Buffalo, I didn't expect them to be in such a such a dogfight with Arizona.

I mean, Arizona's done a really good job over the years making these games competitive. Kyler did a good job. I mean, obviously, they didn't get Marvin as involved as I'm sure they wanted to, but I was anxious to see how they would do with so many of their their stalwart like foundational pieces gone. You know, your Jordan Poyer is gone.

Your Micah Hides are gone. Leonard Floyd is gone. There's so many guys that Trudavious White who's been there forever is gone.

Then you got Stefan Diggs and Gabe Davis both gone. And so how is how is Josh Allen going to respond to that? Because this is kind of like his moment when Tyreek, I mean, when Josh Josh, when Pat Mahones lost Tyreek Hill and everybody's like, hey, this is his moment to prove like he's a guy he's with with or without Tyreek Hill. He's the reason that this offense goes and obviously he's gone over and beyond his ability to show that. This was Josh Allen. This is Josh Allen's year to be able to show the same thing. And I think he did a good job of putting the team on his back yesterday. Yeah. And and then the Dolphins, your your two cents on on to getting paid and his performance in week one, maybe based on on the pressure he might be putting on himself, unless you think that's insignificant.

Richard? No, no, definitely not insignificant. I mean, when you get paid, there's so much pressure on you, because regardless of how you played before, people are going to have an opinion about how you play after. And they're going to say, hey, he's not as hungry, he's not preparing the same way. If you don't come in in shape, like he he doesn't care as much, he doesn't have the same passion.

He's not as hungry. And, and the big the biggest storyline, obviously, that everybody knew was just how Tyreek was going to respond to the adversity and the chaos that he dealt with earlier in that day. And now Kaleis Campbell saying they put him in cuffs, too. And you know, that's such a distraction for a team on game day, especially with the best player on your team, getting put in handcuffs, and then the rest of the team, like, you know, as a human being, people are like, Oh, man, how's my fantasy going to do?

And how's this going to do as a human being? You're like, bro, like, it's stressful. I'm sure that that was like a stressful ordeal. He's getting embarrassed publicly, right at the stadium, everybody's coming to watch with probably his jersey on. And he has to deal with this and then go to the stadium and try to try to put it all to the side, put it all behind him, get motivated for this game, get locked in and perform at a really high level. I mean, that's really tough to do, and you got to get take your hat off to him because he was able to do that and not only execute, but but really blow this game open late with that ADR touchdown. And it was cool that, you know, the celebration, everything was hilarious because the touchdown was so long. He had to wait for the crowd was pretty much done. Everybody was like ready for the field goal by the time he was celebrating. But that was a really cool moment, I thought. And I love how he how he downplayed it and, you know, didn't attack anybody, didn't didn't try to try to make it more of a situation than it was.

But as a human being, I felt for him. Well, in terms of that, just so you're aware, this just happened in the last five minutes per Jeff Darlington of ESPN. Tyrique received two citations, careless driving and a seatbelt violation.

And Kaleis Campbell, who said that police briefly detained him for disobeying a direct order, did not end up receiving a citation. What were your thoughts when you heard about this story first blush on Sunday? I did.

I didn't know. You know what I mean? You try not to be knee jerk reaction to things like that, because, you know, you get a eight second clip of Tyrique getting arrested on the ground, on the hot pavement in Miami. You're like, I think there whatever he did, I think there's a better way to do it. I think there's a better way. You don't have to put him face down on the concrete in Miami.

I don't know how hot it was, but I'm guessing it was really hot. And so then you see another clip of a guy kind of leaving his bike and kind of roughing him up a little bit. You're like, was that really necessary? I don't think so. It didn't look like it was necessary.

But I also don't have the full scope, so I can't pass judgment. But I you know, you you you you got a seatbelt violation means you're just going to be an a-hole. I don't I don't remember anybody. Like, when's the last time you heard of somebody getting a seatbelt violation, Rich?

I don't know. Even did you see him without a seatbelt on and that's what you pulled him over for. And now it's reckless driving. How recklessly can you be driving in in game day traffic? I just don't see you driving too recklessly.

Have you ever been in game day traffic? You can't go more than five, six miles, 10 miles an hour. You know, where is he going to go? And that's perfectly fine. Like you can cite him. But do you need to put him in handcuffs to write him a citation? You need to put him face down on a pavement to write him a citation. I don't think you do. And so I think they said something about the officer getting put on administrative duties or something.

Yes. And it's just unfortunate. It's just unfortunate. You know, you don't want to see Tyreek put in that situation. You don't want to see the cops put in that situation. You know, they're just trying to do their job and keep people safe, which you respect. You know, it's a hard job.

You got to do it. But just certain aspects of it just didn't make sense. Putting him on the hot pavement. I don't think that's necessary. Yeah, he is. That's what Jeff Darlington of ESPN saying that one of the officers on the scene remains on administrative duty. And that had to have been the sole conversation in the locker room before the game, right? On the field, too.

Both teams. Right. I imagine. For sure. Right. No question. No question. I mean, it has to be. And that's a distraction.

On game day, it's hard enough to win football games when all you're focusing on is football. And so I'm sure when we get on the desk on TNF tonight at 7 p.m. Eastern on Thursday, I'm sure it's going to be another topic of conversation because I'm sure a little bit more light is going to be shed on it. A little bit more information is going to be out there. Maybe the dash cam or the body cam footage is going to be out. And it's an unnecessary distraction for a team, especially when you're you're working traffic around the stadium. You know, it's not like he got arrested, like far away, you know, he got arrested right near the stadium.

And so at that point, if you're an officer, you I'm sure it's up to your discretion to say, hey, hey, we're going to write you a ticket. I know you got to go, but hey, you you you you were driving too crazy. I'm sorry to bother you on game day. Well, I'm not sorry because you shouldn't be driving crazy.

Write you a citation and let him go on about his day. I just don't I really want to hear the conversation about how he's face down on Peyton. Richard Sherman here from Thursday Night Football on Prime Video, few minutes left with with with him. You know what it's like to defend a Super Bowl championship and come awful close to defending two of them in a row. What do you think are the challenges for the Chiefs here, Richard?

This year? I mean, it's nothing new for him. So the challenge is boredom, honestly, rich. It's human nature. The challenge is boredom. It's the challenge is not getting bored with the mundane. And I know it sounds crazy, but they kind of got bored a little bit last year until the playoffs. And then they turned it on and they didn't look bored anymore. And they started to lock in and they executed at a high level one Super Bowl.

And I think it's just human nature. Any time you're dominant, anytime you're you have success consistently, you feel at ease. And I'm it looks like the front office didn't feel at ease because they draft Xavier worthy. He looks like he fits right into what they want him to do. They may add to a whole nother dynamic that they have not had since Tyreek Hill left, makes their offense incredibly explosive defensively.

You let luxurious need go. That was incredible. That was tough to watch. And I'm sure tough for four spags to take in because he's been so consistent and he's a homegrown talent for those guys. But they let him go. They still have McDuffie. They still have Watson.

They still have a lot of capable players over there. And it's cool to just see them continue to have success, continue to play at a high level. Obviously, Patrick's playing at like when you see somebody throwing around the back passes in the National Football League, even if it's in a preseason game, you're just scratching your head like, wow, they they they're trying to keep it fun. They're trying to keep it fun. And I respect Andy Reid for evolving over time and evolving to to his to his personnel and to the guys that he's dealing with, because sometimes as a coach, I'm sure you yourself are like, hey, these this is the way I've always done it. This is the way we're going to do it.

And it looks as though from the outside looking in that Andy Reid is is is being flexible and catering to what his players need and and coaching the team that he has, not the team that he wants to have. I love that boredom. Because again, just to bring this all full circle, you know, there are humans in these pads and underneath the helmets.

And you know that, yeah, the the mundane, the practice, the the blood, sweat and tears on a Tuesday or a Wednesday if there's, you know, no days off for on a Tuesday. Right. I mean, like that's the sort of stuff when you've got two in the case.

You know, I don't need to do it here because, you know, we'll just flip a switch to get the third in the case and then then you get got like that's right. And that's real rich stuff. There's some guys who've never know who don't know what it means to get put out of the playoffs. You know what I mean? It is taking care of your body. It's the daily massages. It's the extra stretching. It's the extra film work. Like, are you are you still on the small details that made you guys a champion or are you like, man, I mean, I got it now. You know what I mean?

I've been in the Super Bowl twice. I don't need to watch the extra two, three hours of film. I don't need to do the extra stretching.

I don't need to get the extra massage or do the Pilates that I always have been doing to keep my to keep my limbs, to keep my body limber, to keep my joints functioning the way they should be like. It's everybody. And you just don't need it from four or five guys. You need it from 50 guys. Last one for you, Richard. I'm sure you'll be talking Thursday night about Tua's comments to Dan Lebatard about Brian Flores and Mike McDaniel being two different types of coaching styles and him responding best to one, including the current one. What were your what was your opinion on that? I'm sure you'll be chopping that up Thursday night. Yeah. Yeah.

We'll definitely be talking about it. I mean, it's just it's just a different day and age and it's a different it's different coaching styles because they said this coaching style would never work. You know, if you talk about 15 years ago, 20 years ago, football and a guy sitting there like talking to players pretty reasonably playing music at practice, like being they'd be like, he's too much of a player's coach, like, what is he doing? He's listening to his players know him and tell him they're wrong and coach him like that. You know, it's it's that's the style of coaching like Belichick. If you talk to Tom, Tom's like, hey, I got coach like that.

And I responded well to it perfectly fine. That's how the game has been coached for a really long time. And then it changed somewhere like it might have been Pete, because Pete doesn't coach like that.

Pete Carroll coaches very optimistically. You know, there isn't a lot of lot of cursing. There's not a lot of yelling. There's correction.

There's a you made a mistake. This is what we want you to do. But it's in a very positive and reassuring way.

It's not like, hey, if you don't get it done, we're going to find somebody to get it done. Right. You know, and so.

Yeah. No, no. Sorry.

I thought you were done. Go ahead. Please continue. Go ahead. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's just it's just a different style. And I and I respect him being being honest and candid about it. Richard, I appreciate it. You know, I love to get more time with you in the future. I enjoy watching you on Thursday night.

Say hi to the whole crew and and have a good time down there in South Florida. I appreciate you, Rich. Always love seeing you, brother. I'll see you soon.

Right back at you. That's one of the best. Richard Sherman right here on the Rich Eisen Show.

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These guys are only human. All right. Let's let's take a break. We come back. I've got a fan, the fan base that I believe that needs a hug the most after week number one in the National Football League season. And that's well in advance of the Jets playing the 49ers tonight. Come on. You're fine.

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That's minute tickets, lowest price guaranteed. Are you still playing fantasy football? You still doing it? I not really. No, I, I, I, I'm in a league, but I don't, I don't control it when my buddies controlled it for me. Well, cause I know we've had conversations about this before and that there are some interesting I guess, tasks that the loser of this league must undertake. So are you, if you lose, even though you're not part of the day to day, they'll hold me to it. I don't even know if I could tell you who's on my team right now, but if I were to lose, they would, they would absolutely hold me to it and we'd have to go take care of business.

What are some of the fails that I guess that you have to go to some of the responsibilities of the losers of your league? What is it? Uh, last year the loser, uh, had to go to Alaska for a day. What do you mean? Like for a day? Yeah. For a day? Yeah.

Okay. They went to a place called Nome, Alaska where the Iditarod, it goes through there, I think. So regardless of the geographic spot in the United States would have to, for a day, get on a plane and, and prove per proof of purchase of the ticket and then take a photo. Like how do you, I mean, there's, there was tasks involved. There was, I think he went in March, um, but it was, it was, yeah, it was a whole thing. And that was just one year, that was just last year, this year, it'll be entirely different. What other previous, uh, years, any other examples? Cause that's amazing.

You have to go to Nome, Alaska. The year before the loser, you know, uh, Parcel Sports does the rough and rowdy, the boxing deal. He fought in that at the Super Bowl, the year we were there, he was, he was fighting in the, in the, in the boxing on Friday night, uh, before the game there. Oh my gosh. You do not want to lose your fantasy league. No, you don't.

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What time is it? Game time football season, as we know, is underway and you might start to think about some fan bases that need a hug. I'm a huggy guy. I have, you know, sometimes fans will call in and they'll say, oh, I'm so upset about this subset that I might, we, we, we offer him a bro hug. You're the king of the virtual hug, which is, you know, we, we, we, we extend our arms. We reach out, we just, you bring them in tight, tap, tap in the back. And then we, we go a separate ways. Nice to know you. But I think these, these fan bases already need like a real hug.

And the one in particular, now you could sit here and say, it's gotta be the Carolina Panthers, you know, there are several, I mean, well, the one thing that actually went well for the Carolina Panthers yesterday is the fact that Caleb Williams didn't come out like CJ Stroud house of fire. Sure. Okay.

He looked, he looked, uh, human. Yeah. Okay. The bears won without scoring an offensive touchdown. Not a lot went right. And they still won.

They still won. Okay. So, so here, here, here, here's the way I'm going to go with this one.

Cause Carolina, I mean, the saints just curb stomped him. Oh man. Okay. I'm thinking, I'm thinking, you know, David Tepper, the owner is, is, is notorious for having a quick, you know, a trigger finger. I'm just wondering, you know, I hope Dave Canales is okay today. You know, save that for later, Rich, that's an overreaction Monday subject matter for our podcast later on.

Okay. Now the fan base I'm thinking about is the New York football Giants. Cause yesterday was terrible and, and, and it, and it came on the heels, it's been polite, came on the heels of Saquon's first game as an Eagle. Now when Saquon scored for a second time on Friday night, my fantasy team jumped for joy in the Brazil game.

Well, J Jaden Reed was going toe for toe back and forth. As a matter of fact, just to not digress, you need a few points for the Niners defense to actually survive the week between us. But that's, nobody cares about that. And the same way that, by the way, Giants fans were responding to me saying, this is a nightmare for Giant fans.

They're like, not a nightmare. We've turned the page. We don't care. I got that from a ton, a ton of people making to think it's, it's, it's, they were basically saying it's a YP. Like it's, it's a, it's a, your problem. Like is it, it's my problem, like Rich's problem, honestly, like, wait a minute.

I'm just saying this. Like the owner of the Giants, John Mara, co-owner of the Giants, John Mara was on hard knocks basically saying, I don't want to see him walk to Philadelphia and he goes to Philadelphia and he scores three times, three, one in the air on a beautiful grab and then two on the ground. And he was dominant and he storyline number three on the, under the radar storyline, number three of the NFL 2024 season. As I said last week was not how will Saquon do, but can he plus up the Eagles like McCaffrey plussed up the Niners, okay.

Got a championship team already there, went to the Super Bowl two years ago and an offense that's chock full of stars and he joins him and just turbocharges him. One week in kind of looks that way. And the Giants fans then watch the Giants show up in their old school uniforms where a couple of times yesterday, I thought they weren't wearing pants. I thought they were wearing shorts, they were wearing shorts.

By the way, I love the Wolverine look on the helmets because this is old school. It's their 100th season and they rolled everybody out. They rolled everybody out. LT was there. Did I see Parcells was there?

I just saw, they rolled everybody out. The Vikings are in town and it looked like they were wearing shorts, like John Stockton shorts. And I'm like, what the hell's going on?

I'm like, oh no, that's just the tan color of the pants. And then offensively they looked dreadful, dreadful. And then the quarterback that came in and looked efficient and killed it while Daniel Jones threw a couple of interceptions and, or a couple of, the Vikings intercepted him a couple of times.

Let's put it that way. And Malik Nabors was, you know, trying to make plays, but really not have no opportunities. The guy that came in and didn't miss was the guy who once upon a time famously saw ghosts in there and Sam Darnold. So Darnold's coming in and he's throwing it around in front of Giants fans who watched him flunk out on the Adam Gase team, that guy showed up. One week in, 19 to 24, as efficient as it gets, Vikings look great. They had Aaron Jones, they had someone else's running back from in division, just like the Eagles had from them. So Giants fans, you may not want it from me.

Maybe those on X were like, you know, pound sand. We don't care. We turned the page.

We're onto something else. Sure you have. I'm going to give you a hug no matter whether you want it or not.

Reach around and give you a hug and tap, tap. I know that doesn't sound great if you just actually took that, wrote it down. And then, and then Dexter Lawrence, this is a tough one too. This is what gets blown up in the New York media and then apologies get sent out. This is what he had to say.

It was very, he knew he was being baited and saying something he didn't want to say. Hit it. Fans did not seem very happy. A lot of points in this game. Could you hear that on the sideline? Could I hear the fans? Yeah.

I mean, you know, however many fans there are. Yeah. Booing at home. Yeah. Could I hear them? Yeah. Can you get another question, please?

Do you pay? What do you make of that? What do you make of the point? I mean, I don't respect it, honestly. I get it.

They want to see their team win. You know, this is just a rough patch. I mean, it just is what it is. Moments ago, Brian Dabble just said Daniel Jones will be the starting quarterback in week two. Yeah, he's going to be. I mean, obviously it's just week two.

It's just one, you take it, bury the tape, honestly. They're going down to Washington next week. That's a pretty big game for both teams. Can the Giants turn around and look much better? Absolutely.

Absolutely. But right now, I think Giants fans need a hug. You can laugh all you want. I don't.

I'm not laughing. They do need a hug. That's why I'm offering them up a hug. It's really bad. And just in case, as I just spent the last few minutes talking about how the Giants fan base needs a hug, people might think I can't look in a mirror.

Michigan Wolverine football fans. That was, what's the word for it? Not good.

Those are two words. That was bad. That was ugly on Saturday. And listen, Texas looks phenomenal.

I want to give a tip of my cowboy hat to my friends in Austin, and I'm not saying this to try and soften a blow or anything like that. They remind me of Michigan last year. A team with a quarterback who's returning with a huge NFL potential, a head coach who can dial it up with some NFL pedigree as well, fresh off a national semifinal loss that stings.

Because prior to Saturday, Michigan's last loss was that national semifinal game against TCU. And a terrific defense and playmakers all over the lot and an offensive line that can road grade. Oh my God, they have, Quinn Ewers is excellent.

He is just terrific, man. And Texas, did you see Sark came in in a burnt orange suit, in a black shirt? That guy knew he had the better team coming into that stadium. And they did. And they do. And they do.

And they are superb. And clearly, the recipe for short-term success is not to lose 18 players to the NFL and have an offensive line that had collectively amongst the five guys about 250 games played down to less than 50 with a walk-on quarterback and a bunch of players trying to learn who they are together. And a defensive coordinator in Wink Martindale who might maybe have to adjust to the college game as well, because Sark just took them apart, took them apart on Saturday. And I'll be honest with you, I'm surprised Nebraska's ranked lower than Michigan. I kind of think that's based on just past years. You take a look at what Nebraska's looked like and what Michigan's looked like in the first two weeks. Yeah, the first couple weeks of the college rankings is kind of a feel-out situation.

I was surprised. I mean, that kid, Dylan Raiola, just took a part prime in the first half in Nebraska. And they've looked really good. They look like one of the top five teams in the Big Ten.

So I'm giving them flowers too. And it's going to be a rough week on the bus for Taylor, I think. With Nebraska looking that way and Michigan looking the way Michigan looked like on Saturday.

And you know, U.S. season a couple weeks, Oregon's on the schedule. The Ohio State, Garrett Wilson tweeting out that Michigan looks like ass. Have some fun right now, folks. But I'll just tell you, last year is the greatest year ever. And I don't care what anybody is tweeting at me. I don't care what I'm seeing in response.

I don't care. That's the greatest. Last year was the greatest. But this year, it's just a different team. And Texas looks exactly like Michigan did last year. Yeah, Texas looks like a Final Four.

No question about it. Possible championship team, yeah. With NFL players all over the place, and they did lose some too, man. They did.

They did. Quinn Ewers is the Heisman favorite right now. Well, a kid from Miami's got to be in that mix too. Yeah, yeah. It's him.

It's him. Kim Ward from Miami and Carson Beck from Georgia. It's their top three right now. And I hope Chidor is OK. He got banged up again. Shiloh had surgery.

Dion tweeted out on his arm. You know. But I think everybody in Maize and Blue needed a hug Saturday night. I know I felt like I needed a win. That was a tough one to watch. But hey, I will sign going 20 months in between losses.

I'll sign for that anytime. You feel worse about Michigan losing or better that Notre Dame lost? Oh, great question, Chris. Oh, much better than Notre Dame. Are you kidding me?

Just checking. Oh, my God. Coop and I were high five, and we became Northern Illinois fans on the spot.

And by the way, that coach, the coach who was on DP show. So incredible. His reaction. And by the questions from the sideline reporter as well, to notice that he was crying and just let the moment breathe. It was great.

It was. That's why you watch sports. That's why you love sports, to see a team go into Notre Dame, Notre Dame and and mop mop it up right when lock it up. And collect a million and a half dollars from them as well for the right to beat them in their home stadium. Here's your check. Here's and we'll take it down. We will take the win and your money.

Yes, in South Bend. That was great. Now, that was a nice soft landing. I appreciate you catering to my spite, sir. I know who I'm talking to. So yes, that was much more enjoyable than me feeling. I mean, that was a higher high than the lower low.

So fantastic. When we come back, I'll just keep eating crow. Of week one moments where I think I might have spoken too soon.

That's coming up with Julian Edelman in hour number two and Chris Long in hour three. It's fine. You can come to the national championship parade that's going to happen in Syracuse in about like four months. I like it, though. It's pretty cool. I gotta say, it's like I haven't been this excited about college football for my school in a while.

20 plus years. Who'd you beat this week? I didn't pay attention. Georgia Tech. They were ranked. Oh, that's right.

Okay. They came into the dome and we were pounding them. And then, you know, our defense is not great. We can't really tackle well. So they made it close at the end.

Yeah. But we still hung on. We're ranked 29th this week. We got votes. You were in others? We're in others.

Others receiving votes. Kyle McCord has lightened it up 800 yards and eight touchdowns in two games. That's good for him. That's fun.

It's just fun to be excited about your college football team, as you very well know. Nice. Dude. And then that's plus one across the street. Jim plussing them up by one. Plus one. I mean, they're minus four. They're minus four. Yeah. Okay. We got one.

We got one towards the plus and up. I mean, it wasn't great. It was a boring...

Wait, wait, wait. They didn't win week one last year. Plus one.

It was a boring grinded out victory. Plus one, baby. Plus one.

J.K. Dobbins, I think, just scored again. By the way, that's the strangest of bedfellows. If you had told me that Jim would be back in the NFL and Joey Bosa and J.K. Dobbins would help Jim on the way to his first career win as a Charger head coach, strange bedfellows because those two were the ones who put Jim in the dumpster for all those years. Yep. You know how it felt as a Raider fan? Oh, baby. We'll talk about that. Oh, no. Nice.

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