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Pro Football Hall of Famer Kurt Warner. Seattle Seahawks safety Jamal Adams. Plus, Buffalo Bills wide receiver Stefan Diggs. And now. It's Okay, we've got a great show.
We've got a great Thursday show. It's Super Bowl 55. It's getting closer. We can taste it. It's figurative.
Honestly, it's not something you can actually taste. But it's just something that gets me very, very excited. The Super Bowl is here. It is nigh, and we are here in Los Angeles, California. I'm heading to Tampa, people.
I am heading to Tampa, Florida. Can you dig it? Yes. I'm going to be heading to Tampa, Florida for Super Bowl 55. And here's my biggest problem about it.
is uh The the Super Bowl Sunday pregame show that I'm hosting for NFL Network. Started 10 minutes ago, and I am uh you're not there yet. No, I'm not there yet, yeah, yeah.
So, it's eight and a half hours long. I need to start. Could you imagine if I start cramping around hour five? Not good. Hour eight.
You're not good. It's kind of funny that, you know. Wait, wait, cramping or like the Lamar Jackson cramping? Oh, if I am, if I. Dude, what is the doo?
I mean, oh, what are you doing?
Well, that's what he did.
So if I disappear for hour seven, you'll know I'm taking an IV. Got it. You know, it's really exciting because we're going to get an answer to all these questions, and the hype is just going to be off the charts. The hype is beyond off the charts already. And the only thing that can possibly take our minds off it is Carson Wentz being on the trading block.
Wait a minute, I'm being told that's happening. It's happening. Ian Rappaport, my colleague from the NFL Media Group, is saying that the Eagles are getting phone calls on Carson Wentz and they are. To use the Fraser Crane phrase, listening. They're not hanging the phone up, and is the phrase that Ian Rappaport is using.
And I think, you know, look, not that Howie Rosen needs my two cents. I think that's a good idea. It's a good idea that I don't know what has caused it because, again, when we hear stuff in the media, we think it's just happening right now. Could have been happening literally 10 days ago. It could have been happening on Monday's show when I came on the air and pointed to the differences between the way the Rams have handled Jared Goff when they decided he's not the guy anymore, or they're wondering if he's the guy anymore, or they're certainly questioning.
And if you're questioning that and your coach and the quarterback are grinding gears, then you know. It would be a good idea to just rip the band-aid off and go for it, which is what they did with Matthew Stafford, despite Teddy Bruski's belief. And we'll hit that later on. We will get to that later. But, you know, when I said, well, one team's doing what the Rams are doing, what the Eagles are doing is a completely different thing.
Because just that snapshot in time of the Rams being incredibly aggressive and making the move and going for the guy that they think is best, even though maybe Deshaun Watson was best or you think that they were actually kicking your tire on Aaron Rodgers, those are kind of pie in the sky, certainly for the timing of it, which was this past weekend. This, however, could have been happening at that point in time, too. Or they could have seen what the Rams did and they're like, hey, that's not a bad idea. Or the rest of the league saw what the Rams did and say, maybe the Eagles would consider that too. Maybe the Eagles would consider that too.
Even though, uh, you know, You know, we won't be sending another quarterback their way, which is what the Rams did with Goff, because they've got Jalen Hurts. But maybe they will accept draft, maybe, maybe they will cough up.
Some draft choices to us. If we take once. Maybe we can get Wentz Plus. If it was Goff Plus in exchange for quarterback, maybe the plus will just be less obviously than what the Rams gave up because. They're not acquiring a Anything uh else?
You know what I'm saying? Maybe the Eagles are willing to flip went. Plus. To us. Rance flipped up golf plus.
Maybe we can get Wentz plus, even for less. We don't have to flip a quarterback back. Maybe that's the way it can go. Or everybody saw What Nick Siriani looked like, and you think that there's no way the Eagles are going to saddle this guy with a quarterback controversy on top of it because he couldn't even. With all due respect.
He couldn't even handle reading his notes that he had prepared for his Pregames uh you know, his pre-zoom speech. Yeah. You know, he couldn't even handle that properly. And you're sitting there and you're like, well, the Eagles, no, he can't handle talking about Wentz or Hertz. After a week two Wentz loss.
Like, how's that going to work? Because as long as Pet Look, Peterson didn't handle things a couple of times appropriately. Once when he clapped back at a reporter asking if the reporter played football ever. Another time is when he also said, I can't turn to Hertz because that actually tells the rest of the. Locker room that we're giving up on the season.
And then he's forced to turn to Hertz based on the circumstance or who the hell else knows what. And then Hertz starts balling out and begins to pale the season out. And then the minute Hurts comes out and hands the season to the Washington football team, and so on and so forth. I don't know what's causing this news to be leaking out right now, or it's happening right now, or it happened a few days ago, and we're learning about it right now, similar to learning about the Deshaun Watson. Trade request days apparently, if not weeks, apparently, after he actually delivered it to.
Houston? Don't know the circumstances of the sequence. But I'll ask you, would you reach out for Carson Wentz? Hmm. Good poker.
If you're Indianapolis, you've got to say yes. I think. Agreed. Indianapolis was the spot for Stafford. I thought Stafford was the right.
combination. Once again, the Rams are like, we'll give you two. Once a three and our quarterback Who's You know, got a big, large contract, but has played in the Super Bowl, has won 40-plus games in the last few years in the NFL that he also. is not even close to age 30. Wentz is a little older than Goff, if I'm not mistaken.
But, and he's got a huge contract. But Frank Reich. And here you have a history. Do the Colts cough up? What to go get whence?
What would it be? It would have to be Wentz Plus coming to Indianapolis, right? In exchange for what? How would this trade look? Like, I'm even just talking off the top of my head and confused how it would even possibly look because Goff went with the two ones and the three for Stafford.
What would it be? So you're acquiring Wentz and his big huge ass contract. It would be either Wentz Plus Or What? Not even close to a first going to Philadelphia for Wentz? How would the trade even look?
You could send twenty-one to Philadelphia. And for for what? Like why would you even send a first for somebody who has underperformed so spectacularly with a nine-figure contract? If you got back, say, Wentz in thirty-seven. That's what I'm saying.
What would a trade look like? I'm just even trying to. Whence plus would you get A whence plus for who? Because you're not flipping your quarterback back. They would just get rid of Wentz and say, Siriani, here's Jalen Hurts.
Quarterback controversy over. Let's go to work. But man, is this just a fascinating thought? If you're San Francisco? Do you do that?
I don't know. It's such a huge contract. We say what you want about golf. But the guy won football games. Yeah.
Sure did. Once was Dreadful this year. I mean, positively dreadful. And also, on top of it, he's 35 million against the cap for the Eagles. With golf.
Going, what is that, a $22 million hit? That's what it was. Staffords is coming in. 22 million in Carson Wentz dead money. My word.
You guys think that garbage is beyond repair in Philadelphia? Yeah. How do you run it back? Uh just again. I guess you can 'cause you tray you you you know It was if I'm if I know this because I've been posting some.
Uh Throwback Thursday. photographs to my Instagram feed and we're gonna have a little throwback Thursday. Photograph memory stroll on this show later on. It was three years ago today, three years ago, three. Let me repeat it.
Three years ago today. In which the Eagles Philly specialed the Patriots in Minnesota. That's it. It's three years ago today, the Eagles won the Super Bowl, and they told that coach to beat it. For a guy who may be.
The next Belichick, the next Reed, the next, just name it. It's entirely possible. How did he get it? His first press conference was an absolute... With all due respect.
Well, I mean, I was going to use the word abomination, but it is not. The guy just absolutely stepped all over himself and did not have. the chops to handle the moment. And And he might have interviewed a lot, I hope, I assume he interviewed a lot better than he did in his press conference. How are you going to h say to that guy, go for it?
Let's let's let's have Wentz start and then if he doesn't perform like Week three, week four, you're one and three. Hey, Nick, what are you going to do with the quarterback situation? You think he's going to handle that? Deftly? Does that matter, I guess, when it's all comes down to it?
All I know is I would have Sent him immediately to some sort of communications coach on the spot. If I was the owner, if I was the. Our friend Howie Roseman, I would have liked We're going to get you on the phone. I know one or two off the top of my head that'd be able to handle that situation right away. Brandon Staley was all polished when he was on this show, wasn't he?
Yep. Sure was.
So Put it all together. And uh I'd answer the phone too. I just don't know in the world how how in the world it would look. Because I don't know if Wentz is salvageable. I don't think he's salvageable in Philadelphia.
I just don't. That was quick. I know it's quick, it's a quick trigger. You pull the plug, whatever. A one and three start there.
Two and two start. Yeah, let's keep going. I don't know, man. They probably maybe want to run it back for one year just because after that, then he becomes imminently more tradable. You saddle your first year coach with that problem?
I just don't think it's uh uh a great play. And if you can trade him, I'd flip him right now. Deal with the cat pain for the moment. Try and win with Jalen Hurts year one. Kid could be dynamite, win nine games, ten games.
That could easily win your division, with all due respect, by 2-3. What if you're the Patriots? Do you see something like that? I don't think so. That's just so.
They don't do that. And they'd have to give up picks probably to get him as well. Not happening. Does he have the toughness to win in New England? Because apparently Stanford doesn't.
I don't know. We'll hit that later on. I can't believe that was said. Terrell Davis is a Pro Football Hall of Famer, so is Kurt Warner. They're both going to be part of NFL Network's coverage of Super Bowl 55.
They're our first two guests today. Then two. Absolute studs in the National Football League currently. are our final two guests of the day. The President.
Prez, Jamal Adams, one of our favorites, will be here on the program. And Stephon Diggs. Last we saw him, he was watching the Chiefs celebrate. Making the Super Bowl on the field, one of the most moving. Sports photographs that I've seen all year long.
was Stefan Diggs staring at the Hunt Trophy celebration, standing there by himself, watching the team that had just beat him go to the Super Bowl. And I cannot wait to ask him what was going through his mind. When he decided to just soak that in. Look at that photograph on the screen right there. You know, talk about living in the moment, but also using your pain.
as motivation. Right. I just can't. I mean, I love. Athletes who, um, are so passionate.
Both of them, Jamal Adams and Stefan Deggs. Hour number three, we'll ask them all about Super Bowl 55. Keep an eye on everything that's going on in the NFL, outside of it, and within it. And also, congratulations, T.J. Jefferson, on the.
The first double-double of Chris Tapps Porzingis on your fantasy team. I'm enjoying Lonzo Ball far less. Great. Great way to start today. 18 and 6 last night with four threes.
What do you have to complain about? I just don't like it. Big Ball of Brand, we're here to stay. Thank you. 844204-Rich.
Number to Dow. We'll unveil our poll question for the day as well. But we salute our friend Terrell Davis and you. 844204-Rich. Let's take your phone calls.
Would you want Carson Wentz in your team? We'll discuss that and more here on this Thursday show.
So, you know, we love talking movies around here. You know, we love talking comedy around here. We also love talking about classics around here.
So, you know what I'm all about. That said, All of that said. You know how I must have felt when I was sitting in the movie theater like I was the other day watching the previews, and up came a preview. for the naked gun. with Liam Neeson as Frank Greben, junior.
That Preview had me at hello. I loved police squad back in the day. I loved the naked gun back in the day. And here comes the naked gun once again with yes, Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr. Come on now, son of the celebrated police squad, Lieutenant Frank Drebin from the original movie, Paul Walter Hauser's in this movie, also Pamela Anderson.
Guess who also makes an appearance? WWE superstar. Cody Rhodes, and the producer of the movie is Seth McFarlane, the creator of The Family Guy. Come on now, this is going to be so much fun. I'm excited to see The Naked Gun in theaters on August 1st.
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Why? But yeah, I mean, you're kind of... I'm the perspective guy. That's good idea. What are your thoughts about the enshrinement here for the Pro Football Hall?
You know, sometimes because it's been, as we were talking prior to coming on, it's been a busy year or last. Eight months, I guess. And you almost kind of get. Inundated with all the stuff rather than just kind of like.
soaking it all in like. This is really Just an incredible honor. Have you thought about who is going to? Present you. In Canton.
Um next summer. Yeah, um. I'm not gonna tell you. Oh god. Why'd you let me sit there for a few seconds like that, Brad?
I mean, you thought about like I'm gonna throw it out. You told me prior to coming on here, drama. Yes, I did, yeah.
So, well, you drama. Yay!
So you know who it is right now. You know who it is. Does that person know who it is?
Sort of.
Sort of.
Sort of.
Is it Mooch? He wishes he wishes. If I had told you when you were starting out in Green Bay that you would be. A pro football of famer with two grandchildren on the day that you're going. Would you have believed it?
No, I wouldn't have believed it. You know, it would be. Yeah, like really? It's just hard, you know, yeah, physically, but to be good or good enough for that long. Right.
So everything I ever dreamed of, hoped would happen. has has come true and then some. You do realize that After tomorrow night, when you're enshrined, that is your last chance to announce a comeback.
Well, I'll do real. You know, I was going to ask you. You know, like. Say Sunday, if I said, you know, I think I'm gonna play another. You can't do that?
You can. You can. Will you do that on NFL game day morning? Will you make that announcement on NFL game? But I'll say how I feel Sunday morning.
I said, wake up, you know, it's a super Sunday. You might feel that itch again. Do you miss it at all, though? One day where you're just like, I really don't. I miss kind of the non-football stuff, funny events and stuff, but not.
You see a big win, you go, yeah, that's good. But the other team, I don't miss being the other team. And it's just a matter of time before. The bad hits before it comes and gets you. Yeah, so I don't miss that.
So, how is the date, Brett Farre? That was five years ago tomorrow. Five years ago, tomorrow, where he learned that he was in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and now he is. How about that? I'm trying to f it's it's been h that long since he was put into the Hall of Fame, huh?
That's crazy. That was two years ago. See, he waited so you could learn on 16. Yeah, he got in twenty seventeen. He's been in the Hall of Fame four years coming up.
That was 2016. I know, but he got announced that he said he got in 2016.
So five years ago, he's going to be a five-year-old fan. Yeah. It means he's ten years since he's played. And he still might come back. Are we back on the radio, Mike?
Yeah, no, I'm back. Back here on the Rich Eisen Show on our radio show, 844-204-Rich is the number to dial here on a busy day. Terrell Davis will be joining us in a second. What's our poll question over there, Chris?
Well, I just threw up the Carson Wentz one.
Okay. But one that I was actually thinking about was: what's the most likely outcome on Sunday? Not just who's going to win, but what's the most likely? Bucks win big, Bucs win close. Chief's big.
Chief's close.
Okay. Just want to get a tenor of how people feel the game's going to go before we actually pick the winner.
Okay. Very good. 844-204-Rich is the number to dial. He has been part of NFL Network since its inception, pretty much, is when he was injured and wondering if he's retiring or not. And then eventually he did file his papers.
And then I've been working with him for quite some time. As a matter of fact, he was the one who was sitting next to me when I came up with the idea of running a 40-yard dash at the NFL scouting combine, asking him if I think I should run. And he laughed at me. I cursed at him, and then I ran. And now we're still great friends.
He's a Pro Football Hall of Famer on behalf of his DeFy Water. He is Terrell Davis. How are you, TD? That's right. Hey, Rick, I'm doing great, man.
How are you doing, Rich? You know what? TD, if you had just said go ahead and run, I might not have done it. The way that you reacted to me when we were bored waiting for NFL total access to tape that night in the old RCA dome, listening to the hum of the air conditioning and nothing else, just staring into space, if you had not laughed at me, I might not have run and then I might not have ever done what I've been able to do. Logo, my show might not be me running in a suit.
So I say thank you, Terrell Davis. I salute you. You know what? Rich, you know how you can thank me? You know, those royalty checks that come in, those little.
Checks every week. You could just start sending me some checks, man. What are those checks? What are those checks? Because I look at my mailbox for them every day.
I don't see them. You just gave me credit for the logo and everything, man.
So I think everybody's listening feels the same way I feel. If you want to thank TD, just go ahead and take care of TD. Just keep sending them checks in every week. There you go.
So then I will just give you a mile-high salute and move on, if you don't mind. Hey. But, Rich, you know what? You bring up a very good point. What's that?
And so, when you talked about how I laughed at you, when you mentioned you running the 40. Yes. And people wonder like how Tom Brady has this kind of chip on his shoulder. I mean, you guys are both Michigan guys.
So it's the same, it's the same, I think it's the same energy that Tom feels. Like everybody. He's like taking that kind of, you know, you didn't believe in me, and he has taken it to another level. Yes. And so I'm sure the people in Tom's life where he's looking back and saying, thank you for not believing in me.
I appreciate you. Thank you for doubting me. Thank you for drafting me 199. Thank you for all those things because that's why I'm Tom Brady.
So, Rich. That is a very good point that you've made. Let's do it. Everything you've done, raise all the money that you've raised. It wouldn't have none of that would have happened.
If I did not doubt you, so let's keep on expanding this because technically, when I was at the Michigan Daily at Michigan, and I was a reporter for that student-run publication, one of the guys who was an editor at the time who I was splitting time with was Adam Schefter. Was he my Drew Henson then? Essentially. Was Adam Schefter my Drew Henson? Yeah.
Is that what you're saying? Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. Oh, Shefty. Who you know very well from the days when he was just a mere beat rider, if you will, covering the Denver Broncos.
So, where do you rank Mahomes, brother? I mean, we're talking about greatest matchups, quarterback matchups of all time. And you played in a Super Bowl where it's far versus Elway. Where do you rank Mahomes in general and then a Mahomes Brady writ large here? Terrell Davis.
It's I think it's fascinating and it's um I mean, it's crazy how this young quarterback is really being compared. to some of the all time great and he's only played uh what three years. Um You know, he's he's done so much in s in such a short period of time. But I think Look at Patrick Mahomes and you look at sort of his trajectory and kind of what he's projected to. to do.
And I think people feel confident in that he'll achieve everything that We think he'll he'll achieve. He's got every all the tools in the toolbox, man. He's a phenomenal quarterback.
So this is up there, man. This is up there, obviously, with Tom doing what Tom has done for so many years. This is kind of the passing of the guard, in my opinion. I think this would be the game where. Yes, uh and you may not want to hear this, Rich, because I know you're probably Pulling for Tom in the Bucks.
No, no, no. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay.
No, no, no. TD, TD. Tom has already earned. He's already win or lose. He's still the greatest player in the history of the NFL, and he's a Michigan man.
No one is ever going to take that away. To use the phrase, so it's okay. It's okay, T. It's all right. Listen, again, to me the the the better story would be if Mahomes was able to win this one.
and kind of you kind of now you it's not like now you you really see it the passing of the guard. You see Tom going out, but listen, Tom's a winner, man. And then you see the the young Patrick Mahomes winning second through the bowl and And he's on his way. And I think that's that's how it's going to play out. But yeah, this it but this is one of those games I'm trying to break it down and I'm just struggling because every time there's a point, there's a counterpoint.
It's like, okay, Chiefs have this, well, but the Bucks have a defense that can do this. You know, and then you got Tom Brady. He's always like the The sort of equalizers, Tom Brady.
Okay, you know, any question you ask, and Tom Brady's name is in there. You're checking Tom Brady off the look because we've dotted Tom too long and he's proven us wrong so many times. But then you got Patrick Mahomes, and you say, Well, we got time, but then we got Packet. It's going to be fun, man. I don't know yet.
I'm still processing this matchup and We'll see how it plays out. But it should be a high scoring game. Should be fun to watch. Yeah, and people are Enjoy this moment, man. You may not ever see this kind of matchup again.
Terrell Davis here on the Rich Eisen Show. And because we are, I mean, the brightest, shiniest objects are the quarterbacks usually. And we've just gone over this quarterbacks matchup being potentially the greatest we've ever seen. And it's only going to maybe be, as you pointed out, even greater, a bigger story and a bigger memory as Mahomes moves on in his career and Brady eventually going to retire. We just don't know when.
So nobody's talking about the running game at all. And we have a 70% chance of rain on Super Sunday as we're standing here or sitting here talking on a Thursday, Terrell Davis.
So how do you see the running backs potentially raising their hands and saying, don't forget about us, and we can actually make the difference? Yeah, good point there. And we were talking about that this week in terms of the conditions. And if the field is slick, then That to me leans a little bit towards Tampa's favorite, you know, with Leonard Fournette and Leonard Jones. The offensive line with Donovan S Donovan Smith, their left tackle, and uh Tristan Works, their uh rookie at Plant Phenomenal, their right right uh right tackle.
even have a phenomenal season. Junior, Ryan just in the center.
So their their line has played really well these last couple of games.
So I would give the nod to Tampa if that's the case. But then, you know, the Chiefs have Clyde Edward D. Lares coming back. And remember last year and at the LSU game, he played in a championship game in LSU, and he was so. He put on a song.
I know I know Joe Burrow was the was the man in that game, but If it didn't go to Joe Burrow, it would have gone MDP would have would have gone to Clyde Everde-Lair. And so if they got him back healthy, he's another one that can give you everything between tackles, streams. um you know, whatever, you can jump it off short and have long run.
So It just depends on to me, I think the weather conditions may play a role in that. Because I think the Chiefs if it's wet, It limits the chief in terms of their horizontal running aim, where they like to run those jet sweeps and stuff that hits the edges, right? Um, and if you to me, in wet conditions when I played, it was really just kind of about going forward, you know, if you can just kind of pound away. forward. You didn't want to do anything outside 'cause a lot of times it's just too too slick out there.
Um I I think the the boss would probably get the nod. Uh if it's if it's wet wet conditions. Terrell Davis here on The Rich Eisen Show, and the offensive line for the Chiefs is, as you know, the tackles are out unbelievably. I mean, Fisher tearing his Achilles and Mitchell Schwartz, two of the best in the business. The center, we're assuming that Dan Kilgore is going to be healthy to go.
He's currently in COVID because he's got a haircut from a barber who popped in the middle of Kilgore's haircut, as a matter of fact. Yeah. Did you see that? Did you see his avatar where he posted his picture with half his hair on the head? Did you see that?
I didn't no, I didn't see that. We're showing it on the screen right now. It's classic.
So the Chiefs are loose. The Chiefs are loose.
So how does the shuffling in the offensive line play any of this, do you think? Yeah, well you got the young Andrew Wiley, who was he's an interior guy. He plays guard, so he gets kick he gets kicked out to to right tackle. And then you got uh Mike Rimmers who goes from left tackle all the way to I mean, right tackle to left. Um and listen, that's It it performs, you know, that's not no that's a no easy task, especially since you have on the other side, you know.
The guys are going because JPP, Shack Barrett. you know, and Dominican Chew, all those guys, um Yeah, that's that's that's no easy task there. But I think the Chiefs can do things. I think things like when we play teams that had really good pass rush, This thing you can do. You can have the backs chip.
as they release, you can put tight ends over there. You can do screens. You know, you can do draw plays. Obviously, the ball can come out fast. You can move the pocket, go no-ho.
So, Andy Reid is going to have a game plan to make sure he's not putting those guys on an island.
Now, there are going to be some plays where they have to hold up. That's just the way it is, going to have to hold up one-on-one. Because the Chiefs want to get five and two and two, you know, they're out. They don't want to keep everybody in. Chiefs want to be able to deploy.
Fire people out and make you have to defend that. And so at those times, that's when they they're gonna have to hold up. And the Bucks And Todd Bowles is about to find, you know, kind of the chess matches When do I pressure? When do I don't pressure? And he's got to figure out how to try to keep the Chiefs off balance with that pressure package.
And then come home I mean, you gotta hit home every once in a while. I mean, you gotta be able to get there and try to create some play. to make Mahomes either turn the ball over Or you know, get him for for a uh a huge fat. You know, Mahomes is. He takes chances, and most times they pay off.
But we've seen him scramble and he'll retreat in the pocket and go 20 yards backwards.
Well, you gotta make those those those sacks and Um, the Bills had times where they they hit Mahomes, but they didn't sack him and he escaped and And completed a pass.
So I think that's what the Bucs have to do. Sheryl Davis here on The Rich Eisen Show. Walk me through what it's like getting ready for a Super Bowl.
Now, obviously, nobody's ever gotten ready for one in a pandemic.
So normally, if you could say, hey, you know, let's go out to dinner, let's take in a movie, let's try and forget things or something. Or, you know, players, I've seen players get in a, you know, like a van or a bus or whatever and go out to dinner in a private room or whatever to try and blow some steam off. That's out. That's not happening this week.
So what what was what was it like for you? Just Saturday night, Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday. Yeah. Well, yeah, yeah.
So this is on Thursday. This is the day during the week where. we start to really kind of focus on the game. The Thursday practice for us was like our the really important practice. It was the one where we had pads on, we did our a couple of our um installs.
We did our inside run game, actually, our running game period, with pads on, then we would take the pads off. And for me, mentally, this is when I started to start it, really started to get the game. Kind of focused. You don't want to prepare too soon. You know, the two weeks is a long time, Rich.
And to be preparing for a game for two weeks, to me, it's like overcharging the battery.
Sometimes you can start to overthink the game if you start preparing for it any differently than you do a normal game.
So Thursday would be a game that I'm starting to get ready to I see the game playing a little bit more. Then Friday was our final practice of the week. when it was uh half day And we would try to make sure our practice was crisp, that we didn't have any mistakes, that I was catching the ball, make sure that I wasn't doing anything from a mental standpoint, that I had the game plan down.
So, yeah, so there's stages to it, and you want to keep you want to build up towards the game. But I also say that whatever I was doing during this evening, whether typically Friday nights, we used to go out to dinner. Um as a team, we just don't have a good time. Keep doing that. Don't change the routine up because it's a Super Bowl.
Try to keep things as normal as possible. Which is tough to do. I know it is. It's it's a big game. But The team that can keep things kind of normal and don't overthink the game and then come into the game prepared like they would.
In a regular game, a regular game, should be able to perform and play well, man. But right now, you know, I'm not even playing. I haven't played in 20-something years, right? And I'm getting excited. No, I know, me too.
Me too. I'm getting hyped up on Thursday, man. I know, me too. And so you have to, as you point out, follow routine and make sure that you follow your routine. And certainly, if you're superstitious, follow your superstitions.
What was your superstition in terms of preparing for a game, TD? What did you do? Oh, man.
So mine was the night before the game. Yep. Well, two things. The two things, Friday night, I had to go to this restaurant with. It like seafood smart.
Called Landry's Seafood. If I was in Denver, we had to go actually most times they're in Denver.
So go to Landry's Seafood on Friday nights. That was it. And then. And then the night before the game, I had to have. Vanilla ice cream, plain MM Peanut M's plain.
And then I would have to take a bath. If you knew my bath, you know my bath. What type of bath, GG? Say it. Say it with type of bath.
Hey, I had to take a bubble bath. The night before the game, I had to get in a nice bubble bath before the game. That was it. I had to get so you had to.
Okay, so when you go on the road, did you bring the bubbles with you, or how did you do such a thing for the Super Bowl, for instance?
Well, most times, you know, in the hotel, they got the little shampoo thing.
So if it wasn't like the soap, then I'd throw a little shampoo in there, man, just because the bubble was going. You know, you gotta improvise, Rich, you gotta improvise. You gotta make sure you're gonna get it. Have you ever said to somebody, I've gotta have my bubbles, go get me my bubbles? Have you ever said, Do you have a bubble boy who actually would go and get it for you?
Did you ever have that? No, but I would no, I I didn't have a a uh uh no, I didn't have that. But one game We played the bills. in Buffalo. And we were actually snowed in Denver, so we didn't leave until super late.
So we got to Buffalo. It had to be about two or three o'clock in the morning because Denver was shut down. We didn't think we were going to be able to fly out that day.
So we flew out Saturday, we were super late. Go to Buffalo and get the two or three in the morning.
Well, that night I couldn't get up. I didn't get it bad. I mean, I sleep with the hotel room, I fell asleep. I was tired.
So, the whole morning I am like thinking about this. At breakfast, I'm like, damn, I didn't take my bath. You know, so I'm thinking that. Yeah. I'm thinking I have cost us the game and I know I'm gonna play horrible 'cause I just take my bats.
Um fortunately, you know, we played the game and uh I think I had over 200 yards rushed 20 fucking carrying and fucking like that.
So you know, it's yeah, so I definitely know that it even though we think like superstitions are real, most times it's just mental, right? They're just the things that make you feel good, so you do them anyway, even though they have no bearing on your performance, man.
So I kind of dispelled that whole, you know, myth about bubble baths that I needed one. But it made me feel good. But you still took the bath ag after that. You still you went back to shot. Yeah, I went back to the yeah, I went back to the routine, absolutely.
But you ran for 200 yards in the day where you did not actually take the bath before the game. That actually happened. Yeah, you're saying, yeah, yeah, 200. Yeah, yeah, yeah. With the overtime, too, with the game, with the overtime.
Oh, that helps. That helps push the stats up. But hey, look, it just says either you wake up with it or you do not, Terrell Davis. That's essentially what you're saying. You either wake up with it or you do not, and the it being talent that puts you in the pro football hall fame.
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And how are you and the fam in quarantine? How old are your kids again, TD? They're young.
Well, they just have birthdays, so they're 10. They're 10 in my. seventeen year old, he'll be eight this month, so basically ten, eight and six. Oh, my. And so we are right in the belly of the beast.
They're home all day. This distance learning stuff is merry. For the birds. For the birds, sir. It is.
For the birds. And how's the selection whenever you want to sit down and watch a movie as a family? How does that work for you? It's Bedlam, right? Total Bedlam.
Getting all three on the same page, right, T D? Yeah. Well, it's it's all iPads.
Now everybody's on a they on their plan is uh I think Roblox game or Roblox game. Oh my god, T D, it is the bane of the Eisen, the Schuster Eisen household existence. Oh my god! I can't take it no more, man. I can't take that little game no more.
The music, you will hear it in your sleep. It's, oh my God, you and I, we're the same. We're in the same boat. It's the worst boat. Oh my god.
Do you have it on a channel? And then they hit you up every second because, I mean, you know, you have to pay every two seconds. Robux. Robux. Yeah, Robux.
They need the Robux. Like that, need the roadblocks, and they send you the little thing to ask you for. And so they can't just buy it. They have to, you know, we have the thing where they have to get permission to buy it.
So they send you the little text. But And so my kid is like, he keeps bothering me with these dang Robux. And I'm like, dude, I just gave you $99 and that $99 bucks don't I'm like, where does 99 bucks buy you in the game? 99. That's insanity.
By the way, Brockman's got a little baby boy who's going to turn one at the end of this month, and he's freaking out hearing this right now. This is your future, sir.
Sounds terrible. Whatever y'all do not introduce them to that game. Oh, yeah, there's not enough defy water sales on the planet. Hey, TD, thanks for the call. Best to your family.
Much love. And let's.
So you're on the fence here. I heard you're riding a fence. Are you at some point? Are you going to make a call on Super Bowl 55 or what? Yep, yep.
You're going to do that. Yeah, I remember. I do it right now because I've already made it.
So here it is right now. Here it is.
Okay, go for it. Here it is.
Now, the small print says I have the right to change my pick, but this is where I am right now. That's right. I have Chiefs. Chief 38. at the bus 36.
3836. Is that what you said? Wow, even so, so he's Brockman's already adding the total because he's a degenerate. Where are we at now? Where are we with the Chiefs and Bucks and who's picking who?
You mean in terms of where are your terms in terms of what we think or what a town where the Raiders play thinks? Is that what you're saying or what? Yeah, well, you guys obviously tallying up who picks what team, right? We're hearing more. What do you got?
You're tallying this.
So I have been tallying this up. We have three Chiefs. Two bucks, and then George Kittle was firmly right down the middle. Yeah, he fenced it. He fenced it.
He fenced it. Well, Charles Woodson, Kyler Murray picked the Bucs outright. Charles Woodson took the Bucs plus three and a half. Oh my God. Charles even put 'cause he's ready to represent the Raiders in that's in that town in the Hall of Fame.
Thanks for the call, T D. You take care. You be well. I got it. See you later.
You got it. That's Terrell Davis at Terrell underscore Davis on Twitter. At the real Terrell Davis on Instagram. He gave you a score. 74 is definitely the O, not the U, right?
That's the O, that's big time O, right? Big time O.
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Yes, too. Yes, as I'm draped in my Eagles paraphernalia.
Now, that's like you're seeing you got the green hoodie. Yeah, I went green hoodie, and then I went satin black jacket with the black eagle on it. This is subtle. This is subtle. I didn't want to come here and be, you know, blatant with it.
This is a subtle. Yeah, I didn't notice it. It's sort of like a watermark sort of situation that you have, right? But then you get up close, and you're like, whoa, he really is an Eagles fan. He's got a lot.
Yes. He's got a lot of Eagles stuff on him. I'm wearing a jersey to the Super Bowl with the Jerome Brown patch. That's what you're going to do. Yes.
I got the Randall Cunningham jersey, and my jersey has Jerome Brown patch. What will it say on the back? Will it say heart? Will it say your name? No, it's going to say Cunningham.
It's a real jersey.
Okay. I can't make it say heart. I'm no longer authentic if I make it say heart. It's got to be a real jersey. It's a real moment.
Understand. It's a big moment for me, man. This is it. It's a big game. What do you think?
What do you mean? What do I think? The score is going to be 83 to 6. I called it. I put my prediction out there a long time ago.
Okay. I had a dream. I saw it. And how many to the touchdowns then for Nick Foles then out of that? Nick Foles are going to throw for 32 touchdowns.
32. Trying to do the math in my head right now. 32 touchdowns. Yeah, it is. We just put your 83 to 6.
Yeah, I didn't want to show if my math was good or bad. And so I just threw a number out there. I think I made it on the ballpark. Here's what people need to understand about the Patriots right now. And I know there's a lot of New England Patriots fans.
There's a lot of Tom Brady lovers out there, as you should, okay? They're not Running over the NFL. They didn't breeze through these playoffs. They shouldn't have beaten the Jaguars. They shouldn't have.
They did, but they shouldn't have. It's not like they have displayed this. Oh my god, they're just, nobody's gonna be able to deal with them. Our defense has been an amazing defense throughout the whole season. I really see our defense and our front four getting to Brady.
If we get to Brady, it's going to be a problem. And we run the ball very well. It's going to be a grinding game. And Foles is going into this game with so much confidence. After the last game, he's got so much confidence.
I don't care what you say, you can't beat confidence. You know how much confidence I have? You can't beat my. I don't care what you tell me. I'm so confident.
I'm so confident. Bose has confidence. Our defense has confidence. We are here. This is where we said we would be in the beginning of the season, and we got here.
That's confidence. We're used to being here. That's cocky. That's that's little notch and like shoulder shrug. Yeah, we'll do it again.
It's not the same type of confidence. It's not the same type of hunger. It's a different level of hunger. And these dogs gotta eat. Get it?
Because they was calling us underdogs. Yes, I know. YouTube.com slash Rich Eisen Show for all of our archive and all the fun that we've had at past Super Bowls, youtube.com slash Rich Eisen Show to catch up on this program. We welcome our radio audience back here, 844-204-Rich. Number to dial.
So put Terrell Davis down for a Chiefs close, Chris. Chiefs. Put him down for a Chiefs close. He gave us a final score of 38-36, right? Go for it, Christopher.
All right, so what's the most likely outcome on Sunday? The Bucs win big, Bucs close. Chiefs big. Chiefs went a close one. I'm not asking you to weigh in, Rich, but I'll do that by the end of the show.
Here are the results so far. Chiefs win a close one, 44%. Bucks close, 28%. Chiefs big, 24%, and Bucs big. Milk, 3%.
Ben in Mississippi, you're on the Rich Eisen Show. Let's take your call. What's going on, Ben? How you been? Richie Richard, if I was any better, I'm like Bruce Arias.
I'd be tweeting. I love it.
So let me get to your poll question first. Don't want it. Don't want it. But here's why I called.
So Of all the storylines that we've talked about pretty much for the last two weeks in the Super Bowl, the one that we really don't talk about a lot. My Super Bowl blowout. I'm calling it, Rich. I'm calling my shot straight through the goalpost. We've only had three Super Bowl blowers in the last 19, 20 years.
I got the Buccaneers big by at least. 17 points. I don't trust that Kansas City offensive line. I know they got Patrick Mahomes and they got the West because I know about it all. But I think the Buccaneers special with the Rain.
Especially with the defense. I know it can be feast or famish, but I got the Buccaneers big on Sunday, Rich, by at least. 17 points. Well, Ben, since you started this call quoting Bruce Arians on our program from last week, I will respond in kind to your comment. What are you smoking, bro?
Give me something. There you go.
I'll do it. I knew it. I knew it. Thank you for the call, Ben. Thank you for the call, Ben.
That's Ben in Mississippi. Yeah. Bucks by 17. Can you dig it? I cannot dig that.
I will not take it. No, not even close. Mahomes would have to, they'd have to, the Chiefs would have to suffer a considerable injury for that. I think you might be right. Could you imagine if the Chiefs do fall down by double digits?
The torpedoes that will be dammed by the offensive minds of Reed and And the enemy, the stops that will be pulled out at that point, and forget it. No lead is safe. No lead is safe. You're right. No lead is safe against the business.
We saw that last time. In terms of anything's possible, Don, put that photograph that you showed me during the commercial breakup of Warner from his first. Attempt at winning two Super Bowls. Look at Warner and Brady shaking each other's hands before that Super Bowl. Look how young Brady looks.
Look how young Warner looks. And these two are going to hook up for NFL Game Day Morning, the eight and a half hour pregame show on Sunday. Look at this photograph, Super Bowl 34, correct? They're in New Orleans and 36, pardon me, yeah, 36, that's right, my bad. Super Bowl 36, look at that.
Anything's possible? Brady and Warner. Two guys personify the anything that's possible. Anything is possible scenario in the NFL. Kurt Warner's story, as we all know, is going to be made into a movie one day.
And Brady, who thought on that day?
Okay, this is just the first of 10. Wow. Crazy backwards hat guy. Here's the stat. We've been saying stats about Brady over and over and over again.
about trying to put in perspective. We're trying our best to put in perspective. Tom Brady's remarkable Ascension to the Mount Rushmore of American sports. Forget the NFL. We can't compare him to anyone in the NFL anymore.
Honestly, now we got to talk about Bill Russell. I mean, the stat that I saw on opening night on NFL Network's opening night show on Monday night that I hosted: if Brady wins this, He joins only four other people that have won seven championships in their respective sport with three MVPs. in this sport as well. Nobody, there's only four guys. DiMaggio, Mantle, Berra, Bill Russell.
That's it. This is where we're at now for him in team sports. But here's the one that I think that really sums it all up. Tom Brady on Super Sunday. When he plays in his 10th super role.
In Super Bowl 55, he will have then played in 18% of all Super Bowls. That's insane. And 35 of them were played before he played in one. That's insane. 18% of all Super Bowls.
will have had Tom Brady quarterbacking in it. And 35 Super Bowls were played before he played in his first. That's come on. That's nuts. I think that sums it all up.
We could go about the number of rings and the number of appearances and how that obviously dwarfs everybody. But that's it. Like, let's talk Super Bowls. How many of them? Featured Tom Brady.
As of Sunday, 18 plus, I'm rounding down. Yeah, 18.2%. Right. And thirty-five Super Bowls were played before Brady stepped foot. onto the turf for a single one of them.
It's amazing, man. Cookies dominated him? I'm joking.
Well, I mean, again, Eli got him twice and Foles got him once. Foles got him three years ago. Today, and that'll be, I'll front load it right now. I'll front load it right now. Don't take this cheese, people.
Do not, if Mahomes wins, don't take the cheese that he's played in 10, but he's six and four in the record, like he's barely above 500. Don't take the cheese because some ass hats in my industry are going to try it. Oh, they're going to try it. They're going to do it. They're going to say, click on it.
They're going to say, click on it. Let's talk about it. Let's go against them. Let's talk. Just don't do it.
And yes, I use the word asshats, which makes T.J. Jefferson's day. I love it.
And I know he likes it when I do that. I like that word, too. You know me well. He loves it. When Salty Rich shows up on the show.
And I am a little salty. Last night, just going through my Twitter feed and I was scrolling, I'm just like, the hypocrisy I saw in the sports and also the political world. I had to put the phone down. But I'm just telling you, the entirety. of Brady's career.
Don't take the cheese if you lose it, it's a six and four. What we need to know are two things. One, his legacy is already achieved. His legacy, as we all know, is. Too much is never enough.
Yep. Too much is never enough. That legacy has been salted a long time ago, and certainly with this appearance. And with this appearance, 18%. And point two.
Okay. Of Super Bowls will feature Tom Brady, and 35 of the big games were played before he ever played in one of them. Come on. And his first Super Bowl, the first quarterback he got on Super Sunday. is my quarterback on Super Sunday, Kurt Warner, coming up.
Speaking of I was going to say, just about Brady, he took the Bucs to the Super Bowl. Like the Bucs. In the first year. Oh, well, Kurt took the Cardinals to the Super Bowl, so you want to go in that direction. The Bucs.
Okay. In his first year.
So speaking of Speaking of salty, and I love it when you love it when I'm salty. I love it when Eric Stone Street is salty. The modern family star, my friend, can you do this for me, Don, if you don't mind?
So I just woke up to this today. I'm like, what's Eric going about? And Ryan Petkoff is, I believe, a member of the Chiefs organization. That a member of the Pro Football Focus family s was pointing out about the Justin Houston. Roster move, and that Brett Veach isn't all perfect.
And Stone Street is just basically clearly has a thumb on the pulse of a locker room, understands the full breadth and scope of situations from both personnel and cap perspectives, and considers what may be for the greater good of an organization player before he tweets, just stay in your lane, Ryan.
Okay, meaning. The Ryan who was taking his point of view. He's all sarcastic and he's all salty.
So I responded on Twitter: Salty Stone Street is my favorite Stone Street. He then responds: You got a dose of quote-unquote salty Stone Street after you loan Wolf the Bills Eisen.
So I know you know salt when you taste it. And I wrote back, You're already in Game Road right now, aren't you? Within two minutes. I got back from Eric Stone Street, took a selfie. Uh you can put it up there, Don.
There it is. Yes, maybe, he writes back. Ha ha ha. He's got sort of like the Andy Reid Fu Manchu, like Dick Tidrow, to use a baseball phrase, mustache coming. Look at him.
He's got the face mask. I don't believe he is. What's Randy Reid? That's true. Randy Reed is working.
Randy Reid's all fired up. That just means that he's got the hat and the face shield all ready to go, you know, and selfieing it out. He is ready to roll. You know, Stone Street's making a delicious brisket on Super Bowl Sunday. Oh, yeah.
I'm doing ribs this weekend. I have actually, and this is not a metaphor for anything. I have tasted Stone Street's brisket. Paw. Amazing.
No. Oh. It is. What? Oh, my God.
He is This is the guy who says he texts Mitchell Schwartz at night to talk about meets in the middle of the night, not just at like six. And my favorite moment was at. The big slick ch uh charity. Tournament that we went and took our show to in Kansas City. He's sitting next to Mitchell Schwartz, and I call Mitchell Schwartz a member of the tribe because he's Jewish.
And Stone Tree goes, Chiefs. And I'm like, not that tribe, Eric. Wrong tribe. Kurt Warner when we come back. Um Yeah.
