Hour 1: Dolphins Trade Waddle to Broncos, Italy-Venezuela WBC Reax, plus Cameron Young

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1:43Rich Eisen:Today's guests. Winner of the Players' Championship, Cameron Young. ESPN College Basketball Analyst, Jay Billis. ESPN NFL Draft Analyst, Matt Miller. And now, it's Rich Eisen.

2:25Rich Eisen:Christopher Brockman, what's going on, sir? Red Shabby St. Patrick's Day. That's right. You're wearing green. I am not. I'm just kind of realizing that. Good to see you over there, Jason Fettel. What's going on? Good to see you. I mean, he attacked me for wearing green. Why? I don't know. Just came in. I don't understand. Today's supposed to be nice. Because you're wearing a logo-less hat. Like, that's something Del Tufo would wear. That's not. No, no, that's not. He would wear double. Actually, it's the opposite. That's something like Rob Lowe would wear. You know? Good to see you over there, TJ Jefferson.

2:50Rich Eisen:What's going on? What do you have? You have the electric candle from the combine? Yesterday, the wick burned out, so we got to turn this candle on. And I, too, am repping for St. Paddy's Day by repping Ireland's greatest warrior, Becky Lynch, the man. Ah, very good. Okay. Well done. Thank you, sir. Greatly appreciate everybody's on brand today. They're always after me, lucky charms. What was that? One more time? They're always after me, lucky charm. Okay, very good. What is that from? Austin Powers. Right, right, right. Sorry, Rich. Okay. Sorry, Rich Eisen. That's all right. I was just getting ready to turn to the big news here.

3:30Rich Eisen:Let's go. You know, obviously, the World Baseball Classic. We've got Team USA versus Team Venezuela tonight. What a game that was between Venezuela and Italy last night. And we'll discuss it on this program. We were going to kind of lead with that, but we have a trade in the NFL. Listen, there's been a lot of folks in the Rocky Mountains area wondering what their Denver Broncos have been up to. Again, the Denver Broncos back in the day made the biggest maneuver in recent memory right around this time by telling Russell Wilson, doesn't matter how much it's going to cost on our salary cap. you sir are no longer on the team and we are going to rack up the biggest dead cap in history and what wound up happening is somehow some way they became spenders in free agency and also made some smart draft moves to try and turn their roster over as soon as they made that move Bo Nix being the first big piece that they added in the draft after making that move and um they then began to have less of a free agency frenzy.

4:46Rich Eisen:One would think maybe because they didn't have the cap space for it, what have you, but they didn't add too many pieces in subsequent free agencies, including this year. Entering today's activity, when we didn't really expect it, the only team in free agency to not sign an outside free agent. They took care of a lot of their own. They re-signed or tendered 17 of their own free agents. Alex Singleton, their lion-hearted defender in the middle of their terrific defense, basically said after losing to the Patriots in the snow AFC championship game, let's just run it back. And apparently that was the idea of the Paytons, George and Sean, their general manager and coach.

5:45Rich Eisen:Not a single outside free agent added. Well, they added an outside player today. And interestingly enough, what they did was make a deal with the team that looked at their dead cap, their record-setting dead cap of Russell Wilson and said, guess what? there's a beer to be held and we're holding it because we just dead capped Tua to the tune of 99 million bucks and change. 99 problems. And we are still being aggressive by going out and getting our quarterback of the future, not in the draft, but in free agency and Malik Willis. And it looks like in a way they're running the Broncos game plan on how to dead cap a quarterback.

6:32Rich Eisen:you don't want anymore and still try and be aggressive to change things around albeit Denver didn't seemingly burn everything else down to the ground because as you know Miami in dead capping Tua and signing Malik Willis told Bradley Chubb also we're done here and now the Broncos and the Dolphins have made a trade and the Broncos have indeed added an outside player and it is Jalen Waddell. Wow. The star wide out of Miami for the last five years. It's hooked up with Tyreek Hill famously for many of those years and it is for a first round draft choice and a third round draft choice and a pick swap of fourth round picks this year that gives Denver a higher selection in the fourth round.

7:29Rich Eisen:They're going to take the Dolphins 11th overall pick of that fourth round. And the Dolphins then take the Broncos 30th overall pick of that round. So the Broncos improve their draft standing in the fourth round, but give up their first and third round selections, meaning talk about standing pat. The Dolphins, the Broncos first selection in this upcoming draft. Smoke them if you got them, Denver fans. Right now, the Broncos are not slated to select until the 62nd overall pick. The 30th pick of the night on night two Friday. And then they don't have one in the third round and then the next time they choose is going to be late in the first round of, pardon me, they're going to be choosing 11th overall on day three of the draft.

8:19Rich Eisen:They've got no first-night picks. They've got one second-night pick, but late in the third round. And then they've got a fourth-round selection towards the top. And that's the way they're going to supplement a team that they clearly are going to run it back with. And the Dolphins now have a wide receiver room that is definitely up for grabs. We'll talk about that in a second. But what Denver has done is looked at Bo Nix and said, OK, kid, come back from that ankle injury. You're in year three after having made the playoffs the first two years. This is essentially the last year we have before you're going to turn to us and say, pay me that money.

9:10Rich Eisen:OK, hey, that man. And we are going to go to battle with two wide receivers in the top 25 of receiving yards last season, with Cortland Sutton being 13th in the league in receiving yards and Waddle being 25th in the league in receiving yards. The only other teams with two players in the top 25 in that regard last year were Philadelphia with Smith and Brown, Detroit with Amon Ra and Williams, and Atlanta with London and Pitts. And that's it. And I don't remember the last time Denver had a receiving core that had that type of production in just two guys. and Sutton is your 6 '4 beast and Waddle is your 5 '10 speed burner and they re-signed one of the 17 guys that they kept is J.K.

10:09Rich Eisen:Dobbins coming back from a knee injury. R.J. Harvey in year two is clearly going to be utilized more by Sean Payton this year. And off they go into that orange crush yonder. In 2026, you're defending AFC West champion, defending one seed in the AFC playoffs, Denver Broncos, essentially running it back, but adding a massive piece that they figured they couldn't get with the 30th overall pick this year. And they're ready to do it with Bo Nix right now while they still have him on his rookie deal. And that is a calculated decision that right now, to me, I feel is pretty damn smart.

11:00Rich Eisen:And, you know, with your second round selection sitting there at 62nd overall, again, that's going to be their night one, their night two pick. with that 60-second overall selection, I don't know what they're going to do. I imagine the best offensive player that you can continue to add for Bo Nix because that defensive side of the ball appears to be pretty damn well handled. I kind of dig it. It's aggressive. It's just the way like Sean Payton operates. It's time. It's time to push the pedal to the metal while Bo Nix is still affordable in the way that he's affordable. As for the Dolphins, boy, are they burning this thing down to the studs.

11:48Rich Eisen:They've kept Devin Achan. For now. Well, I mean, no, you hold on to him. Yeah, I don't think. That's a kid you hold on to. Really? Unfortunately for him, I don't think he's. I thought Jalen Waddle was a kid you hold on to. No, I get it. But I think Achan stays. And Malik Willis is going to have to be evaluated with, one would think, a very green wide receiver room. I don't know who is out there off the top of my head at the wide receiver position that's a veteran that can be added. Juwan Jennings, Stephon Diggs, Debo Samuel. Those are kind of the three biggest free. That might be. I don't know how much money they've got for that sort of thing because right now you look at the Miami Dolphins receiver room.

12:34Rich Eisen:They just added Tutu Atwell. They've got Malik Washington, Jalen Tolbert, Tutu Atwell, Taj Washington, just to name four of them. But I think they're going to run it. That's what Jeff Halfley normally, one would think, a defensive-minded head coach is going to want. And they're just going to start from scratch and build it up and keep on from there. And like I said yesterday when I was talking about the Dolphins and the day before that and the day before that, I really think it's a smart move to go with Malik Willis. They know him. They trust him. And if you are a new general manager and head coach, this is the time you look at the roster and you do drastic things or seemingly drastic things and remake and reshape this franchise and this roster.

13:32Rich Eisen:And Dolphins fans have got to sit here and go back and forth between, man, what are we doing? and all right, nothing's worked for damn near 30 years, so we might as well trust the brain trust that they entrusted partially to Troy Aikman to identify. This is better than what the Dolphins have attempted over the last few years with people that I think Dolphins fans feel a little bit more comfortable making these maneuvers. You got to trust it. and what do they hope that we'll talk to Matt Miller in our number three draft expert where they hope Carnell Tate drops to 11th overall because if he does that thing that's that card will be handed in in two seconds yeah exactly right that card will be handed in in a hurry unless they want to move up you know they just got a new third rounder yeah they have 11 picks in this draft.

14:34Rich Eisen:So they have the ability to maybe move up a few spots in that first round if you want to put them together and get Carnell Tate. Or you just saw a bunch of wide receivers at the combine and you're like, we'll take one of them. We'll take somebody who might be the second or the third wide receiver off the board. 11th overall. Yeah, Mekhi 11th. I mean, there are some people out there that you could take away from the combine and say, will Woods last to that spot? If you're talking about all the Ohio State guys, Fernando Mendoza, Jeremiah Love, a couple offensive linemen go off the board, you can have some wide receivers pushed down to 11.

15:22Rich Eisen:Yeah, I think there's still a chance that Carnell Tate does fall into that slot. But, you know, you'd feel a little bit better about it if you trade up to eight, say, and grab him, you know ahead of Kansas City because that's been a you know rumor there as well well the last time the Dolphins had multiple first round draft choices was 2020 when they drafted Tua they drafted Austin Jackson and then the defensive back Noah Igbanogany who is now on his third team he just signed with the defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks Jackson is the only player remaining on the Dolphins. So that's the way we start the day with the Denver Broncos being extremely aggressive.

16:07Rich Eisen:They basically said, we like the roster that we have. We are keeping our guys and we are running it back. We're going to sit on our hands when everybody spends damn near half a trillion dollars in free agency, it feels. And they're going to sit on their hands and they're going to make sure that they keep the guys that they like and then they're going to, boom, trade for the guy that they couldn't get at the trade deadline last year, apparently, in Jalen Waddell, and add him to this wide receiver room in Bo Nix's last year of being a rookie contract affordable quarterback, and run it back and say this is the team that damn near won it last year.

16:45Rich Eisen:If Nix's ankle didn't snap, we would have had a shot at it. And then the Dolphins are like, we're starting from scratch. We got a new coach, a new general manager, a new way of looking at things, and we are blowing things out with the exception of A-Chan, it seems, on offense and build it up from there through the draft and see what we can do with our new quarterback.

17:12Rich Eisen:844-204-RICH, number to dial. What are your thoughts on the big NFL trade? We've got Cameron Young is going to be joining us on this program. And then Jay Billis will be here on the Rich Eisen Show as well. 844-204-RICH is the number to dial. Man, fresh off the Players' Championship, everybody. Cameron Young here on the program. Don't you dare move.

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20:25Rich Eisen:Okay. Yeah. All right. So no Yankees, no Mets, not really? Yeah, no Yankees fan for sure. New York Rangers fan, kind of your classic year three there. But, yeah, we've got little kids in the house. The TV doesn't go on much. So, unfortunately, I don't get to follow as much as I would like to. How old are your kids? One, three, and four. Oh, baby. Oh, my goodness gracious. That's quite a way to start the day. One, three, and four. unbelievable well and i do notice obviously the major league baseball logo on your collar is it true part of that is because your dad uh knows the commissioner of baseball rob manford camry yes yes mr manford was a member at sleepy hollow in new york where my father was a head pro for over 20 years so they've been friendly for a long time and uh he was really one of my first couple sponsors uh right out of the gates he asked if i would wear the logo and uh given that i had no status anywhere at all and uh really no no money to my name i said absolutely sir whatever you'd like to do and uh they've stuck around and it's been a great relationship for the past i mean i think seven years now wow that's pretty cool and is that uh let's put that shot back up one more time is that your four-year-old coming out at you yeah yeah that's my oldest henry what's this moment like for you it's pretty cool i mean it's it's one of those times that um life is very real I mean, and looking back at some of those pictures, I can't help but almost cry because I know, you know, for me, it's the biggest professional moment of my life.

21:55And his reaction to that, you know, his his face in some of those photos coming to see me is not not because of that. It's just him seeing me at the end of the day. And so it's pretty cool just knowing, you know, that they don't care one way or the other. They're just happy to see me like any other day. And, you know, that's the most important thing. How does that ground you? It was honestly really a pretty cool moment for me. And I think it took something like that to really almost take some weight off my shoulders. You know, we spend so much time trying to be good at golf and working at it that, you know, we forget, you know, what things truly are important sometimes.

22:33And it was a stark reminder that, you know, those little kids do not care one bit that I won. They don't care what it was. They were just happy to see me, you know, after a long day. and I think it really, really put it in a good perspective for me.

22:48Rich Eisen:Cameron Young here on the Rich Eisen Show. Speaking of family, my nephew, Jack Schuster, he's a good stick. Great stick, as a matter of fact. He definitely whips his uncle anytime we have the ability to play since we're on opposite coasts. He also has an Instagram handle about talking about golf quite a bit. But at any rate, I reached out to him and I said, what should I ask Cameron Young today, even though, you know, uncle's got it I just wanted to bring it not that's just screw it I just had my my nephew give me this question so this is pretty cool man uh what do you say to yourself walking up to tee shots like the ones on 17 and 18 last week to get yourself in the frame of mind on a course like TPC Sawgrass in a tournament like the Players Championship Cameron Young what do you do?

23:38Yeah, it's difficult in moments like those. I mean, like you've said, it's a really intimidating stretch. There's trouble everywhere. There's nowhere to bail out. So it's, you know, mostly for me, especially yesterday, I had done such a great job of sticking to, you know, my process and trying to focus on my execution and letting go of what happened. that 17 in particular was a continuation of that. I didn't have any really looming thoughts. I had a really clear objective. Matt hit his ball in a really good place for me to kind of aim just right of it. So I had a really good visual. And for me, it was just visualizing that shot and executing.

24:19And then 18, there's a bit more of a battle there. I mean, I had some trouble there on Saturday. And, you know, there's some intrusive thoughts of don't do that again. But, you know, I stood over it and it was just one of those moments to say, you know, I've got to hit the best one in my life right here. And thankfully was able to do it.

24:37Rich Eisen:Not to get too deep in the woods here, but how do you visualize? Do you literally see the shape of the ball? Is that what is that how you do it? Yeah, some. There's some amount of like imagining the feel and picturing a flight. But, yeah, I mean, for me, it starts with the numbers, you know, running through, you know, how much I think the wind's going to help, how far I think it's going to bounce, how far it needs to carry. Um, and so it's, once I get through all of that, then I go to, okay, this is the field that I need to create that. And this is then from that field, what it should look like.

25:11And, um, yeah, I mean, that one just, it came out perfect. It was as good of a number as I could have asked for. And, um, yeah, nice to, nice to feel one, you know, come off the club face just how I want to and look up and have it doing what I thought um the result matched the matched the execution there which was really nice man and so

25:29Rich Eisen:on your t shot on 18 i mean you knew you you tagged it right as soon as you did follow through right um and then you watch where it goes um who was the one who told you it was 375 yards who's that um i i didn't know exactly i i remember looking in my yardage book and noticing that we weren't that far from the 400 yard run out. My daddy and I had a good laugh about, you know, that that hole is not one that you ever think, you know, I'm going to have 100 yards to a back pin. I'm used to hitting, you know, at least a nine iron in there, if not maybe a seven iron. So it's not one that I had in the book as where I thought it would finish, but I did hit it really well.

26:11And there was, you know, a bunch of wind at our back. So with the course firmed up, it just had to be the right shape and

26:16Rich Eisen:it was going to get way down there did you think your yardage book was a misprint at some point like is this wrong like did i grab the wrong one or like did that happen because 375 is a stupid number it's a stupid number cameron yeah that was a big one that was a big one for sure um yeah like i said i mean just not not anywhere i would have imagined being but if uh if you'd asked me where i wanted to drop it i would have said up there somewhere i would have thought 375 but you know somewhere in the fairway where I could take a clean clean shot at the green was all I could ask for there Cameron Young here on the Rich Eisen show who'd you speak with after your round walk me through that yeah um you know I did kind of all my all my typical you know short interview for for tv and for some of the writers and um and really the first moment that I had And, you know, after that, I got to see my family, which was great.

27:13I got to see my wife and my three kids and some of my parents briefly. So just to get even, you know, three minutes with them where it was just kind of quiet in a room, you know, above scoring was a pretty special time. I mean, got to got to just, you know, give my boys a hug and and see my wife for a minute. And that's, you know, that's kind of the moment that I had that I had waited for just to take a breath and kind of try to take it in for a minute before going back into the ringer and out onto the green to do a whole bunch of other stuff. But, yeah, so I, you know, I got to see. So Justin Thomas, he waited around for me after I put it out on 18, which was super kind of him.