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Coming up, your phone calls, latest news, and more. And now, it's Rich Eisen. That's right, our number three of the Rich Eisen Show is on the air. Lots of names in the NFL and names that you've heard of or offensive and defensive linemen that you may not have heard of are getting very rich today. We're still waiting on Sam Darnold news. We're still waiting on any other quarterback news in the aftermath of the weekend that began with Geno Smith being on the move from Seattle to Vegas. But if that plan was in place because the Seahawks had a notion about how to replace him, that has not happened in the first two hours in the window in which players can be contacted. And that means Sam Darnold is in play and how Sam Darnold is in play affects where Aaron Rodgers might be in play or Daniel Jones might be in play. And what teams are going to do to rectify their quarterback situation in free agency definitely affects the way the draft is going to go. So, the next 48 to 72 hours affects what's going to happen on the final 72 hours of draft weekend.

So, it's an exciting time to pay attention to such things. 844-204 Rich is the number to Dom, Chris Brockman, while not monitoring the feeds, is getting set to deliver an overreaction Monday because the pod, we didn't do it today. We're going to do it next week when all the dust has settled from NFL free agency.

Jay Felley is sitting there. I convinced him to like Geno Smith to the Raiders. That's what I did an hour or two. Yeah, when I heard that I was not thrilled and listening to you. You've sold me.

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There's also the re-air of the show on the Roku Sports Channel and the Rich Eisen Show Fast Channel, part of our relationship with the Roku Channel that we love. Good to see you over there, TJ Jefferson. Candle is lit. You know what? There's no action. There's no action. We need action. On all forms of Dallas Cowboys, we haven't heard of Dallas Action.

Unless they're in the selective portion of being aggressive right now, no action, just like there isn't on the release of fandom certificate. I don't even know why we had to pull that out. I had nothing to do with this. Very good. Sorry.

I keep putting things on the camera that we haven't blocked for. It's marvelous. 844-204-Rich is the number to dial to have a conversation. We'll take your calls later on in this hour. We have invited Jerry Dulac to join us. I don't know if he'll be doing that from Pittsburgh just yet because he's been tweeting out about what's going on with Pittsburgh.

We'd love some real-time information. Love it. They got DK. How about Florio saying he thinks George Pickens might force his way out by the end of the week? I'm not shocked by that. Not shocked by that at all.

George Pickens is the ultimate wild card. You don't know what that dude's doing or thinking, how he's gonna react to things. React to me. So your Celtics took care of business in the second half on Saturday night. Yeah, that was fun.

Christopher. That was fun. In a manner that has left an indelible imprint on the Los Angeles Lakers from ending their eight game win streak to, I didn't see a replay of when LeBron hurt his groin.

Me neither. There was about three minutes to go and all of a sudden they show him walking back to the locker room and you're just like, what happened? At one point they come back from break and they show a shot of Luka holding his lower back and they have a shot of LeBron stretching out something on the sideline and then all of a sudden Lisa Salters is like, yeah, he's not on a bench right now, guys. And then they show him limping to the locker room and he's out anywhere from at least the next week or two, which totally changes the sense of things in the Western conference.

If LeBron is going to be suffering an injury that one would think a 40 year old would have suffered sooner than rather than later, a one to two week long injury while Luka might be out and they're in the middle of a four game road trip that includes a back to back, by the way, later on this week, Milwaukee to Denver. That's not one of those like, back to backs, New York, Philadelphia, or Boston, Philadelphia. That's like Milwaukee to Denver. That reeks of somebody's not playing back to back as that's the way things go in the NBA. And the way the West is kind of log jam, like obviously OKC is way ahead, but LA, Denver, Memphis, Houston are all two games within each other and Golden State, they've been so hot since acquiring Jimmy Butler, they're lurking just three back of that group in the six lead. So West is kind of, kind of, kind of funky.

Yeah. Timberwolves are right there. TJ Clippers are right there.

It's going to be wild. And it's the difference between having home court advantage in one round, if not two. Big time. Or not at all. Also, they showed Luka some video of him pregame and he was wincing.

Yeah, the wincing, the tightness and you could tell, man, like even before the game started, like that back is not. He's on an L.A. calorie deficit diet. You know what I mean? So like, OK, so he's adjusting to the new avocado smoothies and whatnot.

He's on Luke, Luke, Luke, Luke Govee. Yeah. Kale is different.

Kale in Texas and kale in L.A. hits different, you know, Lucas. See, he was you're saying he was holding his upper gluteus and he might be on the glue tides. That's what you're saying. The Prince of Glutides?

Is that what he's on? I'm just glad Lebron's face is OK after taking that vicious, devastating elbow to the face by Jason Tatum. Just I was worried about Lebron's family, his future kin and offspring. This guy. Oh, man. It was an elbow to the tip of the chin. I'm sure it was.

The Oscars were last week. No Celtics do anything like that. I'm sure no other no other pro basketball player does any of that. The king of all floppers. What a joke.

This guy just scored fifty thousand points and he's a joke. Meanwhile, I'm glad I'm glad I'm glad it's OK. I did the one. I had the one mistake of. Seeing on my Instagram account over the weekend, a Michael's better than Lebron.

Real OK, and I forwarded it to Chris and that alerted Instagram's algorithm for some reason to start. Now you're in. Now you're in.

There's a whole cottage industry of reels of showing Jordan doing things that are spectacular and then Lebron attempting the same things and him missing dunks and being less than spectacular at it. The defensive one is the best one. I keep on it just one after another. I said, I said, you what? I wound up feeding you four. It was a good. You kept me entertained for like twenty minutes playing defense at age thirty nine.

Jordan's diving all over the floor, getting steals and and Lebron's not even crossing half court. There's a whole I don't know. People do this. Well, the tape doesn't. That's why I appreciate you appreciate it.

I said to you, I do. At any rate, Lebron's out for at least a one to two weeks, and we'll see how the Lakers survive that. And then we'll see if that actually lingers into the playoffs.

Eight four four two oh four, which is the number to dial right here on the program. Let's let's do an overreaction Monday. This is great. Lots of fun. We haven't done one of these is usually we do it on a Tuesday. Guess what?

We'll do another one tomorrow because there'll be so much going on between now and then. Exactly. All right. Hit it. That was terrible. That was crap.

That was garbage. This place sucks. Overreaction Mondays. Monday.

On a Monday. Sorry. Just making sure there's no more breaking news.

Yeah, I got it right. Oh my gosh. Everybody good? How are you guys? Hey. Hey, Jay Felley. Hi.

Geno Smith, get ready. All right. Rich.

Yes. I was going to start it this way, but you had touched on it to begin the show. Like bring me Dr. Nichols, man. Myles Garrett played all of us. It was always, always, always about the money. Listen, when I heard over the weekend that Myles Garrett had signed for 40 million per and he's staying with the Browns and that news was 24 hours essentially after or 36 hours after we were talking about how things were so bad in Cleveland that the owner refused to even talk to him again. I thought to myself, we were lied to and played and I was angry about it. And then I thought to myself, self, would you reverse course and change your professional outlook for that sort of cash? And I thought to myself, name me another person who would not take 40 million bucks a year of some sort like that. And then I thought to myself, is it possible he had that resoluteness because the Browns had told him, you know, we're looking at these people, loud people and, and, um, and we'll give you, you know, a new contract and it wasn't even close to that. And he decided to go to the Superbowl and say, I want out. And now the money is good enough for him.

Could those things be possible? And I thought to myself, is Myles Garrett going to turn you into a cynic or can you potentially understand somebody's ability to reverse course because it is more nuanced than you think. It didn't stop me from sending you the Darth Vader, Jif.

I sought, I will not be a cynic and I'll say this is an overreaction. Chris, what else? Rich, uh, TJ, I know we have the certificate. Jay Felley. Great job.

You're a notary. I have your new team, TJ. I have your new team when you're ready to jump ship.

Los Angeles Rams. Because if they don't get Sam Darnold, rich, the Seahawks full tank mode for arch Manning is 100% on. You can't tank in the NFL, bud.

You just can't, you cannot tell you can deplete the roster enough where it's always where the bullets, the bullets can be, you know, um, removed from the chamber and you have less armaments. I get it. And plus, you know, uh, the tanking for arch conversation to be thrown out on the Monday porter before free agency on the 10th of March, call my name.

Okay. Overreaction. You don't tank in the NFL period. End of story for a Manning, not Mike McDonald, even for Manning, not the rest of those veterans.

They're TJ for Manning. I'm just saying, I don't like you saying tank for arches be something that rolls off the tongue better. Like abstain for arch. Okay. Abstain for winning.

You have to appreciate that's an RES consulting man over there. And I appreciate the sentiment, but I don't know if abstain for arch really works. I'm just saying, you know, certainly when arch is a single syllable word, you got to come up with another one. I mean, arch is going on the boat, baby, cause you know, Chris, I'm down where he goes. March for arch is an overreaction. March arch, arch madness. Does arch Manning know his number one fan is sitting right here on this? That's what I mean.

Tanking in March is arch madness. Rich, hopefully we get a chance to talk to Jared Dulak because I'm dying to know what the Steelers quarterback situation will be this coming season. However, regardless of who's a quarterback, the Steelers will have the best offense in the AFC North in 2025. Okay.

What an overreaction this is, what a, what a, this may be, I mean, did you pull a, did you pull a muscle overreacting? I was in traffic, so I hope Metcalf is going to the Pittsburgh Steelers who don't have a quarterback as of yet, and don't have a running back besides Jalen Warren as of yet that offense is going to be better than burrow and chase and Higgins who are both under contract for this year. No matter what might still get traded, no matter what chase might hold no matter what, they're all under contract for this season. And the Ravens with Lamar Jackson and Derek Henry at age 31, who you know, will not have a diminished return by any stretch of the imagination. Every player who has had 2000 yards, all of a sudden the big Ben Antonio Brown days are rolling back.

We're back. Have you seen George Pickens make catches? What else? Chris you're old for three. Wow. That one is, you might be old for four.

That might count as two whiffs. Well then you're not going to like this one. Okay. Good sell.

With his MVP trophy and his record-breaking contract, Josh Allen is the quarterback under most pressure next season. Oh, what a, that is absurd. Why? Thank you, TJ. Because in like a month someone's going to go, that Prescott's under the, no he's not. This man just got paid.

Paid. And we love him. And he's got a trophy and he's going to have a wife soon. Let me ask you a question. So much pressure.

Can't beat the Chiefs in the playoffs. What have I told you in the past? A lot. Under pressure is somebody who's at the end of the road. Under pressure is somebody, yes, who doesn't have an option B if option A doesn't work out. You know who's under pressure right now? Russ, Justin Fields, Daniel Jones, Aaron Rogers. Those are all under pressure quarterbacks. Derek Carr, who's staying in New Orleans. That's an under pressure situation. No one cares about Derek Carr.

That's not. Everyone talks about Josh Allen 24 seven and this guy hasn't won Jack. He hasn't won Jack. Win bro. In the playoffs when it matters. Josh Allen has just gotten a contract that's 250 million guaranteed dollars. He is engaged to be married to Haley Steinfeld, who also together creates a union that I think we can call is beautiful, right? I'm not discounting that.

He's the reigning MVP of the League. What's the field pressure about? As a matter of fact, it's like the dream come true for any kid from where? Fireball, California. This is what you dream of where a city thinks you are walking on water.

No, where does the pressure come from? Oh, because my legacy bro. OK, can you win when it matters? Get out of here. Allen is over.

What a nonsense thing. I often like to pressure agree with him, but. How do you say there's no pressure over? He is under the most pressure now heading into next year, but his contract is secured. His life is secured. His place is secured. Who cares about any of that?

This is about football legacy, correct? And I'm talking about feeling pressure. You think he's going to feel the pressure and feel the heat and that's under the most. Whether he personally feels it or not, if it doesn't work out on him, we might torture him and he might get torched on first take. Yeah, that is Smurfley gonna.

Yeah, by the way, OK, I think he'll just look at his hot wife. Speaking of people getting paid. Well, then always first is chimed in. No one's under pressure. Exactly. So everyone's getting paid.

Rich is out there. No, I'm not saying no one's under pressure. I'm saying there are other ones who need to perform because their career might be over because they've got one last shot. But where are your thoughts?

No one's talking about them. Rogers in Pittsburgh would be way more under pressure than Josh Allen, Western New York. He has his bus. He has his jacket because Aaron Rodgers is only one last chance potentially to do it and be around being around the be around the boys and be the be the pro that Allen has to be in this life and live this life. You heard we're never going to agree on this young call it when you retire like suffering a death. We're never pressure. We're never going to agree on this.

Oh my gosh, everything that I've built now I'm I'm limping out the door. That's not the way everyone wants to leave in his position like Elway. This one's for Aaron.

That's what he wants. That's more pressure than Josh Allen living up to a new contract. Disagree.

Rich, you called this last week when we were talking about Devante Adams. Okay. Stafford is back.

Yeah. I don't care who wears 17. The Rams are the best challenge to the Eagles in the NFC. I don't think that's an overreaction at all and I don't think people will share this because everyone will still focus on the NFC North and maybe for good reason. Oh no, but we, you know, out here on the left coast, you know, we're having a few laughs. No one pays attention.

No one pays attention. Are the Rams, are the Rams going to be topic bars on the facility? You know what I mean? Like who pays attention to the Rams out here when you've got the Lions and the Vikings and the commanders and the Cowboys and the Giants and the Packers.

How about the team that in the snow with the city burning, by the way, going all the way out after bouncing the Vikings one and done emphatically and coming the closest to beating the Eagles. Now that was a spinning curve in the zone. That was a cookie. You gave me a cookie, Chris. The same way you did on What's More Likely last week on Friday when you're like, what's going to happen first, DK Metcalf gets traded or Jamar Chase signs with the Bengals?

I mean, I didn't think it was like 24 hours. That was a juicy fat cookie you gave me. That was like Chan-Ho Park to Cal Ripken in the All-Star game-type cookie. Grooved. Right down the middle.

Grooved. One of those double chocolate chunk Costco cookies. This guy.

Oh, those are delicious. Boom. You got one more? Last one. Last one. Last one.

All right. The Cowboys haven't done anything, right? Not yet.

We're still over. Not yet. OC doesn't count? Not yet.

Oh no, that's true. OC Digazua, who's our guest later this week. Yeah. Yeah.

Respect him. Yeah. Jerry's going to wait and wait and wait and the prices just keep keep going up and he could have had Derek Henry. The Cowboys should have never given Dak Prescott a massive extension. Well, they had to. The question is, did it have to be 60? Yeah.

I'm glad we're not in this quarterback shuffle right now. I think Jerry thought that 60 was going to beat the market and it would, by the end of it, look cheap. Inexpensive. Pardon me. I think that was his gamble. Like, I'm going to reset the market.

I'm going to tell Dak I love him this much. The problem is he didn't have the leverage. He had to hit 60. Don't forget. Right?

They couldn't franchise him and his contract called for a dead cap being so through the roof. That's why everyone was like, you got to do it. So do it sooner rather than later. You know it. I know it. You could be saying, we're all going all in and the rest of us are going to have to sing for our supper. Otherwise they're going to hit the road. You could have said that a million times so you were blue in the face and Jerry did. Right?

Everybody knew it. So he had to hit 60 and no, they had to give him. And we'll find out Dak is an excellent quarterback. Just let's stay healthy and let's see what he can do and get him some frigging help in the free agent market, please.

Can you do that? You think Dak's a top 10 QB this year when it's all said and done? He should be.

How does that sound? I don't like that answer. He's under more pressure than Josh Allen.

Josh Allen? No. Oh, okay.

Ten minutes ago it was coming. Didn't I say that? You said, hold on. I actually hear this argument. Oh, thank you, Judge Brockman. Objection overruled. Okay.

Let me grab something real quick. Oh my God. Let's get him some robes. What the hell? You need a gavel? What are those things called that L.O. Shay was hearing? Epaulettes.

Judges don't do that. What are you doing over there? You said something about a gavel. Oh, he's got a gavel. You have a gavel? I got a lot of stuff. What is this? Oh my God, this is amazing. Is this a pocket gavel?

I want to judge Brockman. Oh, don't give him that toy. Don't give him that toy.

Oh, that's so loud. Don't give him a toy. This is great. What are you giving him a toy for?

Judge Brockman. Hey, I've been holding onto that for like five years now. I have a gavel now. Well, I'm getting it back from me.

You just have it for right now. You know, Dak is under more pressure. Oh, I'm putting this out as a poll. Josh Allen is under more pressure this year, sir. One's coming back from injury. One's team crapped out last year. The other one actually performed better than expected to the point where the quarterback not only won the MVP, but got paid early. Yeah, so one's out of here. Two best quarterbacks, NFL, and one's not even really 10.

And then under your soul and under your construct of what pressure is, because people talk about him, because if he doesn't perform well, people will talk, which team gets talked about more than any else. You guys have views. Let's take a break because the Darnold plane has just landed. We'll hit that next.

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He signed with the Seahawks. I can't do that to you. Oh, wow.

I mean, you had him. Wow. No, we'll discuss it further.

I'm not going to do that. If people are out there watching, they deserve to know. That's true. Yeah, but there's a buildup. There's a tease. I just, we built it up over a commercial break. I'm not going to sit here and say, you know what, we're waiting for a bigger, bigger, more people than you.

I'm not going to sit there and say that. By the way, you know that, uh, that, that jiff or meme from the wire where it's like, let them know we back up. Yeah. Well, Idris is wearing a Patriots hat right now. Who's that? We're back up, baby. Who's back up? The Pats.

How so? We're back. How are you back?

Milton Williams to the Patriots, 26 million a year. Hey, congratulations. We're back. Excellent. Defense is stacked. There you go.

Well, I mean, for able gets a guy right in the middle, you know, that's what he likes. Harold Landry over the weekend. Okay. Got a corner. We got, you know, spending money.

This is great. When are you going to get someone for, for Drake May? Who cares? We're going to win every game. 10 to 10, six. I told him that game's going to be 13 to six issues. It's going to be the most boring Patriot season ever. We're going to go 14 and three.

I don't know. 14 and three. I'll take the under pal. We're going to win the East.

My God. We're going to win the East. The AFC East? AL East and the NFC East. The AFC East. You're winning.

The Patriots are winning the AFC East. Yeah. Okay. With a straight face. Of course. What kind of question is that? I got to put that parlay in right now. And then later on, let's just snap, snap cut to later on.

And you know where that, you know how that opinion is going? Right in the ass tray on the armrest. With no wifi. I'm not getting any news because there's no wifi on the plane. You know, Twitter went down during all this and people were losing their mind.

Mine was working fine on desktop. Can you imagine you're, you're, you're a top player in the NFL and you reach out and you're just touching Don Draper's ash. You know, Don Draper put his cools out in that armrest back in 1963. Well, it was Lucky Strikes.

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Call click Grainger.com or just stop by. All right. The Sam Darnold shoe has dropped. Give me the, uh, it's by the way, one year ago on this day, this drop was born on the Rich Eisen Show.

Go ahead and hit it. Here it comes. Christopher, where's Sam Darnold? Rich, Sam Darnold is going to the Pacific Northwest. Seattle Seahawks get Sam Darnold on a three-year deal worth $100 million.

Million dollars. Okay. First up, um, congratulations to Sam Darnold. This is exactly the plan to be very honest with you.

And I'm going to go full circle on this. This was the plan Kevin O'Connell told Sam about right around this time last year. Hey, listen, you come here and, you know, we may draft somebody, but you're going to be given an opportunity here. And then when they drafted J.J. McCarthy, his answer was check out what Baker Mayfield just did.

Okay. We're going to give you an opportunity. And if you ball out and this is not your destination after all, and you can hit free agency and look at what Baker Mayfield just did, he signed a contract worth $30 million per in Tampa. And guess what? He balls out. He wins 14 games. As it turns out, Minnesota is not his final destination. He goes to Seattle and signs a contract very similar to Baker Mayfield. So kudos to him for taking the opportunity that was afforded him in free agency to wind up in the free agency period, in the new league year period to wind up in Minnesota.

He does get the opportunity, perhaps due to J.J. McCarthy's injury by default, doesn't matter. 14 wins, yada, yada, yada, a hundred million dollar contract for a guy that at this point last year was on a scrap heap looking for the next gig. And that is kudos to him and a testament to everyone out there. It is inspiring to see that you get an opportunity. You make the most of it. Opportunity knocks.

You open the door, you bust it down. I know they didn't win a playoff game. I know that ending was disappointing. I know the ending causes a lot of people to sit here and think maybe he hit his head on the ceiling in week 18 last year and didn't burst through, certainly against the Rams, who he now has to see twice a year. So put a pin in that next time he faces the Rams with the Seattle Seahawks. DK Metcalf is not there.

They're remaking themselves. And that is also something that I think, Chris, you can celebrate wanting to have a recalibration of the quarterback market that there appears to be a new tier of quarterback, which is former 2018 drafty having to find a new job somewhere else and having to sign for 30 million and change a year. Yeah, that's kind of the baseline move now, the baseline contract, the three for 100. And then there is top of the tier, which is 2018 drafty chosen third in the quarterback class, who's now on his second contract and is the MVP of the league for a team that is perennially a Super Bowl favorite. I mean, he's making the most guaranteed dollars in the history of the MVP. In the history of the NFL and Josh Allen. And then in between those two contracts are a bunch of quarterbacks who haven't done much except being drafted very high and shown the ability to win more regular season games than not.

Flash in a playoff appearance, don't go too far, but you got to pay them because they're next up on the market. And they're the ones who are breaking the bank and extending this range of paying quarterbacks. And Sam Darnold is now on the lower end of it.

And John Schneider has now swapped out a 34-year-old quarterback who apparently said no to a contract between 40 and 45 million for a 27-year-old quarterback who says yes to 33 and change. Will he be as successful as Geno Smith in Seattle? Stay tuned.

Stay tuned. And it's fascinating he winds up in the NFC West because again, the team that eliminated Sam from playoff contention by stampeding him and running him over and causing half the country to start screaming at the screen, throw it, get rid of it, Sam. He's got to face that team twice. The team that began his rehabilitation as a starting quarterback in the NFL, stopping in San Francisco, sending him to Kevin O'Connell of the Sean McVay world.

He's got to face San Francisco twice now. So you got that. Love it. Makes things more interesting.

Sure does. And so Seattle says we'll find the receiver room in a different way. Tyler Lockett not going to be there. DK Metcalf sent to the AFC North for a second round pick. Geno Smith sent to the AFC West for a third round pick. They've got five picks, I believe, in the first two nights of the NFL draft.

We'll see how they supplement things. And best of luck is they've now recast their quarterback room and wide receiver room in significant ways. And what does that mean for Pittsburgh now? Because Darnold isn't going there and he's not going to the Giants or the Jets. And I think he didn't want to see the ghosts of New York. He's gone as far away from New York as he possibly can when we think geographically in the National Football League. And he's going up there to the 12s.

And what does that mean for the ripple in the quarterback carousel pond? That means you've got a starter's gig left over in New York. Two of them, right? You've got a starter's gig open in Pittsburgh, right?

And what? You've got a please come and, well, you've got a starter's gig open in Cleveland. Yep, that's for sure. But for one year, potentially.

Potentially, depending on your own performance. Minnesota maybe is... Well, Minnesota is open for a veteran to push the young kid or have a competition or be there if the young kid's not physically ready. You've got Indianapolis saying come to us and help push our kid or be the alternative for us if the kid can't be pushed to maybe push the kid out. And then you've got in Cleveland and in both New York spots the possibility of a rookie being drafted. Are we missing anything? I don't believe we are for a quarterback spot right now.

I don't think we are. Tennessee. Well, I mean, what does Tennessee... Tennessee hasn't said a word about the quarterbacks other than just, hey, Chidor's really good and Cam's really good. But that's a spot for one, either with the number one overall pick or free agency.

I don't know. But there's... I mean, in terms of Rogers, what the only option would be for me is Pittsburgh. That's the only spot that is willing to potentially say we're going to give you a starter's role and you're at a legacy franchise that makes the playoffs every year with a coach that I'm sure you respect the hell out of. I mean, if I'm Aaron Rodgers, I am telling my agents, get me to Pittsburgh now. What do we have to do to get Pittsburgh to say yes to us? And I think Sam Darnold signing with Seattle might be the thing that unlocks it. Because there's no rookie there that's going to be drafted to push me, at least not yet, at least until Jackson Dart falls to 21st overall. There's no rookie that's going to be drafted, one would think, to push me. This is the end of career scenario.

For me, I'm not going to Minnesota so I could... I mean, you pull, as I said, the Favre triple Lindy. I mean, that is a... He'll never do that. I don't think he would.

No. Because JJ McCarthy is there, right? He's not going to the... I mean, the Giants could be an option for him.

Could be, but... The Giants, I think, are definitely choosing somebody third overall at rookie, one would think. Unless they go one-two. I mean, there's the reports that they want to move up to number one. I told you, for the Giants, sign Rogers, draft Travis Hunter, use your second third round pick on getting the Rogers replacement, if you think, and take the pressure off of you having to choose a quarterback in this year's draft in the same way the Raiders just removed that pressure from themselves by getting Geno Smith. But again, if I'm Aaron Rogers, I am one million percent burning up the phone lines to say, how do I get the Steelers to say yes to me? Because it's not just that either. I mean, you want to stay relevant, obviously, you want to win games, you want to finish your career with an opportunity to win.

What better way to do it? Obviously, I'd said the same thing about being the Jets' savior, but to be in line, you know, with Steelers' greats to have won it all. And then in terms of relevance, how would playing against the Ravens twice a year, Sucha, how would, by the way, facing, let's see here again, the Jets are on the roster for their, are on their schedule.

Dude, unbelievable. The Bills, because they're playing the AFC East, and guess who else they play? The NFC North. How does Steelers, starting for the Steelers against the Packers, again, from what I heard at the Combine in Dublin, how does that sound?

Oh, baby. How does that sound for you? And then you're taking on the Vikings. And DK plays against Seattle. And DK against Seattle.

You're throwing a DK Metcalf. I mean, these are marquee games. These are games that NBC and CBS and Fox and Amazon would be fighting each other tooth and nail to get. So the Steelers have to sit there and think that's not a bad way to go too. Although I imagine the last thing Mike Tomlin and that organization makes a move thinking about is buzz. But right now, if I'm Aaron Rodgers in the wake of the Seattle signing of Sam Darnold, that is exactly where I want to go.

And that is the only spot that interests me. And if you're the Steelers, you're like, OK, do we go with the kid Justin Fields and tell him he's the starter and we do this come hell or high water or we bring back Russ and we run it back for him and DK Metcalf? Or what do we do? Do we go Aaron Rodgers and roll that dice and try something new? Fascinating. More breaking news when we come back right here on the Rich Eisen Show, we're running at we're running out of time.

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It's a bit of honey. Oh wow. Which I haven't seen since again. Even though they still made this. Right. Who put this in the back? I don't know. A double bubble. Fantastic.

Cage Brockman favorite. Okay. All right. There's a, you know, one of these hard candies.

Oh, a pinwheel. It could be like sweet, might not be peppermint. Maybe. Okay. That might be a special. A mini Smarties. Smarties. Yes.

That's coded. All right. The classic Tootsie Roll.

Come on. And it's just one of these. It's the ultimate. I haven't seen this and it is appropriately named Dad's. The root beer barrel candy. Oh wow. The barrel? Yeah. Oh.

I haven't seen that since like the 80s. So who put this all in one cup? No idea. Who did it?

Where'd you find it? In the back. Like coffee. Kind of jealous. I don't know. And again, it's just one of each. That's it. Somebody's old Halloween candy.

Just one of each. Like, look at this. Let me get that Smartie, son. You want it? Seriously.

No problem. I kind of want that root beer barrel. That one's mine, pal. I found that.

Dang it. That was your top pick. I mean, there was some audio guys running around the back yesterday. Was one of the audio guys like 80 and he just had it in his pocket from the Nixon administration? Like this is like when I was a kid, like, hey, grandpa, what do you have in your pocket?

He'd take out like a bit of honey. Right. You know, they're up there. Yeah. I was here.

You guys did stop in the studio yesterday and there were people who are working. So this is a classic. These are like instant classics, but only one of them. There's no, is this going to be a mystery that we can't have solved? Probably. Is this an unsolved mystery? Most likely.

What happened to the rest of the honeys? Remember that, remember that TV show Unsolved Mystery? Yo, that Robert Stack. Was Robert Stack terrifying? He used to scare me, man. So scary.

Remember the music was very like airy. He'd be walking in that dark alley with the Striker. Vinnie Pasquantino is calling me right now. The Pasquatch. Now you just gave it away. It must be Jets news that you're holding. He's calling, man.

Can I answer it? Yeah, it's Vinnie. Does Vinnie not know we're on the air? I don't know.

I accidentally just, oh, you just said, I fat fingered him. I'll call him back and put him on speaker. Don't have to put him on speaker.

Why not? We have an MLB player calling the show. There must be Jets news that's breaking if Vinnie Pasquantino is calling you. Knowing that you're on air.

So this has to be big. Does he know? Does he know or is he, or is he calling in between like innings two and three?

That would be amazing. Was Kansas city playing the grapefruit or the cactus? The Pasquatch. Uh, their cactus. Their cactus.

Okay. larger than Jim Bacchus is the cactus. Who? Oh, it's a third base.

Peak nice MC search. What is happening here? People are leaving like 1970s candy.

Like literally this, some of this candy may be older than me. All right. Back here on the rich eyes and show on the rich eyes and show Roku channel feed. And we're back on the rich eyes and show one big happy family radio and TV. Chris Brockman told me, do not look at breaking news during the commercial break. And I'm wondering what it is. Vinnie Pasquantino of the Royals called your phone during the TV only segment, which means I smelling it's gotta be jets news.

If he's calling in, hit it, Jay, hit it, hit it, hit it, hit it. Here it comes. All right. What do we have over there?

You got your quarterback, Justin Fields to the New York jets, two years, $40 million, 30 guaranteed. Okay. Very good.

Very good. Uh, so it's, it's a very team friendly deal and let's go, let's go. He and Garrett Wilson.

So that's pretty cool. Good for him. And I can only hope that they connect like the last quarterback and wide receiver combination of beat Michigan can. No, but in, in, in, in all seriousness, this is exactly the type of move that jets should be making, which is let's go and try something new and young and let's get Garrett Wilson and sauce Gardner and the young Turks of this team and breeze hall with a contemporary in age and let them grow together. And let's get the new offensive coordinator to get in a room with them with them and start building around offensively and defensively with Aaron Glenn saying, this is my team and my stamp on it.

And let's go not the same old, same old and Tarod Taylor is in there. Let him coach the kid up if he needs it and let him go to New York city and figure it out. And hopefully he can handle the spotlight. Being a Chicago bears quarterback can help. I'd imagine. And a Steelers quarterback can help in that regard. I can imagine and let's go and give them the opportunity and say, congratulations. We believe in you. And instead of running back the same old, same old, they went the exact opposite.

They went the exact opposite and completely different. And I kind of dig it, give it a whirl. Well, you know, in all honesty, I mean, you got two guys, you got two years, 20 million per you're not breaking the bank. Yeah. You're, you're, you're also not overly committing.

And I don't know. I imagine he's going to be named the starter that the day began with word from Schefter saying, he's only going to go back to Pittsburgh. If they name him the starter, I imagine they will.

And Tarod Taylor will be a guy that can coach him up if need be. Cause he didn't really have any of that. I mean, last year he had it with Russ. He didn't have it until he went to Pittsburgh. And you heard, who was the one who came on before and say, was it, was it, was it Brear who said that Aaron Glenn in each of his spots, once in New Orleans and another in Detroit watched success on offense blossom from building around a distressed asset at quarterback, which Breeze was when he arrived in New Orleans and Jared Goff was when he arrived in Detroit from Los Angeles.

Well, this guy's a distressed asset. And I understand some Jets fans may be like, really? Are we going to go with a guy that didn't do it in Chicago and, you know, lost out to Russ in Pittsburgh? Well, he was four and two. Well, dude, he did lose out to Russ is what I said. Well, he was. He lost the gig to Russ. He did. It seemed like the gig was Russ's.

Correct. And so the Jets are just going to say, give this a try. And to their credit, they're going to do it. And hopefully the owner just doesn't get up and Aaron Glenn's grill and say, why are we doing this? And what happens when we're two and three and the Broncos come to town and hold us to seven points? Give him a shot.

Give him the full, give me a shot. Give him the full 17 starts and see what happens. And if it doesn't work out, then you're back in the top 10 again with a quarterback draft next year. That's even better. I think this removes the Jets from needing to draft a quarterback of the future right now.

You know what? Go get him kind of worn. That would be, that'd be awesome for you guys. Go get him a serious weapon or something you also didn't have in Chicago, a better offensive line.

Do it again. Hit the O-line again in the first round. So basically Aaron Rodgers is going to be a Pittsburgh Steelers is what we're getting.

I don't know about that. Seems like it. If again, if I'm Aaron Rodgers, I'm like, send me to Pittsburgh. And by the way, Rogers is the quarterback of the Steelers taking on Justin Fields quarterback of the Jets is another must-see football game. So congratulations to Justin Fields winding up in New York. He's got a two-year opportunity. Hopefully he makes the most of it. And he and Garrett Wilson clearly, Garrett Wilson must be doing cartwheels right now.

Garrett Wilson must be doing cartwheels right now. So no doubt. Reunited and it feels so good. No doubt. And it feels so good. Dang it, Rich. That's why your name was on the cup, man. And it feels so good. That's why your name was on the cup. And like I said, I hope the Jets go on the field and treat the opponent like Fields and Garrett Wilson treated Michigan the last time they actually won that game for Ohio State.