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Venezuela wins the WBC! They can't believe it! Today's guests, NFL network analyst Daniel Jeremiah, CPS sports broadcaster Ion Eagle, ESPN women's basketball analyst Andrea Carter, and now it's Rich Isen.
Well, hey everybody, welcome to this edition of the Rich Eisen Show. We are live here on Disney Plus, the ESPN app, ESPN Radio Sirius XM. Channel 8844204, Rich is the number to dial. We already got a buzzer beater in the March Madness tournament. If you do consider the first four.
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I'm shocked. Good to see you right here. And good to see you, TJ Jefferson. What's going on? Can you light the artificial candle?
I'll be honest with you. Bam.
Okay. Yeah, I got to make a candle run. I'm not a big fan of that. I mean, let me know. We can expense it.
Okay. I'll go afterwards. I don't want you dipping into your own pocket. Candles are on the house. Candles are on.
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That's an inside joke between you, Brockman, and I guys, that Rich one day we found him walking through a parking lot. You found me. Listen, no, no. You found me. That makes it sound like I'm strolling the parking lots of Canton, Ohio.
No, we all went to dinner with the NFL Network crew when we were all there for the Rich Eisen show back in the day for the Hall of Fame. And my hotel was across the parking lot. Yours was a little bit of a drive away.
So you got in the car and I said, I'll walk.
So when we went through the parking parking lot, we found you walking through the parking lot. You find me. You saw me. I walked ahead of you. And there was a home goods store, and I just said, you know what's there?
It's home goods. Not sure if you're aware. They sell home goods. They sell home goods there. I'm not your word.
At any rate, they're catching everyone up to speed. I didn't mean to go down that deep of a wormhole, but I just don't want you throwing out there that I just stroll parking lots in the middle of the evening in Ohio. No, I was walking back to my hotel. At any rate, congratulations on Instagram, Mike. Very good.
Thank you. By the way, congratulations to Team Venezuela. What a run. What a finish to the World Baseball Classic. Congratulations to Major League Baseball and everybody else who poured their hearts and souls into this event.
It translated. We felt it. We loved it. I loved it. I think everyone around here would agree.
Anybody who wants to call that 844204-Rich number to Dow would agree. It used to be every four years, by the way. That's why I said couldn't it be every three years now? And it's now, you know, every three years. We've got it once again.
uh for um the uh World Baseball Classic. And Venezuela got it done where they topped the bottom. Superb lineup. with a top to bottom, superb pitching staff. I mean, seven and two-thirds of scoreless inning baseball against Italy.
On Monday night Out comes Eduardo Rodriguez to start the game from that left-handed side. And he. Handcuffs the United States hitters. For almost five innings of action, and then the bullpen took it the rest of the way, with the exception of Bryce Harper coming up with. One of the more electrifying moments of this World Baseball Classic going yard in the.
In the eighth inning, bottom of the eighth, with mere outs to go. For Team USA, down to nothing, a two-run jack, a no-doubt about her. After Bobby Witt Jr. walked, it was the third straight inning that Team USA put a runner on with just two outs. And they couldn't cash anything in, get anything going.
But the Big Jack by Bryce Harper. leading only to Uh a ninth inning. game winning rally. For Venezuela Eoanio Suarez What a series this guy had as well. The go-ahead double in the ninth inning.
After Team USA put Garrett Whitlock on the mound, well, I texted you, Chris. He's nails. When was the last time he threw five straight balls in his life? Yeah, I don't know. Four straight balls.
The leadoff hitter was Ariz. And a pinchrunner comes in, steals second base. He's safe and a bang bang play at second. Will Smith almost got him. Um and then a double to end it and Uh per domo, the Cubs closer as he should be and is terrific.
Um comes in to wrap it up. For Team Venezuela. And um You could see what it meant to this team. Uh I mean uh Salvador Perez. A World Series winner, a World Series MVP.
a a perennial all-star said now I can retire. Is what he said.
Now that the World Baseball Classic Championship trophy is going to Venezuela. Um Miguel Cabrera. I did not know this, the hitting coach. I did not know this. He's the only guy.
to have played in the first five World Baseball Classics. Only got to do it five times for Venezuela. This time around, he's Retired. He's the hitting coach. He's also.
The loudest, I guess, railbird on that coaching staff. And in that dugout. Um He wins it in his sixth go-round, but this time. As a coach. I mean, the players on this team, and this was even without Jose Altuve.
And you could just see what it meant. To the entire coaching staff, the manager had been a long time. a longtime coach for the Houston Astros. You know. The excitement.
The fans. Right? I mean, you could feel it. You're sitting at home. It was so loud.
I mean, just it was just coming through the TV. It felt like a Game 7 last night. You know, it's rare we get those feelings and these types of games and atmospheres in March. But man. It was awesome.
I know the USA came up short, but I'm so happy for Venezuela. Like you said, you could see how much they care, how much it meant to them, how much this mattered, how hard they played. I loved it. Loved every second. Yeah, I mean, I think Joe Davis was telling the story about Omar Lopez, the manager of Venezuela, how he wanted to be part of Team Venezuela, even thought he was going to be the first base coach back in.
Uh 2017. And then he was told at the last minute that the job was promised to someone else.
So he went as a. batting practice thrower just to be part of it. And now he gets a shot at managing, and he's the winner of the World Baseball Classic. And, um, You know, now Listen. Uh team USA.
I just want to start by saying this. Um When you're expected to win, you have a different demeanor, I'd imagine. There's a different pressure upon you. Whereas maybe everyone else is playing with house money since this is the sport that was created in this country. And I Cherish.
All of the players that said yes And all of the players that said, I will leave my spring training. Teams for two and a half weeks to do this, and I will put myself under the microscope and the pressure of having to win. It's not easy. It ain't easy. And maybe that's why it came across sometimes that the other teams were playing with more joy.
And then the manager, Mark DeRosa, it ain't easy. I mean, he's sitting there on MLB network, comfort of the studio.
Now he's putting himself. in the griddle of having to be the manager of this team to win. And he had this to say about Wanting to potentially do it again after Team USA for the second straight World Baseball Classic. takes it to the ninth inning. uh in a one-run loss in the final.
Contest. It would be 100% yes to do it again. I'd love to get over the finish line. Not only is it two times, but three, two both times. Why?
If you saw how hurting the guys were in that locker room right now, you know why. I mean, for some reason, this WBC has become a tidal wave of emotion for a lot of guys. You get them in the room. representing their country, coming together for two and a half weeks. The buy-in, it's infectious in there.
So uh Yeah, special group to be a part of. proud of the way we represented USA.
Soft spot in my place for Venezuela as well. I played there in winter ball. Know a lot of guys from there and uh. Omar is a great man, the manager over there, so. Yeah, just a great game.
You know, and he this guy's a smart guy. He went to the University of Pennsylvania, where my brother went. My sister-in-law went, and they're very smart people there. I think he went to the Wharton School of Business, where my brother went to as well. But him not knowing that they still needed to win to move on to.
The quarterfinals is something that Mark DeRos is going to be dealing with the rest of his. days To be honest with you. There was a post that I saw last night that I kind of think summed up the feelings that everybody was having. Uh about Um You know, that moment for him. That He told reporters he'll call Tarek Skubel's camp to potentially line up Game Three return in the WBC Championship Series.
Kind of sums everything up right there, tongue in cheek. And then, you know, obviously everyone's laying things on his lap about how the team We saw everybody else. Celebrating the joy of representing their country and treating it like it's a festival and having a blast like their little leaguers. And he's treating it like it's zero dark thirty. And Again, there's a different set of I feel it, I understand it.
There's a different set of pressures when it comes to performing with Team USA on your chest. As opposed to everyone else, But I think some of the criticisms are valid. And we're only saying it today because for whatever reason, Um Do it. Garrett Whitlaw had an off night. At the worst possible time.
And so did everyone else. I mean, up until Bryce Harper's two-run home run. I do also want to point out Bryce Harper. What he did after the game. Did you ever see what he did after the game?
He went through, he stayed on the field and hugged every single member that he could find of Team Venezuela to congratulate. That's cool. Which is awesome. I mean, Bryce Harper had an excellent night, certainly. Uh for that two-run jack.
After a difficult um A difficult WBC at the plate for him. But Check the box, man. Let's keep doing it. I do it every other year. But the problem is that they're, you know, obviously.
Yeah. Did you see the number of people that could have started potentially for the final game for WBC, but. That's spring training form. Yeah. I mean, that's the thing.
Opening day, Freed. Your guy, Crochet, who's starting opening day. They weren't involved. You know what I mean? And it's too bad.
And McClain, your met prospect, just a tough spot. But he did well enough to. Keep it a game. It's baseball. Yeah, I think I sent it over text, but Witt, Judge, Schwerber, Bregman, Roman Anthony, Will Smith were 0 for 19.
That's not going to get it done, obviously. If you want a nitpick here, do you think maybe Will Smith up at the plate against a rody you put. The big dumper in there and a pinch hitter and say, Let's go. I know you've been old for this entire world baseball classic, but. Pop one out.
Lefty, play lefty, righty. Yeah, I think empty the bench situation. I mean, it seems like that could have been, would have been a move, but obviously we're second-guessing. Easy to say today. Easy to do today.
Easy to do that, but just awesome. But a Harper's home run, man. I don't think I've been that excited, you know, probably since the playoffs, the NFL playoffs. Like, it's just, oh, baby, let's go. Like, it doesn't matter that maybe you're not a Phillies fan.
Correct. Maybe you don't like Harper as a player or whatever. But that was exhilarating. Right. Yeah, there's a there's some hard feelings this morning.
Some hearts feelings, but just again. Check the box. of Everything that you love about baseball. And that's what the World Baseball Classic was all about. And I do appreciate everybody that did play for Team USA.
that they actually got out and did it. You know, and I'm hoping it does, as DeRosis said, the infectious nature of it, that everyone's going to want more of a piece of it the next time. Um 844-204-Rich, number to Dow. Let us know what you think about all that. Daniel Jeremiah is going to join us in five minutes' time.
He has got his first. Mock draft since the combine out. Who does he think the Jets are going to be taking second overall? Where does Jeremiah Love go? Where does Carnell Tate go?
What does it mean for the Dolphins now that they've traded away? Jalen Waddle? What does it mean? for the Ravens to now Have the 14th overall pick in the draft again with Max Crosby back in Vegas. Crosby has spoken for the first time since that all happened on his podcast and show.
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Let's review his work back here on the rich eyes and show my guy from NFL Network move the sticks and so much work. How are you, Daniel? Jeremiah, what's going on, buddy? I'm doing great. I did enjoy the sound mix, though.
Del Tufa was not in charge of cutting the cameras right, you know, so we're missing three, two pitches. Oh, boy. I got him. I'm not sure about that.
Okay, well, that's backstory. Let's not go public with that. No, no. Wow, I mean, it's 3-2 to Aaron Judge, and we missed the pitch. What are we doing?
Come on, guys. I know.
Sometimes these things happen. Good to see you, buddy. How are you? Good to see you, buddy. I'm fired up, man.
I did some homework for this.
Okay. Actually, okay. I appreciate you doing homework. We can do a mock draft. We can have fun there.
But then I just had a little exercise this morning. I got up, had a good cup of coffee.
Okay. And I wanted it. I'm kind of reviewing some guys, watching some guys, going back through it. And I'm really trying to hone in on the guys that I love or my type of guys that are like dogs, warriors, competitive, feisty.
So I went through this morning. I put down my 10 guys that I think are just, they're just my type of guys.
Okay. So I came up with a list for you. Eventually, whenever you want to get to it, we can. Let's do it right now. Let's do it right now.
Yeah, let's get to it.
So these are, what list is it? This is like a power ranking. It's like dogs. I've got a power rankings later, but so you've got a list of your top 10 dogs. Dogs.
Dogs for the NFL draft. Yeah, I mean, look, the draft's right around the corner, and my association with dogs has not been pretty with the draft, so I'm trying to change the narrative.
So maybe if somebody Googles Jeremiah Dog, you won't see me getting peed on this list on the Rich Eisen show. Very good. Let's help. Let's make one of them. Yeah, do you want some music?
That's what he does.
Okay, just no Freeberg. We don't have the rights to it.
Okay. All right. Here we go. All right. Go for it, Daniel.
Go for it. All right. We'll start at number 10. Bryce Betcher from Oregon, linebacker. He plays just with such an energy and physicality.
He's got the baseball background, but I'd never seen it. We showed it at the combine. I'd never seen anybody declete his teammate in a warm-up for a senior bowl game, but that's how juiced up he was.
So he came in at number 10.
Next, Emmanuel McNeil Warren, the safety from Toledo is one of my favorites. And there's tons of big plays, splash plays with him, making plays on the ball, but then you also see him as a real physical presence in the middle of the field. It just brings a lot of energy and a lot of juice.
So he's next. Then we go to Rutledge, the guard from Georgia Tech, who, like one of the first games I watched, he's finishing a guy 20 yards down the field.
So Keelan Rutledge, I love the energy he plays with as an interior offensive lineman. Then we got a receiver in Omar Cooper Jr., who, when you're watching guys and you're looking at what they do after the catch, you'll see guys can make you miss or they'll run away from you. He'll run over you and just absolutely refuses to be tackled.
So I loved his feistiness and competitiveness. And his catch against Penn State, right? Like that, that is season on the line back of the end zone. It is unbelievable. Catch of the year that saved it for him.
So he comes in next. Then I've got Sadiq, King of Sadiq, not only for what he does as an athlete.
Okay, we see that. We saw how fast he ran at the combine. But watching him in the run game compete, finish guys, and you're watching him early in the season. They're not playing the top-tier opponents, and you could say, okay, I'm going to kind of cruise and glide. And if we could just get him to do some more curls, maybe by the looks of that picture.
But he just finishes dudes in the run game.
So that's that competitiveness that I absolutely love. Then I got Pons, Danzel Pons from Indiana, undersized. I was talking with an assistant GM this morning. We were kind of batting around where do we think he goes in the draft. And we started going over all these undersized players that have, you know, that have made it.
And he has all those traits. Super twitchy, super explosive. But you go watch that Ohio State game against Jeremiah Smith, and he got him. Jeremiah Smith got him a couple times, as he does everybody. But that's as competitive and as feisty a corner as we have in this draft.
So I'm a big fan of his.
Now we've got a couple, we've got three of the remaining guys here, all Miami Hurricanes.
So it tells you about the culture that they've got there. I'm going to go Mezador, who the first note that I wrote down on him was this guy. Plays like a werewolf. I don't even know what that means. I just was watching him.
I didn't know how to describe it. You don't even know? I'm just watching this guy just throw people around and he's playing on the edge and he's kicking inside and nobody can block him. And he's playing kind of angry and mad. And I'm like, I don't know.
I just wrote down this guy plays like a werewolf.
So, uh.
Okay, there you go. Good one, Mikey.
Well done. That's what we're talking about. All right, Akeem Azador is three.
So then I guess it's Bain and Mauanoa. Those are the last two?
So I've got no. I've got, and then I looked at it, by the way, and I put an 11th guy down there, so it's going to be a starting 11.
Okay. Keontae Scott was next for me.
Okay. And he's somebody that big plays, big games, saw the pick six and the playoffs. I just love to me, he plays like an old school Miami Hurricane, which is odd to say for a guy who grew up by me here in San Diego. But he is everything that Miami is all about with just how tough he is against the run. You see him as an absolute missile.
He never taps the brakes on the way to a ball carrier and just finishes every single time.
So he's got a high batting average as a tackler and super physical, tough competitive.
Next, I'm going to go with the USC Trojan.
So this is number two on the list of 11 here. Makai Lemon. I just wrote down on him, you know, you're kind of going through and looking for comps. I was joking with Zerline the other day because, you know, we talk about Amon Ra, we talk about Heinz Ward, like how tough he is. And I'm like, nah, I think I'm going to go Johnny Lawrence because there is no fear in his dojo.
He is working in the middle of the field, fearless. He does not brace for contact. He runs right through the ball and takes whatever medicine they want to give him in the middle of the field. He catches everything. And then after the catch, he'll break tackles.
He'll fight for extra yards. I'm a Makai Lemon guy. And then number one on the list. It's the name and the game. It's Bane.
I just put him at the very top just because you look at him, just throw guys around. He plays with an energy and a violence and a temperament that seems to be contagious along their front.
So, those are guys when I went back through and just looked through my notes, Rich. I found a lot of similarities in their play style. Not all of them have all the prerequisites in terms of the size. You see Bane with the lack of length. There's holes there in some of that stuff.
But if you're talking about wiring and how you compete and how tough and physical you are, those are my favorites.
Okay. Thank you. Number one, that was great. I appreciate you doing your homework. I have some follow-ups that can kind of lead us to your mock.
So you're the arm length with Bane. We're not talking about it anymore. It's what you're saying. Like the tape. 100%.
outweighs the measuring tape. is what you're saying. I believe so.
Now, I'm not naive to think that there aren't teams that will have that impact where they have them slotted, but I.
Somebody's going to pull the card, the tape is too good. The versatility, the ability, I think. To move him inside and let him rush inside where he can be a real, real matchup nightmare. I think teams are going to cover that.
So, you know, we'll see. They'll. You know, they'll all have to make that decision when they're on the clock. I just have a hard time believing that there isn't somebody that's going to say, like, I'm not passing any stupid of a player.
Okay. And moving to your mock draft now. Based on what you just gave us, an awesome top 10 that I had no idea, with one more, which we normally have around here, too. But we call it. That's the drop.
We'll get one more. Yeah, and again, we would have produced the heck out of it if we get it in advance next time.
Next time.
Next time.
Next time.
Next time.
It's all good. You send me a text, send me an email, we'll produce the heck out of it for you. But we just got your top 10 dogs with one more in the draft. And you mentioned Makai Lemon is your top wide receiver dog in the draft. And with the dolphins Trading away Jalen Waddell.
on Tuesday to the Denver Broncos. they would go ahead and draft somebody like Makai Lemon at eleventh overall. And looking at your mock draft, you have the Dolphins passing on Lemon, leaving him for the Rams to select. In the spot that Atlanta would have occupied, and that's something that the Rams have in their back pocket from last year. Why do you have the Dolphins not going for a Waddle replacement and going with Mansour Delane, the corner out of LSU?
Why do you have that? Do you want a flowery answer or the real God's Honest Truth? I want all of it. All right, the real God's honest truth is I turned that mock draft in the day before, and I woke up having my cup of coffee. And I got a text that literally was like, hey.
Waddle's been traded.
Now you've got to put a new name in there for number 30.
So I have my cup of coffee, and I'm like, all right, who did I not have going in the first round? Who could make some sense there? All right, I'll give him Keldrick Falk, give him an edge rusher there at the end of the first round. I did not work through all the different interpretations of what that could look like with them as the 11th pick.
Okay, then my follow-up then: would you put Lemon there in Miami now? That would be a tough to pass on him for me. Just what I think of the player, and then now them having a glaring need there. That's going to be a very enticing option for them.
So I found the right question to ask to. Find the one Achilles heel in your mock draft. Oh, yeah. No.
Well, the other one, no, this is the way mock drafts work. You turn this thing in, and literally. Between when it's supposed to come out within a Three-hour period, literally three hours. You get this trade happens, and then Houston. I had Houston taking a guard because I'm looking at their roster going, This is championship team, caliber team.
They just need a guard. And then they go out and sign Teller after I'd already given him Basantis in the first round.
So, I mean, it is what it is. All right. So, then let's go to the top then. Let's go to the tippy, tippy, top before we return to. The middle of your first round.
Why do you have the Jets going Arvel Rees at the end of the day? And then we'll do the domino effect after your answer. Sure. I mean, just in terms of how I stack the players, I'd have Bailey there, and I've had Bailey going there in the previous iteration of the mock draft process.
So twofold here. One is, okay, let's see, you know, if this, then what. If you change the name in there, how does that affect the rest of the top 10? It's a good exercise. But the other side of it is everything to me about the Jets screams 2027.
So if you're not worried so much about what you're going to get out of this player immediately in 26, and you're in the draft room and you're saying, okay, guys, we got the three first rounders in 27. That's where we're going to find our quarterback. That's where our future lies.
So let's look at this pick with number two: who's going to be the best player in 27? And I think when you look at it that way, you could look at it and say, okay, well, I think Reese has the most upside here. I think Bailey's going to be better right out the jump, and Bayley has a higher floor. But if we wanna swing a little big here and allow for some time for him to develop. You can make that case.
Plus, with the flexibility and the 3-4 that they're in, you can do a lot of different things with him in that scheme.
So that's how I ended up just switching it up a little bit and putting Reese in there.
Okay. And then now it's anybody not named Mendoza or Reese for the Cardinals. Walk me through how you think Francis Mauanoa's name winds up on an Arizona Cardinals' third overall draft card. The way that this, the way that where they're positioned, what they need, to me, and you had mentioned this a while ago, so I'll give you some credit on it. To me, the Cardinals would be a team that wanted to get the heck out of there.
That would be a spot where you could say, okay, we've kind of pinpointed and we'll get to love. Love seems like to me, it just makes all the sense in the world for Tennessee with where they're at right now.
So I'll kind of work backwards. They did all this work in free agency on the defensive side of the ball. This pick, absolutely, without question, has to be something for Cam Ward.
So, who helps Cam Ward more than anybody in this draft? It's Jeremiah Love.
So, you can kind of find the Jeremiah Love spot.
So now you can look at some of these other teams and say, hey, in a draft where maybe we don't have quite the star power, he is one. And that might be a situation where Arizona might not have to take full price. They'd be willing to move back a little bit, knowing they could still get an offensive lineman to their liking. They could take one of the pass rushers if they were still there. But that to me would be a spot where it makes sense to at least have the phone calls ringing a little bit.
From who? Who would bring to the point where they'd move up? Arizona wouldn't move too far down. That would cover Jeremiah Love. It could be Tennessee just saying to heck with it, we'll move up one spot.
Give up some draft capital here. There's a couple different places you can look at. To me, the most fun example is if we are the. Let me just run through this little scenario I was looking at the other day.
So, if you are the Rams, I mean, everything screams all in, right? I mean, what they're doing screams, they're going for this thing right now. You're this close, you're a drop punt away. You've already gone out and you've got McDuffie. What if there's a world in which you can move up in this draft to go take Jeremiah Love to put in your backfield as your finishing piece, to give you somebody that's as talented as Todd Gurley, what they had early on in the McVay years there, to be that little piece there?
And oh, by the way, if you could pull that off without trading next year's one, which you'd have to get creative, but I think there's a way you could do that. And then you still have the A.J. Brown thing kicking out there in June for next year's one. And so you have a Rams offense with as good as they were last year, and all of a sudden you look up and you've got Jeremiah Love. In the backfield, and you've got A.J.
Brown out there with Puka Nakua. I mean, goodness gracious.
So, and Devontae Adams. Yeah, and Devontae Adams. It's an all-in, that's an all-in push all of your chips into the middle of the table for this year.
So, what about Kyron? Is he part of the deal? I think Kyron's a good player. I mean, but this is an Jeremiah loves on another. Another complete level.
So, I mean, you could trade, you could do a lot of different things there. Blake Quorum, those guys are good players. But this is a needle mover. This gets them back into the Todd Gurley era. Ooh.
Oh. Jeremiah Love is that good, right? Correct? I think he is. I think he's really, really good.
He's half class. Is McCaffrey good? Yeah, he's in that neighborhood. He's in that conversation of those guys. To me, Saquon is my.
My guy that I had kind of up and above, I wouldn't put him there. But in that next wave of guys, absolutely is in that conversation. Daniel Jeremiah here on the Rich Eisen Show.
So he doesn't get past Tennessee at four. Is what you're saying. I don't think so. I just don't know how they can do it. I was a little bit confused by free agency with them.
I thought they would do more. Wandell Robinson's a good player, but they took a lot of resources and dedicated it to improving that defense, which is fine. But I just, to me, I'm trying to help my quarterback. He took him one overall, gave him some more firepower. And Ridley coming back and Wandell Robinson, like, I don't.
That doesn't really move the needle for me.
So, to get an impact player feels like that's almost to have to do it at this point in time.
Okay. We just heard Jeremiah Love for. Jeremiah Love, everybody. By the way, that's Mike Hoskins just got in my ear to tell me that. I can't take credit for that.
You're not no ownership there. No, but that's just the group I have around me, DJ. They know the way I think, and I know the way they think. And trust me, if Del Tufo had rights, he would have had a great song for that right there. I know.
He just doesn't have rights, but Fox does. That's why he hangs out with them more. Listen, let's move on. The Giants take Sonny Styles at five. If this is the way the draft board drops.
Correct. Best player. He's the best player available right there. Impact guy behind their young line. And then to me, this was the exercise I wanted to do with this one: Carnell Tate.
It's a decision. We're going to talk about it a lot over the next month. All signs point towards Cleveland, tackle receiver in whatever order. And usually I'm of the mindset of it's going to be the tackles are going to go.
So you usually take the tackle first and you can see what's left from the receiver group. I would just look at it and I'm saying, okay, they could, this is a little bit of the gamble here, but take Tate, who you feel like is the best receiver in the draft. You get him in the boat. And then, because there are a decent number of tackles, where they are with their second pick, I'm not doing trades in these mock drafts this early, but. They could monitor that situation.
And one, you know, one of them starts to drift, they can use that second pick and come up and secure the tackle. But that's a way where they could get, you know, the top wide receiver in the draft and then who carries a higher grade.
So you'd be getting, you know, best, more best player available approach. But then be, you know, be on the lookout, be aware with that second pick that they could, you know, hey, once if Lomo is getting in range, I had him fall into him in this one. If Freeling's starting to drop, you could be a little bit aggressive with that second pick because they don't have a left tackle right now.
So that would be something that they need to get accomplished. All right. Listen, for the rest of your mock draft, I'd love to go pick by pick or at least a couple just to pick out. Um but uh I do want to hit you on the trade before I let you go in the few minutes I have left with you. Uh everyone can check out uh Daniel Jeremiah's mock draft nfl.com and of course on uh on his social handles.
The trade between the Dolphins and the Broncos, DJ. Um I want to start with the Dolphins first. Because they get Malik Willis, and they have basically said A-Chan is untouchable according to our soon-to-be. Yeah. Disney colleague Adam Schefter.
Um So The concept of let's bring Malik Willis in and then Kind of Send away his best receiver option. A lot of folks are thinking that maybe Willis made a mistake signing with the Dolphins. I'm wondering what your thoughts on the dolphin side of things, roster building as well as supporting the new kid that they got. in his first real shot at starting in the NFL. DJ.
Well, it's gonna make life tough on him when you look where they are. I was a little bit confused on the timeline here because the stuff that I had heard and talked to a bunch of people before free agency around the league, and you talk to agents who have a good feel of what free agency looks like and what teams are in on what players. And everything I got was pretty consistent on Miami, which was they're pointing towards 27. They're going to take some salary medicine this year, and they're going to be more of a 27 approach than a 26 approach.
Well, then the news comes down that they signed Malik Willis. And I was like, well, geez, that must have been some faulty information because they went and got the top quarterback out there on the market. And then you look at the numbers, and they weren't, it wasn't a massive investment there.
So You know, they've got Malik Willis to line up and play quarterback for him. And if he shines and can elevate a limited supporting cast, then maybe that gives him more of a future there. But that to me, with what they've done, feels less like a full push and commitment in Malik Willis, more so like, hey, Malik Willis is going to be our starting quarterback for this year, and maybe. The year after, but this kind of pulls back a little bit from me of saying, Oh, there's full commitment and full belief in him, and they're trying to win around him. This still feels like that original information, which was this is a team that's that's still, you know, all systems go on 27.
So, do you think he would take a mulligan on signing with them, or did they tell him? Like, how does it work? Yeah, I don't know that. I don't know if they told him, like, hey, we're gonna, it's gonna be lean and rough here. You know, we're gonna have to just gonna have to overcome some obstacles here in the first year, but you know, we're gonna be you know going for it here in 27.
And, you know, we'll see what they do with these resources they have in this draft. Um, they're gonna have to play a lot of young players. Um, so I mean, yeah, I don't know what he was privy to in terms of the plan and the information there, right? But right now, I mean, they've got the draft coming, Rich, so let's let's get them through the draft and see what other pieces they can accumulate here. But right now, I would say his degree of difficulty has jumped way up.
And then, in terms of Denver, you talk about the number of teams that are looking at 2027, Jets being one. Obviously, Browns might be another one. You're talking about the The Dolphins just mentioned their moves look like 2027 type things, which would certainly help the teams who want to win in 2026. And the Broncos are one of those, right? Like Nick's is going to be maybe in his last year of his rookie deal this year.
And let's go. Go to work and get Jalen Waddle and heck with the first and third. round draft picks this year, right? Yeah, they're in a roster position where it was going to be hard for that pick, for the thirtieth pick, to come in and have a big time impact. Not that there aren't good players there, but this is a roster.
Remember, last year's first round pick, J. D. Barron didn't start for this team. They're in a really good spot to the point where I was doing these mock drafts, and you'd get there and go, okay, I could see them wanting a big-time tight end.
Well, there's not going to be one there. Sadiq's gone.
So you don't really have that opportunity there. And then the running back position was an opportunity, but they brought back J.K. Dobbins. They've got Harvey. They're in pretty good shape across the board.
So to find somebody that's going to have a big impact. I think it made sense for them to make this move because Waddle will come in. It won't even be just him making plays. He's going to stretch everything out. He's going to open things up underneath for everybody else.
He's going to change the box counts. This is a team that has an excellent offensive line and they can really run the ball, move people in the run game up front. And now you're going to be able to pull an extra guy out of the box because of what he can do down the field.
So I thought it was a smart move for them, knowing this is not the time to pick somebody that helps us a year from now, two years from now. They want to go right now, and Waddle helps them more than the pick at 30 Woods. No doubt.
Okay, DJ, thanks for the time, brother. Look for more of my calls and texts. Really appreciate it. I appreciate it. Voluntary homework, by the way.
I mean, you don't. It was incredible. Don't get used to that. No, no, no. But next time it happens, just hit me up.
We'll support you. We'll. Post-production. Let's get this some post-production. We can do that.
We'll do that. I'll look for the reel later on in our socials. You set the bar high, but that's what you do. That's what you do. Just try a little extra.
Daniel Jeremiah, everybody, right here on the Rich Isaac Show. Here he goes off to do. More shows, more content, more drafts, more mocks, more. Love it. Homework that he wasn't asked to do, which is very appreciated.
Didn't ask it all. All right, we'll take a break. 844-204-Rich. See how Mike just rolls in the break music. That's the Mike we know.
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What a dreadful time this would have been to argue and squabble. and tell all the fans that are gonna get a full dose of the awesomeness of women's basketball in the March Madness tournament that we're going to be talking about at length with Andrea Carter in our number three. What a dreadful time it would have been to take all of that momentum and flush it down the collective bargaining, squabbling toilet. Again, I'm I'm so You know, I grew up two members, my parents were members of the teachers' union in New York.
So I come from a union household. And I also come from a household that Um went through a lockout. With the NFL? Yeah. Oh my god.
People getting furloughed. You remember all that? Oh, it's crazy. I do. I got furloughed.
Absolutely terrible. Terrible, terrible.
So the fact that it gets avoided and then the players of the WNBA who deserve a bump, who deserve a raise. Um getting A significant one. The salary cap that was one and a half million bucks is now seven.
Okay. So you can do the math. That's about 4x. Three and change X right there. The Super Max that was just a bit shy of a quarter of a million.
is now starting at 1.4. The average salary that was $120,000 is a very good number. is now 600,000. I mean, that's almost 6x. That's 5x.
I shouldn't do math off the top of my head. I'm more verbal. That's why I do this show. That's why we're not doing algorithms on the Rich Eisen show very much. I wouldn't be.
None of us would be. Minimum salary that was $66,000 is going to surpass $300,000. Minimum salary. Minimum salary. Love it.
So now this means a lot of these women not won't have to go overseas and play just society.
Well, we're assuming, again, you know, the the revenues for the uh women's game is not Obviously, NBA revenues. Clearly, clearly.
So I'm assuming that what you just said is right. Hopefully. I don't know. I'm not that deep of an expert on it. But the bottom line is uh a raise was more than deserved.
and deserving And if they feel that they are happy with the revenue share apparently is 20%. If they're happy with these numbers and they think they can play basketball with these numbers and be prosperous with these numbers, then I'm fired up about it. If the union feels they've come away with a good deal and that the players feel that they are respected and that they are compensated to their. happiness, then let's go. The bottom line is this is a golden goose.
Right now. And the eggs are only becoming more valuable. with each Passing year. And so, for them to not take the momentum of the last several years. on the heels of a Women's March Madness tournament, that certainly if the the top two seeds of each Region Advance There's going to be some outstanding Elite Eight games, leading to final four games and a final game that this entire country is going to be watching.
And I flush that. Over dollars and cents, I'm glad it's not happening. The Rich Eisen Show Podcast. Mm-hmm.
