Tom Pelissero: Russell Wilson Is The Guy In Pittsburgh

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I'm great, man. Jason Feller is holding this show up with his very broad shoulders because Mike Del Tufo is trying to be the Atlas to the Fox Sports empire. Honestly, what is he doing? Honestly, every Friday. What are we doing? Nothing. The problem is, if we ever complain about it, it makes Jay Jay feel like we're not happy that he's here.

No, I am happy that you're here. It's just Mike's excuses. It's Mike's excuses.

And then he won't tell us the truth. I know. Like how he's doing practice games.

Tom Brady, I'm sure. Good to see you over there, TJ Jefferson. How are you? I'm great.

You know, Tony Khan mentioned me on Twitter the other day, Rich, and now I'm getting all these new followers, even though I don't use Twitter anymore. So I might have to come back. Okay. Add to Jiggy, everybody. Jiggy.

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My guys. Good to see you, Rich. Normally when you're in the studio, you're in this chair expertly hosting this program while I'm doing something else. I was glad to see Seinfeld pointed out the height differential here, because I thought this is the second time I've sat in this chair and you really see it. Well, I'm also, as you know, for ergonomic purposes and my lower back purposes, I have a pad here that you remove. There's one under the desk, too. There's a foot thing.

There's a foot thing and there's a back thing. Really? So it does make me a little higher. Oh, interesting. I never go back there. But I'm not denying that this isn't the setup. Uh, and I haven't touched it because Seinfeld made fun of it and then said, don't touch it. That was criticized, but don't change. I know.

I'm gonna tell you what's wrong, but don't do anything about it. Well, at any rate, Tom Pellicero, my colleague from the NFL media group here, one of the insiders of The Insiders, the new total access, if you will, is here on the Rich Eisen Show. That's actually other advertisement. Yeah, the new TA is revamped. Hey, and you are here in Los Angeles because you're here for a wedding.

Is that right? My buddy from college, the bass player in my college band, the last member probably of like the core friend group from college getting married up in Pasadena tomorrow night. Exactly. Look at you on the guitar. Oh, look at this. Andy Condrat on the bass.

So congrats to him. This is I think this photo is from Great Scott, which was a fantastic rock club in the Alston Brighton area of Boston. It is now and I'm not joking, a Taco Bell. Did you shut it down? I know it changed. It changed a couple of years ago. Do you remember the line in demolition, man? Right. Isn't that it? That every restaurant is now Taco Bell.

And now literally this is now a Taco Bell. So what is the name of this band? It was Jade Monkey. Don't bother Googling. There's no clips. There's nothing on the internet. This is slightly pre pre-internet days.

Yes. Well, not pre-internet days. I'm not that old, but still.

Please put the photograph up one more time. Do you still own the Puma hat that you are rocking? I don't even think I owned that hat. It was college.

Like you just would find things in your dorm, your apartment, and you just start wearing them. Is that a leopard guitar strap? That was a leopard guitar strap. We were playing a Squire right there, too. That was probably $189 guitar.

Speaking of Squire, so is this that thing you do type thing? Did you have at least one hit? Did we have a one hit? We had a hit. So then what was your one big, what was Jade Monkey's one big showstopper?

Jade Monkey. We had a song called Underwear that Andy wrote. Phenomenal. Phenomenal. I think it was underwear tentatively, because we were like, we should always change the name of the song, but then it just became underwear. So are we going to get a reunion showing?

It's actually a good question. I'm ready. He played guitar at, my wife Sarah's here, too. He played guitar at our wedding.

I have not been asked to play guitar at this wedding. So if Andy's watching, there's still time. What's his name? Andy. Andy. Kondrat. Okay.

What's his name? Kondrat. Kondrat. So the future Mrs. Kondrat, has she potentially put the kibosh on an underwear reunion song?

It's a great question. I'm not going to turn the lens toward the bride. She's got a lot going on at the wedding. My early pre-guitar in the wedding is probably low on the priority list, but it should be there somewhere. So now you mentioned Seinfeld.

Now I'm going to mention Larry David here, because he has sat in this chair before. We have had the conversation with him about destination weddings, which this is for you. Are you getting the Kondrats a gift? Yes, of course. What do you mean yes, of course?

You're not supposed to? You're traveling. Have the Kondrats put you up? Are you putting yourself up?

I'm putting myself up. Did they fly you out here? They did not.

They did not. So you're saying this is the gift. Your presence is your present. Yes. Who needs a gravy boat on top of it? It's a great question. I mean, it's a check.

We haven't given it to them yet. Now I can already feel the disapproval from Sarah. Andy might be watching this and listening as you get rid of his wedding gift. Well, listen, I'm not getting rid of anything. I'm just telling you my mindset. You could have not came. You know what I mean?

My mindset is I'm getting you something from the registry on top of everything? The group of my college friends that's coming, I think I have the shortest journey, because you've got multiple East Coast based people, or at least Chicago. How about out of country? Any out of country?

Anybody coming from international? Not of my group. It's a very small group of people I'm actually going to know at this wedding. Okay.

Which is enough. Well, listen, you're a classy individual, clearly. Everybody knows who you're on TV. This is great.

They're all going to know you. That photograph of, okay, so no Jade Monkey reunion tour. Jade Monkey, by the way.

Kondrats wedding. Fantasy team name, Jade Monkey, if you want to use it, people. There we go. And we've got the Avatar, which is Tom Pelissero in a Puma hat. Send you Tom's picture if you want to use it. And a leopard guitar strap.

Look at that. Do you remember what song you were playing at this moment, Tom? Absolutely not.

Probably something by Weezer would be my guess. The thing at Great Scott was they'd give you, you had to fill the entire night. Yes. So it was four and a half hours. Yes. And you could choose to do, there were technically three sets, so you could choose to do one, two, or three, but you had to find the other bands.

Yeah. We only knew like one other band. So we played for three hours at Great Scott, entertaining the crowd. You're like the Springsteen at Great Scott. You got a second picture of beer when you did that from the bar. Look at you. And you got whatever, five percent of the door. Those were good times, man.

Tom Pelissero, everybody. Well done. Okay, very good. And you became an insider instead. I don't even know who you are anymore. Okay, so let's just jump into it of another organized team activity.

What is going on with the reconfiguration of the off-season, the non-playing season? You were kind enough to text me from the, was it the flight out here? Yeah, your text back to me was dead on arrival. That's what I thought. Our colleague Breer said that some of the folks in the front offices and the coaching staffs saying like, he said it went over like the Hindenburg is the way he said. Listen, so anytime that you have change, especially something this significant to people's lives, right, it's to the calendar, it's to the time of year where they get to see their family and do the activities and go on vacations, you're going to get pushback from certain people, the staff members as much as anyone. Right. I mean, coaches, if you're thinking about this intellectually, there's definitely a case to be made that you can teach better in a unbroken environment and you're not spending the first couple of weeks of training camp reinstalling things and reviewing them.

You would just constantly build. Dennis Allen was on yesterday's show and I asked him about, you know, reconfiguring and taking the OTA on-field work of the spring, removing it from the spring and making it jammed all into mid to late June, into July, into training camp. He said he was into the idea of removing the five-week period from mid-June to late July, that there's nothing.

You've got nothing. There's no other sport where you train to get in peak physical condition and you're practicing, not in pads, but you're practicing. You've been to OTA mini camp practices.

They are full speed, just not full contact. There's no other sport where you go ramp up, ramp up, ramp up. Okay. Now everybody go on vacation for five weeks and then we're going to go right back into it. So you saw back in 2020 in the COVID year, you know, there was no preseason that year. There were no OTAs. That was the, there were great memos as you remember at that time about like, you could spend this amount of money on gym equipment for your players.

You could mail them like free weights or a Peloton bike or whatever. But it was only up to a certain amount. It wasn't a cap violation, wild stuff, but they brought them back. And because there was no preseason, it was this much more extended ramp up period.

And there definitely was feedback from players that they liked that not so much the no preseason games. And that was also probably born out of creating your own bubble too, right? So you get them in and they didn't have to leave the bubble.

You had to stay from the hotel to the facility and come back. So then in the past few years here, they have extended the ramp up period. But we're talking about going from two days before pads to like four now, where as you know, back together weekend, that's always timed up to be the fifth day of camp because that's when you can put on pads. So the thinking is if the players want a safer off season, minimize soft tissue injuries, the longer the ramp up, there's a correlation. They've talked to athletic trainers and doctors and everybody else. They believe there's a correlation here between limiting those types of injuries, maybe even limiting some of the Achilles tears and other things if you just have a consistent ramp up period. So the NFLPA's proposal, which they're still working on, but they've been going out to the clubs.

They always do facility visits. They send their liaisons to all the team facilities. They've been explained it to players.

The feedback has been mostly positive. I would anticipate within the next month or so, they're going to formally propose this. It's got to go through the executive committee and the board of representatives with the union before it even goes to the league. But I believe that will be proposed. It'll be sometime between the middle of June and the first week in July will be their proposed time the players come back. You'll still be able to do classroom work in the spring virtually.

You can go through all the installs. So no April off season strength and conditioning program. Again, this is all outside of the scope of the collective bargaining agreement. So the league would have to agree to whatever this is. And it's not as if they just go, OK, yeah, it looks good and they approve it. There could be all kinds of twists and turns and horse trading on different types of things. But short version would be you have virtual classroom work.

You know, you're working class. You can probably get them in the building to meet everybody the weekend after still. But you would have some time in the summer, which is normally the time everyone's going away in the middle of June, which is the push for five, six weeks. It's going to be the pushback for some of the veteran players to the Fourth of July is a big, a big deal. So many people, it's family reunions. It's going back to your hometown. It's taking different types of vacations.

That's going to be a point of contention. But the young players are going, you know, whatever. Like, we don't we don't know.

We don't have kids. We're not on the school calendar, right? You know, and they're used to having a different rhythm in college anyway.

You also have to remember this. If and when we go to the 18 game schedule and it's probably a when you're probably adding a second by. So now you've got a 20 week regular season instead of an 18 week regular season, which only recently replaced the 17 week regular season. If your regular season starts Labor Day weekend, if they move that up a week to put the Super Bowl on Presidents Day weekend, all of a sudden your offseason time, your time to get away is shrinking anyway, right?

You're going out and you got to be back in the building in mid April. So the thinking is, OK, instead of having it be all right, you get a two month break, then two months of work, then another six week break. Or what if we just have it be a solid four to five month break and then you come back and you have this long ramp up period? So a lot of those OTA style things, the strength and conditioning, the, you know, routes on air practice on the field, and then the OTA, the non padded practices, those would encompass like those first six weeks. And then you would go around August 1st into a traditional training camp, which is kind of how it is right now. Yeah, but aren't there front office folks, general managers, scouts and staff saying what four month break? I mean, I had a GM tell me, you gotta be kidding me.

I mean, you got the combo. The combine is two weeks after the draft after the Super Bowl. The draft is going to stay put, right? Unless you would they screw with this?

Would they mess with that? If you're sitting there thinking and you're the league and you've done a remarkable job even in our time covering the league of taking over more and more parts of the calendar and you're going, OK, so the players aren't back till the middle of June. There's no OTAs, there's no minicamps.

You can't lead, you know, every sports show with like visions of, you know, Drake May getting out there for his first OTA price. We're not getting that till June. Well, what if we move free agency back? Now, remember, the Super Bowl goes to President's Day weekend in the 18 game schedule. OK. You don't want the combine a week after that, right? Let's move the combine back to the first or second week of March. Then let's have free agency at the end of March. Then maybe we put the draft in the middle of May. That's the part where all of a sudden that break where you go, OK, I can at least get on board with April, May, June. There's less to do.

I can get away. Then if you start taking up more and more parts of the calendar, now you're really changing the entire dynamic of things. So, again, these are all far down the line types of things. But the 18 game season, I think the fact that Roger Goodell is acknowledging it publicly, the union is certainly there's new leadership at the union. That's another driving part of this. Lloyd Howell comes from an international business background. He does deals. That's what he's always done. And so because he's coming in kind of and taking a de novo look at the whole CBA, it's like, hey, what's the deal with this?

Like, why is this in here? Maybe we should address that. The gambling policy is a perfect example of that, where you remember you had that run of a half dozen players that got suspended. The guys who bet on football, it was a minimum one year. But the guys who bet on like an NBA game, but they were in the facility, it was still like six weeks. And the thinking was, why?

Why? Like, I can walk out to my car and then it's fine. But because I'm sitting 50 yards this way, it's a violation and I'm missing six games. And so they knock that down. And that was the league and the union working together. This is another situation where it's not like the players want to do this revised offseason in exchange for 18 games. It's not that it's, hey, let's take a common sense approach to this.

Does this really make sense? There's no other sports league that does it. The science doesn't say that this is the best way we could be training players.

Why don't we take a look at that and we'll see whether or not this actually moves forward? I wouldn't be surprised, though, at all if next year we've got a different looking offseason. And then so utilizing changing that as a springboard to then reconfigure the combine draft free agency schedule on that. No, all I know is the league is not going to want to have the quiet, quiet four months. But you also have to address the human beings that are grinding it out for the combine and the draft and how that has to be addressed as well.

Like if you're talking about quality of life as well. I mean, at some point you can't just there's a stone and there's some blood in it and you're going to have to figure that part out, too. But it also makes sense that if there's going to be such a fallow period where you don't get the fallow. Yes, indeed. F.A.L.O.W. There it is.

Every now and then you've got one word I don't know. There you go. That was it. We're a period where nothing's going on. Got it. An empty period.

It's a farming term, Rich, left unsewn for a period in order to restore its fertility as a part of a crop rotation or to avoid surplus production. Correct. So you might not have heard that because you were too busy with Jade Monkey on your campus. But long story short, though, is figuring out how to fill that time. Because if they're not going to be, you know, rookies out there in their new uniforms and for instance, you know, in the next segment, we're going to play a soundbite from Mike McCarthy about Micah Parsons not being there.

You know, there's news conferences, there's activity, there's something to talk about there's headlines to have. So if you're not going to have any of that, you do need to reconfigure that portion of it and maybe the impetus of that will be having an 18-game schedule. So my question for you is if we're just, you know, speculating, how old is your daughter right now? They're 10 and 7. 10 and 7. So your oldest daughter will be how old when all of this happens? I mean the off-season part.

All of it? Turns 11 next June. Dad might be at training camp, sorry. Heads up. That just occurred to me.

Every birthday ruined forever. Okay, great. Remember that. Hey, my oldest son was born on August 5th, which is the number of times I've been in Canton for his birthdays, I've lost track.

So and I shared this information the other day. We induced Taylor, our last child or our daughter, to avoid kickoff of the 2013 season. At any rate, long story short, is how, what do you think, five years? Seven years? Will she be in college when there's, I'm talking about 18-game schedule. The fact that it's being discussed now makes me believe it's going to happen before the end of the collective bargaining agreement, which is still seven years out. Because the collective bargaining agreement, as it stands now, says they can't unilaterally go to an 18-game season. So this would have to be a deal, but again, because you have union leadership right now, there's a new union executive director, there's a new president, the executive committee has turned over as well, which kind of guide a lot of these decisions, you have new eyeballs on the whole thing. And they're asking different questions than the previous people might've asked. And so, I mean, if I'm putting the over under again, and I hope if there is an over under, I don't want to get in trouble here. No problem. Is she in college?

I'm not, I'm not advising. No, no chance. It happens before that. I'd be surprised if by the end of this decade, we don't have an 18-game season. Everybody believes it's an inevitability that it's going to happen. So why delay the inevitable when the inevitable means more money for the generation of players that are playing right now?

Health and safety, everybody, you know, defers to that and brings it up. But if there wasn't a tangible difference of 16 to 17 games that would stop them from that, 17 to 18 is probably not going to be a whole lot different. A second bye week to build in rest, potentially reconfiguring the off season and shortening certain things. Remember too, we're talking about this off season adjustment, potentially. The June and July stuff is going to look a lot like OTAs now where it's like three, four days a week. So you're going to have long weekends.

I'm not saying that makes up for it. I had a GM say to me the other day, so if I got a vacation plan next June, from June 15 to June 25th, you were telling me I should cancel that vacation. My response was, well, do you need to be there? Like first week is strength and conditioning.

Would you need to be there in April? What are you doing? It's like, well, not a whole lot. I'm normally preparing for the draft.

Well, now you're not doing that. Maybe you don't need to be around. But the real people who will bear the brunt of it are going to be the support people. It's the strength and conditioning staff, the athletic trainers, the football ops people.

Because if there's players in the building, they all have to be around. And that's going to be part of the conversation as we move forward. Tom Pelissero here on the Rich Eyes and Show. Let's take a break. What's more likely still to come? And the latest on what's going on with the Dallas Cowboys and being all in, and another wide receiver signs a big contract while we all know CD Lamb's going to have to get his at some point.

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What happened? We realized when I was here last and I was promoting the show, I didn't follow Del Tufo on Instagram. And then, and so I followed him posts a lot and you know what he posts? He posts on a boat every day smiling, showing off the choppers that he paid for either behind the wheel of a boat or his car. Right.

Or he showed off his soundboard system in Fox or something completely nonsensical. And we noticed he gets the same number of likes in the range of like, what, 400 to 600? Pretty much. Yeah. Yeah.

Every time. Yeah. But with no comments. There he is. He posted his friend in Jersey, I guess, sent him this photograph of Mike's vinyl collection that he bequeathed to his buddy, Sean. Okay. 436 likes of this, of this dude.

Nobody knows to see vinyl records. You can't tell in a boxes, in a garage, 436 likes for that. Were you one of the likes for this? You weren't right. I don't think so.

I liked something. The, the first post I saw of his was, it was an ad for a, an energy drink. Oh gosh.

And he had placed the can on like the whole of the boat and he placed it so far away that you can't even read the label on the can, but it was like partner or sponsored. No way. No way. Wait a minute. Hold on a second.

Honskins can pull it up. Wait a minute. He can find, he can find it. Hold on, I'm looking right now. Wait a minute. Hold on a second. Are you saying Mike has a business deal now? For his Instagram account? He says he does.

I'm not going to say the name of the product because I happen to promote a competing energy drink. What is happening? Wait, so it was on the hull of the boat? Hold on a second. Hold on a second. He can find it, it's a can on just the boat side of the boat. Oh my God. Hold on, we're about to- I got to go through all these weird Caitlin Clark pics. Back on the Rich Eisen Show radio network, I'm sitting at the Rich Eisen Show desk furnished by Grainger with supplies and solutions for every industry.

Grainger has the right product for you. Call clickgrainger.com or just stop by in our Roku only segment. We just discovered Tom Pelissero, new follower of Mike Del Tufo's Instagram account, says that he has a sponsorship deal with some energy drink and these people paid money, apparently it seems, for this sort of thing. And it was a terrible photograph that didn't really show off the product. And I kind of feel ridiculous here because we talked about your cover band for six minutes- We have originals too. We talked about your original college cover band for six minutes.

You're like one of the top information individuals in any sport, in any industry. And I feel like I'm flushing valuable minutes down the toilet here, but I cannot conceive that Mike Del Tufo has a business deal. I'm looking for the... I don't know if maybe they made him take it down on the store. No, no, I got it. No, there it is. It's right there. Yeah, I found it.

It literally said- It's in Hoskins. It's April 30th. Paid part of the ship. He's calling it. He's got it.

He just needs to dress it up properly for the... Wait a minute. Yeah, you can't see it. That's it. He's setting it to Hoskins. It says paid partnership, but the way the lighting is, you can't tell what it is. It looks like he's promoting the boat, the marina.

448 likes. It's just he's... Two off. What is going on in his life? He needs a one for one. That's what he needs. Not a 30 for 30. It's just a one minute. It's just a one minute talk. It's a very Los Angeles.

I don't know. Let's pump the brakes on whatever's going on back there for this Fakata Instagram account. So let's talk about what's going on with the Dallas Cowboys, and that's not just because people are interested in it because they're the Dallas Cowboys. This is a team with Super Bowl aspirations and a roster that can win the Super Bowl.

There's just no question about it. They have a quarterback that can win the Super Bowl. They've got a pass rusher that can win the Super Bowl.

They've got the weaponry with CeeDee Lamb. I don't know what's going on with the running back position. I don't know what the hell has been going on.

What has been going on there? Are they capped out because they've put money in all of the players that they've drafted well enough to keep? I don't know why they didn't supplement their roster any better than they did or with boldface names that were available. Let's start with the fact that the DAX on the books capitalized for like 60 million this year. They could not... Do something about that?

I shouldn't say easily. They absolutely could reduce it by doing a new contract with them. But why not? They have taken an organizational philosophy, it certainly appears, to kick the can down the road on all decisions right now. They've been doing this for years. If you talk about... Look at the number of free agents that left in this offseason. Some of your core players, like their center Tyler Biatish, who goes to a division rival in Washington, follows Dan Quinn. That's the type of guy that a lot of teams would proactively do the deal a year before free agency.

Lock him up. He's been huge for Dak. He's a really good player and he's gonna get paid a boatload.

Instead they wait and sure enough, somebody's willing to pay him a lot more. Right now, I can't think of another situation in recent NFL history where a team goes into the regular season, forget C.D. Lamb for a second, with their head coach and their quarterback both in contract years. You can't tag Dak because it would technically be a third tag because they had to tag him a second time to buy themselves time for the paperwork on the extension a few years ago. You can't tag him the third time because it would be like $80 million. So Dak is a true, he's in the position Kirk Cousins was a year ago, where he's gonna be a true unrestricted free agent. Mike McCarthy, you could end up winning the Super Bowl and Mike would be available to go to any other team.

And then you've got obviously C.D. Lamb, you've got Micah Parsons, these are again deals you've seen Miami be proactive doing deals. That's what I'm seeing. You've seen Philadelphia getting ahead of the game. Dallas' philosophy has been, we don't need to do something now, so we will wait.

And it's burned them in a lot of different cases. I mean, they tagged Tony Pollard, he played on the tag last year. He didn't have the best year, but he was coming off a pretty severe injury and then he walks in free agency. He lost a couple of your pass rushers. The left tackle, that was probably time on that. They were willing to move on from that, but that's another important part of your team.

Yeah, it's puzzling. I would say that. I've heard really good feedback on the rookie class, how good they think this group has a chance to be, and they're gonna need them to be really good because they're all gonna have to play. And it's the whole idea of a team that has Super Bowl aspirations and had a terrific season last year, regular season last year, that the reaction to being one and done in Green Bay is we're just gonna freeze it.

We're gonna freeze it, we're gonna go draft as well as we possibly can, and we're gonna let everybody around here know that if you wanna stay here, you have to win here this year. And I understand that that puts the lid on a boiling pot potentially and that it can actually work and it can hit, but it's a very expensive way of doing business that can also backfire on the way somebody handles that pressure or it can backfire on the way of even in ultimate success, you put the trophy in the case and obviously that's the whole idea, but now everyone's gonna want even more and other people are gonna be on top of their contracts at other spots. I mean, you know, CeeDee Lamb's gonna have to get paid. We know Micah Parsons is gonna have to get paid. Dak is more of an ish situation, I guess, because the quarterback might be in their estimation the reason why they're not getting to the NFC Championship game. And if they're willing to reset and go back into the free agent market with somebody completely different or reset and go into the draft and get somebody, that's a risky play as well. Or you go and you redo the deals for everybody in a timely fashion, so it's not gonna be as expensive as it is to wait. And then you now might be able to reconfigure your cap to go get Derek Henry and take some of the pressure off your quarterback or go out and get fill in the blank other defensive pass rusher. You know, I'll just throw it out again. I mean, Daniil Hunter's in the state right now.

Just not for them. I'm just throwing names who are available that you could then bring in. If you want to go all in one year, go for it. You had the team that did as well as it did in last year's regular season. I feel like I'm a broken record on this subject matter here. Well, because nothing's happened.

We have to keep having the same conversation because they still haven't done anything. They signed Eric Kendrick after he got cut by the Chargers. They brought back Zeke. They signed Royce Freeman. And then they have the draft. And that's the extent of the moves that they've made in this offseason.

I would say this. I mean, this is not the first time Jerry has had a head coach in the final year of his deal. Jason Garrett did it too. I think that, you know, you've got a head coach that has won 12 games last three years. Obviously brutal in the playoff game.

They just weren't ready to go. For one reason or another, it was a disaster from the start in that game against Green Bay. But Mike's a really good and highly accomplished coach who now has so much pressure on his shoulders. Not just because of his contract situation, but because you're basically saying, hey, we didn't bring in anybody veteran-wise to help other than, again, Kendrick, who knows Mike Zimmer's defense. They made the defensive coordinator switch because Dan Quinn moves to Washington. They bring in Zim.

It was very established. But everybody's on, you know, the last year of their contracts. And oh, yeah, you're going to have to play all these young guys.

That's a lot on people's shoulders all at the same time. You know, we'll see exactly how that hits. I don't get the sense that Mike McCarthy is, you know, upset about anything in terms of, you know, why aren't they just redoing the deal now? Let's say this is the situation that you're in. Let's go kick everybody's ass and then we'll all get paid. Well, he sounded more, for the lack of a better phrase, I don't know how to interpret this.

This is Micah Parsons not appearing at the voluntary activity. This Mike McCarthy on that subject matter on Thursday. Well, I think any time you have a chance to, you know, to be together, it's an opportunity to improve, whether it's in the mental realm, the physical realm, which is limited obviously this time of year, but you know, in the emotional connection and so forth.

But you know, it's a long year training camp is really the heightened, you know, focus for all that. But yeah, it's definitely an opportunity that's been missed. First of all, I would want one of those cups here. That looks pretty sweet. You see that star cup? Wouldn't you want one of those cups on your table right there, TJ?

I'm surprised I don't have one yet. I know. So the Rich Eisen Show mug will have to suffice. But in all seriousness, though, I don't know what to make of the not here in May situations here, you know. But these are the questions that come if you don't sign somebody when you know you're going to have to. Mike has never really been around, though, in the offseason.

Okay. So for Mike McCarthy... Well, at least not there. He's certainly going to Mavericks games.

We saw that. He is. He's around.

Yeah, I know. No, he's in the area. He's training there. He does boxing.

He does all kinds of other stuff. I don't think he's letting himself go. He comes and goes. He'll be there. He'll be there for minicamp.

Right. When Mike McCarthy got to Green Bay, one of his big pushes was to get everybody in the program, including Brett Favre, who this was when Brett would disappear to Hattiesburg for six months. We talk about, you know, the potential revised offseason. Brett was doing this a long time ago. He didn't show up for anything. And Mike got him by the second year to at least show up for some of the OTAs.

And so they had 100 percent attendance a lot of years. And he talked right into it, even though these are voluntary, like, hey, it would really help out this really young team if you can come in and give us some days. So any time that somebody is not there, Mike's going to believe, yeah, this is a missed opportunity. But the drill is pretty well established with Micah Parsons. This is kind of how he goes about it.

CD's not there. That is directly contract related. And so we'll see whether or not he shows up next week for the mandatory minicamp. But these are I mean, this the Cowboys always have a unique spotlight on them that goes without saying.

But this year in particular, because of the number of massive storylines, every game is going to feel like this is some type of a tipping point, even though it's not fair to judge a team off one game. OK, can I get you for one more segment? Yeah, of course. I don't know. I have no idea if you guys got to run, if the you know, if there's a some sort of a other than that check.

I don't have anything to do. OK, very good. Yeah. Ripping up the check. We've got we've got what's more likely coming up next segment. I do want to ask you about a couple of the quarterback situations, if you will, in the NFL before I let you on with the rest of your day, sir. Absolutely. That's how we're rolling into our number three before the actor Jacob Botalone will be here from Reginald, the vampire, and also from all those great Spider-Man films.

That's coming up. All right, so we have the Instagram post in question. So Mike Del Tufo posted this and I didn't know it. You imagine if you did, in fact, it's a paid partnership. I mean, unbelievable. Like, could you imagine you've paid for this photograph and there's a glare on it. You can't see it.

It's that far away. It's turned to the side. So you're the energy drink and you're like paying for a photograph on Mike Del Tufo's Instagram account. Number one, I'm going to call your business planet to question. Number two, number two, you it looks like Mike is showing off where his boat is more than the actual energy drink that's supposed to be shown off.

Am I wrong? Which again, brings me to the to my foreground, which is that this is actually an ad for like the harbor and the can is just incidental and he like inserted that somehow. But he writes in the thing.

He's been in on it from the beginning. What are you advertising here? Personally, it's not even a good photo of the boat. It looks like it's showing off like what is that where they keep the safety equipment? That's his table. He's got like seats around that. OK, so that's so that's a table on the boat. Yeah, like this is the one here who's actually been on the boat.

This would actually hold on a second. This would actually be a great Instagram photo for somebody who's paying for a boat table to be shown off like the boat table like now, if you made the boat table and you've got a paid partnership with Del Tufo, that's a great photograph or the marina. That's a great photo. Look how big this table is next to this can. It looks like he's about to throw that over here. Also, look at the number of likes, four hundred forty seven. Unbelievable.

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What do you think? They're putting everything that they have behind Russell Wilson. They want Russ to know.

They want the locker room to know that this is the guy. We also know that if Russ plays like he did at times last year and certainly like he did in 2022, that it's going to be really complicated for him to maintain that job for the entire season because the Steelers play in a really tough division, might be the toughest it's been in a long time. They've got a good defense, but they've got some moving parts just organizationally there. They've obviously made changes at the wide receiver position.

The running backs look really good. It seems to be the type of situation with Arthur Smith being the offensive coordinator that is best suited for what Russ does, which is when he's been at his best, they've been able to run the football, they play really good defense, and then you get these long play actions, vertical passing game types of plays. That's not the rhythm passing game that Nathaniel Hackett or Sean Payton was trying to run with them. So if there's anywhere that Russell Wilson can succeed, it's in this offense. You can probably say the same thing for Justin Fields because Justin Fields also, Luke Getze comes from Green Bay, he couldn't really run a rhythm and timing based offense because a lot of what Justin Fields does is off schedule and it's creating with his legs. They were one of the top rushing teams in the league.

They're also one of the worst passing teams in the league and you can blame Getze for that, or you can say he was playing to the strengths of his quarterback in Justin Fields. I think that in some capacity we'll see Justin Fields out there this season. You will.

Like there'll be a Fields package? I'm not going to say that he's going to be returning kicks, but I think that you will find a way. That's absurd. You'll have him, I don't think it's that absurd. Well, I mean, you're not putting your back up court, but nobody knows what that looks like and nobody knows how you can take advantage of it. Nobody knows how much of a game changer it is. But dude, you're going to put your backup quarterback out there in one of these situations where you still don't know what's going to work. He might be the best athlete on your team. I get it. I know how kickoffs might be viewed differently after one week and it'll be less absurd of an idea for putting your best athlete out there, but for your backup quarterback?

Really? Everybody's cooking up ideas, all the special teams coordinators, and they're excited about it because they can finally strategize again. The kickoff rules changed, I think, four times in the last five years. So every year there's adjustments, but last year was just kick it through the end zone.

Now you're drawing different stuff up, but key for them was to figure out how do you reduce the space that leads to the injuries while simultaneously leaving enough space you can actually have strategy in the game and they feel like they've walked that line. I don't think Justin Fields returning kicks is a crazy idea just because he's that good of an athlete. A lot of what he does, if you look at his highlights, they look like kick returns.

It's him finding a crease and then just outrunning everybody here. You run a risk of it, but would there be a package for him? I think that at this stage in Russell Wilson's career, him doing design runs and things down by the goal line, probably not going to be a strength for him. You can do that with Justin Fields.

There's no reason to think that they wouldn't try to use him. It's a Friday. Let's do What's More Likely with Tom Pelissero here, shall we? Shall we do that? Let's go.

And it is brought to you, presented by T. Rowe Price. Hit it. What? What's more likely? Never say never, but never. All right. Chris Brockman, you've got two of us here. Okay.

Maybe one of you will play the game right. Hey, what's up, guys? Happy Friday.

Happy Friday to you, Chris. You're going to broadside me and ask for pleasantries? I'm sorry. That's not likely.

What do you have over there? Yeah, I just want you to pick a side. I got it.

Okay, got it. Who's more likely, the newly paid receiver, to have more yards and touchdowns this season? Amunras St. Brown, Jalen Waddle, A.J. Brown. Oh, my gosh. More yards and touchdowns.

Wouldn't this be what's most likely? Well, here's the deal. Waddle's not, if Tyree Kill is healthy, he's not the one. A.J. Brown is just...

He's paying him anymore. I'll go Amunras St. Brown. You know where I feel about him. He's their number one. And I know A.J. Brown is, too. But man, for somebody who had him in fantasy last year, like... A.J. Brown?

A.J. Brown. Weeks 8 through 14 were fallow. Not great. Not great.

Oh. A double fallow. That part of the day is fallow. Double fallow.

Brought to you by... What do you think? I mean, you have Kellen Moore now as the offensive coordinator in Philadelphia, and Kellen wants to throw it every play. Everybody thought the same thing with Justin Herbert last year, too. That didn't work out. Well, there's a danger in throwing the football every play.

There's a love balance. You also have Saquon Barkley on that team. But Kellen Moore's...I think that Saquon's presence will impact how defenses play the Eagles. That potentially creates better situations for A.J. Brown. So I'll say A.J. Brown. Okay. What do you got over there?

How about this one? QB searching for a payday to go further this season. Tua or Trevor Lawrence? I'm going Tua, man.

Really? I don't know why you don't like Tua. What's the matter with Tua? Why do you don't like Tua? I don't think he's very good.

Very good. I don't know about you, but that looked like money. I mean, statistically, over time.

He's got ridiculous amounts of speed everywhere around him. That's what I'm saying. They drafted another running back. Right. I think that Tua probably, you'd say, is better set up for success.

Yes. Also, in part, because the AFC South looks treacherous right now. We have kicked around the AFC South for a decade. You finally look at it. You look at what Houston did last year, the additions that they made to their team.

Interesting. Because with their quarterback, if Anthony Richardson can stay on the field, Tennessee is not going to be a doormat, I don't believe. So you're going Tua there? I would say Tua has the better path, I believe, and that's not a shot at the Bills or the Aaron Rodgers Jets.

It's more so, I think, that that division seems more wide open. The Jaguars, they were 9-8 last year, they weren't a bad team, but they've got their work cut out. So let me just jump in here real quick. One guy has a playoff win, one doesn't.

You did not write these knowing Tom would be sitting here. So let me just flip this one real quick, just to keep things moving. The quarterback on the screen, more likely to have a new deal that starts with a five. Well, nobody's doing deals that don't start with fives. No quarterback on a second contract who is- Not named Daniel Jones or, I mean, why?

These types of guys, the deals that you see from now on, they're all going to be 50 plus. Look at that. Look at that.

He can't handle the truth. Why? Teams are so dumb. They don't have to do this. That's where the market is.

Who cares? Joe Burrows at 55, all the other deals, Jared Goff just got 52. All these deals, they're talking about your franchise quarterback, and they've been playing at a high enough level.

Now, Trevor Lawrence has been more up and down through time, so I think you can make a little bit more of a justification he should be closer to the Daniel Jones level. The cap has exploded. The cap is increasing by so much here.

They're people. Pay other people. You can pay everybody. You can pay... I shouldn't say you can pay everybody.

You can pay the guys you want to pay. He also just doesn't- The Dolphins are doing it. He also doesn't like it either because you didn't choose one more likely. You gave both of an answer, but that's the reality of it. What else you got?

Let's try to sneak some more in here. Which division is more likely to have more playoff wins this year? Division, playoff wins, AFC North, NFC North. I'm going to go AFC North. I still think it's the toughest division in football, which means there'll be more battle tested and I think they'll have the more likelihood of having the most playoff teams in it.

It's a really good question. I think the NFC North, top to bottom, is the most intriguing division in all of football because the Bears have completely made things over. The Lions were everybody's favorite last year, but now they have actual Super Bowl pressure on them. I know you normally traffic in intrigue, but this is now sports talk radio and you have to give an answer.

NFC North. There you go. There you go. All right.

Quarterback to have the biggest second-year breakout. If you just want a one-word answer, I give you the one-word answer. No, that's not the one-word answer.

You're like, this is intriguing. He wants number eight. NFC North.

I want the truth. All right. Quarterback to have the biggest second-year breakout, Anthony Richardson, Bryce Young. Oh, I'm going Anthony Richardson, Matt.

I think they're more equipped. You played two games last year. I get it. To fucking break out because it can't get worse than it was last year for Bryce Young. Last year it was just out or break. Last year it was just a break or out. And one guy was broken.

Right? Anthony Richardson was out. He played, he got hurt three times in this bowl season, but Bryce Young. I think breakout season is like, wow, he got a new star in the league. He's clearly a star. Well, Anthony Richardson, just based upon the physical characteristics you would say, you know, he's the guy who could look like a superstar, but he's got proof he can stay on the field.

I'm going to say, I will say Bryce Young, just based upon you look at how the league felt about him coming out, how well he processes, how smart he is and all that stuff. And last year, just that system, the people around him, it was just the worst fit possible. I think that he will play a lot better and we'll be talking about, boy, he looks good. But Anthony Richardson, yeah, he can do some absolute freaky things, but he's got to progress. He's got to learn to be more consistent.

And you only be able to do that if you stay through these, by the way, I was about to just finish this up though, with a, with a t-shirt worthy phrase, tough to process from your ass. That's a problem. And they, and, and I think the Colts have better weapons.

So what else you got? More likely to be the higher total this year, NBA finals games or Patriots wins more NBA final games. Yeah. Yeah. I would agree. I don't think this is going six or seven and I don't think the Patriots have six or seven.

You agree? Okay. I think that the Patriots realistically know that this is a reboot type of year.

Okay. Who's more likely to have more wins this year, last year's hard knocks team or this year's hard knocks team. Last year's hard knocks team was jets were seven and 10. And the bears are this year, every time, yeah, it's seven and 10, but it felt much, much worse by the way.

I did the jet season last year, clearly for me not to ask that way. Can the bears go eight and nine? I think so, but can the jets have more wins than they did last year?

I think so more than the bears. Yeah. No, I just meant, okay. So it's all right. Now I understand the question. Yeah. Okay. I mean, I'm going to say the jets.

Me too. If the jets aren't a 10 to 11 win team and in the playoffs, it's like Aaron Rogers said that we're all going to be out here. They're more all in than the Cowboys because I think Jerry's going to wind up keeping everybody bears being an eight or nine win team.

Their expectations are going to be higher because of how they finished last year. I think Jerry's going to keep any, everybody, no matter what coach last one, the London mayor, the London mayor said he wants a super bowl. What's more likely to host a super bowl first London or another cold weather city, another cold weather city. Would Nashville be considered a cold weather city?

I don't think so. I mean, I was in many, I live in Minneapolis and that was the worst example for, Hey, we can pull off a cold weather super bowl when it's 20 below and a blizzard the day before the game and all the sponsor activations are canceled. I think that is a harder sell.

London would be if the super bowl goes to London. That to me is the precursor toward, Hey, we're really going to put a team here or we're really going to build an international division, whatever it is. That was what's more likely presented by T Rowe Price, where confidence comes from a curiosity to uncover opportunities. Others may miss. T Rowe Price asks smart questions to better understand risks, develop insights and give clients an investment edge, better questions, better outcomes. Learn more at troweprice.com slash curiosity. Thanks for coming, brother.

Thanks for having me for a whole hour. Tom, there should be more weddings of your college friends in Los Angeles. Maybe there'd be more of those so you can get your, hopefully he doesn't have a second one. That's well, does he live in Los Angeles? He does talk about what's more likely.

That's a new one. Sorry to say Patriots wins are years of this marriage. Don't get the gravy bro. Patriots wins. Still here on Roku, uh, in the minute and a half, the team that most of the people that you speak to think have pushed all the right buttons over the last two months and have vastly improved their chances this year, if not have a chance at the Superbowl is which team? I mean the bears.

Really? I think that it's not to be a Superbowl team this year. It's more so, listen, they had to sell Caleb Williams and his camp on Chicago as the destination for his career. They had to make them believe and they did. He was going to really pull something. Listen, they, you wanted the guy to be all on board.

You don't want to have anything. And based upon, he's done everything differently, him and his dad, Carl, who's a long time business disruptor. He's worked with, you know, high, you know, elite athlete training. They have a lot of ideas about, Hey, we want to make sure when Caleb has said it himself, you know, his goal is to win eight Superbowls and beat Brady.

This is not a guy just coming in as any other guy. So it's not just for this year. They, people believe they've set up for the long term. That that was the sell point that they had to have. And so far, when you talk about the players that they brought in trading for Keenan Allen Stein and DeAndre Swift and draft and Roma dunes, a lot of those things were let's set up the infrastructure around Caleb Williams to have a lot of success. So when you talk to people, everyone says, you know, Hey, whatever you think of, you know, Ryan polls or the regime, they're like, they did a lot of things to probably put Caleb in the best situation we've seen for a number one pick in quite some time.

Now, the fact that they're not the normal number one pick team, because that was the Panthers selection, the bears work horrible last year, they finished what six and two down the stretch. He's walking into one of the best situations possible. And they've given him an opportunity here where it's not just, Hey, let's go let him get the crap kicked out of him for a year and then make changes here. No, they've, they've put themselves in a pretty good situation.

At the same time, they've also put more pressure on him and this team that a lot of number one picks facing you. Thanks for coming, Tommy P. Tommy P everybody. Hey, thank you guys. John brings his skewed sense of humor. Jeff brings tips to cut strokes off your next round together.

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