Hour 3: NFC & AFC South Breakdowns, Draymond’s Forgettable Weekend, CFB Roundup

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1:27Now, on with the show. This is the Rich Eisen Show. And the beast is in once again. Josh Allen. Live from the Rich Eisen Show studio in Los Angeles. Lots in the touch and the Broncos have won it. The Rich Eisen Show. Coming up on today's show. College football roundup. Complete week 11 recap. Monday night football preview. Your phone calls, latest news and more. And now, Rich Eisen.

2:01Rich Eisen:Hour number three of the Rich Eisen show is on the air. Hello, Disney Plus audience. Hello, ESPN app audience. Hello, ESPN radio audience. ESPN radio is presented by Progressive Insurance. Hello, Sirius XM channel 80 audience. Hello to our podcast listeners because you matter to us as well. All three hours available. If you miss anything, you can listen to us whenever you want. You can watch us whenever you want as well on our Disney Plus page. All three hours is posted there as soon as we're done. YouTube.com slash RichEyesAndShow. Let me get the exact follower subscriber count. 1 ,021 ,060. Oh, 61.

2:40Rich Eisen:Trust me, I won't do that the rest of the show. But that's the way we're rolling here on the program. And Overreaction Monday, the pod has been up for the first two hours of this show. So go get it. Leave a comment. call me stupid. You don't want to invite that. I mean, it's going to happen anyway. Shout out Eagles fans. That might be the nicest thing you get told, too. Eagles fans, I love them. They forget that I was the one last year who was ahead of everyone nationally in saying that they were a juggernaut and were going to win the Super Bowl. But now I'm a hater. You know what, Chris? What are you going to do, right?

3:16I don't know. What can you do? Except just keep on making takes.

3:20Rich Eisen:Keep on making takes with respect. And I will. 844-204-RICH is the number to dial. We'll take your calls this hour. Listen, a couple pieces of injury news to lead off this hour. Yeah, for sure. My longtime buddy, Adam Schefter, reporting no major structural damage in Josh Jacobs' knee. He's week to week. That's huge. He's week to week. Week to week to week. So it's better than done for the year, which it's possible that Michael Penix Jr. is. And I'll tell you who looks done for the year, though, unfortunately, is the Atlanta Falcons. And the Carolina Panthers go into Atlanta yesterday and take on a massive, massive game from Bijan Robinson and absorb it and go into overtime and win the game in overtime, knocking both Michael Penix Jr.

4:20Rich Eisen:and Drake London from the game. Looks like London might miss some time as well with an injury to his knee that isn't season-ending. But the Carolina Panthers take this moment in time with Bryce Young and take Ted McMillan and Rico Dowdle and ball them all up and fall down 21-7 and win this game by the final of 30-27 and deal a crushing blow to the once upon a time 3-2 Atlanta Falcons. They were 3-2 after beating the Bills on Sunday night and feeling really good about themselves going into their game at San Francisco. And they haven't won since. five losses in a row now three and seven heading to new orleans next week which as we know isn't a given as the panthers can tell you they lost to new orleans at home and we were wondering if the panthers could recover from that and the answer is how does 448 yards passing from bryce young sound and what the panthers have done is put themselves in position this year understandably to not only make the playoffs but potentially win the division because as i mentioned the falcons beating the bills for their last win in week five those bills beat the bucks in western new york while the panthers were coming from behind to win and in the NFC South right now, they're only a half game behind Tampa.

6:10Rich Eisen:And they haven't played Tampa yet. Now, Tampa, as we know, is not fully constituted on offense. I get it. And they should be getting healthy. Because right now, Carolina's last three games of the season is where rubber's going to meet the road. They play the Bucs twice. wrapped around a home date with Seattle, which could be an NFL Network game on a Saturday, the 27th, that I'm calling, actually. Before that, though, they got two doozies. They're at San Francisco on a Monday nighter that I'm sure ESPN a few weeks ago was like, okay. Like Larry David. Now they're like, okay. All right. Because this is a big one.

6:55It's currently an honors team, seventh in the playoff standings in the NFC against the team that's ninth in the playoff standings with the Lions in between them. I mean, that's what Carolina's done now. And what Carolina has also done is give themselves a chance to make the playoffs this year and give themselves a chance to win the division this year. But at its very least, what they have done is shown that Bryce Young can be their quarterback. And Dave Canales is the guy who's been in charge of this kid's development. And who knew the development involved

7:34Rich Eisen:benching him almost right away. And we were part of that drumbeat last year, 100 % saying, did the Panthers even know what they're doing? Did they hire the right guy? Was Canales ordered to give the code red on Bryce Young? Is he even in charge there with the owner being David Tepper? and should Young even just demand to be traded? Because he's clearly, I'm not even wanting, I don't want to be here because I don't want to, you don't want me here and I don't know why you hired this guy if it's to bench me. And look at what's happened. And they've drafted well around him. Before the season, like really, you're going to trade Adam Thielen?

8:19You're going to trade Adam Thielen. You're going to trade that veteran presence in that Who had a great year last year. In that wide receiver room. Exactly. and Lee Gett last year's 32nd overall draft choice who made news last year just by talking but remember he was basically saying you know hey they told me they're going to take me with the top pick of the second round but they took me in the first round it's just like yeah we had a trade up to get you because we wanted you and you basically told everybody 83 yards receiving and McMillan a buck 30 yesterday and Bryce Young's 448 yard passing day.

8:58Which is, in fact, a career high and franchise record. Franchise record, man. Hey, we know we're benching you for Andy Dalton, but in week 11, next year, you're not only going to start for us, you're going to have the career record and franchise record and passing yards. And we showing to everybody that we can not only make the playoffs and win the division, but we are zooming past the Atlanta Falcons in the NFC South Diamond Lane. And we're waving at the Falcons saying, we've got enough people in our car. What about you? They passed him. They passed him yesterday. They already passed him in record, but really passed him by sweeping Atlanta for the first time since 2013.

9:49Okay, we see you, Carolina. second straight and third time in the last four meetings at Atlanta the game's gone to overtime and they're 2-1 in those games they have done it they're doing it against Atlanta which has to look around and go okay remarkably Kirk Cousins if Penix is done for the year if not for a significant part you want to talk about role reversal last year Penix was called upon late in the season to try and save the season after what was going on with Cousins. Now it's Cousins late in the season. Can you save the season after it's been going on with Pennix? It's crazy. It's crazy.

10:32Can't make this stuff up. As they are 3-7 Atlanta. Their next few games they're at New Orleans, at the Jets. Gotta win them. Gotta win them. You even have to say at 3-7, they gotta win out. They got to win out. And I feel for Penix too, man. Certainly after the kerfuffle that I was unfortunately helping propagate at one point, that the coaching staff wasn't there for Penix because he made an answer to a question about who was in his circle outside the building. And it was cut up and posted on social media as if he was answering about who was helping him on the field, period. and he didn't mention his coaching staff, it all was working, man.

11:24It was clicking. Bijan was doing his thing. Algiers scored two, and we're not sitting there talking about vulturing because Bijan was doing his thing and Drake London was doing his thing, and they were doing it. And Carolina just said, screw it. We're the better team, and we're the better team in division, and we're the better team to move forward with. Wild. Wild. 844-204-RICH. Number to dial here on the program. William in Kansas you're on the Rich Eisen Show what's up William? Hello? You're on sir you are on what's up bud? Well first of all let me say thank you for taking the call I've been a fan for years.

12:01Thank you sir I have a comment and question about the Chiefs.

12:05Rich Eisen:Yep I want to leave with the fact that we have not had a thousand yard rusher since 2017 during Kareem Hunt's rookie year and I don't think our offensive line is really built for a heavy run game Maybe that would have changed if we actually got Brees Hall, but I don't really know. And I've seen a lot of people on social media calling for Andy Reid's head. That's crazy talk. Move on from that, William. That's nuts. These people... That's nuts. Okay. Well, my question for you is, do you think that if we were to have gotten Brees Hall, do you think we would have been capable of running the ball well behind that offensive line?

12:47Rich Eisen:Yes, I do. because you've got the interior guys, and the question is, you know, the ones on the edges, and I understand that, you know, pass blocking, run blocking, you know, it's more than gold jacket, green jacket, you know what I mean? But the bottom line is, you know, it does look like an offense that's in need of a turbo charge in the same way that we watch San Francisco's offense that appear to be good enough to win a Super Bowl get turbo charged with Christian McCaffrey, as a for instance it does look like it's in need of that um and and they're just like believing in their system um which did william work last year in one run and one score games but this year they're not executing in a way and it does look like a bit of a hangover that i still can't believe we're ascribing to the chiefs potentially but they do still listen man and thank you for the call and thank you for the compliment.

13:42Rich Eisen:They still have the horses. They do. And don't pay attention to Andy Reid needs to go. That's silly. I've not seen that anymore. All right. But listen, as I've mentioned, the issue with the Chiefs isn't just the one-score stuff and a little bit of the weird stuff that we don't normally see with them where they're not taking – they're missing this, they're missing that. they're blowing this coverage they're blowing that sack they're blowing that you know protection um but the ultimate problem for them is um is that even if they do figure out whatever is their problem in one score games and things like that the reality of the situation is they've lost every single occupant of the wildcard spot.

14:39Rich Eisen:And they've got tiebreaker problems. And the Jaguars are one of them. Hey, man. The Jaguars, let's just talk about them a little bit. How about that for a Carolina Jacksonville segment here? But hey, you gotta give it up.

14:56Rich Eisen:Jacksonville played a terrific football game yesterday, and this was a team that kept shooting themselves in the foot with all different problems on both sides of the ball in penalties and making mistakes. And Trevor Lawrence wasn't one of them either. That was helping. He was making mistakes as well. Second half, they came out and they road-graded the Los Angeles Chargers, which you are not usually doing. Chargers are one of the best teams in terms of time of possession. I have it right here. The Los Angeles Chargers are top notch in time of possession. And the Jaguars ran it up for 192 total yards and beat them by 29 and hardly let them have the ball and took advantage of what the Steelers couldn't take advantage of.

15:56And others taking on the Chargers. which is Herbert is not being protected as well as they want him to be protected

16:06Rich Eisen:because they have so many injuries up front, and they beat up Herbert so badly that Jim took him out and said, Trey Lance, it's your time. And the same thing that I said about Shador, I'm sure Trey Lance has not had many snaps with the ones at all. And had it a little bit longer, though. And so, yeah, man, they got the same amount of football. The Chargers only possessed the ball for 22 minutes and five seconds of this game. Lowest of the season. And the Chargers had led the NFL in time of possession coming into this game with 33 minutes and 35 seconds. I mean, it's more than a half of football, which helps you win football games.

16:51But Jacksonville got Etienne going and Tootin going before he got hurt. and the thing with Jacksonville is that is not only a win that can help them get in as a wild card. They have yet to play the Colts yet. Did you know that? They have yet to play the Colts,

17:10Rich Eisen:and Jacksonville's next game is at Arizona, and then at Tennessee, before they welcome in the Colts to start their December schedule. They're at Denver too, man. But the bottom line is, if they win their next two games, and I know there's a lot of ifs to set up their game against the Colts who are taking on Kansas City next themselves. They have a chance to win the division and I didn't go higher register, did I? They 100 % do. They're two games behind the Colts. It would be helpful for them if they win their next two and the Colts lose at least one of their next two and Indianapolis' next two are at Kansas City and home for Houston.

17:55Rich Eisen:and Jacksonville has already held serve home against Houston. They've already, as you know, beaten Houston twice. I think I got that right. They can win this division. They can win it. So, as you know, Jacksonville came back on Houston in a big, big way to follow it up by smoking the Chargers like that. That is massive. Pardon me. Houston came back on Jacksonville. My bad. So they split. They could still win the division. That's basically what I'm saying. 844-204-RICH is the number to dial here on the program. More of your calls. A little college football, a little NBA, a little bit of mixed grab.

18:43Rich Eisen:Because, you know, it's not just the National Football League played on Sunday. It feels like it. Because there were four windows of football, and I woke up damn near at midnight to start talking about it.

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20:28College football, everybody. My Wolverines. I mean, we turned it over. I think, was it four or five times? We turned it over five times and missed two field goals and still won. I don't know how the hell that is. In Wrigley Field. Do you see any of that video? Yeah, I had it on the quad box. Pretty good. How is Sarah with Georgia beating up on Texas? Oh, my goodness. I mean, stressful first half, and then second half just kind of took care of business, and she was kind of laughing. Right. You know. The big game involving a Texas team before it, Texas A &M falling down to South Carolina. 30-7? 30-3.

21:0730-3, right. Right, and they came back from 27 down. Came back to win. And South Carolina, at that time, was battling not only Texas A &M, but law enforcement. I did see that. Which gave one of the South Carolina players the business in the tunnel. It's like, hey, apparently that immediately got removed from his post. From game day duty. Yeah, from his post, yeah. That was wild. Wild. That was an incredible game. For some reason, I picked that game to focus on. Okay. And I took a screenshot. 11-34. It's left in the third. It's 30 to three. And I'm like, all right, I think South Carolina might have this.

21:43And then by 10 minutes left in the fourth, it's now 31 to 30. Oh, so you screen grabbed that on your phone? Yeah, just because I wanted to see the timestamp of how they came back. Oh, so that's what you're doing instead of texting us all back. No one texts on the Saturday, though. This was Saturday. I don't know about that. This was Saturday. I don't know about that. So at least you are on your phone. and you confirm you're on your phone watching sports. Yeah, of course. So you know that you're on the cut, right, tonight? Yeah, I know. Okay. At this point, I can't jump onto the text chain now.

22:17Of course you can. I can't. Of course you can jump on it. Come on, DJ. You want to be guillotined in the worst way. No, I don't. I actually want to win, and I'm going to win tonight. By the way, you need Javante to go off. He will. He will. And I need B-Rock Bowers to not go off.

22:34Rich Eisen:Speaking of Georgia, did you hear what Kirby Smart had to say after the game beating up on Texas? This is quite the soundbite from the head coach of Georgia. Yeah, it's the approach we take. We're going to dominate and try to win the fourth quarter. It's what we do in practice. It's what we do in the offseason. It's what we build our core culture around is being a more physical team. You have to recruit physical players, and they have to buy into that process. I don't know that a lot of these kids nowadays, they want to check. They don't want physicality. And if you have the check and no physicality, you end up with nothing.

23:12So we're not just getting checks at our place. We're hitting people.

23:20Some kids want the check but not the sweat and sometimes the blood that comes with it. That's a bar right there. I'm telling you, man. Was he referring to Texas or he was just referring to kids in general? It doesn't even matter. Kirby doesn't really take shots, so I assume it was in general. He's talking about just in general. Some kids just want the checks. They don't want the rest of it that comes with it. We represent some physical players here. So Alabama loses. It was a good day for Georgia. Well, Texas A &M did win, but it didn't look great. And the next day for Georgia, watching that game last night, the Eagles are getting announced.

24:02It was like, Georgia, Georgia, Georgia, Georgia. They have four defensive players, right, on the Eagles? That mature kid for Oklahoma can play football. Yeah, you called him Baker-esque. He looks like him, don't you think? I like him a lot. He's got some sand in the pants, man.

24:22Rich Eisen:He's got some... Moxie. Moxie, yeah, man. I like watching him play football except when he beat Michigan we couldn't stop him we couldn't stop him on the ground we couldn't stop him in the air it was like a whole Dr. Seuss run we couldn't stop him in a box we couldn't stop him with a fox or on fox I don't think that game was on so I mean I got two weeks left I got two weeks to go So mock draft has mature to the Raiders. Dude, mature to the Raiders would be really fun. The mature to the Raiders would be a lot of fun. And I think Raiders fans wouldn't mind it because he's good. He's really good.