Thursday Night Football analyst Andrew Whitworth joins Rich Eisen in-studio to discuss Jalen Hurts questioning the Eagles’ commitment after Philly’s MNF loss to the Seattle Seahawks, why Colts HC Shane Steichen deserves to be in the NFL Coach of the Year conversation, which teams in the AFC have the best chance to stop the 49ers if they met in the Super Bowl, what’s wrong with the Kansas City Chiefs’ offense this season, how Sean McVay is reshaping the Rams to be more like the physical 49ers, why Matthew Stafford is playing so well this season, what a Rams vs Lions playoff game would look like, and breaks down the divergent ways the Cleveland Browns and New York Jets have dealt with losing their starting quarterbacks this season.
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It’s raining in Los Angeles and this is where you find out who your true friends are when they say you’re they’re coming over to your house some people in LA are like I it’s raining you know we’re just going to stay home tonight and you’re
Like okay you say yes to that I get but then you’re making kind of a note I get you make a note mental not not an actual note not like Bryant you pull out your yellow legal pad no no no mental Andrew Whitworth said yes and he’s here everybody I’m here baby come
On in the rain that’s friendship it’s my favorite thing when it rains in California is it really people act like uh you know they can’t even function you can’t move I mean in Louisiana it rained every day I’m used to it this is fine you are
Totally cool with it and you but you know what how long have you lived in Los Angeles though uh this is six years now I mean that’s enough I’m starting to change you’re starting to oh but you’re not like Tony Gonzalez who like needs to
Wear gortex when it dips below 50 I see I see how th okay you getting there all right fit is just taking his shirt off you know he’s a maniac he’s uh he’s always up for taking his shirt off now we get Chance every week for fans like for him to rip
His shirt off yeah he’s created a movement does he uh take it off I does he oblig does he no you know I think it was a buffalo thing you know I think that was it you know but I think he’s got to understand now the people want
What the people want he’s a giver sometimes he gives too much it’s your point Thursday night footballs and uh longtime NFL player as well as Super Bowl champion Walter pton Man of the Year Andrew Whitworth here on the program let’s just dive directly into it Jaylen herz’s comments after the Monday
Night Football lost talking about some of the players on the Eagles are not committed enough that was his implication and then he used the word committed multiple times was asked what does that mean he’s like I don’t have a dictionary here what’s your interpretation of his postgame comment I
Think being somebody like him who’s always so eloquent after you know’s he’s one of those guys I know for us when we’ve had him a couple times post gamees just what a great talker and Communicator he is um in that moment I think you’ve you’ve lost three in a row
You’re really frustrated he obviously played sick you could tell by the way he’s kind of carrying himself in that interview he was hurting after just the adrenaline of playing through that game um I I think it was more of an emotional thing than like something that really
There’s a lot to I think he’s just frustrated and I think probably you could kind of tell after he said it he tried to kind of back out of it at one point you know really explaining exactly what he meant I think it was more around emotion but the frustration I think is
When you’re the quarterback and you’re you know the Philadelphia Eagles and what was expected of them this season uh it all feels like it falls on you all the time and so I think maybe there just one of those moments where he’s exhausted and he’s thinking of how in
The world do we get through this and and the emotion of committed I don’t even know if he really knew how he could explain it I think it was more of a of really the mode of what he felt in that moment not necessarily something that says he feels like this team’s not
Committed because you are as well aware of the narrative as anybody else being as plugged in as you are to talking about stuff every single week it’s been the Eagles 10 wins something’s been off in almost every one of them we haven’t seen the dominant NFC champion team from
Last year that was boat racing people or taking care of business extending leads in a way that they didn’t last night mistakes defensively they’re not taking the football away nearly as much as they need to so there’s been something off so for him to come out and say the word
Committed means that’s been the issue all year long yeah and something’s up and you know Philadelphia is now going to go on Sports media a mle hunt for which player is he referring to or group of players is he referring to you’re saying that’s not what I think they’re
Definitely going to do that I think that he was more probably talking from a place of emotion and being exhausted than something that he really felt a particular area but I think the biggest concerns for that football team are exactly what you just said not that
They’ve not been as good not that they keep kind of having these games but that it’s kind of the same things that keep coming up and and I think to me when you look over a season if a team repeats the same mistakes over and over again uh you
Can bet it’s usually how their season ends we’re going to come down to a narrative of either the secondary and how they’ve struggled or offensively just not being able to score when they need to score in these games uh it’s going to be the reason that their
Season’s going to end without their you know the thing they want most in that Championship so do you believe the guy so so if you’re saying Herz was just speaking from an emotional point of view and although this is uncharacteristic of him saying things that he knows are
Going to rile up a media that is eager to find out what’s wrong with this team or a fan base that wants to hear what’s wrong with this team because they’ve been wondering that question for three months so you do believe that the guys are in that Locker that can fix this I
Think they are just because it’s not much different than last year you still got a lot of guys that have played played in this game for a long time and sometimes teams need a just hey let’s all sit and and refocus and say hey what
Are the little things that we need to be better at and how can we all be better together and I think the thing that you know people probably didn’t give enough attention to is that you replaced both coordinators coming into this season so there was going to be growing pains and
For whatever reason they just haven’t seemed to feel like at any point in the season you feel like oh man we found this perfect marriage and the coordinators and then last week even the whole secrecy of changing the coordinator defensively and and really how that was handled I think that very
Interesting for that not to be something we didn’t find out until close to the game that uh you know Patricia all a Sun’s now calling the defense I think those kind of things to me uh they definitely send out a signal of all right I don’t think everything’s going
That well right now inside the building regardless of the football field because communication seems to be lacking and you could say Jaylen Herz is emotional in those moments but you know also I think he comes from Nick Sabin he comes from programs that have won where sometimes you’re sending a little
Message right and so I don’t know that it was like hey I think people aren’t committed as much as a little message of man I need everyone to be committed to this thing because I feel like I just played sick I just played exhausted I’m
Tired gave it all I had it wasn’t good but we’ve got to commit if we want to get to where we want to go okay well what you just said as well is interesting is that perhaps the reason why it’s off on offense that cuz the offensive line is outstanding yeah
Outstanding and we just haven’t seen those 250 yard rushing games that used to just steamroll everyone with my sanders last year and the same guys and in gainwell and Boston Scott doesn’t seem to be the same commitment to that off of which the the Deep balls to AJ
Brown and Devonte Smith will connect or got it over the middle on some sort of play action is not as wide open and that the issue may just be the guy that they’re missing has the Colts in the seven seed right now in Indianapolis is the HC of the Indianapolis CT I said
This four or five weeks ago to our producer spoon who you know and I was like hey I think it blows my mind no one’s saying a word about Shane Sten and it’s like the Indianapolis Colts have a winning record they’re six and five I think at this point and I was like
Sitting there going man we got to start talking about this team like they they they’re at 500 I don’t think anybody in the NFL that’s a fan if you told them hey this team’s 500 over 500 like who like the Colts they’re they’re a winning football team this year I mean the job
He’s done to think of you’re losing your rookie quarterback who you thought you’re going to build things around this year the Jonathan Taylor situation how he’s really calmed that down he got the contract everything you never heard another word about it and then every back that seems to step in this offense
Has a productive day um I just think he’s done a tremendous job and and he’s one of the tons of coaches I You could argue should be in that coach of the year conversation I’m with you man I just saw him I just called their game
Steelers Colts on Saturday and um you we didn’t even mention the defense because they got players all over all over the the reason why in many ways Shaq Leonard was released this kid EJ speed is all over the lot and he doesn’t even lead the league in tackles that’s Franklin
Yeah and and Buckner’s up front it’s kind of funny we we were talking to uh um Naji Harris before the game uh in our production meeting and you know players just know players by numbers yeah right and sometimes you don’t get deep into who’s actually that guy and we said you
Know uh Who Who Are You circling on defense and he goes 99 and somebody said to Faris Buckner and he goes is that Buckner you know that’s the famous ad comment right about dobo Samuel before he was famous he called him 19 right that was Kurt you know a huge Stern it’s
Like no Aaron Donald doesn’t worry about what their names are and Kurt Warner was basically saying to us that that is basically the way it is like you just learn the numbers you’re not getting deep into what the names are and he’s just like I I was a big Niner fan you
Know uh and and he’s he’s really good I’m like and then he put it together oh that’s 99 it was kind of funny but the reason why I bring all that up is 99’s there yeah okay and and they’ve taken the ball away 19 straight games at least
One takeaway so who do you think wins the AFC South right now as we’re sitting here oh man I you know I think that one’s going to be interesting Jacksonville has has started to you know fade and and you look at the Colts it’s like every week I’m like all right this
Is the week that they’re going to kind of have one they’re going to lay an egg and like even if the game starts that way they find a way to win these football games so I think if you’re Jacksonville right now the one thing I think that plays in the Colts favor
Jacksonville is starting to have those thoughts creep in their mind of we started really well we haven’t been able to play as well as we were as we played early in the season that doubt starts to creep in whereas for the Colts they’re playing free and I think the biggest
Thing I would say about Shan Sten in that organization and just when you watch him every week it just seems like this like there’s no reaction you don’t ever kind of feel like something dramatic is going on with this football team they just feel like they just keep
Marching straight ahead and I think if I’m Jacksonville uh I think that’s a football team right now that they’re starting to feel that pressure of we can’t make a mistake because this Colts team’s going to catch us I’ve got uh Andrew Whitworth here on the Rich Eisen
Show you didn’t see you saw San Francisco week three right you saw him early on on Amazon I just saw that but with Richard Sherman I get to hear of about every detail going on with the San Francisco 49ers every week trust me they’re the best team in the league
Right hands down uh it’s not close it’s it’s without question it’s not close when they’re fully healthy there’s they’re better than anybody and it’s not even close not even close huh so who who’s best equipped to take him out is it well I you know early in the year you
Know unfortunately with the Bengals injuries I predicted it was going to be a Niners Bengal Super Bowl listen don’t sleep on Jake Brown sleep on brownie but right now I’ve kind of pivoted to still in the AFC North I’ve called a Ravens Niners a rematch of Super Bowl 47 but in
Vegas the lights never go out so we won’t have to wor look at him what a line come on baby what a line Andrew Whitworth bringing his a game that’s right right and we’re seeing it Monday night too we’re going to see it Monday night I think this is a little preview
Because to me what Lamar Jackson This Ravens team has been this year is you know people are arguing oh yeah he didn’t have the statistics he had when he was MVP but they’re a great football team defensively offens the ways they can attack you on offense they can do so
Many different things that I think they’ll match up well with the ners cuz they can play great defense and they can run the football or they can kind of get into things they spread you out and use Lamar and use his legs and and he’s he’s
Shown the ability this year to be a much better pocket passer under monin so I think that’s a great matchup for them let me give you one more what about the Buffalo Bills they’re well they’re they’re hot but they also look sustainable and here’s why number four number four is playing he’s special
James Cook is playing like Christian McCaffrey is there anybody that happier on Monday than than Josh Allen the fact that he one game I didn’t have to do anything I just went out there and I just played football by the way Andrew name me another time he could say that
In his professional career seriously since he started starting for the bills name me another time where the team boat raced another team or just one and he just said all I had to do was just make the plays I had to make the pressure was completely off him against Dallas when
You thought he’s going to have to be Superman that’s what we’re talking about on Game Day morning we talk about Superman versus Superman he’s gonna have to put on his cape to win oh that’s James Cook oh James Cook’s wide open let me get him unreal yeah and I think on
The flip side what I just said about Jacksonville and Trevor Lawrence feeling pressure Josh Allen just won a game against one of the best teams in the NFL didn’t have to do anything that takes it off of you and you go all right I trust
Our plan I trust what we’re going to do and now I’m going to play with some freedom and how special Josh is if they can continue to lean on this run game and let him be him uh when Josh is free and playing that kind of style of
Football that he can he’s he’s one of the rare guys back there with the football in his hands there is in this game without a doubt and if I’m the rest of the league I am rooting hard for the Colts and the Bengals and the Browns keep winning because that’s the way
You’re going to keep Buffalo out unless the Dolphins lose one of their next two and the bill don’t slip up against eastn stick on Saturday and Bailey zappy at home they can stroll into Miami and get in that way as the two seed by the way Patrick
Made this point last week and I thought it’ be like to see a buffalo Miami Showdown to see maybe who’s who’s going to win that division it’s possible last game of the year I think that that’ll be the last G to see where that where we
All had Miami six weeks into the season and we had Buffalo and then now to see this matchup possibly be what’s going to determine one of them’s fate uh it would be wild to see because Josh Allen right now has got to be really happy with where that team’s headed I mean that
That right now the bills are two back of the Dolphins so if the Dolphins just once again slip up in either of the next two games and you can’t really even say slip up I mean you’re playing Dallas and then the one seed in the AFC right now
In Baltimore so the Dolphins are sitting here thinking we have a shot at the one seed but if they lose one of those two then that means they will wind up hosting the bills in the final week of the season for the right to play a home
Game make the playoffs as a division champ as well and so Buffalo may have wildly no shot at the wild card because everybody keeps winning but they have a shot at the two seed I can’t recall a situation like it’s a wild year I mean
You look at it both both sides NFC AFC is crazy all the Matrix of who can get in who can’t and how they may get in but only by winner of the division uh I think it’s pretty wild I me you think about two weeks ago we were talking
About Jacksonville is possibly the one seed going forward and now we got a situation where they’re in trouble getting walked down and getting knocked out of this thing mhm last one for you here before we’ll take a break and talk about the final two games on Amazon because they’re they’re fascinating in
Many different ways um it’s it’s this week saints and rams and I I assume you have some some access to the Rams and then it’s Jets and Browns you know Joe flacko baby here we come and and so that that’s that’s something that you might see Aaron Rogers versus Joe flacko who
Knows we’ll see what happens although are you monitoring what Rogers is saying right now Christopher yeah they’re just talking about how it’s the North Pole at Studio okay um so before we take a break though I’d love to get your thoughts on the Chiefs and the the it’s funny how
It’s all being boiled down to cadarius Tony because he is the personification of what is wrong with the chief’s offense and potentially unfixable about the chief’s offense and it’s just one man I get it it is uh a team game but your two cents on that being the
Indication of the chief’s ability to win it again right now yeah it’s unfortunate I think it’s similar to what we just said about the Eagles when you keep seeing the same narrative keep showing back up it’s like you can’t knock it out and say all right we’ve gotten past this
Throughout your season uh I think for them offensively the lack of production and then you know just drops and Mistakes by this receiver skill group um has continued to be over and over again they can’t beat the narrative and I think that usually ends up being
Something that Dooms you in the end and so I think for this team they need a Josh Allen Buffalo Bills turnaround at some point where they get hot or you feel like inevitably they’re going to end their season because of the things that have been who they are all season
Long well the schedule does um provide that Runway to get hot they’re taking they’re taking on Vegas to start the the Christmas Day triple header then after that Kansas City has Cincinnati in their house out I I know I mean the way Jake Browning is playing that may be the one
That cost them any shot at uh um getting you you know high enough in the standings where all you need is the one seed to lose and they wind up hosting a championship game again um and then they’re at the Chargers which we all know is just going to be a roll the
Football out sort of thing one would think so that’s possible but you’re already hearing Andy they’re not benching Tony like they’re they’re going to keep rolling with him until he gets straight and uh or not that’s the way I’m looking at it and it’s frustrating people like you know Chris you’ve been
Saying yeah you got to say you can’t play him he’s going to cost you a game he’s already cost you two why are you giving the chance that he might blow a playoff game or maybe the Super Bowl yeah I don’t you know to me that’s
Probably the thing that is stuck out the most that’s agitating is like eventually at some point there have has to be some repercussions for letting us down in a game not that hey all right we still believe in you we’re still going to work with you and we’re still going to plan
To have you up and available but we’re going to keep you off the field because clearly mentality wise he hasn’t been able to handle after for the mistake last week for him to still come out and blame the ref it’s just you know blows my mind like hey just take
Accountability and move on who cares really right at the end of the day move on from the mistake but it continues the same topics in its defense instead of proof on the field it’s more of like hey just keep defending themselves but to me this is the epitome of I see better than
I hear like they’ve got to go out and show it on Sundays and Mondays for us to believe it well then put your player put your helmet back on instead of your your analyst answer that you I appreciate you giving me right there you’re in the
Locker room do you say something to him as you’re you’re you’re a leader you know you are the you got the C on your chest do you go up to cadarius Tony and sit him down or talk to him or just I would imagine in that locker room with
Travis and some of those guys somebody has done that I think at the end of the day though guys are responsible for their own you know behaviors in the sense of how they handle the media how they handle questions um you really can’t address that per se you can
Address hey when we go on the football field this how we’re going to play I think that him playing or not though and being involved in the offense that’s more of coaching and whether they decide to put him out there I’ve always said this you you can’t as a coach you can’t
Expect me to police a locker room that you won’t punish so in other words if you say oh well the players should step in well yeah but if I tell them hey dude you’re not playing for us and you put him in the game then I lose all credibility right
So the coach has to make the stance first and say hey this is the standard of how we’re going to play football as a Kansas City chief and then the player can back that up and that’s really how that has to go because inevitably the coaches are the ones who get to make
Those decisions not the players and it it needs to stay in that line where where do you keep the Walter pton Man of the Year award is there in your office somewhere it’s a constant battle Rich my wife wants me to keep it in my office I
Don’t like it being anywhere near my background on a zoom or anything so I like to keep it in uh kind of our family room up in the front of the house I you know by the way it’s a sculpture it’s a pie it’s like 40 pound I don’t want to
Get involved in a marital issue but it’s okay you could say to your wife that’s a sculpture it’s a piece of art honestly listen there’s a lot of decorating issues you know we’ve had Christmas lights up for like two months you know it’s just there’s a lot of
Issues aggressive yeah as soon as as soon as H Hallen ends next day Halloween comes down yeah and I’m I’m a guy like I don’t even watch Christmas movies till the week of Christmas so I just have to like do this when I walk in the house
Every okay and uh go for it is is Die Hard a Christmas movie um no yeah ladies and gentlemen Andrew Whitworth officially just shoots up the charts of one of my favorite guests of all time it’s a quick answer too it’s not a Christmas not Christmas movie it is no
It’s an action movie that takes place during Christmas a Christmas action movie that’s right so so what about every other movie that takes place during Christmas those aren’t Christmas movies either like what Like It’s a Wonderful Life all of them they no but there’s a certain essence Christmas movie about like what
Redemption redemp oh then what’s die hard about it’s goer falling off the building taking out at the end that’s you lose your job that’s like the third story line it’s Redemption he’s saving his family he’s going to get back his wife named Holly okay you’re you’re going down the Jake Tapper checklist
Here Jake Jake has all the only arguments I need that are wrong not a Christ ladies and gentlemen Andrew Whitworth just a round of applause I think we spend the next 20 minutes just clapping for him it’s the Kenedy H can’t clap for that all right Andrew Whitworth
Here in studio and part of the reasons why you can be in studio on this day is Thursday Night Football is right here in Los Angeles up the road um and saints and rams both teams seven and seven what is Shawn mcvey’s Secret Sauce man what
What give me some insight you know I think one of the things that really separates him is his ability to communicate you know when you walk in a room and and you see head coaches and we talk about man what do they like in the room his ability to really I think
Relate to everybody in it um communicate very clearly what he wants and expects out of guys I thought you know really most impressive things in my time with him is really that there’s no rules like he’s not some guy that’s got rules written on the board like hey you have
To be here you have to do this you have to wear this or that it’s understood because the way he communicates the priorities and the things that are important to him um he doesn’t have to to write them down on a wall and say you have to do these things he can
Communicate it in a way where you walk out of there and there’s a sense of pride of like I want to be a Los Angeles Ram I want to do things a certain way and I think that’s really what has been his thing that he’s been able to do well
And then you look at this year I think it’s awesome like kind of reinvented a little bit of who he is and his and who his offense is what is that though what what’s he what exactly because he said that he said he’s been on the show and
He’s just like he took stock last year and he gets introspective up to the point until giving a detail about what he’s actually being truly introspective about other than you just like last year was tough last year was difficult I looked at the way I did things and I had
To make some changes and I made them and it looks like it’s working that’s for sure well I think you look at it staff-wise even he went you know with a lot of guys at uh younger staff you know a lot of new guys in their positions um
He wanted energy and and just this influx of passion and energy in the locker room of this youthful exuberance like we we may not have an answer for every single thing but we’re going to go find it and we’re going to play fast and physical every football game and then
That’s going to be who we are you look at it and and I’ve said this even over our time there San Francisco has always dominated Los Angeles Rams I me personally I’ll say you they out phisical us they played with more passion in those games than we did that
Was their style of football team and it’s why now since they’re so talented they’re so good is that that’s really what they were built on I think he in this last year has reinvented the Rams to be that style of player just like when I watched puka play for the first
Few times the first thing I I told lesne was he’s our Debo Samuel like that we’ve literally created you watch him run after the catch you watch him when he makes catches always falling forward always giving it to the defender when he catches the football like he’s a young
Guy but that’s that’s going to be who he is for this offense and more 12 more using the tight ends and a lot of these motions and kickouts and physicality in the Run game I I think you’re going to see that they are slowly but surely kind
Of evolving into more of a style of of what the Niners play a little bit not necessarily at the schematically the call same plays but that kind of style we’re going to come out and be physical and kind of beat you with the passion energy speed we play the game with not
Always X’s and O’s and all those things you know changing math all this type stuff the mentality we play with is going to be who we are he’s a revelation Karen Williams as well um you know and cup goes down and those two kids start playing like it was the Super Bowl year
And the same thing for the quarterback also now I know you’re tight with Matthew but this has got to be I mean he do he’s not a Spike the football type guy certainly when you’re seven and seven also and you still some work to do
But this year has been a it’s quieted a lot of people and I’m wondering how you know what what not to for you to speak for him but what do you think he’s feeling what can now loving football uh more than he’s ever loved it probably right now now physically obviously when
You get older it hurts and you he’s been through some stuff this year right but I think there starts to be an appreciation of your impact on room and a group and just getting to go out there as their leader every week that you start to have
That really kind of makes things makes you play loose and have fun and enjoy being around guys because I know for me when I was 40 playing left tackle the energy of the young guys was exciting to me to go out and play if anything to to
For those guys to to go take the field with them and be like I can keep up with them but also I can help lead them um and I think that’s what Matthew’s playing like he’s playing like a guy who just is loving playing the game and I
Remember being there the last week at training camp going going to talk to him and it’s like hey I know what everybody’s saying where are you at with like where y’all going to be this year and him just giving me that little smirk and the the the the eyes and that smile
He has of like you just know when Matthew’s up to something and he’s about to wing it he’s about to throw a ho shot or make some aggressive throw that’s almost the same look he would give you in a huddle like you knew he’s about to
Do something he gave me that look and he’s like we’re going to be all right and and just that confidence he had in that little second of being in the locker room together I was like hm like I think this team could be more than people think and uh it’s fun to watch
Them right now s and seven and they they got it’s in their hands how they finish this season where they make the playoffs and you know could be right up there with one of the best jobs sha mcvey’s ever done as a head coach and Matthew Stafford as a quarterback to get this
Football team as young it as it is to the playoffs and we have the playoff picture up on the screen perfect because that’s where I wanted to go it’s like uh where we’re one we’re one cohesive unit right here on on on the show production
Wise because you take a look at the way way things are going okay Nick mullen’s for the Vikings and they take on the Lions twice in the next three weeks and so it’s possible if the Rams and the Saints obviously have a ton to play for
The NFC South is way up for grabs and let’s just say the Rams make it and they’re the six seed and they go to Detroit you just made the noise right cuz you know that’s Goff there and Goff is there because Stafford’s there and they play each they’re standing in
Each other rev of the exes you know it’s like they’re both exes you know you don’t get this very you don’t get this very often how Wild would that be I mean I think it’s I mean I think it’s one of those things like in the NFL it’s like
Everyone’s got to be rooting for this to happen I mean for for everything this game would be it would be so cool to watch you know just the moments for both of them like to face your old team in golf and the playoffs and for Stafford
To face a a franchise that he was a part of for so long but they did a favor right like for golf it might be more of a I’ll show you but how do you think Nick I’ll just let you speak for Stafford one more time how what do you
Think you think he would he’d rather face somebody else I mean no I I think he would enjoy that one too much you know I think I would give the edge I think I would give a little bit of Edge from a freedom standpoint to the Rams
Because for Matthew that’s just icing on the C he’s going to be playing loose as can be there’s no there’s no loss there right you want a Super Bowl you get to go back to a place that he really left he asked to leave in a good place like
I’ve always loved this place you know him and Kelly were very involved in the community there everything else um whereas for Jared G I think that’s almost a little bit of a nightmare situation because it’s like man for him to come back with this former team and
Beat you in your place that that’s that’s more stressful I would think from that side of it than Matthew’s side look at that and then one last uh what do you think question on this front is potentially standing in the Ram’s way of making it and making something like that
Potentially happen happen are the 49ers in the final week now let’s just assume and I know what that word usually is infused with let’s just assume they’ve got that one seed wrapped do you think they’re going to play their guys to keep the Rams out like spit a spiteful
Breath they like each other enough to lay down I I would think they would but I think Kyle you know we got to do that to the Rams we got to we got to not let them in I think but at the the same okay
That could come back to bite you you get one of your players hurt you get you know it’s a you got to look at the first game they played you know San Francisco didn’t really get a hold of the game till it’s late in the second half so you
Know you get into a battle that you’re going to have to unload everything you got to win but you’re going to keep these guys sat for two weeks and let the Rams in the tournament I think it’s going to be inter they’re the ones who knocked you out from uh the NFC
Championship game as you very well know yourself you’ve got a ring in uh I do you know what’s crazy too is even like y’all were talking about earlier the Drew lock situation Seattle like they they’ve got winnable games so if the Rams lose that game the Seahawks get in
So it it’s uh it’s interesting in that Division I got a feeling though I’m I’m going to say this all three of them make it I think all three of them make it and the AFC North may have an opportunity for all three to make it so that would
Be Ravens Bengals I’m assuming not the Steelers the Browns okay and the Browns that’s okay perfect uh perfect transition here to the Browns Kevin stefansky is not being mentioned for Coach of the Year very much right now and the job that he has done there with four different starting quarterbacks all
Of them having won and Nick chub getting knocked out and they’ve been out without Ward for how long I I’ve lost track how like long they’ve been without one of their best defensive players and Miles Garrett balling out and this team with flacko now throwing it all over the lot
Having a chance to you know potentially potentially I don’t I don’t you know the top M I don’t think making the playoffs is a division winner but having a chance to being a five seed I mean they could beat the AFC South winner in in one game
And how go to Baltimore I don’t know I mean like why why not right I mean we’ have another one another Revenge this is real isn’t it aren’t the Browns I I mean you look at that defense they’re real so I I don’t care any offense that plays
Them you look what happened to San Francisco when they played them yeah you know so I mean that defense is real I it doesn’t matter how good you on offense you’re seeing you’re seeing them in two that’s the final Thursday night game Jets at Browns yeah so I mean that’s
Going to be a challenge for any team in the playoffs matter what you’re seating is and then offensively I think Joe flacko fits who they want to be really well guy can sling it still uh you look at the play action game they can build
Off of that running game um I think he really fits who they could be you know and be dangerous play great defense run the football well and take a couple shots and and hurt you and so I I think for them it’s it’s I think Stephany
Should be listed but you look at it even in that division between the job him and Zack Taylor have done for the Bengals to be where they are losing Joe bur you you talking about a team that everyone just put on like momes right this is Joe
Burrow like the Bengals are good just because of Joe burrow what they’ve been able to do with Jake brownie like I think it’s another like Zack Taylor what a freaking coaching job right you had guys in and out of the lineup all all season um Joe goes down you think the
Season’s over that’s said I mean Browns are a totally different category with all due respect I mean with all due respect it’s DeShawn Watson then it’s PJ Walker then it’s DTR and then it’s now let’s get Joe flacko off the couch and he he he’s running the offense with the
Exception of Watson in that game in in Baltimore he’s running that offense better than any of them though this offense has looked far more oh it’s threatening and vertical and the Run game is just as Stout and the defense is taking care of business I mean stefansky
As coach of the year should get some serious consideration right now and he’s won it before uh which might get people to think well and nobody want so no honestly like and and I’m I’m straight up with you and then that night I mean the narrative will be on your final Thursday night
Game is here’s a team making the playoffs okay Cleveland has who does Cleveland have this week let’s see here um they have in front of them this week they’ve got a game at Houston that’s a huge one wow big game okay let’s just say they win that one you got a 10- win
Team coming into your house right you’re going into the house of the 10- win team and and here comes the Jets they where their season goes completely kaboy within five snaps they couldn’t they couldn’t figure out a damn thing with really talented players I know their offensive line got really banged up but
For them to just be eliminated going into week 16 and Aaron roders just said on Pat show what that he doesn’t believe he’s going to be medically cleared he’s not 100% he not 100% all right so you’re going to probably see Trevor Simeon in the house
Or maybe it could be Zack Wilson again I don’t know so one team couldn’t figure it out their season’s totally lost the other team with four guys has 10 wins potentially if not there still nine wins going mind the Browns lost a lot of offensive linan too so exactly 12 out of
14 games the Jets have only got one touchdown or less how does that happen right I mean what what the hell that’s what I mean I think to me it’s you have to say you know I understand he’s this guy but Nathaniel Hackett like it’s two years of like you
Saw what happened in Denver with that offense who they’ve been this season with Shawn pyton you know I always I said you you really think about it that Jets Broncos game you might have won that small battle but the overall war of kind of you know even though he said it
Out he shouldn’t have said it what Sean pyton said has come to life like he’s done a tremendous job with the Denver Broncos they are much different team than they were a year ago and Nathaniel hacket this is two years in a row of abysmal offense I mean you made one team
Worse in the Broncos and then you’ve come here and not been able to figure out a single thing with the Jets offensively to do any kind of product just one two games where you could say all right man we got something to build off of uh just hasn’t happened and so I
Think to me uh yeah it’s two totally different stories of an example of what coaching can do in a situation where you can find ways to win with a great defense because the teams are very similar the Jets defensively and the Browns defensive that’s how they’re LED
Right to not to be able to find any way to produce offensively in these games and the Browns and Browns lost their running back to a knee injury this year Jets got theirs back from last year and dvin cook and Garrett Wilson it’s a great game to put him side by side and
Say what went wrong well not great for the Jets because this is a perfect example like look at this team it’s Flo you honestly flacko won a game for the Jets in that building week two I guarantee you spoon’s going to have that video for you for your pregame show
They’re probably cutting the video right now and if not cut it spoon you know like that’s coming that is abs absolutely going to be part of your pregame show you about to say committed um you know I’m committed I’m committed to just this feels emotional em very
Personal I should be committed there we go for still being a Jets fan yeah yeah you should but that’s me you know I am who I am and then I’m you know because one day at some point as I said the football Gods will stop kicking me in
The nards over this whole thing and so but nobody’s nobody is pulling a code red on hacket there that ain’t happening no Aaron Rogers did tell uh Pat that he still believes in Joe Douglas Robert Salah Nathaniel Hackett called Salah fantastic coach did say he doesn’t think
Next year will be his last year you go uh wanted to play two years for the Jets considers this A Lost season there you go so it’ll run back and and there’ll be a whole there’s a whole bunch of Jet fans who are like look at the Browns
Look at them look at the Bengals look at the Colts look at these teams that not only didn’t fall apart but actually stayed enough together to make a playoff run and they’re going to make the playoffs with teams that maybe aren’t as talented roster wise as the Jets are
Yeah and so and that the coaching staff should eat it because of that but they will not when Aaron Rogers says that because Woody Johnson is going to run it back and everybody’s coming back and that’s going to be a Non-Stop 24/7 365 Sports Talk conversation in New York
City and I love Salah too yeah I love him too and and we just don’t know there’s an iceberg and there’s a tip and I think there’s a huge iceberg that he’s tried to keep together yeah I I think sa’s done all he can it’s just it’s a
Tough situation but I think even if Aaron comes back next year and they’re good on offense I’m going to say it’s because of Aaron Rogers um because I think the proof is is there that uh it that was going to be him if they were going to be good offensively but do you
Feel a little better now I mean you kind of get some of that out no I mean I don’t but I appreciate you checking in with me that’s why Walter P Man of the Year right there you care about others you’re a human you care about humanity
And I’m I’m part of that race have a good day yeah thank you you’re one of my favorites Andrew love watching you uh kick it and kick ass you’re awes brother you get you’re you and your team get better every week it’s great to see you have a great time
Here in uh in Los Angeles and then uh in Cleveland and then come back come back let’s hang during the uh postseason I got nothing to do that’s great catch the rich eyes and show every single day on the Roku Channel 12 to 3 Eastern for free
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I like Left Tackles.
Die Hard is THE Christmas movie.
Well, A Christmas Story is arguably THE Christmas movie…
Puka is sensational. The Rams beat the hell out of my Seahawks twice this year.
Die Hard is not a Christmas movie for 1 simple reason people are misconstruing. A movie that happens during the winter or around Christmas does not automatically make it a Christmas movie. In order to attain that designation Christmas has to be a central theme, a major plot point, and I even goes as far as to say a character in the movie. In Die Hard there is nothing about Christmas that is integral to the plot. This is easy to prove because they made 5 more Die Hard’s without the mention of Christmas and it didn’t change the story. When you Christmas movies that have sequels they always have Christmas as an interwoven theme. For Example Home Alone, The Santa Clause, A Christmas Story, or Bad Santa. If Die Hard is a Christmas movie why stop there? Why don’t we call Forest Gump a Christmas movie because Gump and Lieutenant Dan spent Christmas together in New York or call The Sandlot a 4th of July movie because they played baseball at night on the 4th of July. I’m truly convinced even the people that argue Die Hard is a Christmas movie don’t really believe it and just enjoy screwing with us. They always have that stupid smirk on their face when arguing it. It’s not a Christmas movie.
This interview is Rich Eisen at his very best.
Jets suck. Sorry Rich, pick another team…
The only thing more disrespectful than calling Purdy a System QB is that Kyle Shanahan has not won coach of the year. The thing your praising Stefanski for with making the playoffs with a backup and 3rd string QB, Shanahan did and more with a rookie 3rd stringer Mr Irrelevant. Yeah it’s impressive but give me a break Flacco was a Super Bowl MVP. The 49ers were a bad elbow and one game away from going to the Super Bowl with a 3rd stringer. He also made it a Suber Bowl with Jimmy Garappolo as well as multiple NFC Championships. I don’t think any team has dealt with more injuries than the 49ers and they are always in the hunt. How he hasn’t won coach of the year is criminal.
Christmas movie? Donovan's Reef.
Die Hard is undoubtedly one of the greatest Christmas movies ever made
snyone know the shoes whit is wearing?
Hurts is in pain and he has been playing with pain all season. However, the organization is not going say anything to the media.
Funny how rich keeps insinuating players off of what the Philly QG said and totally avoiding the true fact:
There’s been a coaching change and that change is causing this Eagles team to keep on losing instead of winning every game weather by comeback or defense….HEY PHILLY!!….You just lost your QB’s humbled hunger to win by making that personal coaching change.
Was it management?
Was it head coach?
Was it ownership?
Who decided in making that coaching change….who!!
Give us a name please.
Whitworth is clueless
Two new coordinators and a handful of new young starters on defense, I thought they'd have early season problems. Not completing all those bombs like a year ago is a bummer for Hurts, but he is not the problem. The mean has caught up with them on those plays.
Everyone just piled on Patricia, the epitome of low hanging fruit. Hey, he helped you win you first Super Bowl in … for, no … ever. He's not the damned head coach, just the coordinator.
I just saw Kadarius Toney on over the air TV doing a commercial for Focus Factor. That might be good or bad. Yet to be determined. The Bills are looking like the 10' Packers all over again. Rich can't get A-Rod on the show, right? 650,000+ subscribers, but A-Rod not one of them.
love the Whitworth
Aaron rodgers is overrated
Aaron rodgers is overrated
Andrew Whitworth is legit..
Diehard is a Christmas movie! Yippy cayeah motha fucka!😊
Just noting, Rams have had the best last 5 weeks and if they get through this last part of a ridiculous NFL schedule, they will be lethal post season😊…yep Rams are 4real
"When they're fully healthy" – that can be said of more than one team.
Love that final 5 minutes was just Rich ranting about the Jets 😂
As a Ram's fan I would kind of feel bad if we won and kept the Lions out of the Super Bowl. They are family(with the Shotgun wedding for Goff and the runaway bride of Stafford)