Hour 3: Bills HC Joe Brady, Rich’s Top 5, plus Oscar-Winning Actor Casey Affleck In-Studio

23:07Right. It's hard not to gloat. You guys. But I feel like in light of how Belichick has been treated, and I know this has been covered exhaustively, but it gives a little bit more room to be proud. Do you know what I'm saying?

23:23Rich Eisen:What do you mean? Well, I mean, it's, you know. Treated with the Hall of Fame stuff recently or just in general through the years? Well, they're connected with the Hall of Fame stuff. But I think that's connected through how he's been thought of and discussed through the years. Right. I don't mean to say that it diminishes in any way Bill Belichick. Right. It diminishes a little bit the institution of the Professional Football Hall of Fame, I think. A tiny bit. If anyone gets tarnished, it's that institution. Bill is sitting at the top of the mountain. Right. He's got the winds and the rings and all of it.

23:59He's got the goat saying he would pick him to be his. So it's not that. What it does is it tarnishes a teeny bit. I don't know who those people are, that committee. But I think it says it makes them look political and petty. It seems like sour grapes. And so it gives a little bit more room to be happy and proud, you know, and not to feel bad about being in the Super Bowl again. Again.

24:28Rich Eisen:I caught that one. I caught that one. Another one. Because there are shades of 2001 all over the place with this team. With quarterback in his second year. Okay. Although, you know, he's a third overall pick, not 199. Vrabel's in his second spot coaching. So maybe learned a little bit about his previous experience, bringing it to bear in this new experience here. And there's an NFC West team that they're facing in the Super Bowl. that everybody thinks is going to spank him. And here we are for Super Bowl 60. Kind of feels like shades of 2001 a little bit here. Could be. Knock on wood. Those are big shoes to fill.

25:13You know what I mean? I think that I've coached in my day. I coached some flag football for my kids in the day.

25:21Rich Eisen:Okay. Yeah. Would you be a first ballot call-off end coach? Is there something we need to know? Not yet, but I'm good with that. But what I would say to the Patriots, what I have told my kids, the team that I coached, I prioritized team culture. You know what I'm saying? We didn't all. I like to have the same kids. I had them for 12 years coaching, right? Jeez. Yeah, same group. It was great. Sometimes, and we won a lot. Now, sometimes at the start of the game, you'd be in our flag Super Bowl. You look across the field, and there's big kids. They're bigger. They're faster, obviously. They're stronger.

25:57They're older. I would say to the Pats now if no one's asked me yet

26:02Rich Eisen:please I have now officially asked you the floor is yours I would say what I said to them many times look across there you see those kids Sam Darnold these guys more experienced those are bigger they're fast they're strong but who wins the game is not the team with the best players who wins the game is the players with the best team we have the best team because we had been played together for a long time. We had good energy, good spirit. I think the Pats have a winning attitude. I think there's a good spirit about them. You know what I'm saying? You want to root for this team despite the long legacy.

26:42Everyone got sick of them winning so much. Now people look at that team, even people who are Pats haters look at that team and they want to root for them. I think that's what they have gone for them.

26:50Rich Eisen:Who are those Pats haters who want to root for them? Have we met any of them? Who are those people? There's one right there. Get out of here. Me? You're talking to me? Yeah. What are you talking about? You have been denigrating my desire to constantly talk about how good this team is, which I do all the time. I do all the time. 100%. Gotta see it. Gotta see this. Gotta see that. Well, I'd say that for every single team. And all they've done is win games. Now, I don't think Sam Darnold is going to pull the pin on the football and flip it up like a grenade like C.J. Stroud did two weeks ago. He might be forced to.

27:26Rich Eisen:Or chess pass it like, you know, Jared Stidham did. But those were in the face of pressure that the Patriots defense is 100%. They're a different unit in the last month than we saw in the first 18 weeks of this season. You know, Milton Williams coming back is pretty big. This is the real deal. Can I ask you a question? Please, Casey. If you were, in the last game they won, they deferred at the top of the game, right? If you knew that the weather was coming in, you knew that there's a giant storm coming in. Everyone can see the forecast. It's right on the edge of the stadium. You know you're getting snow in a minute before halftime.

28:13Wouldn't you want to have the ball first so that you can score and then just play defense, counting your defense when it's a storm and there's ice and snow and no one's going to get very far? Why did they do that?

28:23Rich Eisen:Because they're the kings and McDaniels at the, you know, at the, if you will, forefront of the Belichick era on offense after Charlie Weiss, you know, moved on. They're the kings of scoring right before and after halftime. That last four minutes of the first half, first four minutes of the second half, if you can possess the ball in both spots, score touchdowns in each situation, you can blow a game straight out. You can come right back. you can you can do whatever the heck you want and they were the kings that Brady was the king of that yeah Brady was the king of like oh gosh he gets the ball with 30 seconds to go he's going to at least get Vinatieri a shot at three or at the end of the at the beginning of the first half 100 after the adjustments they're going to sit you're going to put McDaniels and Belichick and Brady in a spot where I'll give you 15 minutes to figure this thing out you know you're going to lose yeah i mean it happened all the time i just think that that's that's why pretty much but obviously you know the the snow coming in did change some things but um casey affleck here on the rich eyes and show were you going to watch the game do you know like what's your plan a friend invited me up to go see the game are you gonna go and todd um you know i'm supposed to be working the next day in london i don't know how i'm gonna pull it off i think i think i'm going to go to the game.

29:44Okay. But, you know, it's a lot of fun to watch it at home on the couch with your kids. It's kind of the best place to see the game. Right. But I've never been to a Super Bowl with the Patriots, so I'm kind of really tempted.

29:56Rich Eisen:Dude, this is their 12th. I know. And you've never been to a Super Bowl? You never went one with Brady? I never went to a football game as a kid. No one ever took me. No one. I never. The first game I went to was, I was like, you know, 30. No kidding. You never went to Foxborough? was a kid and you ever sat on those those bleacher seats nothing i don't think my mom knew what football was is that right yeah okay do you you've hung with brady i imagine at some point right i i talked to him just recently it was the first time i got to meet him and and talk to him a bit okay and and bill actually and gronk i met bill gronk and brady all separately in the last month last month or two the last month or two i um here's my experience with with bill okay um i was doing a commercial dunkin donuts commercial yes sir to show up and do a commercial and uh you know brady had been on one yes and that that opens the door you're like that's fine you can do anything if he's done it there's no shame in it i um i show up there and there's and bill's on the in the commercial with me and jordan is in the commercial as well oh and um jordan is his michael his girlfriend okay yeah you you thought michael that was yeah yeah not Michael and he was really nice super friendly nice guy we chatted a little bit he was open to doing anything in the commercial and then it was lunchtime I went to our trailer we shared a little yeah little trailer like we each have our own little room and bathroom but the walls are paper thin I'm sitting there eating my lunch quietly and I can hear every word in the other side he is monologuing his analysis i can't remember what it was like the it was like the bills colts what was the game it was like the playoff game i don't remember who it was just recently last year this was last year oh last year okay and he's um and doing an analysis i don't know who he's talking to but it was brilliant and i mean this is the guy who says three words after a huge game goes to a press conference and is very gruff and says nothing and he didn't stop talking there's no ums no ahs no maybes it was just a steady stream of analysis about the game that was you know i don't know that much about football but i was like this man is really really brilliant about the game there's nothing i've i've been fortunate to be around him talking ball there's no no one can i i would sit there um listening to him talk about ball in a certain five-dimensional way and i thought to myself he was still coaching at the time i'm like how does anybody ever beat him because i can't imagine there's there's obviously terrific coaches great great coaches his just his institutional knowledge of the of the sport and his ability to take a boil it all down to the matchup and then take advantage of each and every one of them over and over and over again yeah and then all of his teams were situationally brilliant All of them.

33:01Rich Eisen:Where a ball would be rolling down on the ground. 31 other teams would have players just walk back to the sideline, plays over. A Patriot picks it up and runs it in for a touchdown. It's like, oh, that was a fumble. That would happen over and over again. And I assume your flag football team was the exact same question, right? That's right, yeah. Did I get that right? Yeah, you sure did. So the sour grapes, it must burn. Does it feel like a great wrong has been done to you? To me? Yeah. How so? Not not done to you. But do you does it evoke that feeling in you of like, what a shame? What a shame that he wasn't inducted into the Hall of Famer.

33:37Well, he's going to get in.

33:38Rich Eisen:But the fact that he's not a first ballot Hall of Famer is absurd. It's absurd. There's just no other way you can slice it. And I understand there's a conversation about the process and how many people could vote for or who's in the same bucket of voting with him. was Kraft is one of them and three other guys who are going in as a um as a veterans committee uh grouping only three of those five could go in and some people didn't vote for Bill which is do you think they didn't vote because they thought he was just a shoe-in or you think there was there are some who probably thought well others will vote for him so I don't have to I'm going to vote for these you know senior committee members uh three senior committee finalists who never get really up for a vote so I'd rather get them in and Bill will get in eventually or someone else is going to take care of the vote for him for us as a collective this year and he wound up not getting and then there may be sour grapes of some people who are just like i'll show him or some writers are like he was rude to me once i don't know i'm ascribing something that i'm unfamiliar i hope it's not that me me too yeah let that when the game's over you got to just celebrate the game celebrate the i saw john ham come on your show yes sir here's an example of someone who doesn't do this well john he's a he's a buddy of mine he's a great guy he's a cardinals fan yes yeah so He comes on and he made a remark that Boston fans were insufferable.

34:53There's nothing insufferable about winning. What's insufferable is jealousy, bitterness, and resentment. The fans, it's not their fault that they have winning teams. They're great organizations. but to be a Cardinals fan you lose to the Red Sox in 07 and 2013 you lose twice, you're Jon Hamm, you're watching that you're frustrated, then you get your moment on the great Rich Eisen show and you just bad mouth the fans of the Red Sox What are we supposed to do? What are we supposed to do? Not root? Not cheer for our team? Not be happy when our teams win? What was that about? Were you here when he said that?

35:36Rich Eisen:Jealousy and envy. It was jealousy, bitterness. He's a great guy. I played on a baseball team with him. Okay. He was all right. And I think he's better than that remark, is all I'll say. I love him, but he's better than that remark. Hear, hear. Yeah. Oh, my God. Selling this with Casey is just throwing darts. And the same should be said for this committee that they voted. They're better than that. They made a mistake out of jealousy, right? Agreed. But there's that quote about committees. It says, in all the parks, in all the cities, I've never seen a statue of a committee. Casey Affleck, everybody.

36:16Rich Eisen:Thank you. Do you feel you got that off your chest? Yeah, thank you. I'm done with that. Ham's been here many times. Was that like a five, six-year-old grudge that we just saw worked out here? I mean, I think it was probably 2024, which was, you know, 11 years after he lost the Red Sox. He's still thinking about it. I don't know. Because did he say when he shot the town with your brother that he got a bunch of crap, a bunch of grief at Fenway Park or something like that? Didn't he say that? He heard about it. He didn't wear the Cardinals hat everywhere. He was wearing it at a Cubs World Series.

36:51Rich Eisen:Yeah. Nobody gives Cardinals fans any grief. Nobody feels like they're their rival. Nobody's upset. You can wear a Cardinals fan. That doesn't upset anybody. Well, the Cubs are their rivals. But, I mean, I guess they don't pay him too much mind. Okay. All right. So what's going to happen at Super Bowl 60, Casey? What do you got? What do you think? Your heart of hearts. What do you think? Drake May, by the way, didn't throw today. Didn't practice at all. Didn't practice at all, right? Illness. He was sick today. Oh, really? Okay. Illness and—oh, hold on. We got the soundbite. Here. Oh, here's a little soundbite for you.

37:27Rich Eisen:You ready? Roll it. Go for it. Mike, any thoughts about Bill Belichick not getting into the Hall of Fame I'm sure Bill will get in. Sorry, that's a wrong one. Pardon me. We got to get another one on here. Rerack. Rerack. But apparently he was talking about Drake May not being able to throw today. What kind of illness? I don't know. Great question. Maybe sick and tired of people denigrating Bill Belichick. Maybe that's the sickness. It was an illness, not an injury. Yeah. He was just as a cold. I guess so. So what do you think? Heart of hearts. I think he'll be all right. Super Bowl 60. What's going to happen?

38:03You know, I want to predict with passion. I want to put energy into the underdogs and the kid rising to the occasion. That's what I think is going to happen.

38:16Rich Eisen:Okay. Meaning a win. A win. A win. With you maybe even being there. Possibly. Okay. Partying till dawn with Drake May and Milt Williams and then going off to London, heading off to London. I haven't partied until dawn in so many years. When was the last time you partied until dawn? College. Yeah. Ten years ago. Oh, God, no. Bless you for that. I appreciate that. No, it's been a while. But that's what happens. But you've done Saturday Night Live, right? Yeah. I mean, that's like you go out afterwards, right? There's a post gathering. That thing goes till 5 a.m., 6 a.m., you know? I guess so. Right?

38:57I can't remember. That was a few years ago. I don't remember seeing the sun come up, though. I don't remember that.

39:01Rich Eisen:Okay. Yeah. All right. Well, I know that. I told you last time when I saw you just a couple weeks ago, the vanilla nut tap bit that you did on SNL was something that we had to stop our boys from doing to each other for weeks on end. That they would just hit it. I would be in a room, my wife would be in a room, and all of a sudden we would just hear a scream. and like what happened and like daddy gave me a vanilla nut tap does that make me a hero to your kids 100 100 you must love doing stuff like that though right like fun stuff like that well i mean where you're you're kind of drawing upon your uh upbringing and your yeah who you are and your dna yeah playing all the kids who tried to you know fuck with me when i was a kid

39:55having the last laugh so it's not your first ever

39:59Rich Eisen:vanilla nut tap of your existence well thanks for coming here man I really appreciate it thanks for coming down here and you know let's stay in touch I wish you the best of luck thank you your safe journey may your flight to London be you know I guess no So, may your flight to London have the jet stream behind it. The Super Bowl win is what I'm saying. Thank you. May that be the wind beneath your wings. Casey Affleck, Academy Award winning actor, diehard Patriot fan, and who knew, champion flag football coach right here on the Rich Eisen Show. We're back to wrap it up in a moment. Thanks for coming.

40:42Rich Eisen:Thanks.

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43:31High five.

43:32Rich Eisen:One, two, three, four, five. Rich's top five. All right, my top five Super Bowl bi-week headlines presented by Hyundai. There are many coaching hirings, but number five on this list is the Bill stayed in-house. That they tell Sean McDermott he's out. We need something different. We need some results different. We're sick and tired, says Terry Pagula, about the 13 seconds of the missed field goal or what happened in Denver. And we're just going to stay with the offensive coordinator. We're going to stay with Joe Brady, who we just chatted with earlier this hour, an absolute delight, and we will see what he can do.

44:12Rich Eisen:But the bill staying in-house is number five of a Super Bowl bi-week headline. Number four, is anything up with Drake May's shoulder? What is up with Drake May's shoulder? No idea. What is it? And today, he did not practice. Mike Vrabel had this to say. He was a quarterback. He was not spotted. He did not practice, no. It was illness and shoulder. Illness? I'm sorry. Illness and shoulder. Any more concern for him, Mike, than you've shown so far? I mean, again, we've had a lot of guys over the last month or six weeks here with the illness. And, you know, so, again, trying to do what's best for the player and the team.

44:59You know, try to take care of guys.

45:02Rich Eisen:Don't spread anything. But, you know, again, we've worked through that here for the past six weeks. So he would have practiced today if not for the illness? He would have been at practice today if not for the illness. He would have been at practice today if not for the... At. I know, exactly. I think the illness is sick and tired of talking about the shoulder. I do not love Coach's body language. Don't... Listen, I think illness is the reason why he wasn't practicing. Shoulder is... We have to say it because there is something up with the shoulder. This might move up the headlines next week. When do I start getting concerned?

45:36Rich Eisen:Not yet. Number three is the Browns job search yields a munkin'.

45:45Rich Eisen:okay okay browns we got you yielding monken he could be awesome who knows or he could just be dick geron 2.0 don't know don't know but this is not what browns fans were thinking about but guess what it could be all good at the end of the day number two on the list uh of the super bowl bi-week headlines bill belichick is not a hall of famer how in the world did that happen what in the holy heck that bill belichick is not a hall of famer that's number two of the headlines of uh the super bowl bye week and you'd think this would be number one and it would have been number one if um i was not a video clue on jeopardy tournament that's uh that's number one what's eisen what's eisen is just what i'm a who damn is right thank you giving me a new great drop what's eisen does sound like paul rudd's fantasy what's eisen yeah yeah i mean what what come on what gives i'm a who damn it um give me one more one i'll give you one more right here on the program um and that's one more thank you that's my boy jalen hurts has a new OC again.

47:01Rich Eisen:We've updated the board now. Shane Steichen is the only back-to-back offensive coordinator Jalen Hurts has had since leaving high school. It is unbelievable. Look at this screen. Sean Mannion, you're on the clock. It's your time in the barrel in Philadelphia, how you're play calling and what does that mean year in and year out. It changes. And every other year, you either go to the Super Bowl and lose your offensive coordinator to a head coaching job or you change it of your own volition. That wraps it up. Chat next week. Thanks for listening to the Rich Eisen Show podcast. You can watch and listen to the Rich Eisen Show live weekdays from noon to 3 Eastern on ESPN Radio, Disney Plus, and on the ESPN app.

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