“An Absolute Gut Punch” – Rich Eisen Reacts to Browns RB Nick Chubb’s Season-Ending Knee Injury

boy, talk about an

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when you see one of the best in the business who is all business and in case you didn't know that about Nick Chubb, maybe you learned it when he called into our show last week before this Monday the night. game in Pittsburgh, I mean, there really wasn't much, you know, jocularity, this guy is like he shows up, puts his nose to the test or just gets into his gig every time he walks in the building and he's more than anyone in that building . and I'm not there so I wouldn't know, maybe someone who is a little more expert on what's going on in Berea could roll back my miles.

Garrett is a leader, I'm sure they will follow me. DeSean Watson in the Amari Cooper battle doesn't say much. I don't think Nick Chubb says much either, but I think they just follow his lead because everything the Browns offense does is based on Nick Chubb chewing. the yards and keeping the clock moving and the chains moving and everything else builds off of that and when Aaron Rodgers went down for the Jets two Monday nights ago, I mean, let's talk about that. God hits back-to-back Monday nights to open the

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. um I heard when you were saying here on this show and also on NFL Network talk about how Jets fans can't have nice things, we're not allowed to have too many nice things.

I said it into this microphone over and over and over again. and is the microphone of love on NFL Network several times this past Sunday. I heard when I said those things from Browns fans saying, tell me or you're holding our beer, sir, and I even heard a couple of Browns fans say at least you've been to one Super Bowl and I'm like, well, I've 54 years. Could have been a zygote at the time Joe Namath won it all, yeah, I just said the word might be accurate, I don't know. I know I haven't really done the math, it's nothing you want to think about exactly, too much information on TMI, but it's been a while and that's the first thing I thought when I saw Nick Chubb go down and then saw it on Twitter. the replays because I was doing the Westwood coverage of both games doing both games updating both broadcasts and um I was watching the Carolina and Saints game and um part of that broadcast when I then looked at Twitter and saw what happened Nick show and confirmed after the game that appears to be as catastrophic as it seemed Cleveland Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski said this after the game when asked what he saw and what this means for his team and everyone else in the organization moving forward, yes,

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ly, I do to say it's a team game, no one is bigger than the team, uh, you know, I don't say that to discount the person, the player, the teammate that Nick Chubb is and what he means with this organization. that, but this is a team game, it's the best team game there is, so we have a rally and we will meet without Nick, he will be in the building, I'm sure when he comes back and he will support his team just like he did. we're going to support Greg Newsom of the Cleveland Browns his teammate said it succinctly quote The

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is going to be for him everything we do every practice we're going to think about him every game we're going to play for him so I want to say this season will be dedicated to Nick Chubb, that's the most concise thing you can say about what Chubb means to this team and how his teammates feel about him and everything I thought about again when I saw that

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buckle and knowing that 2015 he suffered major injuries in that

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and we saw him as strong as ever.

I mean, one guy had 10 carries for 64 yards up to that point. I mean, just hit the ball twice, you're moving the chains. That's what he means to this team that he does almost everything from the run and why not, because he has so much talent. I thought two things: one, this looks as bad as he is and maybe just maybe he can come back as strong as ever. I mean mid-period modern. maybe he can put a speed bridge in there too the same way Aaron Rodgers had one for his Achilles tendon maybe just maybe this isn't the end of his career, but then again, you know how the NFL sees their running backs and that's the Other thing, I thought about eight fans who are watching Jonathan Taylor in Indianapolis, fans who were watching Saquon and Josh Jacobs this summer and fans who are hearing about the zoom that happened between the running backs when it looked like Josh Jacobs and Saquon were something of a Sun before their teams spent a little money on top of their contracts in the form of incentives.

Anyone who thinks these guys aren't if they form a team with players they don't have. your minds, running backs, get your money, get your money while you can and that's the one thing about at least Nick Chubb, yeah, is that they paid him a three-year, $36 million contract that he signed now at that time and that It was a nice chunk of change for With $20 million guaranteed, he was making a base salary of $10.8 million this year, which is roughly what Saquon and Josh Jacobs ended up signing with their franchise tag, so they paid him a way that others don't, that's what I thought in At least he's been paid in all the runners who watch that, by the way, an

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on turf I don't want to point out since it was a conversation about Rogers being on Turf, yeah, yeah, but I mean, unfortunately for Chubb, his foot was firmly planted. planted and his leg as straight as possible when Minka Fitzpatrick's helmet connected that this is what happens to runners, they are the ones in the trash, as it refers to what happens at the line of scrimmage, they are The ones who go through The Fray are the ones who are absolutely in the line of fire more than anyone else carrying a football, obviously the offensive lineman and the defensive lineman can hurt their ankles when someone falls on them.

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