Hour 2: Maxx Crosby Ripple Effect, CBS Sports’ Ian Eagle, plus Rory’s Masters Champions Dinner Menu

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1:03Rich Eisen:World baseball classic. This is the Rich Eisen Show. Swing and a miss. Venezuela wins the WBC. They can't believe it. Earlier on the show. NFL Network Analyst Daniel Jeremiah. Coming up. CBS Sports Broadcaster Ian Eagle. ESPN Women's Basketball Analyst Andrea Carter. And now it's Rich Eisen. Hour number two of the Rich Eisen Show is on the air. We're going to have a fun next two hours. Not like last hour wasn't. But over the next couple hours, Ian Eagle's going to join us in about 20 minutes time. Always a blast chatting with Ian. I feel like we're kindred spirits. We grew up in the New York area, right around the same age.

1:52Rich Eisen:Love talking sports. Love, you know, talking about things, a little bit of a sense of humor. We both rip off Marv Albert every day. I think he would admit it. But at any rate, he's going to join us. And then Andrea Carter talking about Women's March Madness. She also will tell us who she's got winning in the men's bracket as well. So that's all coming up. I also have a power rankings coming up in our number three. based on the news that the NBA is considering expansion to Seattle and Las Vegas. And we all know if that happens, the name of the Seattle franchise. It's clearly going to be Supersonics.

2:42Rich Eisen:But what about the Las Vegas franchise? I power rank my top 10 favorite Las Vegas potential NBA franchise names. Interesting. This is going to be good. It's going to be later on. I wouldn't miss that if I were you. It'll be fun. I guarantee it will be fun. I guarantee freshness and fun. I guarantee we'll be here for it. Hopefully. Thank you for guaranteeing that. I'm just saying. Good. Candles lit. It would be a shame if you weren't sitting there. Not a real candle. Was that the one he had on the... Also, to come, maybe we'll do this at the end of this hour, After Ian Eagle, Rory McIlroy's Masters Championship dinner menu has been set.

3:27Rich Eisen:I haven't seen it. You have, though, right, Chris? It is. Oh, my goodness. All right. So you'll tell me what it is later on, and I will react. Absolutely. I will react. Maybe we create our own menus. We could do that. Oh, that would be fun. Listen, we could do whatever we'd like. Your name is on the cup. Thank you, sir. That is true. Thank you very much. I just know that if Chris had a dinner, we'd have to bid on the dinner. We would have to get, since that's what he does for his birthday, which is as close to him winning the Masters as it could possibly go. It's not a bid. It's a draft. A draft.

4:00We do this every year.

4:02Rich Eisen:I know that. But this being you do it for your birthday, and then I complain about it, which is why I never get invited. You've stopped getting invites. I did. I got locked out. And I never wanted to go, so that's okay. That part worked out. It was fun. I went. That's coming up later on this hour. Look what you have to look forward to. Yeah, we got a lot to look forward to. Let's do it. So the Max Crosby trade that went kaput. Man, kaput. Listen, we're going to be, we're going to be, and everyone's like, really? We're going to talk about that again? The answer is yes. We're going to be talking about this for a long time to come.

4:34Rich Eisen:Again, when the Ravens are on the clock 14th overall in the NFL draft on that Thursday night, you bet I'm going to be bringing up the fact that the Raiders could have been picking here. Instead, it's the Ravens because of what happened. And the question is, is this going to be another pass rusher or not? The Daniel Jeremiah mock draft that just came out that we talked about with DJ in our number one has the Ravens. He's got the Ravens taking Jordan Tyson, the wide receiver out of Arizona State. So there's that pick right there that he thinks that will be happening. Now, he also did admit that he did this before the trade.

5:14Rich Eisen:the Miami Dolphins trading away their top wide receiver Jalen Waddell and maybe the wide receiver draft that he thought would be the case for a mock draft 3.0 needs to have a 4.0 look at it but at any rate it's going to be talked about then and then whatever happens with Max Crosby if he returns his return to Vegas stays the way it is like a before then anytime he gets a sack It'll be like, well, they would have missed that. What if he does actually help lead the Raiders into the next championship run? It'll be like, well, they almost didn't have that. I mean, it's going to be nonstop. Or if he does go somewhere else again anyway.

6:01Rich Eisen:So this is going to be reverberating for a long time. And then next year at this time, right around the free agency period, we're going to be looking at anybody actually going to be doing business with Baltimore anybody want to do business with Baltimore in that window where anything can happen between you handshake agreeing agreeing and then everything becoming official in the new league year we we're going to do that again anybody going to do business with Baltimore again see as I said everyone's going to do business with Baltimore outside of that period so next year next march we'll be talking about this regardless of what max crosby does this year and for whom so yeah we're going to keep talking about it but the reason why we're talking about it today is because we finally heard from max crosby on his podcast slash show um his end of things previously on the max crosby saga uh we heard from diana russini on this program from The Athletic.

7:09Rich Eisen:She said that the Ravens were already calling, were in contact with Trey Hendrickson's side while Crosby was in the building. While Max Crosby was in the building, the temperature of the feet got, so it was sub-zero that they started calling Hendrickson. Now, Eric DaCosta and the Ravens have said And that was part, the reason why Hendrickson was even, a lot of communication was open is because they were thinking about getting them both, Crosby and Hendrickson, which is one of the more difficult to believe portions of this saga. Okay. But be that as it may, Max Crosby said on his show that he, for the first several hours of his visit to Baltimore, and in their facility where he was flown into D.C.

8:11Rich Eisen:and drove up to Baltimore. Interesting. I don't know if there were no FBOs open and the BWI. Okay. But at any rate, he said that it took several hours before he even face-to-faced with the new head coach, Jesse Minter, and his, for a hot minute, general manager, Eric DaCosta. and then this is the way he said it was revealed to him that this thing was not happening. I go into the room, they sit me down on the couch and he's like, man, I don't know how to say this, but one of our doctors has concerns with the results and whatever, with your knee. Some of them are concerned about the future and da-da-da-da-da.

8:57And we really want you and this is what it is, but we're just going to have to get more and more opinions. So I'm like, all right. So I'm sitting there waiting for a call. I can't even sit still, bro. I'm like, what the f***? Call CJ back. He hits me. He's like, yo, they're backing out. And it's crazy because their guy like called me. One of the Ravens guys called me and was like, yo, we're trying to figure this out. You know, we're going to get this done. Don't worry. Like five minutes later, CJ calls me. He's like, they're backing out. I'm like, holy f***. So I'm like frozen. I'm like, what the f***?

9:28I'm f***ing livid, confused, the whole nine all in one. Wow.

9:35Rich Eisen:not surprised that that sound bite played here sounds like a truck backing up because that's the way we were all sitting there reading the news and an alert on our phone or me being told by stephanie mcmahon's outstanding staff of her podcast that i recorded with her on that day as soon as we were done right right they told me you'll never guess what happened i might have cursed actually and i bring it up just not to say that i'm going to be on Stephanie McMahon's podcast, but to make TJ a little bit jealous. It worked. I mean, he didn't even tell me he was going. No, that was revealed after the fact.

10:08Rich Eisen:I understand. Yeah. Same thing, apparently, to Max Crosby after meeting with the general manager. Yeah. So they didn't even tell him face-to-face it's off. The CJ is referring to is his agent, CJ Leboy, who, I guess, got the call from the Ravens. So they told him something's up. Yep. Somebody was telling him something's up, but we're working on rectifying it. And then the rectifying was you're going back to Vegas.

10:36Rich Eisen:It's a cold business, man. It's cold. Again, everything the Ravens did was in their right to do it. And I imagine there's no, um, would you say there is no right way or easy way or, or non awkward way to do what they did to unwind it.

11:01Rich Eisen:what about his future now once again he's talking about being a raider i'm not letting nobody knock my shine and not make me feel weird at anything i'm like bro it happens for a reason i know exactly who i am i'm healthy i'm crushing my rehab i'm doing what i'm doing i wasn't supposed to be in baltimore and that's it you know what i mean i'm meant to be a raider it's through my damn core and that's it. Man, it's too bad. I would have loved to have seen him in Baltimore. Him coming out of the smoke like Ray Lewis, the place would have gone nuts. He's perfect for him. Yeah, but he's perfect for...

11:37Rich Eisen:For the Raiders. If he's not a Raider, because something happened, man, where he just could not stay. Right? Whatever happened in the final two weeks of the season and what's been happening with him having to deal with the churn of the coaches and everything else. He could not grasp staying there any longer to the point where the Raiders took calls or potentially made them. We don't know. But something happened that caused him to say, I just can't stay here anymore. I'd love to stay. I want to stay. I just can't. And then this happened. And I guess the drama or, if you will, trauma of what happened supersedes the emotions that he was feeling between all the coaching changes to the benching.

12:43so they could tank and him having to deal with being told by his you know coach and general

12:54Rich Eisen:manager that we feel we're better off without you suiting up with your teammates and he could not in any way shape or form take that other than an insult to that you don't get me you don't see me you don't understand me i'm i'm not gonna make a big public stink of it but take some phone calls but this now maybe supersedes it unless it doesn't and we'll see what happens over the next five weeks if they can try and put some humpty dumpty back together again to get as close to two ones as you possibly can get

13:34what percentage would you put that he's moved before the draft start i have no i

13:42Rich Eisen:if i'm sitting here going oh i i think it's 70 80 90 whatever it's a total dart throw yeah i don't know you don't know i don't know no obviously because because it could be like listen i still don't want to be here but i'm going to talk about being a raider for life right and you can sit here and start taking calls again and say, it's two ones. Like, that's what it was before. You know, you can see what Baltimore had a problem with. And they could also tell, you know, Dallas or Chicago or whomever that is still in on him that might have the cap space to get him because they made some moves in free agency as well that that might prevent his acquisition because they've made moves just like the Raiders made moves that might have caused Baltimore's foot temperature to get colder because they lost their center and their tight end and their punter and their fullback.

14:41Rich Eisen:And they're probably sitting there going, we could use some draft capital. Certainly for a guy that our doctors are saying in 2028, 2029 might not be physically viable. let's go and get trey hendrickson and put a massive chip on max crosby's shoulder yeah the last time we talked to tom he he made it seem like it's not a foregone conclusion that he's going to start week one with the raiders so right it feels like a trade is still kind of out there again unless the hard feelings of what happened um supersedes the hard feelings of what had previously happened but if you're but if you're max and you're and you're okay maybe look you fought for ap to be the coach it didn't work out one year with pete obviously the way the season ended you know caused you to kind of work yourself into a tizzy to want to be traded but right then free agency happens and you have the the trade snafu you're back in the building oh you know the raiders made some nice additions we're getting mendoza the offense might be on the up and up uh go into bomb is here maybe i want to stick around so the departure of all the people in baltimore that might have caused them to get cold feet including a center that's now on your raiders teammate now that that also in that interim between being a raven then being a raider every all the other moves have caused crosby to go i kind of do like what's going on here right i can stay here i can forget about the harder feelings that i thought were really harder than the harder feelings i have now i have a chip on my shoulder let's go i don't want to talk about this garbage anymore i'm a football player i'm here in vegas it's clearly been meant to be the football gods have put their thumb on the scale i am here let's go this raider team now as it's constructed in mid-March with Mendoza coming, is not the Raider team that I was fighting to play the last two weeks in January, but got deactivated.

16:49Rich Eisen:This is all real and possible. But again, I'm a cynic. After 23 years of this business... Miles Garrett. Well, I mean, yeah, obviously Miles Garrett saying I'm gone and Cleveland, kind enough to come on our show and reiterate that. much to the dismay of the yogurt people that brought him to our set they were not happy and and so and then turning around and taking the money to stay in Cleveland does turn me into more of a cynic so could it be he still has those feelings about the Raiders that he had that brought about the trade to Baltimore and the way to put it all back together is to say i'm here let's move on the raiders are like we're happy he's here we don't need to do anything anymore and that's the way that the trade value can get pushed up and everyone gets happy again where the raiders get their draft value and max crosby gets his new address that could be happening as well i don't know which is which i I do, if my heart of hearts, I believe it's the former that he's like, I'm screw it.

18:05Rich Eisen:I'm sick and tired of this talk and conversation, whatever. I'm effing killing my rehab. I'm a Raider. I'm here. Let's see what's up. And if they go 5-12 or 4-13 and it's a difficult stretch because it's an up and down situation with a rookie quarterback and the way things normally go when that happens with a new coach and a new kid, then maybe they revisit this thing next year. I don't know. But we will see what happens. But you just heard that.

18:41Rich Eisen:Didn't you think that they would have been the ones to bring him in and DaCosta would sit him down and go, yeah, we are out. There is the door. But instead it sounds like they were like, we're looking at it. And then he gets a call from the agent saying, yeah, they're out. wouldn't have thought it would be the agent i would have thought it would have been them yeah that would piss me off if i'm max he's got a chip on his shoulder and you ask me in overreaction monday pod where you can get your pods right now as well as our youtube channel you're like who's what's more likely more sacks for max or more sacks for trey hendrickson and i said max he's got a chip man yeah yeah 844-204-rich number to dial ian eagle when we You return right here on the program.

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21:43Rich Eisen:Back on the Rich Eisen Show, everybody. One big happy family on Disney Plus, ESPN. The app, ESPN Radio and Sirius XM Channel 80. This man is the voice of March Madness. I'll say it. It's his third year calling everything from the first game to the last. But he's joining us for the first time ever as a spokesman for Great Clips and its March Madness campaign. Ladies and gentlemen, Ian Eagle back on the show. How you doing, Ian? Good to see you. Rich, great to talk to you. I know how much your hair and my hair mean to each of us. So to me, it's a perfect, perfect marriage today. You are not going to be allowed to call a Tennessee Titan game this year because only bald men may apply.

22:27Rich Eisen:I don't know if you've noticed what Robert Sala is building now. Is that official? I did not see that. Robert Sala will not be, if you just take a look at everybody you hired, Gus Bradley and Gable. Oh, like, let's just put it this way. Robert Sala will not be doing a tour for Great Clips like you're on right now. I am not offended by any stretch, but there are a lot of Titans fans that could use Great Clips. So let's remember that. Look at you. Look at you. How are you doing, man? Good to see you. I'm good. It's great to see you. You're not traveled out this time of year. It's all good. You're wall-to-wall doing everything right now, man.

23:01Yeah. No, it's been fun. The Big Ten tournament, as you know, maybe didn't quite finish the way that you would have hoped. That's correct. Quite. Can confirm. Can confirm. Yes. I'm going to say on the flip side of that, I'm going to take the glasses half full approach with you, Rich. Okay. That was a good test. That was a good exercise for the Michigan Wolverines to go through. And since the case and injury, they have been walking a bit of a tightrope. So the hope is that the Wolverines got that out of their system. And now this is a more extended run for Dusty May and company.

23:37Rich Eisen:Yeah, I mean, Kaysen's a kid that could get to the rim quite a bit. And I'm noticing a lot of perimeter defense and daring anybody, you know, not named Cadeau to try and get to the rim. And Michigan's been having problems doing it, you know, been having problems doing it. But Yaxle made that game winner that you so expertly called against Wisconsin. And I don't know. Maybe I can hang my hat on that one. I think there might be some more triple Yaxles in the big dance. So we have that to look forward to throughout this month. They're a really fun team. They're a fun team to call just by their style and by their different personalities.

24:19Mara brings something a little unique. You mentioned Cadeau, obviously Lindeborg. He's just a fun name to say, Axel Lindeborg. It is correct. You can have a lot of fun with the syllables in that name. And then McKinney's got a real presence about him, the way he carries himself. He just looks like an NBA player on the floor, the way he glides. I think they're going to need some serious production out of him. To me, he really could be the X factor in this team being a Final Four team and a potential national champion.