Hour 1: Eagles-Packers MNF Takeaways, plus Chargers WR Ladd McConkey

0:00Rich Eisen:Lamin Amal steps into McDonald's, looks left, sees Pulisic, looks right, sees Jimenez. Gives a nod to Ronaldinho in the corner with a FIFA World Cup meal. Ronaldinho sees Son in the booth, Son finds Beckham going for extra Big Mac sauce. He's got Davies at the table just behind him. Davies going for his collectible cup. A steal by Henri, who pulls his own collectible cup. Collect one of nine legendary cups with a FIFA World Cup meal. At participating McDonald's for a limited time. While supplies last, all rights reserved. 2026 McDonald's at FIFA World Cup 2026. Are all batteries the same? That's like asking if all soccer players are the same.

0:37Rich Eisen:Take Messi, the most decorated player ever. Is there any other player who has achieved that? No, just him. Now take Duracell. Is there any other battery with Power Boost ingredients inside? No, just Duracell. Goats only trust Goats, because they're built different. And Messi only trusts Duracell. This is The Rich Eisen Show. Hey, everybody. Can't get enough of The Rich Eisen Show? You're in luck. You can find us everywhere. Watch us weekdays on Disney Plus from noon to 3 Eastern. Miss the show? We've got a podcast so you can listen anytime. But here's the best part. Our YouTube channel. Subscribe at youtube.com slash richeisenshow and you'll never miss a moment.

1:26Now, on with the show. This is the Rich Eisen Show. Let me break it down for you again. The Rich Eisen Show. Devontae Smith, let's go! Many got it. Live from the Rich Eisen Show studio in Los Angeles.

1:41Rich Eisen:You hold good football teams to 10 points, you should win a football game. Today's guests. Chargers wide receiver Vlad McConkie. Three-time Super Bowl champion Mark Schlereth. Actors Ted Danson and Mary Steenbergen. And now, Rich Eisen. Well, hey, everybody. Welcome to this edition of the Rich Eisen Show on Disney Plus, the ESPN app, which has everything ESPN all the time. ESPN Radio presented by Progressive Insurance. Also on the air, we say hello to our Sirius XM Channel 80 listeners as well. And to you podcast listeners, you're just as important to us, even though you're listening to us whenever you want.

2:22Rich Eisen:It's your right. Through all three hours, we say hello to you. And we've got some great, I dare any other show to put Ladd McConkie and Mary Steenburgen in the same group of guests. Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen together in hour number three in advance of their season two of the Netflix series Man on the Inside together. And then Mark Schlereth, a guy named Stink and Sam Malone on the show. I mean, that's our role in today. We've got a great celebrity. True or false in store? It's an overreaction Monday. On a Tuesday, the Overreaction Monday podcast is still out there, and your RSS feeds are on our YouTube channel, youtube.com slash RichEisenShow.

3:03Rich Eisen:For everybody who wants all of that. Good to see you over there, Chris Brockman. How are you? Hey, Rich. Who's more likely to have heard of the other, LaDidi or Mary Steenburgen? Great question. I don't know. I mean, it's Tuesday, but we can play what's more likely. I don't know. I don't think I'm going to use real estate with either one of them to see, hey, do you know Ladd McConkie, Mary? Just for us. Just for us. Or the fact that we refer to him as LaDini McConkey. Now she knows him. That's from Keegan-Michael Key. LaDini McConkey. Good to see you over there, Mike Dilterell. How are you? Our sound engineer.

3:37Rich Eisen:Our audio executive is here. TJ Jefferson. The candle's lit, as I can see, over there. I'm good now, but I was pretty stressed last night. I'm going to let you know. Oh, my gosh. We're going to talk about that later. Couldn't tell, TJ. I'm just glad that you're here as proof of life. What you saying? Because you didn't respond to a single text on that chain last night. And you were the one on the guillotine in our fantasy league. We'll talk about that later. All right, I'm just saying. We've got an audience in studio for the first hour today. The students. Hey. There's Professor Schuster with her students, power players and platforms in global sports.

4:11Rich Eisen:It's amazing. University of Southern California, the Marshall School of Business, and the Annenberg School of Communication. Only class that crosses both streams like Ghostbusters. You're not supposed to cross the stream. Not supposed to cross the stream. But it works. Something strange. So they're all sitting here. I was farming hot takes this morning. Let's see what I can use for overreaction Monday on a Tuesday. Okay, hot take farmer Chris Brockman. All right, let's start with the Monday Night Football game, even though the Mavs have fired their general manager. Yeah, we knew that. We'll talk about Nico later on.

4:41Rich Eisen:Let's talk about the Monday Night Football game. Do we have to? Well, yeah, we will because, you know, obviously it's going to leave a mark. It's left a mark. and we'll look at it from the top down, first of all. The NFC standings, the Eagles wound up being one going into the game because they were off last week when everybody else lost in front of them. And they're still one now. One game over the Seahawks. I don't want to bore you with the details of the tie breaks and the Rams. They're one. And the Packers drop all the way from first place in their division. to third place in their division.

5:22Rich Eisen:They're seventh overall now. And the Bears are in second place in the NFC North and have some wait for it wild card cushion. Here we go. That's what the final score of last night's 10-7, sometimes difficult to watch, but exhilarating, sometimes nonetheless Monday night football contest in Lambeau field. We'll take it one team at a time here. And of course we have to start with the defending Superbowl champion, Philadelphia Eagles, who are now seven and two with a dynamite. Superbowl caliber defense. Oh my God. Do they have a terrific defense? I think it was funny last night. Joe Buck, when the Monday Night Football broadcast was introducing the defense of Philadelphia, and he basically said, here's the defense, the Philadelphia Eagles.

6:26Rich Eisen:You know, most of them played from Georgia. You know, most of them from Georgia. And he's not wrong. Nolan Smith got activated before the game last night. He's been hurt. Georgia. Okay. Jalen Carter, who is one of the best, if not arguably the best at his position, a game wrecker of the A++ variety from the middle of the defensive line. Where'd he go? Georgia. Hey, Christopher, we loved this guy when he was playing for Georgia. N 'Kobe Dean is back. Everywhere. And healthy, and he's making open field tackles. One that he made on Josh Jacobs in the fourth quarter last night in the middle of the field.

7:12Rich Eisen:And he also was the one on the sack of Jordan Love. Ball popped up in the air and he tried to slap it at Josh Jacobs, but it was a fumble. And, of course, you know who recovered this fumble? The guy who Howie Roseman acquired from the Miami Dolphins for a third-round pick that we were wondering, Anybody else want to throw a third-round pick at the Miami Dolphins for Jalen Phillips? Anybody? Bueller? Bueller? I understand that reference, pop culture reference, probably lost on the USC students here. Give them credit, Rich. They go to USC. But they don't take a day off. Like Ferris Bueller, that's the reference.

7:57Rich Eisen:Okay, I got some thumbs up. I don't feel that old. Listen, anybody else want to flip a three because it's going to be better than Philadelphia is more likely than not. Miami would have said sold. And anybody who didn't has got to be looking at, oh, so Jalen Phillips recovers that fumble. Oh, okay. He's now part of this Philadelphia defense.

8:21Rich Eisen:And the back end.

8:25Rich Eisen:What, Quinianimo Bay, right? Is that what it is called? Is that what they're calling it? And Cooper DeGene and the rest of those guys in the back end? You know what McAfee calls him. amazing whites exciting exciting well i mean that's the photograph in in your your local wine shop okay so defensively check the box there are some box checking of the philadelphia eagles that i think we've come to see in their super bowl window uh era of nick sirianni okay and and one of them is you know more likely than not terrific defense okay vick vangio is dialing it up the whole business and then it's just uh offensively they're mystifying they mystify you outside of running it through saquon barkley for 2 000 yards plus in last year's campaign it's like if he's not working it's just not working and it looks brutal it looks completely like tooth pulling for first downs and Jalen Hurts, for whatever reason, on third and long isn't even targeting A.J.

9:36Rich Eisen:Brown or Devontae Smith. There are multiple third and longs last night and he's just like checking it down. He's not even checking out what's going on. A.J. Brown, two catches in the first half, bupkis in the second half. So, you know, it then leads to the now seemingly weekly occurrence of a press conference of what's up with the offense, Jalen Hurts. And then he'll give you a soundbite where it's all business and it gives you nothing else to hang your hat on. Hit it. When we look at ourselves in the mirror, it's not a capability thing. It's not a capability thing at all. You know, we're very confident in what we can do.

10:22We just got to go out there and play at a high level more consistently. And, you know, I think this game was a perfect example of what it could be when we take advantage of our opportunities.

10:34Rich Eisen:And then when we don't control the things that we can, how they can hinder us. Anybody? I'm getting sick of this. Don't get sick of it. I mean. Because he's your Super Bowl MVP from last year, and he could be again this year. and no chance there's okay no chance because guess what another earmark of an eagles game is weird stuff and i just gave you some weird stuff the weird stuff weird stuff like we're gonna run tush pushes and this league is so on the officiating to officiate this stuff right and the first tush push against the team that tried to legislate it out of football happens three snaps into the first drive for the Philadelphia Eagles.

11:23Rich Eisen:And one of their offensive linemen is clearly moving before the snap. Clearly moving. He was in the defensive line. And officials who have been told to be on their P's and Q's for this are staring right down the line. And all the 19 4K cameras that ESPN has on this line of scrimmage is capturing a clear false start, and they don't call it. It's embarrassing. And then at the end of the game, after watching all the teeth getting pulled on offense, the Philadelphia Eagles defense gets another turnover on a run play on fourth down with the Packers having the ball at the end of the game with a chance to tie it and force overtime.

12:10Rich Eisen:they get another turnover this Eagles defense on a play that Josh Jacobs said the Eagles were calling out before the snap. Again, we'll talk about the Packers later on in this hour. The Eagles get the ball back. They got to run out the clock best they can. They've got Saquon Barkley to do it. They've got to burn through the Packers timeouts first. At one point, they throw it. Like, what did they do? But that's in the previous possession that eventually led to Green Bay having a chance to tie it, only to fumble it back to the Philadelphia Eagles. Now they're just going to run Saquon Barkley all the way to fourth down, at which point, with the Packers out of timeouts, but the Eagles need to burn off the last 30 seconds on fourth down, do they punt it do they just run Jalen Hurts around before maybe getting him up the field something to burn some time off I would have punted it instead this is when he decides to target AJ Brown on a deep ball down the left side that's as 50-50 coin flip as you possibly can get when this analytics driven franchise clearly has a percentage on a way a punt would work out.

13:42Rich Eisen:I'm not a next-gen stats guy. I'm imagining the odds of percentages were better than 50-50 of the punt working out. Probably 90. And that's the way the Packers get the ball back, needing only 20 yards or 30 yards to get a decent field goal shot. No timeouts left. I don't get that decision at all. Let's see if the explanation from the head coach lends any more clarity than the quarterback did about the offensive struggles. I would have liked to be a little closer to kick a field goal, but the closer we would have got, the more again, you play every situation a little bit differently, but I think it was into the wind on that one.

14:28I knew the kick would have to be a little bit lower trajectory of a kick on that particular one. I got a lot of faith in our offense. It didn't work out on this one. I stand put on that decision, especially being up three, because you go up six, they're still going to need a touchdown, being a Hail Mary, everything like that.

14:48Rich Eisen:So we would have ended the game if we would have got that, and then got a lot of faith in our guys to be able to do that. Now, again, this is a simulcast on the radio. dead air doesn't do well on the radio but after hearing that I just have to say

15:07what what

15:11Rich Eisen:what what what

15:18Rich Eisen:I don't understand that at all but it leads to the last check mark of Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl era window opening type of football. They won. They won. And Nick Sirianni wins his 55th career game as head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles. That is tied for the fifth most all-time by a head coach in their first five career seasons. The only ones with more. Mike Smith. How about them apples back in the day with the Falcons? Interesting. Matt LaFleur, who's losing last night, has everybody questioning his job status, even to his face in the post-game press conference. Fair. Two fewer than Paul Brown with 57 and George Seifert with 62.

16:13Rich Eisen:Win. W. Put up the NFC standings one more time, if you wouldn't mind, Mr. Hoskins, and I'll explain to the radio audience. There's no photographs attached to that. no photographs of the offensive struggles or the weird decisions and the tush pushes that they get away with, with movement before and Saquon Barkley coming in and out of the game and AJ Brown, not getting targets and Devante Smith getting one and coming up with the one touchdown necessary. Yada, yada, yada. They win. Yeah. But who are you picking in a game against the rest of the teams behind them? You're not picking the Eagles. I get it until the Eagles do show up and put it all together.

16:52Rich Eisen:Well, that's a pretty big if. Or they don't. You could say that all you want, pal. I'm going to keep doing it. They're 7-2. Yeah. Yep. They could be, I don't know, 3-5-1. Yeah, exactly. Like the 11th-seeded Dallas Cowboys at present? Or the Packers at 5-3-1. Yeah. Once upon a time, 5-1-1. Once upon a time, the team that eviscerated the Detroit Lions in their home in week one. Yeah, that's the preseason. Their ship be sinking. Only now to lose back-to-back games against the Panthers and Eagles at home. Again, we'll talk about the Packers later on. But the Philadelphia Eagles, despite the weirdness and the wildness and the head-scratching and the yeah, this, that, but the only earmark of the more recent days of the Super Bowl window that has yet to appear is the passive-aggressive proverb being posted by A.J.

17:51Rich Eisen:Brown postgame, which he has yet to do or chooses not to do. Oh, I looked before the show, Chris. It's not there. There's nothing there, although I only looked on one social media site. I haven't scrubbed them all, but that's part of your end of the business, Chris. Hasn't happened yet. Maybe that'll happen. but say what you will, the Philadelphia Eagles are atop the NFC entering week 11 as they are next up against the Detroit Lions on Sunday Night Football. Holy smokes. That game, in case you're wondering, is in fact in Philadelphia. Before they visit Dallas again to try and sweep the Cowboys, that Bears game the day after Thanksgiving gets better and better every single week, making that visit to Philadelphia for Al Michaels more than just about one of his favorite four seasons.

18:52Rich Eisen:And then there's the Monday night are here against the Chargers, our neighbors across the way. And that's the way we segue to break. Because Lad McConkie, Ladidi McConkie, is about to join us after he came up with a 100-yard performance against the Pittsburgh Steelers. And we haven't, I don't think he's ever appeared on this program. Certainly not since, well, he did. He shot a video for us when Keegan-Michael Key was back in studio here last, two weeks ago. He's going to join us. Mark Schlereth will join us. And then our three, Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen, real-life husband and wife and co-stars of the Netflix series season two, Man on the Inside.

19:37Rich Eisen:That's our three. but LaDidi next.

19:43Rich Eisen:The Rich Isis Show Podcast.

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21:10Rich Eisen:And from my experience on the road, having a comfortable home base can change the whole experience of a trip. So whether it's a big sports weekend, a concert series, or a major event coming to your area, this could be the right time to list your space on Airbnb. Your home might be worth more than you think. Find out how much at airbnb.com slash host. Save$2 when you buy two cans of Superior Products Coverall tire dressing. Plus receive four times O rewards points now at O 'Reilly Auto Parts. Coverall delivers long-lasting shine. Visit your O 'Reilly Auto Parts store or OReillyAuto.com. Back here on the Rich Eisen Show.

21:51Rich Eisen:Everybody. Is it really bothering you that much? They never text me. Now we have to bring our radio audience up to speed. Let's ask them. Let's ask the kids here. No, no, no, no. Let's not ask the kids here. If you have 100 text messages, are you going to sit and read all of them and respond? No, no. You just hold on a second. You won't. Everybody, everybody. We've got to be on your best behavior. Listen. Well, we're past. No, listen. Listen. Listen. Let's do this. Radio audience, 844-204-RICH-NUMBER-DOW. Well, what do you do when you're in a fantasy league and somebody and you're texting your group and one person is intimately involved in the wins and the losses of this league and they do not respond a single time to the text message?

22:33Rich Eisen:Do you take offense to this or not? What do you do? If you're the commissioner, what do you do? 844-204-RICH. We take it to the people right here on the Rich Eisen Show on Disney Plus, ESPN app, and ESPN radio presented by Progressive Insurance. Also, be on your best behavior, because we've never had this guy on as a guest. Yes. We referred to him as Ladidi McConkey. And he is a Los Angeles Charger. Ladidi McConkey. Fresh off the win on Sunday night football against the Pittsburgh Steelers here, courtesy of the Pepper portal for Dr. Pepper ahead of the Texas and Georgia game. And it's his birthday today.

23:12Rich Eisen:Oh, yeah. Happy birthday, Ladidi McConkey. How are you, lad? Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate it. Other than getting an appearance on the Rich Eisen Show, what did you want for your birthday, Vlad? Just some downtime. Just relax. Okay. You know, don't have to worry about too much. Yeah, that's it. Okay, so you're in the grind of the season, basically, is what you're saying right now. Yeah, yeah, for sure. So any little downtime you can get is good. What would you even do with downtime? Like, what would you do? I give you downtime. Boom. You got downtime. time what would you do with it glad oh i'm probably just hanging out of the house with my wife and my dog um watching some youtube something like that just chilling okay uh well i'm looking right now down the pike you got time coming up week 12 you got a bye week that's coming up we do we did okay so you just got it so i'll probably head back to georgia go back to my to my hometown see the family maybe do a little hunting something like that so we'll see what do you watch on youtube with your wife and your dog like what are your choices what do I like YouTube Golf.

24:18She doesn't really like it, so she'll just hang out and enjoy it with me.

24:23Rich Eisen:Okay. What's the name of your dog? Nelly. Nelly. Okay. It's not Ugga? It's not Ugga? You didn't think about naming your dog Ugga? No, not Ugga. So it's not a bulldog, is what you're saying? It is not. I got a poodle. Okay. We just got him. A poodle? Yeah, she's like, okay. Seven months? Yeah. Okay. I'm just trying to get the full picture of what's going on in your life right now. I was there on Sunday night, Lad, and I watched that victory for your team coming in against the Steelers team that had just been, they just crushed the Colts. And I'm wondering what your thought on the Steelers defense was going in and what you were able to exploit on Sunday night, Lad.