Hour 3: NCAA Tournament Expansion Reactions, plus ‘The Boys’ Star Chace Crawford In-Studio

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1:52Rich Eisen:Grumpy. Earlier You're on the show. Rams general manager, Les Snead. Saints head coach, Kellen Moore. Coming up. Actor, Chase Crawford. And now, it's Rich Eisen. Hour number three of the Rich Eisen show is on the air. Les Snead and hour number one. Hour number two, Kellen Moore of the New Orleans Saints. He's the head coach there. I did my top ten, if you will, power rankings of NFL draftees who will live up to the billing the most. All of that, if you missed it, there's our YouTube channel, youtube.com slash Rich Eisen Show. We chopped this show up and put it there for so many of you to take in.

2:34Rich Eisen:And we greatly appreciate that. We're closing in on almost 1.1 million subscribers on that one or followers or whatever they're calling it. They're on YouTube right now. Subscribers, very good. And then there's also our Disney Plus page. As soon as the show's over, the show lives on. It just lives on. forever forever no i don't think so forever i need to look that's a mighty long time i know but it lives on long enough for you to watch it back if you missed any of it that's true um so there's that youtube started in oh five so yeah i mean we're we're going no i'm sure um did we get our plaque yet yeah where is our million plaque yeah i mean come on this is ridiculous i'm gonna make a phone call i'm trying i got photo shoot set up you know do you really what's what's the photo shoot well you'll see it with the plaque when we get it well it's like the cup we're getting yeah we're all we all get a day with it are we on the pain of mind list is that what you're saying yeah that's what i'm saying okay um at any rate you can watch the first two hours and catch up there's our podcast as well all three hours if you want to listen to it chase crawford's in our green room speaking of podcasts there's one this afternoon as well oh that's right uh is o'shea gonna make it here he's on his way he'll be here is he gonna make it here for the talk about how what's going on higher register on yeah he rarely misses his time to sit in that The fifth and final season of The Boys.

3:51Rich Eisen:New episodes release Wednesdays on Prime Video. The man who plays the deep is in our green room right now. Chase Crawford. It'll be a lot of fun chatting with him. We haven't had him here in a few years. He's back. Listen, out of all the things people are asking for in this sports world, there's many. Of all the things, the one that we're asking about for the least, I would think, is to expand the NCAA men's and women's tournament. Nobody asked for that. From 64 teams to 76. Nobody's asking for this. It's 14 more teams. Okay. I guess the NCAA or whoever's in charge of making this decision sees the first four and goes, we need more of that.

4:38Rich Eisen:We need more of that. I'll be straight up with you. I'll be straight up with you. You know, I love college basketball when my team does well. and when they don't i just don't pay that much attention to it same straight up agree and if my team is uh and then when the tournament rolls around i will be of interest yep it will be of interest but uh even doing this show i'm not locked into the first four on either side men's or women's just not and on the women's side of things you know things really begin to cook maybe around the Sweet 16. You take a look at the first two rounds, it is a rarity to have a lower seed win a first round or even a second round game.

5:22Rich Eisen:I think there was one upset maybe. Right. Yeah. I mean, I'm looking at the women's bracket right here. You know, Virginia beat Iowa in two overtimes in the round of 32 in the second round. And what were the seeds on that? 10 over 2. Okay. So that was a pretty big one. That's a big upset. But then TCU restored order, if you will, beating Virginia by 10. South Carolina, all four one seeds made it. But that happened in the men's the other couple years ago. But on the women's side especially, you're getting 40, 50-point blowouts. That's not good for anybody. I mean, there are some tight games I'm looking at here in the first round.

6:03Rich Eisen:But to say you need to see 12 more teams, I don't understand it. you know trust me um we're we're all into the more is more situation here certainly you know we live on a an espn app disney plus app we're just like keep on adding content if we can be part of it we're in like i mean we're all about more is more like as a matter of fact you want to call up the relegation zone again like we'll just go back down to that that do that one more time there it is the nba three teams top worst three teams in their in the nba draft we're giving you a visual of what the relegation zone is. It's three teams that are trapped in a mirror, hurtled into the deep space of the NBA.

6:48Rich Eisen:I'll make that joke again. Maybe in five minutes. We're all about more is more. You know? But this ain't it. I don't understand. Pete Thamel, who I saw at the NFL draft, says that NFL officials met with media partners for the men's tournament last week. The sides were in the final steps of the media contracts, but they haven't been signed. The expansion isn't expected to be a financial windfall for the NCAA and its members, but sources stress there would be a profit. The added finances would cover the additional logistics for both the men's and women's tournaments, the additional NCAA units that would come into play and still deliver, quote unquote, a modest financial upside.

7:34Rich Eisen:The primary driver of this move hasn't been money, but rather access for at-large bids for power conferences. Ah, okay. Alright, that looks like, don't sue us. We'll flip you a few at-large bids. Don't sue us about the other stuff that we might want to do to lock you out. Is that what that sounds like to me? The expansion has been pushed by power conferences, which have grown throughout the course of the current deal. What do we need to see the 12th team in the Big Ten and SEC? Does it matter if that allows the big conferences to grow bigger and maybe start doing things on the football side of things?

8:10Rich Eisen:I don't know. I'm totally speculating there, but that's what that sounds like to me. Don't sue us. Here's more at-large bids. Then we'll knock you out. What does that mean, though? Does that mean the Final Four happens on the second weekend of April? No? Deeper into April? Masters weekend and the Final Four? No, no, no. No, no, no. That would not be good. Why? Why? CBS. Yeah, CBS has them both. Okay. I'll put it on TBS then. That's true. Is that what that would mean? Or you start it sooner? That's right. Start it sooner? That's, again, sports fans. Listen, hey, we like sitting down. I should say, I shouldn't speak for everybody because you're not a golf fan.

8:57Rich Eisen:Do you sit down and watch the Masters? You really don't care. I mean, it's on. Got it. So I pay attention to it, but I'm nowhere near as a veteran. Yeah, where it's just like, you know. Living or dying with every shot. It's a holiday we have for me. There are a few, I would think, speaking for many who view sports, the Masters are, if you had to name five sporting events where it's Leave Me Alone for the Day, everyone else in my orbit, it's the Masters Sunday. Sunday, 100%. Masters Sunday is like Leave Me Alone. All I want to sit there and just say, are those bird noises real? Because I don't care.

9:34Rich Eisen:They are. They are. It just makes me calmer. I'm calmer. Let's talk a little bit more firethorn. Hush tones, though. I did go. Is that the loudest anyone's ever said firethorn? Speaking of which, see, more is more. More is more. Except for this. I had an Uber driver in Pittsburgh and he told me something about the Masters. We were talking golf. and yeah did you know that there was a they were selling a food box i never knew this you guys put it at the mat for like like two dollars no for like a hundred bucks you get all the food that they serve at the masters mailed to you and like a mailed to you oh you can get this you can get like and so he is it the food ornament is it the food that the that patrons can purchase right or is it like the leftovers of rory's dinner no not to let the the stuff you can purchase the drink mixes you get the pimento cheese oh yeah oh so you can have it at home yeah he told me here's a box you can buy and you can get the full effect writing this down for next year here's a new here's a new one you can get vj singh's half-eaten veal shank now that's on ebay where you go to find that's a fantasy name is it too long for fantasy a little long i don't think vj's half-eaten veal shank fit in the 25 characters but yeah i i i assume you knew this Chris but I guess no that's great I love that that's next level yeah but yes leave me alone master Sunday right but certainly you don't we don't need um what I mean well that would be the women's women's final final final game final yeah come on final game now I've I've heard putting the men's and the women's tournaments in the same city that's a great that's a good idea I like that Because when you're in between games of the women.

11:31Rich Eisen:Because the women play Friday. It'll go Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. I like that. And the Friday and Sunday would be for fans that are there in between the men's game. And the men's game will be there in between for the women's game. It's a lot of people. It's a lot of people in the town. It's a lot of hotels. I don't know if now the women don't have their own stage in a different city. I don't know if that would be a concern. Would have worked for UConn fans. Would have worked. Same. Well. Same venue. Yeah. Yeah. They would have left both very unhappy, as I like to point out. Very happy.

12:07Rich Eisen:Very unhappy. So. You know. They would be the ones ranting and raving. I don't know. We just don't. What are we doing? No. There's not a single person that's like, you know what? I would love. You would love to have more of the games that you won't forget. and more of the games that are going down a wire right you'd love to have that so this would be an expansion of the like tuesday wednesday games not i don't not the actual first round i imagine you're adding 12 teams so we're not adding you're adding you're adding 12 teams which would mean six more games and I imagine that would be, you know, now you'd get a 17 and an 18 seed.

12:55Rich Eisen:Is that what it would be? Or that's too many. You'd add maybe you'd add more first four. Right. But those what I'm saying is, you know, they're usually the first four winners. The expansion would be in the first four. Either the 16 seed or they're the 10 seed or the 11 seed. They'd be in the first four. And so instead of the 16 seed being either or the 15 would be that way 14 13 so it doesn't happen so we're not asking for that nobody is nobody's asking i don't think so except maybe the lawyer's saying you don't want to get sued if you leave the at-large people out so now boom you're doing that uh yeah no thanks no thank you no thank you less is more in that respect it would be yeah So, there's all of that.

13:44Rich Eisen:Let's go to Dominic in Montana. Sky Country's been hanging on for some time. Big Sky Dom joining us here on the Rich Eisen Show. What's up? Hey, Rich. Good morning. Hey, I'm a Broncos fan, and when Ty Simpson was drafted, I couldn't help think of Bo Nix both as an injury, the injury to Bo Nix, and also as a player comp to Bo Nix. And I just think using the 13th overall pick to have a reliable backup is huge just looking at the Broncos last year well I again the one thing I didn't want to because I you know I think I asked uh Les most everything the one thing I would would ask him if I wasn't already sensing like he was kind of done with the subject um would be like are you really going to go into this season where it's Matthew Stafford potentially winning it all for you with your backups being uh Spencer Stetson Bennett and and Ty Simpson.

14:41Rich Eisen:I don't know about that, man. I'd try and get Jimmy G back if I could. But I saw a stat here. Do I have it here? Here it is. Ty Simpson had the fourth lowest interception percentage in a season among quarterbacks in current Power 4 schools in the last 10 years. A minimum of 450 attempts. That list is led by Bo Nix. in 2023, his interception percentage was 0.6%. As you've noticed, I'm sure, Dominic is being a Broncos fan. He does not put the ball in danger. That might be just all of his years of experience. He's a coach's son. Do not put the ball in danger. Caleb Williams and Dak Prescott are next at 1 % in their seasons at USC and Mississippi State.

15:29Rich Eisen:And right after that, at 1.1 % is Ty Simpson last year and Joe Burrow of 2019. yeah he looks so much like Bo Nix well he plays and then Stafford's 38-39 Rich he's old yeah but if he wants to keep playing Dominic then the floor is his you know what I mean like the floor is yours man and that's the issue is that if he wants the floor to be his until it's his decision it's not anymore and thank you for the call Dominic I make this joke with my with agent of the stars jerry silbowitz all the time it's wrong i make this it's not a joke either though but it's just i never know when i'm gonna get tapped on my shoulder i'm like let's avoid the shoulder tap for as long as possible yeah right and i'll tell you what you know we got tapped on the shoulder here on this show in 2019 and thanks to all of you here in this studio and everyone else that's behind the scenes here saying you're gonna stick with it we're still here but we got a shoulder tap in 2019 we were able to shrug it off yeah but nobody wants the shoulder tap you want to say i'm here until i don't want to be here anymore exactly you know you're fortunate enough to do what you do for the living and you're you you're tapping yourself on the shoulder we keep telling you to tap yourself on the shoulder more often you go to your boat instead of working faders for white socks athletics on fs9 it's the truth you know but i mean i like what i do and And it's like, if I stop, I feel like I'm not going to, I get why these guys want to stay too.

17:01Rich Eisen:Right. Because it's, they love it. So if Stafford views this as, wait a minute. So at some point, you're going to want to see what this kid does. What if I'm still working at it here? Doing what I do, loving what I love. And at some point, you know, if I'm say 40 and I still want to do it. and my wife and I decide with our girls that we're still doing this football playing thing that I want to do it. And then all of a sudden I throw a couple interceptions and they're like, you know, now I'm looking over my shoulder. Whereas when, you know, the Dolphins were picking 12th overall, that wasn't the case.

17:49Rich Eisen:I was going to be the one tapping myself on the shoulder. So you can't blame if Stafford has that flowing through his temples. You know, but the bottom line is there's no easy way to script it. There's no easy way to script it. And you got to plan for the future. If you're less need, you do have to look over the steering wheel. And at some point you were going to do it. I always thought it would be let Stafford ride it out as long as he wants and then throw it open to the NFL community. Who wants to be the next Los Angeles Rams quarterback and throw that into the pond of all the Pro Bowl quarterbacks out there who might want to force their way out of a situation and see what flies.

18:45Rich Eisen:But that's not a plan. A plan is we're drafting Ty Simpson. We love him. He and Sean McVay get along. They have a similar brain and a similar mindset. And if he is a Bo Nix type guy, tough, you know, not that big in stature, but big in terms of playing and connected to the head coach, Sean Payton chose him. Now, everyone keeps saying that Sean Payton didn't really choose him. Everyone else choosing someone else left him for Sean Payton to take. But what if Bo Nix was Sean Payton's guy going in in the same way Ty Simpson was Sean McVay's guy going in, but we just won't buy that because the rest of the NFL community, save of Dan Orlovsky and everyone else, said this guy's a second round pick.

19:29Rich Eisen:So now he's taking this spot. You're like, what's up with that? And the most important what's up with that isn't me, isn't you, with all due respect for Les Snead and Sean McVay, it is Matthew Stafford. It's on them to manage all that. But I don't want the shoulder tap. You don't want the shoulder tap. Anyone else doesn't want the shoulder tap, and Stafford doesn't want it. He wants to tap himself on his shoulder. And now he might sit there and think, I'm no longer in that position. No matter how much the management might say, no, you still are. 844-204-RICH, number to dial Chase Crawford is coming up next, right here on the Rich Eisen Show.

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23:07Rich Eisen:our radio audience just returned the boys fifth and final season uh new episodes released wednesday on prime video uh and chase crawford is here and you know the way it was described to me because sometimes with what i do here and the nfl network i'm not directly immediately on a show like it took me a few months to get into breaking bad for instance years ago me too the way it was described to me is if superheroes have no conscience at all about actually doing superhero stuff that they're about themselves and it's crazy it's wild yeah right yeah you're gonna love it so i watch it and then you know um not to spoil it but there is a highly graphic moment involving Jack Quaid with his girlfriend.

23:59Rich Eisen:Right. And A-Train runs through. And no show makes me say holy S out loud more than the boys. Like, I'm like, what is their malfunction? What, like, where do they come up with this stuff? Yeah. It's gory. It's graphic. It's hilarious. It's unpredictable. You don't really know what's going to happen. Ever. That's the thing. Ever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is there ever a moment where you get in the script, you're like, really? You're going to ask me to do that? Oh, God, yes. All the time. Every year I'm like, oh, good. We did the hard thing. We did the hard thing. I'm good now. Now it's off the easy stuff, you know?

24:39Right. But that opening hook was what, like, you know, Breaking Bad was a little bit more of a slower burn. Right. But that hook with him and Jackie, or Robin, I'm sorry, at the beginning. Right. You think, you know, it's this kind of rom-com. Yeah. It's kind of like the same old, I've seen this before.

24:54Rich Eisen:Yeah. And then that moment, that's when it turns. You realize, oh, this is not your normal superhero show or any type of PG situation with the formulaic arc. But yeah, season three, that's when I had to be like, what are the camera angles going to be for this? And do I need to call my mom? Yes, the answer is yes. The answer is yeah, yeah. Have you ever called anybody in your family to say, don't watch tonight? I think there was when I was like, mom, I mean, you might need to fast, you know, fast forward through episode three of season three. But, you know, God bless them. They sometimes would just fast forward to my stuff and watch my stuff because the blood and the gore was, I think, the harder thing for them to watch.

25:36But the character of The Deep was brilliant. You know, they really, everything was so funny.

25:43Rich Eisen:It's like if Aquaman was a sex addict and had no real moral compass. Yeah, right. You know what I mean? Like a little Zoolander in there, you know. exactly where but that's the celebrity aspect of it as well because you know it is still if you will a fake marvel world where you are put out as a movie star yeah who is also in real life still a superhero with no moral compass yeah whatsoever and a lot of flashes of moments like that right Right, right, right, right, right. But no more like super narcissistic, only really cares about like holding onto their identity and being a part of this thing and being famous, you know, really, you know, comment on fame.

26:28But yeah, a lot of the fun stuff was like the in-world like commercials too that we did, you know, that he had to do for like, he was also like a D-list actor. Like he'd be like, he was in these like Lifetime movies and like did soy sauce commercials, which is really, really fun. So I thought, you know, they really played into all that and Amazon marketing played into all that. It was really, really fun. No doubt about it.

26:49Rich Eisen:I mean, I think, Chris, you were the one who was just like, you have to watch the boys. You have to watch the show. Because you were like, this is wild. And I'm like, I haven't had the time. And you're like, you got to do it. Make the time. Do it. You won't regret it. But it's so, like you said, it's so sick and twisted. And I can't stop watching it, though. Yeah, no, I know. And for the Superman character to be on the plane, you think he's going to save everybody. Oh, my God. Exactly. No, no, no. I'm not saving anyone. No, no. I can't carry this plane. Well, I mean, and it's played by Anthony Starr, who is unreal.

27:21Rich Eisen:Yeah. As just the most, like, imagine Superman having, again, no moral compass. He views all the people he saves as helpful to his image and his world. Like, it's all narcissistic. None of it is altruistic. Yeah. It's wild. He's also deeply insecure when you see his quiet moments. He's like obsession with milk. Oh, my God. There is no show like it. There's no show like it. And I know they were kind of wanting to cast, like maybe put a bunch of friends in it and famous. But then they kind of went away from that idea. And I think he made a tape. He'd done Banshee, the show Banshee. And I think he made one.

28:01He was in New Zealand, made one tape. And I think they were like, that's our guy. And it was really a quick kind of a casting thing. but I can't imagine anyone else playing that role. He should have gotten a little more love, award show love, to be honest, but yeah.