Hour 1: LeBron to 76ers Reactions, plus GMFB’s Jamie Erdahl In-Studio with Guest Host Seth Rollins

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22:40Chris Brockman:The Rich Eisen Show Podcast. We are back here on ESPN Radio, Sirius Channel XM. And we are with Good Morning Football hosts and the queen of Minnesota, Jamie Erdahl, who is telling us she's very upset that LeBron James didn't even consider the Minnesota Timberwolves. The nice thing to do would be to consider Minnesota. But instead, he goes to Philly. My mom's from Philly, though, so I think I guess I can hang. I got a lot of happy cousins in Philly. Okay, so you got roots all over the place. I do. It's those two places, Minnesota and Philly. All right. Which is like a good combo for me because Minnesotans are super nice.

23:15Yep. but then Philly women cannot be so nice sometimes. So I got a little, I got a mixed bag. It depends on like how I'm feeling that day. Okay. Okay. So was the LeBron to the wolves with that? Like, you're just like, ah, that would be really cool. Or did you think that was the best fit for him? Oh, I definitely, I'm not in the game of like making NBA best fits. Let me be clear. I just think it's fun when Minnesotans can be hopeful to feel something that resembles championship winning teams. Yeah. And so that would have been great. And I love Anthony Edwards. And I think it's been a fun team to watch.

23:51And then when Giannis left to go to Miami and like, I just said, something's got to shake out. I feel like Ant needs something. I'm acting like I watch a lot of NBA. I watch the playoffs. Touche. It's a long season. It's a long season. 82 games is a long, it's a long playoffs. It is. It's a lot. It's a lot. But we did get the news of all news today. So that was very cool. So how's this going for you? This? Yeah. I don't know, guys. how is this going for me? It's going for Seth. He's great then. He's killing it. I feel oddly proud of him. Yeah, for sure. I don't even want to say I'm your big sister, little sister.

24:23I'm like your twin sister in this. Oh, okay. We're peers. Yeah. And I'm like, I'm very proud of you right now. First of all, we are not peers. You are so much better. Although I got you today. At this gig. Did you get me today? Twice. Oh. Okay, so ready? Tell them. Tell them about it. Unlike the Rich Eisen show, we do have some prompter reading that we have to do. And we had somebody on and I asked my question and then I just blew through the prompter and asked Seth's question. So then we were chuckling about that. And I apologize, Seth. So sorry that that happened. And then the next hour it happened to him again.

25:01Our guy, Jalil Adai, asked Seth's question for him. And I reached over and grabbed Seth's arm. Like, oh my gosh, it happened to you again. Honestly, what are you even doing here at this point? Like you don't even have to work. And you, and I like to call him, you let out a church giggle. I lost it. And we couldn't look at each other for the next seven minutes because the giggles were happening. It was bad. It was the first time on the show where I just did the old like, like audible in the mic.

25:24Chris Brockman:I was very embarrassed. I think, Jamie, too, the most important thing is that Seth is here not under a guise or a ruse. He's not lying to us this time. That kind of made it a lot more better and free and clear. Has he lied to you guys directly? What? Oh, my goodness. Oh, boy. What? Are you kidding me? The last lying that I witnessed was with KB at the draft. This was pre-day. Yeah, we can rewind basically an entire calendar year where Seth comes in here, knee brace, crutches. Oh, that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that one. Jamie, I was so convinced, me being probably the biggest wrestling fan here, there's a part of me that's always like, well, maybe.

26:10But I took him at his word. I asked about his mental health. People online were really complimentary of the fact that I wanted to know how he felt inside, which got me some followers, so thank you. Did you check on TJ's mental health after you did this to him? I checked on his mental health briefly last season after the Chicago Bears absolutely destroyed his Dallas Cowboys. That's not what she meant, bro. And by checked on his mental health, I mean I texted him later to make fun of him for how bad that beating went. During the game. Yeah, well, because he was so confident that Dallas was going to dominate Chicago that he went and hung out with his buddy Ashton Kutcher, fellow Bears fan, and his child, and he watched the game with them while texting me.

26:52I put this on the group chat, Jamie, because I thought it was going to go my way. He put this in a group chat thinking, oh, this is my day. And it went south. It went south so bad. Ashton's child was just admonishing him in video form. Wow. It was fantastic. Ashton's an Iowa guy, though, right?

27:06Chris Brockman:He is an Iowa guy. Yeah. It got so bad, Jamie, that next time Seth came on, we renamed the show The Liar. Liar, pants on fire. Nice. Did you also put him through like an MRI before he came on to make sure everything was like. Oh, we had the lie detector test. We had it all going full on. Yeah, full steam. I love that graphic. We were on the up and up. You know, I think I've lied so much that I would pass a lie detector test. I think because I wouldn't even know what was true and what was a lie anymore. I bet. That was my favorite. like you're like oh the last time he lied was the kyle brandt incident at the draft and it's like the time before that the time before that i feel like we're in like some very abusive emotionally abusive relationship also james like are we friends are we having a good time i don't even know to give him credit to jamie yesterday and today i told him i don't think he really looked at it like this he hosted in his hosting five hours of live television that in a day like that It doesn't happen.

28:02People aren't on air live that many hours a day. I don't know. I don't know why anybody wants to hear me talk for five straight hours. That's bonkers. That's actually bonkers. You have a high Q rating, Seth Rollins. Oh, okay. I don't know what that means. You're likable. I like that. Oh, okay. You're approachable. You're a man of the people. All right. All right. All right. All right. Nice. You have a Q rating slightly lower than Del Tufo's, but his is as high as it gets. I mean, with a name like Del Tufo. Everybody loves Mike and everybody. We've got a huge, huge Q rating. All right. So you and I host a show.

28:38Well, you host it. I just dabble on it occasionally. Good morning, football. Yeah. So let's talk some football. Okay. Training camps are happening. It's about time. We got two in right now. Right? We got the - Cardinals and the Panthers. Cardinals and the Panthers. Because you and I - Don't. Are you going to tell the people? I'm going to - It was yesterday, actually, on the show. We both, at the same time, she said it out loud first. She said, oh, wait a minute. They do the Hall of Fame game with teams who are inducting players into the Hall of Fame. Was that a breaking news to you? And I said, oh, it was breaking news to her.

29:15And then as she said it out loud, I was like, huh. Seth is like, thank God you said it. Light bulb. And then it made me go back and track every single, I would say the last five year Hall of Fame games. I'm not trying to insult the Hall of Fame game. It's just not one that I like really click into my skis for, you know, so we pay attention. We love the door knock features and whoever's going in. I just never and maybe it's because the Hall of Famers who have gone in recently, maybe they're like a multi-team guy or something like that. And so it doesn't necessarily track. But this Panthers Cardinals one felt quite random.

29:49Ah, yeah, quite random until Cam Wolf. I asked him, what's what Charlotte feel like? You know, is there a bunch of Luke Kuechly stuff going on? And he's like, well, yeah, there's going to be a lot of festivities in Canton. And I was like, right. Lightful.

30:02Chris Brockman:Right. Yes, Canton. Oh, word. People who are fans of the Panthers and the Cardinals and Larry Fitzgerald, another Minnesotan, are going to be there to celebrate their guys and watch the team play. Because I definitely knew that. Is Larry Fitz from Minnesota? Minnesota man. I did not know that. That explains so much. He's so nice. Because he's so nice. He's so nice. So, Seth, did you not realize that Larry grew up as a ball boy for the Vikings? and he learned the position from Chris Carter. Yeah. His dad was a, who recently passed, was a journalist, sports writer, Minnesota. Larry grew up, his teen years, he was a ball boy.

30:36So he learned from Chris Carter and Randy Moss the position of wide receiver. Went to a really good, like a really, really great high school, like big public high school in Minnesota. Wow. I did not know that. Then he went to a prep year in I believe Pennsylvania in Western K.A., like a Pittsburgh area, which then he went to Pitt. That's why he, like a 13th year of high school. It all makes sense. Will you actually check his high school for me? Yeah. I think it's either White Setup or Creighton Durham Hall. I think the military academy might be the one in Western PA. Jamie, very, very well first on that.

31:09Yeah. Anyways, that was news to us. But the Panthers and the Cardinals are indeed the teams that are in training. Good job, Jamie.

31:14Chris Brockman:That would forge military academy. Military, yeah. But that's the one in PA. Where did he go before he went there? Academy of the Holy Angels. Oh, there it is. In Richfield, Minnesota. That's also a military academy in Minnesota. Wow. All right. Okay. So Minnesota girl, Minnesota Vikings, the big talk quarterbacks. Kyler Murray, are you team Kyler or team JJ? I'm team Justin Jefferson. Okay. You've heard me talk about before. I honestly have just, this has stuck in my head since the off season, which is like that man is such a professional. Justin Jefferson has shown up for whatever has happened.

31:52And I don't think it's done onto them. I think they've just gotten into some pickles effectively between contracts with Darnold on the one-year deal, the draft pick with JJ. They just, they, they, they back themselves into this parking spot, essentially. But like, I think you're at the end of the rope with Justin, essentially. Like if he were to throw a fit, which I know he wouldn't because he is a professional, like I would be like, yeah, that, that tracks. Like you, I would be infuriated if I was as talented as him. And as much of just like, you are the brand, you are the Vikings. this is a team with like a beautifully historic list of names at the wide receiver position and all he's trying to do is continue that yes just give him a guy i don't care who the guy is i really don't just find the one guy we yeah i thought we had the guy then he went and did what he did so track back two years ago to the sam darnold 14 and three season they lose in the playoffs he goes to seattle are you like as a vikings fan are you like uh no we should have kept him or are you like uh it's it's still this old sam darnold like that's fine let him go and let's let's move on no i think we should have kept him i'm not i'm not gonna brag like i knew that the vikings in terms of cap space and all that stuff i'm not gonna say like i knew they could have afforded the i think it was three year 100 million dollar deal that he got but i just don't think you saw enough from what you had to really just say like because they have such a team like their defense is unbelievable you have offensive weapons all over the place and the fact that that is your one missing thing and you had the guy in the building and I think Sam up until being cast aside I think he liked being in Minnesota I think guys like playing for Kevin O 'Connell again you have one of the best if not the best wide receiver in the league right now at your disposal.

33:43You don't think he could have stayed, even if it was not for the same, but if you had just shown him like some love, but then again, now they've moved on from the GM that was there. Then I don't know who, and I'm not like one to play the blame game. I just like, I want to, I just want to figure it out because it's like, I know it's a big piece, but you're one piece away. Everyone's getting better. That's, oh yeah. That division is legit. Because the bears were, we could have just kind of dealt with them, but now they're better. they're better yep Packers are the Packers the Packers is Lions still have Dan Campbell and Goff and Amon Ra and Jameer Gates and then that's just that division the NFC as a whole is a nightmare we can't stop talking about the NFC on GMFB do you have a favorite in the NFC I mean the Rams I am not I really like to play devil's advocate I just hate going chalk I don't like being Captain Obvious I feel like I don't want to pick the Rams not because I don't like them I respect the hell out of what they're doing and I think they're wildly talented.

34:38I just, I don't want to know this early. That's what it is. I don't want it to be so obvious. Because then I get annoyed of it. I really I want it to be fun and a surprise. Like what the Seahawks did last season that they were like the come running team. And that was fun to watch because it was a slow burn, if you will. I don't need it to be just like that's it. The Rams were done. Why even play? So are there any slow burners in the NFC this season? Are the Vikings a slow burner? Do we have any, is there anybody in the South that's going to win a playoff game? Sure, they might win it, but the slow burn team Do you feel like there's any maybes?

35:13I kind of like what you said on the show earlier today that I think we haven't paid enough mind to the Lions again. Lions are good. I'm full circle. I think I honestly think Pacheco is going to be helpful to them. I think Aiden Hutchinson, their secondary has got to get right, obviously, but there's just so many to pick from. would it be weird if the Seahawks were just the slow burn team again I mean they are under the radar they are under the radar we discussed it this week well because the Niners are there and they brought in Mike Evans and everybody thinks oh they'll be healthy this year and there's no whatever electrical system that's gonna hurt I don't know what's going on there whatever superstition they've got so there and then obviously the Rams made all the big moves and Aaron Donald might be coming back so I mean they're just they're kind of like just left off the radar and everybody's like I can't repeat in the NFL anymore it's too difficult so it's like you just forget about they could slow burn again yeah this is a really specific example but it pertains to today and the LeBron James news which is when I at the very beginning of my career I worked in Boston from 2012 to 14 which is very much part of like the New England heyday oh yeah championships titles titles titles and there were moments where it felt like Like the teams amongst each other were just trying to one up each other.

36:31Like the Bruins like won the Stanley Cup in 11, I think it was. And then Celtics were like, no, we got 12. You know, the Red Sox were like, okay, cool. We got 13. And then the Patriots were just winning a lot. Sneaky? Like could that happen in Philly? Brockman is so, look at him. You're taking him back. He was so happy. You saw Saquon already tweeted at LeBron. Like when are they going to hit the sticks? Oh, no. Are they going to golf at Marion, those two?

36:56Chris Brockman:Jamie, I'm a New Englander. So no, my answer is no. Those were fun times, though. They're still fun times. We were in the Super Bowl last year. Everyone forgets that. True. Were you really there? Did you really show up? The team. Whoa. I don't want to hear it from you. No Super Bowl appearances in 20 years. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Talk about slow burn. That's a real slow burn, man. That's the slowest of burns. No, but did you? Okay, so as a New England fan, that was a real, I think that was a real era in Boston when those teams were, I mean, it was just an absolute snowball effect. It was incredible.

37:29Chris Brockman:I mean, 07 to 08, you got the Celtics with KG and Pierce and Ray Allen. That was undefeated, too, at the same time. And the Red Sox won the World Series in 07. And then it was, yeah, it was a wild time. It's been a wild run for New England sports fans in the last 20 years. And it did feel like they were just trying to top each other. And it was like the running debate was who's the biggest star in the town. and you had a player from each of the big four teams. And you don't really see those types of runs happen for a city. Yeah, so could it happen in Philly? Could the Eagles be the slow burn? Eagles?

38:05Because it can't, Jamie. It'll happen for the Sixers, but not for the Eagles. But if the Sixers start to turn it on and they're taking the city by storm, the Eagles might take that personally and say, well, hold on, we just want to play in an NFC title game. What are the Phillies doing? Phillies are not great.

38:20Chris Brockman:No, Phillies were not great. They've been awesome since they fired their manager. Don't let it take over. They have big stars, obviously, with Bryce Harper and Schwarber and Chris Sanchez. Yeah, they have big stars. Billy's a big star of Sports Town right now. That's true. Everybody has a new hotbed. That's crazy. All right. Okay. Well, fantastic. We are going to take a short break here. We have more with Jamie Erdahl when we get back. I need to ask you about Kyle Brandt. I need some Kyle Brandt stories for the show. So we're going to come back more with Jamie after this on the Rich Eisen Show.

38:49Let me call Kyle and ask him.

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39:58Chris Brockman:The Rich Eisen Show, the podcast. So what are we talking about? We are talking about me sailing a boat to Minneapolis for SummerSlam and me winning back my World Heavyweight Championship from that Putz Roman race. Look at that. So that's what we're talking about imminently. But what I've been wondering since we went to break, and now that we're back here on Disney Plus ESPN app and ESPN Radio, Sirius XM channel 80. I've been wondering, you've been working with Kyle Brandt for how long now? We will embark on our fifth season together. Unbelievable. This year. Kyle Brandt is a maniac. Yes, he is.

40:38In the best possible way, he's a lunatic and I love him. We love him. Do you have any great Kyle Brandt stories that you can share with us? Anything that jumps to mind? Oh, gosh. Isms about Kyle? Anything we can muse on? You know, this will be a good television tease, too. We have a Jeopardy episode coming out at the end of next week. Is it like a... It was ESPN Jeopardy. Okay, sports-themed? Sports-themed ESPN Jeopardy. Kyle, Manti, and I competed against each other. Wow. The episode is going to drop on all these platforms that run right now. I'm not going to rattle them off. It comes out next Friday.

41:24Kyle and I and Manti were, you know, group chat. You know, like, let's make sure we make good television. Let's represent GMFB. But, like, I fully expected to lose to him. Okay. Because he's brilliant. And we're standing there. And, you know, the thing about Kyle is, like, he approaches creating television like from when he when his when his eyes open that morning like it's that is his whole goal you and i like i think we go about our lives we're married we have children like we and then we we do our jobs yes kyle that's not how kyle operates so i i get to jeopardy and we're standing up there and we're at the podium and i'm just like looking around this is this is cool okay and i write my name on the board that shows the whole time sure kyle looks over at me and he's like hey what's up he goes you happy with your name and i'm like i thought i was like did i just do and so i had written jamie with no and i was like am i supposed to put a cross on my j what's the problem like what are you why are you and he's like yeah i'm fine with my name why what's going on with your name and he goes i thought about how i was going to write my name on jeopardy my whole life okay and so then i rewrote my name because like the pressure of like is it right like this is gonna go down in his mind like that's a life moment yeah for me it was a friday yeah and it was a friday and i don't in in may and then he and now it's gonna come out next weekend and he wiped the floor with us i mean i'm sure i'm ruining the episode but like he was so good and um but he also just made brilliant television at the same time and like that rattled me the entire experience rattled me i'll be honest like jeopardy is very stressful but he the him him proclaiming that he is i was like am i doing this entire thing wrong like did i know i should have thought about how to write my name by the way i'm doing that right now i'm

43:17Chris Brockman:like thinking about how would you have done it yeah so now when everybody watches our episode you should pay attention and compliment kyle how to grow his name but that's how in the wheeze he is were you were you expecting when you went into this were you at least hoping okay you know what Manti, I know it stands no chance. Respect. Respect my yourself. He would also say that. He would say that. Yeah. Are you like, I can hold my own here? Or are you like, I hope Kyle takes it easy on me? Kyle is like a wealth of pop culture and sports knowledge. He can remember third down and four plays from a game that happened in 2009 in week 13.

43:56Yeah. That's where his brain is. It's also like the speed in which he can. respond so that's actually this will be a true tease i we were working through the last board and i got the second to last question correct and so the final number was triple jeopardy and i'm not going to pretend like i know the math well enough to think that for some way way if i had gotten the number right i could have been close to him but the point is like i had control but the fact that in in like a 10 seconds and it felt like a half a second i got a question right which i was proud of then the triple jeopardy comes up you're just staring at the camera and joe buck is reading you the question and i and i'm back at like but i got the question right can we celebrate that but you gotta go and like and i fully fell on my face i did the answer to the question that i got wrong for my final triple jeopardy will live in my head rent free for and i will actually like hold anger towards this athlete for the rest of my life oh no so watch the episode it drops on july 31st i'm very excited so that but like it all from start to finish he was just buttoned up oh yeah it's like this is you you're so intense and i respect it so much but it can it's like a wave over you like you can get bowled over by it sometimes yeah he so we mentioned we talked previously in the last segment about you know when was the last time seth lied to you yeah you mentioned uh at the draft kyle and i's a little ruse little dust up right so um that was kyle's idea brainchild from the beginning before i even got to pittsburgh he's like yo we got to do something for the draft and in my head i'm like yeah dude it's my first draft like i'm just trying like i'm just trying to learn about all these kids and like yeah right have good conversations well you know admittedly i don't really follow college football as much so when it's draft time I start to like learn up on them and I want to give them their day in the sun and talk about them all and Kyle's just like no we gotta make great TV we gotta figure out how to do something to stand out what if we had a fight what if we got into it how would that work what would that look like and then he leaned on me to like you know bring in the pro wrestling of it all but he was so excited to just pitch this fight and he didn't want to tell anybody he's like no we can't tell anybody it's gotta be like nobody can know and like you gotta walk off and like I don't tell anybody and I was very concerned I was very concerned at least smarten up because Jamie and Manti were in LA and I'm like can you at least smarten them up so that at least Jamie please like somebody tell somebody he's like I'll tell the right people when I need to yeah a complete a complete lunatic absolute lunatic but then like he it they are brilliant ideas this man has brilliant ideas and so then you feel at least this is how I feel like honored when he like taps you on the stick of like, you shall play it.

46:46You shall be in on this with me. Yes. So for example, another one that comes to mind is like, he loves metal, you know, and like he always plays Pantera before he does angry runs in the studio. And so let's just say, uh, I'm not well versed in metal. The Rich Eisen Show podcast. Stitch fix. Stop shopping. Get styled. Not today, sweatpants. Somebody's wearing jeans that fit. Whoa! No photos, please. I'm just a regular dad who happens to have a stylist. I really look my best when someone else makes the decisions. Hey, we can all see you two-way mirrors. Just share your size, style, and budget, and your stylist sends personalized looks right to your door.

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