Hour 3: Commanders’ ‘4-Downs’ Season Preview, plus Open Championship Winner Ryan Fox

21:17Just get it down the fairway. So I might give myself a decent third shot and see if I can get that up and down. And I played the rest of the hole really well. I had a really good putt there and was, you know, I thought I'd hold that putt off the putter face and that just missed. And then, you know, I had a chance. Yeah. you tell me at the start of the week I have a chance to win the open down the last hole um I would have jumped at that and I was you know I I took that shot on and seized the opportunity and you know I still don't quite know how it happened but it did happen yeah there's another shot for your office right there that's yeah I haven't seen that one either damn right I mean look at that

21:58Rich Eisen:right there and then you know not to complain or anything like that but listen circumstances in my household required me um to switch television sets oh uh when you strolled to 18 and burns was going first and i'm like i'm i'll definitely be able to make it to the next television set turn it on and find it and then by the time i did that you were already hugging your caddy and I'm like what the hell man sorry I'm like what the hell I missed it because you took 20 seconds it's nuts yeah it's great I mean I will like I had done my work before it was my time to hit the part like I had looked at that from a bunch of different angles before hitting the part I'd had to collect myself while doing it as well like you know it had crossed my mind that this part was to win the open and that was a little bit overwhelming at the time and kind of got back here, you know, got myself back in the game, a couple of deep breaths, just tried to go through what I'd normally go, reading a putt, you know, look at it from a couple of sides, whatever.

22:58And then when Burnsy missed the putt, I actually asked him, do you want to finish or not? He said, yeah, I'll finish. He finished. And like, I was ready to go. Like, just, I knew which way I was going to go. It wasn't that, it wasn't a hard read. It was, the execution was the hard bit. And I managed to do that. But literally going into the ball. Just trying to stay in the same routine. You know, a couple of deep breaths, which obviously happened quickly anyway, and then just focus on trying to hit at the right speed to give myself a chance all in the putt and not give myself something crazy coming back if it did miss.

23:31And, yeah, I don't know how my hands are shaking everything, but to see it go in and then, like, I'm not normally a guy that shows a lot of emotion, but as you saw from that previous photo, like, I let it all out there. And yeah, like it's pretty awesome, to be honest.

23:48Rich Eisen:Yep, it is. I can confirm it is pretty awesome. And it's great to meet you. I say congratulations to you. Enjoy that time when you go back home with the Claret Jug. Make sure you pour something real special on that thing. Oh, I certainly will. You know, and congratulations, Ryan. We appreciate it. Let's do this again. We'd love to meet you in person if you're in Los Angeles at any point. Thanks a lot, Rosh. I appreciate it. thanks for having me and i did feel all the support out there was brilliant thank you to everyone for all their kind words i've seen a lot of it in social media and everything over the last few days so thank you very much you bet it that's ryan fox of the 154th open championship right here on the rich eyes absolute stones performance he was great isn't that great love it love those types of stories and uh i just love seeing the clara jug up close yeah yeah pouring something been there i don't i don't know who's the official royal and ancient cleaner so he has to give that one back though yeah yeah yeah that you get to keep for a year but he's got to give it back but he he brings it back to saint andrews oh so when he played i'd have been like because they got to give it out to somebody else maybe or maybe she had that for the previous year he brought it back i'd have been like smicoli in the restaurant something happened that's like oh i would have you bring that if you're yeah i'll pay a corkage fee yeah just pour it in here yeah yeah whatever the corkage fee is right worth it who cares who cares yeah i mean the flex would be to win the masters and the open oh and then show up in the fall with your jacket on and the claret jug and saying corkage fee on the house everybody here you know that's the way i would roll that's funny hell yeah when it comes to you and your home pella windows and doors are the experts at taking care of you and your home at pella they find the products that meet your needs and their experts install them and that means working with a company that builds and installs a quality product with real pricing real simple really beautiful and when a trusted name like pella chooses to partner with the rich eyes and show well that says a lot zero percent financing options are available certain restrictions apply visit your local pella windows and doors showroom today at pella.com slash eyes and for details make life brighter with pella windows and doors my four downs on the washington commanders and your phone calls at 844-204 rich when we come back rich eisen here running a small business means every hire matters a bad hire costs time and money but the right one helps your business grow.

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27:43Rich Eisen:on our overreaction Monday podcast, Chris, again, we just did overreaction Monday on a Tuesday. Did we not, or was it here yesterday, the shows that we do? We do so much content, they bleed into one another. Where we talk about whose job it was to show John Harbaugh the video of Cam Scatterball. Yeah, I brought that. I asked you, yeah, who showed Harbaugh like, hey, you'll never see what Cam just did. And I'm sure if that person is still the same person in the Giants organization that John maybe hasn't turned it over significantly. Same person that would show Tom Coughlin things. Right. Once upon a time showed Ben McAdoo.

28:19Rich Eisen:I've got this photograph of a boat I need to show you. Your guys are on a boat. Well, John Harbaugh has commented on a podcast on the Believe Network. Quote, my reaction was, I haven't talked to him yet. I'm going to talk to him, I'm sure. my reaction was this dude at least stick it i mean land the thing if you're gonna do it you know well i mean he's right that's that's john harbaugh didn't use what we talked about it earlier with jerry mccoy's like he's a maniac let maniacs be maniac yeah you can always say hey you should pull back you shouldn't do this but no maniac ever stops doing maniac type stuff bro which is true He went on, quote, but stats got to be scats got to be ready to go.

29:09Rich Eisen:He's been working super hard. He has really been training like crazy and his mind is on camp. He's healthy. He's ready to roll. Ready to roll. And I can't wait to see him out there at practice. End quote. Giants rookies report to training camp on Thursday. And then everyone reports next Tuesday, a week from today. Oh, my goodness gracious. gracious i mean hey i'm just like hey cam just let's not let's not do this anymore right let's not we don't okay let's just not do it you don't have to do it i think he stuck the landing it's just that he tried it on a very unsteady surface to give him the benefit of the doubt looks like he slid it's looked like the surface slid on him that's one of those oh what was that oh my god But we said on overreaction Monday, TJ, we said the first thing whoever showed it to John would be like, headline is he's OK.

30:09Rich Eisen:Right. Listen, here's the good news. I got something to show you. It's all good. Everything's fine. It's good. But I think you should see this. I'm going to say this because she's not going to see it. She'd be so upset if I did this. You know who I'm referring to right now? No. Taylor. Oh, yeah, yeah. so she sent a letter for first two days of camp she loves camp she loves the the kids there but a couple things happened where she wasn't feeling all that great about it and we gotta send somebody up we get this letter and we're like oh my god like we didn't see this one coming next letter comes from her a few days later and on the back of the letter that you open up and she wrote it's okay this one's better

30:57Rich Eisen:she knows she gave us the headline it's funny she's doing great great but it's the same thing like hey coach headline he's okay but what you're about to see you might not like so you're getting a hello mudda hello frada this one's better oh man all right E in New York City are on the Rich Eisenhower. E! What's up? Is this Entourage? How's Vince Drummond? Yeah, what's going on? E? Tell Turtle I said what up. Hey, Rich. What's going on, Big Boss? It's an honor to talk to you, sir. I watched you as a little kid on SportsCenter growing up. Thank you. I watched you on NFL Network with Primetime Michael Irvin.

31:40Yes, sir. So it's a big honor to talk to you, sir.

31:42Rich Eisen:Thank you, sir. E is short for? Easy? Eric. Okay. Of course, this is just like Undarage, huh? Exactly. Okay. What's on your mind, E? I want to do Giants win-loss. Ladies and gentlemen, E in New York City wants to do the Giants win-loss. Let's get some music here. All right, let's whip through this. What happens opening night against the Cowboys at home? You already know. Sorry to Mr. T.J. Jefferson. That's a big win. Come on, E. E coming out with a W. Come on, E. Come on. I'm going to send Blue Wolshack to you. Now you visit the Rams on a Monday night. Win. 2-0. Home for the Titans. Win. Oh, this is all set up.

32:24Rich Eisen:Come on. Cardinals at the Giants. That's a win. 4-0 at the Commanders. That's a win. Yeah, it is. The Commanders can't do it. 5-0, the Saints visit. Commit to the bit. Oh, that's a win. 6-0. 6-0. Giants are at the Texans. That's a loss. Oh, come on. What's the point? He's trying to be reasonable. Everybody back off my friend E. All right. Six and one at the Eagles. Oh, that's a big W. Eagles are falling apart. There you go. We're back. I like that. Seven and one. Commanders at home on a Thursday night. What happens? It's a W. That's a sweep. Six wins to start to start the season. Eight and one.

33:09Rich Eisen:Jaguars at Giants. That's a win. Nine and one at the Colts. Win. Take that, Daniel Jones. 10-1, Niners at the Giants Oh, that's a win 11-1, Giants at the Seahawks That's a win He's out of his mind Against the Super Bowl champs 12-1, home for the Browns That's a win 13-1, Giants at the Lions on a Monday night That's a win, sorry Detroit 14-1, Giants with a broom in Dallas Do it It's sweeping, just like the Knicks did to the 76ers and the Cavs. Atta boy! Atta boy! Eagles at the Giants. It's a win. That's a 16-1 Giants record. E in New York City. I love it. E stands for ecstasy as well. Atta boy.

34:06Rich Eisen:That's powerful. Well done, sir. I loved this. This was SportsCenter. I watched all the episodes. Linda and Dan Patrick were hilarious. but they were all amazing. So funny. Everybody's got to check them out. Thank you. Ian, New York City. All righty. 16-1, man. Well, that's Super Bowl. Pizza boy. 16-1. Let me say this. I'm very excited for Giants fans and the Giants. One thing that's not going to happen is a 16-1. Hey, don't take away his shine, Rich. What? Their one loss is at the Texans. Hello. It's a good one. Giants have the second longest NFC odds to make the playoffs what is it again the second longest odds yeah yeah they have the second highest odds to make the playoffs in the NFC that's that's not fair they're only ahead of the Cardinals that's not fair I don't think that's fair I think the Giants have improved their roster I Arvel Reese and Maui Noah are gonna be players I just thought they should have gone Arvel Reese and Caleb Downs, man.

35:15Rich Eisen:Bring the legacy. Bring the legacy. She's like, no. I thought, you know, again, I thought the Giants were going to do that. Two Ohio State defenders around Sonny Stiles, whose Washington commanders is the subject of four downs. Coming up, let's take a break. We'll finish up this program on a Tuesday and set you up for the rest of the week right here on The Rich Eisen Show.

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38:00Rich Eisen:Visit HyundaiUSA.com for details. I'd have this piece of paper that's all crumpled up because I thought it was garbage and it's not. What is it? This is not a metaphor. I think this is a great four downs. On the Washington Commanders. Hit it. Four downs with Rich. Here we go.

38:21Rich Eisen:Very good. My four downs. That's not a metaphor. It's excellent. Who's seeing on the commander's season? Not at all. Oh. Not at all. How dare you? I think I've got legitimate questions about the season in the form of four downs. That's four questions. Let's go. Sort of like Passover. A joke you wouldn't get. That's true. I don't get it. I'm definitely not the youngest one in the room. That's another Passover joke you won't get. I am the youngest in the room. Okay. Well, I don't know how old he is. I am the second youngest in the room. Just know that. How do you know? I know how old you are, and I know how old he is, and I know how old he is.

39:02Rich Eisen:So we now have a range. You have a range. The price is right. Rangefinder on your age. That's small. All right. First down on the Washington Commanders. How good can Sonny Styles be right away? Want to know right away? Right away. How fast? No Bobby Wagner. Take a look at their roster, man. You know, last year it was filled with a ton of OGs. An older roster, yeah. They did, and they've been working on that for sure. But how fast can this kid be good? Because they could use it. They could use him to be defensive rookie of the year great right from jump. And certainly putting him in the hands of Dan Quinn is very, very helpful in that regard.

39:51Rich Eisen:But how fast can he be this good right away? And so that's the question right there. Second down. You take a look at their depth chart. Who are their playmakers on offense? With all due respect. You got Terry. For sure. Well, I mean, I love the guy, as you know. And I'm not supposed to like him. They got Rashad White from Tampa. Now that's the other thing. And then the running back room, Rashad White, he's now going to be there. Yeah, and they got Bill Krosky still. Bill Krosky. Bill Krosky. They had a chicken con quo at tight end. He's the one. They just signed him, right? Yep. Everybody was penciling, if not sharpying in, Brandon Ayuk, but that does not appear to be happening.

40:41Rich Eisen:That's got Trey Burks there. And we've been waiting for him. He had the height, weight, speed comp of A.J. Brown, which is why the Titans drafted him when they traded A.J. Brown into this division where he no longer resides. My cousin Van Jefferson's on. But how many guys, look, we talk about fantasy. How many guys are you going to take early from this team? Early? Only the quarterback. And I don't even know if you're going to do that either. I don't know if you, and we'll get to that question in a second. Yeah. Third down. Bill. Bill Krosky-Barrick. Nice to meet you. The only running back in the league where it sounds like you just met him at the Elks Lodge.

41:20Rich Eisen:As he hands you a business card. The VFW. Hi, I'm Bill Krosky married. If you're looking to get into this business, I'm that man for you. All right. Third down are the new commanders on both sides of the ball. New coordinators, everybody. David Blau on offense and Durante Jones on defense. Okay. What does this mean? What does it look like? How does it manifest? What's going on? That's big. I mean, they've got two new coordinators. we're wondering who their massive playmaker is on offense and we're wondering what's going to go on with their draft choice who wasn't offensive. You want defensive there.

42:05Rich Eisen:So there's that. And then fourth down, maybe their best playmaker on offense is in fact the quarterback. And the question is, which year does year three look like for Jaden Daniels? Year one or year two? That's it. Year one, is he the revelation of the position? is he the revelation at the position that we saw in his rookie season or is he a guy who is slight of body who will get knocked around who will take unnecessary shots potentially and then doesn't answer the bell because he's hurt no fault of his own but is that what it is or is he the man? And we're going to have to say, and then the whole idea of who's the best playmaker on the team and where's the playmaking going to come from becomes that much more stupid.

42:57I don't know.

42:59Rich Eisen:And then, of course, all of it plays into Dan Quinn's future viability, which is, I did not choose to make a down. But you take a look at their defense. They added Odafe Owe, who is a really good football player. you know, Leo Chanel from the Chiefs. That's a really good football player as well. Mikey Sanders still is a dynamite back end guy and a leader of the team. You know, obviously I'm biased when it comes to him, but can they put together enough wins to get back in the mix? Or was that just a rocket ship season one for Jaden Daniels and Dan Quinn together that they're not going to be able to get back?

43:44Rich Eisen:Yeah. and those are my four downs for the Washington Commanders. Did I miss anything, gents, in your estimation? For them, no. Okay. No, I think it all kind of hinges on the quarterback and who can make some plays for him. Okay. Can Terry McCorin get back to that guy from a couple years ago? I mean, last year just got so derailed. Let's go to Josh in Kentucky to finish things up. What's up, Josh? Hey, Rich. Just love the show, man. How you doing? What do you want to do, Josh? Let's knock out this Houdé Nation Bengals win-loss game. Okay. We don't have two. Well, you're the fourth one. I shouldn't say that.

44:22Rich Eisen:All right. Let's see if we can sneak this in before the end of the show here. What happens week one when the Buccaneers visit the Bengals? Yeah, I got a win opener. Okay. And then you're at the Texans. Yeah, I think we drop our first road. Then you're at the Steelers. Oh, we own Steelers, man. That's a dub. Two and one home against the Jaguars. This is where it gets weird. They played us tough last year. I think it's a sneaky loss. 2-2 at the Dolphins. We own Miami. 3-2 at the Ravens. I think we take the first against the Ravens, sure. 4-2 home for the Titans. Me and my wife will actually be at that game, so let's pray for a win.

45:03Rich Eisen:All right, 5-2 now in the home of the World Cup champs in Madrid at the Falcons. Yeah, quarterback stitch, shaky win, shaky loss. I think we win it. Okay. Four wins in a row now. Six and two back in the States against the Steelers to try and sweep. Yeah, I'll take the split with Pittsburgh. We dropped that one. Okay. Now you are six and three at the Commanders on a Monday night. I mean, just like you're forced down too many questions with the Commanders, I think we take the win. Seven and three, home for the Saints. Yeah, I'll take the win there. Eight and three at the Browns.

45:42it's a toughie but I'll give them the benefit of a doubt with a late win for the Browns

45:48Rich Eisen:8-4 home for the Chiefs can't stand my home wish them the best but please God win this one 9-1 2-3-4 at the Panthers trying not to go high registered I'll take the win against the Panthers 10-4 at the Colts yeah this is a tough win again I think last season we take the win with the Colts 11-4 let's finish up strong Ravens at Bengals on a Thursday night sure why not give it to Houdé Nation 12-4 and then the Browns let's close it out with the Dubs 13-4 says Josh in Kentucky thanks for calling in Josh in Kentucky 13-4 It's a little high. Jordan in Hesperia and Jack in Columbus had them 14-3. And Kyle in Florida had them 13-4.

46:46Rich Eisen:A lot of Houdé Nation feeling really good. I'm taking off for visiting days for our kids. O'Shea Jackson Jr. will be in this chair tomorrow doing a double dip. O'Shea's on his way. And then Seth Rollins is back to guest host this show on Thursday and Friday. Then I'll be back Monday from Michigan for Kyle Whittingham's golf tournament. We'll be there live. 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. The Rich Eisen Show, the podcast.

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