REShow: Thomas Q. Jones - Hour 3 (08-31-21)

The Rich Eisen Show

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4.3 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Rich kicks off the hour commenting on Bill Belichick naming Mac Jones New England’s starting QB over Cam Newton and if the Alabama rookie can possibly follow in the formidable footsteps of Tom Brady. Rich and the guys continue their daily division previews with their picks on how the AFC East will play out this season with Chris Brockman making a bold, BOLD Patriots prediction. Former Pro Bowl NFL Running Back-turned-Actor Thomas Q. Jones and Rich discuss the risks and rewards of NFL teams throwing their first-round picks into the fire with starting roles from day one, how impressed he is by the physicality of Titans RB Derrick Henry, and his new show ‘Johnson’ on Bounce. Rich and the guys wrap up the hour explaining why if you’re not a fan of Blazers guard Damian Lillard you will be after hearing this story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's a thumbs down man like are we that like
0:05.1	Soft that the thumbs down is triggering you like it's it's not a middle finger
0:13.3	This is the rich eyes and show I just think it's just what are what are what a waste of energy the rich eyes and show
0:20.7	Earlier on the show Yahoo sports NFL reporter Charles Robinson
0:26.2	Patriots reporter for the athletic Jeff Houser
0:30.0	Delta co actor and 12 year NFL veteran Thomas Q Jones and now
0:37.3	It's a rich eyes our number three of the rich eyes and show is on the air
0:45.0	844204 rich is the number to dial here on the show and
0:52.2	If you're new to these parts
0:55.2	Every pause I know someone good's going on. I know I'm trying to figure out how to how to frame this you know without
1:03.7	without you know sounding
1:06.2	Too much like I'm spiking football, but you know, I've been around these football parts, right and
1:14.1	I just had this sense that Mac Jones was a perfect marriage
1:18.4	with New England and
1:21.4	But part of it are also as you know as I root for story lines to because that's what we do here on this show
1:27.5	That's what I do at NFL network about to start my 19th season with NFL network. Hey rich congrats. Thank you, sir, and
1:36.7	19th. Yeah, it's like well 2003 right so that counts as a season and so does 2021 so
1:44.0	There's there's lots going on as we're about to celebrate our 18th anniversary there and
1:49.6	I
1:50.6	I look at storylines the NFL is a narrative generating machine and
1:56.6	So there are storylines within a game. There are storylines week to week and then there are storylines for the entire arc of a season
2:05.3	For me the storyline arc of the 2021 season that
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