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844-204-RICH is the number to dial here on the program. Mike Florio, pro football talk, will be joining us shortly here on this Tuesday show. Kirk Cousins is going to be joining us in our number three. He had a playlist that, I guess, it was his birthday yesterday. So they gave him, the Falcons gave him the ability to, I think, just pick the music and practice. Is that what it was?
I feel like that's what it was. And RJ Herrera, our jack of all trades of The Rich Eisen Show, saw the playlist and thinks most of them that he chose are from his guitar hero days. That a lot of them are from what, rock star, guitar hero, band hero, those video games of the early aughts? Yes, Madden, I think, mixed in there, too, as well.
Kirk probably was a gamer in the early 2000s, and that's the list he came up with. It's great. It's a perfect, like, dad, 20-year-old playlist. Is it really?
Yeah, I think so. Jimmy Eat World, All-American Rejects, Green Day, the Fountains of Wayne, Blink-182, Good Charlotte, The Killers, Gym Class Heroes, Foo Fighters, All Out Boy. It's good. It's a good playlist. OK. All the small things.
All right. Mr. Brightside's on there, so it's a good list. Fire that up. Yeah, that's definitely not guitar hero, Mr. Brightside, right? No, that might have been. Was that in Madden? That might have been in a video game or something. Yeah, that was in one of those. I feel like that was in a video game. So basically, RJ is saying he's a gamer, and that's the way he's coming up with this material.
I mean, literally, it was the first thing RJ hit me with when I walked in the door today. He was suddenly like, yo, listen. That's later on in the program.
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And the author and also the man behind Pro Football Talk, Mike Florio here on the program. How you doing, Mike? Good, Rich.
Sorry I'm a little tardy. I had to make what ended up being a very long walk from where I do this upstairs, across the garage, up to the studio, and back down. And I tried to do it in a way that I wouldn't be winded. Maybe I could be a biathlete because I am not winded. I should be winded. It was a quick brisk walk. I got my exercise in for the day. Sorry I was playing.
Listen, you got your steps and you're ready to roll. It's great to see you here. I know the Michael Penix pick from April is something that we're going to be talking about for years. And we'll see how the 2024 season plays out to see if he has any significant playing time and the reason why he has it. And then what happens in the years between that and the time when they hope they'll have a Jordan Love situation on their hands.
But the fact that he's not playing the rest of this preseason after just popping up in the first game, I know that's something of interest to you. And I'll give you the floor on what you think is going on in Atlanta right now. Well, it's always hard to predict if you have a rational mind.
And some of the times I do. The actions and motivations of people who seem to be acting irrational. And it was irrational for the Falcons to use the eighth overall pick on Michael Penix Jr. after giving $100 million fully guaranteed as a practical matter to Kirk Cousins six weeks earlier. It is irrational to not let Penix get reps over the balance of the preseason when he's not going to be playing this year or next year or the year after if you listen to how the Falcons have spun this.
The fact that they're not playing the guy, I think, points to multiple potential explanations. It could be as simple as they got freaked out by JJ McCarthy's season-ending knee injury. It could be that they are concerned that maybe Kirk Cousins won't be ready to go week one and they may need Penix. Maybe, and this occurred to me today when Chris Simms and I were talking to the room, maybe they've decided to just ride with Penix with the caveat that Kirk isn't ready. So we're going with Penix until Kirk is ready.
And this is the one way you can kind of bench a rookie quarterback who gets overwhelmed. Because once you go with the guy, it's very hard to go back. But if they would go with Penix under this guise of Kirk isn't ready and then Penix would struggle, all of a sudden Kirk is ready.
And I don't want to overcomplicate it. I'm just trying to make sense of something that is nonsensical. Penix not playing in the preseason. If Cousins is the wire-to-wire guy, makes no sense. What if they want to showcase Heineke? What if they're sitting out there saying we don't want to, for whatever reason, it can't be cap, but Heineke as a third string guy, maybe a team like say Minnesota looks at their depth now that JJ McCarthy's out for the season. Or another team might just put him on film for everybody to see right now. Could that be it too, Mike?
What do you think? Well, that's a possible explanation. They went with Heineke and John Paddock in lieu of Penix. Penix still could have gone through a couple of drops. Just the process of getting yourself ready, being in uniform, all the pregame stuff. There's valuable experience in that. He wasn't dressed.
He was in street clothes watching everything unfold. So Heineke could have played anyway. And I think they need to keep Heineke. Now there's a thought at some point he could be traded.
He may be a valuable veteran backup in a place like Chicago where Tyson Bajant is number two behind Caleb Williams. But look at last year. If you don't keep three quarterbacks around this year, three guys you trust to play, shame on you. Because last year we saw what can happen to a team that doesn't go three deep at the position. So you got cousins at age 36 coming off of the torn Achilles. You've got Michael Penix Jr. who's 24 and has had multiple injuries. You better keep Heineke around. You better have him ready to go because it doesn't take much to go haywire for Heineke to BQB one. Mike Florio, Pro Football Talk, PFT Live on Peacock right here on the Rich Eisen Show. Listen, I know we're two plus weeks away from the first week of the regular season. And I'm just kind of surprised it hasn't struck midnight for CeeDee Lamb and the Cowboys or Iyuk and the 49ers right now.
What's your assessment of what's happening there? Well, midnight is the key word. It's a deadline driven business. Anytime you're talking about high stakes negotiations, the two sides have to have a general understanding of when the chariot turns into a pumpkin when it's time to get the deal done.
Because if you move to your bottom line position and there's still time left, you will be squeezed off of it. So both sides, assuming that in Iyuk and in Lamb's situation you can throw in Jamar Chase as well, that they understand when midnight arrives. That's when the deal gets done. And one of the things we've heard from Jerry Jones throughout training camp at the pre-season, there's no urgency to get CeeDee Lamb back in the building now. So they don't have midnight as start of camp, week one of the pre-season. Midnight for them presumably is when they begin practicing in earnest for the week one game at Cleveland. So I'd say a week to two, somewhere in there, probably after the final pre-season game there's a break that the players have maybe next Thursday, Friday, around there. But in advance of getting to work when everybody gets back together after that post pre-season break to get ready for week one at Cleveland.
So now let's break them out one by one. What is the holdup with Iyuk? What's happening? Well, I think what's happened is with Iyuk reportedly, and I have no reason to doubt this, saying no to trades to the Patriots or the Browns who were teed up, it's the Steelers or he stays put. And since the Steelers came in reportedly, and I've heard nothing to disprove this either, less than the other places, I think the 49ers woke up and realized, hey, if all these other teams are willing to pay this guy more than what we're willing to pay, maybe we should pay him more. And I think the 49ers have been hiding behind this notion that, yeah, he's a number one receiver. We don't use him like a number one receiver, so we can't pay him like a number one receiver. Well, other teams are willing to pay him like a number one receiver, so you should too.
And I think the longer this lasts, the harder it is for him to go anywhere but where he is. Because think about how difficult it would be, Rich, to plug and play Brandon Iyuk into Arthur Smith's offense with new quarterback, and we don't know who the starter's gonna be in Pittsburgh yet, new teammates, new coaching staff, new terminology, new everything moving across the country. I think the closer we get to week one, the harder it is to pull that off. But I can't imagine at the end of the day, the end result being Brandon Iyuk grabs his helmet and plays for 14.1 million this year. I feel like it's gotta be, at a minimum, a new deal or a trade.
It can't be 14-1. So what's the holdup with C.D. Lamb? Is it the annual per year, not being north of Justin Jefferson, Mike? Well, APY is always the first factor that we look at, and I think from the player's perspective generally, and I've talked to players about this over the year, the idea is that's the way you measure your worth, your value within the locker room, across teams, what's my APY? New money, and Jefferson's at 35. Where do the Cowboys wanna be? Shame on the Cowboys for not getting the deal done before Jefferson got paid. It's always sensible to do these deals early because the numbers always go up.
There will be other factors that come into play. When is the escape hatch on the contract? When the Cowboys went through this with Amari Cooper a few years back, five years, $100 million contract, 20 million a year.
After two years, they were gonna cut him until they traded into the Browns, and that's when the market went haywire. In hindsight, 20 million a year looks pretty good. So it's how many years are they gonna be committed to C.D. Lamb, the guaranteed money, how much is truly guaranteed at signing? Those are all factors, but APY leans over this, and 35, more than 35? I don't know that he justifies more than 35 or even 35. Somewhere around A.J.
Brown, 32 maybe, but it sounds like he's holding firm for 35, and we'll see what Jerry's bottom line is when the clock strikes midnight, whenever that may be. Yeah, when is that, man? I mean, they're in Cleveland in two and a half weeks.
You know what I mean? It's gotta be Labor Day. It's gotta be no later than September 2nd.
It's gotta be, because that's when you start practicing. How you getting the guy ready to play in week one if he's not there? But remember, 1993, Emmitt Smith skipped the first two games, the Cowboys lost both, and then Jerry finally caved, and they won the Super Bowl that year. So it could last into the regular season, but I'd be shocked if that happens. I think Jerry wants to milk this for all the attention it's worth, and then he'll know at the right time when to move the chips into the middle of the table and get this done. Mike Florio Pro Football Live with, PFT Live with Mike Florio is a podcast version of the family of shows that Mike hosts and also produces and puts on the air right here on the Rich Eisen Show.
Okay, so then I'll just open it up to you. What's the story of the pre-season we're not paying enough attention to that you've been hearing you're interested in? When I watch these games, and I haven't watched all of them, and a lot of time the video's on, but the audio isn't, when we talk about the dynamic kickoff, I still think there's a good chance that plenty of teams are gonna decide not just halfway through the season.
I used to think by halfway through the season they'd get there. It may be as of week one, I'm not gonna be your guinea pig. I'm kicking the ball out of the end zone and you can start at the 30. Because the NFL had a conference call yesterday and they said the average field position so far is the 28.7, I believe.
It's north of the 28, maybe 28.3, 28.7, somewhere between 28 and 29. So just give up the extra yard and a half and take off the table the risk of a long return, the risk of a touchdown. You know, it's not worth pinning your hopes to something we have no idea how it's gonna play out. And I think there will be coaches who as of week one, yeah, they go through this process during the preseason, but if the NFL doesn't change the touchback point from the 30 to the 35, and all the owners are meeting next Tuesday, they'll be at court. They'll be able to, Robert's Rules of Order will be satisfied. They'll be able to move it to the 35 if they won. If they don't, then the question becomes, would they actually change the rules during the season if the dynamic kickoff ends up being a dud? They don't like to change the rules during the season, but yesterday the NFL didn't rule out any changes at any time, but they said it's not likely for now that it goes from the 30 to the 35. They may feel differently when week one rolls around because I think a lot of teams are just gonna say, take the 30, we'll play defense, and we won't risk getting burned for a long touchdown.
That could cost us a game, that could cost us a playoff spot that could cost me my job. Yeah, Sean Payton's already said, make it the 35 and you got yourself a better rule. I mean, he's absolutely verbalized that, and a lot of the coaches that have come on this show, I've asked them about it, I think they would agree that it would be a better rule, but in terms of at the end of the game, and you've got a four-point lead, and you're kicking off because you just got a field goal and you take a four-point lead, or you scored a touchdown to take a four-point lead, screw it, put it on the 30, because you're not giving up a touchdown quickly on somebody creasing the blocking area, right?
And you'd rather just say, play 70 yards of defense and go to work if you're a coach. Yeah, especially if Tyreek Hill's standing back there waiting to receive that kick when you're up four points late in the game. And the other benefit too, Rich, and I've heard talk about this, because I think the coaches are keeping their cards close to the vest because I think they'd like to get through next Tuesday without the touchback point being moved from the 30 to the 35, because then they can implement this plan to just give up the 30. Because if it becomes a 35, then all of a sudden it's like, oh no, now we have to actually kick off. So they'd prefer, I think, the ones who are thinking about kicking out of the end zone would like it to stay at the 30. Another benefit, you don't have to practice kickoff coverage. Just bang it out of the end zone. It's less time you have to devote to the limited time you have to get your team ready to do everything your team has got to be ready to do. We don't have to screw around with kickoff coverage. Take that off the table. Use our time on other things. Okay, man.
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I like my vengeance hard-boiled. Yeah. So, congratulations on that. It's a- You shouldn't be snarky about a good review. No, it's- I mean, yes. But you know what? You only know one speed, brother. So, it's out September 3rd, just in time for the football season.
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The 3rd. And he started doing that. Oh my God. One of the great scenes. I don't have favorite episodes. I have favorite moments. Of course you do.
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All right, thanks Rich C. Powell. That's Mike Florio. Everybody follow at Pro Football Talk right here on The Rich Eisen Show. I go back and forth with this new kickoff rule.
Every time I look up, it looks weird. And you're like, what is happening? But nobody's showing a hand. And you know there are some people who have come up with some plays that- Absolutely. That are gonna be- And they can have all the plays drawn up that they want.
But if the team just kicks it into the end zone, then what good are they? Well, you gotta be ready in case they don't. By the way, again, I don't own a team in the National Football League. I don't believe I'll ever be in such a position. Hey, never say never, Rich. Never say never, man. I mean, I don't have- Power balls? Seven billion Rich Eisen fan of the game cards to sell. To get liquid enough to my team.
But if you did- Also seven's probably a little light now. Not in your mind, but it's in your form. I don't know, to get 51% of a team?
Oh, okay, yeah, right, right, right. Just controlling, that's all I want is controlling interest. I'm at 100%. I can have partners. Look at us.
Hey. I would just, I would make sure that my best talent is locked up sooner rather than later. What is the point? If you know you're gonna pay CD Lamb 33, 34, 35, 32, and I don't- You'd really be- No, no, it takes two to tango. It takes two to tango. And CD might just, just choosing this in particular, CD might take, he might take the time here to play it out himself, that he's fine. He knows his body's ready. He knows it doesn't have to work out. He knows exactly what the playbook is. He knows exactly when he can step in and be ready, week one, to take out the Cleveland Browns defense. All he's gotta do is just be in the fold on that Monday of Labor Day and off you go. And he knows that, and he's gonna be cool, and he knows that he's not worried about it. He's working out though. I know he is.
I don't just think he's sitting at home eating full bags of Doritos. But I mean, you can't work on timing. These are things you can't work on.
All of this stuff, I would just never risk it. I don't get it. I don't understand it. And if it is just the amount of backend contract money for the 49ers to give the APY to Brandon Iuch what he wants, I don't understand that either. But again, I'm only four plus years into being management here at this show. Yeah, none of us are asking for that type of scratch.
Well, I mean, there is a door. I need my APY up with Stu Gossett. I don't know what to tell you, Rich. We're gonna have to have a conversation offline. I guess that's true, is that everybody's salary in our business isn't published and there aren't websites to actually break down what it is. And that's why money is viewed as respect. Rich, I'm sitting out, I'm walking out, right? You do half the time anyway. I do actually, it's true. I'm used to that.
I'm a part-time player anyway. You know what I mean? But I can understand that that's why the holdouts happen. It's a respect situation because everybody knows how much that guy's making. And if you don't pay me the same as that guy, I'm better than that guy. It's a competitive thing where, you know, top receivers in the game are challenging the gold medal winners in the 100 meters to say, let's race 50 yards. You know what I mean?
It's a very competitive alpha moment. I understand how this all goes. So if you can take that emotion out of owning a team and just say, fine, make him happy. I want happy employees. I want happy people.
And I don't want them to do something happy. I want them in the mix before the season. I want them at least breaking a sweat in practice, a couple of weeks before the season. Yeah, you need chemistry, you need team bonding. All that's important. The first action CDOM has of the 2024 NFL off season and season should not be week one. No, and I understand that.
And there are other circumstances where players are injured. Like it looks, it sure looks to me like Aaron Rodgers first snap since his Achilles snap will be looking at Nick Bosa with his fingers, how does that make you feel as a fan though? That's scary. You want me to answer that question? How would it make me feel? Let me just speak on behalf of jet fans here on this front.
Please. Of course it's scary, but would I rather have him get dinged up in the Snoopy bowl? Brian Burns pulling a spin move on somebody and all of a sudden he's taken down Aaron Rodgers in a game that means nothing. Hell no, hell no.
So what I'm bringing this up for is just the circumstances. Rodgers is just the only one. Name another one, Jeffrey Simmons. Remember Jeffrey Simmons was saying he can't wait to get out there when he was in here. I mean, name anybody who didn't finish the season. Josh Jacobs didn't finish the season.
I'm just saying. Has he played a snap? I don't think he's played a snap for the Packers yet, right? No, no, no. I'm just saying Rodgers specifically hasn't played in two years. Well. Can't really count that.
Yeah, less than two years. Can't count four snaps. No, no. No, you can't. I understand that. So if you can help it, I don't blame Salah for basically telling Rodgers, you're not playing the preseason. But, you know.
And C.D. Lamb might not have played the preseason at all had he been in the fold in health and signed anyway. Probably not. But you can bring him in.
You can end this thing. But then again, I don't own an NFL team. But if you did, you're saying your guys would be signed. Or you'd be. Well, if I did. You'd be the Howie Roachman. Let me tell you.
You would get your stuff done early. Let me tell you, I would be that guy. And number two, if I owned an NFL team, if I owned an NFL team, my fan of the game card would 1,000,000% be more than $1 plus tax. Can you tell I'm bothered by that? Now it's signed. It's signed.
It's just a plastic case, Rich. Two Bobby Bones, who's been disrespected by Julianne Hough. Did you see that? No.
Yeah, she said his Dancing with the Stars championship was not merited. Is tainted? What?
Asterix? How? He stuffed a ballot box or something? Yes, that she accused him of winning, not because he was the best dancer, he was just the most popular.
Ooh. You know, it's funny, when he was here last week, he did say, he said it, he goes, I found the way to, did he say manipulate the votes? He said something. Oh, listen. Something, maybe that wasn't the exact, but he did say something.
Robert Bones. Listen, how dare you? Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. It's not his fault he's popular. When they say nobody can ever take it away from you, they never thought of it was B. Miss Hough trying to do that.
It's not Bobby Bones' fault that he's popular. By the way, I saw the ball. What is it, the shiny ball? The mirror ball. The mirror ball, I saw it. It's a mirror ball, come on. It's in his podcast studio. I saw it.
Is it big? No one, like, try and take it away from him. You got to get past the gated security. No one's going to take that. Bobby, just keep it where it is.
They're not going to take it. Dancing with the Stars, B. Wow. Who knew? Who knew? Who's the Italian guy who stands and screams?
What's his name? Oh, Big Dumb. No.
Oh. The judge on dancing. Len. No, Len may, rest in peace, is the prince. Oh, yeah, Len passed away, yes.
Bobby Bones! Okay. Let's take a break. Eight four four, two oh four rich, number two. Two.
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I just think it is instinctually great, actually. Okay. Well, he now knows that and we will make sure that we'll make this happen. Yeah. It would be my honor. Does he listen? Yes. Patrick, hi. He does.
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We'll make this happen. Those guys are good, too. Yeah, they are. I mean, they're good quarterbacks. Yeah, they are.
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I mean, Rich. You checking this stuff out? What do you think? We're all watching it. It's so much fun. I mean, I can only imagine what these parents must be going through watching their kids do this, play this, because in the brief stint that Cooper had playing Little League locally here, just how proud they must be and how intense this whole thing must be. And then the other night, it was great watching the Yankees and the Tigers play in Williamsport.
Did you see that? And how Jazz Chism was sitting with the players, Yankees and Tigers players were just hanging out with the kids. How great that must have been. That was awesome.
And ESPN's writings were through the roof for that game. That's cool. Good game. Yeah. Oh.
Good game. Yeah, the Jazz Chism thing was awesome, Rich. Let me tell you something. So wasn't the Jazz Chism thing, it was just great. Yeah, he mentioned how one kid came up to him, he goes, my friend is your biggest fan. And then later he saw the kid at the end of the line and he pulled him over and Jazz is like, you know, I'm your big brother now. And so he like. Yeah, Juan Soto was on the bus, the Yankees were on the bus with some of the kids too.
It's just great. Yeah. And then, you know, then they grow up and then you can't stand watching them play.
Like just for instance, Clay Holmes. Let me tell you something. I mentioned before, right? I mentioned before how Cooper and I can't say his name now. It's Schmashmomes. He even texted me the other day, hey dad, Schmashmomes is coming into the game. Schmashmomes.
Schmashmomes. Because he's got 10 blown saves. That's the most by a Yankee closer since Dave Spaghetti Righetti blew 13 saves in 1987. But they're sticking with him.
They're sticking with him. And honestly, I think I look good for my age, but this man ages me. Clay Holmes ages me. Honestly, yesterday, Cooper said to me, Yankees are off tonight, dad. And I said to him, that means no Schmashmomes. Literally said that to him.
He laughed. But I don't understand why, you know, managers just won't switch it up. Like why are we, you know what I mean? Who are you going to clap close and send? They've got, they're going to the seventh and eighth guys. See what they can do. Shake it up.
What's the big deal? I personally think Aaron Boone's doing a great job. I know that. So I do like your manager a lot. I do too.
I wish we were a little bit better with the blown games. But it's crazy. If you look at the records in baseball right now, the best records in baseball, I think like nine teams have it. Yeah. 72, 73. They're all, they're all right around the same number of wins. 73.
72, 73, 74. Well, it's like a baseball, you want a parody in that regard? You got it. Yeah. I'm looking.
I was just looking. You got it. Like nobody's blown away the competition. Nope. Occasionally, despite the Yankees having a dreadful run from mid-June all the way towards the end of the All-Star break and just barely through it, they're right there along with the Orioles and the Phillies.
The Dodgers have 74 and then the Phillies, Yankees and the Orioles have 73, the Guardians and Brewers have 72 and the Padres have 71. That's right. Yeah.
They've kind of snuck up on everybody. And you know who might be playing the best baseball out of all of them is Kansas City. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you don't want to pitch to Bobby Witt, man.
No kidding. You are not stuttering. You don't want to pitch to that dude.
You are not stuttering. I mean, if Judge wasn't doing what he was doing, Witt would be MVP of American League. Do me a favor. Look up on the Royals in town when we're in town for, because we'll invite Bobby Witt on the program. See if he'll make it.
The guy who George Brett says he can't, he can't, he will watch any at-bat Bobby Witt has. Yeah, they're home. They are. Okay. Let's do it. Let's reach out.
Oh man, they're playing the Guardians. It's a huge series. It's a huge series. Okay.
Wow. Let's see if he wants to spend a weekday morning with us for a few minutes. Seems like Wednesday night we got plans, boys. It's a baseball game. That's a great stadium.
That's a great stadium. We can ask one of the part owners of the team to see if he can get his tickets. That's not a bad idea.
Anyway, long story short, Shmaish Momes, I just can't, we can't have it anymore. Rich Rivera's not coming back. Let's do something for Cooper that we can actually affect. Okay. Positive. R.E.S. Consulting? R.E.S. Consulting. Unite.
Yes. He, in his fantasy, he's got a million fantasy leagues. One of his fellow classmates at his school invited him to a 20-team league. 20.
I've never heard of it before. 20. He says to me, he goes, dad, they're having trouble filling it out.
I'm like, okay. Then throw it open to all Los Angeles schools. Maybe it'll help.
20-team league. Never heard of that. And he's already done. Wow. He went to camp in June, he did two drafts. In June. In June?
In June. That's nuts. And by the way, you have never lived until you have heard multiple 13-year-olds talk about football. Oh. It is great. It's gotta be. Oh my goodness gracious.
I mean, we've got one call every now and then. Yeah. Oh yeah. Connor. Listen to Connor.
I wouldn't invite him in your league. Connor? It seems like a ringer. Connor might win. Connor would win. Connor's already looking at the Jets cap space in 2026 when he's holding yesterday. Connor seems like a ringer. He's like the Don Bui of your basketball league. He can't lose.
He just wins every year. That hurt. That hurt to just do that. But it's true. I mean. Listen.
But he's in a league with his camp friends that picks this Sunday. Okay. PPR.
Okay. Ten teams. Snake draft.
Love it. He's second overall. The guy, the young man who's first overall has told the entire league. It's just like the old days where you just knew it was the Bears. It was like the Bears. Well, it's not the Bears. The Bears kind of even kept it under wraps about Caleb until five minutes in.
Mario Williams and all those guys. Right. McCaffrey's going first. Okay. Great.
So who do you take second overall? Now I told him what I think everybody's choices would be here in the room, but he still wanted me to ask you anyway. Okay.
I predicted what you would say, Chris. Bijan. I said, problem is for him, he had Bijan last year and he's really scarred from the experience. I get it.
Arthur Smith is not there. And I told him that. I told him that.
And Bijan is going to get 400 touches. But you know how it is with fantasy. You want to switch it up. I know you're a snake, but you got to mix it up. But you also want to switch it up.
I already went through that last year. Sure. I totally get it. I told him that you would say Bijan. Totally get it.
I told him what you would say. Which is who? Because I don't even know. CeeDee Lamb. CeeDee Lamb. Who, by the way, if you look at some of the mock drafts and the rankings in a PPR league, he is in fact second. He's up there. Yeah. Yeah.
Okay. Well, it's like him and Tyreek, pretty much. Tyreek Hill. A lot of receivers. I mean, you kind of know me a little bit, I guess.
I said that, but would you say something else? I would say either CeeDee or I got this weird... Your boy, Breece Hall, I watched an interview with him. He was so confident in himself that it made me go, bing, bet. I believe you. Now, his issue with Breece Hall, this may be his mother's doing it. He's a Patriot fan.
That makes sense. It's not just that he's a Patriot fan. He just doesn't trust a Jet. That's fair.
Cooper just cannot trust his fantasy season to a New York Jet. You know, you could... He's a kid. You could easily get him to sway his thinking, though, right?
No, no, no. Dude, I stay out of it. I know, but you could tell him that getting him rooting for Breece Hall will allow you guys to have an even closer bond on set. No, that has nothing to do with it.
That has nothing to do with it, in all honesty. But he has seen Breece rip off 70-yarders. He's seen what he can do. And I did tell him that Breece had a 1,000-yard season last year in the dumpster of Dumpster Fire seasons.
That guy still did his thing. With all the different quarterbacks and all the struggles and all of it. No line, no scheme, no quarterback. No hope. No hope.
No big whoop. For fantasy, he just won't trust it to a Jet. So he's thinking of... I shouldn't... It doesn't matter. He's thinking of Tyreek Hill.
No, that's pretty good. I think that's what he's thinking of doing. Third overall in a lot of rankings. Look, he's going to get his, obviously.
So let me just ask this again. And we've got Kirk Cousins coming up, and obviously he won't give up too much. But I'm sure he will talk glowingly of him, because everybody speaks glowingly of him. Why do you think Bijan Robinson is going to have one of those monster fantasy seasons? Why do you think that, based off of what we saw last year and what the unknown is this year? While his touches were limited last year, you could see how explosive he was, how durable he was. He's such a great receiver, even though that wasn't part of Arthur Smith's plan. But based on conversations and things that have been said, he is going to get the usage. He is going to get the red zone carries. He's going to get the down by the goal line carries.
It's going to be used in the passing attack. It won't be Al Gere, the vulture, again? I don't think so. I think he's going to be more of a... Do we know that?
Have we spoken in an offensive court? We haven't seen it. We don't know that. All right. No, no, no. I'm not... No, I'm just... That's why I'm asking, why are you so... Is it Sarah?
Is Sarah chirping in your ear about it? No. Okay. They have to, also.
They have to. I agree. The conventional wisdom, certainly in the fantasy world, certainly in the fantasy world, is that Arthur Smith... He is RB2 in everything.
Arthur Smith... Totally blew it. Totally, 100%, not blew it, but figuratively handcuffed him and forced anybody to handcuff him to use that phrase to Al Gere, if you were so fortunate in fantasy last year to get both. I think the general consensus feeling about it is that he is going to be unleashed this season.
He just... I don't... Last year was just scarring for him. It was tough.
He had Bijan last year. Me too. It was tough. And it destroyed him. Destroyed him.
And he was so frustrated and he was like, so to sit here and go, oh, I'll go back to him. I don't think it's going to happen. Oh, that's tough. You want to enjoy your fantasy season and living through that again would not be enjoyable. He would do CD if CD was signed. How can you draft CD Lamb, you know, second overall when he's not signed on Sunday, by Sunday?
How are you going to do it? Well, your fantasy season can't end in week one. That's a good thing. So if he plays the last, say he misses week one. Right. It's fine. So he lives.
Big deal. You go 11-1. I think he's going to go Tyree kill.
That's certainly fun. Because he won't do a jet. He just won't do it. Yeah. He won't do it.
He won't do it. No, it doesn't. Come on, bro. Just a slight. Why does it hurt me?
Why does it hurt me? In all honesty? No.
No, it doesn't hurt me. He's his own mind. He's his own person. You know.
But again, I'm going to sit here and say, no, you should definitely trust a team who has some reason, 50 years on now, there's something going on with the football gods, with them. Oh, yeah. Take that guy from that team. You guys got Klay Holmes, the Bondo over here. Oh, God. Shma-shmoans.
Don't even mention it. All right. I'll take anybody who wants to talk. But 844-204-Rich, number to dial here on the program. We'll take some phone calls.
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Greenlight.com slash rich. 35 years ago, Saved by the Bell premiered. Did you see that?
Yeah, I saw that this morning. Man, I love that show. Can I tell you something? Never saw it? Never watched an episode. Never watched an episode from start to finish. You're saved by the bell.
You're a little too old. Ever. Saved by the bell, right? Yeah. I mean. You were 20. Yeah, Rich. You were watching Saved by the Bell.
But they were in middle school. Yeah. So what? I don't know.
Rich. I don't know. It just seems like that wouldn't have been on a 20-year-old's radar. Probably not.
At 20, you were in college, so... Yeah, I wouldn't have been on your radar. Yeah. You probably... That was a Saturday morning show. Yeah. Yeah. I definitely didn't watch that. You were asleep. Yeah.
With pizza in your hand. Never watched it. Beginning to end. Yeah. You guys did? Yeah. Yeah.
It was nine. So, yeah. Harbaugh showed up on an episode, right? Yeah. But that was the college year's one. Oh.
They tried to do a college year's with, like, Bob Gulick. Oh, that's right. Yeah.
Yeah. He was, like, the RA or something? I did see Mr. Belding sing Friends in Low Places at the same karaoke event at the Jimmy V Golf Tournament that Jordan had Barkley sing I Believe I Can Fly to Him. Wasn't our buddy Patrick Fabian? He was on the college years, too, I think. Was he really?
I think so. I don't know. TV 35 years ago. Mr. Belding was everywhere in these streets back in the day. I used to see him out all the time. What do you mean in the streets? And it's just, like, sometimes I'd go to a bar or something, there'd be Mr. Belding. We'd go to a club. It's like, oh, Mr. Belding's here.
Like, he was just out there. But you watched that show Saved by the Bell? Yeah. But you're my age. I'm younger than you, dog. That's rich.
Keep trying. Yeah. So what gives you an idea? If a 20-year-old's not watching it, then, what, a 15-year-old is? Is he five years younger than me? Is he 50?
I don't actually know, sadly. Back here in the Rich Eisen Show, everybody. I'm younger than I look. We got three win-loss games. You choose, Chris.
What do you want to hear? Let's go Pete in Connecticut. Pete in Connecticut. Pete in Connecticut. Oh, yeah. Let's go Pete in Connecticut. How are you, sir?
PETA. Boys, how are you? We're good. What's up, G?
What do you want to do, baby? Pete's a better New Jersey or Connecticut? Oh. Oh, my God, Connecticut.
I told him to start it on Jersey, but that's just because of the traffic. Okay. All right.
What do you want to do? I would like to do a Vikings win-loss. I've been a fan since Moss and Culpepper. Okay. All right.
Since Moss and Culpepper. Okay. Interesting. We'll see. A little Jake Reed action?
Ooh, yeah. I think everybody forgets about Jake Reed. Jake Reed was nice. Jake Reed was very nice.
He was like the Alvin Harper of that team. Like everybody had problems. All right. Here we go. Win-loss game. Pete in Connecticut.
Pete. At the Giants. What happens? That's going to be a win. Season-opening win. Home for the 49ers. That is going to be a loss.
All right. Home for the Texans. Another loss. Another loss. And one and two at the Packers. Unfortunately a loss. One and three taking on the Jets in London. I'll be at the mic of that game.
My brother's a big Jets fan and unfortunately that will be a loss. So you're saying that Vikings start going to their bye week one and four. Is that what you're saying? Yeah. Yeah. I'm going from there. All right.
Okay. Home for the Lions. Unfortunately another loss. One and five at the Rams. My dad will be at that one. Unfortunately another loss. One and six to home for the Colts. What is happening?
That one will win. Hey. Hey.
All right. We're back. Six game losing streak after our opening win against the Giants. Two and six at the Jaguars.
Jaguar. We'll go win. Three and six at the Titans.
Afraid of Jeffrey Simmons and I can't wait for here when he has to say to Sam Darnold that's going to be a loss. Whoa. First time.
Wait a second. Three and seven at the Bears. I think that's the one in Chicago, so we're going to go lost. Three and eight home for the Cardinals.
When? Four and eight home for the Falcons. As much as I'd like to win that one, I think it's going to be a loss because I want them to win it. Four and nine home for the Bears in a Monday night.
Those white uniforms look sweet, we'll take the win. Five and nine at the Seahawks. That's going to be a loss. Five and ten home for the Packers. And a loss. At the Lions. Another loss. All right.
So five and twelve. Now what's the kicker here, Pete? Do you not like the team anymore?
I've always loved the team since back then, as I said. However, my kicker to you is the thing that's going to be questioned if this is actually true and we lose that many games. When we do, do they think to draft another quarterback next year? No, no, no. No. No, no, Pete. I know this might be an overreaction Tuesday thing here, but we thought that's going to be going across. I don't think so.
Listen. No, no, no. J.J. McCarthy is your guy that, you know, he'll be, by the way, 22 when he comes back. He's still on the young age. He's not like one of the older rookies that say, you know, uh, panics, right? Yeah. I mean, no. And, uh, but then again, I need to see what happens in college football.
And I wouldn't think that a certain team these days, you never know anymore, but we'll see how high they draft. Thanks for the call, Pete. I appreciate it. Did you see somebody tweeted out when Stephon Gilmore got signed by the Vikings that the Vikings signed somebody that Sam Donald used to throwing passes to?
Felt you as a Patriot. Was it your burner account, Chris? Pretty funny. Pretty funny.
I wish I had a burner account. Somebody tweeted that one. I'm like, wait a minute. That's really funny. Right?
That's really funny. He might've been one of Adam's seeing ghosts, right? Could have been. Yeah. So that would have been. I think Gilmore was on the Patriots at the time. Is Darnold 2018? Yeah. Oh, so Gilmore won defensive player of the year that year, I think.
Could have been that. Nice. Listen, man. I'll tell you. Mono. I am, I don't know. Out.
Mono. I am. I'm excited for Sam Donald. Well, it's last chance saloon for Sam. I don't know about that. Dude, he's on his seventh team. So what? What do you mean? I don't know about last chance. Gardner Minshew's getting a start, dude.
It's his last chance too. Okay. All right. Okay. I'll buy it.
Okay, thank you. Jimmy and San Antonio. What's up, Jimmy? Jimmy.
Where is it for? What's up? Well. How are you? I don't know. I'm good.
Just two days into this week and you guys are on fire. I mean, Del Tuco's been called the part-time player. Yes.
TJ jumping out with Big Dom when you said screaming Italian. And your card's only worth a dollar. This is great. Plus tax, Jimmy. Don't forget the tax. No short changes, man.
Start the bidding at five. How's that? Attaboy. Does that make you feel better? You've always got a big heart. And then I didn't have this on my notes, but Dennis Haskins.
That's right. Mr. Belding. Mr. Belding. Dennis Haskins. Did party.
I worked security for the NBA all-star game in San Antonio in college and it was like Boyz II Men, LL Cool, Jay, Will Smith, Brandi, and Mr. Belding. He was the only one who was hungover. Oh. I told you, man.
My man took advantage. I wasn't making this up, Jimmy. He lived his life. It was out there.
That was the bell that was being saved. No. The dude's a legend as far as partying because he would have all the kids come up to him and he was like, yeah, I'll do a shot with you. Let's go. Yes.
People love that dude, Rich. I'm telling you. I know.
I'm pretty sure I drank out of a bottle of Patron with Mr. Belding back then. Damn. Got you in the zone.
You know what I mean? Talk about the two-three. Hold on, DJ. All right. Well, the reason I called was Little League Baseball, y'all.
Bernie, Texas is a suburb, little town right outside of San Antonio. Everyone's excited. They're 12 to 13-year-old kids and it means the world to them.
You see them cry when they lose and no 13-year-old wants to cry in front of his other 13-year-old friends. And the other thing is it's a true world championship, right? We can agree on it. That's right. Noah Lyles, take that. Thanks for the call, Jimmy.
Really appreciate it. Jimmy always brings it. Little Lyles can't say nothing about this.
Also, Stephon Gilmore did have a pick in the Seeing Ghosts game. Of course. That tweet made me laugh out loud and it's just like, okay, this place isn't such a hellscape all the time.
All the time. Kirk Cousins is going to be joining us from the Atlanta Falcons. They are setting up his camera as we speak. Can't wait to chat with him next.
Still here on the Roku Sports Channel. Do you think he's sick of that? It ain't my problem.
I've never played with him. I don't know. Were you like that? No. That was great.
What was that? That was in Washington. Yeah. Yeah. That was when he was- Gif, whatever they call him. That was like pre-football team even. You're now closely associated with that.
That was 2015. I know. Wow. He's been at it a while. Maybe we should move on.
Dude, he was in the RG3 draft. No. I don't know. No. No. I can't believe they did that. Would you tell Fonzie to move on from A?
No, you wouldn't. You liked that. That's Kirk right there, man. That's his thing. You liked that.
You liked that. Nine years ago. Dude. That's nine years? What season is this for him? I should know this in advance of him joining.
Well, he was drafted in 12 and this is 14, so that'll be year 13 for Kirk. Damn. Woo. You like that? I never thought you'd say Kirk Cousins career is about to be bar mitzvahed. Wow. I am the Kirk. I will never forget sitting there. Maybe I should ask him about that.
Are we bringing in the Moyle for this season? Oh, God. That's not a bar mitzvah. Oh, my bad. Good Lord. Are we naming people on chairs, dancing around? Maybe I'll ask him about this draft night because, I mean, I didn't expect it.
I'll tell you that. Is Kirk third or fourth round? I don't know.
I think it was fourth. Dude. 200. Yeah. It's crazy. Fourth round.
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