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Touchdown, Saquon Wortley, 6th New York. Earlier on the show, two-time Super Bowl champion and Greenlight podcast host Chris Long. Still to come, comedian Bill Burr, plus complete championship Sunday recap, your phone calls, and more. And now, it's Rich Eisen. Hour number two of the Rich Eisen Show is on the air. Chris Long, great chat with him in hour one. Bill Burr is making his way to our studio. Cannot wait to chat with him.
One of our favorites ever to appear on this program in studio stopping by has got a new Hulu special that is going to be dropping on March 14th. Bill Burr Drop Dead Years is what it's called. Okay. I'm just going to guess that what that means is if we're the same age, we're in the middle of the 50s, right? We're beginning to get to that age of like, you know, we're not, we're not, our patience is beginning to run thin on things. That's what I'm saying.
Doesn't take a lot of someone's gravy to cover your plate. And then he's heading to New York because he's going to star in, he's making his Broadway debut. He's in Glengarry Glen Ross. Wow. So who? The Ed Harris character. Yeah. Dave Moss he plays. Cool. That's awesome. Bob Odenkirk is Shelly Levine, The Machine.
Okay. Kieran Culkin is in it. And so is Michael McKeon.
So Michael McKeon and Bob Odenkirk, a little Better Call Saul reunion on Broadway. Kieran Culkin, is he the spacey character maybe? Pacino. Pacino?
Oh yeah, Ricky Roma. Oh yeah, Pacino, nice. Pacino.
Pacino. Wow, that's awesome. It's going to be great. Bill Burr is coming in, in studio hour three.
Love it. So I said it was a Lions conference. There were some who thought the Niners could somehow repeat. That it could be maybe the Packers taking a step forward. Cowboys had 12 wins and the owner said it was an all in season, they're going to go out and go get it and repeat.
And as it turns out, it's the Philadelphia Eagles world and we're all paying rent in it. And the team that was built for Carson Wentz and then Nick Foles to win it all with Doug Peterson, retooled with Nick Sirianni and Jalen Hurts and A.J. Brown and Devante Smith and they wind up a holding penalty shy of getting a shot to tie the Super Bowl a couple of years ago. Instead, they lose it to the Chiefs and Jalen Hurts and Nick Sirianni are going back with two new coordinators. They lost their coordinators after that Super Bowl season. Offensive coordinator to the Colts, defensive coordinator to the Cardinals.
Last year's replacements did not fit and that is saying very little on something that could fill the rest of this show. They go and get Kellen Moore for the offense, Vic Fangio for the defense and for the defense they go and get Quinon Mitchell out of Toledo, Cooper Dejean out of Iowa. They go ahead a couple of years ago, draft Jalen Carter and Nolan Smith out of Georgia. They drafted Nicobe Dean out of Georgia. He gets hurt and in comes a couple of guys who make plays. And also that offensive line, man, they can maul.
They are three bills plus all of them. And their guy Cam Jurgens, they drafted a couple of years ago, winds up replacing Jason Kelsey, struggles for a bit, makes the Pro Bowl, he's hurt. He stays active though, Landon Dickerson moves inside to take some snaps at center. He's only taken a handful, literally two handfuls of snaps all season long.
He's your starting center and that's where maybe the commanders can get a through line. And sure enough, the commanders get the ball first in the NFC Championship game and march down the field in 18 plays going forward on fourth down, not only once, but twice, making both of them, including a fourth and five from the Philly 43, talk about stones. And Dan Quinn showed his right away.
Talk about the stones. And the kid Jayden Daniels converts two fourth downs. They settled for three, but it is an unsettling start for an Eagles fan. To watch them go 18 plays down the field, make those fourth downs, the Jayden Daniels that has been just looking spectacular all postseason. And certainly from November on, showed up in Philadelphia in that first drive and the Eagles get the ball back and what took 18 plays for the commanders to take a three point lead. The Eagles needed one handoff to take a four point lead because they have Saquon Barkley. Saquon Barkley, this guy, unbelievable. I don't even know how to put it into words, so I'll kind of put it into numbers to help put me into words. Chris, I mentioned this on the overreaction Monday pod, so pardon me for repeating it, but it's too good.
Yeah, too good. And we'll bring it to this larger audience. TJ, you didn't, you're going to, this is unbelievable. So Barkley's the first player in NFL history with three or more rushing touchdowns of 60 or more yards in their playoff career. And he's done it in two weeks. Two against the Rams, one in his first snap against the commanders in which the Eagles took the lead, which they did not relinquish and all they did was just grow it.
And you know what? No other player in the Super Bowl era has had multiple 60 or more rushing touchdowns in their playoff career, the Super Bowl era. And he's done it three times in two weeks, okay? But he's also the first player all time with three or more 60 or more yard touchdowns of any type in a single postseason. So let's widen the net to receivers. No receivers ever done what Saquon's done on the ground in two weeks in their entire postseason careers. And he on the screen, perfect photograph.
He's making the Steph Curry night night pose. This was at the end of the night after he had a three touchdown game. And the Eagles got a three touchdown game from Jalen Hurts, who we'll get to in a second, and got a seventh rushing touchdown from Will Shipley. And that's tied for the most rushing touchdowns by any team in a playoff game in NFL history. It's the most in the Super Bowl era because this is usually your old gen stat. The only other team to score seven or more, seven rushing touchdowns in a playoff game was the Bears in the 1940 NFL championship game. They beat Washington in that game, but it was a 73 to nothing.
This one just felt like it was 73 to nothing. As soon as Barkley hit the end zone and the commanders started turning it over. The Diame Brown fumble after the Barkley touchdown was just the canary in the coal mine, man. The fumble on the kickoff return just before halftime when the commanders knew they needed to score points before halftime because the Eagles who had just scored were going to get the ball after halftime and instead they give the Eagles a short field, Jalen Hurts took care of that. And then the last fumble after making it an 11 point game and getting the ball back, having a chance to make it a one score game again and Austin Eckler of all people puts the ball on the ground.
That's all she wrote. Barkley enters the Super Bowl with 442 yards rushing in these playoffs, too shy of the record of most rushing yards by anybody entering a Super Bowl. That's John Riggins in 82. He's already passed Barkley both of the Terrell Davis seasons of 97 and 98 in this regard. And those were the seasons that put Terrell Davis in the hall of fame. That's what Barkley's doing. He's putting himself on a path to the hall of fame in just one year in Philadelphia. That's what he's doing because the overreaction Monday subject matter and we'll have you listen to that or watch it on our YouTube channel was Barkley's having the, he's a Super Bowl and shy of having the greatest running back season in the history of running backs.
Listen to that or watch it from my answer there. Jalen Hurts, on top of what Saquon did, played his best game as an Eagle since losing the Super Bowl when he could have been the MVP as a losing player in that Super Bowl quite easily. Since losing that Super Bowl last year, we all know he didn't have a great season even when they started 10 and 1. And this year, he didn't do what he did in this game. He was stupendous.
He was superb. I thought he wasn't going to be able to do the tush push. I thought he wasn't going to be able to run it. I thought he wasn't going to be able to be mobile.
Guess what? He did all of that. He had over 100 or more passing yards in the NFC championship game, 246, than he had in either round of the playoffs prior to this game. He had 131 in the wild card, 128 in the divisional round.
Put it together. He almost, he almost eclipsed the last two games combined. And then he ran it in three times. Passing Steve Young for the most rushing touchdowns by a quarterback in the playoffs all time. That's now Jalen Hurts. And Nick Sirianni is now taking the Eagles back to the Super Bowl, which makes Jalen Hurts the first quarterback to lose his first Super Bowl appearance and make it back to the Super Bowl since Jim Kelly did it in the nineties. The last 18 quarterbacks to lose their first appearance in the Super Bowl never made it back. Jalen Hurts just broke that streak. And Sirianni becomes the fifth youngest coach in the history of the Super Bowl to make it back to the Super Bowl for a second time.
He'll only be a couple hundred days older than Joe Gibbs, who's fourth on that list at 43 years and change. Unrelievable. Eagles get it done, man. And you know how they get it done? They get it done in the trenches and then they grow out from there.
And then they, they, they have playmakers everywhere, everywhere. We hadn't even heard from Jordan Davis very much. And he enveloped, I think he, he, he, I think did he put Jayden Daniels in his belly at one point? It's pretty much what he said at one point.
Okay. Cooper DeGene blows up plays that the Lions had Terry McLaurin take to the house. Quinon Mitchell, he didn't have a, you know what?
It's unbelievable. He's defensive rookie of the year candidate and he didn't have a career touchdown until the NFC championship game to seal it. Core pick. Right. A pick. You said touchdown. Oh, I said touchdown? Yeah.
He's the first pick. Thank you, sir. Unreal. Got to give it up.
The flowers to the Philadelphia Eagles, man. And you know, Sirianni showed up in a Mike Quick gamer. Oh yeah. Yeah. You know why? Because in week 22, when he faced the commanders in week three, he showed up in a Mike Quick gamer.
I don't know if there's any connection of what happened on that day and he just wants to wear it again after beating the commanders. I don't know what it is, but this is what he had to say about Jalen Hurts who had, as I said, his best game since losing the Superbowl. Yeah. Awesome.
Awesome. I think you heard what I said at the end of the game. It's amazing how much doubt there is sometimes. I can't quite comprehend it because, you know, it doesn't look like people think it should look like, but the guy has been clutch. He's won a ton of football games, but you ran for this many yards. We don't care how we win. We don't care. If we rush for 300 and pass for one and we win, great. If we rush for one and pass for 300, great.
Who cares? We've just continued to win. He's just continued to win and I think the criticism is, yeah, whatever. He just wins.
I said what I said after the game and that's kind of how I feel. I love that he's caping for him, man. I just love the Sirianni arc of this guy's career. He was getting fired for Belichick after one year. He was on the hot seat early this season.
No doubt. And now he's- That two and twin, they were two and two. They're coming back to the Super Bowl again with a good chance to win it. It's crazy.
The regular season loss to Jayden Daniels, who beat them in the final seconds, is their only loss since week four. But dude, I know I'm talking your language because I know you think Saquon's the MVP of the entire league. I do. I've been saying it for a while.
If they only had the vote now, if they had the vote now, he'd be running away with it. But it's a regular season award and yet an incredible regular season. It's a Saquon world, man. I was gingerly texting Giants fans during this game. It's got to make them sick.
I don't know how they sleep. And I know I say it all the time. I'm sorry to keep doing it with the Giants front office.
I'm sorry to keep doing it. If you're John Mara and you say you're sick to your stomach when you watch Saquon do what you're doing, I don't know how he's going to be eating between now and the Super Bowl. Even if they win it, because he does what he's doing, Saquon Barkley needs 30 yards to pass Terrell Davis for the most rushing yards in a season, including playoffs. By the way, they have the same number of games right now, 19 apiece. He's ahead of Terrell Davis' 97 season by over 110 yards. He's 30 shy of Terrell Davis' 98 season when they all played 19 games. Because I think TD was a one seed that year, he got a buy or a two seed.
Two seeds got buys that year. And he needs, let me get this correct, if he gets 161 yards in the Super Bowl, he would pass John Reagans for the most in a single postseason ever. So what's Saquon going to look like with the Philadelphia Eagles? This is what he's doing, eviscerating people, home run hitting like Ryan Howard meets Bryce Harper meets Mike Schmidt, put every power hitter you've ever seen in Philadelphia together and he's as great a home run hitter as them.
I've never seen anything like it, he can take it to the house from anywhere, it is breathtaking, he bounces off of tacklers, he hits the hole and he's faster than everybody through it. And the Giants let him walk and super powered the Eagles. Behind a line, by the way, that is terrific and a defensive line that dominates in their own right and a back end that Howie Roseman has drafted beautifully with a great complement of receivers around a quarterback who is very dynamic when healthy. And two coordinators who know what they're doing and a head coach who's been there now and done that twice. That's what the Philadelphia Eagles have become. So I know folks have Chiefs fatigue and maybe fatigue with these two teams facing each other, but it's going to be a hell of a Super Bowl 59. Saquon had this to say, let's hear from him, God, I can't hear from him enough. When you signed here in free agency, did you think this would be a possibility to go to the Super Bowl your first year as an Eagle? Of course, that's why I came here. You know, it's one of the first conversations I had with Howie.
That's a conversation I had with my family. And like I said last week, came to Philly to be a part of games like this and none better than a game where you can advance to the Super Bowl. So super excited about that.
And it was a team effort and we'll give a shout out to all the guys. And no conversations months ago about this appearance to the Super Bowl. Does it feel everything like you expected it would? Yeah, I mean, you never know. You envision it. But the bad thing, you envision it so much in your gym by so much that when it happens, it never quite reaches expectations kind of expected.
So hopefully, you know, when we get the job done, might be a little better. Saquon's going to the Super Bowl with the Philadelphia Eagles. How can the Giants sleep with that? Rhetorical question. Is anyone text John Mara yesterday? I don't know. I've certainly not. I wouldn't have his number.
I wouldn't. Just like, hey, what up? Just like, are you okay? You okay?
You know what I mean? You okay? Yeah. Wellness check. Wellness check. Yeah. You okay? And it's not going to be the last time I bring it up in the next two weeks.
I'm sorry. But the Eagles are going to the Super Bowl. When we come back, we'll talk about the teams that just came so close.
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That sort of stuff. Yeah. Do you know Ryan Fitzpatrick went to Harvard? Did he ever play in the Super Bowl? Super Bowl. Oh, Super Bowl. Yeah. That's true. But here it is.
You ready for it? I did not know this. First I've heard it and by the time it's the Super Bowl, maybe you've already heard it, by the time it's the Super Bowl, you'll hear it a million times, but Rich Eisen Show producer Ken Tullo just texted me during the commercial break, Super Bowl 59, February 9th will be Saquon Barkley's 28th birthday.
No way, really? Nice. He's playing the Super Bowl on his birthday. I don't know how many times that's ever happened. I'm sure NFL network research will be on it.
I will know for the eight and a half hour edition of NFL game day morning on that day, exactly how many people have played in the Super Bowl on their birthdays and what they have done by the time it's happened. I mean, when... It's had to have happened before. I'm sure. Yeah. I don't think there's anyone of significance of someone who's going to touch the ball as much as Saquon Barkley will. You know what I mean? I don't know who that is in previous Super Bowls, who's done that, but I don't know.
When Burkhardt mentions it for the first time, people will be like, oh God, tell me more about it. It's his birthday. Drink. What are you going to do on your birthday Saquon?
What are you getting for your birthday? A Lombardi? That's the way it is, but right now, let's remember the moment when it was the most fresh and you'd never, you hadn't heard it yet. You know what else we're going to hear about? No. The logo. Because guess what the colors are? Yep. Red and green.
They are again, aren't they? You know who mentioned this to me last night? Hey, red and green. Oh, cool. Cooper. Cooper mentioned it to me my 13 year old.
Hey. And you want to tell me it's not fixed, Rich Eisen? What do you mean it's not fixed? Look at the Super Bowl colors. They're red and green. As you know, it's... Look who's in the game.
That's the last time the Eagles played. Yeah. It's not really green.
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How you been, sir? Hey, Rich. So before I get into my discussion, let me just say this to anybody else that's on hold right now. If Rich takes your calls, don't want respect and clarity next time when you are going into discussion with this man because given more respect when you want to say something to this man and everybody else in the studio, just be more informal, be more kind and be more polite next time. No, no.
Or don't... If you're referring to the guy who called earlier from an hour one, I should have been a little more patient myself. I don't know. I'm...
He was just hurt. You could tell. No, no. That's okay. It's all good. Derek, what's on your mind? No. So well, here's the thing, Rich.
Let me add this. What we're seeing right now is people, we need to realize we are witnessing greatness with this team's team. And I've been on the floor for 36 years and I wanted to say something with Tom Brady. And if anything, it's like people just need to relax and chill out and like accept it. It happens. It's just a game. People need to realize that this is going to happen.
Greatness is going to happen in dynasties. People dealt with the Steelers, the Cowboys, the Niners back in the day and this and that. And the Bills play on fourth down and this and that. That play, you couldn't really tell where the ball was when Allen was on his side. You just couldn't really tell. And who's to say what could have been? They could have maybe converted on that fourth down play, got the first down.
But let's just say what the Chiefs could have done after that, more than anything. And here's a stat for you, Rich. Think about this.
Let this sit in for a minute. Tom Brady, it took over a decade for him to win his fourth Super Bowl in his 15th full year in the league. Tom Holmes is on the verge of his fourth Super Bowl in his eighth year in his 7th full-time season and he hasn't played a full decade yet in this league.
I hear you. And he's going to turn 30 in September. And thanks for the call, Derek. And it could be September 17th, he could be 30 in week two of his title defense for a fourth time.
His fourth title defense, in a row, in a row, is his third title defense. So it's crazy, man. They're good. They're really good. They're not good. They're great.
They're good. But let's land on the Bills here for a second. Because there's just going to be a lot of, what did the Bills do? What didn't they do? What should they have done? And I understand the ultimate answer may be they were just born at the wrong time. They play in the wrong conference.
I don't know. I mean, part of me thought maybe they should have used James Cook more, certainly when he was cooking in the third quarter. And then you look at it, that his last touch of the game was with nine minutes to go. But that touch with nine minutes to go came in a drive that wound up with a touchdown to Curtis Samuel to tie the game and the Chiefs got the ball back. He didn't get a touch in the final possession of the game for the Bills. Now you could sit here and say, as well, it was a passing package here.
You have to pass. And that's when Ty Johnson usually is on the field. And by the way, he had an incredible catch in the playoffs.
So he's pretty talented himself. And you know, maybe they should have used James Cook a little bit more. And if they did, perhaps it wouldn't have been fourth down. Perhaps they wouldn't have been in a situation going on for, you know, they wouldn't have been in a third and 10 needing to get half of it with Amari Cooper as they did.
I don't know. You could you could nitpick there. Josh Allen came out a little jumpy.
You know what I mean? Like you did. I don't think you've seen him like that. Even Romo accused him of having nerves, right? There were a couple passes that you were like, bro, what do you do? Well, in the first drive, the Chiefs had two interceptions that they dropped. But Josh Allen, guys, Josh Allen, that throw to Mac Hollins, that throw to Mac Hollins was unbelievable.
And it was it was 21 to 10, right? Better throw or better catch? I mean, he dropped it in the bucket and McDuffie is draped on Hollins.
Throw a flag on the play. Right. And he he still caught it. Perfect passing catch. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. But I mean, the time in which he did it because Mahomes had just scored to go up 21-10. They're going to get the ball to start the second half. Man, it felt like it was about to be a boat race, too. And then and then Allen made this throw and unbelievably, they go for the extra point, take that point off the board because of the penalty, which, by the way, you could make the case that should have been both guys getting called for it.
I don't want to go down that road because we're going to we're about to hit the officiating again here. But 21-16 at half instead of a 21-10, that was big. And then and then the defense bowed up, got a punt out of the Chiefs to start that second half.
Yeah, they came out. And then Allen and Cook got it done down the field, 22-21. Or it's another punt. That's when the Bills get the ball back.
And that that play on on fourth down that Allen came awfully close on. And and personally, it looked to me that he got it. And then when they they ruled it short, it was a surprise to me. I thought they got it. I think Steratore thought they got it. I think Nance thought they got it.
And there was no there was no visual evidence that I could see that was conclusive that you got to reverse it. That said, you know, Allen on a lot of these short yardage plays wasn't working. They kept running it over and over and over again.
I mean, like frustrating there and then and then. But that throw on fourth down getting lit up by Steve Spagnolo, I've seen it over and over again. I mean, Shaqir is there on the orbit route or you never saw him because he because he could play was over immediately running for his life. Yes.
Yep. To his right. They didn't they didn't pick up that blitz to to his front side. He's running, you know, in the direction of the blitz. It wasn't like he was running away from it. It was just an unfortunate play.
And it's just I don't know. It's just I wonder why they didn't call a time out there, though, Rich. I mean, I mean, you could see they got three time outs.
I'm not a tape guy, like you say. But when you watch the play, you can see clearly that I don't even know what to say, man, because, you know, just today, Alan mentioned on that two pointer right before halftime, he injured his wrist. He played the entire second half with an injured wrist. And he still made that throw to Kincaid, which, you know, everyone's like, Alan's got to put the cape on in order to beat the Chiefs. He put the cape on. He should have been set. He put the cape on when he found Hollins, he put the cape on on a fourth down when he found Samuel and tied the game up. He put the cape on when it was fourth down and he threw one up as a prayer. But the prayer hit the arms of his receiver. And I don't want to turn Kincaid into Mark Andrews 2.0 just because they play the same position. I'm not going to do that. It's just it was a tough ball for him to locate and then come back in the situation.
I'm sure he would love it back. But the fact is that the Bills were in this position again. And I can't pinpoint it's the reason as to why I just can't I mean, Benford goes out early in the game. It changes their entire defensive scheme. You can't change it, you know, have your defensive scheme, change your defensive scheme. And it's clearly weaker against Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid in the playoffs in the year of our Lord 2025 and hope for the best.
You know, you've got arguably the greatest coach quarterback combination. I can't believe I'm saying it, but you can make this argument that we've ever seen at the tops of their games right now and then hope for the best. And then I don't know, I know everybody thinks that their franchise might be snakebit in a certain way.
All right. I know Mets fans think that way. I know Browns fans think that way. I know Lions fans are certainly thinking that way.
I can't believe they teased us this way and all that sort of stuff. But Bills fans can make a case, a very good case. And here you go, dating back to 1972 NFL teams that have scored four touchdowns and committed no turnovers in a playoff game are 85 and six. The last two playoff losses at Arrowhead for the Bills are two of those six. They won the turnover battle and lost the only team in these playoffs to say that. They got James Cook multiple touchdowns, as many touchdowns in the AFC championship games he had in six games in his career prior in the playoffs. I mean, Allen was 22 or 34, 237 pass yards, two passing touchdowns, and he didn't give the ball away. I mean, what more do you want here?
I don't know. Do they need another playmaker? Could they have used at the end of the day another playmaker at wide out? Did they miss Steph Diggs, I mean, or a player of his caliber?
Can you sit here and say that? Better corners and a little more pressure on Mahomes. I think it was a defensive issue. A defensive issue. I don't, like, I can't sit here and just say, you know, anything other than the fact of unbelievable season, incredible quarterback, did his damnedest, did his best, and it wasn't good enough.
And this is what Allen had to say afterwards. It's not fun, but to beat the champs, you gotta, to beat the champs, you gotta beat the champs and we didn't do it tonight. When the season began, a lot of people were thinking, well, maybe a down year for the Bills, reset year, you've heard all that stuff. But when you get this close, none of that, how much of that even matters when it comes to how successful you view this season?
You can either get it done or you can't and we didn't, we didn't get it done. Josh, how much does the fact that it's been this specific team that's in any of you guys' seasons so often at your house add to the disappointments there? Well, they've ended a lot of team seasons too.
It's a good squad, they had a good play in the night, and again, they made more play than we did. What is he, Carmelone in the Jordan era? I mean, I guess you'd have to say he's Ewing, right? Would you say that? Yeah, he's Ewing because they're in the same conference. That's what I'm saying.
Yeah. Reggie Miller, Ewing. And it's more like, you know, he's, the reason Steph Curry, he has all his rings, he's the reason that James Harden has none. He's the reason that Chris Paul doesn't have any.
You know, these are hall of fame, legendary players who just were in Steph Curry's time zone. It lasts forever, can it? I mean, at some point, Andy Reid won't be Holmes' coach and Kelcey won't be his tight end. I have an idea. Josh Allen should just pull into rant, just go play for the Chiefs.
This guy. They don't get a ring, right? They need a new tight end.
I'm not even gonna go there. But he did say in overreaction Mondays out there for everyone to see on our YouTube channel or listen wherever you get your podcasts that Allen needs to go to the NFC. If he was in the NFC, he'd have been in the Super Bowl by now. He would never, I think he's too much of a competitor there.
Well, it's not just that. He's perfect for the franchise, he's perfect for the city, he's perfect for the fans. He's perfect. The only thing he's imperfect at is beating Holmes. And he is the avatar of the Chiefs fatigue, I think, where a fan base that's never seen a championship before and haven't been back to the Super Bowl since their franchise lost four in a row, a losing streak that began with a missed field goal that still burns, right? And they've now lost to the Chiefs the closest, it's now back to back three point losses in the playoffs to this team. The six point loss came in the divisional round because they were up and gave up three in a handful of seconds and then an overtime came when Allen didn't touch the ball, forcing overtime rules to be changed ever since. They just lost by two touchdowns in the 2020 AFC Championship game at Kansas City. That one wasn't, I mean, that's 14 points. You put together the six and it's 12, they've lost the last three by a combined 12. So they're absolutely in the ballpark. Right there.
They just can't get through it and they're 81 wins since this guy came into the league as their starter and Allen, including the playoffs, most by any team in its seven season span that didn't reach the Super Bowl. And by the way, you know, it was there at 81, right behind him in this regard. Lamar? Yep.
Wow. Lamar. This is the same draft as Allen and he's run into Mahomes once. Allen's run into him four times.
I mean, this is it. We're in the Jordan era of football. Are we looking at a situation where you're going to have three quarterbacks who I feel already have their bus being made by Mr. Buswell and I think the jackets are already getting tailored.
They could get into the Hall of Fame without winning a Super Bowl because of this. The three are? Well, we just named them. Lamar. Allen. And Joe Burrow.
Burrow's another one, maybe? Well, you're leaving out Brock Purdy. Well, I don't know that Brock Purdy has a Hall of Fame career quite yet in the May team.
Well, again, the conversation that's coming right now would be amplified even more had Tom Brady not spat his last Super Bowl breath in Mahomes' direction because Mahomes would be that much closer. But Josh Allen, I just kind of just sit there and think he is the personification of maybe next year. And- You're just not good enough.
You're just not good enough. Collectively. Not that Josh would personally- I mean, I'm glad you said collectively because we put so much on the quarterbacks. I think McDermott did his best coaching job this year. They're going to get Joe Brady back. But he may not be enough.
And the play calling, Joe Brady didn't have a great second half. They're just not collectively good enough. Not yet. How about that? And then I'll just maybe give two cents. Next time, Brett Veitch calls up and say, I'd like to make a trade on draft night. Yeah, hang off the phone. Phone who dis? If Howie Roseman calls you, hang up the phone. You're not getting the better end of that deal. Trust me.
When you look at where the 101 yards and a touchdown in that game, and they gave them to the Chiefs. We are playing the result there. I mean, but let's still. Yeah, but that's all we can do. That's what we do. That's what we do. All right.
We'll take a break. 844-204. Rich number to dial. We'll discuss the commanders when we come back. Bill Burr in studio hour three, baby. Can't wait for all of that.
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Unhappy in order to be happy. You don't think so? You really don't think so? Well, I think that that's everybody's reaction to the jealousy of wanting to live through what we've lived through in the last 15 years because people always say stuff and they say stuff like, don't you get sick of winning? No, you're sick of it, right? Isn't it like, it must be like boring because that's all they have.
They all they have. No, it's awesome. I hope it continues and I've enjoyed every second of it and when it's over, you know, it's going to be over. Well, I mean, this guy over there, Brockman with his Red Sox cap over there, do you have a David Price sound that when he was bitching about David Price after the Yankees beat him up in, what was that, game two? Play it. Go for it for Bill Burr. I want him to quit. I want him to retire on the spot. Yeah, he's not going to do that. I didn't go that hard.
That's what I want. He was terrible. Part of you, so furious at David Price, but you were kind of feeling good though. Like you were getting it off your chest. Like you couldn't have been- It was therapeutic, but like- See what I'm saying? That's what, what's with, is there something about- Name another sports fan that sees that guy- I don't know.
It's like, maybe I'm just a much more Sonny disposition type guy. Were you screaming at Harbaugh? Oh, this is about him.
This is about how great he is. Oh, now I see where this is going. I was confused. No. You know, Rich, I, okay, you spoon fed it to me.
I want to tell you something, Rich, out of all the sports shows I go on, I think you are the nicest, most even keeled, pleasant, respectful to other fan base. No, I just think it goes back to like the tea party. You know, it goes all the way back to like, you don't feel represented. You feel like you're taxed. You feel like a tax sports fan. Do you feel the jealousy? Don't you love that? You haven't been represented in the sports universe.
It's always great when I have another teammate come into studio, because I'm teamed up against two on one with the New York- Don't you hate anytime like there's a big Boston game, what they show? They always show like lighthouses, lobster fishermen, and Paul Revere like, oh yeah, that's Massachusetts. I didn't see, I never saw any of that growing up. I didn't have any lobster fishermen friends. I never went to a lighthouse and I never went to the Freedom Trail. I never did it. I've seen the line painted on the sidewalk. You know, who goes to a tourist attraction in your own city?
Exactly. You only do it when relatives come to town. Oh, do you want to go to the USS Constitution?
Oh, do you? Here's where Cheers is. You want to just stand in line down there? Have a great time. I'm going to go to a dive bar.
Where do you want to go next? You want to go to Cheers? Just to let you know, it doesn't look like that when you go inside. So just take a picture outside.
Ted Danson's not there. Yeah. You want to get some chowder? I hate clam chowder. It's disgusting.
It tastes like somebody already ate it and then spit it back into the bowl. Looks the same way. Bill Burr is currently in our green room right now. I just had quite the chat with him. Is he?
I'll tell you. Is he? I just had quite the chat with him. He's a little fired up about what happened yesterday.
Oh yeah. I don't know how I'll fire it up. He's going to get when he comes out here, what he really wants to hit. So it's going to be great. I cannot wait for it. Bill's in our green room.
I think he's getting ready for his David Mamet performance based on the staccato profanity that's coming out of his mouth about yesterday's game. We need the mic. No, no, no.
Dumb button ready? Stop. He's a pro.
Whatever. I love this guy. And he's in our green room, which makes me very, very happy.
He's going to join us in hour number three in just a matter of moments right here on the Rich Eisen Show. Don't let the urge to sing along to that catchy tune distract you from that truck drifting towards your lane or that lane splitting biker creeping up beside you. Fortunately, every Hyundai offers advanced safety features that can alert you to potential dangers around you. And Hyundai has over 120 IIHS Top Safety Awards since 2006 because Hyundai is always working to ensure the road doesn't get you.
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Around the world. So, I just got to say, watching every single offensive snap from the Eagles yesterday makes the head office of the Giants look more and more idiotic. Even the snap that Saquon Bartley was not in and he was cheering for his teammates like the guy to save the kitten from a tree, it just seems like he was the perfect teammate. From all accounts, he seems like a really great guy and clearly, he is a fantastic competitor and an amazing running back. So, not even just from the stuff from the hard knock stuff, but even before then when they were playing hardball with him, trying not to even give him an extension years ago, it just seems crazier and crazier as the Eagles keep on marching along. I'm with you, Justin, but as I mentioned, thanks for the call, Justin, we've got two weeks to hit on that. Two weeks until the game when Saquon turns 28 on Super Sunday, by the way.
That's something. Again, I just heard earlier today that will no doubt be drilled into the mind's eye of everybody in the reporting and conversation that it's Super Bowl Sunday, it's Saquon Bartley's birthday. Rich, it's also Cooper Dejean's birthday. He'll be 22 on Super Sunday. He did that. Which one is more likely to deliver birthday punches? There you go.
Okay. Before we move on to hour three and Bill Burr in studio, hour three, let's recap the Commander's season, which was full of house money on the table. Unfortunately for them, in the NFC Championship game, the Eagles stole their house money and bought a new mansion with it for themselves and kicked the commanders to the curb.
It wasn't close. As it turned out, the Eagles' roster was deeper and their quarterback played better than the guy who's played the best at the position, arguably, certainly in the NFC, better than anybody has since the middle of November and maybe the entire league in Jayden Daniels as a rookie, 37 offensive touchdowns that breaks Justin Herbert's rookie record, five passing touchdowns in the playoffs that breaks Mark Sanchez's rookie record, 822 passing yards in the playoffs that breaks Russell Wilson's rookie record. He ended the Commander's streak of losing seasons at seven games. He ended the Commander's 10 win season drought. He ended the Commander's playoff winning losing drought. He ended the Commander's championship game appearance drought. He ended a lot of drought.
He was a tall drink of water in that regard. And that garden has been seeded, to say the least. They are going to be the new team in the mix, perennially, one would think, in the NFC. And based on what we saw this year and the fact that the Cowboys just introduced somebody nobody thought would be their next head coach coming off of a season in which Dak couldn't stay healthy and this roster wasn't deep enough at all to survive injuries, let alone Dak's.
You could make the case the Cowboys are the third best team in this division right now. And they're going to be looking at that reality for a while to come, unless Shadi can pull a rabbit out of the coaching headset. And the Commanders have, they have the guy. That's all we're looking for. That's all we're looking for in the NFL. That's who the Titans are wondering if Will Levis is the guy or is Abdul Carter the guy, according to Daniel Jeremiah in his mock draft, first overall. What are they going to do with Deshaun Watson out next year in Cleveland? Do they go ahead and take Cam Ward, leave him for the Giants? If the Giants take him third overall, is he the guy?
The Raiders are sitting there at sixth overall. Would Shador be the guy? Who's the guy? Everybody's wondering who the guy is. The Jets are back on the who's the guy question mark. Is Tua the guy? Is Herbert really the guy? Is Trevor Lawrence going to be the guy?
Is Liam Cohen going to unlock Trevor Lawrence in a way that Doug Peterson did for a little bit but couldn't? Everybody's wondering who the guy is. The Broncos have their guy.
Now who's the guy? Is Penix going to be the guy in Atlanta? Can J.J. McCarthy be the guy? Does Sam Darnold, despite what we saw, really the guy? Can he be the guy?
Is he the guy? The commanders have no questions about it anymore. Asked and answered. Jayden Daniels answered it this year without a doubt. And they didn't make it to the Super Bowl. Nobody thought they'd make it to the playoffs, let alone to the NFC Championship game. Taron McLaurin was unlocked.
I would proffer to say there's a front office that knows how to fix what needs to be fixed and added to. I'm not worried about the commanders. Six loss fumbles against the Eagles all season long. The other teams that they played, including the playoffs, they'd lost just four. They ran into a better team. Unfortunately for them, their team rests in their division. And they know who they're going to have to target. They know who they're going to have to beat. They know what they're going to need in order to beat them.
You know, it's a simple thing. Don't turn the ball over. They didn't do it in the playoffs in the first or the second round. They won those games. They did it three times in Philadelphia. They lost it.
Not to oversimplify things, but that can make things simple. But they've got their guy and they got rid of their guy too. Is there anything worse, if this is true, than hearing from ESPN and Don Van Natta and Seth Wickersham? And if they say this is true, it is true that Dan Snyder is miserable at the success of the Washington commanders. That it makes him miserable and all I have to say about that is good riddance. It's like Jerry Seinfeld.
That's a shame. That's a shame, Jif, that he's going to sit there and go, I was forced to sell the team. No sense of understanding why he was forced to sell the team at all. No understanding that he lost at all any allies in that room of ownership.
Jerry Jones, he lost Jerry. It was put upon him. It was not anything that he did.
He didn't bring anything of this on himself at all. That there's no self-awareness to the point where all of these people that he supposedly wanted to service with happiness and success and couldn't do it because it was such a horror show in that building. That when he's out and he is now sold it for an insane profit, making him and his family generationally enriched as long as this earth keeps spinning, that he can't sit there and go, you know what? Good for them. And all those people who showed up and put their trust and their faith and their literal credit cards in his hand, that he can't be happy.
What a, so if you're wondering like how commanders fans feeling today, probably a little down, you know, because they thought it could happen right now. But other than that, all good in their hood because of who's there and who no longer is. Four three, coming up, actor, Michael Rosenbaum, you know, some of the most talented people in the business. And now he's getting the inside story. Let's get inside of Heather Graham. I can't look at like boogie nights and think that you were a nerd, Johnny Knoxville figure to do another jackass movie.
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