Potential Trey Hendrickson Trade

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1:39Rich Eisen:Well, that's correct. Welcome to this edition of the Rich Eisen Show. I am Rich Eisen. I am an entertainer and a competitor. All rolled into one. Perfect timing to come back from my final walkabout before the National Football League season kicks in in earnest. Just 844-204-RICH is the number to dial whether you're taking in this show, watching the Roku channel, or listening to us on the Infinity Sports Network or the Odyssey app. There's also Sirius XM channel 375. Lots going on in our neighborhood. We welcome in two guests, my guy from NFL Game Day morning. I'm going to be spending a ton of Sundays with him very shortly.

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3:32Good to see you over there, Christopher Brockman. How are you? It's great to see you, man. How was your week last week? It was great. And in that regard, I do want to thank Tom Pelissero, Mike, the Miz Mezzanine, the Miz being here, and, of course, O'Shea Jackson Jr. And I want to thank his co-host, Marshawn Lynch, for being here for a full hour of the program. And Mike Del Tufo saying, oh, God, because I imagine what I saw on the real Mike Del Tufo's finger on the dump button to use the phrase. I burned my ear. Hold on. You might have been signaling in Morse code to the people back in the way that you were tapping that.

4:12When he was actually listening. Oh, I listened the whole time. Because you missed a few. And I'm like, are you serious? And I'm doing this. I'm doing this. And he goes this. You have a plus or minus five or six, maybe eight seconds. Yeah, that's fine. But I mean, for somebody like Marshawn Lynch being here, you've got to focus. I don't think you got all of them. I got all. You did not, Mike. I got all of them. You looked up from your phone at one point and was like, what? And I'm like, I hit it. I just said MF. Can we hit this? Yeah, normally that should ring a bell. Good to see you, Christopher.

4:48Good to see you. Mike Del Tufo, again, I hope your finger's not cramped from the dumpster. Just so you're not. Don't deflect. Good to see you, sir. How are you, TJ Jefferson? Candles lit. Lots. I mean, are you going back to the future, or are you going ahead to the future? We'll talk about that later. I'm excited for tonight. We'll talk about that later on the program. The Bengals are playing tonight, and I don't know if Trey Hendrickson will be on the sideline this evening. I doubt it. It's a road game. He's holding in. He will not be, I imagine, on the sideline this evening. But the question is, will he be with the Bengals?

5:26And on the other sideline, Terry McLaurin, he's now off the putt list. So they can't use the fact that he's not physically able to perform as any sort of fig leaf for what's going on contractually between him and the team. So this evening's contest features two of the three most famous talked about Holdens in the National Football League right now, Trey Hendrickson. And then, of course, Terry McLaurin. And we also know Micah Parsons. It was 17 days ago that he issued his trade demand. And it's 17 days from now when the Cowboys and the Eagles will be having at it for our viewing pleasure on NBC.

6:05Oh, baby. To kick off the season. And the number of times that I saw while I was on my European walkabout, a Jerry Jones soundbite crossed my phone.

6:14Rich Eisen:I mean, basically saying, he's under contract. So, of course, I'm not talking. What do you mean? What do I have to? Whatever do I have to talk with him about? I don't understand. There is less pie. Let's talk about Squirrel. Let's talk about that Netflix thing that's going on, that weird, that we got going on. One of my favorites, the Squirrel. There's a lot to talk about. But this evening, with the focus in D.C., Micah Parsons, again, he's under contract. Everyone's under contract, by the way. That's what they're holding in to get new ones. And Micah's the youngest one. The reason why the two guys tonight have not gotten their contracts yet is that their clock is, you know, Mona Lisa Vito ticking, where they are now, you know, entering their 30s.

6:58and I guess the issue is we don't want to pay you a ton of money if we're not going to get

7:03Rich Eisen:the production out of you towards the back end of the contract. I don't know what it is but bottom line, certainly with McLaurin now off pup and we'll have to figure out whether his hold-in is no longer as you can tell, oh, my mom we'll find out but he's got to get into camp and he's got to get on the same field as jayden daniels i mean even cliff kingsbury is saying until mclaurin's here we can't be full go and it's kind of crazy that you're not full go on the back end of august like it's now time full go but we fans and those coaches for whom midnight is already struck in the world of negotiating the nfl um midnight's a moving target And when it comes to the Bengals, it appears midnight has struck in the mind's eye of the front office to potentially trade Trey Hendricks.

8:04Rich Eisen:And he's the first one where we've been hearing from somebody like Rapsheet and Tom Pelissero, who was in this chair one week ago at this very time, that it's being entertained. Even though a trade will be a real challenge, as Rapsheet mentioned. the challenge being, you know, what compensation are you going to get for this guy? Certainly at the eve of the season, when another team knows, well, he might not be there for you. So here's a bag of footballs. Here's something way less than the first or second round draft choice that could be worth Trey Hendrickson. So somebody asked Elliot Wolfe, who I believe you know, Chris Brockman.

8:51Very familiar, yes. I believe he was the guy that you were not terribly happy with two years ago. Yeah. Okay. Gotcha. But now you're loving him. I think he's doing great.

9:00Rich Eisen:He's doing a great job. Shopping the groceries. Doing a great job. Doing a great job. Somebody just went in because he can't answer questions about would you trade for Trey Hendrickson. Guess what? As we've established, he's under contract somewhere else. He's not going to answer that question. So let's kind of beat around the bush and say, would you give up a first or a second round draft choice this close to the beginning of the season if you think it would help the New England Patriots? Good way to get through that loophole. Would you be willing to give up in a trade a second or maybe even a first round pick to make your team better this year?

9:36Sure. Just doing what's best for the team. If there's a player out there that we feel like can help us, and it costs that, then we would consider doing that. Oh, nope, to Cincinnati. I can think of two players who are worth those draft compensations. You know what the Patriots can do? Because I do believe they have. I wrote it down somewhere. I don't have my notebook in front of me because I haven't put everything here. I think they have$100 million in cap space, right? A bajillion. A bajillion. Why don't they get all three of them? That sounds wonderful. use every draft choice in the next in the 2025 2026 draft they don't want to go to Pittsburgh anyway New England's not very welcome there in the western part of Pennsylvania just trade for them all why not get them all now while you got the muscle don't worry Mike somebody hot on ESPN right now

10:27Rich Eisen:you're not paying attention I'm reading it you're reading on ESPN what we're talking about right now. Good job, Mike. Hey, you know what? It makes no... By the way, great message from Elliott Wolfe. Hey, to Cincinnati. Sort of Fraser Crane. Yes? I'm listening. Hello. Let's get them all. Let's hit them all now while we got the money. We have a first round. A little late on the Pantangeli button over there. We have second round. Hey, we have caps. It makes no sense for anybody to trade anybody that's involved in a holding right now. The Bengals need Trey Hendrickson. You just got Burrow his two wide receivers under contract forever and a day.

11:10Rich Eisen:You're now going to take the defense that was the problem last year and kneecap it? Hey, Shamar Stewart, listen, see quarterback, hit quarterback, even if it's his own in practice. We get it. We get it. We get it, Shamar. You go hunt quarterbacks for a living. That said, let's get somebody who's a little bit more of an adult in the room. and pay him instead of having him sit there and moping. I feel so bad. I understand in this day and age when you feel bad for an athlete that's looking for$30 million a year, you're like, that's a very small, tiny violin. I can't hear you playing right now. But come on.

11:51What are we doing? You're going to trade Trey Hendrickson? Oh, those draft choices. When you are taking on the Cleveland Browns and their entertainers and their competitors, you know, and in week one. And you're going to go into battle without Trey Hendrickson?

12:09Rich Eisen:Really? Is that what you're going to do? And when you're the commanders in year two with Jaden Daniels, are you really going to go into the season with Terry McLaurin standing on the sideline because you couldn't figure out how to pace somebody who's turning 30 at the wide receiver position? and neither of these guys are are going to be causing you to get a phone call at two in the morning saying you never guess what this guy's done so i i kind of feel like we've been down this road and if there is any way tj jefferson to get you to sign this piece of paper Hold on, I've got it here. Let me go through Del Tufo's bandwagon fandom transfer.

13:02There's another bandwagon transfer for you. Release of fandom from the Dallas Cowboys. Right there. TJ Jefferson, I'm sorry if we didn't set up this shot beforehand. If there's any way for you to sign this, the rumor that the Packers have put a package on the table for the Dallas Cowboys to trade Micah Parsons to Green Bay? Would this get you to sign this piece of paper that fast? Well, here's the deal. You were gone on your walkabout, so you missed this. Brockman, Pelissero, and I went to the Netflix premiere of the Cowboys documentary. Yes, we did. And here's the deal, right? I'm stuck. There's no getting out, Rich.

13:39Like, once you're in there, you're in there for life. What does that mean? Which means, Chris, go ahead and explain it. Here's what it means. It means we were there for a couple hours. We saw Jerry Jones. We saw Emmett. We saw the cheerleaders. We watched episode three, and it was the 92 NFC Championship game, and TJ's back. That's all you need to know. He's back. He was hooting and hollering. He was booing the Niners on the screen. He booed Jerry Rice and Steve Young. I did. And Dwight Clark, too. And then he cheered. He was yelling. Oh, man, I got to say, I kind of got caught up, too. It was pretty awesome.

14:17So you can understand, Rich. It's like you go back and you remember the good times. Of course. And it's like, I don't know. I can't leave. Hey, listen, I get it.

14:26Rich Eisen:And you didn't have no good times with the Jets. Tonight, I'm going back in. Yeah, you're about it. After 22 years of saying I'm coming out of the smoke in NFL Network, I'm going to start beating the pants off these people and handed me a cardboard box 22 years ago. And tonight I'm going to be like, hey, welcome to SportsCenter. You guys are all on La Cosa Nostra. You guys can't quit the life. I know, but I have nothing but warm memories from back then. I totally, truly, I do. I mean, I met my wife there, my children are ESPN children, but that said, TJ, at the end of the day, when I showed up at ESPN in 1996 with all that hair and the fresh face, all of that good stuff, that was in 1996, 29 years ago.

15:12Rich Eisen:The Cowboys were fresh off of three out of four. Yeah, life is great. And now they're just blowing the dust off the Netflix documentary, and you're all back in. I was never out. If they don't sign Micah Parsons before week one, it would be such dereliction of duty. I can't even fathom it that you don't sign this guy. And if you don't, then he's under contract. And the reason why is because he's a 26-year-old that shook the hand of the owner, and he's like, we've got a deal. And he can't get past the fact that he's a 26-year-old saying, talk to my agent. And that's the reason why we're in this standoff?

15:56Rich Eisen:I don't believe it. I think the Joneses are going to get this deal done, and I think the Commanders are going to get the deal done with McLaurin. And as for the Bengals, though, that one I don't know. But to say to Joe Burrow, hey, Joe. Hey, Joe. We've got Chase locked up and we got Higgins for you. But the defense, did we tell you we got Chase and Higgins locked up for you? You heard that, right? We got Chase and Higgins. We got two Chases. You guys. You got Jamar and Brown. Yep. First and last names. You got Chase Chase. But they're going to have to be chasing points. That's it. Oh, man, I'm fired up.

16:40Football season's here. Let's go. We're back. Burn that contract. Oh, no. We'll keep that. All right. Go ahead. 844-204-RICH. Number to dial. The Browns have a choice to make. The Colts have a choice to make. Do the Giants have a choice to make at quarterback? That's called a tease. That's next. This is the Rich Eisen Show here on a very busy for me Monday.

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19:36That's the idea, is let's get Caleb Williams, a coach who can scheme it up, who's with him in the quarterback room, who's with him in every single step of life, and he's coaching him hard, and that's why they got Ben Johnson. Let's get him that. Let's get him some more muscle up front. Right? Let's throw everything in the kitchen sink at him. Let's get him another tight end in the draft. Another wide receiver. And another wide receiver. And let's put those rookies out there against the Buffalo Bills. And let's beat the Buffalo Bills about the head, neck, chest, and body. And shut them out 38-0.

20:24let's do that now listen bears fans are just ready to just jump head over heels into this whole thing but they also know better a lot of battle scars i mean they have they've got a lot of you know quarterback pts battle scars sure i mean listen but i'll tell you man i'll tell you what, man. Thank you, man. Loveland, Colston Loveland, obviously, I'm biased, but he is a terrific tight end. Terrific tight end. And Cole Komet together. And Adunze and DJ Moore and the rest of that squad. This is what we're talking about. I like it. This is how you upend the NFC. In terms of conversations and predictions and who's making it and who's not.

21:19that's how you upend the NFC North that's how you get everybody in I believe if I'm not mistaken three weeks from tonight week one will be entirely in the books with the exception of the Monday Night Football debut of the 2025 season on ESPN and the family of networks when Joe and Troy are in that stadium in Chicago when it's the Vikings at the Bears and J.J. McCarthy getting his first career start against Caleb Williams, who I believe Bears fans deep down believe it's his first career start, too. Because last year was such a disaster. Even though they went 4-2 with a situation where he was left to his own devices on what film to watch.

22:11and also, as we learned, when we did the Bears game in London against the Jaguars on NFL Network, which was the height of the Eberflus era with Caleb Williams when Williams threw for four touchdowns and Komet was doing everything from catching touchdowns to holding on extra points on touchdowns that he helped create, that we learned that they weren't scripting the first 15 plays for the kid. either and the one positives of last year the two positives from last year is one he got his ass beat so he got that out of the way hopefully and two he didn't say a word nothing zero didn't say a thing while we now know in retrospect everything that he and his father or were concerned about over being drafted by the Bears was coming true.

23:15And he didn't say a word. And now here he looked like this last night in a preseason game. Now, obviously, Josh Allen's playing. There would be answers for the Bills that were not available to them last night. With James Cook now in the fold and signed. And I don't know if this is part of the overreaction Monday that's coming up later on. That the Bills window is no longer. their window. Rich, it's a preseason game. Understood. Says a man who wagers on these affairs with hard-earned American dollars. Overs are like 20-2. Got it.

23:54Rich Eisen:But that's exactly what you want to see. Certainly if you're hearing, well, Caleb Williams is having trouble grasping this, and he's, you know, missing the throwing net there, and all of the videos that we've seen throughout the summer. This is what you wanted to see, as we saw last night on Fox. Here's the coach afterwards. He's really been locked in. You know, anytime you're a young player, there's usually a couple steps forward and one step back. And that's really been the story of his training camp. And he and I have been really open and honest about that as we've gone through. And he's had some really good practices.

24:32And he's had a couple where it's like, that's not good enough, bud. So I thought really the three days of practice we had this week and this game were the most he stacked up good days in a row right now. So the challenge is going to be to keep pushing in that direction. And then, you know, 21 days from now is probably when we're going to see him next. I imagine we're not going to see Caleb Williams in the third preseason game. I would doubt it. I don't think so. Like, let's put him into the season coming off of this performance. A couple of drives looking really good. This is what Caleb said about those aforementioned ups and downs afterwards.