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26:43So that's kind of that cluster of eight games to nine games is what I'm looking at and saying, unless they start to steal some of these games that I just can't see right now, I think that you get Russ for the first half of this season and then maybe you turn it over to Jackson Dart. The Jets had their own quarterback situation to figure out in this offseason. It was pretty apparent very early on it was not going to be Aaron Rodgers as a part of the program. When Justin Fields comes in, and they make, it's like a one-and-a-half-year commitment, right? But it's still, it's bridge quarterback money.

27:11You're wondering about what exactly are you getting here? Clearly they didn't feel like we need to make this massive commitment. He's going to be the guy for years to come. But despite being, you know, pronounced dead at the scene during practice when he stubbed his toe there a couple of weeks ago here, You watch him in that game. Like, that's the good Justin Fields. I know they're not scheming up in Green Bay, but when he's able to extend those plays, run in for the touchdown, like, that's the guy who you at least go, okay, we know how dynamic this guy can be. How do we kind of build this offense around what he does well in the passing game?

27:41Yeah, and I think the Jets have a lot of talent, so I hate to say this, like, it's this roster that's just bereft of talent because there's a lot of guys there that they hope are going to be part of, and they've started to extend them. I mean, with Garrett Wilson, Deal Dunn, Sauce Gardner, Jermaine Johnson's another guy that they really believe, Will McDonald, that they believe is going to be a big part of their future. So it's not like they don't have the makings of a roster and they can turn this thing around relatively quickly. But in the meantime, you get yourself a quarterback, a chance to reset himself.

28:12Aaron Glenn knew how dangerous he was because he had the game plan against him when he was with the Chicago Bears. And at the very least, if things aren't fully clicking offensively, he can do stuff with his legs. He can get out there and escape and he can get out there and create some havoc. And who knows? Ideally, if you're Aaron Glenn, it's a Jared Goff type situation where everybody goes, okay, here's your bridge quarterback. And he winds up being your guy. And then you don't have to use draft capital to go out and find another guy. And you can use that to build around him. So I think that's the pie in the sky hope here for Justin Fields.

28:46But in the meantime, it'll keep him competitive. Aaron Glenn wants to win games here. It's not like he's going in and saying, let's go 3-14 and get a high draft pick. He wants to win as many games as possible. He doesn't care. He'll figure out the rest of it later on, which I think is the right approach. When you're coming in, you want to set a culture and set an environment of winning, an environment of what you expect. So I think the Jets are going to be entertaining. I think the Jets are going to be fun. I think the Jets are going to have – and the Giants too as well. I mean, at this point every year, I like to point out to people – I don't like to point out to people.

29:17I just happened to, that there have been two playoff games in the history of MetLife Stadium, and only one of them has involved the teams that actually play there. The other one was the Super Bowl. So I'd like to have some playoff games here that I can drive 15 minutes to, and that's with traffic, by the way, to get to the stadium. I thought it was interesting just in talking with Aaron Glenn, too, because there's two schools of thought. You could be, you know, hey, we're not talking about the past. Every question you get, every time in the meetings, Aaron Glenn is absolutely talking about the past with the Jets.

29:44Like he's told players, this is the recent history. This is how long the playoff drought is. This is what we have to overcome. And frankly, they did the same thing in Detroit when he was there with Dan Campbell. This Jets team is probably, to your point, more talented than that Lions team was at the same point in the process. And they got to hope that, or the Lions 5-21 or something like that out of the gate. You're hoping maybe you can ramp that up a little bit quicker. Mike Garofalo is our guest. You were also at the Ravens Colts preseason game, which we're all still, at least I am like tantalized by the Anthony Richardson talent.

30:19And you watch just his highlights. There haven't been as many as you'd like, but the highlights him running the football and the big arm and those things. But like, if you had asked me before the game, like, what do you think is the most likely scenario? What happens? I'm like, I don't know. He misses a blitz pickup and gets hurt. And literally that's how it played out. Daniel Jones now gets the, gets the opportunity here. You were around that team a little bit. What do you make of where they stand right now in Indy? Which now, like, the plan going in was that Anthony Richardson would start and get the bulk of the action the other night.

30:48And then it's like, boom, he's out. Daniel, you're in. And I asked Shane Steichen about it after the game. I said, you're going to have to now look at week two and say, okay, I got to adjust and give Anthony Richardson more time in week two because he didn't get in the way. He said, yeah, he's probably going to have to do that. So is that unfair to Daniel Jones because he sort of went in not expecting to play that much? and maybe not that you game plan much in the preseason, but maybe that's a good thing. Maybe they want to see how he adjusts and how he adapts and he doesn't complain and all that, which he won't.

31:14I mean, that's Daniel Jones for you. So I also, coming out of that game, thought to myself, we've had a quarterback, Justin Fields, that you just mentioned with a dislocated toe, a quarterback with a dislocated pinky and Anthony Richardson, and both were day-to-day. Like, to me, don't talk to me for like two months. I don't want to hear anything on either one of those. If I have any bone come out of a joint, I don't want to hear it. But these guys, as we're reminded, year in and year out are tougher than we realize. So, look, I think Richardson not picking that up, and Steichen was asked about it and said it about as nicely as he could.

31:50You got to see that. And that ball's got to come out, and it's hot. And not just from a completion standpoint, from a don't get knocked on your back standpoint. You can't have Ojabo running free like that, especially with some of these pass rushes that you're going to see throughout. And that's a that's that's part of what we've been talking about. I mean, you could say a lot of things about Daniel Jones. I don't think that that's the kind of stuff that we've said over the last couple of years. It's just been a matter of, you know, it's the top end talent there is the ability to to fit it in is the the confidence to do what he needs to do, because they with the Giants, they kind of pared him down and said, OK, year one with Brian Dayball and Mike Kafka and Shea Tierney was like, let's just like shrink the field almost, especially when you're when you're on the move and just kind of look here and don't worry about that focus here make the best decision here then they went to expand it and it didn't work and Darren Waller comes in it's like we're going to be this big explosive offense and he never was that guy so I think for him to win this quarterback job it's got to go back to being let's just make the best decisions and let's prove that I can be as a quarterback in charge of the whole operation it's been a wide open competition that was made clear back in the spring it is seemed just in talking to people through the offseason.

32:58Like, Daniel Jones may have the leg up just because coaches know what they're getting in him, but you still have the low floor, high ceiling aspect with Anthony Richardson. The ceiling's out there still. The guy hasn't played that much football. It's just the story of his career to this point has been it's hard to get better at football when you're not on the field playing football. You also have a competition in New Orleans. We'll see how that shakes out. Yesterday was a mixed bag, to say the least, with Tyler Shuck. And then he got the one in Cleveland, Mike. We're going to be talking about this one until I know Kevin Stefanski kind of hinted today that maybe he'd make a decision after this next preseason game.

33:33You went through there. You were in Berea. You got the full experience. I talked about it off the top of the show. I was struck watching that preseason opener in Carolina and the fact that the cameras had people in Shadur Sanders jerseys in a road game to cut away to after every single one of his completions. This is now like this larger cultural phenomenon. inside that building how are they looking at Shadour and the way that he fits in right now as a rookie fifth-round pick into the broader quarterback plan yeah I think it's been a little up and down in camp I think to come out and play the way that he did in a live game though I think was huge and I think sometimes you get these guys where maybe at a workout a pro day or a showcase that's what it was called I was searching for the word the Colorado showcase that they had back in the spring.

34:22And you start to analyze it from a, you know, the way the ball looks and the way that he's doing things on air, sometimes about playing football. And this guy has shown the ability to play football and maybe a way, maybe you should wait with what you see in a live game a little bit more than what you see in practice and what you see with those reps. So I think it's been tough for, I know it's been tough for the Browns coaches to kind of get a read on who's working with the twos versus who's working with the threes because that's the way they sort of had to split it up when Kenny Pickett was down.

34:53So you'd have Dylan Gabriel with the twos and Shador with the threes. Obviously, you got a better supporting cast when you're working with the twos and when you're working with the threes. So I think that's been a factor in camp. And they've sort of assessed it and weighted it that way and understand what each guy's doing when they're given a certain amount of reps. So I think he played well. I think he did everything he needed to do in that game. And now you build on that. And we see what Dylan Gabriel can do. What's Gabriel's status today. I didn't see anything. I think he's sort of still on the mend.

35:21Reintegrating into team drills. Kenny Pickett not yet ready to reintegrate into team drills, which then again, like if you're Kevin Stefanski, you're trying to figure out, all right, I need to see Dylan Gabriel at some point in game action. Is three days of practice this week, four days of practice enough to put him out there? Do I need to see Joe Flacco? I'm actually creating a bigger issue if I play Joe Flacco, who we know what he is in the preseason and then something goes wrong and a pass gets bad it's picked off and now everyone goes you're an idiot if you don't start to do early these are real things nobody's worked through more than Stefanski in his time as Brown's head coach in terms of you know total chaos including at the the quarterback position here but it's an interesting situation to handle because you have to adapt your plan much like the Colts are the difference is here you got four guys you'd ultimately like to see you know figure out what they are I find it interesting that they didn't bring the Browns didn't bring Joe Flacco back last year because they didn't want him hovering over Deshaun Watson.

36:17And now you may have a Shador Sanders over Joe Flacco, which is not going to affect Joe. I mean, nothing's going to affect Joe at this point in his career. It's just going to be a conversation that the fans are going to have that the organization that the coaching staff might have to listen to. All right. So I'm going to ask you this, Mike, we're not big prognosticators on the insiders, but you got a good feel for this week one. Who are we talking about as the Brown starting quarterback? Joe Flacco. There's no question. There's no question about that. I've thought that from the beginning and I haven't wavered.

36:47This team's trying to show that they were not the team in 2024. They're more of the team in 2023. I think it's going to be tough to get back to that record. I think you're going to see something a little bit closer to what we saw in 24, but to have Flacco there, I mean, I mean, you know how it is this time of year. You can walk into any camp and convince you most any camp and convince yourself that this team is actually going to be pretty good and they've got them talent at the nfl it's a salary cap error of course every team has talent um it's just a question of when the holes start getting poked in the depth chart because of injuries which team is still going to be able to stay afloat and which team's going to have its lack of depth exposed um so as long as you got a team with you know miles garrett uh on that side of the football good defensive players around him as well by the way and an offense with a good offensive line, a veteran quarterback, receivers that can make plays, David Njoko at the tight end position.

37:40Like you said, go, okay, yeah, I can see this team winning some games. You know, it might be tough to kind of sustain that, especially when you start to suffer some injuries. But I think Flacco's in there. I think they feel like they're going to be a lot better than people are prognosticating. And then if it's not Joe Flacco, at some point you go to the bench, are you going to Shadour or are you going to Dylan Gabriel? Are you going to Kenny Pickett? I can't imagine Sue Potley is going to be around, but who knows? Deshaun Watson is still rehabbing. There's just so much going on right now in that room.

38:09A couple more minutes here with Mike Garofalo from the NFL Network. There's also a unique situation here within the NFL where a decade ago, hold-ins were not a thing. They're still not really a thing under the collective bargaining agreement. This is completely a thing where certain teams have decided we're going to allow it to happen. Certain teams fine guys if they refuse to practice. You're not getting the big fines for being a holdout. But right now we have four situations, Mike. Micah Parsons in a public standoff with the Cowboys. You have Trey Hendrickson in a public standoff with the Bengals.

38:41Terry McLaurin in the Commanders. James Cook in the Bills. I will just ask you this. Which of these is the most baffling situation in your mind? Because all of them on some level are things that you have to be surprised they've gotten to this point. uh they all feel the most baffling is oh it was a different like they all feel like easy deals that tom you and i could sit down and do i feel like that seriously we can get it done in five minutes and i've always sort of felt that it's like well there's no reason to rush it if you don't have that that pressure point of the start of camp the start of season whatever it is and and at this point it's going to be the start of the season uh for a lot of these things uh but i i just like they're all baffling i mean micah is the most baffling that's the easy i'll take that i'll take the low hanging fruit because you know what the numbers are you got to bite the bullet um and at some point you just got to get it done and why would you even get this guy to a point where he's entertaining thoughts i also don't think like the trade request came in and i was like okay fine because that's another thing right we've sort of become accustomed to all these things that's you know you hold in if that doesn't work then you fire the trade request and i i know that a lot lot of people around Micah and who know Micah and who've talked to Micah believe it's legit.

39:53It's not just like, oh, watch this hollow thing. At this point, he's so upset with the lack of communication. And that's what, you know, like, oh, show me my respect. What they usually mean is the money. In this case, it's show me the respect. Like I told you to go contact my agent. Why haven't you guys done that? And there has been at least some communication between the agent and the team. But like, there's a lot of people at the team that they talk to. And it's like, okay, yeah, no, I'm not authorized to really have negotiations. It's got to be from Jerry or it's got to be from whoever Jerry authorizes to, to, to, uh, to have those discussions.

40:25So there hasn't been any, uh, anything that I would actually even call communication because until they're, they're actually negotiating a deal, uh, who cares if it's just checking in and just having a brief conversation. So, um, that's the most baffling one because why, why wouldn't you just, you know, okay, let's just have some communication with the agent, even if you're not ready to pay the price. And you want to drag this thing out for who knows why, at least have the negotiation, at least have the communication and show him the respect that he deserves. That's the part that gets me is it's not the fact that the Cowboys are dragging out another high profile negotiation.

40:58We saw it with CD last year. We saw it with Dak last year. We saw it with Dak the previous time around. This is their MO, but to not even call the agent to it. We're sitting It's August 11th. One of your best players has requested a trade. You have not made an offer. Like, the conversations back in March, Jerry to Micah, Micah said, I don't want to be held to that right now. It's five months later, and whether it is pride or it is just, this isn't how we're going to do business, or you want to stir up interest in America's team, the Gambler and his Cowboys, which will be next week on Netflix. We'll be at the premiere of that tonight out here in Los Angeles.

41:35Is that a promo read for the Gambler? Is that what you just picked up? Yes, it premieres August 19th, produced by Skydance Sports. It's going to be on Netflix. We're going to the premiere tonight. We're going tonight. The Egyptian Theater. We're looking forward to it. Maybe we can bring Jerry and Micah together there. We can solve this, Mike. Good on you guys. But I'll tell you this. Jerry doing what Jerry's doing is probably a better promo for the gambler than what you're reading right there, right? Like that's all part of the whole deal. So he gets it. And I think that that's at least a little part of this, to continue the conversation in that regard.

42:05I just like at some point, are you playing with fire to the point where he goes, you know what? No, I'm legitimately pissed off and legitimately, no, trade me because I don't even care about that. We're not there. And I think in the end, it can be mended and done relatively quickly. It's just got to happen. It's a gamble. And speaking of the gambles, America's team, the gambler and his Cowboys debuting on Netflix next August 19th, which is next Tuesday. Mike, thanks a lot for the time, buddy. I will see you on the Insiders tonight, 7 p.m. Eastern time on NFL Network. We appreciate it. Oh, I'll be there.

42:38Wait, Mike Garofalo. We got a lot more around the NFL to get into. That was the fantastic breakdowns from a guy who's been there for those quarterback battles. Chase Daniels is going to come up in a little bit here. He'll dig into more of the X's and O's of what we're seeing, not just from Shadour, but from the Giants quarterbacks, the Colts quarterbacks, Justin Fields. What does he make of the Saints quarterback competition? Chase is going to be with us in just a little bit here. We'll also talk after this about Travis Hunter. a one-of-a-kind situation in jacksonville what have we seen what have we heard i was there a few days ago i'll tell you next tom pelissero in for rich rich eisen here with some advice if high interest credit card debt is grinding you down it might be time to call an audible with a sofi personal loan it consolidates your debt into one low monthly payment with no fees required.

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44:22Philadelphia Eagles, we have that to talk about too. Yes, as I'm draped in my Eagles paraphernalia. Now that's like, so you got the green hoodie. Yeah, I went green hoodie, and then I went satin black jacket with a black eagle on it. This is subtle. This is subtle. I didn't want to come here and be blatant with it. This is a subtle. Yeah, I didn't notice it. It's sort of like a watermark sort of situation that you have right there. But then you get up close, and you're like, whoa, he really is an Eagles fan. He's got a lot of Eagles stuff on. I'm wearing a jersey to the Super Bowl with a Jerome Brown patch.

44:56That's what you're going to do? Yes. I got the Randall Cunningham jersey, but my jersey has Jerome Brown patch. What will it say on the back? Will it say Hart? Will it say your name? No, it's going to say Cunningham. It's a real jersey. Okay. I can't make it say Hart. I'm no longer authentic if I make it say Hart. It's got to be a real jersey. This is a real moment. I understand. It's a big moment for me, man. This is it. It's a big game. What do you think? What do you mean, what do I think? This score's going to be 83 to 6. I called it. I put my prediction out there a long time ago. Okay. I had a dream.

45:23I saw it. And how many touchdowns then for Nick Foles then out of that? Nick Foles going to throw for 32 touchdowns. 32. Trying to do the math in my head right now. 32 touchdowns. Yeah, there is. We just put your prediction up. I didn't want to show. 83 to 6. Yeah, I didn't want to show if my math was good or bad, and so I just threw a number out there. I think I may. I'm in the ballpark. Here's what people need to understand about the Patriots right now. And I know there's a lot of New England Patriots fans. There's a lot of Tom Brady lovers out there, as you should, okay? They're not running over the NFL.

45:56They didn't breeze through these playoffs. They shouldn't have beaten the Jaguars. They shouldn't have. They did, but they shouldn't have. It's not like they have displayed this, oh, my God, they're just, nobody's going to be able to deal with them. Our defense has been an amazing defense throughout the whole season. I really see our defense and our front four getting to Brady. If we get to Brady, it's going to be a problem. And we run the ball very well. It's going to be a grinding game. And Foles is going into this game with so much confidence. After the last game, he's got so much confidence.

46:32I don't care what you say, you can't beat confidence. You know how much confidence I have? You can't beat my confidence. I don't care what you tell me. I'm so confident. I'm so confident. Foles has confidence. Our defense has confidence. We are here. This is where we said we would be in the beginning of the season, and we got here. That's confidence. They're used to being here. That's cocky. That's a little nonchalant shoulder shrug. Yeah, we'll do it again. It's not the same type of confidence. It's not the same type of hunger. It's a different level of hunger. And these dogs got to eat. Get it?

47:07Because they was calling us underdogs. Yes, I know.

47:13It's funny watching back that clip of Kevin Hart. That is from the Super Bowl in Minneapolis. Correct. Seven years ago. Wow. The fact that the Eagles won it, not 83 to 6. That would have been a unique score. But then come back seven years later with almost an entirely different team, different quarterback, different star players, only, what, four or five guys that were on both those teams, and do it again, that is, it's not more impressive than building a dynasty, you know, the Chiefs that win back-to-back titles, that win over a long period of time, but it is more rare. It is more rare to build it once, get there, and then build it back to an even better team.

47:59The Eagles team we saw dominate the Chiefs in the Super Bowl in New Orleans back in February, that was a far better team. Oh, yeah. Than what we saw back in 2018. Welcome back to the Rich Eisen Show. Tom Pellicero in today for Rich. I just got back from a 12-team, no, excuse me, 13-team, 12-day training camp tour. Nice. Which is always fun every time. By the way, I'll mention this briefly. Did not mail back any other wonder this year. You're going to be my next question. That was the hot topic last year. I decided. You watched him in the sink. Hot topic last year. So we had a new sponsor for our polos this year, which is Tommy Bahama.

48:41Oh. I was issued five polos. You said that ain't enough. So I'm going to run out. Oh, yeah. And so I'm like, well, I either could just ask them to send me like seven more, or I can suck it up and go to a laundromat. So twice on that trip, including in Miami, just went to the laundromat. Oh, yeah. Got my quarters, got corrected 15 times on how laundromats work since I hadn't used one since college, and just sat there and did my laundry. I got to say, it was pretty refreshing. A little therapeutic. It was an enjoyable experience. You're just watching the thing go around. The clock's ticking down.

49:14Hanging out. Doing some work. I'm interested in people in laundromat. Probably saw some thangs in Miami walking around. I was the only person in there. What time of the day did you go? It turns out the laundromat at 1 p.m. is not the time to see thangs in Miami. They're not up yet. That's not where you find it. That's not where you find it. Thangs are at the beach. It was a nice experience. Why didn't you just ask for the 7X? Tommy Bahama, you're on television, bro. They should have supplied you. I just felt like, you know what, I'm going to try this. And it was substantially easier to pack five polos and two pairs of shorts as opposed to the massive amount every pair of underwear I own in one suitcase.

49:54This was much better. Wait, why don't you just finally give up and start doing your stuff in the sink? It's going to be a game changer. I tried that before. When I do that with the little pods, it ends up, it takes all the color out. I don't, anyway. I thought you were going to say, wait until you give up and just stop wearing underwear. Oh, no. Come on. There's not enough time to dry anything. You guys are idiots. Although when the dryer didn't fully finish things off, I did lay everything out on the bed. I mean, it is humid in South Florida. One of the most interesting stops on that trip, and it was, it was hot in South Florida.

50:22Jacksonville, by the way, best setup for Inside Training Camp Live. We were in the air-conditioned indoor, but with the garage door up to look at the outdoor. Amazing. It was sensational. and just watching Travis Hunter go back and forth between different positions and different jerseys in practice. I've never seen anything like, I've covered the interval for over 20 years, talking with Liam Cohen and James Gladstone about it, and they're like, there's a ton of logistics that went into it. Because you had to figure out, not just like, where is this guy going to be for meetings? Who is he talking to on the sideline?

50:53But literally, how do we have him in both jerseys? Because the offense is wearing the dark jerseys, of the defense wearing the light jerseys on a given day. It was early in camp, they were experimenting with taking off his entire shoulder pads. And just giving him new pads. Because it has the jersey, like, attached. Then the day I was there, because literally within a drill, they were doing, like, a live red zone drill. He starts out on defense. Then it's like, hey, Travis, come over here. And he runs off. They throw a penny over him. Like, he used to wear in youth sports. He runs back out with the offense.

51:22That's ever happened. So, like, they're going through this process. But the way that they were playing on both sides of the ball, which was that was only the second practice they'd done it the day I was there. You saw in the game of getting the ball to him early. It is absolutely going to be one of the most unique storylines we've ever seen in the NFL just because they are attempting something that has never been done before. And we'll see when we get into the regular season games. How realistic is it? I don't think you're going to see. I don't know this for sure. I don't think you're going to see Travis Hunter playing 140 snaps, 120 snaps.

51:59I do think one of the unique things they can create with Travis Hunter here is questions in the game planning process for the opponent. Yep. It's one thing if, all right, New England back in the day, right? Every week they come out with a different defense. They might be playing an under front one week. Next week they're playing an over front. They might be playing a 4-3 the whole season. Then they come out and they play a 3-4 in the Super Bowl. with Travis Hunter, who is arguably the most important player on both sides of the ball, you could play him all offense one week and all defense the next week.

52:30And if an opponent gears their entire game plan over, hey, we're going to take away Travis Hunter on offense, but then you just go, we're going to have Travis lock down their opponent's new receiver and not play a lot of offense. That just introduces something completely different. I know in Travis Hunter's mind, he thinks he can go 140 snaps a game. I would anticipate they will ease him in. But some of that in terms of the snap count, I don't know that it's going to be even from week to week. Back in the spring, they were doing like 80 % offense with them. Now it's 50-50. So he can go back and forth.

53:01And for the Jaguars coaches, it's a cool piece, but it's also a unique challenge for them going, OK, is it so important to do this on one side of the ball that we're willing to do less on the other side? And if you're drafty Travis Hunter in fantasy football, you also have to get some concerns about this. one week you happen to be going up against the Bengals and you go, yeah, do they play the Bengals? And we look here, let me find a, let me find a real world. Yeah. Week two at Cincinnati. Do you want Travis Hunter locking down Jamar chase for 70 snaps? If you do, you probably don't have Travis Hunter attacking that young bagel secondary for 70 snaps.

53:38It's you're trying to get in here, Brock, but I can see it on your face thinking I'm worried. This isn't going to work as cool as we think it's going to be, or as cool as Rich wants it to do. Because of injury? Because of? It just seems way too much. This is the NFL. It's not high school. It's not where basically all great players play both ways. It's not college where we saw him win the Heisman Trophy. This is the NFL. Everything is so much more complex than, let's say, the Big 12. Deion did it in 95. Not every snap, but he was the number three receiver on that team. He had, I mean, look it up.

54:17He had like 50 catches and a bunch of touchdowns. I am worried. You're worried that he's going to get hurt? You're worried that it's going to just, they're going to try to do everything and he's going to be able to do nothing? I'm worried that it's just going to flop. No, you're not. You're just saying. I am. All right, hold on. Hold that thought. We got overreaction Monday coming up right after this. I have a feeling. I'm worried. Make it back to that. It's next on The Rich Eisen Show.

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