Hour 1: Cowboys’ Comeback, Rams Rout Bucs, Rich Can’t Quit the Chiefs, Bears Rolling

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1:13But here's the best part. Our YouTube channel. Subscribe at youtube.com slash Rich Eisen Show and you'll never miss a moment. Now, on with the show. This, this, this, this. I got some, please. This is the Rich Eisen Show. So a lot of people want to see me fail, and it ain't going to happen. What is that? Live from the Rich Eisen Show studio in Los Angeles. And for Shador Sanders, the first passing touchdown of his career. On today's show, complete Week 12 recap, Monday night preview, your phone calls, latest news, and more. And now, it's Rich Eisen. that's right everybody welcome this edition of the rich eisen show here on disney plus the espn app everywhere and for those listening on espn radio presented by progressive insurance i've just taken my glasses off which means i mean business uh we're also here on sirius channel uh 80 sirius xm we say hello to you and all podcast listeners just because you listen whenever you want doesn't mean i don't say hello to you off the top of our monday program uh here on the monday of week 12 prior to the panthers and niners taking on one another on monday night football in a game that 12 weeks ago i don't think anybody thought would be as significant as it is going into tonight and that's the beauty of the national football league one never knows because it was 12 weeks ago with a uh vegas raiders beat the new england patriots uh in gillette stadium and now yada yada yada how the hell did that happen um so uh the raiders fired their offensive coordinator chip kelly and his right hand man this morning uh as well chip kelly was last night they didn't even let that one sink in before max verstappen left the city um and so um that happened shador sanders wins his first start as a cleveland brown we'll talk about that on this program the overreaction monday podcast uh is already in the rss feed or the rich eyes and show youtube channel for you to listen to and watch respectively.

3:19The cut down version airs on ESPN2 every single Monday at 4.30 p.m. Eastern time. Chris Brockman and I have already recorded it. Good to see you over there, Christopher. How are you? What's up, man? Good to see you. DJ Mikey D is in these nuts. How are you, Mike? Good to see you. Do you have the proper drop ready? Because we have to give it up to this man whose team was down 21 and nothing to the Philadelphia Eagles in the Jones Mahal only to come back and win it. There it is. TJ Jefferson. Big W for your Cowboys. We're on to Kansas City. Ah, I like it. Look at you. We're on to Kansas City.

3:51Rich Eisen:Look at you expecting it. I like it. I like the attitude. And I'll tell you what, with the Chiefs beating the Colts in overtime to go to 6-5 and avoiding the first ever 5-6 start in the Reed era, the last time they were 5-6 was the year before Andy Reed showed up to beat the Colts in front of the country on CBS in the early window. And then the Eagles losing to the Cowboys after being up 21-0 in Dallas on Fox in front of the whole country. Tried to tell you. I do believe that Chiefs at Cowboys, middle of the Thanksgiving John Madden triple header, I think it gained five rating points yesterday.

4:35And as you know, the NFL schedule makers going into the season were saying, that's going to be the largest audience in the history of regular season football in the National Football League. I mean, it's nothing new to us. I understand, sir. I understand.

4:49Rich Eisen:He's 5 '5 and 1, and he's feeling it. As well you should. As well you should. As well you should. And Rich, there's no mariachi bands. There's no balloons. It's just another game. As well you should. As well you should, TJ Jefferson, because this Dallas Cowboys team right now looks different. It does. Defensively, when you trade away Micah Parsons, everyone's wondering, what the hell are you thinking? Micah. And I think a lot of people are still wondering that about the Dallas Cowboys. You know, when you're hoping to get that edge rushing from Jadavion Clowney when he's not off sides during that 21-0 deluge that the Cowboys suffered at the beginning of the game on Sunday.

5:29But Clowney is beginning to make his presence known.

5:32Rich Eisen:But when you take Kenny Clark, which was a higher register, nice piece to get him back in that trade. I mean, oh, okay, I see you. At least you got Kenny Clark back. And then you had Quentin Williams. Now, that's how you hold Saquon Barkley to 22 rush yards. Once upon a time, Saquon Barkley would stroll into this stadium in this game and run rough shot all of them, and once upon a time would be like, you know, last year. But to see the Philadelphia Eagles only get from Saquon Barkley 22 rush yards on 10 carries. They're Marvian Overshown coming back. That front seven's buzzing all over the place.

6:14Rich Eisen:So the back end of the defense that was getting exposed, left, right, up, and down for the first nine weeks of the season. Totally different look. Totally different. And then offensively. I mean, I say this with the utmost of respect. Please understand what I'm about to say. Well, this kind of sounds like we're getting down disrespect. And on the Rich Eisen show, when you say, with all due respect, that allows you to be disrespectful after that. Well, it doesn't allow you. It just cautions. But George Pickens is balling out so hard. How hard is he? Balling out. I mean, actually, let me rephrase that.

7:01Rich Eisen:George Pickens is playing such great football. Balling. Yes. Even better. He's turning CeeDee Lamb into his own personal Alvin Harper. Hey, look, it is what it is. Because we're seeing a receiver. I mean, Michael Irvin, my bestie, has got to be sitting there watching this beast of a receiver, wondering, like, can we find out some way to petition the NFL to see if he can also wear 88? Right. He's got to be thinking that. Can we make him an unofficial 88 clubber? Because he's unbelievable and is exactly the type of guy that the Steelers envisioned that he could possibly be for them until whatever ice of the iceberg that was underneath the surface was so significant they had to trade him to the Dallas Cowboys.

8:01Rich Eisen:But George Pickens, man, is on a heater. Nine catches, 146 yards for him in this game. Fourth most receiving yards by a Cowboys player with a 100 % catch rate since 1978. He set a new single-season career high for receptions with 67, and we still have more games to go. CD, you know, he was, by the way, Prescott was nine for nine targeting Pickens. Four of 11 targeting Lamb, including another. I swear to God, when that ball went through his hands and hit him in the chest in the end zone, I thought he didn't just drop another pass against the Philadelphia Eagles that's going to cost the Dallas Cowboys, did he?

8:45Rich Eisen:Pardon that. Were you thinking that, watching that, no doubt in the barn with your boy Ashton? Listen. Were you, by that confirmation, he was watching the barn with Ashton. Were you not thinking that? By the time that happened, I was home because I left the barn at halftime because I thought the game was over. Good to know. I don't blame you. I don't blame you. 21 points down, man. That ties the Cowboys franchise record. Coming back from 21 down, scoring the final 24 unanswered to win it, even though at some point I honestly wanted to jump through the television set and see if I could channel my way through to the Metroplex to look at Brian Schottenheimer when he went for it inside the five-yard line with less than four minutes to go after getting that gift punt muff recovery after the Eagles hold defensively, hold defensively, and have an opportunity to run a four-minute drill, kick a field goal, and get out of dodge with a win in this game.

9:48And instead of kicking a bunny with Brandon Aubrey to go up three, they decide to go for it and come away with zero points. I wanted to look at Brian Schoepheimer and say, I don't care what the metrics say. And I sat there and I threaded out on a post-it on threads, like nobody kicks field goals anymore unless they're 60 yards or longer. That's it. Coaches are like, oh, I guess we'll settle for that 48-yarder now. Does anybody kick a field goal inside of 30 yards anymore? Maybe Jim Harbaugh does. Maybe a Harbaugh does. I don't know. It's crazy. I can't believe that happened because it almost cost him.

10:27But the Cowboys come up with the plays necessary, get the ball back, and do set things up. And it's George Pickens, again, who got Aubrey close enough to make an easy one to win it. You don't see comebacks like this often enough. And Dak Prescott had this to say after the game. in a game in which he set the career passing yards record for the Dallas Cowboys passing Tony Romo, and he's only 12 touchdown passes behind him for the most in that category. Hit it. I love being down. I don't know why I couldn't tell you. Now, trust me, it's fun when you're up. You can laugh. You can job when you're down.

11:09It requires such a unique place that you have to get to in resilience and focus and taking it one play at a time and just trying to lead the other guys and get them to do the same. And when they do and you end up winning a game like this, this can be huge, huge for us moving forward, and it will be. And as we've talked about all week, getting on a run. This is a hell of a way to get number two, and we've got to enjoy it tonight, and that's it. And be ready for Thursday. Thursday, because here come the Chiefs coming off of an overtime win where it makes them feel really good about themselves coming.

11:45And largest comeback win in Dak's career, by the way. fourth of at least 14 or more points. And, you know, one other thing that's awesome about Dak, it is his 14th career game with two passing touchdowns and one rushing touchdown. Second most in the NFL since entering the league behind only the king of it, Josh Allen. Dak, man, playing the best ball of his career. Defensively, they're playing well. Let's look at the schedule, TJ, because the Chiefs are coming in next, and then they've got the Lions the week after. in Detroit. As we know, it's a full complimentary rest on that Thursday night.

12:22Rich Eisen:That rare once a week, once a year situation where both Thursday night teams have a full complimentary rest outside of, I guess, opening night kickoff, right? Home from Minnesota, which has been struggling like crazy with my guy, JJ. Jim Harbaugh coming in. Wow! Before two games against the bottom half of their division. winnable games and 5-5-1 is a terrific launching off point to hit the reset button you are 500 that one time I cost him to try and somehow catch Philadelphia if something happens with the Eagles worse than what we saw on Sunday but you got to feel good defense looks way better and Pickens and this offense with Javante Williams and the tight ends catching offensive line blocking thumbs up yeah man for sure you gotta feel good the problem is 500 it's a nice spot to just feel like you're hitting a reset button but when you look at the standings you got some teams to leapfrog and the Lions are one of them that's a big game after Thanksgiving if you pull off the win over the Kansas City Chiefs at home on Thanksgiving Thursday.

13:39They're wondering if that tie is going to come back to Hong Kong. Oh, yeah. If only our clock operator was more unscrupulous. George Pickens, though, Rich, he's now like must-see TV. Brockman, if you tell me George Pickens stood on his head, cut a ball with his feet, I'd be like, oh, bet. I believe it. If you tell me he went to the second level and did Jeff Hardy's swan-tombomb, I'd be like, yeah, sure, I believe it. Nothing he does surprises you. Yeah, it's funny. He wears number three. I think you can make a case he's, at worst, the third best receiver in the NFL.

14:13Rich Eisen:Well, I mean, you got Jackson Smith and Jigba. Clear number one. And you got both Los Angeles Rams. I think you kind of take your pick who was number two, but George Pickens is having as good a season as anyone. He's been terrific. And he's definitely somebody who the Steelers could use. But we heard it last week. We heard last week, and we talked about an overreaction Monday as well, change of scenery. Dak is way better than any quarterback that was thrown to Pickens over the last few years as well. And apparently, Pickens did a story where as a kid, he always was a Cowboys fan, saw him playing there, so maybe.

14:49Yeah, he wrote a Players Tribune that was great. Really great story. Good stuff. Congrats on your team. Attaboy, TJ. Let's talk about the Philadelphia Eagles now. the reason why i laugh is because um we saw tweets and posts and um and asides on four words i like to keep saying over and over here because i've never said important janky rondo's twitch feed um we saw all that stuff and jalen hurts his time in the barrel last week with reports about internal strife over his style of play and the way he wants to play and how it's different from the way it's practiced all week and all that sort of stuff.

15:37And that was all coming off of wins. Exactly. Now, the Eagles lose a game in mind-blowing, heart-wrenching, gut-wrenching fashion. 21-point blown victory. Snatching it from the jaws of victory right into the defeat column. And the last time they lost by 21 points. Up. The last time they blew such a lead. Week 1, 1999, Andy Reid's first game as coach of the Philadelphia Eagles. Doug Peterson's first game as the quarterback of the Eagles. They lost 25-24 when the Cardinals were down by 21. and everything turned out fine for years after all of that i'm sure they're all like fire reed who's doug peterson boy we could use ricky williams around here yeah that was donovan mcnab's rookie year right 99 and then they committed a season high 14 penalties in this

16:43Rich Eisen:game that's not great either oh good lord it's their first loss in their kelly green since bringing them back a couple years ago. Oh my God. We have to call about that to the local radio stations. Yeah, I'm saying this too because the Eagles are 8-3. Okay? The team that's closest to them is 5-5 and 1. And you split with them. It's not like they've got an upper hand on you. And then all you gotta do is be one game better than the Rams the rest of the way. And you beat the Rams, you got that tiebreak in your back pocket to put on the table. Right? You got the Bears coming into town this Friday, feeling really good about themselves.

17:40You beat them, and you got a tiebreak over the team

17:44Rich Eisen:that's leading the NFC North right now. before you visit the Chargers out here. And I could tell you, the last time the Chargers hosted a team from the state of Pennsylvania when I was here didn't work out for the team from Pennsylvania, but Pennsylvania took over the stadium. And I have a feeling we're going to, you know, what Bradley Cooper will show up with his Uber Eats bag and all that stuff. Then you got the Vegas Raiders, two games against Washington, a visit to Buffalo, which is so up and down. Honestly, it's like a freaking roller coaster in that Western New York. So I'm going to channel my inner Aaron Rodgers and have the temerity to look into the camera and directly address the Eagles fans out there.

18:28Here, coach.

18:30Rich Eisen:Relax. R-E-L-A-X. Relax. Yeah, I don't think it's in their DNA. I get it. I understand. This loss sucked. to the max, to use what, an 80s phrase. Valley girl. You know what I mean? Did I just do that? You did. Totally tubular. What happened? Oh, my God. I mean, you're the Encino man over here. I know what's going on. He's not the caveman from Encino. Listen.

19:07Rich Eisen:Seriously. And I know. in western Pennsylvania you're sick and tired of after losses hearing a coach basically talk in a certain way that gives an impression of confidence when the play doesn't back it up and Jalen Hurts is entering that zone because you write down what he says and it's just like I don't understand it we are who we are as a team we're all we got and we all we need well that was last week awful win Yeah. Here's Jalen Hurts off the loss. Today wasn't our day. And when I look at myself in the mirror, I say I got to do more. I have to dig and muster things out and try a way to figure it out for all of us.

19:57But, you know, that's the type of character that you'd like everyone to have. And so if we can just have that right type of synergy, that right type of energy, and come together and push forward like I know we're capable of, we'll be just fine. I think I've ever heard a quarterback use synergy. Pardon me, 10 targets for 8 catches, 110 yards for A.J. Brown on a touchdown. So that tracks, right? 11 targets, 6 catches, 89 yards for Devontae Smith. Saquon had a season high in receptions of 7 for 52. Jalen Hurts, 27 of 39 for 289 yards and a score. guess what? Defensively is where this team got let down.

20:45I was surprised at how little of a pass rush they were able to generate on Dak. Dak was sitting back there having a sandwich in the second half sometimes. Oh, but no, it's the offense's fault. Kevin Petullo will be a four-letter word around the Thanksgiving table like it's a scene out of Silver Linings Playbook. Look it up. honestly 8-3 the best team in the division other than you is 5-5-1 the best team in football right now, we'll talk about the Rams in a moment is one game in front of you and you've beaten them the NFC South isn't coming for you okay and the NFC North is coming in your house and it's a team with the same record as you and it's a team that's building confidence but still hasn't come into a building like yours and done what they've done over the last few games for the Chicago Bears I mean nice win for the Bears against the Pittsburgh Steelers and Mason Rudolph totally and we'll talk about that on this show you know the but you know going into Minnesota wasn't easy division when they came up with that win their last visit was at Cincinnati that you They needed Colston Loveland to come up with that dash to save that game.

22:07And then at Baltimore is when they lost last. And so you have the people there. I mean, like to tell the Bears, not today, not this year. We got six games to go. Three of them, you know, are against totally winnable teams, including two against Washington.

22:30Rich Eisen:you know and vegas come on relax you could still be the one seed 100 percent

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24:27Back on the Rich Eisen Show on ESPN Radio presented by Progressive Insurance. Last two weeks of my power rankings, the Rams were the number one team. And I appreciate that they've been back in my play. Because their play has shown it. I've got to be straight up with y 'all. When I called Rams-Jaguars in London, and that was the game that Pukunakua missed. Because you remember he had that ankle injury against the Ravens in a game that the Rams struggled to put points on the board and win. and they're coming to London to take on the Jaguars after spending the entire week in Baltimore from which Sean McVay zoomed into our broadcast group in London where the Rams had yet to go.

25:11If you recall, they flew on a Friday night and landed on a Saturday. And it's just like, and McVay's like, that's the way we would have traveled from the West Coast. Actually, I think they landed on Saturday. They did. That's what we would do left coast to East coast. So we're in the East Coast going to London. That's what we're going to do. And he said to the broadcast group, you know what? Puka being out, we're going to try and use this as something helpful. Because we've been really Puka dependent. And we need to show that we're a more diverse offense. So we're going to do that. Like, okay.

25:50Sounds good. And all they've done is gotten better. That's all they've done. Stafford threw five touchdowns on that game in London and spread it around to tight ends you've never heard of. And receivers you'd never heard of. And then Devontae Adams, who you've heard of. And then Stafford just threw a four-touchdown game. And then a four-touchdown game after that. Put it all together. And Matthew Stafford has thrown 27 straight touchdown passes without a single interception. tying Tom Brady for the longest such streak in NFL history. And then when they want to run it, because they want to, they can.