Hour 3: NFL Week 10 Preview, plus Woody Harrelson Talks ‘Kingpin,’ ‘Cheers’ & More

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1:02Rich Eisen: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. Now, on with the show. Let go. This is the Rich Eisen Show. Broncos look like they may pressure this a bit. They block it, the ball's bouncing around. From the Rich Eisen Show studio in Los Angeles. The intercepted, Don Gray Tillman on the rebound. And that is a Denver touchdown, Troy Franklin.

1:45Rich Eisen:If I answer were to you, I'm comfortable, that'd be silly. Earlier on the show, NFL Network insider Tom Palacero, MLB insider Jeff Passan. Still to come. Actor Woody Harrelson. And now, it's Rich Eisen. Hey, everybody. Hour number three of the Rich Eisen Show is on the air. ESPN Radio by Progressive Insurance is how it's presented. 844-204-RICH-NUMBER-TO-DOLL, whether you're watching us on Disney +, ESPN, or listening to us on ESPN Radio and all that sort of stuff. It's hour number three. Woody Harrelson's going to join us in about 20 minutes' time. Your phone calls. We'll get to them in just a split second.

2:23Rich Eisen:844-204-RICH-NUMBER-TO-DOLL. Tom Pelissero in Hour 1 giving us the skinny on what went down in trade deadline week, certainly with how the Colts wound up with Sauce Gardner. And if you missed any of that, there was a bunch of stuff I hadn't heard yet. That's also on our YouTube channel, youtube.com slash RichOzenShow. Jeff Passon, great baseball chat, just reminiscing about the World Series and what the next steps are in Major League Baseball for teams to either try and catch the Dodgers or the Dodgers to win their third in a row. again that's available through our YouTube channel if you missed any of it also you can watch all three hours whenever you want over the weekend on our Disney Plus page and there's also our podcast all three hours however you get your podcast 844-204-RICH number to dial I'm going to give you my top five other matchups in week number 10 before Woody Harrelson joins us for the first time ever on this program Ben in California you'd like to chime in what's up Ben Hi Rich thanks for having me on I just I've been a Raiders fan for my whole life, 19 years, and I did not like what I saw last night.

3:26I saw a Raiders team that saw what we did last week against the Jaguars, and we said, we're not going to do any of that again. We're going to get three targets to Brock Bowers, which I don't know how that number is not in the double digits at least. And I'm starting to not believe in Pete Carroll. I bought in to what he was saying. He had the resume to back it up, But the performance that's been on the field has not given me great confidence in the Raiders.

3:56Rich Eisen:Well, I think the issue is, again, Ben, it's a quarterback-driven league, and it's a team effort as well. There was a brutal moment last night where Geno took a sack, and you could see he was barking at Raheem Mostert, who totally, totally whiffed on the pass protection. and it didn't look good for Gino. The interception that Gino threw to give him now 12 on the season, that is the most in the National Football League, and you go online and you see on threads, at least I did, that Hayes now leads the league in interceptions. The ball went right off Ashton Gentry's hands. That's not on Gino's ledger either.

4:42Rich Eisen:that said it's clear that the plan coming in to calm the waters of who's the quarterback here and they didn't go and get one in the draft they didn't go and get jackson dart because it was too high maybe to take him or they didn't come back into the first round to get jackson dart if that's who they wanted there was a lot of rumors about shadour who still hasn't started a game yet and the Browns keep on sinking, and it looks like they're still not going to him, that eventually at the end of the day, the Geno Smith acquisition that seemed smart and seemed like you now have a veteran hand here that's not going to turn the ball over, that's going to play the game exactly the way that Pete wants it since he did so for Pete in Seattle as a comeback player of the year, that guy hasn't shown up, Ben.

5:38Rich Eisen:And at the end of the day, it didn't help that Brock Bowers was out between weeks two and nine. And it did not help that defensively there's not much else there, at least weeks one through nine until week 10 showed up to help Max Crosby. And it still is, in my estimation, I am biased when it comes to Pete. I love the guy. And he hasn't forgotten how to coach or motivate. Last night, I saw a team that hadn't backed up a U-Haul at all. I didn't see it. As a matter of fact, they balled out. And at the end of the day, they just could not protect Geno Smith. And that's something that any team is going to look like garbage if you can't protect a quarterback who also has trouble protecting the football himself.

6:27The one problem I have with that, Rich, is that we have two rookies that we took in the third round to be offensive linemen. and we're putting in Alex Kappa, who he's the reason Gino was getting hit because the inside of the line was not protecting Gino. And then we have Charles Grant, and we have someone else who I can't remember, but we have rookies, so if we're down on talent, why not we at least put some rookies in and see what they got?

6:54Rich Eisen:Because they're not ready, and you don't want to get Gino hurt, Ben. And he did wind up, and thank you for the call, call back please, he did wind up getting hurt. and there was also a moment where Zach Allen took him down late and took him down not only late but slid right down his legs and tackled him by his shins and it wasn't called and pretty much every other penalty under the sun was being called last night we saw a ton of Bill Vinovich but that's not the one that got him hurt no it was the one where he was escaping the pocket and it looked like I thought Cooper was just like I you know I thought he maybe got the wind knocked at him because he Landed on the football.

7:31Rich Eisen:But he goes in the blue tent, comes back out, and Pete was asked why he went back to Gino when it was clear that he was not healthy. He wanted to go back in in a worse way. He wanted to finish the game for his teammates. And he got whacked in the quad. He got a quad bruise or something, contusion, whatever it is. He got smacked, you know, and that's just him fighting. And, yeah, go back out. You know what I mean? Who knows? Who knows? And it's not because it had nothing to do with that. He had a couple plays and then he would not have been able to answer the next time out. He wasn't going back.

8:05But he tried.

8:07Rich Eisen:And at the end of the day, you know, the Raiders now sitting here at 2-7, I think it's apparent the quarterback of the future is not on the roster. And who is that guy? Great question. And that 2-7 at the end of the day, you know, So smart plan, I thought it was, to acquire Geno. It just hasn't worked out, man. And you also don't have the receiving core that's to the fore, right? Whatever was going on with Jacoby Myers, they felt that he had to go. They weren't going to pay him long term. He's been asking. Right, I know that. I mean, Trey Tucker's had a couple of good games. Yeah, Dante Thornton didn't break out like he did in the preseason, and people had thought, you know.

8:51Brock Bowers only having one catch is unacceptable.

8:56Rich Eisen:last night was just weird. Just from the beginning, it was just, like I said, a fever dream. 24-mile, 25-mile-an-hour winds. Nobody could complete a pass. It just, I don't know. At the beginning of the game, they showed the ref putting the ball on the ground, and you could just see his pant legs just blowing in the breeze. And then the football had to be replaced multiple times. There's a lot of ifs and buts, but the bottom line is you are what you are, and they're 2-7. and the Raiders are now next up, home for Dallas on a Monday night, home for Cleveland, up the road here against the Chargers, and then another game against Denver before they visit Philly and Houston, home for the Giants, and then Kansas City.

9:40Rich Eisen:These are, it could be a top 10 pick again. So they'll have an opportunity to get the next quarterback if there is one in the draft, because I don't think they can run it back with Geno again. And they just, it just doesn't, unless you can turn it around. There's a lot of time left here. Nothing fixes your ales like the Cowboys defense. It could. Clearly, he just loves Geno. He loves him and believes in him. And wouldn't even take him out. There was at one point where it looked like Pickett was going back in and Geno ran out of the blue tent for a second time, limping out there. It looked like Osweiler and Manning in Denver.

10:19Rich Eisen:Right? Just, oh, okay, you're going to go back out there again. And I saw that. I thought of that moment. Yeah, me too. 844-204-RICH, number to dial. The rest of Week 10. This is a good one. This is a really good rest of Week 10. Top five matchups of Week 10 presented by Hyundai. High five. One, two, three, four, five. Rich's top five. All right, here we go. Six division games. Four games between two opponents above.500. both of them four games of playoff matchups playoff teams from last year and number five is one of those matchups from between playoff teams from last year ravens and vikings ravens are three and five vikings are four and four both need to win in the worst way and the ravens unbelievably due to the old next gen stats would you believe that according to the old next gen stats they have a 48 % chance of winning their division at 3-5, but the Vikings at 4-4 have a 5 % chance of winning theirs.

11:26Rich Eisen:It's weird, but the bottom line is keep winning. Certainly if you're trying to be like the Ravens to go from 1-5 to 4-5 and keep track with a Steelers team that later on that night might win in Los Angeles or be 5-4 and be in the mix. And then you got the Vikings at 4-4. big win how will j.j mccarthy look against john harbaugh we all know he missed the game against jim he's against john who by the way is 52 and 18 when facing a starting quarterback in his first or second season that's a pretty damn good record and quarterbacks making one of their first 10 career starts against Lamar Jackson are 0-12.

12:11Rich Eisen:Nobody making any of their first 10 career starts facing off against Lamar Jackson have won the game. So let's see what happens in this one. Number four is the aforementioned Steelers-Chargers game. Would you believe it is the first matchup between Aaron Rodgers and Justin Herbert? They've never played in the same game against one another. If you remember Herbert last year, was it last year who had that ankle injury against the Steelers in Pittsburgh. I forget. He seems to have a high ankle injury every year, thankfully, except this one. And Rodgers has never beaten Jim Harbaugh. He's 0-4 against Harbaugh, 0-2 in the regular season, 0-2 in the playoffs.

12:52Rich Eisen:As a matter of fact, Harbaugh is one of two head coaches that Rodgers has zero wins against despite starting three or more games against them, including the playoffs. The only other one is Bruce Arians. He went 0-4 against him. And the Chargers, as we all know, want to keep pace with the Broncos since they've already beaten them. And then the Steelers want to stay ahead of the Ravens. And also, can they build off of that defensive performance from last week against the Colts? Was that for real? Is that them turning into a Steelers defense that we're used to seeing? Can't wait to see this one. That's on NBC Sunday Night Football, number three on the list.

13:31Rich Eisen:This is good stuff. You're going to like this, Christopher. Patriots and the Bucks. Let's go. 7-2 New England. Love it. 6-2 Tampa Bay. This is the first game the Patriots have played, with them being at least five games over.500 and an opponent four games over.500. It's been a while, Chris. Last time it happened was week 16, 2019, when the Patriots at 12-3, beat the Bills at 10-4. And that's how they clinched the AFC East and Brady's last year. It was Tom Brady's 249th and final win as the starting quarterback of the New England Patriots. As we all know, they didn't win the rest of the regular season, and Mike Vrabel won and done them with the Titans.

14:21Rich Eisen:It's the first game between a Patriots team five games above 500 and opponents four games above 500 in week 10 or earlier since. Their undefeated regular season of 2007, week nine, when they beat the Colts 24-20. The Colts were undefeated at 7-0. The Patriots were 8-0. So in other words, it's been a long time since the Patriots were this good record-wise, taking on another team this good record-wise. And fascinatingly enough, it is the matchup between Tom Brady's Super Bowl-winning franchises. It is wild. The Patriots and Bucks are one of only two franchise pairs to share a Super Bowl-winning starting quarterback.

15:07Rich Eisen:The other is Denver and Indianapolis with Peyton Manning. So here's a good one. Drake May versus Baker Mayfield is the first matchup post-Brady in both franchises to face off against one another. Do you know who the first matchup of Colts versus Denver was after Manning retired? Well, Andrew Locke. Correct. Brock Osweiler? Incorrect. Tim Tebow. No. Trevor Simeon. Oh, gosh. Trevor Simeon won the football game. Wow. So, could Baker do it? Of course. He's home. And he's Baker freaking Mayfield. And it's the first time since the first week of this century that the Patriots-Buccaneers matchup doesn't feature Tom Brady as a starting quarterback for either one of the teams.

15:54Rich Eisen:Week 1, 2000, Drew Bledsoe versus Sean King in Foxborough Stadium. Amazing. Of course, they're both the two seeds in their conference. And neither the Patriots nor the Buccaneers have been a top two seed in their conference since Tom Brady left their respective franchises. That's on the line, if you will. The winner gets a better leg up at the two seed or even the one seed in their conference. Bucs coming off a bye. Patriots having won six in a row. That's a good one. Number two on the list, Rams and 49ers. Christopher, do you remember when I was doing Thursday Night Football on the road and the Rich Eisen show went on the road?

16:35Rich Eisen:I do. Because DirecTV and Christopher J. Long, the grandfather of all of us around here, decided to send a satellite truck on the road. And whenever it wasn't stolen from the parking lot beforehand, like it was in Miami, we would do the show from there. It was great. I think we were there for a color rush game. We were there for not only a color rush game, we were there for the first ever matchup between the new head coaches of the franchises Sean McVay and Kyle Shanahan wow and we were looking at that final score of 41 to 39 saying could you imagine if this is the way it goes that was awesome well I really hasn't been too many points a palooza as a matter of fact last year when the Rams swept the 49ers in the regular season after the 49ers swept the Rams in the four previous regular seasons.

17:24Rich Eisen:The final score of that game was 12-6 last week, 15 on a Thursday night. Only win of Sean McVay's now nine-year tenure in which the Rams didn't score a touchdown. Last time they faced at all was a Thursday night in week five when the banged-up Niners were starting Mac Jones and Kendrick Bourne and CMC and hardly anybody else. And it was a 26-23 overtime thriller. I can't wait for this. It's 6-3 versus 6-2. Niners win this one and sweep the Rams. That is a massive leg up for the San Francisco 49ers. Rams win this one. They split the series. Each one draw blood in each other's house. And the Seattle Seahawks are hosting the Cardinals at the same time.

18:10Rich Eisen:NFC West action, baby. We're starting to see it. I can't wait for that. But number one, as we all know, is the Monday night game on the ESPN family of networks. Eagles coming off a bye, taking on the Packers, coming off of a stunning home loss to the Carolina Panthers. And when the Packers lost to the Panthers and the Lions lost to the Vikings and the Buccaneers were sitting on their bye week. Eagles just sat back on their bye week and went to the top of the conference. The defending NFC champs enter this game number one in conference play. Or at least enter this week. We'll see if any of the 6-2 teams win to overtake the Eagles prior to this game.

18:56Rich Eisen:And as we all know, they faced each other last year in week one in Brazil. They faced each other last year in the divisional in the wildcard round of the playoffs when the Eagles took care of business against the Packers and won and done them but as we all know they faced off against one another with the Packers getting 21 others to face off with the Eagles in the owners meeting room where they tried to ban the tush push we had a Eagles fan call in during the offseason non-playing season when we were doing the win-loss game to say, hey, who wins, who loses on your team? One Eagles fan said not only would the Eagles win this game, they would win by the final score of 22-10 to mimic the final vote total that barely, barely got rid of the tush push.

19:49Rich Eisen:So that's my top games of week number. One more. I did not notice. That's my boy. I'll give you one real quick here. It's the Sunday morning game. It's the first of four windows of football. Sauce Gardner's first game against the Colts. How will they rebound in that dreadful loss in Pittsburgh? And the Falcons have their backs against the wall, man. They're 3-5. They can ill afford to lose another one if they want to not only win their division, but outside of that. I mean, everybody else has got six wins trying to go for a wild card spot. The Lions are 5-3. The Bears are 5-3. You've got a five-win Carolina Panther team in front of them in division.

20:25Rich Eisen:They've got to win this one. Tune in to NFL Network first thing up, 9.30 a.m. Eastern time. That's my top five matchups of week 10 presented by Hyundai. Let's take a break. Woody Harrelson, baby. Great celebrity, true or false? Cheers. So much more. Kingpin coming up.

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21:25Rich Eisen:I remember being in Pittsburgh earlier this year and experiencing the beautiful architecture and passion those fans have for their home teams. That was so infectious. Now, it was a great trip. But you know what it's like dealing with the travel. The airport is packed. Hotels are booked up. Restaurants all busy. And when you have that kind of influx of visitors in your city, a lot of them are searching for a place that feels a little bit more like home during their trip. That's why this can be a smart time to think about listing your own space on Airbnb. If you've got plans to be away this summer, consider listing your space on Airbnb while you're gone and earn some extra cash.

22:02Rich Eisen:It's simple. You're already traveling, so your place doesn't just sit empty while your city is busy. 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.

22:31Rich Eisen:The Rich Eisen Show podcast. ESPN Radio presented by Progressive Insurance. He's never appeared on this program, but that's about to end. Now you see me, now you don't. Available in theaters nationwide, Friday, November 14th. We talked about it with Morgan Freeman last week. Now let's welcome in Woody Harrelson on The Rich Eisen Show. How you doing, Woody? Hi, Rich. Good, man. How are you? I'm doing fine. I think we, you hear this all the time. I'm sure we met briefly, et cetera, et cetera. We met briefly at the Super Bowl in Atlanta. I think you were at that game, right? Between the Patriots and the Rams in Atlanta, Woody?

23:07That's right. Yeah, I've only been to the one. That's it? Yeah.

23:11Rich Eisen:Because I was going to ask you if you had a rooting interest in the National Football League at all. Or you just interested, hey, I'm in Atlanta. I can go to the Super Bowl. Let's go. Well, because at the time I was living in Lebanon, Ohio, I formed an attachment to the Bengals. But, I mean, I don't watch it enough to, you know, there's real fans out there, so I can't. But I do like the Bengals. Okay, so you were just in Atlanta. You can get to go to the Super Bowl, and you just said, screw it, I'll go to the Super Bowl. Let me just check it out, pretty much. That's right. And I brought my daughter.

23:50Yeah.

23:51Rich Eisen:I thought I saw you sitting with Danny DeVito. I thought that's how I saw you. Like, you and Danny were watching the game together. No? Am I wrong on that one? That sounds entirely possible. I know I was with Will Smith, too. Okay. Yeah, I mean, it was quite the scene, for sure. Let's talk about your film here, Now You See Me, Now You Don't. Again, available in theaters nationwide on Friday, November 14th. Did you think when you did the first one that this would be a franchise that's now in its third version? Well, no, I don't think anybody could possibly imagine that kind of thing. We're just super fortunate.

24:33And, you know, the movies, fortunately, are very, very entertaining.