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For what? Dude, I was, I was hoping your Clippers would advance. I know Nuggets fans would say the exact opposite, but the person to send you home being Russell Westbrook, which is kind of wild in that respect. It makes complete sense when you know the Clippers history. Well, so I send my best to you at Clipper Nation. It's the first time you're being sincere with that.

I am being very sincere. Normally, you know, you kind of, Hey man, my kids love going into a dome. They love going to Clippers games. Xan went to the one where basically the season ended. Yeah. Yeah. They there's that too. That's where it all wound up.

It's going to waste for the rest of the spring though. That just so, you know, you know, so listen, you know, you know, I feel for Michael Malone getting fired from the Nuggets because in part he was playing Russell Westbrook too much. And guess who played Russell Westbrook is replacement and gets the reason why the Nuggets are around in the next second round.

A large part Russell Westbrook. It's amazing how these things happen. Did Michael Malone watch any of these games? I don't know.

He must be sitting there going, Oh, so it's OK to play him now, huh? At any rate. Yeah. Yeah, that that still is weird. You know, game seven in that series was a was a close one up until halftime and then second half, the entirety of all five thousand two hundred eighty feet crashed in on on the on the Clippers from Denver.

That thing was just done in a heartbeat. It was like a twenty four to four run and see you. And that's the old school Nuggets, right? Where they they they could just blitz you with points and end the game on the spot. Doesn't matter what quarter you're in, as long as they catch fire and you can't stop. You can't stop Murray.

You can't stop. You know, Gordon Porter Jr. just keep naming them. And they've got a championship pedigree and that's something. And and that's what the Nuggets did to the Clippers. But blitzing somebody with a ton of points and playing some timely defense, that is the calling card back in the day of the Golden State Warriors.

That was the calling card. Steph would just blitz you. Clay would blitz you. Draymond would do the defensive thing and then somebody else named Iguodala or then Durant, obviously.

And you couldn't beat him. And this year it looked like the Warriors run was truly going to come to an end. Because they're looking for that third man and Andrew Wiggins didn't appear to be it. Not this year.

And they went ahead and decided the trade deadline to go and bring in Jimmy Butler. And hope that Buddy Heald would catch fire. And and who would take the role of Clay Thompson? Who would take the role of the splash brother? Well, last night Buddy Heald raised his hand, said it'll be me.

It shall be me. And Buddy tied an NBA game seven record with six first half or set one, a game seven record with six first half threes. And wound up with nine in the game, which tied Dante DiVincenzo. How about that for a name for the the big ragu?

Big ragu. For the most three pointers ever drained in a game seven in NBA playoff history. And Buddy Heald now has that next to his name. And Curry getting blitzed on defense by the Houston Rockets. And I'll just say this about the Rockets real quick before I give the flowers to the Warriors.

Also speaking as a Nick fan. Get yourself a Thompson if you can. Are they out of them? Might be more because, you know, I know Jalen Green's got a big future and he's already hitting it.

And same with Shen Goon. This kid, I'm in Thompson, is he is a star in the making. My goodness gracious. They would just put him right at half court and and lock down Steph Curry. And he couldn't get open and he didn't make a three until the third quarter. And as a matter of fact, he and Jimmy Butler had 11 combined four points in the first half. And the Warriors were getting blissed. As soon as they I mean, Steph was being picked up all 94 feet. At any rate, the Warriors got it done. And Curry was the one who helped with Buddy Heald go night night on this team in the fourth quarter. And Jimmy Butler was making his shots.

And they move on. This team that was dead in the water prior to the trade deadline, Mike Dunleavy Jr., the general manager, they took a quick shot of him as the Warriors took a 20 point lead late blitzing the Rockets late. He just he was he wasn't showing any emotion.

But I'm sure you I assure you inside he's doing cartwheels because his maneuvers, his button pushing worked out, saved the season. And now here come the Warriors again doing their thing. And Draymond Green at the forefront of it. I mean, in the same way that some people like to put salt on their ice cream, you know, you know what I mean?

Yeah. Some people like the sour with the sweet. I mean, Draymond is the a-hole to.

Steph Curry's. Flowers, and he'll he'll he's the good cop. And then there's a bad cop. And he did it again last night, picking up a technical when what he just his limbs frequently lose control or he loses control of his limbs all of a sudden, huh? Yeah. All of a sudden we're we're contact is made. And then then there's a follow through, whether it's to somebody that's or last night, it was to Van Vliet's face, you know, and and funny how he's the only one that happens to. Well, I mean, there's other ones in this league, too, and the Rockets have one of their own and Dylan Brooks, too, pal.

You know, really, I've never seen Dylan Brooks kick someone in the nuts multiple times, flail his arms, stomp on someone's chest, his business slightly different ways, aggravating. But when Draymond reigns it in and he doesn't do that guy's a Hall of Famer like right now, like if he stopped playing like right now, this guy is in the Basketball Hall of Fame and apparently led a team meeting prior to Game 7 in which everybody spoke. And he had this to say about that leading to a win in Game 7 after the thing what goes into it is really decide who's going to get a speech.

Obviously, I always try to defer to Steph, defer to Jimmy, and they wanted me to speak. But I had a lot to say. And like I said, most importantly was calling myself out. You know, you can't go into a Game 7 expecting guys to rally off the game we had before and not address it. And so I wanted to address that, number one. But then secondly, tell everybody else what we needed, which was a togetherness like no other and our huddles together, trusting in each other and believing. And so I thought it was much needed.

But as much as I think this team needed, I feel like I needed it for myself even more. Because you got to be accountable. You can't be a leader and not be accountable.

And you call other guys out when their s*** stinks, then you better say when yours does too. And that's what I tried to make a point and do. Yeah, and with the technical he picked up, he also scored the first five points and had ten in the first half, which is one fewer than what Jimmy Butler and Steph had in the first half. And him and Buddy Heald kept the thing afloat in time for taking a 12-point lead at halftime. They kept Van Vliet off the free throw line. As a matter of fact, Van Vliet was the one who lost his composure late in the game with a brutal take foul. And at the end of the day, the Warriors move on. And it looks like Steph is appearing with zero F's left to give. And I kind of dig that Steph Curry hit it. Secondarily, you've won five series now in Houston.

What do you think your reputation is in the city? I'm a winner. Now for the radio audience, Steph was wearing sunglasses. I don't usually see Steph in sunglasses at the postgame press conference.

As a matter of fact, I don't recall him ever doing that. In case you're wondering what might be up with that. Is this dark Steph?

I don't know what's going on. But a radio station, 95-7 the game, did a split screen with Steph last night and Shen Gun and Dylan Brooks after game five, the Rockets victory of the first end of back to back victories to force a game seven, they were wearing sunglasses. In case you're wondering if this was intentional or not, Draymond Green re-posted it with some laughing emojis. And it looks like Steph is showing up with zero F's to give and that's good. And it may be because he's at the back end, as he pointed out, they're running out of windows for their championship runs.

Maybe that's what it is because he's longer in the tooth and he's just like most people as they get longer in the tooth without F's to give. Mike, you're approaching work with that quite a bit these days. I see. Oh, stop. Come on.

You have to go there, Rich. No, I'm just saying, listen, it's a good thing Steph is bringing that attitude to the second round because he's taken on a young Turk who's already out of F's to give and he's basically given it to people who dare speak to him during the games from the crowd. Let's just say here in Los Angeles, when he was ready to break out a measuring stick a few days ago. And that's Anthony Edwards. And I can't wait for the second round series. I'll tell you what, Chris, obviously between us, that starts tonight in game one because these are our teams and it's old school like Nick Celtics.

Okay. Back in the day when it was on and cracking and Larry Bird was doing the one cracking most of the skulls. Right. Last night, the Pacers drew first blood in Cleveland. They, by the way, won three out of four out of five against the Cavs this year.

Now, including the regular season or tonight the Nuggets and the ultimate young Turks in the NBA in Oklahoma City. And there's 64 wins, right? Like these are all, or how many wins that Cavs had 64 wins. The Thunder with a remarkable number of wins for themselves this year. Yeah, they had 68, 68.

I shorted them something. They almost had damn near 70, but I'll tell you what, man, warriors versus Timberwolves and Anthony Edwards, who has in the past couple of years sent Devin Booker and Kevin Durant home, sent the Denver Nuggets home, just sent Luka and LeBron home, is now big game hunting on Steph and Draymond and playoff Jimmy. And I don't know if everybody's already seen some of the videos on their phones of a previous instance between Draymond and Anthony Edwards chitchatting, if you will, underneath the rim after Draymond hard followed him. This thing is going to be on. And I, I proffer to say the Minnesota Timberwolves did not think when they were the sixth seed going into the downtown hoops dojo here in Los Angeles, California, just a couple of weeks ago, think that they would be home court advantage six seeds in round two.

And they are, but they're against a warrior's team that just did what they just did to the Rockets and their young team. This is going to be a fun one, guys. I'm looking forward to this one. Yeah. These four series are going to be excellent.

I'm looking forward. Yeah. Very much so, very much so. Cause I think you could say, with all due respect to Detroit and Milwaukee, the top four teams in the east of advanced, right? Yeah.

This regular season. Yeah, absolutely. And in the west though, I mean, it was just a mosh pit of nastiness and who knew who was going to come out of, of, of the first round, right? You had to assume it was going to be OKC and then the rest was a toss up, right? Wouldn't you say?

No. Why? Cause you thought the Clippers were going to lose to the Nuggets all along.

Is that where you're, is that your, is that your statement? I mean, come on, man. It's like, yeah, let's be honest. And then we all, Chris, I think we thought the T wolves were going to take out the Lakers.

Really? And I picked the Warriors to beat the Rockets. I thought that, but if you look at records this year, I mean, they were all four games within each other, seeds two through eight, you know, in the standing. So, you know, it was kind of a coin flip series all along, even though I might've been hoping for the T wolves to knock off the Lakers.

So there you have it. The elite eight of the NBA has been set to be great. And tonight we get game one in Boston and game one in Oklahoma City. People are acting like the Knicks have zero chance to not to win this series, but to like to even make it competitive. Well, again, at least they're healthy going into this thing.

So you can ask for. And Dave McMenamin will be here in studio an hour or two to break it all down for us. And coming up next, though, let's talk national football league. The draft is going to wind up in Washington, D.C. I heard that rumor when I was in Green Bay. Oh, you did. I did.

I did. But, you know, I heard Denver was in the mix. I heard Carolina was in the mix, too. So there's lots of cities raising their hands to be the draft after Pittsburgh, which is next year and the National Mall.

I mean, that's a pretty sweet spot to figure this thing out. So the draft is going to be held in the National Mall. My goodness. And that's being announced. We'll talk about all of this, the draft and what was on Aaron Rodgers's hand. Believe it or not, that's a conversation coming out of the Kentucky Derby weekend. Eight four four two oh four rich number to dial.

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The Star Wars day, May the fourth be with you, which is exciting for Star Wars fans. Someone insulting for people with a lisp. Just saying.

Mike Tyson? Just saying. You know, long story short, we're still waiting on Aaron Rodgers and we're out of options here in the media. We're just out of options. Here coach. Sure enough. You know, I get an email from the NFL network, assignment desk slash you know, research desk, all of it.

And the lead headline of all the headlines that they call for the folks like me to just be kept up to speed is from TMZ. And it is is that a Super Bowl ring or one from a wedding? As Aaron Rodgers appeared at an event Friday night in advance of the Kentucky Derby with what appears to be a ring on his left ring finger. And we all know Rodgers when he was on McAfee last time was talking about being in a meaningful relationship. And people are like looking at the ring and going, does that mean he's gotten through whatever he needs to work through, like relationship wise? To the point where he's now going to now he'll tell the Steelers I do honestly like this is happening because he's he's working on some things. He was also saying some important people in his inner circle were, you know, going through some things that caused him to not be ready for football.

Is he ready to settle down with the Steelers? I mean, that's literally what's happening right now. And TMZ is on the case. Wow.

That I kid you not was the lead headline on my email from the NFL network today on Cinco de Mayo. Yes, sir. Under the category of miscellaneous back on the Rich Eisen show radio network sitting at the Rich Eisen show desk furnished by Grainger with supplies and solutions for every industry. Grainger has the right product for you.

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Doing great, Rich. I was listening to everything you said, and it occurred to me that May the fourth be with you. It kind of has a Sylvester the cat crossover, which dates me and you, because I'm sure you know who Sylvester is. Do kids know who Sylvester the cat is these days? I mean, if we went daffy duck, that might be a little bit closer or any, any cartoon character with a lisp. You know, I mean, I get it.

May the fourth be with you. I, I, I understand it and I respect it, but just there were a lot of speech impediments in the cartoons of our youth. Elmer Fudd, right? I guess there is a lot you can do with a cartoon voice.

So let's make it sound funny by giving the character speech impediments. It's a Mel Blanc situation, Mike, I'll just go deep into it. There's only so much Mel Blanc can do. By the way, here in Los Angeles, California, the cemetery in which he and other famous people are buried is in fact the site of frequent movies in the park viewings where people go to the cemetery and watch movies at night. I swear to God. And if you pass by Mel Blanc's tombstone, it says, that's all folks on it. I swear to you. That's the truth, Mike. But this is, see, this is what you talk about on the football on, on May the fifth, although here on Cinco de Mayo, it does appear the, the nation's capital is about to be awarded an NFL draft. Mike looks like that's happening. I got one last point. Sure.

Is it possible? Aaron Rogers is wearing a wedding ring as a sociological experiment like Costanza once did. Ah, good question.

I don't know. I mean, I'm serious. It is, was the lead item in, uh, on an email from the NFL network today, because we are, you know, we're just waiting just like everyone else to see if there's any advancement in his personal life that will cause him to be closer to saying I do to the Steelers in his professional life, Mike. And see for Rogers, Rich, I think the sociological experiment wouldn't be, let's see if women are more attracted to me while wearing a wedding ring.

It would be, can I get the media to talk about it so I can go on McAfee show at some point in the future and complain about the fact that we're talking about his wedding ring. Uh, when, when, when, when are the Steelers, you know, like, are you hearing about a drop dead date, Mike or no, not at all. I was told before the draft and I know that Aaron Rogers prides himself on no one knowing anything about anything he ever does.

Right. I was told before the draft by someone in a position to know that Rogers to the Steelers is happening. It's just a question of when, and it dawned on me last week, rich what's coming up on May the 14th. That is the day the schedule gets revealed. Remember last year, how Mike North, the VP of broadcast planning and operations said the jets always won. And they had all those short week prime time games early in the season. If you're Rogers, don't you just at this point, wait until after the schedule was out, because it's not like the Steelers are going to get fewer prime time games and what they'd otherwise get. But if you drop Rogers officially onto the Steelers, there's a chance they're going to get more, especially early in the season. Well, especially when you look at their schedule, Mike, they stroll through the NFC North and the AFC East, both of Rogers previous stomping grounds.

And speaking of ground stomping, you know, the road games include a visit to the jets and famously a spot where he wants put on a championship belt with his hands to say that he owned the team and the bears. There are many, and the Packers are on their list as well, along with the rest of the AFC North. I mean, good Lord are these games that with the bills as well, Seahawks this would be a a knockdown drag out for a lot of the league's television partners to say we want the Steelers. And if it all falls through, it's Mason Rudolph.

Have fun with that. Prime time network partners, including NBC, my employer. So I assume they're operating under the assumption that Rogers is going to join the Steelers. But we know with Rogers, nothing is official until he goes on McAfee show and tells us it's official.

I was told it's happening until it happens. Who knows what Rogers is going to do. But at this point, when you look at what the Steelers did or didn't do in the draft, what art Rooney said during the draft, I think that was the clearest indication yet, the way he characterized, I believe Aaron wants to come here.

They didn't draft anybody who's going to compete to play quarterback this year in taking willpower. They had multiple shots at Chittoor Sanders. I think the seat is being kept warm for Aaron Rogers and they expect him to show up.

And there would probably be much consternation at the team facility if they get a text message or a FaceTime one day, because we know the phone doesn't work at his house telling them, sorry, I've decided not to play for you. Mike Florio here on the Rich Eisen show, nine days now removed from Chittoor Sanders, finally hearing his name from the podium in Green Bay. What's your opinion on what happened and your report?

Simplest explanations are often the most easy to digest, especially for someone with a relaxed brain like me. At the end of the day, Rich, I spoke to a GM last week. I wrote about this in the aftermath of the conversation. There was a perception that Chittoor Sanders entered the process acting more like he was being recruited than he was being interviewed.

And Dion, his father kind of did the same thing in 1989. Great story about how he met with the Giants. They dropped this giant binder in front of him with this long test in it. And he said, when do you guys pick? They said number 18, he got up and left.

He said, I'll have time for this. I'm not going to be on the board. When you draft Dion had once in a lifetime talent, Dion could get away with that. No one was going to be scared away by an attitude that, Hey, I'm one of the best players in the draft.

I'm one of the best players ever pick me or don't. When you're talking about a guy who doesn't have the same skill set as his dad and who plays quarterback, a position where you have to demonstrate a certain amount of commitment and willingness to show up early and stay late and all of that. I can understand how it, how it started and how it became that free fall that went all the way to the Browns at one 44. And then of course the Browns who have an obsession with analytics, they're looking at the draft board, they're seeing the gap and their best available players between Chittoor Sanders and everybody else. They put his name on the card and now the circus comes to town as it relates to having five quarterbacks. And we don't know who the starter is going to be, but it does give Chittoor Sanders an opportunity. When you look one by one at the contenders and their circumstances, like Deshaun Watson, highly unlikely to play this year, Chittoor Sanders has a chance to start as soon as week one, Mike Florio here on the rich eyes and show what else from the draft hits you nine days later, I'll just give you the floor on whatever else you're you're keen on. Hey, rich.

Yeah. We don't pick the stories. The stories pick us. And this whole prank call thing, I, it was like the gift that kept on giving and all these different guys who got prank called, they got prank called before they were officially picked. There were multiple players who got prank called after they'd been selected and told they were traded Ashton Jenny of the Raiders recently said that that happened to him. He was told he'd been traded the Cowboys. I know of another player who had that same thing happen along the way. I heard about a player who once received a phone call from a friend who was messing with him telling him he'd been traded.

This was years ago. Guy's not in the league anymore. He packed up and went to the airport and he called his agent on the way and say, he said, what the hell are you talking about?

You haven't been traded. So the last art of the prank call is now back and the league's got some work to do by next April because the gauntlet has been thrown down for anyone out there that wants to go jerky boys, crank yankers, Bart Simpson, and get these numbers and make these prank calls during the draft next year. Well, the answer is, you know Kara Henderson Sneed, a long time friend of mine. I've, I've known her since my ESPN days said FaceTime it.

That's it. And the story FaceTime it obviously it might be difficult for a draft drafted player to hear in his party with you know, dozens of people around milling about, you know, you might have to somehow put it to your ear, but other than that, you at least get to see who it is and end of the story. Because I understand that there is a, an art of the prank call and everything like that, but you know, it's just at the end of the day, it's just not funny and it's terrible.

And it's something that does need to be addressed. Certainly if as you pointed out, you know in one of your posts, how it wound up in the hands of the prank caller, Mike, well, you know, and, and rich, I got both communications that were sent by the league that really became the heart of this case before we even knew that it was Falcons offensive coordinator Jeff Albrecht who had the email somehow opened on his iPad as his son somehow happened to walk by while he was visiting his parents and instantly had this lightning bolt idea. I'm going to write the number down and prank call. But this happened not because the Falcons mishandled confidential information that was given to them by the league. After they sent out the memo with 45 names and numbers on it on Wednesday, April 23rd, there was a supplemental communication that went by email with just shitter Sanders, updated phone number, and they sent it to the email distribution list that gets the daily transaction report.

My best estimate is 2000 people get that and Albrecht got it directly from the league. He got shitter Sanders updated draft day phone number in an email to him from the league. This wasn't the Falcons mishandling confidential information. This was the league literally putting that number on blast to 2000 people.

So once you do that, you're asking for someone to misuse that number. And the Falcons just said, we'll still take the fine hit instead of saying we didn't give it to them. I mean, that's interesting. Well, there still was an element of, and I look, I've heard from many people about the statement the Falcons put out.

You can come to your own conclusion as to whether or not it's convenient as to whether or not it's accurate as to whether or not it really tells the whole story. But the quickest way to end this is just take the punishment and move on. Because at the end of the day, one of their employees, one of their key employees on the coaching staff mishandled that information, even if it came to him directly from the league. And I think that it was decided the best thing we can do here is just end this and move on Mike Florio here on the Rich Eisen show.

So the next order of business is the May meeting of ownership. And one of the most recent posts on profootballtalk.com is about the tush push and it being now part of a much larger picture that could potentially get it through to pass. And I'll give you the floor and what you think is going to happen with the tush push. This all came up during the league meetings when the Packers had a very specific proposal that would have outlawed immediate pushing of the player who receives the snap. Well, that introduces all sorts of potential for inconsistencies. What does immediate mean? Is it a second?

How do we measure it? Could you imagine what would have happened if flag gets thrown after a tush push and there's an interpretation by the officials that it was too early and it takes a touchdown off the board in a playoff game. So that was a bad proposal from the get go. It began to pivot at Palm Beach to this idea of let's just get rid of all pushing.

That's easiest way to do it. We'll get rid of all pushing downfield anywhere. And that is the direction in which the wind is blowing very strongly right now. All pushing is going to be eliminated. And this all started because frankly, they had a rule on the books against pushing and pulling of a ball carrier in 2006, in part because they recognized they never throw a flag for pushing a ball carrier. In fact, there hasn't been a penalty called for assisting a runner since the 1991 playoffs. They just, they just allowed pushing and it took 16 years for the Eagles to realize and kudos to them for figuring it out.

Let's just build this into our playbook. If you're allowed to push a player, let's push him right out of the gate. So I believe what's going to happen will be at least 24 votes encouraged strongly by the league office to get rid of all pushing. And then two things, rich one, we'll see some downfield pushing that isn't called in the future. And two, the Eagles are still going to have a pretty damn effective quarterback sneak that they'll still use. And they'll still get fourth and one fourth and two, third and two. They basically take first and 10 and shrink it down to first and eight. That quarterback sneak is largely driven by the push upfront, not the push from behind.

Interesting Mike. Cause I mean, if you think about it, the vote even with the language that you just pointed out is, is still so widely open to interpretation that the unintended consequence, which is the way a lot of owners vote on these rules is like, if we say yes, what's going to happen that we don't intend and thus extrapolate it out. And thus they might say no because of it, even with all of that language, it was split right down the middle. So if now you're saying the language is clearer to just remove any pushing or pulling anywhere on the field, you might get enough votes to get this out of the game.

And I'm wondering if, if that, that is in fact in the cards in a couple of days, Let's be clear that I'm the one saying this, not you, I don't want to get you in any trouble. I'm used to it. This ties back to the Falcons.

Rich McKay has been the chairman of the competition committee forever. And the Falcons in the past have gotten, I'm going to say arguably, but it's not even arguably they've gotten lenient punishments for various things they've done, including using fake crowd noise for the 2013 season. They lost a fifth round pick for that.

Most people would say that's probably a bigger infraction than a fifth round pick would suggest, especially because the 49ers not long ago lost a fifth round pick for an accounting mistake that was determined to have no impact or intent to circumvent the salary cap. Rich McKay is in position, and this is believed by some in the league and some may be understating it. Rich McKay is in position to push through whatever the league office wants. He's been the chair of that competition committee forever.

People have been saying, hey, why don't we rotate that position out? This is a conduit to get the competition committee to get behind what the league wants to do. And even though this proposal came from the Packers, the proposal to change the playoff seating came from the Lions. And then team president Rod Wood blurted out that the league approached them and offered to partner on this. So it looked like a team proposal, but the league wanted a bottom line. The league wants this. The commissioner wants this.

If you listen to the things he says, it's lurking there, not even all that far between the lines. If he wants it, he's going to get it. There's going to be 24 votes to get rid of all pushing come May 20, May 21, when the owners get together in Minneapolis.

Mike Florio. Well, gee, we're out of time now. If you're going to talk like that, we got to go.

Got to go see you before I let you go connection. When, when, when it's all said and done, Brock Purdie's number per year starts with a five. And then what's the next number lower or higher than a five, not to go price is right on you here, but lower.

I laid out and I'm, I'm, I try to find patterns and I try to take things that have happened and extrapolate what will happen next. The George Kittle contract that was just signed last week, when we got the full numbers, cause you know, you know how the game goes. There's the, Oh, Hey, there's a big number that comes out and everybody sees it.

And then a day or two later, you get the real numbers. I think what's going to happen. And this is based on the Kittle contract. I think Purdie is going to have two years fully guaranteed sizable money, maybe like the Kirk cousins, 90 million over two years, which will be a hell of a lot of money for a guy that's made 2.3 million from the 49ers in three total seasons of football. But when you see the new money average per year, that's the big number that gets compared to all the others.

There are ways to pump that up. There are ways to put some money into the backend years to get him North of 55. I'm thinking it's going to be 55, one, 55.1, which will put him ahead of everyone, but Dak Prescott and Josh Allen.

But when you scratch it and look at it, it's probably going to be, and this is just my interpretation based on Kittle's contract. It's going to be a two year commitment for a lot of money year three, maybe partially guaranteed, maybe a way to unlock more guarantees for year three, but you know, no team other than the Browns, and we saw how that worked out, Rich. No team makes a commitment of more than three years fully guaranteed to a quarterback on a contract other than the rookie deal. The Dolphins did it with Tuatongo, Vailoa.

Others have done it. Usually it's two years for some teams like the Seahawks, Sam Darnold, Geno Smith, one year. Others have one year, Matthew Stafford, year at a time. I think it's going to be two years clear and firm guaranteed from signing with Brock Purdy. And I would guess somewhere between 90 and 100 million. And then after that, it's going to be year to year for the 49ers with some backend years that they'll probably be a new contract before we get to them. But those numbers will make that APY that'll allow the agent to use the Purdy contract to try to get new clients.

Cause that's the whole ball game. You get that number out there. The tweet mentions the agent.

And then the agent is the superstar that hopes the phone starts ringing like, you know, Saul, when he does the magic fingers to try to get the phone to ring. Nice. And you, and you want to call your shop. When does it happen? Training camp, product training camp, opening training camp.

What do we got? What's your, what's your guess? Let's say before OTAs.

Wow. Before OTAs, even though he's got the red Jersey or whatever Keller the 49ers wear. Cause they wear red Jersey, but whenever he's got the don't touch Jersey, there's still something could happen. You're out there and you're in the fray and you could have an injury that would completely derail his effort to get paid. I think from his perspective, I'm not taking part in a single snap of OTAs unless I have my new contract.

Mike Florio greatly appreciate it. I just mentioned prices, right? Rules. Normally when you say $1, you're trying to win, but you'd be over if you're trying to get copies of father of mine and son of mine, 99 cent ebook on Amazon.

That's out there right now. 99 cents Mike. Yes. 99 cents. You can find nothing cheaper than that.

Correct. You are getting your money. So I can guarantee you for 99 cents, you're getting your money's worth and I'll tell anyone out there. If you actually buy it and read it and hate it, I will send you the dollar.

I'll even add in the penny. If you can convince me, you've read it. You've got to convince me you've read it. I had somebody say to me once, Hey man, I, thanks for sending me your book. I loved it. And I said, what's it about? And the response was, please don't do this to me.

So you have to convince me you read it and I'll send you a dollar if you hate it. Mike Florio, everybody personally guarantees it. Great to see you, bud. Thanks for the time. You got it. That's Mike Florio right here on the rich eyes and show pro football talk.com. Check it all out. And obviously everything he does on NBC. Let's take a break.

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See your store or sleepnumber.com for details. Let's get into the fact that this is Atlanta. I love it. This city is so beautiful, man. This city is so dear to my heart because I chose it. It was different when I came out in the draft because I had gone to an all-American function here in Atlanta. And when I got to the city and went to the airport, I was like, dang, we did a little thing at the hospital. I was like, dang.

Start going around the city to dine and to do the different things that we had. I was like, oh my God. I had truly never seen African-American people in such roles and positions and titles that I'd never seen in my life. And it blew my mind.

You know, city officials, doctors, lawyers, political figures. It blew my mind. So I said, that's where I want to go because I knew the dude I was. I was not apologetic.

It was a brash. I was going to be me. And I felt like Atlanta would at least understand me. And I said, I'm not going to you. Don't trap me. I'm going to play baseball. If you do, I'm not going there. I'm not going there.

And Atlanta was the number five pick. I was so happy. I didn't know what to do.

And I also love the story that you've told. And if you wouldn't mind telling the audience here as well at the combine, when you would be pulled into rooms and you didn't know which room you were being pulled into by which. Yeah.

Yeah. I was, I was, I was, you know, it had come back in, back in that day, everybody was reaching for it. Agents was in the hotel. Everybody was there, but it wasn't scheduled. You can't be in a hotel. You can't be on a premises. Then it was everything was wild.

So I'm backing away from crowds and people trying to grab me. And I backed into this room and the giants was there and it was the giant's room. And they had people sitting down and taking these tests. What do they call these things? Oh yeah. Like the psychology test, right?

I mean, the thing was that thick man. And I sat down and they gave me this thing. And what is this? They say, it's this test. And you know, we need you to take it. I said, Oh, what picker do you have? It's like the 10th.

I'd be going for it. And then let's just get into it here. I mean, Belichick said he watched you run the 40th comma and that you ran it and then ran into the tunnel.

And is it true? That's not true. Okay. You did not run into a waiting car and being taken.

No, because I had more interviews and all of that. No, that, that story just grows and grows. It is. It is. It is.

That's not true. I did everything that I was asked to do now. I didn't lift. I ain't do none of that because Jerry Rice to this day had laid across my arms and let me bitch press him. You know, I don't know where that comes from. You say that when you're watching the defensive backs, weight reps of two 25 struggling one up. Have you ever said, man, well, if that guy would have got one more rep, he'd have been there on that plate. The three cone drill has nothing to do with nothing.

So I didn't do any of that stuff. Right? Yeah. Well, it all worked out. Yeah. Prime and his many appearances, including being a guest host here, including being a guest host here and interviewing Morgan Freeman as a guest all on our YouTube channel channel, youtube.com slash rich eyes and show, and hit us with a follow.

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Okay. Oh man. Aaron judge. He snuck up over four 30 this weekend. At one point he was hitting four 34 currently hitting four 23 with 11 home runs, 33 runs batted in 55 hits. You say he's like minus 1 billion for the MVP of the American league right now.

It's not even worth putting money down. Cooper 14 years old turns to me and says, dad is Aaron judge going to be the best Yankee of my life? Oh, a hundred percent. That's your quick response. Yeah.

Without question. TJ, you know, sometimes we get those questions and I'm like, did the kid really say that? But I believe, I swear to God, he says, is Aaron judge going to be the greatest Yankee of my life?

Yes. And let's show, Hey, old Tony finds himself on the Yankees. And I was like, you know what? Probably, but I didn't see Aaron judge coming either. He's a white bloomer. Aaron judge showed up. You could see he's got an incredible talent, size, power, and even over the last two years, the J the power he was generating.

He's now hitting for average. Yeah. Nobody saw that come for a month. I know that.

Yeah. I mean, but the raising hot months, the raising of his game to this level, even I didn't see that coming from the last two years to this year, Susie was giving the example that you never know what's going to happen. He even mentioned Luke Eric and how, you know, yeah, his career came to an end out of nowhere.

She used that as an example of short and you never know, that barring any, you know, unforeseen circumstances, any tragedies. But I said, I said at the end of the day, it sure looks like it, that Aaron judge, you are 14 and Aaron judge is going to be the best Yankee of your life. How old is judge?

33, 33. Unbelievable what he is doing right now. Yeah. And then it led me to think who has been the greatest Yankees ever seen in his 14 years, a coop. And I, I thought to myself and I told him he doesn't remember, but, uh, it's Mariano. And speaking as somebody who's a Jeter fanatic, as you know, I call him the most perfect person on planet earth also helps that he's a university of Michigan guy.

Um, and we'll talk about that later that, and you know, Mattingly walks on water for me, my daughter's middle name is Mattingly. Um, what year was coupon? 2011.

Okay. He played two years after that. I know that, but he never saw him play. Yeah. So judge is the best Yankee of anybody he's can remember seeing.

Yeah. But in terms of his lifetime, I mean, in terms of maybe even my lifetime, Mariano better than Reggie. I mean, Reggie was mr. October and yeah, I mean what Reggie did was put the Yankees back in the world series win column for the first time.

What was at the time, the longest drought in the history of the franchise. Now we're going through it. I'm sure people will give you pushback against a reliever who may have pitched. Yeah.

I actually only pushback. I will tell you this. I am to this day.

When did Mariano retire? Uh, 13. Okay. Totally spoiled. Yeah.

Totally spoiled. When, when a Yankee reliever comes in and blows it, which Luke Weaver hasn't done it, but let's just use Devin Williams for an example. In the first two weeks of the season, it's just like, how does this happen? I swear to God, the guy's totally ruined closers for me. Totally. Well, he's an anomaly. You're not, which is why I point out he's maybe the greatest Yankee of my lifetime.

And that's saying a lot. You know how I feel about Reggie Mattingly and Jeter, but all this stuff was like Cooper just turns to me out of the blue. Cause I think he came up with a triple to hit four 34, his second triple of the, of the month, I believe if not the season. And he says, dad, is he going to be the greatest Yankee of my life? And I'm like, man, definitely. And then I sent you the screen grab of what judge has done over the last one 62 and he's hitting three 70 with 64 home runs and a hundred gazillion RBIs.

He leads the league in 13 offensive categories right now. But then you got to think like, God willing, Coop's going to be around for another 70 or so years. Now we're not going to go there. Now that's when the dad kicks in and was like, Hey, what else is on? You know, but there you go.

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