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Plus, your phone calls, latest news, and more. And now, it's Rich Eisen. Yes, indeed. Welcome to this edition of The Rich Eisen Show, back from Indianapolis, Indiana, where I spent an absurd amount of time talking in hushed tones about large men running around. All right, that's the one way to describe the NFL scouting combine. Thanks to Suze for expertly sitting in this chair for the last three days, last three shows.
844-204 Rich, number two dial to have a conversation. I'm sure everybody thinks their team is back on the right track because somebody that ran some form of track over the weekend is the answer to all your football dreams. That's why we have an Overreaction Monday podcast ready for you to take in, whether it's on our YouTube channel or listening to it, wherever you get your podcast.
Chris Brockman and I already recorded that as I am now back from Indianapolis. So, that's Overreaction Monday. And yes, I do have my top five list of the top five rumors I heard at the combine, otherwise known as my agent, Jerry, agent to the stars, referred to as Clickbait Monday. So, you know, he very rarely traffic in that sort of thing, but it's so fun. Do you like it? I do. It does create a bit of a blowback for me every now and then. All the aggregators call you, it becomes this actual report. Yeah, like you're reporting this now and it's really funny. I'm just reporting what I heard and a lot of people say things at the combine and in that respect, guess what? I've got my top five list that's coming up right in the middle of this first hour. Mike Mayock will be joining us to break down the combine as he sees it. That's coming up in hour number three. And Steve Young, there's some news to talk about with Steve Young, with Devo Samuel now a Washington commander.
And we're all waiting to see at some point how much Brock Purdy is going to get paid as the Niners remake themselves, essentially. And that's coming up. He will join us in the middle of hour number two.
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Whether you're streaming us through your Ear Gate there or on odyssey.com or our podcast listeners later on. Christopher, how are you, sir? Richard, I'm wonderful. Great to see you. Jay Felley, what's up, brother? Hey, what's up, Rich? I'm great.
How are you? Is that your Laker hat over there? Laker? King's. King's hat. Okay, very good. TJ Jefferson, candles lit. Candles lit. You're not going to turn heel on us in the middle of this, are you?
Oh wow, that would be tremendous. You never know. I've gone through a numerous hill turns sitting behind this mic, but you mentioned something about being at the combine, your hush tones. Yes, sir.
It's not golf, bro. Why are you guys whispering? Well, you know what? Let's get into that later on, but I have an answer for that question. I want you to get Rowdy up there.
I appreciate you saying that. That would be off brand for the event, but we'll talk about it because to be honest with you, the story of the combine is a couple of things and that one is a combine and one is outside the combine or two is outside the combine. One of the two outside the combine is Ian Rappaport serving up the coffee. That's all I mean. I mean, if you would need to name the top five stories of the combine, that might be one. Having your head on a Starbucks swivel is one way to put it.
Look, I've seen guys run forties before this. Tell me about it. Starbucks swivel. Great fantasy team name, I think.
That would be good. We got quite the whisk on. Okay, great.
Have your head in a Starbucks swivel. But Ian's story that he broke in the middle of, I believe it was Saturday, it was over the weekend. It's one of those moments where, you know, DJ Daniel Jeremiah was our guest on Tuesday's show. He's flying home right now.
I flew home all last night. And he goes, whoa. And he shows me what's on his phone. It was an email from the news desk that Ian Rappaport was breaking news. And that's when I hear Mark Tidelman, the brilliant producer who is managing our ship moment by moment. He's also the producer of Thursday Night Football on Prime Video.
Awesome dude. Excellent at what he does. He goes, throw it to Ian. I'm like, okay. And it's Deebo Samuels, a Washington commander.
Man, I saw Ian pop up and I saw the breaking news and I saw it was Deebo Samuels. I'm just like, whoa, please be the Patriots logo. Please be the Patriots logo. Please be the Patriots logo and commander. Well, the Patriots do have the cap space for it. We do.
And that's what the commanders have the cap space for it. And part of the reason why your team Christopher and the commanders have the cap space for it is they got rookie quarterbacks and just in year two and the commanders have a very special rookie quarterback. You do too from last year. But the results that we saw from the Washington commanders last year to add Deebo Samuel to this mix is one of those first roster maneuvering shots fired in the direction of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. And we knew they would start coming certainly within the conference, but they're within the NFC East house and the team that was the runners up to the NFC title, that team has added Deebo Samuel to its offensive mix. Terry McLaurin on one side, Deebo on another, or could it be Deebo in the backfield at the mesh point with Jayden Daniels?
Look out. Could it be all of that? Could it be Brian Robinson at the mesh point with Jayden Daniels? And that's Deebo over there and Zach Ertz over there and Terry McLaurin over there.
That's a winning combination, not one would say. And the latest example of a few things for you Washington commanders fans to celebrate. One, having Jayden Daniels as your quarterback is going to bring people to your team, happily to your team. Now in a couple of years ago, when Deebo was supposedly hating on him, when Deebo was supposedly hating the West coast and hating the West coast offensive of Kyle Shanahan, because it was going to cause him to be a diminished return running back.
Remember all that stuff? He didn't want to live on the West coast. And he, you know, from the, from the Carolinas, he wants to be there.
Well, guess what? Pretty darn close without actually playing in Carolina. And two years ago, would he have wanted to be a Washington commander? No chance. I would say, no, I would say, trade me somewhere else.
I would say, don't send me there. Send me to the CFO. Right. And this is the latest example of, Hey, commanders fans, your owner, isn't turning off the rest of the free football world. Your owner is actually sitting there delegating to a front office that isn't just catering to the whims of the owner.
That's pissing off the rest of the free football world. You've got an actual, yes, Washington. You've got an actual highly well functioning command structure.
You got it. You got an owner saying we got 80 million in cap space, spend it. And you got a general manager saying we've got $80 million in cap space that we're willing to spend. We got to, we got to surround our unicorn quarterback right now with a way to win right now, before he's going to cost us what $300 million, the very least, very least, you know, by the time that he's going to be in line for his contract, he might be the first 70 million.
Or somebody might've already reached that point without having won a single playoff game, just to piss you off, Chris. So yeah, you got a coaching staff that knows what to do with the pieces that the highly functioning front office due to the highly functioning owner who doesn't piss off the rest of the free football world and do weird, wild, crazy stuff that the Washington Post is all over on the news front. This is what's happening, which is very dangerous news for the rest of the national football league. That's what that move says to me. And, you know, well, Deebo has been less than the last couple of years. And boy, did I hear from a handful of Deebo Samuel fantasy football fans out there.
Okay. I understand that you think the returns are diminishing. Does that mean that the commanders are now going to dethrone them? dethrone the Eagles? Well, they're closer to it than they were the minutes before Adam Peters pulled the trigger on a fifth round selection. Now, the reason why it's a fifth round selection is they're picking up the entire freight. So they're able to look at the San Francisco 49ers and say, yeah, you're, you're only going to get a five from us, which is better than what?
Nothing, six than a seventh that were nothing. Had they gone ahead? Cause they have to clear the decks in whatever way they possibly can for a bunch of people they have to pay, starting with Brock Purdy and the conversation there, as we kind of flipped the script from the commanders trying to track down the Eagles to the Niners trying to track down the Rams, which came the closest to beating the Eagles in the playoffs. And they got Matthew Stafford back.
And this is going to be the conversation about the Niners, which is as they go about changing out the names that they did use to great effect to get to multiple Super Bowls in a terrific run over the last few years, that a lot of people are going to start to wonder, is this window closing rather than opening wider? Certainly if Brandon Ayuk is supposedly maybe the next guy to go out and I'm sure Ayuk is sitting there going, wait a minute. I'm the one that was FaceTiming with this kid last summer. Before he turned into the Jayden Daniels, I played college ball with him and Deebo gets to go with him? Wait a minute. Commanders weren't on any possible radar screen last year, were they? Everybody thought, well, that's where Brandon Ayuk wants to go because he wants to play with his former college teammate from Arizona State.
Yes, kids, that's where Jayden Daniels was at before LSU and he won his Heisman Trophy and took off like a rocket ship. Makes sense now. Makes sense now. So I don't know what the Niners' plans are there, but it's all going to start to get focused even though the cap, we don't know. The cap went up. We honestly don't know who else is going to get signed by San Francisco. We don't know that yet. We don't know what those plans are, but we're just assuming Deebo wanted out. The Niners obliged him. They're happy to get all that money off their books because they got to pay it to Brock Purdy and every single guy that the Niners let go of from their championship run, Deebo might wind up being the only one. And that might be enough for everybody to sit here and say, well, Brock Purdy's taken up all the cap room now and is he worth it? That's the question that has been surrounding this kid ever since he went from the most relevant position after being drafted, as you know. So he is going to be front and center and he, unlike the 49ers, trade partner in Washington, just lost a key weapon, if not his most consistent one from a couple of years ago. And he, unlike the commanders, now is going to have a deal. We assume that's eating up a ton of cap space. Is Ricky Pearsall and Juwan Jennings ready to take the mantle of wide receivers one and two?
And is it going to be Shanahan's system, sort of the way Coach Dale, may he rest in peace, was waving his system at the howling crowd, wondering if they have the right people on the floor saying, I've got the system, let's just plug these guys into it and just watch us go as they pay the other guys. And I'll just say this, I believe in Brock Purdy. I do.
I really, really do. I dig him. His teammates dig him, but he's going to have a ton more eyeballs on him once he signs this contract that he does deserve. It's his turn.
I know you hate that stuff. I know he has taken a team under the craziest of circumstances, being thrown in the mix in the middle of a season, you know, take on Tom Brady in San Francisco while he's a buccaneer. Brock, take your team to Seattle on a Thursday night after you just took the reins of this team over because Trey Lance goes out and Jimmy G is out and it's your turn, Brock. You were the last pick in the draft, Brock. He actually did it. And then he actually took a team. Yes, I know there's McCaffrey and everybody else.
Everybody else feels that he was just a bit player on all that, but he was the quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers in a Super Bowl and was in overtime of this Super Bowl against the Chiefs and played a terrific football game. It's in there. He's done it. He's proven it. And he's going to get the money. He's going to get it and it's going to be him, folks. It's going to be him.
And don't take my word for it. Joe freaking Montana came on the Super Bowl shows and he said it. I think he knows what it takes.
And I have a feeling we're going to hear from Steve Young an hour or two, but I will ask him a question here. Talk about a guy who once had the monkey famously taken off his back because he followed Montana. Purdy's following Montana and Young. And I know you like to point out, TJ, we talk about the drought, which I put in quotes for Dallas, about how long it's been since they've been to a championship game within their own conference.
But they've won a Super Bowl more recently than the 49ers. That's all I'm saying. And it's going to be on Purdy to end all of that. And the last guy who won one for San Francisco is going to join us in hour two to give us his thoughts on this.
And you, you know, it's an easy liner to draw. OK. This guy is going to go from league minimum to 50 million at a minimum.
At a minimum. And Deebo Samuel, who was a major difference maker, is now playing with Jayden Daniels, a quarterback younger than Purdy, who was to the NFC Championship game more recently than Purdy. And he's joining that team. And the Niners are.
Yeah, on a last place schedule in 2025. That's the backdrop to Brock Purdy getting Pizzade. That's what I take away from the combine, number one. As for the combine itself, we'll talk about it. And my two cents on what I saw with my own two eyes from the 50 yard line in the booth with Daniel Jeremiah. Mike Mayock will join us for the X's and O's portion of all that.
Steve Young. But when we come back. Maybe your favorite segment of the show, Chris Brock.
Any segment we do the entire year. I love it. It's because it makes you so uncomfortable. It does make me uncomfortable. And that's why I like it.
And the info, of course. Well, it's because I've got should I bring out my my master's degree in journalism from Northwestern and have it hanging up, which is kind of weird. Should I grab it off the wall and place it in front of me as sort of my Captain America shield? It was so weird. I literally, I read that thing on the wall today, randomly I was in the green room and I just sat there and just read it. So weird that you just brought that up.
Put your journalistic standards aside. So but but I shouldn't put it in front of me. I mean, this isn't it might spontaneously come or do I need to go and turn it against the wall so it doesn't see what I'm about to do. You don't want him to see what's about to go around.
Top five rumors I heard at the combine. Because everybody talks there. Oh, my God. Is it the chattering class of all chattering classes, especially at Starbucks? Well, no, there's no talk.
They're just very poignant and direct. Not much talk. Wow.
Highly caffeinated. I was hoping I didn't hear your name in a situation like that. You'll never hear me in a situation like that. Your name in a situation like that.
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Makes sense. That's funny. But it was a similar group of people. Shefter was there again. Ryan Polz was there again. But nobody mistook me for Ryan Gosling then. That's still the most wild.
That happened at last year's comment. I mean, it's just, I can't even imagine. Honestly. That dude must have had like three bottles of wine. He did not appear drunk.
Seven old-fashioned. He did not appear drunk. It had to be a bet.
Like someone's like, I bet he won't go. He was earnest. He was earnest.
And I don't get it. I'm very honored. I'm very honored. That's a great headshot of you. I appreciate that. You don't look like the guy on the right. I don't at all.
Let's look at the positives here. Rich, his eyes are way closer together than yours. Oh, yeah. Wow. We're nitpicking Gosling right now. By the way, by the way, wow.
I'm not here to rip Rich down like everybody. Is that a documentary or is that a fantasy? That's a documentary documentary for sure. Short form, short form, because I think we have a better shot at the Oscar with the short form. I think you're right. His hairlines a little goes up a little bit.
Eyes are too blue, too much hair. Yeah, I agree. And just remember, talk about defensive liability. And remember the Titans. He was a complete liability cover.
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It really is. And which means if I so chose to continue any class taking somewhere, I'm one degree shy of being Dr. Television. I kind of feel like, could you imagine if I get, I don't know if there is a PhD in journalism, if there is, maybe I should like take some sort of course.
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It's gotta be awful. Can't read doctor's writing. Okay. No, no, no. Okay. Understood.
The reason why I bring all this up is when I go to the combine, I hear so much stuff. And I have for years and years and years and years and years. And I don't really utilize that information. I don't. I mean, I was background, but I, the number of times I could break a story, but I, I don't, um, I I've, I've, I've lost track.
Okay. And cause I don't traffic in that sort of stuff, but what I do traffic in is hearing a lot of things. And at the combine, when I say people talk, that is an understatement to the point of it's offensive to people who do talk.
These people talk. I mean, literally you can be walking down the hallway five minutes later, five steps later, five seconds later, somebody's coming up to you and just revealing the secrets of secrets. It's like, Hey, want to hear something cool? Right.
Or they just want to get it off their chest. It's crazy. I, a couple of times I just wanted in the hallway of, of the conference center that, you know, connected my hotel to the stadium. I'm like looking, do we want to lie down on the couch? You know, crazy, but I still have some journalistic sense that I need to hold onto when conducting a segment like this professional that Chris Brockman has been pushing for years. Like you got to do a segment on that.
Cause I'll come back and I'll tell you what I heard. And you're like, you got to do something. It's been over a decade of this. And I'm just like, bro, can we, can we take these to the people? Sure.
Sure. So once a year, but I, I have to hear everything I'm about to say on my annual rumors, top five, everything that I am about to deliver. I've heard from multiple people over the weekend.
I mean, look, Rich, some, some aspects of journalism and basic one-on-one you can't, you can't just remove. Got a two source, got a multiple source things. But when I say that it makes it sound like these are absolutely the truth. I'm saying this is what I've heard.
I'm not saying that what I'm about to say is facts. Okay. Or will happen. Or will happen. Right.
Perfect example. Last year, I said the Vikings plan a after losing Kirk cousins, if they do is Trey Lance, yada, yada, yada, way off. But you heard that from a bunch of people.
I did. So I came here and I said it then I came here and I said, well, I heard from a bunch of people when Jerry Jones said the Cowboys are all in, that doesn't mean they're going to be supplementing everything with as much firepower as they can get in free agency in the draft and go all in to win this year. We all found out what he meant by all in was not any sense of all in by anybody on planet earth, except for Jerry Jones.
He ruined my football season with that. I did also say that the giants were done with Daniel Jones and who was the week one starter, Daniel Jones. But the minute things kind of went a little bit sideways and south, what happened? Told the story. Yada, yada, yada. Daniel Jones wound up being playing C for the Vikings.
He was out. So that's the setup. I'm not saying these are all facts and I'm breaking news. I'm telling you what the chatty ist of football.
Kathy's were chatting and chatting and chatting about to the point where I heard it multiple times. Give it to me at the combine. Come on, eat it to me. My top five rumors I heard at the combine presented by Hyundai. High five. One, two, three, four, and five.
Richest top five. All right, here we go. I need it. I need the music. I got it written down here.
I know, but I want to do it too. Rich, you can call this S-H-I-H, some stuff I heard at the combine from multiple people. Remember last year I came here and I said the Cowboys are all in sensibility?
Yes, Rich. I remember. Remember all that?
That's not what you think? It's great. I'm starting with this one, buddy. Please not us again. Please. Yes, you. Oh no. Oh no. Yes. Hold on, TJ. Bro, you couldn't save it to like three or four?
Number five. The Cowboys are all out on many of their own free agents. So it sounds to me like your team is going to go shopping and be selectively aggressive. As Steven Jones said, what I heard is, cause they just look it up. They've got a ton of free agents and I heard they're all out on many of them. Oh, say a Diggy Zua is, is, is not one of them.
Okay. Well, they're going to tag them. He is, they're all in on him. He's one of their own free agents that they, that they, I heard they're, there's no question. He's going to have a star on the side of his helmet. The only question is, is how long and is it franchise tag and all that stuff?
Okay. That third round pick out of 2021, who's 54 pressures this year. We're second to Micah, but mostly everybody else might have need to have their head in a swivel. So it's, it, it seems like there's going to be some turnover, but it's not going to be some turnover after all. And Jerry didn't speak at the combine. Right. Which was a little shocking.
Well, I heard all sorts of stuff about that, but not for multiple people. So I'm not saying it here. Do you think he heard me saying to this, apparently you speaking this week when Zach Martin retires Wednesday, we'll see seven and 10. We better see a little bit of a change in that. I believe it's coming. Number four.
Okay. I'm back at the trough here for the Vikings plan a at quarterback again, last year I heard it's going to be Trey Lance plan a and then it wasn't. So take this for what you will. The Vikings planning a quarterback. I heard at the combine from multiple people is to sign Sam Darnold and from more than one year to make sure that Sam comes back for multiple seasons. Interesting. And that's concerned over my guy, JJ McCarthy coming off of a knee injury. And they also, I think they love Sam and, and I, I don't know what Sam's plans are. I don't know if he wants 50 and if he wants three or four years at a minimum, and that might make the Vikings say there's the free agency door.
We're still here, you know, but I, I heard the Vikings would like to get him back and for multiple years and maybe turn my guy into Jordan Love. Interesting. Did you hear a dollar amount? No. I mean, there's a lot of moving parts, bro. Yeah. Yeah. And they might franchise tag him. Right.
And that's about 41. Just to remove him off the table and then start a multiple year contract from there. Yeah.
Yeah. I don't think they're just going to sit back and just say, yeah, that was a great one year. Other than T Higgins, he's the one I'm most curious about franchise tag tomorrow.
If he gets Number three. Now you heard that the Colts are looking for competition for Anthony Richardson, right? You heard about that?
I did. I did see that, that, that whatever went down last year, where he got tired, took himself out of the game and then they benched him and Joe Flacco went out there and Cleveland, Joe Flacco, the comeback player of the year for coming back from his couch, didn't show up. So they're looking for competition for Anthony Richardson. I heard from a handful of people that the Colts idea of competition for Anthony Richardson is Daniel Jones, Daniel Jones.
Oh my goodness. Hey man, Shane Steichen is, as you know, what are we doing is maybe running him and throwing him and giving him an offense and an offensive line that he didn't have in, in in New Jersey and dude, you could do a heck of a lot worse with than that wide receiving core in that running game. Daniel Jones in Indianapolis intrigues me to say the least.
That's not a bad idea. I heard that. Why? Because he's still young and he can run it and he can throw it and maybe he can light a fire with Anthony Richardson.
That's the competition I think the Colts are envisioning right now. Okay. Or at least I heard, please everybody. See, I'm getting, I'm, I'm beginning to break out. You're starting to sweat a little bit.
It's okay. Top five rumors I heard at the competition. Wow, Daniel Jones. Number two, number two, you know, and Matthew Stafford was supposedly not asking for a trade and, and then was given free reign to look around, but just to kick tires on things and whatever you thought, well, he's just going to go back to the Rams anyway.
Right. And he did. He did. I heard the giants and Raiders interest in Matthew Stafford was quite real and it was hairy at, at certain junctures last week. And I heard the giants hit the number and they hit the number for Stafford and they not only hit the number for Stafford, I heard this again from multiple people. I heard he hit the number for Stafford and they hit the trade comp too. They were in, and I heard the Raiders were way into on Stafford and Stafford had a real at the giants, even, you know, they hired his brother-in-law Chad hall on the coaching staff. And so they really made a run. So giants hit the trade comp, they hit it, hit the number, which was reported 90 to a hundred million guaranteed, whatever it, whatever it was, I don't know what it was. I heard they hit it.
Why didn't the deal get done? Because I think at the end of the day, the Stafford's like looking at the sun setting over the Pacific ocean and it's, well, you know, when it all comes down to it, it is the best spot for him to win. Yeah. Yeah.
I agree. Why would he start up from scratch? And I don't want to get too deep into the details with him and the Raiders because, um, I like going to Starbucks. Going to Starbucks, not looking around CEO center out here. Okay. Number one. Dang. Here's the number one rumor I heard. And it was, cause a lot of people are like, are you hearing this? Cause I'm hearing this. You're hearing this. I'm hearing this. Are you really hearing this? Because I believe everybody thinks at some point, Andrew Berry and the Browns are just going to say uncle miles.
Where do you want to go? The number one rumor I heard at the combine. And this is a wide belief shared by a lot of people. The Browns truly have zero interest in trading for miles. Carrick zero point zero. And we have reached the point zero point zero.
We have reached the point of, if you will mind taking the music down, remember I asked him this very question when he appeared at the super bowl on our show headed. I know there's a, this is a what if question, but what if the Browns say, no, we're we're we're we want you to stay. We want you to be part of this thing. We do believe in the plan that we have. We do believe that this plan will work.
We do need you to help this plan work. And you do have two years left. Like what, what if that happens miles? I mean, it's possible.
No, they could do that, but no, that's a little bit further down the line of them. I'm willing to look, I know things have, have changed, uh, you know, night by night. And, uh, I'm sure, no people are calling and hopefully, you know, making some, uh, no tempting offers, but, uh, I'm good for my opportunity.
And I know that most recently, you know, no one stuck to one team seeing, seeing Luca. So you two up. Well, yada, yada, yada, cut to a month later. I think we're there where, you know, I maybe balls, I guess in his court, how much he wants to publicly push it. Cause right now I've been told the Browns have told everybody not happening close. I don't know.
It could be, it could be a complete stance. Cause there's a ton of time between now and the draft, but they could easily take a pass the draft and some teams that might, you know, uh, Browns might be willing to take draft compensation in next year's draft. Cause a lot of people think next year's draft is better than this one.
And they may take it past the draft. I have no idea the way this is going up as for Garrett, as for miles, Sue's saw him, um, Saturday night and Paulie pavilion watching Juju Watkins torch, UCLA, and when the it's crazy, you see USC beats UCLA for the big 10 championship. I mean, where's that? I can't believe I'm saying, but he was there last.
He was there on, on, um, on Saturday, not here in LA. And, um, I don't know, it's just a big old game of chicken. You could say, but we saw this last year with a son Redick and that he didn't get what he wanted, but he did get eventually traded and then he didn't get what he wanted contractually, as you know, miles told us, this is not about money.
This is about an exit visa. And maybe the Brown's plan is, you know, kind of like for the lack of a better phrase, the beauty and the beast plan, which is, Hey, we got you. You'll come around, read a book.
I'm sorry. That is genuinely the plot of that movie. We were sending weird messages to kids in the eighties. I remember watching that with our young kids for the first time. I'm like, Susan, is this the message we're teaching our kids?
But just like, Hey, you're, you're captive. You'll come around. You'll see what's, I don't know what the plan is, but you know, right now that was the conversation I heard, uh, at the combine. So do you think we need one more? All right, we'll get one more. Who could have seen that coming? I got one more for you.
Um, this might, uh, if I'm right, upset some people in my, uh, my home office. Um, you know how the Steelers are the opponent? Uh, the Steelers are going to Dublin. Oh yes. Right. Oh, I heard who they're playing.
Oh, what do we got? Multiple people, multiple people told me this. You can share it. No, I am. I'm going to do it.
He's about to, how would you like to go to Dublin, Ireland to watch the Steelers host the green Bay Packers? Oh yes. And we can we go, are you? I don't know. I don't know if we're doing it. Are you doing the game? No, I do not know. I would love that.
That would be awesome for you. I have not been told officially a damn thing. So maybe we shouldn't have said that. What I heard that I'm like, what a genius matchup could you imagine? So the Packers go to Brazil one year, they're going to, you know, Ireland, the next that's what I'm hearing.
Packers and Steelers. So, and, uh, you know, it's possible, hold on, get a photograph up there. Well, what's the number that Jordan Love has up there? Three. It might be the week that's there.
They're going to, oh, just throwing that one. I, that one, I don't know. These are all rumors and conjecture. S H I H. So some stuff I heard, that's stuff I heard and boy. Yeah. So we won't know that for two months.
Three, two, I don't think even calling your shot. Babe Eisen knows some of the top rumors I heard at the, at the combine. I hope they are. They went to Germany last year. Now you can buy a new Hyundai from the comfort of your home at Amazon.
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I don't think they don't care. I shouldn't say that. Well, not everybody. You're going to aggregate this and I don't want to get aggregated. I don't want to get it's good.
It's going to get out there. That's good. I want a cheeseburger. I don't want it. I don't. So people can say you don't want it. Then why are you doing it? And I'm like, cause Chris Brockman wanted to force me to do it.
Even though I get what I want with your, with your mug, the Chris Brockman show right there. You're like Tyrion Lannister. You drink wine and you know things. That's it.
I just hope I didn't just get some sort of professional red wedding. Spoiler alert. All right. We'll take a break.
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Moment, please. Yeah, coach. Yeah, look, Michigan diploma. Remember 1986, first walking on the diagram. You were the quarterback.
Man, I just loved you. Two great universities, Michigan, Northwestern. Very impressive track record. Yeah, it's my journalistic degree, which, you know, I need every single day when the job that I do, you know, I'd expect nothing less than thank you.
Michigan, Northwestern, Michigan. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah.
I don't even know what you were thinking there. Yeah. Okay.
Perfect. Good. Good. Or, yeah.
Well, maybe. Yeah. Good. Sure. Yeah. Thanks. Better.
That's why you're the coach. What were you thinking? Don't know what you were thinking.
How about that? A little acting from Jim Harbaugh. I don't think he was acting, man. He was serious. Well, actually, do you remember the backstory behind that? That was a cold open. That was, I know. We used to shoot cold opens.
Every now and then. Whenever we had a guest in the first hour that came in early, we cooked something up. Didn't like Bobby Cannavale when he sat in. You did a cold open when he was asleep. We did one where we got blackout the night before and woke up in El Segundo, and we have to do a show. And he was like, no, I'm leaving.
Yeah, we used to shoot cold opens around here. But the original script called for Jim to take my Northwestern degree and throw it in a garbage can. And he refused to do it. Because he said, degrees are not garbage. Yeah, education is still important. And he didn't want the image of the University of Michigan's head coach taking a college degree and throwing it in the garbage.
So he just placed it on the floor. That was his note. I might be in his first acting gig since Saved by the Bell, right? Was he on Saved by the Bell?
What show was he on? The new class? Wasn't Saved by the Bell the new class or something? Yeah, so that means Jim is probably getting residual checks from Saved by the Bell.
Well, those must be what? Two cents? I don't know.
You never know, man. There was a little pulse back then. He played Screech's cousin. I can see it. You can see Jim played Screech's cousin?
They're quirky. That's an understatement. So, Jim was on Arliss as well? Are you IMDBing him?
That's what Don's doing in the back. You know what was also on Arliss? Me. My first ever appearance as myself anywhere was on Arliss. Wow. You know what else you're on, Rich? And I still get checks for that too. As a matter of fact, later on, we're going to play, I've got my latest residuals.
One of these could be Arliss. Residual Rich. I'm like four in a row getting it dead on. You have, right? I've been killing it. Rich, by the way, you know what else you're on? No. I'm sure you know, Running Point. I'm getting a lot. My friend Jossi in Altoona just sent me a text.
She's watching you on the treadmill or something. Yeah. Yeah. I'm hearing a lot of people watching that. It's episode three of Running Point on Netflix.
Oh, okay. Which you can see right here on Roku. I have not seen it yet, but I've heard a lot of people enjoy that program. I missed Arliss. I never watched Arliss.
You never did? Oh, Arliss was awesome, man. It's on- I missed that. It's on Max? It's either Max or Prime. It was an HBO show.
Yeah, so it's Max. Oh, yeah. Back in the day, man, when they reached out to me and say, you want to come and do an episode of Arliss? I'm like, absolutely. I was 27.
Robert Wall. Back on The Rich Eisen Show, 844-204-rich number to tell. I was legitimately at one point, because I wasn't hearing that much in the first 24 to 48 there saying, I'm not going to do the segment this time around. And I thought of you, Chris. You'd be so bummed about it.
I would have been so bummed. Man. Give the people what they want, man.
Is that really what they want? So what year is this? Is this year three doing it?
Three, I think. Yeah, I've done it three years ago. That's what I do. I drink and I know things.
Okay, you got the drop. And it's clean. It is great. That is awesome. That's what I do. That's the new- I drink and I know things. Yeah. That's what I do. I drink and I know things.
That's the new drop. Keep that for 2026. A bottle of red and he'll tell you everything. Oh my goodness gracious. By the way, you don't need to do a damn thing to have somebody tell you something at the Combine, except fog up a rumor. Exist, yeah. Walk around as long as the pulse is doing it.
Dude, I'm serious. That would be a fun, back in the old days when Twitter was fun, that'd be a fun Twitter account of like, just Combine rumors. Stuff I heard at the Combine. Yeah, as you're walking around, you tweet them out.
Usually like a bunch of scouts or a bunch of coaches, a bunch of this, bunch of that. Nonstop. Nonstop.
I walk to work every day from the hotel to the stadium. It's all indoors. It's one hallway into another into another and massive. It's the convention center. Massive.
Rich, I watched- Everybody's everywhere. A video some guy made about how they made that, that stadium specifically to handle the Combine and the amount of cables and everything and like that place, it should never leave there. It's perfect. I agree. It's perfect for it. I agree.
And by the way, I was saying this on overreaction Monday, the pod, which you can get right now because you were, you were, you were kind of cutting around the edges of my top five and a couple of things. I was saying there's not a soul, not a soul at the Combine who wants it moved. Nobody. I like that. Not a soul.
Yeah, this video was talking about how they, they, they added these cables so they could do like 600 MRIs and, you know, of course, as you know, the catwalks are connected to the, it's Yeah, truly amazing. A soul wants it removed from Indianapolis. Period. End of story. And there's at least one more year there, which is good news.
Hour two, Steve Young coming up. You know, and the, the, the conversation around it is, you know, the league might want to parse out the on-field workouts from everything else. So you still go to Indianapolis for the medical testing and the interviewing and the, you know, week long convention that's around it, meetings, this, that, the other thing, but the on-field drills get sent around the country like the draft. That's ridiculous. And it would just create more travel.
Yeah, everyone's there. And it would be another layer on top of these kids for them who they're, you know, they're already, you know, rubber chicken, circuited out in certain ways, you know? It's an interesting way to put it.
Well, I mean, circuited, circuited, but I honestly don't know. Cause it would be, I mean, if the prospects come to town and you work out and you can, there were 20,000 fans on Saturday, you know, 5,000 yesterday. You, you make it a bigger event like that. I know Jerry wants it the worst way or not the worst way. He can be influential. The owner of the Dallas Cowboys. I think he would like it in Frisco, you know?
So there's that. But I, I, I, I, I love it in Indianapolis. I think it's so perfect, man.
Yeah. I love it in India. It's great there. And the people there are awesome.
They roll out the red carpet. The hotels are right around the stadium, which is attached to the convention center, attached to some of the hotels. It's all got the walkways and everything. The medical facilities are right there. The restaurants are right there. And Indianapolis is used to having, you know, final fours and, and the big 10 championship weeks for men and women, Royal Rumble, you went there.
I'm serious though. I mean, it, they, they are used to having events like this, the one year, the Super Bowl was there. It was also unseasonably warm. That was a great week. That was 2012, right?
The calendar year, 2011 Giants were there. So that's, what's up. That's what's up. Steve Young's going to join us. This is going to be fun. Love it.
Love that. You know, you know, he's going to cape for Brock. I just know he's done that before, right?
Like that's been his stance. I believe so. Yeah, I believe so. Okay. 844-204-rich, number to dial, Mike Mayock for his thoughts on the combine. And that's the way we're rolling into our number two. Number two, I now need to shower from that top five.
