HR 1: Raiders 2-0

0:00Rich Eisen here running a small business means every higher matters. A bad hire costs time and money but the right one helps your business grow. The challenge? Finding that person without sorting through resumes. That's where LinkedIn Hiring Pro comes in. It screens candidates so you can focus on conversations with qualified talent. With Hiring Pro you can hire with confidence and build the team you need. Join the 2.7 million small businesses using LinkedIn to hire. Get started by posting your job for free at LinkedIn.com slash Eisen. Terms and conditions apply. Be. B. Oh yes. Good morning. Bada Bada. Step out to 40 seconds. Bada Bada. As Kirk Morrison would do about the chargers. Now what was that? What is that? My true. We woke my true. Up this morning. A minute five minutes ago. Okay. I was in the car because I was. Yeah. I was running around getting some last minute stuff for the party we had yesterday

1:01from Mateo's birthday and I happened to be in the car when that happened because I just ran to the group. The girl you heard the giggle to the grocery store. I text you guys in real time. I said we have to get this audio because it felt it was hilarious and it felt like they won the super bowl. I mean that just needs to play on a loop the entire day today. Sounds nothing like Kirk either. He gets so high he's like a little baby that just he's like giggling for a to see roll. It was one of those things where I was listening listening in the car and I um I had serious on right so I had their red zone channel thing on and um I could rewind. So when it happened I rewinded it and heard that again and that's when I that's when I had just gotten back to my house and I was done with the car in park immediately.

2:04I just text you guys and we have to pull this audio. Was that NFL radio with Steve Tory and Bill leakus? Like us. Yes. Oh yeah, like us. So yeah, we woke true. Yeah, we woke true. Yeah, so he's in room now. Apparently. No, like he's not in studio. Oh, he's not. No, we literally broke you woke him up at 658. He said his his wife is sick and he's going to explain what he gets here and he understands he's going to get a lot of hell for it. I mean, look at happens, dude. But um you know, no excuses. I had a party here and I had people here to attend 45 last night. See? Okay, so um and I got up at 445 because when I'm when you're hosting a party I didn't feel like I would be properly prepared and plus I have TV later. So I had a lot of things to prepare for today, including this show. So I went back and watched a ton of I watched back almost the entire second half of the Raiders Chargers. I basically picked it up around like. Early into the third. Did you see when Beto was on TV?

3:05I did not see when Beto was on TV. Yeah, they did they played the Chargers Spanish highlight when when we all thought the Chargers could still win and then Beto because who's he's spotting for Chargers Spanish radio. Oh, we saw Beto on TV. Oh, I didn't even notice that. No, I didn't even think twice to think that was Beto. But anyway, look at the Raiders. Yeah. I think I did one of the Super Bowl today. I love it. This is great. This is only better though because I'm going to pull a capy, a reverse capy here. Oh no. It's only better because that means the fall is going to be harder this year. Look, no, no, he's getting all excited. Look, we're excited that we're two. You guys are, I mean, do you, did you hear Kirk Morrison? I think he's Kirk Morrison is going a little bit over the top. Both the calls. We have both touchdown calls to Cody White. And the first one, he sounds like, yes, they won the Super Bowl. And the second one, this giggle thing is the most amazing thing. Right, there's gonna be Cody. Cody, you literally would have thought that they were hosting, hoisting the Lombardi trophy in so far, stadium.

4:06The side of the Super Bowl. Yeah, so here, listen to the first Cody White touchdown. Oh, no, I know. I know. I heard it. Go ahead. Yeah, this one made it 17 to 14. Yeah. Jack Besschite to the formation left side, Blake Locke, down to five. Now, Bess over to the right. Shotgun. Chargers come with four. Cousin tanks in the pocket. Close to the corner. Cody White adjusts. And he got it. He got it. And the first one, corner. One adjustment. Just his second career touchdown. And it puts the Raiders in front. 16, 14 with 353 in the third. The first one, he's like, he got it. He got it. It was like, they won the show. Yeah, the one that continues, they're just screaming, Cody, Cody, Cody. But the one that we're playing is really the one, though. Like, just played that. And it's entirely yet. No, play the whole thing. Play the whole thing. All right, I got that one. Third and five on the Chargers 11 for Kirk Cousins in the pistol. Two tight ends stacked right with best to the right side of them. Now, Mayor motions. It is a play fake with a blitz off his back foot to the end zone.

5:07Custom. He's in it. Cody. Cody. Double his career total on the second half. Cody. And it's $259 to go in the game. Look, man, I'm so happy that Kirk Morrison is calling those games like that. This is how you should be calling games. It's the local team. That's amazing. Now, George, the Chargers are the first team in NFL history to start Oh and two with losses to 14 plus lost teams from the previous year. Cardinals, Raiders. That's how you start the season. Oh, no, look at that. I will also say the chargers. The Chargers are also the second team in the Super Bowl era. Since 1966 to be favored by at least six and a half points in each of their first two games and lose. The Bengals did that in 2022. They went to the FC championship that year. Back to back nuggets. Right except very contradicting. By the way, let's play this hard. I mean, I sound like I'm in a tin can somewhere.

6:08You do. It's amazing that I sounded better on an SM 58 mic on a comics in my back. No, now you sound good. Well, because Berge turned his mic off. See, if we have two mics on in a studio, it becomes like a vacuum. And then but the engineering team will be like, yeah, you guys don't know what you're doing, man. I don't know what's going on. Anyway, that's going to fund back. Let's play the Jim Harbaugh after the game where you could hear Raider's chance in the background. Why were you guys sloppy again today as an offensive? Yeah, the, yeah, the, the, the, the why is what we're talking about. That's what we're looking to tape. We'll, we'll go back to work. That's all I know how to do. That's all we know how to do. He was fully like he could hear that perfectly. And he's like, I just getting off Lester because he doesn't know what to say because he's all he's hearing is Raider's in the background. I love it so much. So Sedano has the, as the chargers get ready for the bills in week three. Is it time to thank them for participating?

7:08I mean, not yeah. I mean, if they beat the bills, then who knows? I mean, listen, man, it's been a wacky season already. I mean, the Houston Texans speaking of losing to the bills looked fantastic in week one. And then couldn't score a point in in week two against a Bengals team that I don't know what they are to be honest with you. So, you know, look, I'll just say this. And it's funny. I was having this conversation with a bunch of the dads, right? Like, because they were asking me like, what do you think, man? It's just like a lot of weird results the first two weeks. I know people are going to think this sounds really old school. And I'm generally not that, as you guys know, I'm very much pro player. I'm very much like progressive in very much every shape way or form. But I'm starting to think that the lack of any continuity during the preseason is really starting to show. Like, I would love, I'm going to actually, it's going to be tough to document, right? I'll ask our research group. I bet you they don't, it's just so hard they won't be able to do it today because it's just too

8:11big of an undertaking. Deito Data, you want to ask him? He had a good week, man. But I would say, well, he didn't have a good first week. So it was nice for him to have a good second week. I would say that at just off the eye test, and again, I don't have the actual data to this. But it feels like the teams that actually played their guys a little bit, at least during the preseason have done better. You know, even if it's just a couple of series, and you know, I don't know what the balance is because I get it, man, like the reality is if you're looking at your team. And you are one of these NFL franchises. And you're saying to yourself, man, we can't risk these guys getting hurt and meaningless games. Like I totally understand that. But you do run the risk of looking like you just met in the parking lot. And I think in some of these cases, you've seen some of that. And you know, the NFL, in modern history, let's call it, has very much been a league of

9:13parity during the regular season. Like week to week, the reason we watch this is we don't know what the hell is going to happen. And I think that the combination of those two things have made things kind of really go as you and just kind of go really just off the reservation a little bit. But hey, like I'm here for the chaos, I guess, right? That's what makes it fun. I mean, so it's a good point because look at what the Raiders have done over the last couple of years. Two years ago, they beat the Ravens and we played Kirk Cousins in the preseason. Decent him out. Yeah, to be honest with you. Yeah, no, and they're winning. Now they're two and also it works along with what you're saying. But I'm saying over the last two years, they beat the Ravens in week two. And that happened early on in the season. Last year, they beat the Patriots in the first week of the season. So they're the teams that don't play their guys are having the tough time in those first couple of weeks. And that's why you see so many so many upsets early on. I mean, the Browns got to win yesterday. The Browns got to win. I know. Right. DeShawn Watson actually looked like a capable quarterback for the first time as a Brown. Yes, years.

10:13Yeah. So yeah, I don't know like, you know, maybe when I go into the office today, actually, since I'm going to the NFL network, they actually may have it. I'm sure they're research department there. I will ask somebody there today. I'm like, hey, can you do me a favor? Can you guys run this model? Like, like, maybe, and I'd like them to do it over the last like two seasons, just to see, right? What that looks like. And maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it's just an eye test and my eyes are lying to me, but it definitely feels that way. Because I've seen a lot of teams. I saw the Niners play their guys at least a few series a couple of weeks for a couple of weeks. And, you know, look how they looked in week one in Australia. So I don't know. I'd be genuinely curious to see. But look, man, if you're the Raiders and you're a Raider fan, so get in, dude. Two and a half. You haven't been two and a half. Exactly. You haven't been two and a half since 2021. So just enjoy it, man. What the hell? Kick back. Throw your feet up. Put your Darth Vader helmet on and let's go. I'm shocked by you, Sedano. I thought for sure you were going to try and pour cold water all over me.

11:14Well, I don't think it's going to last, but I mean, have fun while you got it. What do you mean? That's the way that I'm looking at it. I still know that this is seasons probably. They have a tough schedule. They have a very hard schedule. Next few weeks, you put it in our group chat yesterday. Are just insane. So the group chat, that was for the Chargers. The Chargers. What was the Raiders have a very similar schedule? Very. And actually, they play, I think they play the Saints next week and the Saints. Who just won? Just there and out of put. I tried to tell you guys the other day. They're not a push. No, they're not. So I know this is going to be a very tough year, but the fact is that they're 2 and 0 right now. And I'm enjoying what they're doing right now. Right now, everything's going to be a Bergman this weekend. That's all I know. Like, this everyday's coming up. That's right. Because look, the Dodgers swept the Giants, which always nice to sweep the Giants. UCLA is 3 and 0. And the Raiders are now 2 and 0. That's a really good weekend. Ha. See, I feel like Kirk Morrison. By the way, we have to, when you talk to him, you have to remind him for, uh, yeah, no, Ann Berge about his loyalty to ESPN LA. Yeah.

12:16There you go. Um, loyal. Sorry, Mike is texting me. Um, is he saying that he's almost here? Yes. But the, the reality is, does he have a loyalty to ESPN LA still? I don't know. Boy is an ESPN employee? Is he, well, he is using ESPN employee. That is true. I mean, come on. Just because I once said that, you know, sometimes he can be sleepy. That's not my fault. I don't think I've never, I've always been a big Kirk fan as you. I'm a huge Kirk fan. He's great, you know, when we're playing golf, when we used to smack it around, I think we have to remind him of his loyalty. Spank and white. As you said, um, so anyway, look, I think if you look back to, uh, to this week, I mean, it's just, I mean, look at poor Caleb Williams, dude. Like, first of all, thank God, it's only a hamstring. I thought it was, when it was non-contact like that, I'm like, oh my god, his Achilles blue or like, you know, like he blew out his ACL or something. You know, like I was like, oh, no. And you know, look, it could be a hamstring tear, so it could be just, it could be really bad too. So I mean, who knows? But I mean, he was writhing in pain, um, and, you know, Tyson Bajan had to go in there.

13:16Like just, this is, yes, it's a crazy sport, man. A lot of weird things can happen. And the Bears, if Caleb Williams finishes that game, I think the Bears eventually win comfortably, you know? Yeah, no, they probably do. The Vikings, Carson Wentz, not looking at all that great, but they, the Vikings pulled it away. I do want to go back to the Raiders for just a second about what they're coaching. Clint Kubey, I came in here and turned a team into a two and a two. And this is his post-game locker room speech. Okay. How do you change the place? You do something they say you can't. You guys, the **** did something they said you can't. Seven point dogs. That great job, man. Great ****. Hey guys, I'm so proud of you. Okay, and I'm going to say exactly what we said last week. Okay. Okay. We are humble and victory. Okay. We are humble and victory. We're all right. We're a team. Okay. It's about us. And you guys prove that today. Let's take a knee and thank God. See, this, so a coach coming in and changing the culture. That's something that absolutely can happen. And see it's like, of course, it's going to happen. He's doing it right now. It's what Ben Johnson did in Chicago.

14:17I think this is something that could be the Raiders may have finally found the right coach early. Maybe he, um, I mean, listen, he comes from a family of coaching. He's grown up in this business, right? Like that's a good first step is what I would say. And look, they, they look competent, which is something you probably couldn't have said very much about them recently. So, um, it, you know, again, it may last. Maybe it does. Maybe they are the surprise team this year. But, you know, I just, again, just this sport is so weird and it can change on a dime so quickly. Just enjoy it. Just have fun with it. Because again, who knows what the hell's going to happen? Yeah, I love the way that the defense looked. It looks so much better. Are you upset and almost annoyed that I'm not really like, like furious about this and like I don't care, like honestly, I was kind of looking forward to like a super yelling back and forth. That's going to be like, no, the Raiders are for real. I was all excited. Again, look at the Raiders schedule, right? They got the same chiefs, the Patriots, the Mils, the Rams.

15:17I mean, even the Jets look good. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, it's going to be tough schedule. Seven, seven, seven, the morning. You know what you could have done since the Sedano would cap. Morning, she'll begin. Well, if you're true, hell, wipe the sleep out of your eyes and hurry to work or go to see our friends. It's a problem. He's a cozy. Go see our friends at Vavolene. So good. It's an oil change over the 15 minute drive through oil change. But it's so kind of. Can we get you on to just asking about this? Yeah, let's get them on. So that's excellent. You've appeared on every other sports station in LA. Come on this one. Although people only heard them on one of visit so call oil change.com for a location. Yeah, man. So anyway, it was a fun game to watch. I mean, if you're the chargers, dude, like, first of all, six fumbles. Like, what the hell, man? Like, you know, I know people are going to blame Mike McDaniel. Oh, he does a little bit of genius. First of all, I don't I still don't know anyone who's actually said he's a genius. Like, I feel like you guys are making that up. But then NFL noobs read it. But that was like Rex Ryan. And there was another one too.

16:17Yeah. Anyway, so look, that's fine. I guess maybe. But, you know, it's kind of hard to be anything if you're going to fumble the balls six times. Like, that's just like, I don't care how good your offensive coordinator is. Like, who's the greatest play call in the history of this world? Bill Walsh or something? I don't know, you know, Kyle, a Mike Shanahan. Like, it doesn't matter who you have, right? Like, if you're fumbling the balls six times, if you're the chargers, you, you can't. Like, you can't win a game. Like, it's just not happening. And I'm, Mario and Hampton, I'm starting to wonder like, dude, this is like becoming a thing. Like, it's not like, you know, the ball security portion of the equation is a real problem for you. It feels like. Yeah, that was a huge hit. That fumble at the end of the game. That was changed. It changed the dynamics. Right. It was like 349 to go. Yeah. I mean, the chargers are on it. They're near midfield, they're midfield basically. And they're driving. And they they're moving the ball. And then he, you know, on a short yardage situation, he just, it was bad. Like, it was, so it's funny, Chris, while I was listening to the NFL radio thing on

17:21Sirius, they're red zone. They, you know what they do is they flip, which is kind of cool. I like it. They flip back and forth between the two home team, the two teams calls while they have the ball on offense. So when they had the ball on offense, yeah, it was, it was the chargers radio. And, and like, they were, they were like, immediately when the ball popped out, they were, oh, the ball popped out. Like, and it was just like, oh, yeah, that's tough. They were having a tough day. Those chargers and answers. Yeah, they were saying they were against, well, I know about that. I was just saying, like, just their despair with another fumble. It was just like, you could hear it in their voice. Like, oh, so much despair from them. And then, then, right, then Kirk was having that. Yeah. It was like these giggling to two completely different prisms of viewing the game. But also, like Justin Herbert didn't look all that great either. No, he didn't look good either. It was probably his worst game of his career. Yeah. Charlie checked out appeared again. Wasn't going deep down field. But I wouldn't, I wouldn't call him Charlie. Checked out. I feel like he tried, I feel like he was trying to make something happen too many times. And that actually hurt him.

18:22Also, that offensive line, he was, he was going to have pressure the entire time. Tire game. And this is, this is an offensive line that everyone said, oh, this is the reason that he hasn't been good over the last year, a couple of years because they've been hurt, which, and the weird thing is, before all those guys got hurt last year, they were good as an offensive line. Yeah, Joe, all that great left tackle was a four different penalties called on him. That's insane. Four and two of them, one of them ended up being a, a safety in the end zone. Right. Just a Max Trosby was all over him all night. It was, it was bad for that offensive line. I applaud that Max Trosby hasn't let it bother him that the Raiders almost trade, or did trade him. And he's coming out there and, I mean, the hollowness. I'm just going to stop talking. Oh, here's the lead to the run. No, it's fine. It sounds fine. Okay. I'll turn my mind on the way where he's going. No, it's not your fault, Burkey. I applaud Max Trosby. The passion and energy as Jay T the brick would say. There you go. Why do we see? It's amazing. Because if somebody tried to trade me, I wouldn't come out there and play like that. I'd be like, if you guys, I'm just going to sit on the bench. The difference is that he asked to be traded.

19:23He wanted to go. That was the one out of there. That is true. He wanted out. And then when it didn't work, he said, okay, I'm going to stay and I'm fully, I'm fully in on this. Yeah. Mostly because of what they did in the off season. And it's starting to show getting the guys that they got on, on defense like Nikovi Dean. That was a huge pick up for them. He played well, yes, right? I mean, all these guys that they picked up, they've all been playing well. So it's just really nice to see a rater team that's competent. They are playing good football right now. Now we'll see what it looks like moving forward. But again, just enjoy it now because it's not going to, it's not, you know, it's not necessarily going to keep going this way. So are you going to laugh at us? Or when if it goes the other way, is it going to be a big time last? I don't know what we have. Kind of what I expect. Like I don't expect this to last, you know, I'm just hoping it. I mean, they can get really lucky. They could every, see, that's the thing about the national football league. Every year, there's a team that goes worse the first. Have as all the time. Why not them? Why not us?

20:237-22 in the morning. Now my birthday was Saturday. Siddano's son Mateo was yesterday. We're Virgo brothers. I know you had a big party. Did you bring out the Daisy dips? Sit on home. Of course the Daisy dips were out there. I mean, the Daisy dips. We had also, I even dipped a conoceta from Tropegana in that Daisy dips yesterday. And look, as we get closer to the big game, one thing. Everybody starts to think about as the food, whether you're hosting like we did yesterday, heading to a party or just watching at home. The snacks matter, man. And one thing I always make sure is on the table, Daisy dips. Daisy makes a French onion dip that just flat out delivers. It's rich. It's creamy. It tastes great. And the same thing with Daisy Ranch dip. Here, the deal. All right, listen to this. These dips, I'm telling you, I have, I have now had multiple fiestas here at the house. These are dips people going, keep going back for over and over and over again. So what I love about Daisy though, just my own personal thing is it's made with real ingredients. Things you actually recognize. Stuff you can find in your kitchen. No preservatives, no artificial ingredients. Just real great tasting dip. And I'm eating Daisy dips with everything. Chips, wings, veggies. I told you a croqueta yesterday from Tropegana.

21:24Honestly, whatever's in front of me on game day. So as you're getting ready for the big game, make sure Daisy French onion or Daisy Ranch. Part of your game plan. Thank you, Siddano. So what do you want to do next in about three minutes? Do you want to do a little dodgers? What do you want to do? Yeah, let's do the three things. All right, we'll do burguis three things. I mean, they, you know, I mean, they played, you know, the Giants, but I mean, I mean, it's a rivalry, but it doesn't feel like a rivalry. Ha ha ha. 724 on a Monday morning. You know, where is my true del? He's on his way. We welcome up. I can't wait to hear this story, Virgie. It's going to be so good. It's going to be so good. Maybe he was out celebrating away with it because his Vikings beat the bears by six points in a horrific game. Was he was he out there? Party. Uh, he was not. He was not. Uh, I mean, we weren't at the party, but we weren't invited. No, I mean, you want to be here with like 20 other like seven and eight year old. I mean, go ahead. I'm sure that you're jammed. No, you're saying because the kids all laugh in my bets. Yes, they will. Yeah, I don't feel like you that's your that's your crowd based off when that that nice young man came into the studio that day. Seven, 12. She's pops the cops should have arrested you.

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24:47Oh, that's good. I learned from Sedano. Black belt. By the way, one thing that really annoys me, you've learned. As much as I love the YouTube product on NFL Sunday ticket, it is kind of annoying that you can't watch. Like unless you subscribe to YouTube TV, like you can't watch the local games in your four bucks. It is kind of annoying. I'm paying you $400 or whatever the hell it is. Give me all the damn games. Yeah, I would love to have all the game. They also Red Zone just in general does that too. So last week, I wanted to watch the Raider game because it wasn't on locally so I couldn't get it. And on Red Zone, they never went to the game. They just choose which game they think are the better games and even though they were in the Red Zone, they wouldn't go to the game. It was very frustrating. Well, maybe because they were in the Red Zone at the same time as another team that was better.

25:48No, no, it was it was it was Philadelphia. Who did they play last week? It was Philly in Washington and they were on their own 30. Because it was a better game. They didn't go to it. I was very I was want me to ask Scott. Yes. Hanson. Yeah, I see him because he's going to be I'm in the same building as him now. So like, yeah, I mean, if I run into I mean, hey, Hanson, come here. Let me know. Yeah, I'm just going to ask you a question. It's up with this radar. Hey, man. Seriously, it was very it was last week. It was very, very frustrating. I was screaming at my TV. Go to the radar game. They're in the 20. They're inside the Red Zone. Nothing. Nothing. Absolutely disgusting. Wow. Anyway, I was upset. All right, let's talk down. It is time for Berge's organ you watch the blue review. You know, come on. You see, come on. I heard Kirk Morrison is a is a big fan of the both the blue review and Berge's three things brought to us by the teetimes. Is he really? Oh, you just saw that. It's just an opportunity for you to play the the drop.

26:48Oh, okay. Well, we can't do that because we the organs on the same thing. What? Yeah, I can do it over here. All right, go ahead. 731, he wants the blue review each week. It's 630 a.m. Presented by LAX with Marcus Grant and Gregory Arthur Bergman. And then you get ready for Berge's three things. Thanks to Blue Eyes vodka. Yes, thank you, Blue Eyes vodka made from Idaho potatoes and pristine tea toned water for a smoother, creamier, cleaner cocktail with no sugar and just 64 college per ounce. Look for blue eyes wherever you shop for spirits. Hi, Mike Trudeau. Blue Eyes vodka pure as the teetimes. All right, so the first thing that we're going to do here is very much. Is sweep of the giants. Look, always good to sweep the giants. The giants are an absolutely horrific, terrible team this year and have been for the last few years. Buster Posey has destroyed that franchise right now and it's absolutely beautiful. Which is kind of crazy if you think about it. It is, right? Because like he was such a big part of everything he did, but it's all right, but I mean, he is. What the hell is he know about building a team?

27:49No, he absolutely nothing as you can see. Hiring Tony Vatelo from Tennessee in college is a totally different game than what Major League Baseball is. It was a horrific hire. And now he's stuck with it. He's stuck with it for at least a couple of years and hope that it's magically it turns around. But he's bet you can't just fire him. So the whole thing up. I mean, you could you could just fire. So that would be three coaches in the last three years. Something. Yeah, they care. They don't know. There's no salary cap yet and there's never a salary cap on coaches. Anyway, yeah, that's a good point. But she and Emmett she and was fantastic yesterday. He had nine strikeouts. He went over five innings. The last two starts. He's been nothing but nails the entire time. Nails nails. He liked that. So he was he's been really good. And to the point where if there is an issue with Blake's nail that's longer than we think it's going to be, he's supposed to come back with it's the groin and the adductor that he had missed time for four other times before. If he's out for any reason, I would trust Emmett she and to be that

28:49four starter right now. He is on another level with his pitching, which we haven't seen from him since early on last year. So that's she and was fantastic. Although I do think Blake's now will be back. The next thing I get it. Roki Sasaki is back. He will be pitching on Tuesday. But he's not going to be the starter. It's a bullpen game. He's going to be in a role of being just it's not a bulk guy. But he's going to be out of the bullpen. It's going to be complete bullpen game. And now these next six games are going to be very interesting for this bullpen for the for the postseason roster because if you pitch well here, especially against the Padres who are coming in very, very hot. If you pitch well against the Padres, you have a much better chance of getting into onto this postseason roster. So guys like shockingly enough Edwin Diaz. If Edwin Diaz comes out and looks good against the Padres, he probably makes the postseason roster. If he doesn't, he probably doesn't make it on.

29:50Same with all of us Jack Dreyer, Brock Stewart, whoever you are looking at. For this Halverson kid, we saw the other night. Nah, he ain't making nothing. That's he's he's good. No, he has he has really good stuff, but he doesn't get a lot of swing and miss. He pitches like 102 miles an hour. He's got a great arm, but it just doesn't get swing and miss. And he needs swing and miss when you're pitching. Yeah, yeah. Knowing how you're especially throwing that hard. Yeah, yeah. So it really is going to depend on who pitches well over these next six games to what this bullpen is going to look like. Very, very important. Another spot that's going to be kind of open is a guy off the bench. Remember last year Justin Dean, we all remember Justin Dean, right? He was the guy that put his arms up in the air, stopped the ball when the ball went underneath against in Toronto and saved the game. So you need that type of role again and who's it going to be? Is it going to be Hoseway D'Apala? Who has looked real? Oh, that kid. He's got swag, man. He does and he's been great for the entire clubhouse too.

30:51Just like a teo type that just gets guys going and really that youthful energy. But is it going to be him who is not a good defender? And it really has a great plate plate discipline. Has a lot of power. Could be a left handed bat off the bench. Or you go with a guy like Hassan Kim, who has all the speed in the world. Can be can also play good defense if you have to put him out and out there. And it really isn't going to be having very many at bats. It's really just for his defense and his speed. Both guys have pros and cons to them and it's going to be interesting to which one they choose, especially for this the first round. Okay, cool. Yeah, and we'll get through all three things pretty quickly because Mike Trudelles here, three things sponsored by Blue Esfacca, pure as the T-tones. Good morning Trudelles. The T-tones. Hi guys. First of all, how have the Padres won 14 to 15 all of a sudden? How was it you said? How are you going there and there are other mics around? What? I said how? It's not your fault. It's the processing. You sound really nice in my ears. Oh, well, that's good. Yeah.

31:52You're just converting me. I'm not mad at you. By the way, so we don't have to tippy-toe over things. Like get a half-grey. Yes, go ahead. Yeah. Yeah, go to the man's question. The Padres have been very, very good. They're starting pitching, not great, but their bullpen is one of the best and based, well, really strong and all of a sudden they started to hit a little bit more. They have a guy Taylor who in right field has been really, really good for them too. So they're starting to all, they're very hot right now. So it's going to be interesting to what happens over these next three games. And probably in the DS I would assume too. Berge, is there like a, is there an avoid team? I know it's not dumb to say from a Dodgers perspective, but like who's the team that you would rather not play in the past? Just in. The Cubs have been a team that, well, they're not. Oh, could you imagine if PCA beats the Dodgers? Oh my God. You'll never let you guys live it down. Never. The Cubs and the Cubs. PCA is on another level. He has like 44, 45 home runs this year. He's the MVP. There's no argument there whatsoever now.

32:53So, but like the Cubs, I don't, I don't think there's an avoid team. I think the best team you're going to see is probably the Brewers, but I still never trust the Brewers in the postseason because how they score their runs. It's they manufacture runs. They don't hit, they don't hit home runs. They don't hit big shots. So it's, I don't trust that team in the postseason. So right now the Cubs and Padres are tied atop the Wild Card race. Yeah, it is selling. They have the Cubs in ahead of them. So I'm assuming there's some sort of tiebreaker. I'm not familiar with it. Probably. They have them. Probably, right. So, and then Philly is the other Wild Card team at the moment. It feels like the Diamondbacks are done basically at this point. But yeah, like, so if the Dodgers secure the two seed, they would play the winner of Cubs Padres, right? No, they'd play the winner. Yes, they put winner of Cubs Padres. Which you get both the teams. I mean, either one is going to be a high stakes series.

33:54Listen, I bought tickets to the first home game of the NLCS, okay, because their pre-sale went on sale on Friday. So they better beat the Cubs with a Padres. Okay, I don't want one of these refunds right now. I want to watch a game. They should. They should be able to get to the NLCS no matter what. I mean, they think not no matter what, because it's baseball. Here things happen. Oh, those are, yeah, just careful. A hair fall. I'll pull it back. I'll pull it back. It's baseball. We have to get a good weekend. You had a good weekend. So he's feeling good. Yeah, I do. I did have a good weekend. So, sure, no, I got to ask you. Yeah. When you're woken up by Berge at 658 in the morning, is your first, do you brush your teeth? Well, okay, so I wasn't, I wasn't actually sleeping. Okay. I was trying to be quiet, because I was dealing with something there. But I did the only thing that I did between the phone call and getting into the car was brush my teeth. No powder placement. Now, well, no, I did do a, I did do like a half spray of cologne. Just in case like maybe over, you know, overnight, walked into it. Are you a walk into the cologne guy or you spray on it

34:56right onto your body? Well, it depends. I like to, I like to typically go one kind of light spray on the neck general area. Yeah, of course. And then sometimes I might spray directly on the wrist as well. What do you spray this morning? Just the, just the wrist. I think you want to come check? Yeah. Chris is going to come, come with powder weight. It's going to sniff your wrist. Is there going to be a nudge too? Do we get a nudge? Oh, do you like that? Look at the sniff of the wrist. Thank you, buddy. It's very close to the wrist. Well, I'm glad that Chris did that, because last time I tried to nudge him, it was off air and it was a little awkward. And he didn't, and he didn't like it. He didn't nudge you back. And it was a big bunny weekend, by the way. I saw Otis got some, some good play on social. Otis is amazing. Yeah, because he had his debut. She. Yeah, Otis had a, well, it feels like you just did to Chris what Kaby did to. Did to Rick's. Yeah, I forgot the, I forgot the names. So, okay. Yeah. It's okay. 740 in the morning, a Monday, Monday. We get back for Rams, Giants, Monday night football. Well, yeah, talking about our peace against the spread too, because, whoof, sit down and iron in Russia. Well, I, the Caleb Williams one really hurt. Yeah.

35:56I heard Berge too. Wasn't that your five? I think so, I need to look it up. I think that, that bears game. No, yeah, yeah. Kaby was locked up. That's the happiest thing. The happiest thing ever. He looks out with the Caleb Williams of all people getting hurt in that game. What's on package all of that? Sorry, true to. No, I think I got some of my Vikings. And we'll have more of Trudeau, who's a Vikings fan here. With that beautiful voice. Let's talk price picks, right? Yeah, price. Yeah, listen, football's finally back guys and price picks is bringing out some of their best deals yet with a stack September. So, you'll get a new promo every day throughout the month, including guaranteed picks every Monday, profit boost and daily discounts. So, the app is simple to use. All you do is just pick two to six players. Then you choose more or less under projected stats, like passing yards, a rushing yards, fantasy score, or whatever. And it's a fun way to get even more locked in on game day. And you can make your lineups across any sport. So, you can go and do like, you know, the NFL and college football or whatever, right baseball, all in the same app.

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41:18And that'll be my five. So here's the problem. If that doesn't happen for Sedano and I tonight, we both get zero this week. Yeah, we go goose and wow. And Capy will go perfect. That's amazing. I mean, this is one of the rougher weeks for picks, though. In recent NFL history. Let me tell you something. The first weeks in general, people, everybody's a survivor pool is pretty toasted. Yeah, yeah, I mean, just holding on by a thread. And last week last season, I was like, top for a while. I think if today goes zero, I might be in the basement or in the cellar for the rest of the season. It's rough, man. Thankfully, I got off to a good start last week. Yeah. Yeah. So if it all turns out, depending on what happens here, Capy, if the raiders of raiders Rams cover, the Capy will have, we have a perfect week. I will have four points. Brioanos will have one point and you guys will all get zero, right? It's wild. Capy. Now you can get five. You can have the second best week. I only picked the three, I think, for the Ram. Do you think there's any three without giant? I don't think there's any giant. I'm giving Capy any credit for this or just use a lot of data. He only took the data.

42:19No, he's just using this guy that he comes brings on every week. It says on here that Brioanos took the giant, says his three. I know, but he had one point. So he had one point against with that. I know what you're saying. Yeah. Yeah, Deito Dato was good on Friday, although he kind of had an attitude towards me. And I told Capy, let go of this guy, pay the head. Why do you have an attitude towards me? Because in the week one, I made a comment about his watches that he wore nice watches when I met him in Del Mar. And he's like, I've never worn a watch in my life. I just played along. Did you have the wrong guy? No. No, clearly you did because he doesn't wear a watch. OK. Are we really believing the guy who makes picks on the internet? I mean, why would he lie about something like that, though? Because he's Capy's right. It's OK that you got the guy wrong. It's OK. All right. All right. All right. I'm with Chris on this one. So forget that guy. Scumbag. A little scumbag. No, look, the Ram's. I mean, this is it. We talked about this a lot on Friday, right? Either Thursday. It's a must win. Like there is as crazy as it sounds.

43:19I know John Ireland will hear this and be like, there's no such thing as a must win when you're mathematically still in it. Yeah, but the schedule is so brutal that you have to get off this night here quickly to get some momentum. Spiritually, it's a must win. I mean, it was a must win for the chargers in that context also, though. Right. So that would be the only concern is, you know, OK, no miles carried. We'll see about Aaron Donald. The giants. Maybe they're a little better than you thought. Yeah, that's the only the only thing George is like, well, what if they're not as good as we thought? I just feel like the giants, you know, I don't think there is good as people think they are. Oh, sorry. I meant the ramps. What if the ramps? No, no, right. No, yeah, I hear you. I hear you. Yeah. It's possible. Sure. But, you know, look, I do think we tend to overreact to all this stuff. Of course, the Australian thing is coming. Come on. Completely completely. Completely. They definitely messed that up. There's no doubt. Well, they, but this is now where we're going to see at least the slight part of the argument is they treated it that way so that the rest of the season was less impacted.

44:20Although San Francisco look pretty good. Now they did. They also played a dad that has like 30 NFL actual actual players on it. And they're healthy, which they weren't last year when they got to. They have not been in a long time. Yeah, they look pretty good. So I mean, who could gonna play tonight, by the way? Is it game time? How much is Aaron Donald gonna pull? Well, Shetty said, uh, trending downwards yesterday. That's not good. Have we got an update on that today? George, have you seen that game time? I have not seen anything new. No. But for someone who has Devonte Adams on his fantasy team, although I already, I, well, actually, it's my other league. So I need him desperately in this one. Okay. I've got, I've got two shares of Devonte. Not what? When I say I have my fantasy team, I've got five teams this year. So it's almost not even. I only got two, bro. I only stick to two. Well, we've been in forever and I have GSN in one. He had 45 points for me yesterday. Two. I was like, all right. Let's go. JSN. But I did lose Jaden Daniels, dude. Yeah, that's tough. I had to my two quarterbacks in fantasy. Jaden Daniels and Caleb Williams. That's not great. Yeah. And Caleb Williams, by the way, he was looking like a not quite Josh Allen,

45:23but potentially close for fantasy for this year. He's still healthy. Yeah. So I have a slight update. I don't know if we can actually believe this update. So take it with a grand assault. This is Pukinakua's sister-in-law on Instagram. Someone asked her her name is Ivy Blake. Ask him if Pukinakua is playing on Monday. Yeah, that man's playing. Promise? Promise. All right. There you go. Is she verified? She just says creator. I don't know. It was a dove climbing put it out there. So, you know, well, don't be so happy. You know, I know. I mean, I guess. Take it with a grand assault. That's all I'm saying. Well, George, he does seem like the kind of guy where, hey, if it comes down to his choice. Outplay. Yeah, but he's the all play time. But then he's playing for a contract, too. So that could go either way if you're playing for a contract. What's in what's the latest kind of snap wise and everything that we're expecting, Aaron Donald was. That I don't know. Like that to me is I think the biggest, the next biggest question of this game is there. How much does Aaron Donald actually play? And what does he look like when he plays?

46:24I mean, I don't think any of us think he's, it's not like he's going to go out there and stink. But is he going to be? Right. He's playing to you. Yeah, is it going to be close to what he was before? Is he is he going to be is is he a massive part of the giant's game plan because they're planning as if he's that Aaron Donald. And if not, can the ramps pivot and what do they do without Miles Garrett? I mean, this is not without intrigue tonight, George. Oh, I think there's plenty of intrigue. Palace intrigue, even. Yeah. It is the palace at Englewood, I call it. So we'll get that. Yeah, that plays, too. But we got first take. Yeah, today, you see that? Did you see first take his out right outside so far? Oh, no, let's check that out. Do you want to pop it up? They're talking about the Texans right now. Yeah, I just wanted to point out that we could top out it up. Well, that's not working though. All right. Oh, that's good. That's another thing that we need to fix. What? I tried to pop it up like for once we were ready. So you win yellow me and we didn't hear it. I heard it in my I didn't hear it in my ear. Oh, no, I heard it. Oh, I heard it. Yeah. So it was really low though. No, I heard it just fine.

47:25Yeah, it's we we can barely we barely hear it in here. It sounds to find us. Oh, it doesn't sound fine to us. I love that Michael Irving is back on first take, dude. Like this is great. Michael Irving that I love his hair. I don't like it. I'm like, Terry Cutty. What's good? He does have the routine. Terry Cutty. It's fantastic. I got to see Michael. Michael is great, man. But I mean for Aaron Donald though, if he's going to come back, he has to come back full force, right? If you waited an extra week, you said you're going to come back. You're not going to come back and just play a couple of snaps or even like 20 snaps, you're going to go in and you're going to play the whole thing, right? I guess but the so I don't know about the whole thing. Well, look, if you're going to, if he's going to come back, he has to know that he's going to be Aaron Donnell of an old. He's not going to come back at half of what he was. Well, that's not that. No, he's going to want to come back and feel good. Yes, I'm with Trudeau. I don't think he's going to stink. I think he's going to be good. It's just a matter of how long can he sustain that good? The way that I understood it and just from hearing basically McVeigh sound bites and seeing things on it throughout the throughout the period by which we weren't sure he was going to return,

48:27was that yes, he's trending this way. And if he comes back, we're going to see how it goes, but we're not going to throw him into this full snap load that he was on prior to retirement. And so if that to me means that just by nature, he's not going to be the same Aaron Donnelled, because if he's not in the field for the whole time, then that just changes what's going to happen in the flow of the game at the line. I mean, don't you need him, though? With no miles, Garrett, now Aaron Donnell is going to play. You kind of need him to be a big part of that. Sure, you don't need him, but you also need Kobe Turner and Byron Young and all those guys to play it to their level as well. Like, you know what I mean? I don't think you can rely upon him in the way that you would have when he like prior to the retirement. Well, at least not yet. Like, maybe he'll need, maybe you can at some point, but it may take a while. I mean, he hasn't played a real down a football in two years. Now, listen, he's one of the greatest defensive linemen I've ever seen, but I mean, he is human too. Well, and now enough to make, I guess this is going to be the fact that Greg's argument, though. Haha. This is one of the best in shape.

49:28Got like, this is not a guy that we worry about coming in in shape. Like, all he does is work out. Of course. Yeah. Right. And so if maybe then that would give the chance. Well, maybe he's fresh in a way that somebody. Maybe great. Listen, if he goes out there and just destroys things like, man, that you certainly feel a lot better about the next couple of weeks, that's for sure. But then they start double and triple teaming him. That means other guys are going to be free. That's what you want. Right. But so I think he came back wanting Miles Garrett to get the doubles and triple team. So he can be sure he will. And that probably will happen. It just won't happen for at least a month. 756 out of Monday morning. In four minutes right now, Kirk Morrison will join us. Oh, no way. Yeah, I said that when we started the segment. Oh, I missed that. Sorry. You don't listen to me. Sit on out. No, I was out. I was in the bathroom, dude. Should be a little bit. I have to go number one. No, no emergency scrape. No show screen. No, no, I'm good. I'm good. I was very careful like yesterday. Because in a party, you could just like start picking it everything and you know, it could go sideways on your quip. I have one bathroom related thing for you, Chris.

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