Hour 2: TNF Preview, JJ McCarthy’s Vikings Return, plus Oregon HC Dan Lanning

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1:41Rich Eisen:Earlier on the show, NFL Network analyst Daniel Jeremiah. Coming up, Oregon head coach Dan Lanning. Actor Gabriel Luna. And now, it's Rich Eisen. well welcome to hour number two of the rich eisen show on the air disney plus espn app espn radio presented by progressive insurance um listen if you missed hour number one uh daniel jeremiah was awesome um and you should definitely check it out either on our podcast or going to our youtube channel youtube.com slash rich eisen show hitting the subscription button as well as um or the follow button or or there's our podcast as i mentioned or you go to the disney plus page and and you you watch us back whenever you want once the show is completely over uh or you know very rare do i say this uh if you're if you root for an nfl team in need for a quarterback in next year's draft maybe you skip the daniel jeremiah segment because you're just going to go deeper into depression into your darkness retreat right um so but anyway he just he just said he doesn't know who the first overall pick of the draft is and it's not you know as Mookie Betts said last night it's not it's not because of a lack of effort good one you know what I mean um 844-204 rich number to dial big game tonight I've been saying for a couple weeks now don't count the Ravens out and then Snoop Huntley bless him man in a must-have yo at one and five it's a minute At 1-5, he plays the game of 2025 for him and for the Ravens.

3:26Rich Eisen:I mean, listen, the Ravens started off well and then blew it in the fourth quarter in Buffalo, and it has been just sideways since then. Injury-wise, execution-wise, Snoop Huntley and the team on defense started getting healthier, and that was a massive win for the Baltimore Ravens last week against the Chicago Bears. that had only won oh four in a row so now here comes lamar back and tonight they're in miami and what's at stake the only thing i can just try and quantify it for you because we all know you've just got to keep winning if you're the baltimore ravens um at one in five according to these numbers that i get from the nfl network research department the crack staff at nfl network the Playoff percentages since 1990.

4:17Rich Eisen:Again, this is when the playoffs began to expand, and we know it's expanded even more since then. Based on the season start, if you start 1-5, you have a 2.3 % chance of winning. When they beat the Bears last week to go 2-5, the Ravens improved their percentage by 4%. It's now 6.3. A win tonight jacks that up to 10.4. A win the next week, because the Ravens will have a mini-buy. We shall call it a mini buy before going into Minnesota. If they win that one, they go to four and five, which jacks it up to 17 percent. Not too shabby for a team that once upon a time was a 2.3 percent chance of winning.

5:01Rich Eisen:And then after that, they visit Cleveland. They're home for the Jets. And most importantly, the two teams, they will have to leapfrog to win the division. because when you start 2-5, unless you win the whole damn rest of your games, you're not going to be a division winner. You're going to be a wildcard team. Most importantly, you have your division games left. I think the best chance to make the playoffs for these Ravens will wind up being the division, even though right now the Jaguars are your seventh seed at 4-3. the Chiefs at 5-3 though are sitting right there they're going to take that spot at some point unless they have a division leading record and if that happens just another terrific team is going to be popped down you're in dire straits right now to try and make the playoffs if you're the Ravens as a wild card team crazily enough not so much in division because at 4-3 you got a division leader and you want to win it if you don't want to go as a wild card you want to host a game and cincinnati and pittsburgh are the two teams you're gonna have to leapfrog and they they have yet to play any of them yet to play any of them and again the nfl network has the jaguars in seven and the chiefs at eight that might be a misprint because at five and three that's a half game better than the Jaguars but they lost they lost to the Jaguars anyway which could be something that comes home to roost but bottom line is win the division they still can and I'm you asked me before Chris who am I taking tonight I'm taking the Ravens and I'm taking the Ravens I I don't know the only the next time I might not take the Ravens unless they're significantly hurt the only time i might not take the ravens

7:08and it again if they if they go on such a heater maybe i consider it week 16 against

7:14Rich Eisen:the patriots at home depending on how the patriots have played but at green bay week 17 that one right there because i i like them tonight i like them next week in minnesota i feel like dr seuss I like them in Cleveland. I like them against the Jets at home because they have three in a row at home. They have three in a row on the road starting tonight and then three in a row at home. And the three-game road trip at Miami, at Minnesota, at Cleveland, you know, this just in it. None of them are currently above 500.

7:51Rich Eisen:So I like the Ravens to go on a heater right now. And it starts tonight. Of course, the Dolphins are sitting there saying, wait a minute. we just caught fire ourselves in Atlanta. And kudos to them. We'll find out if Atlanta's the up and down team that they are or going to put their foot in the ground with Penix and turn it around and start playing some winning football consistently. But the Dolphins just came up with a 24-point win, their largest in two years. They scored a season high in points and recorded a season low in points allowed. And it was the first time they'd been outgained by a team by 100 or more yards and 10 or more first downs and won the turnover battle in a game since that 70 to 20 win against Denver in week three that's the last time they've out gained a team by 100 yards had 10 or more first downs and won the turnover battle in a single game since that one they beat the Broncos by 50 and at that point in time you're thinking oh I am absolutely buying the Mike McDaniel Dolphins and wondering a lot about those Sean Payton Broncos yada yada how does that look today not so great so miami's got their next two games at home before they head off to madrid to take a commander's team that's leaking oil right now the problem for them are the two home games are against the ravens and the bills so they better win this one tonight let's put it that way um there's a bye week and then a seemingly softer part of their schedule although a visit to the jets you always throw records out when those two teams face one another and that's going to be awfully cold weather games you know jets at pittsburgh on a monday night under the lights good lord what could that weather be like in december 15th and that's the whole conversation about them good news for them is their home against cincinnati and then tampa before they visit new england they got to win tonight and i i'm sure all the really hard-working folks i honestly they really are in the nfl front office working on these international series games and have been looking so much forward to the madrid game for various reasons one it's just It's an incredible location that I can't wait to see what an NFL game looks like.

10:15Rich Eisen:And two, to be very honest, it's for those who spent an entire month in Ireland and the UK, and then now are going to go back and have a double dip in Berlin and Madrid. I'm sure they want to go home and put their passports away. I hope for their sake that the Dolphins show up with more than one win at that point. Pardon me, more than two wins at that time. or at least more than one win between now and then. A 2-8 team in Madrid taking on the Washington Commanders, who I don't know what they're going to have. That game right now, I'm genuinely concerned about the combined record of those teams.

10:54Rich Eisen:It'll still be a beautiful location. The fans are going to be lit, but that's what's at stake tonight. I mean, if the Dolphins, I've got their numbers here too, in case you're wondering. at one and six you know the history since 1990 of how many one in six teams made the playoffs it's a very simple answer none zero zero it's a zero percent chance beating the falcons jack that up all the way to 1.4 percent we're still at milk if they win tonight at three and six 4.9 percent is their um are there odds so the ravens have a better shot and they have a shot at the division the dolphins shot at division see you later that's gone that's gone they're gonna have to most likely pack their cold weather gear for the playoffs to go to either pittsburgh or kansas city or denver or maybe they'll be lucky and have to go to the chargers i don't know that'd be lucky at least it's indoors could go to new england could go to indianapolis if they advance i think the colts are going to wind up the one seed the way that they're playing right now but anyway that's what's at stake 844-204-RICH is the number to dial on the program so you know what we've been talking about here around these parts for the last couple of days is we call it getting mileage out of a segment, unless you feel differently about the subject matter.

12:32Rich Eisen:But I think it relates to everybody, because it all started a couple of nights ago in Game 3, sitting there watching the game on Fox. They always will show the celebrity element that's there in the crowd here in Los Angeles. and you see Jason Bateman sitting next to Sean Hayes and we all know that two of them have a superb podcast, the Smartless podcast with Will Arnett. And some people were just supposing that Sean Hayes got the invitation over Will Arnett because Will Arnett is Canadian and a Blue Jay fan. And maybe Jason Bateman just doesn't want to give his plus one to the friend of his who would be actively rooting against the team that he's so dedicated to you you know i mean i'm i'm sure he's not living paycheck to paycheck but that's that's a chunk of change those seats in dodger stadium you know what i mean and so i you and i chris were like heck yeah yeah we wouldn't invite somebody to do that right no and you tj said that 100 ashton kutcher would let you be his plus one if the bears and the cowboys ever played a do or die contest against one another ashton backed that up by sending a video correct he said a thousand percent you were just so adamant in that fact and you got backed up and then when we mentioned what if you were handing out the plus one for a cowboy eagle game would you actually bring an eagle fan and you're like hell no i was joking about that you would not take an eagle fan hey i don't have any friends who are eagles fans though either so if i did if one of my best friends was an eagles fan you would take that friend if they were one of my best friends not not like a tier two friends one of your best friends yes and luckily none of my best friends are eagles and you and i chris pushed back vehemently on that right correct we felt that way you and i would never invite the other for yankee red stock game ever ever i would never invite an Ohio State fan to sit next to me in the big house never no matter how great a friend they never it's just too emotional for me and maybe that makes me less of a person I'm shallow I don't want them to be happy okay and you are you and you are you are somebody that takes friendship differently you're better than us TJ okay I'm not saying that I'm just well crazy crazy world we live in because last night when I was at game five in Dodger Stadium at one point i'm just standing there and who was standing to my right but jason bateman oh and i said to him we have been talking about you on our show for the last couple of days and i laid it all out for him okay and i got the actual answer okay and he said that he 100 % would have invited Will Arnett, but he's on the East Coast.

15:33Rich Eisen:See? And that last year at the World Series, he did in fact have Yankee fans. It is his plus one. And the reason why he said is because he was supremely confident that he was going to win anyway. There you go. Supremely confident in his team. And he wanted to have his friend there. And I know that's disappointing to you, Chris. but it's just 100%. That's a you guys thing, man. I don't know. I don't know either. Red Sox-Yankees is just different. Here's a better argument. My old roommate, one of my best friends, Spider, he's called into the show. Did he dance to drink over to you, Spider? Not that Spider.

16:14Rich Eisen:Okay, different Spider. Remember, he's a Washington football team fan. Okay, yes. If the Cowboys and Washington. You mean the Commanders. You mean the Commanders. If the Washington football team and the Cowboys were to have a championship game at their crib and I somehow got two tickets and he could get there from Pittsburgh, I would take him. That's my man's in it. I would never, I don't know what's the matter. Although I gotta be honest with you, being there last night and being, there were a lot of Blue Jay fans there last night. There were, man. Let me just tell you. It was kind of shocking just TV-wise.

16:48Rich Eisen:They were so, they were so nice. And they were bold. But they're Canadian. Well, I'm just saying to you, it really was. There's probably no curse words coming from him. They couldn't have been nicer. At one point, Cooper and I got up after the eighth inning because, honestly, it's so funny, growing up in the New York City metropolitan area, as I did, or in New York City, period, Staten Island, New York, fifth and forgotten borough, I always thought to myself, I've said this before, I'll say it again, because now we are on ESPN 710 out here in Los Angeles. this first time i'm saying this to a gathered los angeles crap i grew up in new york city thinking to myself my brother as well um soft soft show up yeah show up late soft show up late leave early and and and when you widen out you know when when the the nbc cameras widen out to show uh kurt gibson's home run hitting the right field stands in the world series against the a's and vince scully's on the call you could see the red taillights of the cars leaving and i'm like i would never have done that in a million years what is the matter with these people and now i'm in los angeles and i totally get it i've been here for 20 something years and i honestly thought to myself pulling into the stadium last night with cooper i swear to you i thought to myself more about how I was going to escape.

18:17Rich Eisen:How's the escape of this parking lot that I am burying my car in right now? Okay, how am I going to escape this? What is the time going to be? I was thinking about that more than how game five was going to play out. I swear to you. I swear to you. I thought to myself, and honestly, we all get it. Honestly, the satisfaction I get from leaving the Dodger Stadium parking lot sometimes early enough to get right on the freeway is sometimes more satisfying than the actual win by my team. Yeah, euphoric. It's turned into that now. For real. Yeah, people don't know unless they're here, man. I should know this too because it was the same way back in the day.

18:58Rich Eisen:Giants Stadium, leaving the old Giants Stadium parking lot so bad that a line, one of my favorite lines I ever said on SportsCenter, if I don't mind saying, I don't know what was the circumstances that led me to say it, I said on a lead-in about Giants home game, I mentioned how Giants Stadium, it's so terrible leaving there, getting out for traffic. It's the only place where you're jealous about Jimmy Hoffa because he's already home. I said that on SportsCenter once. I'm very proud of that. It's a good line. And then I made a Jimmy Hoffa joke as I emceed the first shovel turn of the new MetLife Stadium for both Giants owners and all of the gathered dignitaries, including the uh commissioner and the governor all of them were all there and i made a jimmy hoffitt joke like when you shovel the dirt can you can you look for jimmy they didn't laugh at any rate my point is this my point is this as we were getting up to leave in the eighth inning after the eighth was over a blue jay fan looked at cooper and looked at me didn't know who i was at all he just says safe drive home that was his way of trolling me thinking i was a dodger fan safe drive home and i thought to myself in new york it would have been a lot more blue for the then this blue jay fan was not working blue safe drive home drive home safely and i just turned to him like i'm i'm not a dodger fan which made me feel better i don't know why i need to identify myself as such.

20:32Rich Eisen:Didn't you say I'm on your side or something? I didn't want to say that. No, I didn't say that. You should have. Although I have one more story to tell from that, but I got to take a break because we can't leave Dan Lanning stranded. And I have a question from the beginning of the show that I do want to ask you guys about this very subject. We've got all of that coming up. 844-204-RICH number to dial. We've never had the coach of Oregon on. That's about to change with Dan Lanning.

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22:20Rich Eisen:Me too. Just here for the snacks? Now we're talking. So grab a bag of Lay's and jump on the bandwagon. We're undefeated. Lay's, the official sponsor of the FIFA World Cup 2026. The Rich Eisen Show podcast. Back here on the Rich Eisen Show. We're here on Disney Plus ESPN, the app, and ESPN Radio presented by Progressive Insurance. This man has not joined us before, and I'm excited to chat with him, even though he made my alma mater miserable. a particular Saturday last year. His sixth-ranked Oregon Ducks are on a bye week, but joining us right now is Dan Lanning on the Rich Eisenhower. How are you doing, Coach?

23:01Rich Eisen:Doing great, Mitch. Thanks for having me. You got it. I just want to jump right into it because, you know, your story fascinates me and absolutely fascinates me. Is it true you were a high school coach that drove half a day to try and get a gig with the University of Pittsburgh back in the day? Is that a true story, Dan? Yeah, I drove through the night. I went and taught elementary PE that morning, did weights after school, and then got in my car and drove to Pittsburgh. So it worked out. So you're an elementary physical education teacher? Great gig, by the way. Great gig. I loved it. It was like me and the janitor were like the two guys.

23:45The principal were like the three guys in the building. It was fun. I loved it. But I had a passion to coach at a higher level, and I'd really been trying for a long time to get, you know, try to work my way into college. And I didn't have a lot of success. And I'd gotten a phone call from a coach that had just gotten to Pitt, Keith Patterson. He said, hey, we might have something. And then I really didn't hear back. But I told my wife, this is the closest I've ever been. I'm going to drive to Pittsburgh tomorrow. So that's kind of how it got started.

24:11Rich Eisen:What goes through your mind on a 12-hour drive? Because is this from Kansas City, right around the Kansas City area? That's kind of your hometown, right? Yeah, that's my spot. A lot of things, you know. But the biggest thing for me, the whole drive was I'm not going to regret that I took this chance to see if maybe something could work. Right. And I just didn't. I kind of kept picturing myself. I come home every night and I'd sit on my recliner and I would pull up every college staff in the nation. I'd email coaches or write letters. And I just felt like if if I didn't make that drive, I'd be sitting there 10 years later, kind of doing the same thing.

24:44Right. Sitting here saying, man, what if I would have?

24:46Rich Eisen:Right. Do you ever tell that to your kids? you know, you're in your actual, we don't talk about it very much. We don't talk about it. We don't talk about it much anymore. Um, but yeah, I mean, I've certainly mentioned it. I'm, I'm big, I'm a big goal setter. Um, I've always written my goals in my mirror, you know, and I have goals in my mirror right now, you know, so I'm big on brushing my teeth every day, looking at my goals and saying what I want to accomplish. And I think, you know, for me at least I've been really lucky to be able to hit a lot of those goals and always been kind of a dreamer and, um, it's worked out with hard work.

25:18Rich Eisen:No, again, you know, obviously you've graduated professionally from moments like that, clearly, at the top of the game right now. But the only reason why I ask that is it is a story about taking chances, taking risks, belief in self. It's the exact sort of stuff that you want to instill in players to win a championship. That's why I asked, you know, for sure. Yeah, and I think they're familiar, but, you know, my story's been told. I want these guys to tell their own story. Right. And I think they recognize that hard work works. They see examples of that on our team, but I don't need to spend too much time talking about myself, even though there is an eye in Lanning.

25:59Rich Eisen:I totally get it. So so then what are the goals that are currently on on that mirror as you brush your teeth right now? Yeah, it's changed. The number one goal in my mirror is to help my people reach their dreams and goals. Like I wake up every morning and I pinch myself that I get to be the head coach at Oregon. And, you know, now the way that I feel like I can pay that forward is to help a guy get to the NFL, help a coach get a head coaching job, you know, grow somebody from a GA position to a full time coaching position. So that's that's the number one goal on my board. There's a lot of other stuff up there.

26:31You know, one of them is growing Caden Isles and Titan into men. You know, I really want to be a great father, not just a great coach. And that's really important to me. I have unbelievable kids. My wife does a showtime job, and I'm really proud of where they're at. And I want to win some games, man. Mike Bilotti's won 116 games here at Oregon. I hope that I can pass that up someday. We're a long ways away. But there's just a lot of things up on that mirror that I look at each morning and say, okay, this is a priority for me.

27:00Rich Eisen:How do you stay in touch with your kids and know what – take a pulse check and know how to, I guess, come up with ways to communicate with kids who have a lot on their plate and obviously other things that can take their attention. How do you do that, Dan? My kids personally, or are the kids on our team? I like it. I guess I should, you're players in that respect. Yeah, I think they're one, there has to be really open dialect. You know, healthy organizations have conversational turn-taking. They have people that are engaged. So you got to give them the floor. You got to give them the stage at times.

27:37We just, for a bye week, you know, I had a meeting with several of our guys just to get a pulse of where they're at and then talk about the common realities of things that'll get in the way of us accomplishing what we want to accomplish. You know, everybody deals with distractions, you know, players, coaches, teams. So how do we manage distractions? And you just put it out there in the forefront and have, you know, conversations where you feel like you can be open and honest with each other. I think that's where it starts.

27:59Rich Eisen:For sure. And then come up with ideas on how to motivate. I mean, again, I'll just go back to what I saw when you were talking to your players prior to going to the big house. Because, again, that's my alma mater, as I'm sure you know. And you're just basically said something along the lines of, you know, in the second half, we're going to look up and we're going to see some empty seats and people are going home because of the way we're playing. and you then stopped the players in the middle of the game and said, take a look, this is what we talked about. How do you come up with stuff like that?

28:35I mean, I think you try to pull motivation from anywhere, but that comes specifically from Coach K talking about playing in a road environment. And he talks about that feeling. He talked about calling timeouts in moments and looking around and saying, see, I told you. And that one just kind of played out. But that was definitely from a Coach K talk to his team and what that played out like for us. And we try to find moments in every game, try to find things that will relate to our players in every situation and try to predict a little bit of what the story might play out to look like.

29:06Rich Eisen:Dan Lanning, Oregon head football coach here on the Rich Eisen Show. And again, I know you've only been there a handful of seasons, but this sport is changing. It seems like every week. It seems like every hour and every minute. How has your job changed from the first second you took it to this moment? yeah i i said um early on i think it's more true now than ever that being able to adapt is the most important trait of any coach and and then having some emotional intelligence and awareness of the people around you and what direction you want to move um but but it's changed a lot and it'll continue to change and you have to be nimble and able to adjust uh and then you got to recognize when you got something really special really special staff really special players like lean in on that and make that a strength when a lot of people you know that's that becomes a weakness because of everything that's going on in this profession.

29:54Rich Eisen:Well, because I'm sure, you know, nonstop, you're looking at portals and people are looking at your players and there's the NIL and there's, you know, collectives. And then there's things like job openings as well. What is your thought on seeing Penn State's job open and Florida's job open and, you know, LSUs and some coaches who are as big a names as yours getting fired when things just start to go south. In the case of James Franklin, he was in the college football playoffs last year in a three-game losing streak. See you later. What's your thoughts on seeing that happen in your profession? Probably more than anything, it makes me grateful for where I'm at and recognizing how fragile and special it is.

30:39And it motivates you to keep working hard because you realize how temporary things can be if you're not moving in the right direction. you know but on the same note i i always think a little bit more about everybody else involved in that you know the the assistant coach the the graduate assistant the player that signed up to play for somebody and just how quickly your world can change um you know continuity um stability i think super important and it's hard to have and when you have it i think you gotta make sure you

31:07Rich Eisen:recognize it and take advantage of it and so your your interest level in leaving oregon is less than because of zero zero zero yeah i'm not leaving oregon yeah as long as i win that's what i always tell our my kids yeah right if your dad wins we'll be at oregon so i gotta win right that's how it changes that's how it works i've got this question i'm always interested in whenever i i i see you on the sideline and i see you know the 15th different uniform that you guys are wearing what is a meeting with phil knight like dan you know at first you're in you're just kind of in awe you know you realize the effect this man has had on sports um on the world the changes that he's been able to create the um there's a lot of admiration you know for a guy that you know pushed against um always found a way regardless of circumstance the shoe dogs you know one of my favorite books and I read it before I ever got here.

32:04But just the resiliency that he showed to create something out of nothing is unbelievable. And the ability for him to say, okay, I'm going to hire unbelievable people in this organization. I'm going to be really excited and happy and surprised with the results. Give them some direction, but see what they're able to come up with. And in any opportunity you get to be around Phil, you realize how much he loves he loves Oregon, how much he loves football, how much he cares about this place and how much he just wants to share, you know, in that with, you know, with other people, which is really cool.

32:36Rich Eisen:Well, I mean, let me, if you don't mind, share with you the way I see it. I, is it like in an office? I think it's just an office that is the most incredibly decorated office. There's shoes everywhere, right? There's like a Jordan photograph that's autographed there. There's, I don't know, like some sort of music, like you're waiting for your spa treatment that's playing in the background. You know, is that, is that, am I anywhere, anywhere near this sort of thing? Like it's mystical. Unfortunately, no, you know, most of my meetings, most of the times that I've linked up with Phil, it's very, um, it, it's very casual.