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And now, the New York Knicks. Actor and director, Jimmy Tatro. And now, it's Rich Eisen. All right, everybody. Welcome to this edition of the Rich Eisen Show. Hour number two. Tom Pelissero is going to be joining us in about 20 minutes time.

Phone lines are lit. Everybody wants to play the win-loss game, which I love, I love, I love, I love, because it's late June. We have no idea how it's going to work.

Nobody's had a single training camp practice yesterday. This is when confidence is high. Confidence is very high.

And so phone lines are lit. We'll do that in a second. TJ, you should do the middle 10 rankings. Rich did the top 10 and I did the bottom 10.

You should do the middle 10. But what are we accomplishing with that? By the way, you had me at hello. Which teams are just completely average, might make the playoffs, might miss it? That's interesting.

I mean, like the teams that are going to go nine and eight, 10 and seven. That's the middle of the road. I like that right there. I like that. Do you want to do it? Like, not right now, but today. You know, like when we get back from fourth grade.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm down with that. OK. I'm down with that.

You're in. Well, you can do it tomorrow. Ooh, I got another little something playing for tomorrow. What do you have planned for tomorrow? You know, a little top five for you. What's the top? Breaking news.

But what top five are you planning? Well, you want me to ruin it right now? No, what do you mean? What's to ruin it? Throw it out there.

Give the audience a taste. Well, I feel like if I give it to you now, everyone's just going to go do their own research. And then what's the point of me having the top five?

So then what's the point of mentioning it here? Because you said do it tomorrow. I already have something. Look, I'll do more than one segment tomorrow if you want. I guess this is what a post-show meeting is for. I mean, I got a top five tomorrow, too.

Oh, my God. How many top fives can we have? You'll have a top five.

I don't have one. I have my power rankings. I have my power rankings. Right now? Well, I mean, there's no time like the present day. Oh, this is bonjour.

Je m'appelle Ric. Here's my top ten power rankings for this day. Inspired, inspired by the number of French people that are beginning to dominate the NBA draft. Last year, it was Victor Wembunyama. Now, first two NBA players.

Two. Well, before Vic from France. Tony Parker.

Well, I mean, listen, there's a long history. Trust me, when the Knicks drafted a Frenchman last night, there were a bunch of folks from New York City who were like, Frederick Weiss. Frank Nalikina. Frank Nalikina. No, thank you.

Je m'appelle GTFOH. That's my name. But guess what?

Yes. I'm inspired by all this. I'm not repelled. We are we are we are Francophiles here on the Rich Eisen Show. I have a power ranking of my top ten French contributions of all time. Hit it. Hit it. Power rankings.

Power rankings. All right, here we go. Give me the music, since this is about French items. This is tremendous.

This is great. This is cafe. Je m'appelle Richard. And these are my power rankings. Let me get a croissant and a cigarette.

Let me just tell you, just to explain to you just how unserious this is. Number ten, number ten on my list of top French contributions is their architecture. Oh, tenth.

Nice. This should be one. You know, it kind of should be one art and architecture. Number one, the Eiffel Tower. I've seen it in person. I've been to the top. It's remarkable. It's remarkable.

It hurt me to see Superman two destroyed, but it was for good. And then again, the fact that I'm bringing up Superman two when it comes to the Eiffel Tower just shows you how unserious this list will be. Statue of Liberty, Arc de Triomphe.

I could even throw art and architecture in here just to show you how unserious this is because wait till you hear the nine that are supposedly more important than architecture from France. Am I the only one here who hasn't seen the Eiffel Tower in person? You've never been to Paris? I haven't either. It's impressive.

It's unbelievable. You should go. You should do that.

You should definitely do that. Number nine on the list of all top French contributions are all things French that didn't really originate in France. French fries, French toast and the kiss. Because I'm assuming again, I didn't look this up.

I'm assuming that version of the kiss existed long before France did. You would imagine. And apparently French fries are from Belgium. Right.

OK. There's an argument. And they put mayonnaise on them. Well, don't don't ruin the rest of my list, sir. And French toast, I have no idea where they're from. I'm assuming it's just not France. Maybe I'm wrong.

Maybe I missed that in my research. All three of those things are great. Number eight. Number eight. Now, this is very important. French toast, Roman Empire. Power rankings of top French contributions. Number eight is pasteurizing.

What? Very important. Louis Pasteur. Louis Pasteur started killing bacteria and food and drink and it started with milk. And, you know, it prevents the spoiling of food and milk and drink. I mean, that's very important.

That's huge. Look at this young lady on there with her milk mustache. Come on now, strong bones. Mustache campaign? Please. It would never have happened if Louis Pasteur didn't pasteurize things. Shout out to Louis. Louis.

Well done, Rich. Number seven on this list. This was this helped me get through school.

Oh, gosh. A calculator. Oh, it's French? Blaise Pascal in 1640 has been credited with building the first calculator. It handled addition and subtract and subtraction by manipulating dials, and he created it to help his dad, a tax collector.

It's a father son story. The calculator. Did you know looking at a calculator and flipping it upside down and spelling out Shell Oil?

Uh, it's a father son story. Shell Oil. There's some other words I used to spell on that calculator. Number six on the top French contributions.

That's the only thing you spell, huh? Oh, stop it. Here we go. High five. Number six.

Philippe Kahn. This is recent. Nineteen ninety seven. This is Tony's.

I had a daughter, birth of a daughter, and he was working for a Web service called Picture Mail, and he decided you needed to create a better way of taking photographs of his daughter and created the first ever phone camera. Wow. Number six.

The phone camera is French. No idea. So do you know how much how that's changed? Everything. Everything.

Got it. I mean, the number of photographs that I have in my camera that I can't believe I've kept for years. By the way, TJ is the king of that. He's got so many.

Sixty seven thousand pictures. Now we're bringing it. Now we're finishing up strong.

Twenty eight thousand. We're finishing up strong guys. You mean that was strong? Top five. Top five.

Top five. Here we go. His name is Andre Casagna.

OK. He's an electrical technician and inventor and toy maker, and he decided to figure out a way to create two little styluses, work by knobs to scratch off aluminum shavings and create the Etch A Sketch. Oh, wow. The Etch A Sketch. The Etch A Sketch is French. He deserves a Nobel Prize. Tell me about all the time.

I mean, honestly, the number of times I want to look at my kids in the back of a car and say to them, get off your phones and give them an Etch A Sketch, because that's the way I got through long car rides when I was a kid. No doubt. There's no Internet. Yes. There's no 5G connection. Come on.

5G, 1G. There were two knobs and it was infuriating because I sucked at it. And then somebody would hand it to you. It looked like the Mona Lisa. It was hard to talk about stuff in France. Number four. You did not make it easy. Number four.

This one's for you, TJ. OK. May 19th, 1946. Oh, yeah.

Another date. A gentleman named Andre Rene Russimov was born. And he became known as Andre the Giant. Born in France. Look at that man. That's him with Arnold. What a contribution.

What a contribution to society. Seven feet four, 500 pounds. The eighth wonder of the world. Eighth wonder of the world. Yeah, a little guy next to him. That's Arnold.

Number three. 1956, the French army was just won some victory somewhere. This is my research. And the army's chef reportedly lacked the proper amount of cream to make a sauce for a victory dinner and decided to mix oil and eggs together and created mayonnaise.

That could do without that. Wow. This is apparently very controversial. Mayonnaise was only invented in 56. 1756. Oh, 17. I was like, what?

In 1956, they had just gone shopping. I was like, what? Mayonnaise was born.

I am not a fan. Number two on this list. A light man. This is apparently an invention of the 50s. 1950s? The bikini. And I should just, it'll be more, it'll be ungentlemanly of me to elaborate, to use the phrase from that thing you do. Number one? I love the French. Listen, I almost asked, and this is okay, even if Susie's out there watching and listening right now. Which she is. I asked Mike Hoskins to find Eva Green in a bikini just to put somebody from France in a bikini to just, if you will, emphasize the point. He's watching Casino Royale this week.

Put the accent on the egg yule. So that's the bikini. Number one is just, again, you can't, I mean, I understand like, how is that not number one? Because, you know, the French invented movie making. The actual process of movies.

I went Lumiere, the Lumiere brothers. I mean, the number, I mean, it's not serious. This is, without movies, this show doesn't exist. You know, going to the movies, meeting people, hanging out. The movies is incredible.

Actually the process of putting something on film, they also created photography too. I still like the bikinis. Was that anticlimactic? Sorry. That was good with number two.

After bikini, we kind of checked out. You did. You know what I mean? That's my power rankings in honor of the first two draft choices in the NBA draft, being French, with multiple Frenchmen being drafted in the NBA last night in the first round.

That's called inspired programming. Great choice of music. I appreciate that. You got it. I put on Twitter yesterday the gold medal Olympic game between the US and France in 2032. It's going to be a must-see team. Do you think so?

Oh, yeah. We're probably going to lose that game. Well, I mean, unless maybe the savior of the team will be the top choice of the 2031 draft by the Brooklyn Nets using the Knicks choice they acquired yesterday. Don't sleep on that choice, guys.

Wherever he is. But if Lemby becomes a US citizen. Oh, that would be controversial. You know what I mean?

I don't think they'll let him do that. OK. OK. Good job, man. I like that. Do you like that?

That was really funny. That's my top. That's my power rankings of all of the top French contributions. There are many others. Did you know they created denim, parachutes, stethoscopes, Braille?

The French did all this? Yes. Man. I looked it up. I looked it up. And it's on the internet, which means it's got to be true.

It's definitely got to be true. Oh, my God. Everybody wants to play the win-loss here.

Lot of win-loss guys. All right. Brody in Baltimore has been waiting more than everyone else. Let's go in with him. What's up, Brody? How are you, sir? Hey, you guys. That's the electric company.

That's junk for duties. On with you. First time.

Love you long time. I was hoping I could throw submit to evidence a little win-loss for my birds here in Baltimore. Let's do it. Submit to evidence?

Are you an attorney? Excuse me. This is on the record. When you play the win-loss game on the Rich Eisen Show, it's not only on the record. It can go viral. That is true.

It's true. I think the second gentleman of the United States is experiencing that virality right now. It's great to see people go and not argue about their politics with him and argue about his football picks.

That was the best part of it. You guys got a little production value for him? We're doing it right now. By the way, Anthony in Pennsylvania, he's been immortalized in our house because Cooper walks around going tough loss all the time. Tough loss. Yes, sir. Let's go. All right, here we go. Tough loss.

Tough loss. That's what he says all the time. Here we go.

It all starts in Kansas City, as we know. Yeah. Do you spoil it? Road to Valhalla, gentlemen. Do you spoil it or not? Yeah.

Chief, I got to tell you, I think new era eight is greater than the new era tour. And we poop on their parade because it's a little bit of a Taylor Swift reference to start us off a backhanded. All right. So what happens now? Home for the Raiders.

You know what, Rich? My calendar says autumn doesn't arrive for another week. So we take a win there. All right. Two and O at the Cowboys. Cowboys is tough. CJ, you guys are stacked.

You got talent, but I don't trust them against conference championship bound opponents. I think we take another win here. Three and O home for the Bills.

All right. So here's that annual Josh Allen. We're going to take it to the Super Bowl win. Let down moment for us. I think we take it out here at the Bengals.

It is the shootout. I think Lamar, Bateman, Zay, the whole mishpocha, I think they go nuts. Mishpocha. We take a win here.

All right. By the way, I never thought I would ever hear the word mishpocha and Zay flowers in the same sentence. Mishpocha. Mishpocha means people. From a guy in Baltimore. Means people.

Okay. Washington commanders. You know what? This is going to sound crazy. I think this is a track game. I think this is a Jayden Daniels coming out party. I think we take a look off.

Wow. Four and two. Four and two at the Buccaneers on a Monday night. Derek Henry, fantasy player, dude of the week, runs for 200 plus, a couple of TVs, and we take a win. Five and two at the Browns. I think Deshaun and Amari, I think maybe they kind of torch us through the air. I think Lamar tries to overcompensate, throws the ball around and a bunch of picks.

I think this is a sneaky lock. Dude, if you're five and three after losing at the Browns, that would be an interesting time to be in Baltimore, but you're now home for the Broncos. You're bouncing back. We are. This is a coaching battle. Okay. Horses are afraid of birds, but it doesn't matter because the Broncos suck.

That's a very, that made a turn from animal kingdom to, I know, I mean, he's just like horses and birds and they suck. Okay. All right. Where are we? Six and three, home for the Bengals on a Thursday night.

I don't want to speak this into existence. I think Burrow may be hurt. Oh boy. And I think we tromp him.

Okay. Seven and three at the Steelers. This one's rough. You know, Rich, I got to tell you, I see the Steelers as a very sneaky playoff team. I think they're looking to get a signature win. I think we take a lot. Dude, six.

Here we go. We got seven and four at the chargers. The Harbaugh. The Harbaugh.

This is a chef kiss. We're pissed about Pittsburgh. Michigan man let down.

Sorry, Rich. I think we tromp him. Eight and four home for the Eagles. Tough one.

Birds versus birds. Chelsea gone. I think we take a win here. Nine and four at the Giants after a bye.

You know, I think we try to make this interesting by going out the night before for a little gobble ghoul and Montepulciano, make it interesting, play a little hungover, but I still think we win. Ten and four. In a quick turnaround for the Steelers at home, ten and four on a Saturday night. Redemption time baby wins.

Ten and four Christmas Day in Houston. This is probably the game of the week. Take you over for entertainment purposes only. GB jersey swaps, all the good stuff and a win. Home for the Browns. I think DeSean is benched.

I think Jamis goes in and throws a bunch of picks and we walk all over. All right. Thanks very much. There's Brody in Baltimore. Dropped a lot of references. I know Rich, if I may, one more thing. I believe there was a guy yesterday that had some Fugazi, Breghese, Jaguars, thirteen and four, which is what I have my guys at. I proposed a side wager with the man. Yeah, that was Steve in Florida did that.

I will send Steve a dozen of our finest blue crab on ice if they go thirteen and four. Write all this stuff down. I love the smack talk between strangers that we're bringing together through the win loss game. Appreciate it. All right. There you go. You know what?

Let me just say this. The Ravens season, the schedule is just filled with dynamite match-ups like every damn last one of them, starting with the opening night in Kansas City, and then they've got the Raiders at home. This is exactly the type, because the Raiders start off against the Harbaugh's.

They start at Jim, then they go at John. And they're going to be flying across the country, let me see, that is a one o'clock Eastern game. And you know Antonio Pierce is going to start setting up by saying, we're not the same old Raiders where it's a problem going west to east, early window.

We're going to go and we're going to bring our brand of brass knuckles. Then they're at Dallas. Right window, Fox, whole country's going to see that. That'll be one of the America's game of the week on Fox. That's Brady, right?

Brady and... I'm sure it will be. Then they're home for the Bills at the Bengals for their first division game. First five games are tough. Home for the commanders, which is a battle of the mid Atlantic, if you will.

And that's just going to be of interest in that city for sure. Then they're at Tampa on a Monday night. Then they're visiting Cleveland, home for Denver, home for the Bengals on a Thursday night on an Amazon Prime. At the Steelers after that, then there's the Harbaugh, then the Eagles come in, then they have a bye, they're at the Giants, middle of December. And then comes that weird scenario that they, Kansas City, Houston and Pittsburgh are all going to be, which is one plays another on a Saturday. So they get enough complimentary rest before the Christmas game on Wednesday. They're home for the Steelers on a Saturday, then at the Texans on a Wednesday on Christmas. And then they're home for the Browns.

That is just a dynamite crucible of a season. If the Ravens are going to be the one seed in the AFC again, they are going to be battle tested. They can start one and four.

I doubt they will. They're a really good team. I'm saying they could, at KC, at Dallas, at Cincinnati. And that game at Dallas, TJ- You as a bidding man would not bet on that. I'm telling you, man, that game at Dallas is really all about the guy in the purple 22 uniform, who I was saying, and you were saying, and everybody else was saying would be perfect in Dallas if they only wanted to spend the requisite amount of money on a free agent of his caliber. Man, oh man. Now Zeke could be sitting there going, I'm back and I'm being fed and you didn't need Derrick Henry.

You got me back. That is going to be a wild week three affair. I am fired up. The Ravens schedule this year is going to be must see TV. And what's funny is Corey from Baltimore picked the Ravens a little bit ago.

He also went 13 and four. So they're that good. I think they're good eight four four two oh four rich number to dial. Tom Pellissara, Tommy P is going to be joining us next. That's next. This is the Rich Eisen Show.

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I think he's hydrating right now. I could see by the way, I now have eyes on our zoom camera. Yeah. So let's pop them up. Let's, let's, let's bring them on right now before the radio audience. How are you, Tom? What's going on? You're watching me and now that's, that's disturbing. Now I've really got to be careful what I'm doing off air here.

Hey, listen, I'm going to start quoting the police every breath you take right now. By the way, that, that is the number one, um, wedding song that should never be played at a wedding. You're aware of that?

Are you aware of that? Was that played at your wedding, Tom? That wasn't played at your wedding, was it? Pretty sure.

Pretty sure not. Uh, but yeah, I mean it's, it's a little creepy at any point in the relationship. That's probably not the vibe you want to be going for.

I'll be watching you. Well, no, it is about stalking, you know, but everywhere I've, I've been at weddings where that's played and I'm like, this is not appropriate. Think about this too. That song was released in what, 1980 something. Yeah. Yeah. 83. And at that time everyone didn't have smartphones, smartwatches, computers in their car, everything recording your every move. Uh, you literally had to drive around following someone in order to stock them as opposed to now you can just open your phone and if you've turned on the right setting, you find out, Hey, they're, uh, they're down at the dry cleaner ahead of the time.

Really ahead of the time here. Oh, it's terrible. Again, you know, uh, how old are your kids, Tom? Ten and seven girls.

So yeah, I'm, uh, out to check out, uh, defer to my wife for about the next, you know, because you know, my, my oldest can now tell, uh, cause through geo tagging on Snapchat where his friends exactly are. Oh, that's, that's, that's no bueno. You don't want any people that if they're all together, no, that's a different story. Right.

That's the psychological torture. Why are they all grouped together and I'm at home back on the rich eyes and show radio network. I'm sitting at the rich eyes and show desk furnished by Grange with supplies and solutions for every industry.

Granger has the right product for you. Call click ranger.com or just up by, you know, it's not football season or anything close to football season. I spend any amount of time with Tom Pellis era, like I just did in the Roku channel only segment talking about wedding songs. Um, I got a lot of thoughts on what we can do that all day and the season, by the way, it's not that far away. Do you realize 16 days from right now, rich, the Ravens rookies report to training camp. We are less than a month away from every team being on the field and training camp. We are 70 days away from the opener. The next couple of months here, it's fantasy draft central. It's everybody getting hyped up about all 32 teams.

This is the beautiful, beautiful time of years. We can sit here and say, we're in the break, you know, before training camp, I look at it as we are already in that ramp up that, you know, if the NFL PA gets its way, we'll be even longer with players in training camp next year. No, I know that. And that's the question of just, I want to start here.

Uh, we've had a couple of players on and I asked about reconfiguring the, the off season about maybe being in, um, in a ramp up to training camp now, right now, uh, that leads into training camp and, uh, not have OTAs and things of that nature. Um, we had, uh, who was, who was the, um, the guy from who we, who we, who we have on who was really into that idea of moving it around. Um, definitely wasn't a reporter. I can tell you that. Well, I know that.

I mean, Adam, Adam feeling from Carolina. That's right. He was way into that idea, but the NFL and the PA already said, that's not happening next year. Right. They already decided cause they gave out the new league year dates and everything like that. Or, or they have to release, they have to release those dates early on for planning purposes, but that doesn't mean that you can't have a changes later on. Right. As of now, the off season program, the April 7th, I think it is with the new head coaches in 2025, that's on the calendar.

But this is a very much a fluid situation. All these things are governed rich by the collective bargaining agreement. And that runs beyond the end of the decade here. But with new leadership at the NFL PA with Lloyd Howell taking over Jalen Reeves Maven's the new president, they're kind of taking a look at some of these things and saying, well, you know, can we, can we take aim? Maybe it's some things that don't necessarily make a ton of sense. We've already seen them do it with the gambling policy, making adjustments there.

We've seen it with some other lower profile things that we probably haven't even talked about. And this would be another one where, listen, everyone I've talked to, the consensus from a football perspective is that this makes a ton of sense. Why is the NFL the only league that has everybody ramp up to the best shape of their lives and then everybody go away for six weeks and then let's go right back into it and put on pads and do it even more intensely. It's more about the social aspects and the personal aspects of this that would create a great deal of challenges here. We'll see whether or not something advances and whether there could at minimum be tweaks in 2025. But this is very much something that I don't want to say it's a priority for the union because this isn't like this would be the chip that they would give, you know, want to get to give the NFL 18 games. But it certainly is something the union leadership and from what I've told the majority of players believe does make sense. And if the medical data sounds like it would back it up as well, it's something that the league and the union might decide collectively to do at some point.

Just a matter of how and when you implement it. All right. So then let's get to something that is apparently happening right now that could lead to something significant. In the short term and then obviously the long term, is there any new daylight coming out of Santa Clara when it comes to Brandon Iuch and the 49ers finding the same page here? Well, Brandon Iuch asked the 49ers for a meeting which took place, I believe it was on Monday. Iuch then told the media that the meeting was taking place, which has kind of followed the pattern for Brandon Iuch through this offseason, which is whether it was staging a Zoom call with Jayden Daniels where he claims the 49ers told him they don't want him back, which definitely didn't happen, or it's him posting, you know, cryptic and not so cryptic tweets about every report and rumor that's out there.

But from what I'm told, you know, they had a good meeting. Iuch has not requested a trade. He never did.

He has not at this point. The 49ers have not changed their stance, which is, yeah, they listened to trade calls before the draft, they got them about Deebo Samuel too, but the price if they were going to move either of those guys was going to be high. Listen Rich, we can all talk about, you know, Iuch saying like, oh I thought they were never trying to trade me, well, 99.9% of guys in the league are available at some price, outside of a handful of superstars, star quarterbacks, everybody else, you get offered enough, you're willing to listen on the guy. The 49ers listened on Brandon Iuch, but they weren't going to, you know, give him away for less than a first round pick and probably more. So once the draft passed, they were fully focused on, we want Iuch to be a part of the team.

Could that still change at some point between now and the start of the regular season? Anything's possible if, again, some team comes out of the woodwork, gives Brandon Iuch the contract that he wants and is willing to give up huge compensation to the 49ers, compensation that, let's remember, if it involves draft picks, can't help the 49ers in 2024 as they push for a Super Bowl here. It sounds like everybody's going to, you know, take the next couple of weeks, 4th July holiday, everybody's traveling, regroup after that, see whether or not they can get to a contract extension that makes sense for Brandon Iuch to be in San Francisco for the long haul. This isn't a situation where Iuch has told them, hey, I don't want to be back under any circumstances. It is definitely not a scenario where they've said, we want to give away Brandon Iuch, we don't want you here. It's a negotiation.

It's about money. Can they get there on a deal? If they do, then he's locked up for a long time in San Francisco. If they cannot, then, you know, Iuch's going to have some decisions to make. Does he show up at the start of training camp? Does he give up close to a million dollars or roughly a million dollars a week during the regular season by beginning to miss games? I would think, this is just my speculation, but I would think Brandon Iuch would show up before the start of the regular season.

You play out the option year on your contract, then you might be staring down a tag in 2025 and we would see where things go from there. They're going to make another attempt. We'll see if they can get something done. What's the number that you're hearing that he's interested in? Does he want to top Justin Jefferson?

Is that what we're talking about here? I would be surprised if it's into Justin Jefferson territory, just because Justin Jefferson's been an All-Pro. He's broken every record. It's hard to imagine that the number's going to go that high. But if you're a wide receiver and you're looking at the other deals that got done in this off-season, I think that any top wide receiver who knows that their payday is out there for them somewhere, $30 million per year is going to be a potential aiming point. Does the Iuch deal go that high?

Is it more in the Ahmaud Arras, a brown range, which I believe is 28, at least on paper? We'll see, but obviously the 49ers haven't met Iuch's number yet. Sometimes we all, I think fans, media, everybody's looking for acrimony and everybody's going to release their list.

The top five fits for Brandon Iuch. It's a negotiation. There's different buttons that you can push. Some are more public than others. Iuch has chosen to make certain aspects of this public. All the 49ers have said publicly, and they've reiterated it privately, is we want you here. We expect you to be here.

Let's still try to work something out. Tom Pelissero, one of the insiders from NFL Network, NFL Plus, my colleague right here on The Rich Eisen Show. I'll ask you the question I asked Mike Florio last week. Who in your best guess is going to be the first $60 million a year annual payout quarterback in the National Football League, Tom? Right now, Dak Prescott's the one that's got the best chance because he's maximized his leverage at each point through the course of his negotiations, not just by playing out his deal and potentially playing it out again here in 2024, but the fact that the Cowboys had to use a second franchise tag to buy themselves time for the paperwork to go through when he signed that extension a few years ago. That means a third tag would be 144% of his original cap number this year. So you're talking about close to $80 million in 2025.

That effectively makes him untagable next year. And so for the Cowboys, if you're trying to get something done before he hits free agency, potentially even before the start of the season or training camp, $60 million very possibly could end up being that type of number. And I know that there's been a lot of speculation in Dallas, I saw it again on a TV network this morning, is this it for Dak and Mike McCarthy, are they both looking to save their jobs here? I would still say, Rich, it's fair to say there's a possibility, there's a pathway where one or both of them still could end up having new deals before the start of the season. I think that in Dak Prescott's case, Jerry Jones wanted those leaves to fall, a lot of them have fallen at this point, they got a pretty good idea what that number might be. You know, there's different structures you can talk about, you can talk about a shorter deal potentially. And with Mike McCarthy, Jerry Jones has watched him lead a team three years in a row that's won 12 games. Does he want to push this all the way through the season?

Is there a possibility something could get done? I wouldn't rule out either of those scenarios here, Rich, but Dak will be the one to keep an eye on just because that's such a huge piece in a marketplace that also of course includes Tua Tonga-Wailoa, it includes Jordan Love, it's going to include some other young quarterbacks in the coming years once they become eligible here. But right now, the biggest contracts, the market reset contracts, they're generally about leverage. It's hard to imagine somebody who's got more leverage right now than Dak Prescott. Unless it's Jacksonville and Trevor Lawrence, right? It's not like there was leverage there, it was just giving them what they were happy to give him, I'm imagining, as well as figuring out by the time his contract's over, $55 million might be a relative deal for somebody of his talent level as well as market value. And that's why I identified when I was talking to Mike that just figuring out how it would work, obviously Dak, you said has the leverage, that wouldn't be exact until 2025, we're assuming. And then there's Brock Purdy to go next year, which is also looming over the IU conversation that's occurring right now. And Jordan Love goes, Tua goes, that's why I'm kind of thinking maybe it's a couple of years until CJ Stroud is the guy who gets to 60 first.

Like that's the one I pegged, just trying to throw a dart at the board here, throwing that here. You also had to look at this as percentage of cap. And the percentage of the cap taken up by the top quarterback contracts has gone from 15% or so a decade ago to now all these deals are getting done at upwards of 20%. If you even look at the Trevor Lawrence deal versus the Joe Burrow deal in terms of percentage of cap, obviously Burrow was significantly more because the cap was like $20 million lower when he signed his new contracts. That's the other part of it is all these teams are budgeting out into the future.

The cap had an unprecedented spike this past year because the COVID debt had been paid off. You got gambling money, you got new media deals, and I would anticipate that it continues to grow probably not at a $20 million per year type of a clip, but it's going to continue to go up. So, you know, with regard to Dak and when he can exact that leverage, I would argue, I mean, certainly the maximum leverage is when you've got additional bidders in 2025. But if you're Dak's agent and Todd France has been doing this a very long time, he's got a very good idea of what the marketplace would be for Dak Prescott and the Cowboys have a good idea that, hey, if we get into a multiple bidder situation, that's where it might be a Kirk Cousins type situation and there only has to be one team to outbid us.

If you're the Cowboys and you love Dak Prescott, which they do, your best time to get a deal may be right now, but Dak still has that leverage because if he doesn't get the number and the structure that he feels comfortable with prior to the start of training camp or maybe the regular season, then at that point, I think that the odds significantly spike that he's going to be putting on a different uniform in 2025. Before I let you go, this also gained some interest with our fan base. When we talked about it on the show earlier this week was the Ty Dunn report that Mike McCarthy has been a little fed up with the whole concept of all in and my response to that was, if it's true, can you blame him? What light can you shed on this conversation as we head into the Cowboys training camp season? I would say this Rich, Mike McCarthy has worked for Jerry Jones for the past four years. Every day that you work for Jerry Jones, who is a brilliant businessman, you know Jerry might decide to go on the radio or talk to the media after a game or say something that generates some type of buzz and creates things that then you're answering for the following week. Jerry saying all in, I believe that happened at the Senior Bowl, is just one little fleck of paint in the tapestry of everything that Jerry Jones has surrounding that organization all the time. Which certainly from a business perspective has helped Jerry Jones be a very, very, very rich man at times from a football perspective.

Maybe some of that stuff is disadvantageous. I don't believe that Mike McCarthy is thrown by any of that at this point because he knows Jerry. He knows the conversations that he has personally with Jerry Jones. Now when there's a lot of wise cracks on social media about every time they sign another U.F.L.

player of all in, Cowboys are all in, it becomes more of a media thing than anything else here. No, I don't believe that Mike McCarthy is in any way affected by something Jerry Jones says just because Jerry does so much. If anything, knowing Mike, and I've known Mike since 2007 when I got on the beat at the Green Bay Press Gazette, going into a contract here as a guy who's led three consecutive 12-win teams, disappointing endings, no doubt about it over these past couple of years here. But Mike just wants to go out, kick everybody's ass, get a new contract, and go try to win Super Bowl. That's his focus at this point.

No, I'm sure it's his focus, but I mean, you can't blame him for a human moment to potentially share with somebody who then shared it with Ty Dunn that he's fed up. This is ridiculous. I want C.D.

Lamb in here. We know we're going to pay him, so pay him. I want Dak Prescott to not have all these questions asked of him, so pay him. Micah Parsons, the whole business, obviously has no control over it, and you're right. It is part and parcel of working for the Joneses, which we both do, technically also. Jerry's got a lot going on. Last year, he was traveling all over the world.

He had cameras in every meeting because he was having a documentary made about his life. There's times where you're before the start of free agency, and every team's talking about stuff. Jerry might be on his yacht for a week, and you just wait until he gets back, and you find out what you're doing. Everything's a little bit different in Dallas, and that's just part of the show here. I mean, yeah, Mike would love for, I'm sure, Dak Prescott to get locked up, and C.D.

to get locked up, and Micah to get his money. I do think still, not just Dak, but C.D., potentially there could be a window to get a deal done before the start of this season, too. Where we're sitting here in June, there's a long way to go still, a couple of months until the start of training camp. I think that, as we've discussed many times, Rich, over the past several months here, a lot of other franchises would have been proactive in these types of situations with their franchise players, with their head coach. I can't remember any other team going into training camp, potentially with their quarterback and their head coach, both headed into contract years, but again, Dallas is its own animal.

Everybody knows that. That's why I chuckle every time that people keep bringing up the idea, and we're at the end of last season of could Bill Belichick work for Jerry Jones, and I just have these visions of the Cowboys suffer a tough loss in week one, and Bill's walking out of the locker room, and Jerry's got every camera around him and is sounding off on what they called on third and eight on defense in the fourth quarter. I just don't see that match being able to happen, even though I know there's certainly mutual respect and a friendship between those guys. Tom, greatly appreciate it. We'll chat again soon. Have a good weekend, pal. Thanks for the time. Thanks, Richard.

You bet. That's Tom Pelissero, everybody, right here on The Rich Eisen Show. Listen, that whole Belichick sense, too. I remember when Parcells took that job, everyone thought, that'll never work, and it did. It did.

Top five teams for IU, Bill's, Steelers. He basically said, don't go. It's not happening. It's not happening, and he's right. It's not happening. If it didn't, the only time it would happen was at the draft. That's when it would happen. You think this is the NBA?

It's not the NBA. Yeah, exactly. By the way, you're right. That's exactly right. Let's trade IU for a 20-25 first and trade him for a 20-27 first.

And a kid in seventh grade. And not have him this year, because we just got to get him off our books for free agency. That's just a different league, a different association in the NFL. The time to do it would have been right before the draft in Detroit. So you could then flip a turn around and then take a very talented kid in the first round of the draft, and the Niners did both. They held onto their guy and took a really talented kid in the first round of the draft.

And everybody thought, well, they took a kid in the first round of the draft. That means that IU is now expendable. And then you would hear, well, the guy who's really expendable is Debo. That's the guy that they'd really want to maybe offload. And they could do that during the season. I don't even imagine that could happen during the season. Why would you do it? You were loaded for, if it all fits under the cap right now, and you could figure out how to work something for IU to keep him happy and get him into camp, which he will be in camp at some point before the beginning of the season. My two cents. Is it possibly holds out right until the very end?

Sure. But that's always dangerous. That's why somebody shows up and has a soft tissue injury right off the bat. I think this will get done, but one thing that's definitely not happening is these guys get traded. Why would they do that? Niners don't need draft capital in 2025 at the end of the 2024 season.

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So it's so light, the sunlight on top of the roof just made it so easy to see everything and it was about, I would say 80, 20 Mexico. There were tons of Venezuela fans, but most of them, you could see they're wearing green right there, that's for Mexico. And Mexico dominated for about 65, 70 minutes and then Venezuela got a nice opportunity and a foul in the box led to a penalty kick. And then in the 87th minute or 88th minute, there was a clear hand ball. The place went nuts when the ref didn't call it. Everybody that out came the VAR rectangle, went and looked at it, gave Mexico a penalty kick and they blew it, they blew it.

And it's just, again, I know it's tough to explain sometimes to some of our friends here in this country, that something that's final score, one nothing is something so exhilarating, but it was. Can't wait for the Olympics and the other thing I'll sit here and say, seeing the grass in SoFi Stadium, keep it. I don't know how difficult it would be to actually maintain it for two teams, using it for 18 straight weeks for the Chargers and the Rams. And plus, again, I said, it is translucent, the roof, I don't know how you keep it. But man, because it's not like a system in Europe where there's trays underneath the stadium where you could keep it, I don't think. And it's definitely not like Arizona where you could just remove it and stick it in like a pizza in a pizza oven. So you can take it out and have the sunlight hit it all week long and then just shove it straight in for the game. But I saw it in Dallas, I see it for all of these Copa America events that are happening in NFL stadiums, it's like, you could do it for Copa America, can't you do it for your home team?

It just looks better, it looks nicer, I'm assuming it is healthier. I'm assuming, I'm sure there's a bunch of numbers that can be said, well, this happens on grass just as much as it does on the pellet surface. But I just loved seeing this played and seeing the pellets fly up in the air. And some of these runs, it definitely, because I could see where the 50-yard line would be, some of these runs were 30 yards at least. And it's exhilarating as it gets as close to the box and then the keepers.

It's really amazing. I would suggest anybody who can go to one to go to one. And certainly when the Olympics are coming here to this town, that's all I kept thinking in this stadium. World Cup as well, right?

In two years, Olympics in four. But the World Cup final, is it going to be in Dallas? Didn't they announce it's in Dallas or New York? Are they going to have it outdoors in New York? Where the turf is the worst in MetLife Stadium. I mean, that is 100% the most notorious artificial surface in the NFL. It'll all be on grass. I mean, they have to. I know they have to. So if they have to do it to bring in the events, then let's... MetLife. Let's keep it. That's where it's at.

It is at MetLife, right? It's just amazing to see. It was so great to walk in there and just see that green grass inside SoFi. It's just like, this is the way it is, man.

Yeah, like I said, the pictures you sent and then... Yeah, I'll look at other people's pictures and videos. And what a scene it was. The fans were just lit. The energy was incredible.

And each rush felt like a rush of the puck in hockey was just building up the crescendo. I can't tell you how much I enjoyed it. We all enjoyed it. Did you happen to run into the second gentleman yesterday? I did not, but I did run into Puka Nakua.

Oh, you did? Oh, my guy Puka. Puka was there.

Interesting. How's he doing? Very well.

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He looked very healthy and ready to go. Okay. No Twizzlers or anything? Nothing.

Not at all. I love Twizzlers. But I was also drinking at the time. Oh, God. I saw you in a hat.

Oh, you saw that, too. Okay. Susie's taking pictures and sending it out.

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