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Took it away. And the New York Knicks stun the Celtics. Earlier on the show, ESPN Senior Writer Dan Wetzel. Bill's General Manager Brandon Bean. Coming up, Senior Writer for the MMQB Albert Breer. And now, it's Rich Eisen. Hour number three of the Rich Eisen Show is on the air. 844204 Rich is the number to dial. We're asking the question because it's the 71st anniversary of the four-minute mile being broken by Roger Bannister.
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Hour number one. We had a good chat with Dan Wetzel of ESPN and our friend from Sports Illustrated is back. It's Albert Breer, ladies and gentlemen. Good to see you, Albert. How are you, sir?
Albert Breer. Hey, Rich. I appreciate you letting me pick when I get to do my time. Always good when people feel at liberty to pick when they got to serve their time, if you know what I'm saying. I'm trying to figure this one out, Albert. I'm just trying to figure out what you mean by that.
I mean, you said you had to take your son somewhere and I'm like, how about you choose the time? Because I'm a Michigan man and I respect that sort of stuff. You know what I mean, Albert? Well, I wasn't trying to avoid anything.
I was just kind of working around a couple things. Actually, we've got a commencement speaker from the University of Michigan. I could call that one up, Albert. I don't know if you saw it. Did you see it over the weekend?
Did you see this kid who's got a bright future? I did not. Oh, you did not?
No? Okay. You don't want to watch it.
What do you mean you don't want to watch it? I'm okay with it. He opened the door.
What do you mean? He just said thank you for letting him pick the time that he could do the show. Okay. All right, Albert, let's get to some sports discussion. Here's the kid.
Roll it. Great kid. Great kid. I dreamed of seeing my team beat the Buckeyes not once, not twice, not three times, but four. Yeah, he's going places, that kid.
I think he's going places. And you also saw the brilliant signer for the hearing impaired. I had no idea Buckeyes went like this.
I had no idea that was the signal for Buckeyes. No. Yeah. All right. Well, after the last one, things went okay for us. That's true.
We can dive into that more. That's true. No, no, no, that's all right. I saw it at the draft. I definitely saw it at the draft. There's no doubt about it. And let's get to the Shadore Sanders stuff that certainly you put out there this past week and what happened with the Giants in their conversations that I just would love to revisit one more time before we actually start drilling down on who's going to be the quarterback of the Cleveland Browns.
Albert, I'll give you the floor. Yeah. I mean, I think things got a little misconstrued there, to be honest with you.
And you know how that works with the aggregation sometimes. But yeah, I mean, I think that the experience the Giants have with them wasn't perfect. And, you know, the full story, of course, is, you know, they as part of their and this is common, but as part of their, you know, their visits with the quarterbacks, they'll give them an install.
And, you know, and they ask them to come back the next day and then they work through that with the player. And one thing that, you know, the Giants have done with quarterbacks is, you know, they'll plant mistakes. And again, this isn't something that's that uncommon, but they'll plant mistakes in there to see if the quarterback catches them. And my understanding was when he came back, he didn't catch them.
Chidoor didn't catch them and that caused the temperature in the room to rise a little bit. So, you know, it's not why they didn't pick him third overall or why he wasn't the guy they were trading up for at the bottom in the first round. You know, certainly there were people in the fall that liked him in the building. But, you know, it is a piece to a much bigger puzzle, you know, of the Giants evaluating all these guys. And I think that that was sort of part of the mistake that people made too, Rich, is that like everybody was like they were all over Chidoor all year. And the reality was they were all over a lot of different quarterbacks. And I did a big story on this this week and how they invested so much time and so many resources into getting this right.
Their general manager, Joe Shane, was at a college game almost every week during the season, if you can believe that. I mean, it's just the amount of time and resources they sunk in, really starting with when Daniel Jones tore his ACL, you know, in 2023 into trying and getting this right. And there have been fits and starts and, you know, the failed effort to trade up for Drake May, you know, in 2024. And then this year, you know, their efforts at the beginning to trade up to number one and then pivoting and deciding, you know, we're going to go with a position player at number three and then the effort to trade back into the first round, a ton went into this.
And that was just, you know, a little window into a piece of the puzzle for them. Well, and in terms of where Chidoor wound up and what is your reporting on? Did the owner say draft him? I mean, because, again, the idea that they were maybe looking at him in the fourth round didn't take him, then didn't take him when they had a first shot at him in the fifth round.
Right, Albert? I mean, so what is your reporting there? And then we can actually move on to how that may inform about Chidoor's chances of being the quarterback in Cleveland. Well, I think it would be foolish not to look at, like, the fact that that was their last pick, right? Like, I think that does color some of it, is that if there were people in the building who did want, you know, Chidoor on the roster, be it Jimmy Haslam or anyone else, without trading future assets, this was going to be their last chance to go and get him. And so I think that that was a factor that played into the whole thing. Now, do I know if Jimmy Haslam stomped down and said draft Chidoor Sanders right now to Andrew Berry and Kevin Stefanski? You know, I don't think that happened.
You know, but certainly there are a lot of voices when it comes to this stuff. And look, like, this has been the approach the Browns have taken to trying to get the quarterback position right. Like, they weren't one of the teams that was in on Matthew Stafford.
I think that sort of colors all of this, right? You know, Stafford was pursued by the Raiders and by the Giants. And, you know, there are other teams that obviously the Steelers prominent among them that have been in the Aaron Rodgers thing. The Vikings have been tangentially involved in all this, too.
And, you know, so the Browns lack of involvement in any of these sort of has colored their approach, which has been we're going to just keep throwing darts at the board and see if we can find one that hits. And that was trading for Kenny Pickett. It was signing Joe Flacco. And it's drafting two quarterbacks. You know, it's drafting both Dylan Gabriel and Chidoor Sanders. So I think it's a challenge now for them to figure out how to divvy all of them up. But as far as Chidoor Sanders landing on the roster, I do think it's part of what was a larger approach and how they're attacking the position. And I can't say one way or another whether Jimmy Haslam, you know, ordered some sort of code red to draft him. But I do know that there were some people that like the skill set that Chidoor Sanders had, which I think played into them taking him in the fifth round. Well, I mean, first order of business to have a competition is you got to get everyone on the roster and give them a uniform number.
That is now complete. So we know who's got what and where. So on this front with Gabriel and Sanders and Kenny Pickett, who's wearing number eight, and Flacco getting 15 back.
What is your first blush sense of with OTAs right around the corner? How is this going to work? And handicap it for me, if you don't mind, Albert. Well, first of all, I think this is the first time I've ever had a conversation on any sort of show about what jersey number a fifth round pick is going to wear. Well, first of all, because we were discussing this before, Albert, you know, with what's going on with Abdul Carter searching for a number in New York.
Right. But on top of it, could you imagine if Chidoor made any public sense of wanting a number, what that would mean? Like if he twitches in any direction about something other than football and trying to win this job and keeping his head down. You know, it would cause a national conversation.
It would be chats on every single talk show known to man. So I guess that's part of the reason why I bring it up. But yeah, for sure, Rich, I mean, like I can tell you, like our traffic numbers at S.I., like you can see it like, you know what I mean? Like that's why it people talk. I mean, whether as relevant football wise as it is or it or it may not be like it's 100 percent relevant to the people that are watching us right now.
No question. And the number of people I'm sure you got texts from that would never text you during a draft like me. I got them during a draft like what's up with you? When I woke up Saturday morning in Green Bay for day three, I've never received a bunch of texts from people that I would never hear from from a draft about who's still on the board for day three ever in the 22 years I've done it.
So all that said, how does everything work? What's your your sense on how things work in Cleveland? So I think my sense is that that Joe Flacco is going to take the first snap in the spring, which there's some significance that, you know, I think Mike Tomlin called it pole position last year when he was talking about his own quarterback situation. I think Joe Flacco has pole position here. Now, I think there's such limited work in the spring and the rules are so strict about what you can and can't do that it's going to be a challenge for them to find a way to make sure that everybody gets enough work to A, learn the offense and B and B and B be in position to compete when when they get to training camp. And the interesting thing about this is that, like, if you look at it, the guarantees and Joe Flacco's deal and Kenny Pickett's deal are almost identical to one another. So walking away from either guy would more or less have the same penalty. So even though Joe Flacco gets the first snap in the spring, that doesn't mean like Kenny Pickett won't get the first snap in the summer or that Joe Flacco is going to make the team if Kenny Pickett wins the job.
So you have that, you know, that you take into account. Then you take into account is one of the rookies, be it Dylan Gabriel or Shadore Sanders, ready to be a backup? Like, are you ready to give him that important job where you would want to walk away from one of the veterans? And if they aren't, if you're going to keep both veterans, does that mean you're going to keep four quarterbacks in your roster? Do you have any prayer of keep getting either of those guys, Gabriel or Shadore Sanders, to the practice squad? In normal circumstances, Rich, the third round pick, you know this as well as I do, if you're drafted in the third round, you've basically made the team, right? And that's not the case with the fifth round pick. But if Shadore outplays Dylan Gabriel, but Shadore isn't quite ready to be the backup, what does that mean for Dylan Gabriel?
Does that mean you walk away from Dylan Gabriel? It's just, it's complicated because of the numbers here. We're not even getting to what happens when Deshaun Watson is cleared. It's just, it's a complicated situation and they're going to have to be creative in getting these guys enough work.
One solution here, and this is, you know, how complicated this whole thing is, one solution here might be, well, you know, Joe, you played for Kevin Stefanski a couple of years ago, so we're going to give you a little bit less work. But if you're Joe Flacco, are you okay with that? Because there's a new offensive coordinator in Tommy Rees there who you haven't worked with. Are you okay giving the other three guys a leg up in the competition if you're trying to win the job?
Probably not. You know, it's, I mean, it's a challenge to say the least and for Kevin Stefanski and finding a way to make it equitable for everybody to have a chance to go and win the job and make it fair too for the rest of the team. You've got a guy who's in uniform and starting in September who's had enough work to be a starting quarterback in one of the toughest divisions in football and for a team that, oh, by the way, made the playoffs two years ago. It has a lot of veteran players like Miles Garrett that aren't going to be too receptive to the idea of wasting a year in the name of a quarterback project.
Albert Breer here on the Rich Eisen Show. Part of your column is taking a look at the numbers of Matthew Stafford's contract. And again, this deal had a, you have to pretty much figure that with the Browns taking Miles Garrett off of the holdout board, the Matthew Stafford contract staying with the Rams is the biggest ripple we've seen in the offseason pond here because of where he stayed and the other teams that tried for him and then wound up waiting for Rodgers just to draw a line, right, through this whole thing is quite significant. What did you glean from the numbers of the Matthew Stafford contract that can help inform us here? It's a compromise, I think.
You know, like that's the way I look at it at least. He could have gotten a lot more money in Vegas. He could have gotten a lot more money in New York. The Giants and Raiders were both wanting to go over $50 million a year over the next two years to get him and give up the trade compensation to facilitate it. And he chose to take less money to stay in Los Angeles, which was the Rams bet all along. The Rams felt like going through this and this was part of it when they granted him permission to go and talk to other teams. They really felt like he valued being in Southern California.
His wife, his four kids are rooted there now. And he really valued playing for Sean McVay. And in the end, that bet wound up being the right one. And, you know, as I see this like football-wise, like I think it makes all the sense in the world. And I think the Rams did well enough by him to say, we're not going to go all the way to where the Raiders went or where the Giants were willing to go.
But we are going to do something fair that's going to reflect what you've done. And by the way, the interesting thing about this to me is what really opened the door for this is what they did with Aaron Donald three years ago. The deal to redo Aaron Donald three years ago was borderline unprecedented. They gave Aaron Donald $40 million in additional money without adding any term to his contract. And they've essentially done the same thing here where they add $26 million to Matthew Stafford's contract without adding any term. And if you do the math on it, it winds up being about the same, $13 million extra per year.
So I think that's how you get to the math there. But I think it's the Rams doing something fair for Stafford that doesn't totally blow everything up for them. And then Stafford with, you know, a very real acknowledgement that he wants to finish his career in Los Angeles and playing for Sean McVay. So do the numbers support that it's a multiple year stay or are we back in this moment again next year we had Les Snead on the program last week. And he, you know, he basically said when the Falcons flipped a 2026 first rounder in their direction at the end of the first round of the 2025 draft, they're like, okay, that's enough to make us move out of the first round this year if, you know, and you can finish the sentence. And he definitely helped finish the sentence saying, you know, we don't know what's going on with Matthew year to year. But I'm sure if Matthew Stafford looks like the Stafford we've seen the last few years, they'd be happy to have him stay multiple years. Right, Albert? I mean, I don't know what the numbers show you.
What are the numbers? Yeah, I can give you a couple of things on that. Like, number one, I think that this is very much year to year, but I don't think that's anything new. You know, that's sort of where they are with Matthew right now and where Matthew is. And he's older and he's had a lot of injuries. You know, he's got his Super Bowl ring.
So I don't think Matthew Stafford is going to play into his 40s like a Tom Brady. So it is it is very much year to year. There's an acknowledgment of that. The contract makes it makes that clear, too. And that the 40 million dollars and guaranteed for next year. Now, the 40 million for this year is locked in and fully guaranteed.
But the 40 million dollars for next year, that does invest until the middle of March. So next year they could very well be back in this space again. You know, number two, I think that the interesting thing about what they did in the draft here, to me at least, is to look at the guy they traded down for.
A guy they really liked more than people realize. Terrence Ferguson, the tight end from Oregon, sort of filling the role they've been looking to fill the last couple of years. And that actually will help Matthew Stafford. Two years ago, I don't know how many people know this, but they tried to trade back into the first round when they didn't have a first round pick to get Dalton Kincaid, who wound up with the Bills. The next year that continues with that big effort to go up and try to get Brock Bowers in the first round.
And Ferguson is that sort of tight end. So they even though they did trade out of the first round, they wind up with a piece that's going to help Matthew Stafford and they think is going to help Matthew Stafford right now. So I think it's sort of towing the line between, you know, being responsible in the way you're building your team and being responsible and like, you know, we don't know when Matthew Stafford is going to retire, but we got to keep doing the right thing for ourselves long term and adding that first round pick, while also getting him the sort of weapon to play with this year that they've been looking for the last couple of years. So what's the sense in the league right now? Because that's two teams, Brown's Rams, that put the first round capital into next year's draft. We all know Howie Roseman's got a gajillion draft choices as well.
Who's this for? I mean, is it for Arch? Do you think that Arch Manning could be in there or he's worthy of that? I mean, we're talking again, the quarterback class next year is supposed to be better than this one. Drew Allers in this mix, Carson Beck, who the heck knows? I mean, Cam Ward went to the U and became the first overall pick from Washington State.
So crazier things have happened. What do you think? Well, I mean, on the Arch thing to begin with, I think we would be ignoring the family history if we assumed that he was going to be in the 2026 draft. And I felt this way for a while. I think for one thing, I think that the idea of making that leap and saying that he's going to be the number one pick, I think it's too big a leap for NFL teams to make right now. They see a big talent, a kid, and he's a Manning. But I think what a lot of fans have done is, and follow me here, I think they see that big 60-yard touchdown run, 67-yard touchdown run, whatever it was. And they were like, oh my God, this is Peyton and Eli with wheels.
You know what I mean? Do we really know that it's going to be Peyton and Eli, though? We haven't seen nearly enough to know that.
And people are acting as if that's automatic. It's really hard to be that good as a passer, as a thinker of the game. Those guys were both at a really high level.
So maybe Arch is that, but we don't know that yet. And then again, there's the family history part of it, which is you look at it like Eli Manning could have been a first-round pick in 2003. He came back for a fifth year at Ole Miss and played in 2003 and was in the 0-4 draft. Peyton Manning could have been the number one overall pick in 97 to the Jets.
Instead, he decides to go back and he's the number one overall pick in 98 to the Colts. So the family history tells us that these guys aren't going to rush from college. The way Cooper has handled Arch over the years, the guy had to create a Twitter account to announce that he was committing to Texas. He did not have social media until that point of high school.
So this isn't like the normal attention-seeking kid of this generation. They've done it their way and they've wanted to really kind of preserve his childhood and preserve his high school experience and his college experience. I don't think they're going to run away from that. There's also the fact that the history tells us that, I mean, I think the line of demarcation is 25 starts. Guys who have 25 starts or more in college generally do better in the pros and I'm sure the Manning's are acutely aware of that. So this assumption that he's going to be in next year's draft, maybe it happens, but I think you're making a leap in a lot of different ways if you assume that. Now, that said, if we're talking about the Browns, the Rams, who could be in the mix for quarterbacks next year, there's a lot of promise. There's not like a Caleb Williams where we knew a year ahead of time like this guy is going to be the number one pick. But Drew Aller, Garrett Nussmeier, Lenora Sellers, Carson Beck, all those guys are names worth keeping an eye on. And now you see in the fall who can have the sort of year that Jayden Daniels did.
Is there somebody who has that year that comes out of nowhere? The way that Jayden Daniels did or even Joe Burrow did and turned themselves into a really high draft pick. I think all that stuff's in play and there's a lot of good prospects who have a chance to make that sort of leap this fall. Yeah, like Cam Ward, too, man. I mean, it's not like we were talking at this point last year.
Cam Ward is going to be the apple of everybody's eye when the quarterback spot. Albert, thanks for the time and I'm glad to get you out when I promised when you chose when to appear. So I greatly appreciate it. Yep, yep, I got to choose my time.
Thank you, I appreciate it. No, and you're taking your son somewhere, so it's nothing nefarious. It's really a process. You know, it's really a process decision.
You saying I should get him a cheeseburger, Rich? No, no, I'm saying it's a process decision. And if you decide to erase the text between you and I about this decision, it's nothing nefarious about it, but you have to account. That's all. Part of my process, right? Thanks for the time, Albert.
You be well. All right, thanks, Rich. That's Albert Brier, everybody. Go read all of Albert's material in Sports Illustrated.
Albert Brier on all the socials Prime Video's own right there. Just want to let everybody know the way I operate my business. Try that parenting tactic, letting your kids pick their own punishment. See how that goes. OK, certainly when they've already acted fair and square. Stuff. Yeah, I agree. Sure. Let's take a break. 844-204 Rich number to dial.
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Would you say like in terms of... It was like an angel bringing us in and there we walk in and we see Rich Eisen karaoke dominating. To basically, by the way, nobody else in the room, right? Just solo.
You get a little practice. It was me and my buddy. There was nobody else. What song do you like?
That's a good question. Sinatra. Sinatra? I forget which one it was.
New York New Yorker. Did you have to ask? Yeah. Seriously, it was me and my buddy. I remember. We walked in and yeah, but we joined right in. You did sing, right? You guys all did get on the mic. I think we got up there.
We can't turn that down. No, I know. It was honestly me. It was obviously like pre-cell phone. I mean, you had a cell phone, but pre like... No one had a camera. You didn't worry about anybody filming.
Yeah, so there's no video. Get up and sing. You saw karaoke. You sang. You don't think twice. It was just the moment.
That's it. You didn't have to memorialize it. It was me, my buddy, Doug, and then it was, I think, your entire family, right? Yeah, probably the whole crew, yeah. Your mom and your dad. You and Peyton and Copper.
And Copper. Exactly. And do you have a go-to karaoke song you like at all? It's changed over the years, obviously. Has it really? Yeah, you kind of go with the times.
You know, Footloose has always been one, you know, just because you can kind of dance with it. But now, you know, it's tough to do karaoke now. You're just kind of worried, you know, people are filming all the time. Then they judge and, you know, I get judged enough. I don't need to be judged on my singing ability. That's, you know, that's fun.
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Call clickgrainger.com or just stop by. Dennis in Long Beach, California wants to chime in on the topic of the day, which is the sporting achievement we've yet to see that you want to see happen. Dennis, what's up? Good morning, guys.
Sounds like everybody's doing well. I think you guys are going defense. I'm going or going offense.
I'm going defense. I'd love to see somebody break Vandermeer's back to back no hitters and do three, which would also mean three consecutive nine innings pitch by starting pitcher. Let's let's crawl there before we start sprinting with three no hitters in a row. But that would be amazing.
Yes. And by the way, his second no hitter was the first night game at Ebbets Field, and he no hit the Dodgers. And then if that one may be more plausible will be Herscheiser's streak of fifty nine consecutive innings in the regular season, sixty seven if you had the postseason in 1988.
That would be fun to watch because it's kind of like the hitting streak. I mean, each game it builds and builds and every line drive if it's going to drop or be caught on that. And then I've got one for you guys. Listen to the Buffalo Bills general manager. I'm an Eagles fan and I know it was like when we won our first Super Bowl, how crazy it was and how great it felt.
And I would love to see Buffalo fans have that, too. So my question for you is it's not the team that you like in the NFL. What fan base and what team would you like to see win a Super Bowl?
Oh, my goodness. When a Super Bowl. I think the Lions. Right. Like we were already talking about it outside of Buffalo. We just mentioned. I mean, honestly, Cleveland, Cleveland winning one. Right. Well, I'll talk about one of the most tortured fan bases. Yeah, I know. But and same thing with the Lions. But if it's coin toss, I'll take the team from Michigan, you know.
We actually call Dennis. Appreciate it. Where do you would go that way? I don't know. Vikings. Vikings are pretty tortured, too. They are as well. They've at least been to a Super Bowl.
Right. There's Cardinals right as well. Like which teams have not won one. Oh, there's a funny you ask. There's a huge list of teams have never won.
Well, for let's just say we're talking to someone who's twenty nine years old. Choose the Cowboys. Listen, I mean, I'm listening. The Niners have a longer Super Bowl winning drought than the Cowboys, the Washington football team, the Bears, the Raiders, the Dolphins, the Vikings, the Jets. Yes.
The Bills, the Browns, the Chargers. Did you hear the way he said the word jets like he bit into that? Yeah. Yeah, because I don't understand it because you're a little petty sometimes when it comes to that. Let me give you an example, Chris, if I have the expectation.
When I said, you know, we have the group chat and I always get crap for not sometimes, you know, replying, replying or remove the word sometimes. So I see a new story. It doesn't have to be about Michigan. Right.
And Sharon Moore is sitting out two games. Sure. Yeah. So you never text that immediately within 30 seconds. Rich text back some weird James Franklin Penn State. Like I was going to be bothered by him going and going at a fan at the spring game, saying, you know, tell me what the price of snake oil is.
And he said, Tennessee, I want to speak to you later. You have a tendency to do that. If I bring up something, you got to always kind of shoot back at like, oh, here's a pen. Because you never respond on a text chain. You never win when you do. It's certainly not with a headline of something that's going on.
True. I brought broken news before on the group. Who's on the news on the group? The shifter of our group chat. You know what I mean? I'm just honestly, T.J., all due respect. I'm glad someone else has taken some shrapnel today. It was all about. I'm sorry.
My teams already stink of basketball. So I got nothing to say about Chris and Nashville, Tennessee. You're on. What's up, Chris? What's going on, Chris? You there, Chris?
This is right there. Yes, sir. I'm here. How y'all guys doing? Well, that's good.
I'm in Nashville. I got something for you, Richard. I got something. What about an 80?
Just a clear 80 home run season with 100 stage season on pitcher on the same team with a 50 game win streak. My goodness gracious. I can't I can't I can't even imagine. I mean, that's that's let's just take one of them.
You can only choose one, Chris, because I mean, that that right there was was stats of the loser. I got one for you. 50 game win streak by the Dodgers. Oh, my God. That would make Del Tufo happy. Yeah, but I might land a break. 50. Oh, gosh.
But anyway, but but anyway, that would be that would be awesome. A 50 game win streak. But I would choose a home run to 80.
80 home runs. A few players with it. With the with the 60 game history. Well, I think that what would that look like?
Thanks to the call, Chris. It would be whoever is closing in on the record. We'd follow that player. Right. Right. To see it live home run.
Or or there would be breaking into coverage. Right. For at bats. For at bats.
Absolutely. And then it would go away until the players sitting on 80. And then it would return.
Would 80 be a miles or just you just broken the record as a matter how many you get or 80 is such a number that we'd break back into coverage to go at bat by at bat on that. Right. Oh, that's the way it would be. What are we acknowledging? We know acknowledging 73 is the record.
It still is. It is. You might not acknowledge it. Yeah, he does.
Chris don't care about PDs. I tell you, man, I don't know what popped into my what popped into my Instagram timeline yesterday was for some reason, Vince Scully calling a two home run game for Barry Bonds and Dodger Stadium in like game three of the season. He'd already had a multi home run game earlier in the in the opening season, opening series.
And he had two more again. And the sound of the bat, the ball hitting the bat and how far it went up into the pavilion. I mean. Unreal, unreal, then, which is why, you know, Buck Showalter walked in with the intentionally the bases loaded. Well, you think about the O2 World Series, you know, Bonds hits that home run and they cut to Tim Sammon and the angel dugout. And he's like, that's the farthest ball I've ever seen. Yeah, I know.
It's still going, by the way, it's just different. Man, 80 home runs would be it's a home run every other game, assuming that that player plays every game. Yeah. Well, you'd have to figure that player doesn't is an everyday player for sure. So a lot of guys are only playing, you know, in the 140s, 80 home runs. I mean, if anyone could do it, it's the polar bear. OK, that would be Soto. That's what you're paying him all those big bucks. Not to hit 80.
I mean, he plays 81 games at home and there isn't Homer at home, so it'd be tough for him to do that. See, that's that's what I was talking about earlier. This is salty, salty, salty. It's just spitting facts.
We're belaying so rich. I've seen winning 50 games in a row is unbelievable and not possible, but the record is 26. So you're seeing a 30 game winning streak. Right.
It's something that can be done. And by the way, the the Yankee acquisition of Juan Soto may come home to roost on the Yankees tonight who are going against Michael King was part of that trade. So it was a beast. He's he's a perfect pitcher.
He's awesome. So normally when we talk about Met Gala, we talk about the Soto in the right. Exactly. The parade of money, you know, like if only somebody who showed up to the Met Gala in a in a in a dress or a suit of money. Although I do believe Andre 3000 showed up with a piano on his back last year.
Andre three stacks. But we're only focused on the athletes at the Met Gala and how they show up. And in terms of wondering how you show up, there's a bar being set and it was set at Paris Fashion Week last summer when Joe Burrow showed up with Justin Jefferson. And there was no back back to Joe Burrow's coat, his suit jacket.
Can I do that? No, we I would love to see it. It'd be tough to unsee it.
Like on Family Feud, you should wear a backless jacket. So survey says no. Top one answer on the board and I say no.
You probably think you could. That's the that's the that's the the bar. OK. OK. That needs to be. And there are some rules as to, you know, how you're allowed to dress. There's a theme every year. You know, I'm not going to go deep into that because, again, I'm not a fashion expert. My my oldest son is Zander is.
So this year's theme was super fine tailoring black style. There you go. So keep that in your mind's eye. Who's first up? I don't know. Oh, we're going to start off with Joe Burrow. OK, Joe Burrow. There we go.
That's very nice. Look at Joe showing those Carolina blues sneakers. Joe Burrow's wearing Gucci. Oh, is that what he's wearing? Do you know what he's. Oh, look at Justin Jefferson.
I did zoom in on his shoes last night. Justin Jefferson. It looks like Justin is. Is Justin where is that inflatable? It's a puffy suit, like it's a Seinfeld suit of the puffy like I don't want to be. I mean, Justin, you got it.
I mean, you work out. We can't tell like you can't even see his hands. By the way. And you could see Saquon there as well. And, you know, this would be the way to hold the Justin Jefferson under 100 yards is make him wear that.
Right. You know, like how I run my 40 in my suit. Does he still beat your 40 time wearing that? That would be amazing. I think Justin next year for run, rich run. You wear that and try and beat my 40 with me running in a suit.
Great idea. He's still going to run like a four or five in the dress shoes, too. Yeah. Come on. What are we doing?
He looks like he's ready for the remix of the Missy Elliott, the rain video. All right. Who else do we have here? Let's move on. Great. Justin, there was there was eye popping.
Who do we have right here? Simone Biles. OK, very good. That's Simone Biles.
Very good. And her her lesser half. Oh, Jonathan Owens. Well, we just saw him now twice in two photographs.
That's true. OK, Simone Biles. I should put my glasses on here so I can actually see some of this stuff where I'm like, who is this person? You're only one of the most famous athletes on planet Earth.
The DeAndre Hopkins. Now that is fly. Yeah.
He could wear that any time. That is awesome. Yeah.
I mean, Jalen Hurts was there with his his newly betrothed. OK, indeed. Ah, with a chapeau, a beret. OK. Mike, he always goes bray like Mike as a as the rich eyes and show beret where your two cents. I like that. That look is perfect. That's the that's the look. I don't know the rear. I don't know. Do the rear.
But I may start doing. What does that mean? The rear.
Where is it back? It's backwards. He met where the hat backwards backwards. You look like you look like you're selling newspapers.
And I think that's the same thing. You know, you know, you know, Brown. That's mandatory.
Russell Wilson. Surprise was there. There we go. Is that where is he wearing a cape? That would make sense. Yeah, I think so. Remember, he's got a cape. Was it George's cane? Yeah. It's not a kind of strike. So Mike Costanza's lawyer wore a cape. That's right.
That's one time. I like the game. We're not we're not we're just not we're not experts at this time. You sure it's very stylish. Saquon looks like all these guys are wearing stuff that they could wear on a normal day. All right.
Dressed like Jefferson. All right. That's right. Never.
Exactly. OK. And last one, we have Steph Diggs. See, now I'm talking about. Let me ask you this.
Let me ask you this. Is this the biggest Boston loss last night against the Knicks or this look? Oh, I lost. I don't call that a loss. I wouldn't know.
What do I know? I got to imagine Fitz and Soley are not down with the fashion. Yeah, but the hell going on. But I do like the red shoes for the Patriots. The red throwbacks this year are probably going to wear. Very good.
But you don't want to ever miss forty five threes in a game. Is he is he going to McDowell's? Yeah. Queens after the show. Where's the rose petals, TJ?
The princess of Monday. Now, if I wore that royal, do you know how filthy it would be by the end of the night? No, I honestly like everything I wear, I make a mess of.
I just couldn't do it. And your sweaters are too expensive. Career told us this is where the reason why I wear these sweaters.
It's easy to keep clean, although I do eat breakfast on the way here sometimes. And I I've got a lot of crumbs. Yeah.
Well, not to be Gerald Jerry Krause on you. But listen, I I look at that. I.
How about this next run? Rich run me in my suit. Justin Jefferson in his bouncy house suit. The sumo guys. A big fat sumo suit. That's what it looks like to me. I'm not fashion forward. I'm not fashion reverse, I guess, when it comes to this. And then Steph Diggs has got to run with that, you know, was that a sable mink?
What is this? That is all right. I do that. This is you could do what I could have them and you can run and he's got to run in that. He's got to run in that. Wow. He looks great. I mean, that looks like, you know, that honestly, that is that looks like that looks like eighty five catches.
Twelve hundred and fifty yards and 13 touchdowns. And to somebody who's not fashion. Man. Oh, man.
Looks like forty five mysteries to me. Different sport. That smells like a playoff win.
Smells like money. And that's our coverage of the Medgar 2025. Seriously, run in that, Justin. Run in that run. Tell that and try and beat my 40 time. Jonathan Cain in the Rose Bowl is what's called musty TV.
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Corey. I'm doing fine. Are you ready to finally sign your document or what? I'm afraid the divorce is final.
You're you're finally divorcing the Dallas Cowboys. I have your release of fandom that Jay Felley has put together as the guy that Mike Del Tufo made me think is really a notary when he's not. Yes, he's not anymore. He's not. He hasn't been a notary in years. And Susie came here with documents one day saying, I heard you're a notary.
And all that stuff. So sorry, Corey. Not to don't blame him. It's your fault. It's your fault. Why is it my fault? He says to me he was.
He says he hasn't been a notary in forever. All right. Why are you what happened? Why are you finally breaking up?
What are we doing? Well, I know you said to call in the Monday after the draft, but it took an extra week to go over pros and cons. And I just took an extra little extra time. And I just, you know, after listening to you talk about the Cowboys earlier last or later last week. Yes. I think it's just time. I have to. And adding and also another time, apropos of nothing.
I would like to see somebody hit five home runs in a game or break Cal Ripken Street. OK. That's an interesting one right there. So, Corey, as part of the Rich Eisen consulting service, TJ, do you want to stop him? No. OK. I did that once.
Right. I told a friend of mine he was going to break up with a girl. And I said, no, bro, she's really cute. You shouldn't break up with her. You out punted your coverage. And then now he's married to her.
It will not go back to her. And then they maybe I thought it was child or two. I thought that's where they became heavy with child immediately. So I was like, I guess this is good. But that was when you told the longest current game streak in MLB is six hundred twenty games by Matt Olson. Yeah. Well, that ain't happening.
He's got many years. And, Corey, I guess we're going to put you back on hold. Don't hang up on him, Mike. Put him back on hold. I'm still an audio guy.
I'm like, you know, he was not. And you get your you give Adam your address and we will send you this document and you send it back to us. OK, OK. There he goes.
You already put him on. Oh, yeah. I don't want to screw it up. I preemptively struck.
So hopefully he's giving the address. And so this is going to happen. You could have stopped him. It was stop.
Why? I just told you last time I tried to interfere with somebody, you know, this is football. This is not like life and death. This isn't like matrimony. This isn't like I'm never going to beg somebody to stay if you want to go.
Yeah. You let me go right to the Dodgers. You didn't give it, Mike. The top five answers are on the board.
Name an occupation in which you trust a woman more than a man. Don't do this knitting. Don't do this. Wow.
That's not it. It's not an occupation. It's a question. Don't do this yet, because we're going to start tomorrow.
I know, but I'm just testing tomorrow is Cook would be a bad you could say Cook. This is a problem. This is now infusing like you're you're like just tell a top five answers on the board. Here's your question. Show us you're a misogynist.
What what answer can show off your misogyny? Exactly. Well, you asked.
Oh, wait a minute. Cook is their secretary is there. Astronaut can't be there. Seriously, that's actually a question on the show. I'm sure they want to see. But I don't want to ask that. They won't ask top five answers on the board. Here's your question.
Give us an answer that shows off. You're a complete chauvinist pig. We're not we're not doing that here. OK, like that.
There's many other ways that we can practice. Certainly don't give that one to Susie tomorrow. And she's just I don't know.
It is to I typed in a list and it was on the list. Let's choose another one. OK. Name a house you never want to be in. Oh, yes. Oh, God. A haunted house. Very good. Very good.
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Sam Spitz, the senior of USC. Good to see you, Sam. Thanks for having me.
Appreciate it. And you came to me afterwards and you're like, I'm a fellow Jets fan. I'd love to come see your show and look at us. I've always not just been a Jets fan, big fan of you.
It's really an honor to be here today. So what about us? You're playing us. I watch the show.
I've always been around. My sister's a freshman at Syracuse. Hey, we like nothing to do with that.
Don't feed the animals, Sam. I don't know if they taught you that in the class. When did you first hear about this class? So I actually found out about it when it leaked when Pete leads it to the press back in August of last year before the school had actually even approved the class itself. And I remember my friend sent it to me. He's like, oh, you got to try to take this class.
And I didn't hear anything about it for the next few months. And then I was taking a class with a professor, a sports business class with Professor David Belasco, who's also in the picture. He's one of the co-teachers of the class. And he was a big organizer. And note that the class I was taking with him last semester was also taught by Cheryl Miller and him. So that was pretty incredible. So you were all over it. And so obviously Pete Carroll, you know, has you at hello.
But, you know, we've got 90 seconds left here. What did you learn? What did you take away from this class? I learned more about myself, really. And I learned how to learn about myself while in the presence of a bunch of love and a bunch of people who really care about each other. But also at the same time knew nothing about each other. At the beginning of January, very few of us knew each other going in.
It was kind of like a collection of a bunch of different people. And I'm really a much more clear headed. I have a full notebook that I try to read once a week, twice a week, just to kind of keep myself accountable that I got to stay driven. I got to stay passionate.
And Coach's mantra of win forever has kind of just it's going to stay with me forever, honestly. Now, and it's like what I took away from it, what Suzy took away from it is you have this coat, this coat of armor now going out into the real world because you're a senior, right? You're graduating this month.
Yeah, in a month. Right. So you have this coat of honor and a coat of honor, right? A coat of armor and a coat of honor together that Pete has taught you about always competing and sharing of yourself, right? That's what I took away from this class. Yeah. I mean, I feel more comfortable with myself. I feel more comfortable around others just because it seemed like it was really crazy because they put it, they made such complicated concepts seem so accessible.
Not necessarily simple, but easy to accomplish, which made everything so much clearer. And I couldn't recommend, like, read his book, win forever. It's got a great, I'll plug it right now. That's great. And it's got the poem that he read to your class at the end.
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