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Live from the Rich Eisen Show studio in Los Angeles. It happened with De'Andre Campbell. He didn't play. He went into the locker room at some point. Yeah, he didn't say he didn't want to play today. I wish I would have heard about it on the field, but I didn't.
It's hard to win football games when someone doesn't. Today's guests, NFL Network insider Tom Pelissero, comedian Nate Barghese. And now it's Rich Eisen.
Yes, it is. What a great show we're gonna have today. Nate Barghese's in studio. I am jacked about that one. One of my favorite comedians is gonna be stopping by here.
It's gonna be awesome. 844-204 Rich is the number to dial right here on the Rich Eisen Show. Tom Pelissero with so much going on in the world of football. From Bill Belichick now being a college head coach to week 15 filled with drama, filled with playoff clinching scenarios, and filled with teams that are on the brink including last night's Thursday night football results leading to what we're about to talk about with the San Francisco 49ers.
844-204 Rich is the number to dial right here on the program. It is a what's more likely Friday. Good to see you over there, Christopher Brockman. How are you, sir?
Rich, I don't care how bad Del Tufo is. I'm not leaving this show early. Well, how about this? We are so blessed on this program. And as you know, honored.
We've been Emmy nominated multiple, multiple times. But never more honored than Mike Del Tufo being here on a Friday. So I don't know what's going on.
But Mike, I don't take it for granted. Thanks for being here. I am here. Thank you. Thank you.
You're welcome. T.J. Jefferson, how are you, sir? Good to see you, man. I mean, enjoy this Friday, because to quote Magic Johnson from going down.
He ain't gonna be a guy. What's up, Rich? Oh my gosh. How are you? Good to see everybody out there.
All right. Listen, started the week talking about the Dallas Cowboys season being over. They're not officially eliminated, but once they got beaten to go five and eight in the NFC by the Cincinnati Bengals, I'm like, it's over. Season is not over. Well, for some, but not true for the Dallas Cowboys. It's gonna take a lot of help and a lot of winning by a team that hasn't shown the ability to win consistently. And now it's time to say that about the defending NFC champion, San Francisco 49ers. Didn't think the season would play out this way.
Certainly they didn't either, but there was always something up about this team, even in the spring. Brandon Iuch being on the trading block draft week. Then he's not. Then he's there for the summer.
Then he's not FaceTiming with Jayden Daniels, who had yet to play a lick in the NFL. And it's like, what's going on with this whole setup? Then he does sign, then Trent Williams signs, and then everything's hunky dory. It's like, okay, everything's going to be fine. And then Christian McCaffrey starts sitting out some practices.
No big deal. He was saying, he was saying that just the Friday before the first week of the season, first practice week to open up the season. And then a week later, the Friday before his first game, and suddenly it's not one, but two Achilles issues with tendonitis. And then everybody starts dropping like flies around there. And then they wound up, you know, starting a season, beating the Jets on a Monday night, still look great. Then they go to Minnesota and get spanked.
And then they wind up in Los Angeles in week three, but the Rams are also banged up. They didn't have Cup. They didn't have Nakua. They didn't have their left side of their offensive line. They didn't have anybody. And yet they still won coming back from 13 down, 13 unanswered points in the fourth quarter to beat the Niners.
And then suddenly something's up. But even then I'm like, at some point, everybody's going to come back healthy. At some point, they're going to get healthy. They're going to be one of the best teams because they do have one of the deepest rosters. But in the same way, I've been kind of, you know, having my way with all the delusional Ohio State fans saying, where's the banner for best roster in football? The Niners aren't raising a banner this year for anything.
And I'm kind of stunned about it, to be honest with you. As the Rams and the 49ers play last night, go figure this, we come on the air talking about how when the first time McVeigh and Shanahan ever matched wits as head coaches, we were there, 41-39 final. These two teams coming off of points of paloozas, man. These two teams, the Rams played in a game on Sunday in which it was the most points, most combined points ever scored in an NFL game where neither team turned it over. That's the record the Rams set with the Bills. And then the Niners just had one of their best offensive games of the year against the Chicago Bears. They had 319 total yards in the first half. Last night, they had 191 total yards, period. That was their second worst such output in the Kyle Shanahan era, only surpassed by the 161 total yards they had in the 2022 NFC championship game season in Philadelphia, where Purdy got hurt early on. They were forced to go to Josh Johnson, quarterback number four for him on the season. And then they wound up at some point wildcatting it up with Christian McCaffrey and put Purdy back out there with a bad wing. That's how poor of an offensive night they had on Thursday night against the Rams. They're down a running back number three, but Isaac Garendo still in this system was getting it done.
But in the rain, a lot of pain. And I don't turn this into a Dr. Seuss rhyme because at this point in time, they will not get to the playoffs this year. Even if they had won last night, they would have had to gotten some help, even if they had won out after winning last night. Now you saw on the prime video broadcast, their next gen stats gave them a chance of making the playoffs after this loss at 0.1%.
That's dumb and dumber type possibilities. Six and eight, having been swept by the Rams, the Cardinals are six and seven, but the Cardinals shocked the 49ers in their home. The Seahawks are eight and five.
They've already split with the Niners because they won in San Francisco too. They're losing division games. They're losing games late. They're just losing games now with one of their players walking off the field saying you don't want to play anymore in Devondra Campbell, which was a stunner, which we'll get to in a second. Brock Purdy didn't look good last night at all. That final interception when they needed some points on that drive where he air mailed Juwan Jennings and Kirk Herbstreet did show that it wasn't all on Purdy because Jennings got knocked off his route and an interception in the end zone. But Purdy had this to say after the game, taking the entire blame on his shoulders.
That's what's hurting me is I feel like I failed the team, that I could have been better for our offense and we could have put up more points, but Rams are a good team overall, but more than anything for the way that we play on offense and our standard, I could have been better for sure. They've lost three of their last four. They came off their bye. They beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Tampa and then they lost at home to Seattle. They lose at Green Bay.
They got smoked in the Buffalo snow. They bounced back against the Bears team that had fired their coach and also defensive play caller and the defense looked like it. And then last night against the Rams.
This is all she wrote folks. And I hate to say it, we're going to have a new for the Niners fans. We're going to have a new NFC champion this year. We're going to have a new NFC champion this year. And picking up the pieces at this point in time, you know, they have a purdy decision to come.
They also, I mean, the whole idea was let's, they signed Ayuk this year. This is going to be the last run with, with Debo who was talking this week about not getting the football enough. He got community noted on Twitter by saying that he leads the team in drops and he's going to be honored by saying that he leads the team in drops. And this photograph we have on the screen here was his reaction after dropping one that Purdy put right in his hands in his gut with nothing but space in front of him. And every Rams fan will tell you Debo would usually take that and take it to the house and not just from the red zone where he dropped the ball from anywhere on the field, Debo would do that to the Rams. That is a hallmark of the Niners six game win streak the Rams that ended in the NFC championship game in which by the way, Debo did take one to the house anyway. Debo had this to say after the game.
Real clear, very frustrating. Like end of the day, like there's that ball, there's nothing there, but the end zone at the end of the day just got against there off. I mean, you know, you do that in the past.
Just like, like seeing the moment, um, came across the middle and seeing nothing but ends on at the end of the day, like look the ball in and go score. You still had the DJ Moore gamer in his locker from the previous week. I guess they swapped jerseys, right?
And ask you if you noticed. Yeah, I noticed that behind him. I mean, it was just three days ago that they were feeling great about themselves on offense and then this happened. And now they got to talk about one of their teammates refusing to play. And it's not just anybody, it's Devondra Campbell, who's been in the league since 2016 and was an all pro in 2021 in Green Bay. And, you know, was on this team and playing some meaningful games and meaningful minutes and then, you know, wound up sitting quite a bit last night because Dre Greenlaw was back.
One of the guys that was saying, hey, these guys are going to return. Dre Greenlaw, one of the best in the business and in the game who went down with an Achilles injury, just running back onto the field during last year's Superbowl that he was dominating in. So of course, if he's going to come back and work his way back and the Niners are in a must-win game, as I mentioned, they had to have that last night. Of course, he's going to be out there. And however, Dre Greenlaw was battling to return, the Niners were going to honor that by putting him out there and hell yeah, they're going to put him out there.
And I guess Campbell, we're still waiting to find out the particulars here, but Campbell didn't take kindly to it. And in the third quarter, he walked off the field and it wasn't because he was hurt. After the game, this was a shocker because you never hear this. Hardly ever.
I'll downgrade it from never. Hear this in the NFL, take it away from Kyle Shanahan. What happened with D'Andre Campbell? He didn't play and he went into the locker room at some point. Yeah, he said he didn't want to play today. He said he didn't want to play today? Yep.
The coaching staff? He did when I asked him why he didn't want to go in. That was during the game or before?
No, that was in the third quarter. Kyle, has that ever happened to you where a player said they didn't want to play in a game? No. Were you released to D'Andre Campbell? We'll figure out something, but I don't know that right now. Did he give you any reason why you didn't want to play today? No. With D'Andre opting to not go into the game, what do you need to do to ensure that you don't lose the rest of the locker room?
I haven't lost anybody. That's somebody who doesn't want to play football. That's pretty simple. I think our team and myself, we know how we feel about that. I don't think we need to talk about him anymore. Yeah. Of course, coaches are going to...
I could already see on your face over there. I know you're not a Kyle Shanahan fan, and when a coach loses a player like that, you usually lay it at the feet of the coach. Attitude reflects leadership. Is that a phrase?
But you also can turn... And I will do this. I know you're saying, and I'm sure there's tons of people who share your belief and opinion. I'll go back the other way and just say, it's not reflective of that locker room or Kyle Shanahan when the rest of the locker room, when they learned about it, said the same thing to a man. What's up with that? George Kittle, one of the team leaders, this is what Kittle had to say after the game. Look, if you're on the roster and you're suited up, you're expected to play. I think anyone in this building that got asked to go in, I would say 100% of everybody would die to get on that football field.
And so people are going through random things off the field. I can't speak on that. Whatever his decision was, it wasn't for this organization, it wasn't for this team, and that's on him. So not very happy about it.
I would have something to say. I wish I would have heard about on the field, but I didn't. Now, is that the reason we lost? Absolutely not. But you don't really... It's hard to win football games when someone doesn't want to play football, especially when you're suited up. It puts you down, especially when you lose two linebackers and could address another one.
I've never been around anybody that's ever done that, and I hope I'm never around anybody that does that again. Wow. You know Kittle.
It's pretty stunning. For Kittle, that's him table pounding and... He's holding back what he really wants to say. Exactly. That is a mouthful for George Kittle. And also a point of view that if Campbell was dealing with anything, his teammates would definitely back it up to say, hey, let's all back off him or whatever. But the coach nor Kittle said that.
And then in terms of anybody who might sit here and say, well, maybe Campbell, we should wait to hear from him. In terms of dealing with off the field stuff, Trevarious Ward of the San Francisco 49ers lost his one-year-old daughter due to heart problems in November. She would have turned two in November.
And in late October, she died, a one-year-old daughter. And Trevarious Ward told our friend Mike Silver the following, it's been hard for me personally to go to work every day, every game, even to practice or go to meetings. And that's the sort of stuff where you would lose the real world and you could throw yourself into.
Yeah. I almost left a couple of times, said Trevarious Ward. I know fans probably hate me for saying that, but F it, it's real life. It's bigger than football.
This is the hardest time of my life, for sure. Ward played last night and then had this to say about Devondra Campbell afterwards. I mean, he a professional. He'd been playing for a long time.
I mean, if he didn't want to play, he used to dress out. He could have told me that before the game. So I feel like there was some suckers. Definitely hurt the team because, you know, deep, deep went down and we needed a linebacker, you know, and I think flam was banged up too. So for him to do that, that's some, that's some sucker stuff to me in my opinion, like it's probably going to get cut soon. So it is what it is with that.
That's some sucker stuff. Cause Greenlaw did at one point have to come out of the game. This is his first game back. He was a little blown up.
He was blown up too. Just like Drake, which is why Drake Greenlaw was playing. So I feel for the 49ers, that this is the way the season ends. They get swept by the Rams. They have a total disaster happen with a player who refuses to play. So now the rest of the team and organization have to answer for that. And, well, they got to make a decision on Purdy at some point.
And I feel they're going to assign him to that long-term deal anyway, but that'll be part of a conversation. But the ultimate is, is they have to face the fact that their season is not going to end with an NFC title defense in the playoffs, which is wild. Didn't see it coming. I thought they were going to win the division. Did we all choose them to win the division? I was just looking back.
I saw, I did. I had Rams second. They had, to me, one of the deepest rosters in the NFL and they got completely injury ravaged. Other teams do too.
Overcoming. Niners couldn't. They think too, nobody expected Christian McCaffrey to be out as long as he was, you know, in the preseason. And then he goes down in the snow and so does Jordan Mason. Right. Listen, this is the way the final year of Purdy's contractual affordability ends. IU Cardly plays a lick. He gets signed long-term. Deebo gets the dropsies, including one in a game that they could have still won if he had caught that potentially.
He probably would have scored on that play. There's no question. And then Devondre Campbell walks off the field. Everyone's wondering what the hell's going on in this place.
Didn't see it coming. But the season is over for the defending NFC champs and it's up for grabs. Who wants it?
Tons of teams can get it. When we come back, we'll talk about the Los Angeles Rams evening and season moving forward. Tom Pelosaro will give us the latest on what we just discussed.
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Back here on the Rich Eisen Show, did you see Michigan's playing Northwestern and Wrigley Field next year? Did that cross your radar screen? Nah. I'm wondering. I'm just wondering if I...
I'm gonna look at tweets that say S-O-T-O Soto. Okay. That's the only thing I'm... Okay. All right, let's... You want to get into that? Yeah, because let's try to shave. Do we have that photograph? Let's go.
Do we have that photograph? Okay. Because you sent this to us from Bleacher Report, right? Yeah.
I saw it on the B-R walk-off because it was actually Jerry Ferrara responding to this. Okay. And I was like... Because he's a Yankee fan. Yeah, I'm like, oh, look at this. Right. Wait a second.
Then I fired it off to you guys. Like, you notice what I'm noticing? Soto was introduced as a Met yesterday and took a photograph in City Field and it looked like he was dressed as Bartolo Colon. Look at that.
It looks like he was getting ready to give birth to a 500 season that we all thought would be unexpected. But I don't know. You're eating Mr. Met. That's not a real picture. And so we started throwing this around.
I'm like, jeez. I don't know if somebody from B-R walk-off is a Yankee fan and is bitter because there's the after picture and it looks like he's just, you know... Coming up and eat the meth. No, not that one.
The other one... Are you really trying to fat shame this guy? No, no. I don't think so. But somebody was messing around.
Somebody was. That's the before. Give me the after.
Give me the real one. Come on now. I mean, Yankees fans are so... And I don't really have a problem with Yankees fans. They're so bitter on social media about this. It's unbelievable.
Because suddenly he's going to start telling you all about the history of Ed Krainpool and how he's always a Met fan or whatever. Yeah, I went to... Listen. I created... But somebody... Hey, B-R, man. Somebody's bitter. Somebody...
Angry little Yankee fans. Gotta find out who the mole is, you know? Back on the Rich Asin Show radio network, sitting at the Rich Asin Show desk, furnished by Grainger with supplies and solutions for every industry. Grainger has the right product for you.
Call clickgrainger.com or just stop by. Okay. Let's get to it. Boy, do you know I love being right? Oh, I love being right.
And right now I am proving out on this front. I kind of feel like Mike Tomlin, you know? Telling the Rams, hey, man, I've made a decision three weeks ago that you are my choice to win the NFC West.
Now just go out there and make my decision look right. You're not going to apologize for winning. And look what the Rams have done. Last night's offensive output, nothing like what we saw. I'm sure the Buffalo Bills fan that's in all of our ears, Mike Hoskins of the Rich Asin Show coordinating producer fame was wondering, where was that last week?
I think he just said that in all of our ears, right? Where was that last week? Where they're like, hey, Josh Allen's going to account for three in the air, three on the ground himself and still lose. The Rams wound up setting a record for the Bills. First time the Bills have ever scored 40 in their vast illustrious history and lost because the Rams offense was just on tilt.
Then they go up to the San Francisco rain and Stafford was in the first half, like one point begging the Niners to pick him off. Begging? Air mailing people.
Putting them right in their hands. Not going anywhere. Offensively at all. I told you he'd regress a little bit. Well, they had a lion hearted running back in Kyron Williams.
Kyron's nice. And in, you know, and then they made enough plays. Some of the red zone calling from our friend Sean McVay.
Our friend Sean Mitchell in the Rich Asin Show digital coordinating producer department. He's like wondering what's going on. It's too cute. By the way, first play of the fourth quarter, if I may. Rams are inside the five and they try to run it in with Stafford.
What's up with that? Hey, you know, you know, it wasn't having any of that guy who's probably having a real tough time today processing everything that's happened this season. And certainly last night in Fred Warner. Who ended that play. And he also ended one that led to the final field goal for the Rams to make it a six point game, forcing the Niners to go score a touchdown where it looked like Kyron Williams, who was making a terrific third down pass protection block to keep Stafford upright and then went out on a route and was wide open and Stafford hit him.
And it looked like he would just turn and walk in the end zone and end the game. And Fred Warner just said no. So you do have to give it up to the Niners defensive effort with Hafanga back and Drake Greenlaw back while he was out there and Campbell while he was out there.
And Fred Warner was out there and Posa when he was out there. And in the rain with a Niners team that was desperate. The Rams did just enough, man. A tough, gritty division, Smackdown, 10 round W for the Los Angeles Rams, who are now, by the way, rooting for the Green Bay Packers on Sunday night, because if the Packers beat the Seahawks, the Rams on a mini buy entering the cauldron that is the home of the New York Jets in week 16, the Rams would be in first place. Who's out? And I'll tell you this.
I'll tell you this. When I said the Rams would win the NFC West, I didn't think they'd be in first place by 15. Right, but that is the case if the Packers go into Seattle and win on Sunday night football, entirely possible. The Rams are in first with a visit to the Jets, a home date against Arizona, and then the big W up for grabs in week 18 between the Rams and Seattle in SoFi. So they take a flight to New York, bring their cold weather gear, they come out with a win there, they're home for two weeks, and then if it all works out, home for another week in the playoffs. Chillin' in Los Angeles, look at the Rams. Matthew Stafford, Mr. December.
That's all he does is win in December since he's come to Los Angeles, had this to say after the game. Like Coach was saying, you could kind of get the feeling that that was the kind of way this game was going to be played. It was going to have to be one of those games, and you just go 44 or four nights ago or whatever it was and come out here and score 12.
They both count for one. Sure, I would love to not hit a funga in the chest on third down. I would love to not do that and score a bunch of points, but you got to play each play as it is and each game as it is, and we got to win. Yeah, if I told you before the game that Cooper Cup would not have a catch at all, full blue Tarski 0.0 for the third time in its career, first time since 2019, and then the Rams would punt four times in the first quarter and be held scoreless in the first quarter for only the ninth time of the McVeigh era, you'd have said they wouldn't win.
And they did. Kyron Williams, over 100 rushing yards, had this to say after the game. It means everything, honestly, because literally on the way here, our pilot said, go sweep the Niners. And when he said that, I was like, dang, we really could sweep the Niners.
I don't think I've done that since I've been here. So being able to do that, knowing how good of a team they are and knowing the history with just the two organizations, it's huge. And it shows that we're the big brothers now.
That we're the big brothers now, we're the big brothers now. OK, I like it. OK. And this is the only way the Rams I thought could make the playoffs is to get on fire and win the division, because making it as a wild card is no bueno for them because they've already lost to Green Bay at home. And that might be the first of two times Green Bay visits them in so far if things continue to work out this way. And the commanders and the Rams, and I trust the NFL's opinions on this because they've got the slide rules and the protractors and everything else, if the Rams and the commanders have the same record at the end of the season, they lose the tie breaks to Washington. So winning the division is their clear path to the playoffs, and that's the preferred one anyway, because you get a division banner and a home game, right? To which you guys would go, right? Whose house? You would go 100%. Depends on what day of the week.
Yes, I would go. OK. I'm a playoff guy for the Rams. OK, good to know.
OK. That's right. I'm a playoff guy. I go in the preseason. You know what I'm saying?
Preseason doesn't count. You know what that's like? That's like, and I'll just say this because I can speak on this.
It's like in Judaism, you only go to the high holidays. Exactly. You know what I mean? You get rich, you see, you get it.
Get to week, day to day. That's what we're seeing. Not so pious, but for the big ones, you'll be there.
So you're saying they're moving that wall back so everyone could fit in? Actually, it's called a three-day Jew. It's two on Rosh Hashanah, one on Yom Kippur. That's the nickname we have for each other. OK. You're the three-day Jew of Rams fans, Mike.
Wow. Didn't expect that one, did you? What was that word the other day? Bashi? Mishpukka. Mishpukka. Yes.
Mishpukka Mike. And I'll just say this, too. Since I'm calling shots here.
Want to be a ball? OK. No, I said I chose the Rams. And this was, what was it, like a month ago where I said this?
No, no, no. We're talking playoffs or what? It was before Thanksgiving, but the week before that is when I'm like, I would choose that. We were just sitting here saying, who do you think is going to win the West?
And I said, you know what? I'll take the Rams because I just liked the way that they were beginning to come together. They've won seven of their last nine. They started one and four.
They're now eight and six. Let me just throw this out here. Cooper Cuppa put out some zeros last night, though. Oh, man. No, I know that. Then they still won. Not good for fantasy playoffs. I know that, right?
Ain't that right? We're talking playoffs or what? No, we're not. Do you recall back in the summer when we had none other than our good friend, my good friend as well? Well, I haven't spoken about this at all, but when he was on the show, general manager less need, remember he threw out there saying, hey, the year that we went to the Super Bowl, we needed help on the back end of the defense.
We called Eric Weddle. You want to come out of retirement? You want to play four games for us in the second day? You want to play four games for us in the secondary? Let me tell you, hold on.
Let me tell you what's not happening. Gotta wonder now with the Rams at eight and six now. At eight and six, at what point does less or anyone else call this man on the screen? Number 91, 99, sir. Number 99, Mr. Point your ring finger by me personally ending the NFC championship game and then the Super Bowl with my own damn greatness on one snap.
Just throw it out there. You want to talk about how dangerous this team can be? How much more dangerous would it be if 99 says, you know what? I do miss you guys. You know, it can help put Jordan Love down on the turf. You know, I might just hop a flight to go to Detroit where my career ended in the playoffs. I'm just throwing out there.
This is red meat. This is total just stirring it up because, well, less did say, Hey, we make the playoffs. It was just call up Aaron Donald.
And you know, you know, there are some people with the Rams. So we're thinking this and you know, I don't know. Donald's gotta be walking around, enjoying his time, doing what? I don't know what he's doing. He's sleeping during games. I'll tell you what I'll tell you. What he's not doing is eating.
Yeah, that's true. Like Juan Soto. I'm sure he's looking like he's looking like Adonis Donald still. Cause you we've all called it. We've all called it that when he goes into the hall of fame.
Oh, I didn't pull four years. He will be his era's version of Mel Blunt. Who, when we see him again this summer, looks like he can give you 20 snaps at his age, right? Aaron Donald will have that gold jacket fit him perfectly for decades. He will not age a day.
And when he does, he could still look like he'll give you snaps. Just throwing it out there. How dangerous can the Rams be?
Oh, you know what? They won a super bowl. They got the same quarterback and wide receiver, but a better wide receiver with all due respect alongside cup and a younger running back who is got visions of his own greatness.
And all they got to do is protect upfront and also get that pass rush going on the defensive side of the ball and who could help. Somebody better call Aaron. Let's do it. I'm just throwing it all out there.
How off the charts would this be? Whit said he's got some snaps. I know he was telling that to Susie and Amy that he was watching the offensive line problems for the Chiefs. You know, Odell just got released. I know.
Let's bring them all back. I don't know. You know, what is it and praying no mime and for the Rams get hurt that way? He doesn't even have to know, but I'm serious. I'm serious.
But there's a better chance of them getting Greg Gaines, who is number 91 in that picture from the Bucks to come back. Excuse me, sir. Excuse me, sir.
Anybody who's sitting out here saying it's a crazy idea. All I got to say is this sentence. I know where this is going.
Bill Belichick is the current head coach of the University of North Carolina football program. Anything's possible. We'll take a break for four to four. Rich is the number to dial Yankees making moves, huh? Rich, we got to trade.
Is it the one I want? We got to trade. Oh, boy, that's next. I do not know what it is, and I'll stay off of the computer.
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He's in Morgantown. Here's the thing. And Rich Rod is back. For me, because you know. Well, that was a bad era for you guys.
Bottom line is bad era for you. She, Pat being there back in Morgantown with like thousands of people behind him leading a rally. It's like a dream for me. Like if I could do the rich eyes and show from inside Chrysler arena to hell, you know, somebody's return, I would do it too. And you have the ability to have a show and have the rundown and the control to just do it.
And you go sleeveless with pipes like that. That I couldn't do. And Pat knows that too.
But to see him, to see Rich Rod on the screen and then to see Hawk in his Ohio state get up right now, a little much for me to just not say nothing. Okay. Now, but when Michigan took Rich Rod from West Virginia, they also took Beeline from West Virginia at the same time. One worked out. One worked out. Not so much. The other one did not.
Yeah. Well, like Pat White and Steve Slayton and those guys didn't come with Rich Rod. Steve Slayton was a great ball player, man. Who was the Schmidt?
Owen Schmidt, the fullback. Remember that guy too? They were a good team. That West Virginia team that Pat was on. Rich Rod is back. I want him to go and ball out so Pat can be happy.
I like all the guys that got hired yesterday. Bill's in UNC. Rich Rod's back. What? Dan Mullins going to UNLV.
Yeah. What a crazy day it was. And there's Hawkwood, his Ohio State get up. Best of luck against Tennessee. Oh boy, Tennessee.
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Talking about this being a Mets town, maybe New York City. Did you see that quote? I'm gonna get that one for you in a second. Don't worry. Cool. Don't be angry, bro. It's all right. It's not. It's not angry.
It's just it's just spitting facts. Listen. Listen, I said what the Yankees do next will temper my disappointment in losing Soto or further embitterment on that front. Signing Max Fried to a $218 million contract.
Big money. I like it. I like Max Fried. We're mishpoka.
Harvard-Westlake's finest Max Fried from here in Southern California. All right. See you in a little league. Okay. Yeah. I like it.
Like the tour said, now you say something else coming? Yeah. Mike hit it. Break it. Here it comes.
Emory, I see breaking news. Rich, the New York Yankees, a team of your youth and your adulthood right now made a big trade. Boom. Brewers closer Devin Williams is going to the Bronx for Nestor Cortez and Caleb Durbin.
Okay. Boy, I like Nestor, but I don't know how many lefties you can have. I was talking to Cooper about that. I'm like, so you got Max Fried and then you got Radone and then you got Nestor. I mean, so Nestor's gone and then put Devin Williams in the back end of the bullpen.
Maybe they do it by committee. It'll be Devin Williams here. Luke Weaver there. While Clay Holmes becomes the...
It's going to be a starter. The next, what would you say? Where would he go? The next... I'm trying to go right here.
Where we go? So the next Dave Malicki from the Mets, is that what we're going to get out of Clay Holmes? Clay Holmes is going to be, he's going to win like 18 games next year. That's going to be great because then Pete Alonzo already knows Devin Williams stuff so we can hit another home run after him and off of him. Well, here's the deal. Here's the deal. It doesn't blow your socks off, but he's a good guy.
Devin Williams obviously really good man. Arms in the pen, arms in the pen, arms in the pen. Keep going. So Juan Soto in his introductory press conference day, the recriminations are already out there. You're hearing what the Yankees said. We're not going to give your family a suite in the stadium. Jeter had to pay for his. Judge has to pay for his. That's just the way we do business here.
Not going to make an exception. And Steve Cohen's like, what the hell do I care? It's just money.
Let me just light some more on fire. Yeah, he's going to make more. Exactly. I think he already made it all back. Yeah, I'm pretty much right.
So I don't know. Like, I'm not going to again, I need to see what they're going to do and how they're going to fill out the rest of this team. And if they get more players there to actually lengthen the order and get people on base. On base, get them on base. No more strikeouts from half the order. Let's get people on base and move them around. Let's do it and see what we can do.
Right. Let's moneyball it. I just watched that with Coop and Tay the other day. Great movie. When was the last time you saw Moneyball?
A few months. It's so great. I just don't like that they leave out the pitching part. It helped that they had three outstanding starting pitchers. There was Mulder and Tim Hudson and whatever. Leaving that out of the book and the movie. It's like, come on.
That doesn't help apply to the movie. But the reason why I bring this up, like whatever Juan Soto's on base percentage is, let's just let's get two or three guys and add it up. And that's what you got to get. We're replacing Giambi. It's not that we couldn't keep Giambi because we couldn't afford it. It's just the other guy was a total mercenary. Wanted to take five cents more than what the Yankees were offering and take the free suite, even though he's going to get 760 million dollars and then say this.
Juan Soto. Now, is that the real picture or was that the real picture? That was the real one. Sorry.
The other one looks like he's, as I said, about to give birth to an unfortunate 500 season. Man, the anger. Oh, it's coming. What's coming?
This one got me. It's the last paragraph of the ESPN story where I'm reading all about what yesterday was about. Mm hmm. Juan Soto quote, it's been a Mets town for a long time.
What is he talking about? Listen. One, I've been around New York City 55 years.
Fifty five years. He's been around for the proverbial New York minute. Yeah, but you live out here though, dog. Dude, get out of here. Ain't on the New York streets anymore. Rich. Out of here.
What are you smoking, bro? Give me that. Living by the noise. Get out of here.
You ain't hard. Get out of here with that noise anymore. It is just like here in Los Angeles. Clippertown, get out of here. Get the way out of here.
Get out of here. It's a it's a Mets town. OK. And in your in your in your head, and he just lived, he just lived a Yankee life for a year. Yeah, it's amazing that these Yankee fans act like he owed them something. Or he's not going to trade it there. He didn't go there.
They traded for him. I don't feel like I don't hold any rights to this man. I don't feel like he owed the Yankees anything. Well, you may not. But good gracious. You know, no, no, no Yankee fans online.
No, we are we are we are filled with people who feel that we are entitled to have the best of the best of the best because we we're we got spoiled for a long time. I'm not going to push back on that. I'm a realist.
I'm a realist. One guy is saying you will get all this money. We will give you whatever you want.
You want a free suite. Great. If I'm telling everybody else in the organization, they got to pay for it. I'll deal with it. And it's an issue that's going to be in the locker room. Because one guy gets something and the other guy doesn't. We're not going to keep it fair. You know, come answer to me.
I'm I'm I'm Bobby frigging Axelrod. And that's the end of that. I understand it. And it's a new way of the world. The Mets have more money than anybody else and can get anybody they want if that person just has to want money.
But don't give me this nonsense. It's it's been a Mets town for a long time, a long time. It's a Nets down to. What is the daily news headline is sorry. Yanks. Not like, hey, meet the Met. They're talking to the larger fan base and newspaper purchasers.
Why would they choose to say sorry? Yanks fans are digital. You guys are still in.
Why would they do that? No, it's a Jets town. It's a Jets town. New York City, Jets town. Could you imagine if Aaron Rodgers said that when he showed up? Aaron Rodgers.
He might have actually. Yeah, he said it's a Jets town. The Jets in a Jets town. And I'm a Jet guy. I even know that. Get out of here. It's a Mets town. It's a Mets town grimace. We all know this.
It's in give me a break. Look, if Aaron Judge would have just called him, maybe he'd be on the Yankees. Why are these guys not talking to him?
His teammates were nicer to him. Okay. Well, I'm saying. Okay. I want. You know, exactly.
He's like a Spalding approach. I want 760 million dollars and I want it all guaranteed. I will not defer a penny. And on top of it, I want a sweet.
I want a hamburger. And you give it to him. Yeah.
Hold up. Why are you guys being cheap? You know what? He's that good.
I don't know about being cheap. What are you going to tell Aaron Judge? Guess what, Aaron?
Couple happiness. Yeah. Or what you do is you tell Aaron Judge, we'll pay for your sweet too. Or you have him share a sweet. Soto's better than Judge.
He should get more perks. Okay. It's been a Mets town for a long time. I think we just got to bring it to the top. Championships are going to tell you if it's a Yankees or a Mets town at the end of the day.
Okay. The Islanders. Guess what? Guess what?
Guess what? For a hundred years, there have been championships from the Yankees. The Mets have 1969 and 1986.
Two glorious years, too. Okay. It was. The second one was first. Get out of here. One of them was when TJ was born.
And then the other one. Okay. Get out of here. I was. I'm the only one. Honestly, I am acting as if somebody that O'Shea Jackson Jr. lost to the Clippers that he really wanted would say it's been a Clippers town for a long time. That's the way I'm acting right now.
Well, then you'd start cursing at people on Twitter and then it'd be a whole thing. I know that. It's okay. Rich, get out of here. You know that I will not countenance.
I'm still laughing at it. I will not countenance that, but it's going to be lit in Yankee Stadium. Oh, yeah.
When the Mets come. Oh, please try to buy those tickets. Queens is in the house. Represent. Represent.
Oh, yeah. Mob deep against. And it'll be all Met fans because it's a Met town. They're going to take the subway over. All those Mets hats.
I see whenever I travel around the world. It's not even a Mets world. Get out of here. It's a Mets studio. It's a Yankee world. There's more Mets hats in this studio than there are Yankee opera.
Okay. That's it. The Met. The actual Met.
So no. It's a Mets town. Get out of here with that noise.
Kind of love it. Tom Pelosaro coming up in hour two. Nate Bergepsy, hour three.
Nasus from Queens. That alone. Okay. It means the Yankees are at a disadvantage. What does that mean?
Will you back me up on this? He's enjoying this too much. I am enjoying this a lot.
I'm enjoying this a lot. You know it. It's definitely not a Mets town. You know it.
You know it. I mean, Juan Soto, who's played in Washington, and he's played in San Diego, and then he played in the Bronx for a year, and he's saying it's been a Mets town for a long time. You know, he's trying to, you know, ingratiate himself to the new fans.
He's trying to say the right thing. Yeah. Listen, I've lived in New York more recently than either of you two, and I can tell you it was a Mets town when I was living on Long Island back in the day.
I think this is great. Rich. Long Islander. Oh, I care. I care a lot. Because Rich is going to see me happy. Honestly, don't tell me, oh my God, they treated my dad nicely, and they gave me a sweet, that's why I'm playing baseball for them.
They made me feel more comfortable. Maybe that's a real thing. That is a real thing. You can't discount that.
That's fine. Don't tell me that, and then come around and say it's a Mets town. Now suddenly you're going to undercut anything else you're saying. Well, he was only in New York for a year. Oh, no, no, no. It wasn't because the Mets beat the Yankees five times. Richest man in the sport got me all fat and happy.
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