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If you miss anything, there's a lot of backstop for you. Creed Humphrey, the front man of the Kansas City Chiefs. He's the one who touches the football first and then snaps it to Patrick Mahomes. Very famous hands throw it to another very famous.
There's a lot of famous hands in the Kansas City Chiefs. By the way, one week from today, we will in fact be fully knowledgeable of the first game's results. That's another way of saying the season's underway one week from today. And we will also be finishing up our three show residency in the great football loving city of Kansas City, Missouri. We will be there. Hopefully you will be able to join us and hang out with us, whether you're watching us or pounding on the window or whatever. I don't know what the situation is, but it's going to be awesome there next week. First day's guests on our Wednesday show scheduled to appear. Clark Hunt, the owner of the Kansas City Chiefs, the man who's signing the checks for Creed Humphrey, the man with the richest contract for center in the history of the National Football League. And then Eric Stonestreet will welcome. Basically, we've got the owner of the Chiefs and then the de facto mayor of Kansas City, walking us to the great city.
Part owner of the Royals. That's correct. We're on fire lately. Right. So that's that's how we're rolling Creed Humphrey's up first.
And then we've got both running backs that we expect to see touching the football for the Rams quite a bit. The punt returner, Kyron Williams, will ask about him punt returning punts when he zooms into the show. And then in our three in studio, truly one of my favorites, another one of my de facto children, one of my favorite players in the history of Michigan football, Blake Corum, will be here to hang with us in person. Bellackey.
That's right. Bellackey. Bellackey will be here. Tom Pelissero in between. Tommy P., who's been hanging out with the Good Morning Football crew here in Los Angeles all week. We're on, by the way, on the Roku Sports Channel after Good Morning Football overtime every single day. Good to see you over there, Chris Brockman. How are you?
I'm great, man. It's Friday. Football's back. Man, some college games last night. It was awesome.
That's right. Travis Hunter put on a show. Man, that was awesome. I'm so psyched to be here. And DJ Mikey Diaz and Deez Nuts is not here today. So Jay Felley, good to see you, sir. How are you? What's up, Rich? I'm great. I'm good. And T.J. Jefferson, candlesled.
Good to see you. Travis Hunter, Heisman Trophy. That's it. That's all I got to say right now. We'll give it to him.
Good to know. 844-204-R. By the way, apologies to Ronnie Rivers, who's third on the depth chart of the Rams. He couldn't make it today. Well, I mean, there's got to be a cutoff. That's what I'm saying. We can't take everyone crazy. We're just one, two depth chart guys. If you're third on the depth chart, apologies.
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We will also now, having predicted all four divisions in the NFC, we will turn to the AFC and we will predict the AFC East before we go out the door of this Labor Day weekend. 844-204 Rich, number to dial. Guys. Rich. Quiz. Pop quiz. What do I like more than being accurate? Being right.
That's correct. Now, you might say accurate and right are the same things. Kind of?
Well, accurate is, is, you know, being factual. Maybe recounting a story. Breaking news. Breaking. Being right is having a take and or predicting and then being, being correct.
For instance, the two things that you can mix the two. For instance, on a very small level, a smaller level, a smaller level that earlier this month when Michael Pennix Jr. wasn't playing in the final two preseason games for Atlanta, a lot of people are like, what gives? Is this just yet another weird instance of the Falcons and Michael Pennix being in a very weird sentence together for a weird story in a weird moment that started weirdly by them actually drafting the kid?
One would think he would need some reps. Not to like basically treat him like a starting quarterback saying you're not playing. And I'm like, well, what makes sense is if they're showcasing Taylor Heineken, that somebody out there might think that they need to beef up their quarterback room and or depth chart that they see their starter go down or in the case of, let's just say the Chargers, their Chargers saw their starter go down and back and they might have been a little bit hanky with who was right behind Justin Herbert. And so now they're, wait for it, Heineke right behind Herbert. Boom. Who got traded? Boom.
Who got traded? Heineke. Boom. Hit him with the Heineke. That's our boy.
That is our boy. We've been shirtless with Heineke before. So when the story of the non-playing seasons last couple of months, let's put it that way, pretty much from draft day on about Brandon Aiyuk and the 49ers. And I sat here saying, listen, guys, the one thing Brandon Aiyuk is not going to do is hold out all 17 games. And I don't even think he's going to hold out week one. Jets and Sauce Gardner are in the building for week one Monday night.
Brandon Aiyuk's number 11 will be right across from Sauce or whomever the Jets choose to guard him with because he's going to be there. Now, it looked a little dicey when there were trade offers that were out there, but I was just so sure that he wasn't going to hold out all season long that I said I would eat a pair of whatever Mike Del Tufo was wearing. Literally anything we choose. Anything you choose.
And I was going to choose something real nasty. I know that. You know, after like an afternoon on the boat, you know what I mean? All day at Fox, then at the boat. Yeah, that's right.
The next day. Selfies. Selfies all day. Yeah, with his toothy selfies.
His $40,000 teeth. Del Tufo's Chiclets. Eating Del Taco at Sea. Guess what I'm not doing?
My Del Tufo doesn't have two outfits. Guess what I'm doing? None of that? All right, you're good.
I'm really disappointed in you. Brandon Iuchas signed after all of this. He signed. We got deprived, Chris.
Four years, a buck twenty. The fans got deprived. Listen, you know, it's just, you know, the business of the NFL just gets dumb and stupid and silly. It's not even a midnight league. It's like 1.30 a.m. Well, 1.30 a.m. would have been, you know, Tuesday the 10th, you know what I mean?
September. But he's in. He's going to be there. Now, Niner fans are freaking out.
Many of them are texting me. What about Trent Williams? That'll get done, too. You got all the answers? That'll get done, too.
Don't get it done. That one seems a little bit more contentious. Maybe. Who knows?
Come on. They know they need him. He's going to play.
They'll figure it out. Although, you know, he wants total Washington. Yeah, he bounced. You know, I'm not coming. And he hasn't been there. Ayuk was holding in. Williams is holding out. I'm unconcerned for you 49er fans. OK? I think the 49ers will be loaded and stacked and you might be right, Chris, about how you know, you look around and you on the Overaction Monday podcast said that their window to win the Super Bowl is going to close after this year.
I push back on that. But I'm just saying this is their last year of being able to pay pretty much everybody. So somebody is going to eat it. Somebody is going to be gone.
Because Perky is about to get his. All eyes on Deebo Samuel if he might be gone after this year. But they're going to be loaded for bear this year.
And the 49ers are going to be NFC contenders again. This just did. But I signed shocker. I'm not I'm not I'm not I don't even waste Tomlin's time when he was on on I know on our zoom with him like, hey, what about Ayuk?
I don't even waste it. Yeah. Plus, because, you know, coaches will just answer. Well, he's on someone else's team.
I'm not tampering or whatever. So that one's done. I'm not concerned about Trent Williams. Even if he's not there for like week one or two and it doesn't look as good, then, you know, then that deadline will move. But I don't I would be stunned if he's not in uniform a week from Monday either.
Ten days to get it done. I'm not concerned. And I think he can just step in anyway.
Eight four four two oh four rich number to dial there. And then there's the the case of deck. This one.
I still don't know. My spidey sense tells me they're not signing them before the season. Yeah, that's what my spidey sense says, that if there's anybody that can stare into the abyss of not having the negotiating hammer because the guy that you're trying to sign has, on his side, a no trade clause and a no franchise tagging clause and has all of the attributes you want to have in a starting quarterback in the NFL, which is great character, great community sense, great locker room sense, great game sense. If there's anybody who can look at that and say, if I don't sign him, it will cost me more money than it's going to cost me now. And I could run the risk of losing him and alienating him throughout the playing season.
I need him. And if there's anybody that could go ahead and just say, whatever, that's Jerry Jones. It is. Now I don't know if Steven's on the other shoulder saying, we got to get this done Pops.
I don't know because- You'd hope so. Dak Prescott sounds like a guy who is resigned. He doesn't sound like a guy who is in any way, shape or form rattled. He shouldn't be.
He's not rattled. He's resigned. He's going to get paid regardless, right? Well, and the question is by who? Exactly. Right. By whom? This is what he had to say when asked yesterday if the contract that we're all talking about needs to be done prior to the season.
That's Clarence Hill, our friends and guests from yesterday. He gone. I don't know about that either.
I don't know about that either. But what he says that it's an indication of whether it happens or not. If it's an indication of it happens, that means he is wanted in Dallas.
If it is an indication of it does not happen, he will take that as a sign that there is a door that's being opened. And Jerry Jones could sit here and say, it'll get done. Don't worry, Dak.
I see him here. He has essentially, if it's done before the season, and I don't know if Dak has said, I will not entertain contractual talks during the season. I don't want to be distracted by that. I wouldn't blame him if he just puts it in a box and says, that's it. I'm hitting free agency. And I'm going to have the opportunity to pull, if you will, a Joe Flacco.
And kids, I'm not talking about last year's comeback player of the year. I'm talking about the guy who went into a season for the Ravens saying, I'd like mine. The Ravens say, no, the owner is saying, you want yours?
Do what I'd like you to do and then show up at my desk with a bag and I'll fill it. And Steve Basciotti wound up with a bag on his desk and he filled it because Flacco did what he had to do. And what he did in those playoffs, everybody Google that he had one of the best playoffs in the history of playoff quarterbacking ever. And so Jerry would like to have that situation. I'm just wondering, cause I'm just wondering if Dak would do that and then walk. Because I wouldn't blame him for doing that. Certainly if he's sitting here saying like, if it's not done, then it would make me feel the way everybody else is talking about it, which is, it sure looks like the Cowboys aren't giving Dak the proper respect. Now we're saying this without knowing what he's asking for.
And it is crazy thing in our world where when it comes to sports, everybody sides on the side of the very rich management, as opposed to the player, because the player is doing his or her best to get what they want in the small window of opportunity that they have to play sports and have that hammer. And in terms of, you know, this is 22 years that I've done. This is my 22nd season in terms of hammers. Name a hammer, Greg Armand, okay. Great one. Greg, the hammer Valentine. As big as the one that Dak's got?
There isn't one. I've never seen a player have a hammer where you can't trade me. You can't franchise tag me. And if I walk it's $40 million a dead cap on you. I can't recall that.
Great job by Dak's team. And the only hammer that Jerry Jones has is name me another franchise that you can play for as quarterback where that is like center field of the Yankees that is, and name me a better, you know, tax free state to live in and you know what I mean? Like those things comes with it.
Those may not be anything that sways a guy. Or you, you know, play, name me another, I mean, cousins had Justin Jefferson and walked. That's another thing too. You just paid your receiver, so you're not going to pay me again. There is a spot just as cool though, that will have a quarterback opening and as a tax free state and has a legacy fan base.
Las Vegas, Nevada. Yeah. Let's just have a spot open next year. So that's the thing also that there may be some places out there. Yeah, there will be. So this is the one too, so, you know, Jerry said that it doesn't have to be done before the season and you heard him, but again, we, we led this show with, uh, two days ago with him saying, you know, I don't know if the fans know that the DAC is going to have to do more with less. Meaning again that, and I, and, and, and again, no, no other team has to pay as it pays their quarterback top dollar, their wide receiver, top dollar, and their defensive pass rusher top dollar.
The only team that comes close to the chiefs with Chris Jones and Mahomes and Kelsey, but Titans aren't even in the realm of wide receiver. Yeah. So 60 million, 35 million and another 35 million. That's a nice chunk of the cap.
There is less pie. So this is what DAC had. Now, reading this sound bite jumped off the page at me. I have not heard it yet. Okay. So we will see how it sounds, but reading it was just like dismissive. He was asked about what Jerry Jones has been saying publicly. How do you feel about Jerry said the negotiation isn't about your merit as the Cowboys quarterback, but more about their cap situation. What do you take from that when he says, you know, it's not really about what you're doing? Yeah, I understand that that's the business and the nature of this, this game that we play. Um, uh, yeah, I mean, I stopped honestly listening to things that he says to the media a long time ago.
So, um, it doesn't really hold weight with me kind of sounds like how it reads. This is his second go round on this front too. Now then listen, when it all comes down to it, I, I, I, I don't, I don't know if it's going to get done in the next week plus there's still a ton of time and I'm sure this annoys DAC. I'm sure he must, you know, when he hears it from friends or people and he's getting a call from his agent and like, is it over yet? Like where are we?
And he would just love to only talk to his agent about, you know, gigs, you know, family, just chit chatting. That's the way when I'm in a negotiation, I, you know, it just, it just weighs on you. It just weighs on you. And you're like, wait a minute. I know how I conduct my business. I know how I go about my business. I know how much time I've put in here. I know how much I feel what my value is. And I'm here all the time in between contracts about my status and my job and blah, blah, blah, blah.
But what gives, and I can't wait till I'm through on the other side and it just weighs on you every single moment of the day. I'm sure Dak would love to be like getting Miles Garrett questions right now. You know, I won't be terribly thrilled to see Miles crossover dribbling, you know, in a couple Sundays from now, but, uh, but that's, that's the game at least, right? That's the job.
Not like answering questions about this again. And that's again, why you might sit here and think that if he does reach game day two Sundays from now without a new deal, that he could sit here and go, there's gotta be another way to go about life as a quarterback in the NFL. When I'm going to get mine from somebody else, I can run the risk of it not being as popular, not being as good.
I don't have a receiver as good as CD. I don't have a situation as great as the Metroplex. Those are all questions that you can have, but with each passing day, I think he entertains it and you run that risk. Or if you go by what he says about like not taking what Jerry says to the media seriously, maybe they have their behind the door combos. He knows what Jerry's really thinking and he knows that Jerry is like, I've been saying he's playing puppet master and the press, so maybe he's not as concerned because he knows what's really going on.
And Jerry said he's really comfortable with this sort of situation. You know who's not though? The players aren't.
The players aren't. But he's got a hammer, man. The question is, does he swing it? How much does he swing it out? How hard does he swing it?
That looks like a man who's ready to swing a hammer really hard. As long as he's swinging that hammer against the Cleveland Browns, that's all I care about personally. Swinging at the Eagles, swinging at the Giants and watching the football team and the Niners, swing that hammer at them. You do that, you're going to get paid.
So yeah, but let me just ask you this question. If it doesn't go down, the contract, what's it going to look like when he strolls into Pittsburgh week five on a Sunday night, what are they going to be talking about? That they're 4-0, ready to take on the Steelers.
844-204 Rich, number to dial. Let's take a break. Creed Humphrey of the Kansas City Chiefs. We're heading to Kansas City. The Chiefs are heading into a three-peat season.
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Follow and subscribe to Throwbacks on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. You know, frequently as I'm on the run, and I am on the run quite a bit, certainly this time of year, I will just grab something to eat and drive along with it or have some coffee driving along with it, right? Yeah, totally. And I don't know if you do this as well, and anybody out there watching do this as well, that you're drinking a little coffee and then some of it might pop out of the mug, you know, the container, or you're eating something and something drops and hits your shirt, and you're thinking, did I get something on my shirt? And if that ever happens to me, I will slowly look down as if the slowness makes a difference as to whether it's going to leave a stain. Like it's going to be there regardless, but I don't know, I will always, at a red light, not driving, just when I have a shot, I'll just go like, oh my God, is it going to happen? And I think to myself, it's so silly, like why don't I just look down?
It's the slowness. Yeah. Is that, does everyone else do that?
It's not weird, because think about it, when you're watching like a horror movie or something and you, you know, you cover your eyes and then you slowly like- Sure. It's going to happen regardless. Like it's there regardless.
Like the speed of what you're doing is going to take away, eliminate the danger, you know. Okay, so it's not a me thing. No, not that. That's a thing. That's a thing. It's a thing. Do you do, you're not saying- The sooner you see it, you might be able to maybe- That's true. Stop it.
Oh, oh, Jay Fowler. You know, my mom did wardrobes, so there's tricks to- Okay. That's true. Get it. Yeah, you want it to set. Right.
Yeah. But it's just, it's just the silliest thing. It happens all the time and I'm like, I'm just like, oh, okay, maybe if I do it slowly, it's not there. It's not there.
Oh, it's Jay. If it happens all the time, stop being a slob. There's that too. There's that too. Back on the Rich Eisen Show radio network, I'm sitting at the Rich Eisen Show desk furnished by Grainger with supplies and solutions for every industry, Grainger has the right product for you.
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I'm doing well. All right, first things first, Creed. To be honest with you, the radio audience might be confused. Your backdrop is the Chiefs locker room. Are you really in the Chiefs locker room or is that just a backdrop, Creed?
What is it? Oh, yeah, we're in here. Yeah.
We are in the locker room right now. So yeah. It looks pretty empty though.
There's nobody in there? Yeah. It looks pretty clean.
Yeah. No, it's our game day locker room. So yeah, they got it nice and clean for us. So there's, it doesn't look like there's anything in anybody's locker though. So nobody keeps anything in there, Creed? No, we got a facility.
We got a locker room in our practice facility that we use daily. So we got everything over there right now. Then we'll pack up our stuff for the week.
Okay. So very good. What's it going to feel like in that room, do you think, six days from now, Creed? A lot of excitement, you know, a lot of excitement. Obviously there'll be some nerves for some guys, but you know, we're excited to roll, excited to, you know, start a new chapter, start a new season with a new team. It's going to be great.
We're really pumped about it and ready to roll. Have you won anything three years in a row in your life? Anything? Nothing I can think of. Fantasy, you know, you play your siblings in Monopoly or something. Have you ever done that in anything in your life?
Nothing I can think of. It's definitely tough to do in anything you do. So we're excited about it. We're ready to take the bull by the horns and get after it though.
Do you talk about it openly? Not too much. You know, we're more focused on, you know, just getting better every day. We're focused on getting to where we need to be this season. You know, we're kind of in the realm of not talking about the past too much, you know, because we have so many new players. It's a new locker room. It's a new schedule we're playing, new teams we're playing.
So we kind of just look at it as what we can do in the present to get better. So is Andy Reid standing next to you taking notes? Is that what it is? That sounded like a very Andy Reid answer, Creed. Yeah. That's just kind of how our focus is here.
You know, we're locked in, ready to roll and get better every day. Okay. So now let's discuss your relationship with Mahomes.
Do you guys hang out outside of the facility quite a bit too, Creed? Yeah. You know, he's great to be around. You know, great guy, obviously a spectacular player. You know, one of the best to ever do it.
We'll probably go down as the best to ever do it when it's all said and done. He's also just a great person and being able to build a relationship that we have over the past three going on four years now, it's been awesome and it's been a blessing. Yeah. Just getting to know the guy, getting to understand how he works, understand him on a personal level. He's a great human being.
Yeah. There's no closer relationship, literally, figuratively than quarterback and center. So what was the first conversation you ever had with him?
Do you remember? You're drafted out of Oklahoma. You're now, because this was after the season in which Mahomes was running for his life in the Super Bowl. You're part of the plan that Brett Beach, the GM, has to try and protect him. You're brought in and you haven't missed a game since. What's the first conversation you had with Mahomes, Creed?
Yeah. He texted me on draft night when they drafted me and it was just, you know, congrats. Excited to have you and let's get to work. And since then, we've been getting to work. So it's been awesome. It's been a blessing. And yeah, you just getting to see how his mind works on the field, in the film room, all that stuff.
It's been really helpful for me, kind of improving and evolving my game. He's a great guy to be around. So draft night is when you created a new contact for Patrick Mahomes in your phone. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting contact to have. I will say that.
Don't get a text like that very often. So it was cool. I imagine so. So how has he improved your game, Creed? How does he improve the game of his center, right?
Yeah. Just the way he breaks down film. We get to watch film together during the evenings, during the season. So kind of seeing how he breaks down film, how he read defenses, how he sees the field. I've kind of followed suit and that's kind of how I study, reading the entire defense, reading what the scheme is, the coaching tree that the defensive coordinator comes from, all that stuff. It's something that's helped me a lot throughout the past three, going on four years now.
And it's just really cool to see him work. Creed Humphrey here on the Rich Eisen Show, entering a fourth season in the NFL for the Kansas City Chiefs, courtesy of sleep number here on the program. So let's just jump a little bit back to last year. And Christmas Day, we all remember, was the last time you guys lost. And then it seemed like finally a switch got flipped. What happened, Creed, that you can express from last year?
Yeah. That was a tough game to lose, obviously on Christmas, obviously losing to the Raiders. They came out and they played better and harder than us that game. And that was something that was good for us. After that game, we were able to look ourselves in the mirror and kind of tell us, we're not where we need to be in the season. And from then on out, I feel like we really did flip a switch and showed up with the right mentality every day, showed up on game days with the right mentality. And I think from then on out, we were a different team and it was great to see. And you never want to lose a game like that, but it was a blessing in disguise for us because it really woke us up and got us where we needed to be for the playoff run. It did seem like there was more of a focus on the run last year than the pass.
Is that a fair assessment? Yeah. I think we have the guys up front to really do well in the run game. We obviously have incredible backs too with Pacheco, Clyde, Jarrett McKinnon last year too. So we had a great room for that too. And it was something that helped us set the tone for games going late into the season because you can't be successful if you don't have a good run game in the playoffs and late in the season in those big games. So it was really important for us to do that. And I felt like the guys did a great job with it throughout those last few weeks.
And it was fun. Creed Humphrey here on the Rich Eisen Show. Okay.
So for this year, Xavier Worthy is on the team, Hollywood Browns on the team. I saw your tweet that after they drafted, it was a GIF of two very large men, even large larger than you, gasping to keep up with one another running. Is that how you view yourself, Creed? Trying to keep up? Whenever I'm running by them, that is how I view myself.
Yeah. I feel like I'm a pretty athletic guy, but when you get to running by the speed that we have in that room, you never feel athletic. So it's been awesome though, and seeing them work, they've been doing great throughout training camp and everything, and they've improved every day, gotten the playbook down better every day. So it's been a lot of fun, and we're really excited about what Xavier is going to do. He's a heck of a player, and he has the right mentality to be great.
So we're excited. I always feel bad watching you guys run, the linemen run the 40 at the combine, because the 10 yard split is really all you need. You probably haven't run 40 yards in a row since the combine, right? In your life.
Creed? No, not really. Nothing full speed. You do conditioning and stuff where you're running pretty far, but it's never a full out sprint.
Yeah, I haven't done it since, really. Okay, so how much of a head start do you need to maybe stay with Xavier Worthy in the 40? Where's your starting point? I would say at least 10 yards. Maybe I can kind of keep up with him at 10 yards, but that dude can fly, man, and he's a speedy guy. So you could, if you start at the 10, you think you could beat Xavier Worthy in a 40 if you start at the 10? Yeah, I think if I get a 10 yard head start, I feel like I might be able to run a 4-2.
We don't have to figure this out, but yeah. I like it, because again, technology does that for me on NFL Network where they'll give me a head start and he still beat me, but then again, I'm not an all-pro center. So how much of a head start did you have on that? I think they gave me 10 and he still ran straight through me, but I'm still here standing, Creed. I'm still here standing about it.
He's got some speed to him, for sure. What are you doing with Sleep Number? Yeah, so I've gotten to partner with them and I've had a Sleep Number bed since my rookie year and it's something that's really helped me out. I feel like it's been a game changer and I can really tell the difference in recovery and mental sharpness, physical, everything physically. I feel so much better from it compared to what I did in college, because in college I was scrapping together money to find whatever mattress I could to sleep on. I wasn't getting the best sleep then, but I can really tell the difference from the Sleep Number from what I've had then. It's been great over these past three years. I have the app where I downloaded that and I'm able to track how much sleep I get every night, how much restful sleep I'm getting, my breath rate, heart rate variability, all these things. It's gotten to where it's such a crucial part to my game because I need so much mental focus and mental clarity throughout a game, IDing defenses, seeing mic points, setting protections, all that stuff.
I feel like it helps me do that so much because I feel so much more well rested and it's been great. When you were in Oklahoma, you were snapping to Jalen Hurts your last year there? Is that who you were doing that with? Yeah, so I snapped with Kyler in 2018, Jalen in 2019, then Spencer Rattler in 2020. And now Mahomes.
And now Mahomes. I've been pretty lucky. Yeah.
And my red shirt year was Baker. So maybe it's you, Creed? Maybe it's you. I wouldn't say that. No, no, no. Hold on a second. Hold on a second. Hold on a second. I know these quarterbacks are talented in their own right, but somebody has got to be the brains of the operation on the line and somebody has got to be able to snap the ball to them properly.
So you went from, let's get this straight, Baker, right, to Kyler, to Hurts, Spencer Rattler and Mahomes. Yeah. Yeah. And what do they have all in common?
Creed Humphrey snapped them the football. That is true. Yeah. But they also got a lot more in common than that. You know, they're all gamers, ultra competitive, all that stuff.
So it's been fun and it's been a blessing to get to work with all those guys. And CeeDee Lamb was the top receiver on your team in your last year in Oklahoma as well. Yeah. Had CeeDee Lamb and had Hollywood there. So yeah. Damn. Oh, so Hollywood's back on the team.
Your team meets again. Yeah. He's back with us.
Yeah. It's good to have a familiar face there. He's a great player, man.
He's awesome to be around. What's the first thing you bought with your signing bonus, Creed? Nothing yet. It's a frugal spender.
So I don't really buy anything. What? Took the O-line out to dinner this week and we had a good dinner and all that, but that's really about it. Okay. Last one here. Paint me the word picture of what an offensive lineman dinner in Kansas City, Missouri looks like.
Creed Humphrey, please. Just very gluttonous. I mean, you got steaks everywhere and you got probably 20 appetizers on the table. You got dessert coming. You got so much food and it's impressive to watch some of the guys eat that stuff.
It's pretty insane what guys can put in their body. What are the sides? Give me the sides.
What are the sides? You're going to have mashed potatoes, au gratin potatoes, French fries, mac and cheese, cream corn, cream spinach. I mean, you're getting everything. There's lobster on the table. I mean, it's a feast now.
We're surfing. We're starching. We're starching. Not many greens. I didn't hear how many greens on the table. Cream spinach, cream spinach. We got cream spinach. That counts as a green because there's green in it. There is green in it.
Okay. You know, usually guys will get us a salad to start the dinner. We're healthy over here. That's just for show, right?
That's just to make yourself feel good, right? Let's have a salad. We're going to load it up with ranch and everything.
And you don't turn away the bread basket to start either, I imagine, right? Oh, no. We keep that too. Yeah. We're getting after it. Okay. And then you picked up the check.
You grabbed that check. Yeah. Yeah. You got the desserts and everything. So yeah. Oh, desserts. What were the desserts? Yeah. What were those? Oh, man. You got butter cake, cheesecake. You got, you got anything you can imagine really fantastic.
And last one. Did anybody on your line, anybody, you know, reach for the wallet? Anybody reach for the check or did they all look at you because you just signed the richest contract for a center in the NFL in history? Yeah, no, I, I invited everybody out, so, uh, you know, I thought, yeah, they were all good with it.
They knew, they knew to begin with it pretty much. Okay. Yeah.
Congratulations on everything going on. Uh, we're coming to Kansas city next week. So, um, you know, look for us. Okay.
We'll see you there. Yeah. Excellent. You got it. That's Creed Humphrey chief center, courtesy of sleep number right here on the rich eyes and show. I love it.
I love it. How many sides did he say? Uh, 20. Let me ask you this question because I believe again, we're having our dinner the Wednesday, uh, next week in Kansas city in the same place that the lineman had their dinner. Oh goodness.
Because stone street suggested it. Okay. Oh, we're going that spot. Yes. It's I do believe it's the same and we're going to have, I think 12, 13, 13. Okay.
Do we have, I saw the invite. Do we have more or fewer sides as a group of 13 than the line? I would say fewer.
You would take the under. Well, I mean, you got to figure those guys on weight average is probably three 15, three 20. I'd say more greens. We will have more. Right.
By the way, there's three, you need three Mike Hoskins to make up one create Humphrey. That is true. It's like the S a T's that is so funny that he goes starch, starch, starch, and more starch, a different version of starch, vegetable, vegetable, but creamed, but creamed. And then, and then a salad that made me laugh. You've got to get your greens in there, but no, but is that just like, just to mentally feel good about yourself? Yeah. It's for looks.
Nobody tested it out and they all had diet something. Absolutely laugh out loud. We'll take a break. Eight four four two Oh four rich number to dial here on the program. Don't go anywhere. We've got every running back.
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The former CIA agent sets off on his most important mission to date, to recover his daughter after she's kidnapped FX is the old man premiers September 12th on FX stream on Hulu. So, um, you remember that whole thing about the color green and the Brazil game and you know, Josh Jacob said they were told not to wear green, it's dangerous or whatever. Well the real reason is that Corinthian stadium where the game's being played, green is the color of the, uh, home team's rival. Just a quick, for instance here, when we first covered, when we did the first game in Tottenham, the bucks were the home team and everybody who roots for Arsenal was really excited because Arsenal's color is red.
Arsenal is Tottenham's rival. So Tottenham, all the fans of Tottenham would see their home stadium in red, in red. They loved it. They thought it was funny.
I'm sure Tottenham fans did not. That said, so the Eagles, it's, it's their home game. They announced they're not wearing green.
First time ever. They're wearing black helmets, black pants, and a white Jersey with a black number. Not wearing green, black helmet, white Jersey, black pants. That's that number look green though. It looks kind of green ish.
I don't know. That's sick. That's going to look awesome. That's their uniform. They announced that.
The Packers though, they're the road team. I don't care. There it is. Normal. Boom.
There we are. But their colors don't, isn't that the Brazil national team colors? Oh yeah. Sort of. It's a different color of green, but yeah, ish. Yeah. Practically. Yeah. Ish. Yeah.
So there you have it. I gotta say the Friday game is sick. I'm so excited.
From now on. It's going to be awesome. It's going to be that way.
Yeah. It's going to be amazing. It's great. It's a great idea. It's a great idea. Because usually it's like opening night. That's great. And then you're like, oh, we got to wait through two more days. No.
Right away, Friday night. Boom. Yeah. There's a game.
Boom. There's a game. Hey, there's a game. You won a game. Back here on The Rich Eisen Show, 844-204-rich, number to dial.
Okay. We reward first in, first up people, certainly if they're calling an hour before. You're walking around before the show and you're like, dude, someone's on the line. Because that does happen from time to time. The phone will ring either an hour after the show or before the show if we're taped away somewhere.
No, this dude called in and then all of a sudden he was on hold and I'm like, it's 805. And the beautiful thing about it, it's somebody in Toronto wanting to play a win-loss game with a team in Wisconsin. That's how we roll. Josh in Toronto. You're here on the show. What's up, Josh?
Hey, Rich. You got me? I do.
Do you have us? Pleasure to be on the show. I've been on the show for a long time. Dude, you called the... Getting the jumpstart on the long weekend here Friday. Are you aware you called an hour in advance, Josh?
Are you aware? Oh, yeah. I was excited. Like I said, taking a little early Friday here on the long weekend and like I said, first time, long time. Try to listen to you guys every day. Thank you. I'm just excited to get going with you, Rich.
It's called initiative and we reward that sort of stuff, Josh. I appreciate that. Yeah. I would love to play the win-loss game for the greatest franchise in the world, the Green Bay Packers. All right. Let's do it.
Josh in Toronto. Start off with that aforementioned Brazil game. What happens? I don't think the Corinthian fans are going to be happy, Rich, because the green is going to be victorious on Friday night against the Eagle. That's a W. Home for the Colts then. That'll be another W for the Green Bay Packers. We start 2-0.
Aha. Then you're at the Tennessee Titans. Rich, let's give the Titans some love. The Packers will take the L. Titans walk away with the win. Okay.
That's quite a M. Night Shyamalan type twist right there. Home for the Vikings. That's a win against the Vikings.
All right. We're back. 3-1 at the Rams. That'll be a big game. I'm going to give us a win against the Rams. 4-1 home for the Cardinals. Win against the Cardinals. That's a 5-1 record home for the Texans. 1 o'clock kickoff, I feel like this should be a primetime game, but it'll be a big game against CJ Stroud, but I'm going to give the Packers the win there. That's a four-game win streak, 6-1 at the Jaguars.
I think things cool off here. We're going to lose in Jacksonville. 6-2 home for the Leon. Home for the Lions. We're going to lose the Lions headed into the bye week.
Okay. That's a two-game losing streak sitting there on a bye week coming off at the Bears. We're going to beat the Bears, Rich.
Sounded very confident there. 7-3 home for the Niners. So this will be America's game of the week, and it starts a five-game primetime streak. The Packers played five primetime games in a row.
We're going to start a statement here. It's the Jordan Love MVP train. We beat the 49ers. 8-3 Thanksgiving night against the Dolphins on NBC.
The world will see Jordan Love again, MVP train. We beat the Dolphins. 9-3 on a Thursday night on Prime Video. Revenge against the Lions at the W. 10-3 at the Seahawks Sunday night on NBC.
We beat the Seahawks Sunday night on NBC. 11-3 Monday night football home for the Saints. That's a win. 12-3 at the Vikings. That's a win. 13-3 home for the Bears.
Do I have to answer it, Rich? 14-3, Josh in Toronto. And the Packers go into the playoffs on an eight-game win streak, Josh. As the one seed. 14-3 is the one seed. Bro, 14-3 is the one seed. Certainly if you've beaten the Niners, split with the Lions, yeah, you've got a ton of tie-breaks in your back pocket with that sort of behavior. At 14-3. We're feeling good. We're feeling good up north here. Yeah, thanks for the call.
Certainly if they beat Philadelphia. Yes, sir. Yes, Josh. If I can just take one more moment, I'd like to give my condolences to the family of Johnny Goudreau. I don't know if you guys saw that news, but it was a tragic thing. And he really built his legacy as a Calgary flame up here in Canada, so I'd like to express those condolences. Josh, thank you for saying that, and we feel the same way. Let me just say this as we say goodbye to Josh in Toronto. The Goudreau family, our hearts are pouring and breaking.
Devastating. As Johnny Goudreau, Johnny Hockie, as he's known there in Jersey and obviously Columbus, a star of the NFL, and his brother Matthew, 31 and 29 years old, bike riding safely in New Jersey, plowed into by somebody who admitted to the police he had six or seven beers. The car in front of him was in the middle of the roadway, passing the brothers. And the drunk driver thought that this car was trying to prevent him from passing the car in front of him. So he went on the right side of the road to pass on the right, plowed into the brothers, killed them both. And here's the heartbreaking thing too. The day before their daughters, I mean their sisters wedding, people ride share.
Please take the time. If you're drinking, do not drive ride share. It's a few bucks in the grand scheme of things. And our condolences go out honestly. These brothers gone, sisters wedding, family destroyed, destroyed, destroyed. Just an absolute... I heard this today and I don't even know what to say there, but for the grace of God go anybody when they get behind the wheel of a car or on a bike, right?
Greg Knapp, the long time assistant in the NFL. He got killed riding a bike by a distracted driver, a distracted driver. Another thing to pay attention to, obviously, but... Sean Bradley, Rich, if you remember, Sean Bradley, hit by driveries now. But in the case here, again, the drunk driving, honestly, ride share apps, there are so many of them. If you are drinking, the number of opportunities you have to spend 20, 40, even a hundred dollars, I know that's a lot for many people, but the absolute tragic results ruin lives, destroy lives, ruin families, destroy families. I am gutted. I am gutted.
