Hour 3: 2-8 Raiders Reactions, plus ‘Good Morning Football’ Co-Host Kyle Brandt

23:59Rich Eisen:Well, listen, when it comes down to it, though, you know, I did say I want to see another game like their their first win of the season beating the Cowboys. Like, yeah, that's I want to see like showing up and that run game is dominant from the beginning. And the three and outs or five and outs or six and outs or whatever are not the predominant way that this offense is operating. I want to see them efficient not settle for field goals and I want the defense to punk people and continue to be the takeaway monsters that they are against an opponent that would leave me saying okay they can outlast Detroit and Green Bay and maybe it is against Detroit which is coming down the pike or even Green Bay who they have yet to face or, as our friends on Prime Video would love it, showing up in Philadelphia and doing it.

25:02Rich Eisen:Like that, now you got me. Now the attention is worthy, I think. 7-3 is nothing to sneeze at. You are what you are. Winning 7 of 10 games in the NFL, certainly after you start 0-2, and in division, no less. Very impressive. That's kind of what I need to see, is what I was saying. I'm completely with you. the Bears were winning single-A ball. They're playing single-A minor league baseball and driving around in dusty buses against teams that have nothing. Last week against Minnesota, they got called up to double-A on the road against a good coach and a good roster. This week, they're playing the Steelers.

25:39Maybe their old friend Aaron Rodgers, that's triple-A ball. And then on Black Friday, they go to Philadelphia in the same defense that just really embarrassed Jared Goff. Jared Goff, who embarrassed the Bears earlier this year. so that's that game if they get there and they've won these next couple of weeks and they get to philadelphia that's the kumite like that's they're going against the baddest group in the league and if they show up i mean if that's a close game rich if the bears lose to the eagles 26 to 20 like that's considered really really impressive because there's expectations for the bears like here's what various fans are if you get to the wild card round this year and lose great that's wonderful we're ahead of schedule we'll take it so it's like right now seven and three feels like ten and three and if they play the eagles tough like i'll take it man yeah and

26:27Rich Eisen:you got the steelers and it looks like rogers um isn't going to need surgery and is pushing to play and you gotta right like that makes sense that rogers wants to play in this game in chicago you know rich i don't work with i'm not the insider i don't work with the sources i just watch the game and I have my guts. He's playing this game. I don't care if this is a freezing cold take. It is every single thing he wants to play. He's in Soldier Field, which is his de facto home stadium. He owns that place. With due respect to the McCaskey family, their dual owners are Aaron Rodgers. We all know that.

26:59This is his reason for living, to go to Chicago and once more dunk their heads in the toilet and flush it. It's what he's all about. And isn't it just setting up perfect, Rich? Like, Rodgers is hurt. He's basically going to do his version of a bleep and flu game walking in there. How many times have we seen him hurt, wounded, down, everything, and then all of a sudden Jordy Nelson scores a 400-yard touchdown and rips the Bears hard? It's setting up perfectly just how he wants it, and I'd be shocked if he didn't play in this game.

27:27Rich Eisen:Are you saying he's got a touch of the Big Ben in him? Is that what you're going on, Carl? I think he does have some Big Ben, yeah. And I think Steelers fans are like, why aren't you playing your non-throwing hand? get out there. We saw Bradshaw and Roethlisberger do this for years. He understands that. That's a big game for Pittsburgh too. This is not all about him. They've got to win this thing. And so I do think there will be some big Ben going on. Freezing cold take me all day long. Aaron Rodgers is playing in this game. I'm saying it with my chest right now. Well, and in terms of the Bears, one more thing on them.

28:00Rich Eisen:Did you see the video of Ben Johnson coming off the field after winning? Where he was walking with a fast-paced gait with his face looking like they just lost by 21. And it just seems like he's sending messages, man. Or we ascribe that to winning coaches, right? Like we ascribe that to for instance to Caleb. He's gone from, man, his ability to get to read two, read three is something that he's lacking to. Oh, he's a magician. He's running around. He's making things happen, which is what happens when you're a winning quarterback is the one that's not Kyle. Oh, yeah. A lot of things are happening right now.

28:45I noticed that the idiots online who want to make jokes about his nail polish don't have squat to say right now. Because if he's supposedly nail polished, a masculated quarterback is running it up on your team and is 7-3 now. So you morons can shut up. He can paint his nails any color he wants. As for the brain trust, Rich, you've got to watch Ben Johnson. If you're not watching Bears game, Ben Johnson, it is so weird. He spends four quarters not blinking. He's like Dexter, like a serial killer. He does not blink. Coach Dexter. A fly could land on his eyeball and he wouldn't even blink. It is nuts.

29:23And then he walks into the locker room and he gets the game ball. And then he goes, it just goes crazy. Like he erupts after three hours of just holding it all in. He goes from a serial killer to like Sam Kinison in the drop of a hat. It's nuts.

29:43Rich Eisen:Kyle Bray here on the Rich Eisen Show. All right. This is going to be fun. Have you ever in the history of giving out scepters, given out scepters for being an angry fan like Cam Scadaboo at Raw and Madison Square Garden on Monday night? Because, again, I miss Cam. I miss seeing him do his thing, but showing up in a Rangers sweater and being a participant with a surgically put back together leg. Is that worthy of a scepter? Do you think it every that guy when that guy sneezes is worthy of a scepter when he ties his shoes that's worthy of a scepter. He's going to be the it's it's going to be like the Lombardi trophy.

30:25is going to be the Scadaboo scepter in perpetuity as he stares down Dirty Dom Mysterio and doesn't even blink as he's wearing a boot and a scooter. Incredible theater. I consider him my blood nephew, Cam Scadaboo. I am so proud of him. And I got to tell you, Rich, sitting here where I am in New York, big, big talk going on from a lot of people about, well, this is irresponsible and he is putting his football career at risk as if he was mankind getting thrown off the cage by The Undertaker. Guys, I have this theory that might have been prearranged and scripted what happened last night. So everybody, just take a deep breath.

31:01Because my nephew is pissed off and he's on Twitter now tweeting like, guys, my football career is taken seriously. If I breathe, that's the face of the scepter. You can do anything he wants in the world of pro wrestling.

31:12Rich Eisen:I can't believe the league missed on him in the first three plus rounds of the draft. Because we were talking about him. I mean, it's not like nobody discovered Cam Scadaboo. he discovered himself, you know what I mean? But I don't know, how did the league miss him? And by the way, did you see his post in response to everything that's going on? Oh, yeah. Kyle? Yeah. Look at that. I honestly, did I pronounce that first word right? Hey. I don't know. If you don't like that, I'm having a good time while dealing with a tough time, then just go ahead and unfollow and casually move on. I'm not able to play football and have the fun I've been having my whole life, so I'm doing things outside the box trying to find stuff to keep me happy.

31:52Rich Eisen:Enjoy the rest of y 'all's week. And just don't talk about me if you ain't got nothing nice to say. Right. Keep his name out your mouth. That's right. I was just going to say. Yeah. Ladies and gentlemen. Shut up, wimps. Angry tweets. Shut up and leave him alone. Angry tweets. That's the guy, Rich. You know what I read as he's taking down all the dweebs out there? Oh, look at you. Kyle's on fire. Just sit there and do nothing. I am. I'm protective of Camp Scadaboo, and I'm heartbroken that we lost him. I think that he didn't pass away. Thank God. He's just injured. Exactly right. I think that he's a guy who's like, I'm all about football.

32:23I don't really know what to do with myself when I went out of football. I'm looking for things to make me happy again. I don't know what to do. I can't play video games. I can't listen to pods. I need something. And it's shoving dirty Don Mysterio. That's right. It's not a surprise, though, either, man. What else is Cam Scadaboo going to do? Like, Kyle, I said last year at this point in five years, Cam Scadaboo is either going to be a special teams star or the intercontinental champion ending in the WrestleMania. Like, that's it. There was only two things. And now it looks like he might be both a star on the football field

32:58Rich Eisen:and a WrestleMania main event. It makes sense, man. And listen, some people do self-care like J.J. McCarthy by meditating. I think I've seen Mahomes do that. And other people do, you know, self-soothing by hanging out with Andrew Schultz and going at Big Dom, right? How many big Doms are there? There's Big Dom in Philadelphia, and then you have Dirty Dom. Guys named Dom Brits usually have a nickname attached to the Dom. Except Deloese, maybe. I don't know if Dom Deloese had one. I don't know. That's true. He might be one of the only Doms out there. That was awesome, though, last night to see that.

33:40Rich Eisen:But Big Dom was there, too, with Cooper DeGene. Yeah, but they didn't mix it up because the judgment day didn't attack them. They saw the real threat was Scadaboo. I love it. Dom DiMaggio, did he have a nickname? Yeah, the other DiMaggio. That's probably what it was, with all due respect. Dom from Entourage? Before I let you go, the thorny issue of who's the best team in the NFL. I've got my power rankings tomorrow. I had the Rams one. I can't foresee taking them out, but you never know. I'm going to think over the last next 24 hours, but in my 22-plus on NFL Network, I can't recall, obviously since most of them were dominated by the Patriots anyway, that there's no dominant team.

34:26Rich Eisen:I can't recall a time where we're entering Week 12, and I can't even maybe peg the Final Four in either conference right now, Kyle. It's tough, but that makes it fun. I feel like our Final Four in the title game weekend, Rich, could be a freak show. I'm thinking about the year we had a handful of years ago. Remember, it was Tom Brady and Blake Bortles and Nick Foles and Case Keenum were the final four quarterbacks. We could be looking at this year. It's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on. It's Daniel Jones and Sam Darnold and whoever's starting for the Niners. It's a weird year, and I'm here for it.

35:04In answer to your question, I like the Rams as much as everybody else does. I'll say this weekend, by far the most interesting game in determining who's good and who's alive is Colts at Chiefs. I am so excited for this game because you look at the Colts and you're like, what is happening? And then you look at the Chiefs and you're like, what is happening? Daniel Jones has the chance to put Patrick Mahomes to 5-6 and give him the third loss in a row for the first time in his career. Wildly interesting to me. And I just think I'm still sticking with the Chiefs from my cold, dead hands. The only thing that's going to make me stop believing in the Chiefs is math if they're mathematically eliminated.

35:41I'm with you. But at five and six with a home loss to Daniel Jones would be just bonkers. And that's what we're looking at.

35:47Rich Eisen:Well, and I think it's going to be what Spagnola is going to try and make happen is that it's going to have to be Daniel Jones to do it. And because it will take a village to stop Jonathan Taylor. Watching that game in Berlin with my 14 year old Cooper. I'm like, you know what? as the game went to overtime, I'm like, you know, I called the Giants-Carolina game in Germany that wound up being Daniel Jones' last game as the Giants quarterback. And I'm like, the reason why they lost, though, wasn't Daniel's fault. He's the one who handed it to his running back in overtime, and the ball wound up hitting the ground, and they lost the fumble and lost it.

36:27Rich Eisen:I said, I guarantee you in this overtime that will not happen when he hands it to his running back this time. And sure enough, Jonathan Taylor, they didn't even settle for a field goal. They just kept running 28 until the game was over. And that's one of the things that I can't wait to see. I know you're 100 % right to bring up Daniel Jones' name, but it really is Spagnuolo's defense, Chris Jones and the rest, and Nick Bolton and all of those guys. is how do they stop 28 and make Daniel Jones put it on his arm and arrowhead? That's going to be the good stuff to see what happens there on Sunday.

37:10It's just, as you're rattling off those names, Rich, that's the craziest part of this Chiefs thing. The guys are all there. When the Chiefs fall apart, it's supposed to be Andy Reid retired, Patrick Mahomes got injured, or they just got fleeced in free agency. The band's all together. Sark's there. Kelsey's there. The receivers are there. They're all there. it's just the band doesn't have its mojo right now and it's i'm like i'm trying to there's a time when when metallica decided to cut all their hair off and started making annoying albums i'm like is that where we are with the chiefs like are they gonna find that groove again because i think this is metallica cutting their hair off and putting on leather jackets it just doesn't feel right but you see the same guys up there right if they lose to the colts this weekend it's like uh an exit

37:53Rich Eisen:sandman is it stupid to ask you what you're watching with your bedtime and you got kids and stuff like that or do you have time to watch a show these days? Never stupid ask that Rich. I'll tell you what I want to watch and this is weird. I have not yet seen the Running Man remake with Glenn Powell. I've not seen the movie yet. I'm holding out hope that they tip the cap to the original and put our guys Whitman Price in the dot. They were somewhere with Glenn Powell. Bring him back! That's the guys we want. I don't know if they're here. Don't ruin it for me. Spoiler alert. I don't think Whitman Price and DeDot are coming back from anything.

38:31Rich Eisen:Ah, but this is a rerun! It's only a rerun. I haven't seen it, but when Glenn Powell was here, he did say that it's not one game show in one spot, you know, underground. It's the globe is actually what the game show is in, so it's a worldwide situation, but I believe the game show host is, it's not an act, they didn't hire an actual game show host. You know, why am I blank? It's not Richard Dawson. No, it's not, I mean, or anybody. It's not like they brought Steve Harvey and he's going to be killing in this time, you know what I'm saying? Come on, you know? When I see it, Rich, I'm going to be sitting there through the credits, waiting for a post credit scene with Whitman, Price, and Haddad.

39:22If they're not in this movie, even like a little Easter egg of them, those are my guys and I just hope I'll be there. but I can only cross my fingers

39:29Rich Eisen:I don't think it's going to be so you'll see that I'm looking up the cast right now you're talking about Coleman Domingo? he's the host it's not Josh Brolin I think Josh Brolin owns the network so he's like a Killian I got it I'm there Richard Dawson as the bad man listen with Jesse the body before he was Jesse the mind Jim Brown Maria Conchita Alonzo Maria Conchita Alonzo Schwarzenegger whoever played Dynamo Maria Conchita Alonzo had me at Ola I just re-watched that like three weeks ago Kyle great to chat with you as always thanks again bud Kyle Brandt good morning football check it out on NFL Network and then of course good morning football overtime on our spot our old stomping grounds on the Roku channel.

40:28Rich Eisen:That's always a great, good time to watch them on NFL Network and then Roku channel. 844-204-RICH, number to dial right here on the Rich Eisen Show. Don't you dare go anywhere.

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41:57Rich Eisen:I love Sonos. You will, too. Discover how easy it is to bring every room to life with incredible sound. Explore Sonos speakers, soundbars, and more at Sonos.com. All right. Jerry Dulac referred to this exchange involving Mike Tomlin when I asked the longtime Pittsburgh Steelers reporter about how does the team feel in the halls this morning upon the news that jamar chase is now on the griddle for a one game suspension that he's appealing uh for spitting in the face of jalen ramsey and i asked him are the steelers going to basically ask to have ramsey's fine revoked because i mean that seems like not advocating throwing hands but it's kind of understandable when somebody spits in your face so mike tomlin was kind of asked that question as jerry dulac pointed out and we decided to make it a straight out of tomlin hit it you are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge our kicker is a serial killer straight out of tomlin mike ramsley plays with an edge he has his whole career when something like that happens on sunday because the play before they had to be separated was your message to him to try to simply remove himself and that stuff and how do you as a competitor how do you sort of keep him from sort of you know.

43:19I have no message if someone spits in your face. Do what comes natural. Straight out of Tomlin. Yeah. Do what comes natural.

43:31Rich Eisen:I don't care. People there in western PA just always accuse me of just being a Tomlin you know honk. Accurately. It is accurate. I mean he's that's why his players love him. Stay by your phone, man. I may need you. I mean, I don't have anything. There's no notes for a player who acts that way when he's spat in the face. You know what I mean? There's no notes. I get it. Do what comes natural. That's why players love playing for him. That's why players love playing for him. And I think at the end of the day, he's going to listen to Rodgers, and Rodgers is like, I can go. and I'll be like, all right, you go, Mason, stay by your phone.

44:16Rich Eisen:I may need you. I may need you. You know, like that drop that you would like to play. I love that drop. And you just did. You know, makes sense. Let's sneak this one in one more time. Noah in Oklahoma. You're here on the Rich Esses. What's up, Noah? Hey, Rich, how's it going? How are you? Thanks for hanging on. I got about a minute. What's on your mind? Well, had a rough kind of month at work. Furnace went out of the house. But worst of all, I had to watch the Bengals lose to the Jets, Bears in person, and Steelers over the weekend. And I want to ask you what your thoughts are on Joe Burrow coming back.

44:54If you think it's worth it, or if they should sit him and then work their way up the draft to get a better pick.

45:01Rich Eisen:I think if I'm the Bengals, I turn to Joe and say, what do you want to do? Honestly. Well, what's he going to say? Then you play them. What do you want to do? They have to be responsible. How are you feeling? How are you feeling? As a fan, I think I want to see them. But I'm just afraid that there could be an injury or it'd just be pointless and hurt ourselves in the draft. And if Joe says, this is, I want to play, do you point out who's available as an offensive lineman in the top 10 pick of the draft and say, you can get this guy if you sit down? so you don't have to sit out. They're eight right now.

45:46Rich Eisen:I don't know. I turn, if I'm Zach Taylor and my job's on the line, which I don't think it is because he got, when you're left on his deal and Mike Brown, you know, you want a million percent doesn't pay people to not work for him. That guy right there. Thanks to the call. There's a guy, six, six, three 40 in Miami who would look great. I know. Blocking for Joe. I think you don't tell Joe we're not playing you when he wants to play. And plus, that helps my ability to win games, which I want to prove. I'm Zach Taylor. I say, Joe, what do you think? But by not playing Joe, you're going to help your ability to protect Joe next year.

46:25Rich Eisen:Right. With a higher draft pick. I don't know. Again, listen, all these draft plans, you thought I need Travis Hunter. I want Travis Hunter. You want it with Will Campbell. How's that working out for you? I mean, it's been great. That's right. Best laid plans is what I'm saying. I guess. Thanks for listening to the Rich Eisen Show podcast. You can watch and listen to the Rich Eisen Show live weekdays from noon to 3 Eastern on ESPN Radio, Disney Plus, and on the ESPN app. The Rich Eisen Show, the podcast.