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The Rich Eisen Show

REShow: Mike Jones - Hour 3 (12-29-21)

The Rich Eisen Show

ESPN

Sports

4.31.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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With guest host Brian Weber. Discussing John Madden's legacy and the significant NFL Covid policy change that moved Carson Wentz from out to possibly playing Sunday CFB Bowl Week: More canceled games remind us without players, there are no games. If the coaches can shake down the schools, why shouldn't the players?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:47.0

The rich eyes and show and now sitting it for rich. Here's Brian Weber.

0:54.0

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1:04.0

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1:13.0

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1:27.0

NFL has dominated the conversation understandably with all of the different scenarios and key storylines to chop up. Keep that going coming up in 20 minutes.

1:38.0

We'll bring in our third and final guest taking you around the league with Mike Jones who Mike Jones has been covering the league for a long time.

1:47.0

I used to interview him when I worked at NFL Network launching and co hosting the morning show. If you enjoy good morning football a group of us now we were paid.

1:57.0

It was not an internship though. Used to come to work at midnight local time here in Southern California go on the air at 3 a.m.

2:04.0

And do four hours of live TV five days a week. We look forward to getting a lifeline from insightful guests like Mike Jones who does a great job of covering the NFL for USA today coming up in 40 minutes.

2:19.0

I'll connect what's going on in the college game not just football college basketball having a COVID crisis to business decisions made by the NFL.

2:30.0

It is fascinating to see differing approaches and there is also the distinction that we're talking about theoretically amateur sports.

2:40.0

No, there's no money in college boards really. But if we don't have healthy players. We don't have ball games and we found that out again last night.

2:50.0

No holiday ball UCLA didn't have enough players to take the field and see state understandably miffed and I'll wait until we get into this to wrap up the program.

3:01.0

I don't understand though. The subtext of what NC states complaining about do you think there was some vast conspiracy by UCLA to lure the wolf pack across the nation and then cancel on them prior to playing the game.

3:17.0

I don't get it. I don't see any of the subtext but we'll talk about that coming up. But as we start this final out of the program focusing on the NFL.

3:27.0

If you're looking at college no players means no games and we've seen now too many of these ball games already canceled hopefully we're keeping the teams that matter especially for casual fans with the national semifinals coming up on Friday in bubble wrap.

3:46.0

We've got to keep Alabama Cincinnati Michigan and Georgia safe to play these games. But if college football can operate without the players pointed out once more with these cancellations.

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