Hour 2: Steelers’ Post-Tomlin Era, plus Good Morning Football’s Kyle Brandt

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25:53In the trailer, at the end of it, they would go, Steven Seagal is marked for death. That's how the title had to be. Steven Seagal is, and then they would have the title.

26:05Rich Eisen:I'm sure it was in his writer. Kyle Brent here on the Rich Eisen show from Good Morning Football and, of course, fandom of the Chicago Bears. You have the floor, sir, on what you're feeling inside you. I know you've been saying it on NFL Network and the Roku channel that do different spots to watch Good Morning Football's iterations, plural. What are you thinking? What are you feeling right now? Well, Rich, I remember coming on your program in 2024 that season, and I was there in studio with you. And it's funny, you asked me what I'm feeling because 2024, the bears had just lost to the Packers on a last second blocked field goal.

26:43And I remember sitting in that chair next to you saying, they're turning me into a serial killer. I don't feel anything. I don't feel anger. I don't feel disappointment. They're making me Dexter. I have no feelings. And then in the fourth quarter of the other night, it was Costner. Is this heaven? It's Iowa. Is this heaven? It's the wildcard round. And I don't care. It actually felt like a Super Bowl. Real feelings, real emotions. And that's just the game, Rich, before you even get into the aftermath with Ben Johnson doing his thing it's a really crazy fun time to have any connection to the bears well again you doing what

27:24Rich Eisen:you do for a living um yeah means you have talked about patrick mahomes more than most and over the years and having a uh fandom for a team that is in constant search for the quarterback and for the difference making quarterback and i'm wondering what does it feel like to see a guy in a chicago bears uniform make a throw like the one that williams made on fourth and eight that if mahomes did it the nfl media would have demanded a national holiday happen on the spot that caleb williams is doing it yeah 100 for the bears in a playoff game when they have to have it against the green bay packers in front of the whole country to see it's got to be out of body for you.

28:17It is out of body. And the Mahomes comparison is apt because I remember a huge part of the Mahomes ascension and legend was him hitting Tyreek Hill on a fourth and improbable in a must-win game. And when he hit that pass to Hill, you're like, he's unbeatable. He's supposed to lose. And that was the game against the Packers. And that's the Caleb lore now is that there were six or seven moments in that game where you say, well, this one's over. just changed the channel. This was the most famous one, the four down, but there's 50 other ones that they just kind of fought through. And it's surreal.

28:52It's strange. I think there's Bears fans. And you would understand this risk with your jets roots is that there's just so much scar tissue. They can't get over it. Even in the fourth quarter, when they're starting to come back, they still gravitate towards the negative and something's going to go wrong and something's going to happen and it's just it it really feels like it's some work of magic that it isn't spoke dj moore in the same spot in the same end zone the last time he beat the packers is making the same catch and it's just so much scar tissue that's being ripped open but it's a wonderful wonderful pain and it's really special kyle brandt good morning football nfl network

29:31Rich Eisen:roku channel right here on the rich eisen show all right brother uh yeah you you you give me the two cents on Ben Johnson and how he's handling his business pregame, postgame, during game, handshakes. What do you got? Ben Johnson, who took over a team that lost 10 games last year that fired their coach because he ran out of timeouts. He ran out of time in a game when he had timeouts. Ben Johnson has beaten the Packers twice now. This has transcended sports, Rich. This has become societal. This has become, what do I tell my kids? We're talking about profanity and decency and sportsmanship here's what i will tell you last the topic of class we're gonna we're gonna litigate class you know who was really really classy guy and i'm not being snarky was really a classy guy was maddie refluce all class all the all dignified his teams were terrible terrible defense was terrible the officer it was like the coach was class the team was ass and so if you want a classy coach go ahead there's many guys you could hire but if you're also a bears fan who was like so many of them married to the past and gravitating to the 80s do you remember mike dicka mike dicka would scream at reporters he would throw the middle finger on the field he once beat his mentor tom landry 44 to nothing like mike dicka was not like some sort of librarian he's kind of back and i really really like the rivalry i like the hatred i also liked it for the packers when their franchise quarterback stared at ticket holding bears fans and said I bleep and old you my entire life.

31:05I loved that. And I love that Matt, that Ben Johnson is doing the handshake that he's saying bleep the Packers because it's working and he can do whatever the hell he wants. I'm not worried about my kids. I'll handle my kids. He can handle the bears. He's handling them beautifully.

31:19Rich Eisen:Yeah. Giving out free wiener circle dogs, taking them. That's the way I look at it is that he's, he may be, you know, not your cup of tea, but if he's on your side, you're you're damn straight you're you're you're sipping all the tea and you're drinking all the kool-aid you possibly can certainly and he's basically talking to you he's talking to you he's talking to chicagoland he's talking bears around the world when he's saying that um even if it does he does come across like a lunatic you know what i mean yeah i i don't think he cares i don't think you care um and i think the bears are hosting the rams one step away from potentially if the Niners pull something off hosting them for an NFC championship game, if not maybe going to Seattle and going to the Super Bowl.

32:08Rich Eisen:It's real and it's spectacular. You know? It's all there. And you nailed it. And they are real and they are spectacular. And the fact that he is doing this to the players. Remember, when DJ Moore caught the game when he touched on an overtime against the Packers, he said in the post-game interview, F the Packers. Like, that's coming from his coach. And, like, we always culture change, culture change. That phrase is thrown around. No one even knows what it means. I think people think it means stenciling grit on the weight room wall. That's nonsense culture change. Ben Johnson said, I'm going to come in for an owner, George McCaskill, who's, let's be honest, kind of Flanders adjacent.

32:47He doesn't like to learn dirty words. He doesn't like that kind of stuff. And he came in here and said, here's our culture. Leap the Packers. Stencil that on a wall. I'm going to beat those guys. and it's working and he's done it. So not for everybody. It's R-rated. I don't know about you, Rich. Like, I don't really put a huge priority as a parent in my life about profanity. There are far greater evils in the world and on their phones that I'm worried about. So I'm not worried that the kids are going to grow up scarred because of Ben Johnson. I think the kids are going to be excited that the Bears beat the Packers.

33:19Rich Eisen:That said, Kyle Brandt, Sean McVay, Matt LaFleur's de facto brother, and Mike LaFleur, his actual brother, are coming to town with former Packer Devontae Adams and former Lion Matthew Stafford and a running back from Notre Dame and a running back from Michigan who will be like, what cold weather? You know what I mean? Like, this is it. This is happening, Kyle, on Sunday night. Rich, you'll remember that the Jerry Springer show used to originate from Chicago and there was something called the Springer Bell, where when someone would throw a chair or say God knows what, but they would ring that bell and Steve Wilkos would try to hold them.

33:59I'm head on a swivel after this game. Now bears win. What's Ben going to do if the Rams win? Is there not some that Sean McVay, who I think is the best coach in the NFL. Number one, who's he's been looking at his guy, Matt LaFleur get dissed. If it's Mikey LaFleur, who's watching his actual brother get dissed, is there a drive by? Is there a terse exchange? Is there a now what's up? Is there anything? Because McVay is wholesome and McVay is all class. I love McVay. McVay is a super competitive aggro SOB.

34:29Rich Eisen:You bet. And I think that there's also a new rooster in the hen house of the NFC, Ben Johnson. So, like, there's a game and then there's a pay-per-view and it's the Jerry Springer show back in Chicago. And I can't wait. No doubt about it. I know, again, by proxy, Josh Allen is your guy, too. And he it's kind of crazy. The fact that we're nationally saying best shot he's ever had at it because of who's not in the AFC. It's not Lamar, Burrow, and Mahomes left with him. It's Nix, May, and Stroud left with him. So that alone is going to give him that opportunity to go to the Super Bowl. But the Bills also on paper, although as you know, Kenny Mayne would always say the game's not played on paper.

35:18Rich Eisen:It's played inside TV sets. But on paper, Allen 100 percent has been an MVP of a team that is much better, has been much better, only to lose to Mahomes or Burrow this decade than the team he currently is taking into Denver right now. But they could they could make it. That's for sure. They could be in Santa Clara at the end of the day. Oh, no doubt. No doubt. And I look right now, Josh Allen is the best player. He's the closest thing we have to Michael Jordan. and on his team, he's got Scottie Pippen, he's James Cook. Scottie Pippen didn't really do squat against Jacksonville, so Jordan had to get 60.

35:55If Jordan scored 50 in that game, they would have lost. He had to get 60. And I would just encourage anybody who is really embracing the storyline that he doesn't have to go against Lamar and Burrow and Patrick Mahomes. Take a minute at work today. Go to the Bills depth chart and look at the wide receivers that he is starting a divisional round playoff game with and tell me that he has an easy path. the Bills lost Tyrell Shavers this week and you would have thought Montana lost Rice. Tyrell Shavers is the practice squad guy. They lost Dave Davis who the league chewed out and spit back at them.

36:28He's going to Denver with Khalil Shakir who is great. He is a B.J. Armstrong type. He's going with Keon Coleman who you don't know week to week if the Bills even want to play him it's really and he's going with Brandon Cooks who God bless Brandon Cooks Rich. He's on his seventh team. He joined the bills in week 13 that's the war chest that he's going the eagles just got knocked out with aj brown and devante smith at al that's who josh allen michael jordan's going to denver with tell

36:54Rich Eisen:tell me he has an easy path so is he the robert ory without the trophies is that who brian the cooks is on your you know what i mean i would think the robert ory big shot bob and yes he's right there right j tucker he's the pj tucker of the situation here just to mix metaphors I see him as maybe like a Rod Strickland, the Blazers point guard, just effective, dashing. You can put him any offense, it's there. What's that stat? It was in the NFL Network packet here. I think he's the fourth team. Here, let me get this stat for you. I have it. Oh, I love this. Here it is. First player in NFL history to have 50 or more scrimmage yards in a playoff game for four different franchises, Brandon Cooks, for the Patriots, Rams, Cowboys, and now Bills.

37:36Rich Eisen:Yeah. so i remember he was in the the the patriots eagles super bowl the nick foals one he got knocked out of the game he was playing for brady at the time he he's gonna be the josh johnson of wide receivers he's playing every team and it's just like we just pass him around and he's always good but this is not ideal for winning the super bowl he's your number two right now it's nuts before i let you go give me a stealer's next head coach boom i just gave you the crystal ball crystal ball it car next stealer's head coach tomlin hasn't been gone even 24 hours it was right around this time we were beginning to hear rumblings that he had he was all right so here's this is the dating profile you want nice someone who's young okay you want someone who is like kind of the tomlin square jaw like the the the alpha personality which due respect to mike mcdaniel is not going to be him um and then you want probably someone defensive i mean i listen i'm in love with signetti as much as everybody else is so come on it's like that's the kind of swing that I would love for Pittsburgh because you know the pressure rich they the Steelers cannot hire a coach and two years later say our bad let's get somebody oh this person needs to be working there in like 2045 to meet up their standard so it has to be someone who just seems like the natural and it's just I mean it's just look at a picture it's absolutely I mean if you could find Signetti in a 30 year old body right like that's what you're looking for but he's a This is a Pittsburgh guy who I think Steelers fans would go nuts for.

39:02Rich Eisen:Anybody would. You know, I was mentioning him for the Raiders position potentially because obviously the Raiders can draft his current quarterback gunning for Miami in Mendoza. I don't know, but you're right. Like a young sort of just, I mean, the thing is, common 19 years is leaving the Steelers as a 53-year-old man. so that's that's the sort of right right then you say cower left as a 47 year old guy chris you said he was 49 49 okay like that's that's the way things go for the stealers i think it was i think it was shefter who was pointing it out that you can't go back and look at the social media reactions when mike tomlin was hired because there was no social media so it would have to be everybody's myspace posts or something like that doesn't even make sense that's his legacy okay Okay, so I think the Canadian Mounties are out behind the cabin right now, Kyle.

39:58Rich Eisen:They're trying to take out the molasses runners, I think. Is that what it was? They were taking guns across the border in the Untouchables? I think that's what's happening right now. They're smuggling guns, and then I'm also going to go up and strange brew. I'm going to crack some beers. No, as a matter of fact, no, I'm sorry. It was the bookkeeper. The bookkeeper's outside. They're trying to get the bookkeeper, the Canadian Mounties, Kyle. So be careful, okay? in that cabin i got the syrup the mounties the bookkeeper rich and i'm also pantsless so it helps in here too thank you good night football kyle brant everybody ladies and gentlemen uh we'll chat soon brother i'll see you in san agarra you got oh yeah this week oh that's right you're coming out here i'll be there yeah i'll see you part of game day morning this weekend i can't wait that's great that's right by the way i don't know if you think if you saw the uh the graphic from our I guess NFL media department, PR department.

40:55Rich Eisen:Sure. You and Kyle Van Neuer in the corner. So I guess it's just the Kyle corner. We should have a Kyle corner this weekend. Yeah. Well, listen, I hope for the Niners sake, it's not Shanahan the weekend after that. Ladies and gentlemen, Kyle Brandt, everybody. That's called a walk off line. Thanks, guys. Thanks again. That's Kyle Brandt, everybody. Check out Good Morning Football every single day on NFL Network. And then after, switch over for more of that on the Roku channel, everybody. That was a great scene in The Untouchables, by the way. Oh, yes. And he's about to recreate, hopefully not.

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43:22Rich Eisen:The Terranian Sea? Not the Adriatic. Right, the Adriatic. All right, Fetty in Italy. What's up, Fetty? Yes, it is the Adriatic actually. Thank you, sir. I just found out this today. The app that Michael Dutufo pitched to Mr. Wonderful back then, it's viral, like it's real and it's viral in China. There's a BBC article. There's a CNN article. They have done it. Like, you have to check in every 48 hours, press a button to say that you are alive. And that's the name of the app. It's Are You Alive in Chinese, I think. It's crazy. See, I was ahead of my time. I know. I mean, I knew it. I just. And Mr.

44:05Wonderful. Yeah, he could suck it. Sorry. The headline of the BBC article is the viral Chinese app for young people living alone. But I'd have the jet and the yacht.

44:17Rich Eisen:Well, if only Mr. Wonderful would listen to your pitch and not eviscerally eviscerate you. Chris, before you say this, wouldn't it be terrible if you find out that Kevin O 'Leary was... I'm suing him. I'm suing him. By the way, I would love that. The name of the app is Are You Dead? Are You Dead. See? See, this is what... I knew I was ahead of my time. Yeah, Mikey, somebody hit us up on Twitter the other day. And, you know, they gave a link, but you can't click the link. And think about this. In China, you're talking about a lot of people. That's like, what did I say,$299 or$99? I mean, I never thought, I never would think that Mike Del Tufo was way ahead of his time.

44:56Rich Eisen:Thank you for the call, Fetty, in Italy with all that. A new bleak sounding app has taken China by storm named RUJet. Dead. The concept is simple. You need to check in with it every two days, clicking a large button to confirm that you're alive. because there's a lot of people in China, period, who are living alone. And a lot of folks are wondering, are they alive? And if not, it'll get in touch with your appointed emergency contact and inform them that you may be in trouble, which is the exact idea you pitched to Kevin O 'Leary of Shark Tank when he came in here in studio years ago. He absolutely eviscerated you, to use the word that he said.

45:32Rich Eisen:Presentation was piss poor. Okay. And you guys calmed him. Don't forget that part. I will admit, that presentation sucks. And he thought, you know, you should just call your mother. Exactly. Is what he said. You know, that your mom could be somewhere needing help. And now this is actually happening in China. In China, where there's obviously a lot of customers. I would be. So this app was, according to this BBC article, the app was launched in May and then really has blown up in the last few weeks. According to research. How much does it cost? Is it a free app? No, it's not free. Because he said you wanted to charge 99 cents.

46:06Rich Eisen:And he thought that that was exorbitant. No, no. According, the app has launched its free, but it has made its way now into the paid category, 8 won, which is equivalent to $1.15. I was right at that number, too. Cost of living has gone up. Little is known about the founders, but it's said there are three people who were born after 1995. By the way, see you guys, or I'm done. There he goes. Apparently in China, research has shown by 2030, 200 million people will be one-person households. you were on it Mike you were on it presentation sucked you missed out on it so did Kevin O 'Leary except he's still insanely rich and now in Marty Supreme you know he is he was at the Golden Globes did he have his like open collar something like that two watches yeah like he was Elliot Gould in Ocean's Eleven like what the hell is that look he does dress great he dresses for a crazy Fetty in Italy, a diehard fan of the show, pointing out Mike Del Tufo was right.

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