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Ladies and gentlemen, Greg Olson back on the program from Fox Sports. Good to see you, buddy. How are you? Yeah, it's good to see you, Rich. What's going on, man?
I'm better for seeing you. What did you think of the draft? You know, I thought it was fun. You know, I I find that there's so much coverage going in and so much speculation and so many stories and articles written and obviously a million mock drafts.
So You know, I feel like by the time the draft comes We all have a pretty decent sense of who are the guys. I think the Ty Simpson. Pick obviously was the main kind of surprise, at least in the top half. Of night one. You know, certainly, I don't think a lot of people had the Rams going quarterback there, kind of in a win-now mode with Stafford and all that.
But, you know, I enjoy the draft. I think it's fun to see how teams view the draft board. You can get a really good sense of what teams value certain positions. And no two organizations approach those elements kind of the same way. And I think it gives you a really good insight into how certain teams view roster building and roster construction.
I enjoy that aspect of it a lot.
Well, I mean, you know, since you were part of the combine coverage for a couple of years on NFL Network, you know how we normally handle things on NFL Network, which is not to immediately say this is terrible, or, you know, this is something that's a total surprise and they shouldn't have done. You know, it takes a while to figure this stuff out, and you know what it's like to also develop a quarterback.
So that's my long-winded setup by asking you what you thought of Ty Simpson being chosen by the Rams. Yeah, certainly after every selection, after every draft, every NFL front office, we never have seen a coach or a front office personnel, GM president, ever get up there and say, you know, the draft. It didn't fall the way we wanted. We didn't get any of the guys that were at the top of our board. I know, man.
You see the draft rooms, right? They drafted the pick 230th pick overall, and they're all hugging and high-fiving and shaking hands and they're clapping. You know, I hear you. I know.
So, I think everyone exits the draft with a renewed sense of optimism. I think that, you know, in the big picture, is a big reason why the NFL. Is king. I think every season, organizations, players, coaches, front office, of course, fans. There is a renewed annual optimism going into every season, and that's what makes it fun.
That's what makes every team feel like they can compete. But specifically about the Ty Simpson pick. And then I think the press conference that followed with McVeigh, I think there was some speculation about his body language. And I think his explanation was actually really sound. You know, here's a guy who's a highly animated, super engaging, big personality, and then him and Les Need sit in front of the media following the Ty Simpson pick.
You know, seems a little bit more subdued than we're traditionally used to seeing him, but in his mind he's doing it out of respect for, you know, Matthew Matthew Stafford and you know, the MVP and a guy that just, you know, had the season of his career at this stage who You're up there being a cheerleader and pounding on the table for how excited you are about this new rookie. And could it be seen as a jab to Staffords, right? I think in McVay's mind, that's what he was trying to portray, and it certainly makes sense. In their mind, they probably don't ever think that they're going to draft that high. I think with the success that they envisioned having this year and with that young talent and their ability to draft well the last couple years, they feel like their roster is set up for a lot of success.
You know, if you want a quarterback in the first round, you're probably taking them in the top half, top 10.
So there they are sitting there in the top half to draft. Maybe they don't think in the next couple of years they'll ever be there again. And Ty Simpson is a guy that they believe he's not the quarterback this year. He might not be the quarterback next year, but we've seen teams do that. Look at Green Bay with Jordan Love.
And Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers with Favre. I mean, there's a Mahomes.
So we've look we can see a lot of really good quarterbacks that were drafted when there was a clear starter in place. And one, two, three years later, they transitioned in and have had great success. Yeah, I I just I go back and forth on it, Greg, where you know obviously How difficult it is to win in the NFL. And you could use the 13th overall pick on somebody who turns into Jared Verse because whenever Les does use a first-round pick, it works, even though he rarely does it. Um And then, you know, you could draft a rookie, and then it's got to be Jared Vurse in order to get on the field because Sean doesn't play rookies.
You know, I I it's just a it's it's a it's a tough one to wrap your arms around, especially when you know the whole like they didn't get anybody for Matthew Stafford thing is blown up when Trent McDuffie's on the back end of this defense now, right? And you take a look at at how also I I liked what Seattle did too. They didn't have many picks, but they went ahead and they got The second running back off the board kind of dug that. What do you think of the Carson Beck pick by Arizona? I mean, like, that's, that's a, that's, he might be the, the, the first starter.
Of the quarterback group this year, Greg. You know, yeah, and that's where things, you know, everybody wants to be drafted. We'll just stick with the quarterback position because it's the easiest one to talk about. Everybody wants to be the first quarterback taken. Everybody wants to be drafted as early as humanly possible.
You want to be the first overall pick, you want to be a top 10 pick, so on and so forth. Where it gets really tricky is when you become the top pick of the lower mid-rounds because you don't get the luxury of being the 25th pick, the 20th pick in the first round. There's a contract, there's a different element of being a first-rounder, but you also go towards a team that. Traditionally speaking, it was one of the worst teams in the league last year, unless they got that pick via trade or whatnot.
So you look at Carson Beck going in those subsequent day two, three rounds, but you're at the top. You go to Arizona, a team that's clearly. Searching for their new identity, you know, the floor, you know. Mike LaFleur, now the head coach, going there trying to establish: you know, what are we going to be? How are we going to kind of rebound following.
You know, what's been a difficult run these last couple years. They make a coaching change, they move on at quarterback from Kyler Murray.
So, yeah, do you want to be the young quarterback playing? Of course, but do you want to be the young quarterback that's being thrust into a situation where maybe the roster around you is not real strong, maybe the traditional, you know, the growth of the team is not really where we want it to be for you to go out there and really be evaluated and be in a position to have success? I think every organization in the NFL fights that battle. They're going to fight it with in Las Vegas with Fernando Mendoza, right? Do you start Fernando Mendoza from day one, let Kirk Cousins be his backup, and just let him take some lumps early?
Or do you let Kirk Cousins go out there and be the veteran and let Fernando Mendoza Sit behind him. We've seen teams do both. Playing as a young quarterback helps. Playing as a young quarterback in a situation where you are going to have a hard time finding success and you're just going to get beat down over and over again because of the pieces around you or the status of the organization. We've seen it be detrimental.
We've seen it be a detriment to the future career of a young player, but we've also seen young players. Become better. It's a very case-by-case basis, and you have to trust that these coaches and organizations know the personality traits of the player and which box they fall in. Greg Olson here on the Rich Eisen Show, NFL on Fox, and we'll talk about a crucial blood test to prevent prostate cancer and find out what's going on in your body. Important subject matter.
We'll get to in a second, right here on the Rich Eisen Show. Also, a draft can inform about what a team's about to do. And it sure looks like Mackai Lemon. Drafted by the Eagles on top of Dontavian Wicks being acquired. On top of Hollywood Brown being signed, Does mean A.J.
Brown is going elsewhere. And you've got Sean Mannion now coming in. Pardon me. Sean Mannion coming in now to be the new offensive coordinator. Walk me through whatever you would know about the Mannion system.
Hertz's um you know abilities All coming together to try and get this offense together, and it sure sounds like it's going to be a lot of new pieces. for the Philadelphia Eagles coming into this season. With the Giants getting better, the Cowboys hitting the heck out of the defensive side of the ball in the draft. What do you think, Greg, about the Eagles' offensive challenges? that we're about to see.
Coming up, yeah.
So, I think it's going to be a pretty significant change in just the way it looks, right? The way it's presented. I think the Manion system, the tree he's coming from, the organizations and the coaches that he's been with is going to be more of the, you know, not necessarily the modern day McVay, but like, think the Shanahan, LaFleur, under-center, play action, uh, turning your back to the defense, not sitting there and shotgun RPO quarterback read that we've seen really Jalen Hurts for the most part throughout the course of his career.
Now, certainly it's a great fit for Jalen Hurts from what he did in college and what he's done growing up, and certainly fits his play style, his ability to be a designed runner. You don't want to put those guys under center very often because you lose the threat. Of the quarterback being a part of the run game, being a part of the RPO passing game, and whatnot. I do think as they've shown the reluctance to run. Jalen Hurts, as much as they did earlier in his career, certainly the benefits of sitting in shotgun all day long have been diminished.
So I think getting him more comfortable under center, working on the footwork, being comfortable turning your back to the defense on play action pass before you reset and find your crossers and whatnot.
So I think visually it might look a little bit different. And then obviously that ties in with a little bit of a different run game with Saquon. And again, there's a lot of residual impacts when you make radical changes in the presentation of your system. I think in regards to the wide receiver position and AJ Brown, You know, it's been one of the bigger mysteries in the NFL over the last couple of seasons. You know, you're talking.
A premier wide receiver duo, um, you know, on the outside with AJ Brown, and we got tight ends, you know, with Gowder and Saquon, and they got two of the best tackles in the league off it.
So you start looking at the roster and you go, okay, this should be the best offense in football. And at times, they over the years, they've been awesome. And this past year, obviously, not, you know, the consistency and the high-level production certainly wasn't there.
So, all indications are they are going to move on from AJ Brown. I've always been of the mindset of like, You better have a really good plan in place before you just letting great players go out the door. And A.J. Brown is a. A fantastic wide receiver in the NFL.
They've had a hard time building that passing game around his strengths. Long, you know, over long periods of time.
So, I think now you draft in the first round, you acquire Wix in free agency.
So, there's clearly a plan that Howie Roseman does have in place that they feel like it is addition by subtraction. Um, there are examples of that throughout the league where you do let go one star player and things do get better, but in those cases, traditionally, you've gotten better either at the same position of the player that's left, or you've gotten better around them, or the system has changed.
So, they certainly check all those boxes as far as the transition to this new system for the upcoming season. But, um, man, I just knowing what it's like to play with big-time receivers like AJ Brown, I got to play with Steve Smith, I've gotten to play with, you know. Those guys are unique. Those guys changed things on game day and uh If you're going to let guys like that walk out, you better have a really good plan. And Howie Roseman has shown, in my opinion, he's a top two personnel guy in the entire league.
And if anyone's earned the right to make these decisions and have the trust that it's going to work out, it's him. You know, and then there's the advent of the tight end position. Becoming such a crucial part of, you mentioned the Shanahan-McVeigh offenses that have become more proliferate in the league.
Now, Ben Johnson in Chicago. You know, and I remember when Loveland got drafted, it was like, well, they already have Cole Komet. Like right now, if you don't have two or three. Or four? Right?
I mean the the Rams got another one. Like, you know, uh Like 16 personnel is coming in this league, right? I mean, like, this is what's what we're seeing. Currently. Wouldn't you agree?
Great. Oh, absolutely. You know, we used to joke that we need to find O5 personnel, right? Like, there's no backs, there's no, we're just gonna have all the eligibles, there's just gonna be tight ends. But You know, I think it's a really interesting trend.
You know, it goes back to you know, kind of my first when you asked me just my thoughts on the draft. Yeah, I think aside from the individual players and their stories, which are great, you do get a pretty good sense of the direction of where the league is going and where leagues value certain positions at certain you know draft stages and certain pay pay scales, and you know, and obviously position.
So, I do think that the especially in those middle to late rounds, the teams continuing to load up on the tight end position. There's a lot of different factors. Number one, there's just more of them, right? When I came into the league, it was a lot of converted receivers, it was a lot of guys who used to play basketball, they used to play quarterback. Everyone kind of became a tight end because whatever you were doing prior, you kind of reached the end of your rope.
Now, kids grow up playing tight end, now kids are at high school tight ends, college tight ends. It's a premier position.
Some of the biggest stars around the NFL now play the tight end position.
So it's just an entirely different growth pattern like along the way for these young tight ends coming into and out of college. And then Big picture-wise, NFL play style. You've seen that as teams have gone, defenses have gone small, they've gone bend but don't break. Everyone plays deep coverage. And if you're going to score on me, you're not going to throw it over my head.
Teams have said, okay, there is an inherent advantage to getting bigger on offense, right? More tight ends, getting under center. Running the ball at people. And the idea, you look at the Rams, who you brought up, it's a great example. The success that the Rams had throughout the course of the season, and Seattle was very similar on their way to the Super Bowl.
They were getting big because the idea is you're getting big because you want to run the ball at me. And as teams then on defense started matching them, what happened? All of a sudden, now Jackson Smith and Jibba and Puka Nakua and all these receivers out of these big personnel groupings, it turns into a pass game.
So there's a little cat and mouse there now as offenses are going to react to what defensive strategy is and getting big guys on the field, as many of them as you can. But with the idea being, yes, we want a threat to run at you. But we really want to have a threat to throw the ball at you.
So the more guys that I can have, in those personnel groupings, the better. Yeah, and the Eagles drafted Eli Stowers. You know, like to go with Goddard. There's your two there. I mean, you're seeing more and more of these teams.
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You've always been great and much appreciate all the support you've given me. You survived us. You survived. You survived. You started it all.
I appreciate everything you've done. I still feel the same way about the gauntlet drill, man. Like, why do we have a drill where you catch it five times and you drop the football? Like, you got to catch it. You know what I mean?
Like, they don't complete the process, Greg. I understand it's about how you can hold, you know, how you hold your hands, how you catch it, what your hands look like, and how you can, you know, run in a straight line and make sure you're doing the right thing. But these guys don't complete the process. Every time there's a lot of things in the evaluation process that we could probably do better. And we'll save that for my next visit.
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I don't think we need to talk about it. Evan in Denver. Evan in Denver. What do you want to chime in about, Evan? What do you want to talk about, Evan?
Hey, what's up, guys? Thanks for taking my call. What's going on, Evan? Man, what do you want to talk about? This is for TJ.
TJ, I am unfortunately a Rockies fan, and I've been through. uh many heartbreaks, but I was just wondering how you are feeling Getting swept by the Rockies coming off one of the worst seasons in baseball. Rockies fans calling in and giving some shade. You know, it's just a poor Met fan.
So deal with other people. Rockies who have never won a championship. At least we have some. I'm more concerned with the NFL draft right now. Oh, here we go.
Here we go. You're more concerned with that. Evan, Evan, you bring this smoke all you want, man.
Well, he's in Denver, of course he is. Did the Rockies sweep the Mets with Juan Soto back in the lineup? Did that happen? I mean, that's old stuff. We're on to the next one now.
Did they sweep, did they, just a doubleheader, or did they take all the games in New York? All the games. They took all the games. Oh. It is interesting because we have one of the lower generals in MLB, and the message I think has the highest.
Yeah, it's up there. It's up there. The Dodgers probably have the highest, but you never know. Kevin, thanks for calling. Thank you.
Please keep calling back. It's like they still act about this. They got the standing. Like the Yankees weren't like in a torch market. They're not on the Yankees.
They're overspending. The Yankees just won it. They won eight in a row, and now they're eight over 500. Um and the other team is 10 under. In a Mets Town.
It's odd. And then in between, you've got a Red Sox team that's won two in a row. Two in a row, baby. One of them, a winning streak that began with Alex Cora managing the team to a 17-12. Victory, which is interesting to be 11 and 17, those numbers, if you reverse them, were 17, you take off one of the ones.
That's the score. Good for the most of the coaching staff. And did you see this one? The van that they sent for the coaches to be taken to the airport was in a van that's From Coaches for Hire. That's the name of the service.
So bad. It's the name of the service: Coaches for Hire. Sick. Interesting. What a great move.
We're a first-class organization. Hey, coaches for hire. We've got managers and coaches to take five if you want to. Hello. Coaches for hire, can you take what a joke?
I mean. You want to say something? You got the floor. I'll give you the floor. What do you want to say?
What is there to say? We're an embarrassment. This is what I put on to it. We're the Marlins in fancier clothes. Like we're not serious.
Totally not serious. Do not care about winning. Just sell the team. If this is how you're going to behave, you know, Alex Cora is probably happy to be done with this organization and these guys, this front office. Like, complete joke.
I'm not switching. I'm still going to watch. I still care. But like What are we doing? Yeah, John Henry did not show up to the press conference.
And didn't talk. And when the players wanted to give input, he said, no, no, no, you're here to play baseball. Told them to shut up and dribble, essentially. Great, cool. Really exciting.
I'm sure everyone's pumped to put that uniform on every day.
Well, they won again. They are pros. They won. They won the next day. Great, cool.
That's their job. I know that's it. That's what apparently they were told. That's what they were told. Yeah, that's what their job is.
Oh, we'll be taking no questions. Yeah, no, no. But on your deathbed, you'll have total consciousness. Great. There'll be no questions.
That's got to come. Says the llama. We got that going for you. Cool. Which is nice.
Just sell the team. I'll tell you this. When I said we're going to keep on updating the standings just for our three teams. didn't think the Mets would be 10 under. On the Monday after the track.
And then your guy gets fired. Alex Cora would be fired. What a World Series. I can't imagine. And the team who was not good in 2021 was like a couple of plays away from going back to the World Series.
Right. I'm stunned. I would not have guessed that. It's crazy. On that opening day where the Pirates put up like a three-spot, right?
And then the Mets put up, knock. The scheme's out of the game. I'm like, oh, okay, here we go. That's her back. Here we go.
Is it a Mets town after all? Nope. Oh, no. Still early, man. Oh, it's still early.
That's right. My goodness. We got like 30. You and the Phillies, man. You and the Phillies are in the private pile world of you-know-what right now.
Are terrible. Woo! Oh, baby. Yanks won eight in a row. I just wanted them to win yesterday so I'd come in on a nine-game win streak.
Yeah. But they lost. Oh, you're good. I mean, you guys are what, the second-best team in baseball. No, they're not record-wise.
They're close. Oh, no, wait, Dodgers, Padres, Dodgers, and Padres. Yeah. Reds are 18 and 10-20. By the way, the Reds are playing well.
Nobody's talking about the Reds.
Well, the NL Central is playing very well as a whole. Side teams are doing great. You don't need to. You're not allowed to talk in these sites. Side teams are doing great.
Kill your own mic, please. Paul, over here. My team. Unwritten rule. Unwritten rule.
When your team is about to win a playoff basketball game by double digits, And you have the ball. With one point one second left. Do you score or you just dribble it out? I I am team Jokic in this. I am too.
I am not. I am too. Did you see Shaq said he would windmill Vince Carter dunk it? And Charles then said, I'd be gunning for you. I'd say, who wants $500 to take him out?
I'm I'm Jokic as well. That's all. All Jokic did was getting his brain. That dude put his hands on Jokic.
Well, but no, no, Jokic charged at him. Like George Brett lost his home run to pine. And by the way, when are we going to get Jokic about this? He did the game before that, Anthony Edwards had the ball in his hand. There was a timeout called they were going to commercial.
So Ant's sitting there. Jokic does the same thing, runs out of his way to go try to grab the ball from Ant. It was unnecessary. Did you see Jade McDaniels after the game? They said, you know what, did Jokic say to you, or did you say something to him?
I just saw a big man. He just said, I just saw a man big as hell coming at me. Like, come on, you were that was okay for him to run the whole way across down the court. I mean, he did more running there than probably the previous, I don't know, just dribble it out. Just dribble it out.
You didn't even have to take the ball to have to. You just could stand there and the game's over. Or the clock's still running and your momentum is carrying you towards the basket. Just dribble it out. No, what are we doing here?
Come on. Stop being a baby. Stop being a baby. Just not looking out. I'm saying it.
Like, that was ridiculous what he did. I thought he was being immature by scoring. Wow, then I'm glad I'm here because the three of us do not think I'm doing that. By the way, this is totally. Um Taking the oxygen out of, oh, by the way, Anthony Edwards is hurt.
Yeah, probably out multiple weeks. How about that? The team said officially week to week, but some said three weeks. In these playoffs, though, in these playoffs, that I I mean, let's go ahead and see.
So when Bunyam is out, they win. He returns, they lose. After having a huge halftime week. Right. You know?
Or it was the other way around. Wait, what are you talking about? My bad. Portland yesterday. Yeah, Portland was up big, and San Antonio came back.
They came back and won. But I'm just saying that. Also, the Lakers don't have all the. Players that they need, no. No stars, they're all three nothing.
Did you think that was a um Technical Foul a flagrant. On DeAndre Ayton. The elbow to Shangun's head. Even Shangun was like, I can't believe they ejected him for it. Yeah, especially in the playoffs.
Or they flagranted it. I think in the playoffs, you got to do a lot to get thrown out of these games. You see, at the end of the game, two guys, I forget which two it were, got into not even a. A scuffle that even you'd remember, and they both got tossed with like a minute left in the game. The thing about the Jokic thing, too, is remember back in the David Stern days when those dudes, was it the Knicks?
They put like one toe on the line, coming on the court, and everyone gets ejected. Everyone was on the court in this game.
Well, the game was over.
Well, there was one second left. Was there? I thought that was. I thought it was the buzzer. They just let the clock run out after he scored.
I mean, they were right in front of their bench anyway. But still, that was back in the day. You got suspended. Did you see the Sam Amick report from the Athletic that if the Knicks, even if they make the. Eastern conference finals or win the East, that Mike Brown's still on the hot seat?
This whole thing has been nuts, man. It's your booze playoffs. He's never fired tips. Off the charts. Shit.
So far. Off the charts. Also, do we think Houston's coming back, right? No. Oh, God.
Really? It's going to be good. Kevin Durant hasn't even played in this. I understand that. And you're down three.
The Lakers can win one. The Lakers coming. Not if they play like last night. Jeffrey in San Francisco. You're here on the Rich Hisen Show.
What's up, Jeffrey? No shape. Hey, Rich. What's up, bud? How are you doing, man?
How are you? Hey, good. Listen, great draft coverage. Thank you, sir. And a great jet strap, dude.
Yeah, happy for you. Thank you. Back in the day, Ravens used to open their stadium on draft day, and we had a blast going down there kicking field goals and having fun. I was 0-15, Richard, my field goals, just so you know. Yeah, well, this next year.
It happens. What do you think of that guard, and is that going to fix some of our problems? Because I'm not convinced. I love him. He's got Gold Jack written on him, and I don't usually say that.
That's all I hear. He's that good, man. He is that good. He is that good. And I love the pick.
And, you know, Jesse Minter comes from the Harbaugh world. And that was it, man. I thought that was a totally Raven pick. It would have been a John Harbaugh pick. Minter comes from the John and Jim world.
That works, man. That tracks. I loved it. I like 'em. Couldn't be bigger on it.
Can I give you a dog thing real quick before we go?
Okay. Have you seen a documentary called Inside the Mind of a Dog? I have not. Oh my gosh. Your buddy Rob Lowe narrates it, Rich, and you need to watch it this week.
Okay. Well, thank you. It's Randalert. It's really, really good. Thank you for the call.
That's Jeffrey in San Francisco. Inside the mind of a dog. Hey, listen, going to Susie and say you want to watch a documentary on dogs. You're old. You're in there, right?
Did you see speaking of the Ravens did you see what um Our buddy, uh Mike Silver reported in The Athletic. I did not. Eric Da Costa. Who, as we all know Was the general manager? Who told the um The general manager who told John Spy Tech Yeah, that trade.
For Max Crosby, it's not working. Take Maxis. And everyone's like. And I Everyone's like, does that mean the cost is going to Yeah. His by his own industry.
Like are other general managers going to trade with them or not? Or is he going to reap what he has just sown? Although it was his right to do it, And I was like. It'll be next year and next. years new league year nether world of Stuff's not official until New league year begins.
And maybe that's when people will hold off on dealing with them or not. I have no idea if this is in fact born out of what happened between the Raiders and the Ravens. But According to Mike Silver, who did this whole write up on Da Costa and spoke with him, Quote. From Saturday night, with three enticing options, Da Costa at 14 was willing to trade back. and he thought he had a deal worked out with a team, which he declined to name, that would keep the Ravens picking in the teens.
And allow them to pick up extra fourth-round picks in each of the next two drafts. Once the clock, however Once on the clock, however, the trade fell through. This time it was not Da Costa's doing quote from Da Costa. We had something on the table, but inexplicably they told us they'd changed their mind. Huh.
They changed the deal. Mm-hmm. And we passed. End quote. Interesting.
Uh the changed our mind. Inexplicably, they're like, Yeah, everything that we planned. No, we're not doing it. Picking in the teens, okay. Wouldn't say the name of the team.
All right, let's see. According to um Mike, with the 14th selection, DaCosta targeted a cluster of players that included offensive linemen. Spencer Fano, Francis Mawanoa, and Ioanne, wide receivers Carnell Tate and Jordan Tyson, and tight end Kenyon Sadiq. Ruben Bain was also there for the taking. As you know, Fano, Mawanoa, Carnell Tate, and Jordan Tyson were gone.
Ioanne and Kenyon Sadiq still sitting there. Sadiq went to the Jets two picks later at Bain, the very next pick to Tampa. I'm telling everybody, I know what Sadiq might look like for the Jets and how good Reuben Bain looked. In Tampa. Can you imagine?
This kid, this guard from Penn State. I never Talk about What guards look like at the Combine, unless they've got flowing red hair. You know, this guy, he was dominating. And I looked at. I looked at um Daniel in a commercial break.
I'm not even set on the air. I'm like, is this kid a top 10 pick? Why are we not? And he goes, just interior lemon. That's it.
You're just not going to draft a guard in top 10. I'm telling everybody. The Ravens might have been done a favor. For whoever changed the deal inexplicably. And they chose wisely.
This kid is really, really good. But I just wonder if somebody's like, hello? See if uh tell me how that tastes. Yeah, who's friends with people on the Raiders?
Well, Spy Tech came from Tampa, right? Kobe, brother. Huh? Spy Tech came from Tampa? Yes.
Okay, there's the team in the teens. I don't know. He wouldn't name it, but an interesting report from uh Mike Silver. Yeah, they got a good one, though. All right, we'll take a break.
We'll wrap up this Monday show. Two great in-studio guests tomorrow to tell you about. Don't go anywhere. Uh The Rich Eisen Show, the podcast. Rich Eisen here.
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Obi would have done the exact same thing. And if I stopped going to Carl's, people would start calling up, asking where the dog is. I don't think they'd be too worried about me. Um But I got to thank you guys for showing Bob Odenkirk the graph that you guys put up. That was pretty awesome.
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So he told him about you, too. We're talking about you, yeah. Hmm. What's on your mind? I'd imagine if he's stopped in there, he's probably met Obium once or twice.
Talk about just kind of recap the draft. I thought with the Niners moving out of the first round, I wasn't too upset with that. I thought that was probably some smart moves. And especially with the Cardinals taking love, who I don't think I don't think that is the best fit for them. And with the Rams, Taking Ty, I just didn't, you know, I think that that just was not a good pick.
And I have to agree with Brockman.
So I was kind of excited that the two divisional rivals kind of made some hiccups there in the first round. Yeah, buddy. I just think that the I just think the Niners kind of reached for some of the players that we drafted. And I would have really liked Jennings Dunkard there in the third instead of taking the running back from Indiana. I thought that he would have fit in perfectly with this team.
And so We'll see how it turns out. I'm not in the room. Like we always say, I just didn't I don't think we addressed our needs like we needed to. I don't know. I mean, the Niners and Lynch are getting beat up right now.
I mean, let's see how Deshaun stribbling looks. And Kalen Black, he was the first non-combine player drafted third. Third round. I watched him play with Indiana, and I think he's going to do well for you. We shall see.
And thanks for the call. I don't know. The Niners, I know that their drafts get low-rated, but they seem to. They seem to get some gems, man. And then, you know, last year.
A lot of those defenders that they drafted for Salah turned out to be.
Okay. Okay. I mean, they damn near won their conference. You are seeing that a lot, though, today, of like, why do the Niners always reach in their draft? Dude, you know the video of watching the Bills fans so upset that Josh Allen got drafted?
You see that? Doesn't age well at all. You know, C minus for Patrick Mahomes from certain, like, you know, please. Yeah. Fernando Mendoza, you know, let's see what he can do, for instance.
Right? He wouldn't even be first overall. If it was a different draft.
Okay. He's now a Las Vegas Raider, and he got welcomed by his teammates via text. Interesting who hit him up. Yeah, I was blessed. This morning and last night I was able to get A text from a couple of guys.
Like Max Crosby, Tylerbaum, Colton Miller, and Kirk Cousins. I'm sure there's been more. I'm looking forward to reaching out to all my new teammates and most of those guys. It's been a whirlwind in the past couple hours. But, Kirk, sent me a really nice text.
I'm looking forward to. working with him. Learning anything I can from him, and just the great not only teammates that we've been able to learn from, but also the great coaches.
Okay. Max Crosby, welcome to the team, kid. Tyler Lindemaum, welcome to the team. Colton Miller. I mean, they've got some.
They got some players there, man.
So, if you haven't reached out to Fernando and you're on the Raiders, I suggest you do it. Fernando is ready to sell you a whole-term life insurance. Yeah. What do you mean? He looks like you.
I'm just saying. He looks nice, gray suit. He looks like he's ready to. You want twenty a year, thirty a year.
Okay. You want low monthly payments? Yeah. What kind of coverage you need? We got you.
Although the video of him being like, you know, LFG, that's great. The Brady's already rubbing off on him. I do like that. Did you see that at the point? Yeah, did you see he also updated his LinkedIn?
He took out the open to work label. He's got that. He's He's ready to work. He's ready to work. Ready to work.
He is ready to work. He's going to start week one. Yeah I don't want to end it like Charles Davis and Daniel Jeremiah. I'm Team CD here. Like Chris, like I said, we were told for months.
He's drafted number one. He's playing. And now all of a sudden, he's not going to start.
Well, Kirk Cousins is there now. But that's for tomorrow's show. Kenny Chesney and Ray Romano in studio. See you then. Thanks for listening to the Rich Eisen Show podcast.
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