Hour 1: Cowboys Should Trade for Maxx Crosby, plus ‘Ted Lasso’ Star Jeremy Swift In-Studio

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1:32Rich Eisen:What's the line that you get the most? The Rich Eisen Show. Who wants a mustache ride? Live from the Rich Eisen Show studio in Los Angeles, today's guests, actor Jeremy Swift, PGA Tour winner Jackson Koivin, Tampa Bay Times Bucks writer Rick Stroud, Rich's Power Rankings, NFL Training Camp Roundup, and now it's Rich Eisen.

2:02Rich Eisen:That's correct. Can confirm it. I am here. You're there. This is the Rich Eisen Show on Disney Plus ESPN app. The good folks at ESPN Radio, we love being coast-to-coast every single day. 12 to 3 Eastern time there. Same thing, Sirius XM, Channel 80. 844-204-RICH. Number to dial to have a conversation with all of us. And we appreciate everybody chiming in, no matter what. Football's back, baby. I mean, there's holdouts, there's holds-ins, there's uh there's there's coaches talking and uh news popping uh and we're doing our best to cover it all right here on this program uh good to see you over there chris brocklin what's going on sir not much man how are you dj mikey d good to see you man good morning how are you feeling a little bit feeling better in terms of him i'm not just a host i'm a chiropractor yes as well i was working on mike's back before the show thank you rich no listen there may be an eye and rich and eyes and but i feel for you thank you good to see over there tj jefferson how are you candles lit what's going on were you walking on his back like i was not walking from the jefferson not like that at all no but the show is moving on up every single day i want to say a very special happy birthday to who to my quarterback dak prescott okay quarterback man oh he has the best day look at him uh trying to set me up yeah that's like a little you can only hope that lebron can set up any philadelphia 76ers to your liking is the same way you just did for me i didn't even know yes you did hey lob city oh you didn't know that's right you uh we're not here when we talked about it listen um dac prescott showed to work last week uh in a super bowl 30 t-shirt hey you know what i mean and so so he's like owning it right that's just a nice t-shirt he's owning it you know like again i get so many things um hopping in my algorithm i saw something the other day a dad a man of a certain age dancing with his sons and his sons were clearly in their 20s and he's doing some sort of Michael Jackson dance with them and it's really nice I get a lot of you know family stuff sometimes in my algorithm sure dogs other things um and and uh the the guy's making these dance moves Michael Jackson then he turns around and then there's a Dallas Cowboys symbol on his shirt.

4:19Rich Eisen:And I'm like, do I respond like, you know, Michael Jackson was doing the halftime of the Super Bowl the last time this man made the Super Bowl as a fan. See, I'm trying not to do that because I think of you. The fruit's low-hanging. I think of you. I'm like, would I do that to you? Yeah. Would I do that? Nah, maybe. Probably. But he's owning it, right? in the same way for another individual from your fandom, owner of the Mets, Steve Cohen. He's like, hey, let's have fun with the fact that I got to cut a check to Bobby Bonita once a year in the midst of another worst team money can buy season for the Mets.

4:58Rich Eisen:Listen. Turn it around. Okay. Dak was two and a half the last time the Cowboys won the Super Bowl. See, I mean, we can go on and on and on and on. But Dak is a guy who we all know. What does pressure make? Diamonds. What are Super Bowl rings made of? You know what I'm saying? Lots of them. You see, I'm putting words together. I'm connecting dots. I'm a professional dot connector. He's showing up. Yeah, I'm wearing a T-shirt from last time, you know, Super Bowl 30. This just in. We just celebrated Super Bowl 60. It's an easy math equation. How long has it been? Okay. I can easily defeat this whole thing, but sure, go ahead.

5:38Rich Eisen:You can do what to this thing? Well, I mean, I could point out that there's other teams that have far longer. But sure, I get it. I understand that. I'm not leading with the Jets here. I'm not leading with the Jets. I'm not leading with the Niners here. I have that T-shirt in my mom's closet. Okay. Or in my mom's attic, I'm sure. There you go. There you go. Maybe that's – has Dak been to your mom's attic? I hope not. That's what he stole. He stole. All right. Jerry Jones spoke yesterday at length, which is, you know, potentially redundant to say. it's always great when the Dallas Cowboys open up their season and the Joneses are there and the media is there and everybody just knows Jerry is itching to talk.

6:23Rich Eisen:Itching. That's it. I'm like, let's get him questions so he can scratch it. Settle down just a little bit. Yeah. People were like, hey, Dak not only showed up in that T-shirt, he's saying it's Super Bowl or bust this season. It's not an NFC championship game or bust. It's not NFC East champions or bust. It is Super Bowl or bust. I like the cut of his jib. I like the moxie. And I like the fact that it's a nice little finger roll to set up Jerry Jones at his press conference. I, too, can say that the fact that Dak is looking at what he's looking at causes me to feel the same way. I think we've got a chance to really be good.

7:06It's going to be hard. It's going to be nip and tuck. As old switcher used to say, we're going to burn some of these wagons on the way to California for firewood. We're going to lose some folks. We're going to have some barn, but the wagon train is going to get there. So bottom line is I love the excitement. You guys, for all practical purposes, don't expect us to be a contender in the Super Bowl. Y 'all don't. Why would you? I like that. I do. I like that. And I like what we put together to show you that we can do it.

7:49Rich Eisen:Yeah, man. I love it. Dak making pop culture analogies to 1996 and Jerry Jones making pop culture analogies to the fact that maybe the Cowboys haven't won since 1883. Right? Boom, boom. So, anyone watch that show? It's outstanding. I know he's a Taylor Sheridan guy. It's intense. It's outstanding. It is intense. I highly recommend it. Makes you wonder. He's burning wagons. Listen, I'm having my fun. Because you know how I feel about this Cowboys roster. I know what you said. You know how I've been talking about it for months. It's there, man. To use the analogies. The kindling is there. It's there.

8:36Okay.

8:37Rich Eisen:They have abilities. Let's protect Dak. Let's get that run game similar. Let's get the vertical game going. Let's stretch the field. And let's get the Cowboys defense vastly improved out there. But burning wagons just to get to Oxnard, California, is not the goal. burning wagons to get to Los Angeles, California. Inglewood, city of champions, California, home of SoFi Stadium and the Rams and the Chargers and Super Bowl 61. On the Disney family of networks. That's the goal. And one of the tenants of said stadium is in fact favored to be there and hoist the Lombardi trophy because they damn near made it last year, and they added Miles Garrett, and that might be enticing Aaron Donald to come out.

9:47You know?

9:49Rich Eisen:Just like, you know, Jalen Brown led to LeBron in Philadelphia. Okay, I see. Trying to add pieces for you, TJ. The Cowboys, no. and everyone else knows that's what you're burning the wagons to go do, is to make sure that if you do see the Rams, you can get past them. Or you do see the defending Super Bowl champion Seahawks, you can get past them.

10:19Rich Eisen:And to do that, the Cowboys might need to add another. Yeah. And Jerry's already thinking that. I'd be very interested I'd give up future To add substantive To where we are today As to a player to give you an idea About would I invest Something substantive To get the right kind of deal To improve us opening day I would, I feel that good about this thing This year And of course you know that I haven't seen This team play together And so But in general, looking ahead, I think we've got a chance to be worthy of spending some future if we saw an opportunity. Are those kinds of conversations that are ongoing, or is that something, hey, let's look at the first two weeks of camp and then address to see if you want to put something sustainable?

11:11I talked to yesterday. I talked about a situation yesterday with another team and another owner. If I am Jerry Jones, Jerry, if I'm you, if I may, if I dare to do that.

11:25Rich Eisen:Congratulations. Yeah, man. Nice. Why are we going to dinner? Oh, okay. Well, Nobu Malibu. Can I take you out of that? Honestly, at any point over the next five weeks, if you go there, you might see Jerry. I've never been, so I might. Okay. Never good. It's very beautiful. It's nice. I've heard. Listen, I'm Jerry. I'm you, sir. I'm looking at the old driver's license birth certificate. 83 years of age. I mentioned 1883 moments ago. 83. And I see Los Angeles ads Miles Garrett. I'm just wondering if that owner he spoke to on this front just yesterday rhymes with Schmark Schmavis. I mean. Schmavis.

12:19Nevada.

12:20Rich Eisen:matter we're all wondering is max crosby in play or not is this condor up for grabs or not okay

12:36Rich Eisen:futures futures tj jefferson futures cowboys do not have their first round selection in next year's draft that belongs to the green bay packers because of the micah parsons macca Well, actually, hold on a minute. Round one, they do have the Packers one to trade. My bad. Okay. Quinton Williams. Cowboys have a second and a third. Green Bay does own their first next year. Okay. Second and a third. And then 20-28. 20-28, sir. They got them all. Futures. You trade a 2028 first round draft choice for Max Crosby. I don't even know if I'm going to make it to 2028. Do you trade a 2028 first rounder for Max Crosby?

13:30Rich Eisen:Yes. I would. Don't even think about it. I would find out what else in next year's draft the Cowboys would be looking for. Right? What else?

13:49right?

13:51Rich Eisen:Because the Cowboys draft choice, pardon me, belongs to the Jets, obviously. Next year. There's a two. Did you flip a two and a one? That's pricey. I would tell you this. The Raiders would look at Max Crosby and say, do you want to go to Dallas? Do you want to go back home and stay to Texas? Is that where you want to go? You want to be a Dallas Cowboy? You want to be on the other side of Rashawn Gammary and next to Quentin Williams? Now you're talking. Now you're talking to Dallas Cowboys. You're like, screw it. this is it we got a shot here everybody stays healthy with this guy he's healthy oh baby you're the raiders if somebody like dallas calls you up and says i know you had this whole deal for uh for him with the ravens uh we'll come close to matching it can't match it can't match it that was three right No, it's two.

14:49Rich Eisen:Can't match it. Depends on how bad he wants to win. Yeah. I'm there. You're Dallas. You're there. You're there. You got Dak. You got Pickens for at least one more year. You got yourself. CeeDee Lamb. I mean, I keep going down this roster here. You want to go hunt the NFC East and the rest of the NFC? You want to show up in Los Angeles?

15:16Rich Eisen:Fight power, fight power, fire with whatever you want to fight it with. Oh, Aaron Donald and Miles Garrett? Okay, we've got Quinn and Williams, Max Crosby, Rashawn Gary. You've got Young. You've got all these other guys on the Rams. Sure. We're coming with our own. Damn the torpedoes, man. Forget about the wagons. You're burning them. Whatever you can burn or damn, do it. if Crosby's available and healthy. Two big ifs. Damn. Why are you trying to... This is it. Why are you doing this? Because this is it, TJ. Why are you doing this to me? This is it. Now my brain... This is it. I'm like... I don't think I'm telling any tales out of school.

16:04Rich Eisen:I don't think I'm exaggerating anything here. Am I? No. You're giving me hope. This is what you're doing. Because you, first of all, you deserve to have it. It's right there. You also can legitimately look at this roster and say, coached right, the football gods give them health. Big deal there. Yeah, man. Yeah. Oh, boy. Go get the Condor. Come on, Jerry. 99. Futures. For the present. Bust the budget. That's correct. Okay. And we'll talk about the Raiders side of things later on because they did name Kirk Cousins a starter. We got all sorts of hold-ins going down. Tampa has one. Vita Vea, guys, he quote-unquote tweaked something.

16:58Rich Eisen:Oh, no. Uh-oh. You know what? That tweak is the middle finger. That one is – he's ready to – he's out there. Right here. He's standing at practice today. I think something is just a little off. He tweaked. He's tweaked. Ooh. Ooh. Ooh, my arm. My back. That's a surprise. My finger. And Baker's stood by. He goes, if we don't have a deal when I show up for work at training camp, then we're not talking. And he is a man of his word. They're not talking. Ooh, my arm. Yeah. So Rick Stroud, we sent up the bat signal for him. That'll be our number three of the program. and I've got a power rankings as well because Terrell Davis couldn't name his best running back in the league I had a tap dance for him until he landed on I'm like I'll do it for you TD my power rankings is the list of running backs best running backs my my four downs is on the Cincinnati Bengals a lot of juicy good stuff okay so back um and I guess after coming back from Michigan where I interviewed an 18 year old quarterback a 19 year old national champion uh shooting guard and um and a 19 year old wide receiver I'm like let me let me just finally uh begin to go up the the ladder here.

18:24Rich Eisen:21 year old Jackson Coivin is going to be joining us. He just in his third career professional start, just one on the PGA tour and he held off Scotty Scheffler to do it. All right. So he's going to join us. But coming up next, Ted Lasso is going to be back everybody. And the man who plays Higgins and those of us who also were Downton Abbey Freaks, the man who played Spratt on that show, is in our green room and we are going to welcome him out on this program. Jeremy Swift is here. He has no idea he's going to add his name to our Believe sign. Already signed by Sean Payton, Jason Sudeikis, Brendan Hunt, and Phil Dunster.

19:11Nice. As we

19:13Rich Eisen:begin to keep collecting people who are on Ted Lasso and Sean Payton was the first one to do it. The reason why he did that is because he handed out biscuits at his so-called retirement press conference. Remember that? In New Orleans. I almost forgot. Still have one of those biscuits, don't you? Yeah. Still have them. There it is. Whoa. Signed by Jamie. I forget who signed. Oh, yeah. Jamie Tartt. There you do. Phil Dunster. Phil Dunster, yeah. All right. Before we take our first break, our friends at Gusto would like to let you know that they are there for all the small business owners out there because they know that it's not just the job that you do there.

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22:24Rich Eisen:The audience has returned. We're one big happy family on Disney Plus, the ESPN app and ESPN radio. the director of football operations for AFC Richmond, the fictional version, is here on the program. I also enjoyed your work, sir, in Downton Abbey. Jeremy Swift is here on the program now that we're all one big family. When did you first hear that it was possible that Ted Lasso could come back for season four? Well, the actual fact of it coming back was, you know, as a man of a certain age, I went to the bathroom in the middle of the night in London and looked at my phone. And, yeah, as you do, because that's quite often when, you know, the time difference and I get emails from L.A.

23:10or whatever. And I was like, oh, and it was followed by, you know, emails from my reps here going, it's back, you know. But I always held a candle for it, you know, because Logic kind of insisted that having had the seed planted at the end of season three about Akili Jones' hopes for a women's team, that just seemed like it had to happen. And it hasn't been done in any show or movie, you know. So that's the radical thing that's going to happen in this new season, that it's going to focus on a women's team.

23:47Rich Eisen:Right, and, you know, Jason Sudeikis in real life is a massive fan of women's sports. Absolutely, yeah. He's a New York Liberty season ticket holder, when he's in New York for the WNBA. Yeah, Casey Curran. Right. And so he is 1 ,000 % about all of it. We went to a Casey Curran game for his big Slick charity event in June. So, you know, you see it firsthand that he's all about it. But, I mean, again, just – I mentioned in the TV-only segment, so I'll repeat it here for the radio audience. When my wife and I watch Ted Lasso and then we go to sleep, we wake up the next morning like you know why am i seeing the sun brighter today you know what i mean like and i was like oh that's right we watched ted lasso last night i'm serious yeah yeah this happens you know my my manager here said she was talking to her son and he was he was a bit depressed about his work and she just said just go and watch a couple of episodes of ted lasso and he rang her back about two hours later said that worked you know it just i'm i'm just feeling a better place It is.

24:54And when did you realize going through the beginnings of Ted Lasso that something was special or afoot? Pretty early on. I mean, Apple don't do it now, but they dropped three episodes on season one. And at that time, which I'm not anymore, I was on what was Twitter. And there was so much positivity that I couldn't quite believe it. And I thought, oh, this is Apple wielding some power and these are bots or whatever. And I just thought, wait, is somebody going to go, this show sucks or whatever. But there wasn't. Everybody just took to it so quickly. And it's a first. It's a first experience for me.

25:38And then, of course, it dropped in COVID. And then we did the second season. And COVID was starting to calm down a little bit. And we came out here and we went to a screening of the first two eps. And I said, oh, I'll go. I just get it over with because it was a red carpet. And then when I got out of the car, there was a grandstand of about 500 people on it going crazy. And that was a switch in my head that went, never happened before. This has never happened before. Right.