Hour 3: Rich Talks Eagles, 49ers, and Kyler Murray’s Return as Vikings’ QB1

22:39Appreciate it. Back at it. Feeling good, Louis.

22:42Rich Eisen:Feeling great, Rich. Thank you. You know, like the best part of this past weekend, past two weekends, is just seeing this defense. And I've been saying it all along, and it was nice to hear Marcus Spears say the same thing, is when both sides of the ball are clicking, we're a very dangerous team. And, you know, hopefully we can keep a receiver on the field throughout the year. But if we stay healthy, we're a good team, and it's going to be a fun – It's going to be a fun NFC West. Hey, listen, I'm going to say this with the ultimate of respect, that we'll find out, okay, in the coming days, and it could even be next week, Terzo, if this defense got a nice leg up facing a completely jet-lagged Rams team out of their gourds, and then a Miami team that just really doesn't have the offensive weaponry without Malik Willis trying to pull off some dazzling play because he has to.

23:36Rich Eisen:Because Arizona's coming in, and you know there's a history of Arizona coming into your building and ruining your Sunday. And they've got some weapons, pal. They've done it before. They've done it before. Yeah, that team. So we'll see. You know, Denver then comes in. You've got to go to Seattle. Hoping for Washington's sake, because it's in a month from now, that potentially for that Monday nighter that Jaden Daniels could be back. I don't know. I just went higher register. Atlanta may be a different story by the time you're seeing because Penix can have some some hot time under his belt. I'm just throwing that out there because it's a long season.

24:12Rich Eisen:But for the first two games, first two games, you know, combined score of 62 to 20. Check the box, pal. Check it. 100 percent, Rich. And I was in the stadium last year for when Arizona came in and it came down to an Eddie field goal to win it. So Arizona always plays a tough, and they got a really stout defense, and they've been playing well already. So it's going to be just, like I said, it's going to be a fun race in the NFC West. Absolutely. Terzo and Iowa, thanks so much. And in terms of the Niners, that game in Atlanta, how's that going to work, huh? Coming back with Raheem Morris and Kyle Shanahan, who was the OC there that year.

24:49Rich Eisen:We all know Matt Ryan's now the team president. That's going to be – very rarely do you talk about San Francisco and Atlanta having a history other than them once upon a time sharing a division because the NFL's geography was way the F off back in the day. Atlanta was an NFC West team. Look it up, kids. But check the box. Niners defense with Raheem Morris. What a favor Atlanta did by bouncing him in time for them to hire him, which they did on the spot. Former Rams coordinator too. So obviously knows the team that you're going to have to beat twice. And they already have once. And 20 points is what they've given up.

25:29Rich Eisen:That's it combined. End of story. And Purdy has looked terrific. On the ground, in the air, not making too many mistakes. Tapped his chest when he made one in Australia. And then after that, just pushed the pedal to the metal. And he looks awesome. McCaffrey doing Hall of Fame things. Hall of Fame things. He now has 50 or more touchdowns for two different franchises, San Francisco and Carolina. The only other human beings to have 50 or more touchdowns with multiple franchises are named Marshall Falk and Randy Moss. They're in the Hall of Fame. 100th career scrimmage touchdown now for him. In 114 career games, that's one game faster than Jerry Rice.

26:13Okay.

26:14Rich Eisen:Kittle scored a touchdown. Juszczyk scored a touchdown. And that sounds like, you know, Oprah. And so, you know, all of these guys together, you know, all of these guys together, certainly with the offensive weaponry now being down in the wide receiver position. And, you know, they've got to turn to McCaffrey and a fullback and a tight end, and they're doing it. And the question is now with, you know, one injury after another, Demarcus Robinson, who scored against the Rams in Australia, got carded off. And Shanahan was asked about what to do, what they're going to do to try and get more receivers on the field and in the system in time for the game three against Arizona.

27:02It has been unfortunate. I mean, that was, you know, it was big losing dribbling last week. You guys know how big it was losing Ricky over the summer. And then losing D-Rob today was huge. Christian Kirk's got a couple weeks before he can come back. But we still got a group of guys out there that we have played with that have done things. So I'm sure we'll have to add somebody, whether it's a practice squad or to the roster. But those are the things we'll start discussing tonight and hopefully have an answer by Wednesday. Brandon and I, you could all knock. No.

27:31Rich Eisen:Was that Crittenden laughing in the control room? I heard him laughing at that. It is funny. He's like, no. No. Like, no. Which is wild because they need him. Excuse me. It is wild. But my reaction to that would be this, okay? And this is a lesson for everybody. If my kids are watching at home, anybody else, there is going to be adversity that happens in your life and certainly your professional life, okay? Something's going to happen where your bosses piss you off. Something's going to happen at work where you feel disrespected, whether it's money or time or effort or assignment or whatever. It's going to happen.

28:11Rich Eisen:What you cannot do is tell the bosses, F you and stick it. Now, if you've got gajillions in the bank, I guess you can. Maybe it makes you feel good. Because if Brandon Ayuk didn't do any of that, he would either be on another team right now or the Niners would be calling him on speed dial. You know what I'm saying? Jimmy Garoppolo, once upon a time, knew it was over. After he took him to a Super Bowl and an NFC Championship game, knew it was over and maybe in his FU got his shoulder worked on. But he didn't come out and tell the Niners, didn't go on Instagram, didn't go on TikTok, didn't go on a speeding chase in front of the stadium.

29:09Rich Eisen:Didn't do any of that stuff. and he basically showed up at training camp because he had to, and they basically told him, you're 19th on the depth chart, and guess who played football for them later on that year?

29:27Rich Eisen:Don't forget about burning a bridge. Don't blow it up like it's over the River Kwai. Look that up as a reference. The disrespect is real. You know, again, by the way, that guy, that's Tyreek Hill. I don't know, man. And you take a look at what's going on at the receiver position in so many spots. If he's healthy, he is going to have a market. Should. A market. All right. I mean, Rosenhaus must be looking around at these rosters and going, okay. Everybody, you got my number.

30:05Rich Eisen:but man it would be nice if the Niners could have Ayuk as an option rather than the head coach going um what what was the what was the phrase that he used we have some people around here who have done some things for us like that's that's a better option than Brandon Ayuk yeah we got some people who can fog up a mirror because they've done some things for us around here we know them they know us we know them we'll get them off the practice squad or on a practice squad that's better than Brandon Ayuk. I mean, I'm sure Jerry Rice is in shape. He's running the hill right now, I'm sure. Rich, this kind of reminds me of my own situation.

30:38You know, years ago I got let go by AT &T, and I could have, you know, blew things up, but I tried to stay professional. I tried to do everything I could. You really fought for me with them to get me back, and that's the only reason I'm even sitting here because I didn't blow up. You know, I kind of saw a bigger picture.

30:54Rich Eisen:And so it's just a message to everyone because what goes around will eventually come back around. Yep. You know, and Ayuk would have an opportunity right there, big time, for a team that's ready to roll otherwise. 844-204-RICH, number to dial on the program. Lloyd in Louisiana. What's up, Lloyd? Lloyd. Lloyd. Rich, first things first, I would run through a wall for you and hype them you got early talking about Jalen Hurts. That was fantastic, brother. That was fantastic. Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. What's on your mind? I was in Baltimore yesterday for the Saints game, and it was loud and packed for the Ravens.

31:39But all right in the world when it comes to controversies dealing with the Saints games. With the Tyler Shuck fourth down, touchdown, that I honestly, being a Saints fan for so long, He didn't score, but he scored on the third down, but he didn't call it. So I'm thinking probably made a rest say, well, we got it wrong on third down. Give it to him on fourth down. And then we missed a face mask on Tyler Shook with Roquan Smith. But what do you think about the Saints team in the second half moving forward? Do you think they could be a team that surprised you?

32:10Rich Eisen:I think they could win the division. They're one and one, just like Carolina. Atlanta is a hard 0-2. Let's see if Penix coming in and being a quarterback can stabilize that and, in fact, save it. You saw Drake London barking at somebody on the sideline yesterday, right? It was ugly. Atlanta was ugly on Sunday. And then, you know, the Bucs losing at home to the Browns was a stunner. So, you know, this is – all right, I went high register. This is a big game between the Saints and the Raiders for sure. And I just like the playmakers that they have on offense, and Shuck is finding them. And when you go into the fourth quarter thinking no lead for the opposition is too safe and no deficit is too big for you to overcome, it's powerful, man.

33:10Rich Eisen:It's powerful. So I think they could win the division 100%. Lloyd? I think it's what the Eagles are missing, Kellen Moore, about how well he was a couple years ago. Now I've been killing more brain here with the Saints. And then we still get Jordan Tyson back in a few weeks. How about that? I was thinking that. Yeah, how about that? Let's see. Obviously, he's constantly injured or has been had a problem. I shouldn't say that. But he's had injury problems. And thanks for the call, Lloyd. I was literally thinking that on the car ride down here. And I'm glad. I've forgotten about it for him to bring that up.

33:40Rich Eisen:Can you imagine if Tyson was playing around this team right now? Healthy. Like a healthy kid that they draft in the top of the first round. this Vele is really good. Etienne, and by the way, Alvin Kamara was back. Looks good. And if we get him going like an Alvin Kamara way, just a little bit of the flash of the past. Okay. Talk about the Bucs. They've lost, they're 2-9 in their last 11 games. Is Alvin Kamara now a poor man's Trevor Etienne? Interesting. Let's keep calling people poor man. right yes well Alvin's career wise is better than Valey is a poor man's a lobby can we keep going that would work Juwan Johnson poor man Jimmy Graham yeah keep going keep doing it certainly worked for the Saints yesterday Alan Dallas baby what's going on Al Mr.

34:44Lister. Yes, sir. You know, I was shocked to hear about your surgery last week. I don't want you blowing any stitches, getting fired up. You were screaming and yelling. I'm sure your surgeon was on speed dial. I'm on no restrictions.

34:56Rich Eisen:I'm on no restrictions. All right. Yeah, yeah. That's great to hear. You know, you get the Stones of the Year award, because I know I would have been curled up in the fetal position to suck on my thumb after surgery. I hear you, man. I did Friday show. I did game day morning for four hours, you know? All good. You get the employee of the week, Rich Eisen Show employee of the week. They don't just hand out those Jiminy Cricket Awards to anybody, you know? No, they do not. Thanks, bud. So, listen, we're playing with house money tonight. You are, buddy. Come on, manifest, Al. I want this a manifestation segment.

35:33Rich Eisen:Let's go. What do you got? Okay, you want to manifest? Yeah. Let's say we run the ball right at AD. Run the ball right at him. Test him. See what's up. See if he's back. See what's up. Why not? Why not? Give it a shot. Yeah. Scadaboo. And the perfect guy. I'm going to be scared. Scadaboo's the man for that. That's the man for that role. You tell him, go to 99 and run through him. Right? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we got money. Keep going. Keep going. Keep manifesting. What else you got? Listen, something else. Yeah. Let's, you know, I love the way that you described the way the Giants defense looks. get after Stafford.

36:12Let's do it. Let's go. Let's go 2-0. And we got the world by the you-know-what. We got the world by the Rich Eyes and Appendix. Ladies and gentlemen.

36:25Rich Eisen:And how about this one? Send Odell in the direction. He didn't do very much in week one. Odell, as you know, could have been Super Bowl MVP if he stayed healthy in that building a few years ago. He was on his way. He was on his way. Let's go out. And listen, a little birdie has told me, you know, I got connections on the West Coast. But a little birdie has told me... Rich Eisen here with some advice. If high interest credit card debt is grinding you down, it might be time to call an Audible with a SoFi personal loan. It consolidates your debt into one low monthly payment with no fees required.

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37:53That a couple members of the Rich Eisen show are going to be there and that's just going to bring positive Chi. You know, Bell Tufo will have his Jet Giant hat on. Brockman will be pulling for the Giants because he'll have the over. It'll be great.

38:05Rich Eisen:Let's go. Brockman's going to be there. You're going to be there tonight. Is Cage now questionable for this evening? Cage was always out tonight. Oh, he was always. So it's you and Sarah. Outstanding. Date night. Date night. Whose house? Whose house? It's a date night house. And what about you? Who we got? I'm taking a friend from Fox. Oh. A friend from Fox. A Fox friend. Fox friend. From Fox? From Fox? From Fox? Foxy? No, it's a guy. I guarantee you'll be there longer. than I was at the Georgia-Arkansas game over the weekend where I almost melted to oblivion. I thought about Bobby Bones. Dude, Arkansas fans are pig suey.

38:43Rich Eisen:They are not happy about that football program. No, Richard, this is my first experience. That is a tremendous fan base. They have a ton of – they've got to get their P's and Q's together, which is French for getting some of these guys to cut checks because that's too good of a program. It's too good of a fan base. is too good of a legacy. It's unbelievable. I was totally blown away by the whole experience, especially the frat parties, but that's another story for another day. My God. Thornton Mellon here in Dallas calling the Rich Eisen Show. All right, Al, have a good time tonight. We'll chat.

39:18Rich Eisen:Call tomorrow. Let's see if you manifested properly. How about that? It's all about the manifesting. I love it. All right, Al, it's Al in Dallas. Can you imagine rolling scataboo downhill at Aaron Donald just to see what you got. Yeah. I mean, I don't do it. Don't die. That's a dumb idea. Don't do it. Don't do it. No, don't do it. Oh, they're going to do it. Singletary. They're going to do it. Singletary. You do it. You do it. You do it. 26. Get in there. Yeah. You do it. They're playing rock, paper, scissors to see you guys to do that. Let's not forget once upon a time, a guy who's now currently the quarterback of the New York Jets once said, Oh my God.

39:56Rich Eisen:Yeah. Remember that Gino, the microphone picked up Gino watching Aaron Donald. Come at him. Oh, my God. By the way, appropriate reaction. Same thing that Brady's reaction was watching the elbow of Jaden Daniels. Brady had a few yesterday. Brady was – The P missile? Yeah, he dropped the P missile. P missile was great. By the way, that was a sick throw by Dak. Can we say that? In that window that he hit CeeDee Lamb on the sideline. Brady was like, I'll pit him with a piss missile. We're like, whoa. But Brady saying that, it's – It's different. Yes, it is different. But it's also, it's not, I understand he dropped an S-bomb, but.

40:36Rich Eisen:Who cares? I didn't, you know. Because it was one of those moments. And, you know, Cooper's read worse on the guillotine text chain. That's a fact. From somebody who might be in this room all capsing his demise yesterday. And it wasn't me. In real time. But in all seriousness, though, when Tom Brady says making a throw like that is difficult because and tells you why it is and what you need to do mentally before you move your arm and attempt that throw and why it's so difficult to attempt it and why it is dangerous to attempt it and what you need to do to pull it off. I'm like, tell me more. Yeah.

41:20Tell me more.

41:21Rich Eisen:Edge of your seat. Tell me more, Tom. Because I kind of think you know what you're talking about. We knew there was a big to-do about, like, players against journalists, and you played and you didn't play. But with all due respect to anyone else, when he got the job, I remember you saying there was no situation where he's not going to be able to shed some light. Right. That's Tom Brady. Being overlooked in the draft. Talk more. Being overlooked in college. Making the most of your situation. Coming back from a knee injury. Winning a Super Bowl. Losing a Super Bowl. losing a playoff game, coming back, and going on and on and on.

41:57And Aikman's the same way.

41:59Rich Eisen:I look forward to him and Buck on the call tonight, you know? So, all right, let's take a break. We'll come back here on the Rich Eisen Show. News from Minnesota. News from Minnesota. And I've never seen a team lose a football game this way. That's coming up to wrap up our Monday program. The Rich Eisen Show, the podcast.

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43:24Rich Eisen:Is that what it was? 31-28 was six seconds. Six seconds to go. And backed up on their own end zone pretty much. Six seconds to go, all Bailey had to do was just go in his end zone, run around, and throw the ball down the field. And instead he held onto it and he fumbled it. And Vanderbilt recovered it. It was kind of a twilight zone convergence of too much time left on the clock for you to just knee it out or just run it. And there was not enough real estate for you to, I guess, run around before you threw it. If I'm NC State, I just run it out the back of the end zone, give two points, and then just punt it in the air.

44:11Yeah, so there was seven seconds left, or six seconds left, and it's fourth and seven. They're kind of on, like, the six-yard line. Never seen anything like it. He just kind of runs around, goes to his left. There's, like, three seconds left, and then the ball gets punched out. And Vanderbilt wins. Unreal.

44:29Rich Eisen:Just like they drew it up at Harvard-Westlake back in the day, right, Coach? Before we go, on Overreaction Monday, you're like, Carson Wentz should be the guy the rest of the year, and I'm like, I don't think Kevin O 'Connell is going to do that. I know Wentz is a hot hand and he's won twice, but he is the backup to a guy that they really want to see and they put a ton of time and effort into during the spring and the summer to the point where they told J.J. McCarthy, you're now third string. So it's also a tough message to the locker room to say, you too can lose your job if you get injured. So Kyler Murray, after playing only 11 snaps, very few of them of note, in the season opener against the Packers, is cleared protocol and apparently the starter again in Minnesota.

45:21Kyler has cleared the final phase of the protocol, and he's doing great. He'll be cleared, and he will start this week against Tampa Bay.

45:30Rich Eisen:All right, there you go. All right. another must-see game for Week 3, it feels like. They just keep mounting up, right? Minnesota at Tampa. Minnesota trying to go 3-0, but now it's Kyler Murray versus Baker, first overall pick versus first overall pick. Baker, having been paid, Kyler's already been paid, two Oklahoma Heisman Trophy-winning quarterbacks, right? Two guys, similar paths to the National Football League, except Baker bounced around. Now Kyler is in his 2.0 part of his career, and one's 2-0, but not because of him, and one's 0-2 after paying the other. What a massive week three game this is.

46:19Rich Eisen:Because the Bucs have to have this one. Got to have it. And if they beat Minnesota and Kyler doesn't perform as well as, say, wait for it, Deshaun Watson, What happens in Minnesota, which could potentially still be leading the division anyway by the end of the week. Or if they lose here and Chicago loses on Monday night, right? The Packers go first against Atlanta. They could wind up being 2-1. And then the Lions have the Jets. They could be 2-1 along with the Vikings. And the Bears are 1-2 because Caleb's hurt. And that wasn't the conversation coming out of week one by any stretch, which is why everybody's got to take a beat and a breath when you're flipping out about how bad your team is or maybe how great your team has looked.

47:14Rich Eisen:Crazy. This league's nuts. And it gets nuttier and more have to see it every single week and season. Monday Night Football, everyone. Tonight, Rams and Giants. Oh. Go say hi to Chris and Sarah. Buy him a drink because they're newlyweds. Absolutely. And go say hi to Mike and ask him to buy you something because he's got a ton of money. 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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