Hour 3: Lamar Jackson Out Weeks Reaction, plus ‘Chad Powers’ Star Glen Pow-ell In-Studio

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1:47Three-time Super Bowl champion Mark Schlereth. Coming up from Hulu's Chad Powers, Glenn Powell, and Michael Waldron. And now, it's Rich Eisen.

2:01Rich Eisen:Well, hey, everybody. Hour number three of the Rich Eisen Show is on the air. Chad Powers is in our green room. Well, it's actually Glenn Powell, much handsomer than Chad Powers. The famous Eli Manning video in which he snuck into Penn State practices and tryouts with, you know, a disguise. As Chad Powers has now become a television show. And the man who plays Chad Powers is Glenn Powell. and Michael Waldron is the writer slash showrunner that Glenn connected with to create this character and all six episodes can be seen on Hulu. Premieres today with two episodes on Hulu, which is part, as you know, of the Disney world.

2:47Rich Eisen:We're on Disney Plus, ESPN the app, and ESPN Radio presented by Progressive Insurance. Right now, the world of playoff baseball is underway. Beautiful blue skies in Cleveland, Ohio, where Tarek Skubal is protecting a 1-0 lead. His teammates and the Tigers gave him in the first inning. So that one he is matriculating through. I believe, is that a four I can see on my screen? Bottom four? Is that where we are? Bottom four. Bottom four. As you're coming on the air. Yeah, you betcha. You betcha. 844-204-RICH is the number to dial on the program. According to the Baltimore Sun, Lamar Jackson's hamstring injury is a two - to three-weeker.

3:27Rich Eisen:And even if it's just the three weeks, not a biggie, because the third week from now, they're on a bye. So it's just two games that he might miss. And it's Cooper Rush getting the gig maybe this weekend. It's not official, but it's against the Houston Texans at 1-3. the battle for trying not to go one and four of division winners from last year. Yikes. And then the Rams come in. So the Rams have got a short week game against the San Francisco 49ers, and then they're in Baltimore against what appears to be Cooper Rush, and no Ronquan Smith either. He's out with an injury as well. So they're out their actual quarterback and the quarterback of their defense.

4:09Rich Eisen:If you want to consider Roquan that, because Kyle Hamilton does a ton as well. He's one of the few that are knock on whatever this is healthy in Baltimore. And then the Rams after that will go to London to take on the Jaguars, the second of two games. I'll be calling on NFL Network just trying to weave it all together for you that the Ravens at one and three will have to try and dig out of that hole with Cooper Rush at quarterback who has done it before for the Dallas Cowboys. And Dak was also a guy that can throw it and run it back in the day. You know, he doesn't run it as much anymore. So, you know, don't forget, they went and got Cooper Rush for their backup, and this is it.

4:54Rich Eisen:This is why you have a backup quarterback for this very moment, for a two, three, four-game stretch to keep things afloat or to keep things from sinking lower. And that's a big gig for Cooper Rush here. Good thing is that Henry's healthy, Zay Flowers is healthy, Rashad Bateman is healthy. DeAndre Hopkins is healthy. Justice Hill is healthy. Mark Andrews. It's just the other side of the football that is an absolute mash unit right now. It's amazing. You know, the Bengals, will there be enough of a season if Burrow comes back in December? And now we're talking about for the Ravens, is there going to be enough of a season when, you know, Lamar comes back before November?

5:38Rich Eisen:man after the bye it's home for Chicago then at Monday night at Thursday night at Miami that's three in a row they're going to have on the road at Minnesota at Cleveland home for the Jets there's some winnable games out there I mean I mean if they're one in five though you think Cooper Rush is going to lose them both you really think so yeah for sure let me tell you what everybody and again we'll find out if I'm right about Jake Browning I know a lot of people think I'm wrong, including everybody else looking at me on Disney Plus, ESPN, the app, and in this room. Okay? I understand. Not named Browning or Jordan Palmer, our first hour guest.

6:15Rich Eisen:But, hey, Cooper, take your first meaningful snaps for the Baltimore Ravens against the three-time defending AFC champion Kansas City Chiefs in Arrowhead, with them playing at the top of their game, all of a sudden. and now take every rep at home you're taking on the one in three houston texans that have trouble protecting their quarterback and coming up with a running game with them coming off of their only win of the season feeling good about themselves against the tennessee titans team that's yet to win uh you know what i mean like it's a much better circumstance he's not facing that he's facing will anderson and daniel hunter got it i got it And they just shut out a rookie, which they were supposed to do.

7:03Rich Eisen:You're right. It doesn't look great for the Ravens. It looks dire. But even if they're 2-4 coming off of their bye, then Lamar sticks his foot in the ground. Will they be 12-5 again? Winning 11-12? Doubt it. Is that 10 wins maybe enough to win the division? We'll see what the Steelers do from 3-1 coming off their bye. We'll see what they do. You're right, though. So as you said, TJ, in the overreaction Monday on a Tuesday segment, the Steelers, I mean, if you told the Steelers, you're going to win three of your first four going into the bye with no significant season-long injuries, of which to speak, Joe Burrow's going to be out for most of the season, and the Ravens are going to be one and three with Lamar going down for two to three weeks after that, and the Browns are going to be essentially the Browns, where the defense is great, and the offense leaves you wondering what direction the entire franchise is going in.

7:57Rich Eisen:would they have signed that piece of paper quicker than you can say I don't even know what you just said quicker than the hiccup looks good looks good for the Steelers so far and the Ravens are entering dire straight waters right now money for nothing I won't even say what else is free Mark Schwerth would two or four rich yeah I know fantastic Hey, it's a Tuesday, so we just did Overreaction Monday on a Tuesday. You know what Tuesday's about, too. Jerry Jones is speaking locally on the radio. Come on. I told you the way it was going to work, TJ. Yeah, you tried to. No, no, no. I told you the way it's going to work.

8:42Rich Eisen:The Micah Parsons stuff is going to reach a fever pitch when Micah comes back and then after that game Jerry's going to speak on his radio show and it's going to be brought up one last time. and then we'll see what happens after that and then after that i don't know you know um i don't i don't know how often it's going to be brought up to jerry jones again and because if micah starts doing particularly well he might come on the radio and talk about his patience being thin to jack around with his with his hosts you know that's one of our favorite drops that we have jack with you okay so that may happen if the packers go on a run and the and the Cowboys lose to the Jets, and it starts getting ugly.

9:25Rich Eisen:But right now, Jerry's feeling good about the trade. He's up for talking about it. Oh, yeah. The first order of business, Jerry, with 105.3 The Fan, talking about the Micah sack, and how does he feel about the trade now? He might have gained yards on that. I don't know. I don't know the detail on it. That's a good test out there. when you don't have a player anymore. He's not, he's lining up directly against you, plus you don't have him on your defensive side of the ball. Now, that's a real good test. And I'm glad that everybody got to see it, where it goes. And it left me feeling good about our trade.

10:09Rich Eisen:Feels good about the trade. Chris, feels good about the trade. Because he won the trade. He should feel great. That's what you were, you're beginning to start saying that in overreaction Monday. Now you're outside of the construct of overreaction Monday. It's still too soon to say it, but Kenny Clark is an excellent player. They have two firsts in their back pocket for the next two drafts. And Micah got only one sack of Dak and it was one for no gain, but he did save a touchdown in an overtime contest that wound up in a tie. And the Cowboys, after being down 13 to nothing, put their foot down and started playing much better football.

10:46Rich Eisen:and you'll hear what he feels of his defense in a moment, but the whole Micah didn't hear from Jerry thing, and that was the whole business of Micah saying, hey, Kenny Clark heard from Brian Gutekunst to say, we're trading you. He didn't hear such a thing from Jerry and took that as a sign of disrespect, and as a matter of fact, they didn't even talk since OTAs, which is the spring. This was brought up to Jerry Jones again on 105.3 The Fan. I really don't want to respond to that at all. I'm in deference to you very much. But that phone call thing got stopped when he told me to take his number off my dial.

11:33So I was, don't call him anymore. So I got those calls.

11:37Rich Eisen:Told him to lose my number. You got to lose my number. Do you really think this page has been turned, man? Not a chance. No. I also don't think that Micah said that to Jerry. You didn't think he went full Ricky? Lose my number? You don't want to call nobody else? Yeah. Send it off in a letter. That's it. To yourself. That's it. Oh, yeah. You guys know that. By the way, we need to stop right now, though. Just for my own personal sake. Susie despises Steely Dan. How? With every fiber of her being. I'm texting her right now. You just thought Peg was going to come back. Steely Dan. doesn't understand steely dan doesn't understand why i like steely dan there's no i understand why other humans like steely dan i mean like with the fury of the white steely dan is one of the greatest music listen jerry jerry was told to lose you think that he's making that up i i you think he's basically saying you think a 25 year old kid talking to his boss says lose my number well i mean when when you're talking like this sort of thing here but it is again the whole point of it is is just like i it's it's wild that we're having this conversation right now it's nuts you know because that is one of those things where it's just like okay okay like okay it's better left unsaid although i guess if he's being accused of like you weren't man enough to speak to me um and you um you disrespected me and he knows that I was told to just lose my number.

13:09Rich Eisen:But that's the sort of stuff you need to overlook as somebody who's in charge of an organization. Just like overlook it. You can't be in cut feelings, man. That's worth$10 billion. Even he said that when money's at stake, people start getting angry. By the way, Rich, I just texted Susie. I said, what's your beef with Steely Dan? She wrote back a word that I can't say. Oh, no. Send that off in a letter. Something I can't say worst. Yeah. There's the opposite of no static at all. She has all the static. Don't do that again. I'm done. Pick. But Jerry liked the way things finished up for the Dallas Cowboys.

13:46Rich Eisen:Said that the defense played better as the game went on. Even though they scored 40 points, our defense improved as that game went along right before your eyes. And we did make some stops that were out there that were key stops. against a fine offensive football team in Green Bay. So I think your eyes didn't betray you and that we got better as that game went along.

14:17Rich Eisen:I mean... We need to make sure that Jerry lives forever. Like, how do we ensure that? I'm sure... I don't know. I do love the guy. He's been so great to NFL Network and the NFL. and and and it's like weekly tuesday fodder for us i mean it's too good uh you know even with all that i i i am compelled to point out here's the green bay second half possessions touchdown touchdown touchdown field goal field goal right they're five but they did prevent the touchdown at the end to preserve the tie sure that's great but i understand what he's saying I understand what he's saying as well. I'm glad you understand.

15:03Rich Eisen:No, no, no, no, no. I don't. Diggs was making plays after getting torched. You know what I mean? Like, there are some... I understand why he's saying what he's saying. You know what I mean? No, I don't. Okay. Trying to be... Don't you think Diggs played a better game? We gave him 40 points. Okay. 40. That's a lot. Well, 40. Here they go into MetLife. Last time they went there, the Jets won it. I'll never forget that. I was in London. I was ahead of Michael Irvin's, my ESPN app, watching it on the dots. We were at dinner. The whole crew was at dinner. Susie was there. Some of Susie's friends, our friends were all there in London.

15:43Rich Eisen:It was like about 12 people. Kurt and Brenda Warner were there. Mooch was there. We were all there. And my app was in front of his iPad, watching it on the game pass. He had a delay. Yeah, yeah, he had a delay. So I got the information before he did it, and I saw that the Jets were about to score a touchdown. like sam darnold found it for somebody i think it would have been robbie anderson for a gajillion yards or dak got pit six one or the other and i the dot just went across the screen i just looked at michael just getting ready for watch him watch it he watched it took his took his ipad left the london restaurant still hasn't paid us part of his bill at any rate love you michael look who's joining us next michael waldron who's brought to life chad powers and chad powers himself, Glenn Powell, coming up.

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17:59Bringing people into the world of college football, there's nothing like it. You know, the passion around it and, you know, even just, you know, I've been to the I've been to Stanford Field. You know, you've been to DKR and it's like, you know, sharing sharing that, you know, is a is a really special experience. And this show just really, I think, just really taps into that kind of passion. But the stakes around it, the fun part about it is that we have a show in which we use that sort of device that Eli had, which is like you knew that Eli Manning was under that mask on the Penn State tryout.

18:28So we get to take that sort of same device and have kind of that crazy pressure cooker of a team that's vying for a national title.

18:35Rich Eisen:But meanwhile, their quarterback is not who he says he is. It's Chad Powers here. Glenn Powell and Michael Waldron, the co-creators and executive producers. of the highly anticipated show based off the Eli Manning video from years ago. It premieres today with two episodes on Hulu. New episodes release weekly on Tuesdays. Our ESPN radio audience has just rejoined us, and it is really awesome to see this thing come to life right here. And so it was out there amongst the world that Omaha was looking to do this, that Eli was looking to do this, and did you pitch the Mannings? Did they pitch you? How does this work?

19:13We weren't the ones insane enough to say, let's chase it. Glenn and I had been buddies and had wanted to do something together. And like Glenn said, we bonded over our love of college football. Glenn is a Texas fan. I went to UGA. And we thought that maybe this is a great opportunity to do sort of the modern story. set in the world of college football. But what I think was really funny with Eli in particular is like, I mean, our pitch was like a no-brainer. I think we blew it out of the water. But what was really, really funny is, you know, Eli is the best. Am I allowed to say s*** talker on here?

20:01Go for it. Okay, cool. Great. He's the best s*** talker out there. The Manning brothers. I don't know. This interview just got way better.

20:10Rich Eisen:And that's kind of sneaky about Eli. you know is that he is exactly what you're saying but he comes across you know when he's such a ball buster i'll tell you an eli story it's right as we right as we started developing this with those guys it's like for it's cool to be on a email chain with eli manning i'm like i'm riding high off of that alone and so uh every thanksgiving my family has a thanksgiving football game. And one Thanksgiving, I was playing quarterback, and I had a pretty impressive touchdown pass, I thought, that was caught on video. And so I sent it to our Chad Powers email chain, and about a week later, I got an email back from Eli, where he had broken it down and just eviscerated me with graphics Oh my goodness.

21:10From the Manning cast. Just, I mean, really pulver about my form and my mechanics and everything, which are not good. And that really sums up the Eli experience. How'd you take it? It was wonderful. I showed it to everyone I knew.

21:25Rich Eisen:Yeah, it's great. And what was your contact with Eli? I mean, the funny part about it is as we started, as we were pitching, it's like, what a what are the funny parts is eli just goes hey i'm worried about your form and i was like okay like why i was like you know i played high school football but i'm not you know and he goes uh he goes i saw top gun maverick and i was like okay a beach football sequence is not indicative i said i said first off those balls yes we're covered in coconut oil everyone was greased up everybody knows that dog fight football doesn't exist yes and it's not about the form, it's about the flexing.

22:03You know, and I said, that's what I said. Once you get me on the field, there will be no coconut oil in sight. This is about a different thing. You're going to have your shirt on the whole thing. I mean, well, it's shirt soft. I don't want to deceive people into thinking that Glenn's shirt is on the whole time of the show. I'd like people to watch.

22:23Rich Eisen:I didn't mean to denigrate the product in advance. But Eli did, you know, connect us with, you know, like the greatest coaches you know in the game I was I was with uh Nick Sheminek who's uh who's a Patrick Mahomes's coach and so we really you know I had Pat O 'Hara who's a former offensive coordinator for the the Titans on me just to make sure and the funny part is is every practice I went to there was obviously you know footage of it and I didn't realize that all the footage was going straight to Peyton and Eli so I would get texts from them about hey hey try to look in your fingers right before the snap or hey make sure I didn't see that your eyes were on the on the safety here that's where you should be reading right now so i was literally like oh wow we got to be so everything that you see in the show the thing i'm really proud of in the show yes is that it is funny as hell i mean it is and i've showed it to people across the board people love the show but the thing i'm really proud of is people that really know football are going to look at and go wow that's head to toe legit you know i love that so the mannings were less interested in the plot and the content and more interested in you looking like a quarterback?

23:30Rich Eisen:Like, where do we parcel this out percentage-wise? It is one of the things I worried about the most when creating this show. I mean, think about it. It's like, we're all football fans. You watch top-tier quarterbacks play every week, right? And you know what that looks like. And look, I'm an actor, right? Like, I'm not pretending to be, you know, a top-tier athlete, but that magic trick has to exist regardless. You have to believe this guy is one of the best, you know, in the world. and so you know i definitely lowered my head to try to try to make sure audiences weren't like oh my god because we've all seen that go wrong and it's you out there yeah and that and that's and you did the work and it's glenn out there in the helmet you know and and making those throws and and yeah they cared they cared as much about the mechanics as they did about the uh about the plot okay it was fun it's actually eli came to the writer's room just to make sure everything even around the football not even the stuff on the field was legit you know how it all form but but when you're talking about you know peyton and eli obviously have experienced what it is to be in a a big game environment in college so all the life around it really was uh was thought about just to make sure that we're we're insulating the show with authenticity so eli manning comes to the writers room of chad powers yeah yes and where does this rank for you in terms of pressure that you've i mean you've been with this show loki heels you know our michael malley has been on this program you brought james harrison with him by the way yeah which uh definitely you know that might bring some pressure when you're handing a script to james harrison he doesn't like a line make sure you're writing good stuff for him understood you know when when harrison might give you a little look yeah yeah where is eli manning strolling into a writer's room right well i mean eli is really tall i think that eli is huge it's in it and it's and i so i mean yeah and timid.

25:21Rich Eisen:I mean, I guess I'm talking about you to be physically hurt. Oh, I was, I was worried about you to be physically hurt. I wasn't, I mean, that one I wasn't concerned about, you know. I've never seen Eli lower his shoulder on anybody. As in his career, in this second life as a creative. But you've got to get this right, though. No, I mean, he was honestly, he was, he was so amazingly helpful and just fielding questions from our writer's room about, Because the show, audiences can watch great football Saturdays, Sundays, and part of the fun of the show is filling in what are these coaches, these players doing between the games.

26:03Because Glenn's character is trying to keep up this disguise, not just on the field, but in every moment before and after the game. So Eli, he helped fill in the life of a college quarterback.