Rich Eisen: Why the Chiefs Shouldn’t Sleep on the Lions in Week 1 | The Rich Eisen Show

Let's let's just leap in here the first game of the season Andrew Whitworth talked about it even though they don't have it on Amazon Prime He loves the Lions taking on the Chiefs as he left the stage he left the building he thought That Andy Reed must be sitting around thinking damn the Lions and Dan Campbell now He's not just saying that because The Lions are a team that finished Winning eight of ten last year and played some of the best football in the last two months of the season and Had a chance to make the playoffs and could have if things went differently in Seattle by the way in the last game of the season and You know there's a lot of officiating that went down. It was a little bit you know questionable and But Campbell doesn't use anything as excuses what he does is he likes to rile and he likes to lead and he likes to have People who want to run through walls he likes players who run through walls. He likes players who respond to his run through the wall speeches and that is What Andy Reed is potentially not terribly pleased about That he's gonna have his team Ready to run through any freaking wall in the state of Missouri and they run through the wall and go straight into Kansas Right there in arrowhead That's what he thought that right re he saw as he left he said to us and he reads gotta be like oh man Dan Campbell is gonna have this team. He's got four months to get him ready and Riled up and he said all training camp long. He's gonna be talking about this Game and what it means and have them ready to hit the ground running and Good morning football had Dan Campbell on today to talk about being the choice of the NFL to show up in arrowhead and give everyone a good show and What's at stake for him and the team give a listen to what Dan Campbell had to say about being the choice of the NFL To help kick off the season in Kansas City Because I also know what the reality is of this game too because look if If you're able to pull this game off right and which is the whole point of playing the game as you're going into win Well, then you're gonna be expected to not lose another game if you beat the chiefs I mean that's that's gonna be reality So then if you slip up lose a game well then you're trash again You're you know, but if you don't win the game then you're not worthy enough to be playing on Thursday night first game of the year We got to block all that out. It's the next game. It's the one in front of us.

We got to prepare We already know they're gonna be ready man. They're the top dogs. They're as good as they get and It'd be an ultimate challenge, but if you're a competitor Like we are as a coaching staff and our players are I mean it just doesn't get any better I want to play the game right now Right Could you imagine that's gonna be the message over the next? Four months to the team Yeah, we're there to be a punching bag They think we are gonna just be fodder for the banner race although Look, they don't want to blow out week one. They don't want to blow out in game one. They want a game so They feel the Lions can give them a game and what the Lions can do obviously James and Williams being out Doesn't help matters and by the way the league still put the Lions in that building knowing that one of their top receivers Won't be there and also the conversation as to why he won't be there is because he was popped for gambling They still put the Lions out there and The Restore of the Roar faithful in the state of Michigan and throughout the country the Honolulu blue faithful Believe this is the moment where the Roar will finally get restored and I can't blame them for feeling that way and Dan Campbell is gonna have this team Absolutely riled up with a mixture of they don't believe we can win this game where the Washington generals to their Harlem Globe Trotters and They think the running the risk and there will be a lot of people to think the Lions you could have had Josh Allen you could have had Joe Burrow you could have had Jalen Hertz all in the building You're putting Jared golf and the Lions there. They don't deserve this game He is gonna use all of this ball it up and throw it right at the Kansas City Chiefs and I am all here for that I can feel it. It's common.

I Can feel it I Can't wait man, let's go it is a great choice And I didn't think I thought it would be like choice 8 choice 9 and that's part of what Dan Campbell's talking about too You know Part of what Dan Campbell's talking about great stuff that good morning football got out of the coach of the Lions today Catch the rich eyes and show every single day on the Roku channel 12 to 3 Eastern for free.

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