WWE Superstar The Miz Reacts To Shedeur Sanders Getting Injured

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1:34And now, sitting in for Rich, WWE superstar, The Miz. Yo. Here we go. Here you go. Whoa! Wow, what? What is happening right now? I mean, again? Hi. I know what you're thinking. that's not Rich Eisen and no it's not but this is the Rich Eisen show I am the most must-see WWE superstar of all time the first ever two-time Grand Slam champion in the history of WWE and you might think wait a second the first ever two-time Grand Slam champion in the history of WWE is not Hulk Hogan it's not Stone Cold Steve Austin it's not The Rock it's not John Cena who is on his farewell tour and we are not going to see him for a very like ever in the ring in like 10 more appearances nine more appearances something like that but no he is not the first ever two-time grand slam champion in the history of wwe i am i am the miz i am your host and let's get down to business you saw me hobble in here and i have some unfortunate news Oh, no, man.

2:49What happened? Last Friday on SmackDown, I was in a pre-tape. And for those that don't know what a pre-tape is, it's kind of a backstage segment. It's filmed. I heard a pop in my knee. Ugh. A pop? Seriously? And it ended up being broken. I went to Birmingham, and they said I have a broken knee. and so unfortunately i am going to be out of wwe for a significant amount of time oh man yeah how are you feeling though bro like how am i feeling i mean mentally it's got to be tough for you mentally thank you for asking about how that mentally affects a wwe superstar getting injured it's something that you have to deal with and you have to take it day by day uh i'm already trying to get myself better get myself ready and get myself hopefully in a position where um i can fake an injury and come on to the rich eisen show and make everyone feel heartfelt for me and then go on a month later to bamboozle everyone and become a world champion so maybe if I fake an injury coming in here hosting the Rich Eisen show, then maybe in a month, I will be world champion.

4:18And you know what? Why doesn't everybody do it? Why doesn't all the Cleveland Browns, you know what, Shadur, maybe Miles Garrett, come here, fake an injury, host the show, and in a month, a couple months, we'll be going to the Super Bowl. How about that? And by the way, when Seth Rollins did that, I texted him. Oh, no. What'd you say? I texted him. I said, hey, man. And by the way, I was filming American Gladiators, so I wasn't doing anything WWE related. I was away, so I haven't talked to anyone in a while. I was hosting American Gladiators, which, by the way, is going to be pretty amazing on Amazon Prime.

5:07Yeah, let's do it. In 2026, let's go. Amazing host right here. Might win an Emmy for it. Not going to say anything. But look, I texted Seth Rollins. I saw the injury. I saw the backflip. I was like, oh, that kind of happens. And it actually happened to him before where it kind of was a weird thing that he busted his knee. So it reminded me of when he was in the ring with Kane. He was trying to do a powerbomb. He busted his knee. He was out for, I think, like a year. Legit. I was like, oh my gosh, my buddy, my friend, he's out. One of the most talented superstars in a WWE ring is out for a significant amount of time.

5:43I saw him on here. I was almost in tears looking at him, talking about it. But obviously, he's a professional. He did his job. And I texted him. I said, hey, man, you're in my prayers, hoping for a speedy recovery. Send me a heart. Oh, that's so nice. I said to myself, I went, you know what? That's so nice. He doesn't want to talk about it. And to be honest, if I ever got injured, which I don't, I would be like, you know, I wouldn't want to talk about it either. So I believed everything that he was doing. I believed this man was injured. I believed everything he said when he came here and hosted and said he was injured.

6:22I believed when he came out at SummerSlam, it was just a fake. He hobbled out. But then all of a sudden, he throws the crutches. He turns around, takes off his jacket, and sprints down and cashes in the money in the bank on CM Punk at SummerSlam in front of a sold-out MetLife stadium, in front of millions watching on the Peacock app, and there he is with the World Heavyweight Championship. So I said, you know what? I'm hosting the Rich Eisen Show, and if I can put some juju into me winning a world championship, then I'm going to do it. If this is the place where you fake an injury, and then all of a sudden a month later, magically poof, it happens.

7:12I'm in. I'm in all day. So I am here for the next three hours. We have Larry Nance Jr. as a guest. We have Kurt Warner as a guest. We have Brock over there. Yo, yo. You feeling good? I'm feeling great. Both my needs work totally fine. And so, you know, if you need extra ligaments, I'm here for you. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Jason, how you feeling? Doing good, man. I believed you. Thank you. I was feeling heartfelt for you. Did you believe, did you guys, when you guys, and TJ. Yes. And TJ's here as well. Did you guys believe everything Seth was saying? Yes, absolutely. A hundred percent.

7:47And TJ, you're kind of smart on all things WWE. you kind of know when things are a work or when things seem a little iffy were you a little iffy on it you know and these guys asked me that and i said i was 99 sure he was telling the truth because i'm going to take a man at his word obviously right but i'm like there's always that one percent that makes you go hmm i don't know man and so the one percent was it was there i don't believe anything anymore after watching unreal on netflix which by the way gives you an insight of everything that happens as wwe superstars man i'll tell you what after seeing that show and then also knowing what i know and then what happened with seth i don't believe anything anymore i don't even believe we superstar so i can only imagine what the fans are doing well i got started too for us at the super bowl when miles garrett one of your favorite players of all time on your cleveland browns came to our set first looked in our faces and said it's not about the money.

8:51It's about winning. I will never play for the Browns again. I want to be somewhere else. I care about Super Bowls and championships and legacy. And then a couple months later, he's the highest paid defensive player of all time, staying with Cleveland. Well, why would he stay with Cleveland? He wants to win Super Bowls. He wants to win championships. And so he wants to primed up and ready, my friend. That's what you guys just don't. You know what? Everyone makes fun of me. I see. Oh, by the way, don't think I didn't see your little power rankings of who's not going to be in the talks for the Super Bowl.

9:24And number three was the Cleveland Browns. And the Jaguars weren't anywhere to be found in that top five. They have actual good players. What do you mean? I am so excited that the fact, like, when I first heard that we were trading down from Travis Hunter, I was very, we've seen the photo. Shout out to Dawkins, who actually took the photo on a flight, who woke me up, by the way. I was sleeping on that flight. And he, we were talking about the draft before, but it was a long flight. I was sleeping. He woke me up and goes, Hey, did you see what happened? I go, no, we're on a flight. What would happen?

9:58He goes, they traded down. I go, no, they didn't. They got Travis Hunter. They got the generational player. We were going to, he goes, no, no, you didn't. You traded down. Now I was upset. You saw the picture. I was very upset. However, now seeing preseason and everyone's always like, you know, nobody wanted Shadur because of the circus. I feel like Travis Hunter is a bigger, bigger circus. a bigger circus than Shadur right now you don't think so is he going to play offense, is he going to play defense that's all anyone is talking about is these two players, Shadur and Travis Hunter it feels like as rookies am I wrong?

10:34I did say this week that I'm worried that he was going to not pan out but I think in all seriousness Travis Hunter is awesome he's one of the most exciting stories and possibilities that we've seen in the league in quite some time and you were like, no, we don't want him yeah but he really didn't do anything in the preseason though and there was a lot of good players still available at that time and we got a king's ransom we have a first round draft pick from the jaguars next year which is probably gonna be a top 10 oh top 10 yeah you don't think you think the jaguars are a threat yeah i think they could win that division come on really come on i mean they're gonna have a better record than the browns absolutely not but you can't say you think Travis Hunter is going to be a not going to pan out and then think the team is going to have I didn't say that he wasn't going to I'm I was a little worried based on we were overreacting to one preseason game offense or defense or both I think he probably plays a little bit of both he kind of plays more more on defense more on defense yeah I don't know man I look at it and I go now hearing everything like I don't know what it takes to be an NFL football player I've never done it before.

11:44I know what it takes to be an elite athlete in a sport that has a lot of pressure. And I know all the insights of what it takes to do these type of things. And it seems to me what everyone is saying is this cannot be done. But also I feel like things that people say can't be done sometimes can be done. People said I would never be a WWE superstar. I was six foot nothing. I was off of a reality show called The Real World, which was very popular at the time. And I became the first ever two-time grandson champion in the history of WWE. That is something that everyone said would not happen. People said I would be fired within three months.

12:24So when people tell me, hey, this can't be done, I think there's exceptional circumstances. Is Travis Hunter that guy? And why hasn't anyone else been able to do this is my question. Anyone? Anyone have an answer? They haven't been able to do it in a full time. I mean, like Charles Woodson and Deion have been able to do it. Why not, though? Why not Deion Sanders? It takes a lot. You have to really devote, I think, a significant amount of time on one side of the football to really become a superstar, right? And Deion, obviously, he was the greatest cornerback of all time. That's where most of his practice time was placed.

13:07Yeah, he got some reps with the Cowboys at wide receiver. He did fairly decent, but obviously he was the third, fourth wide receiver for the Cowboys back in those days. And I just think it takes so much effort to be a star on one side of the ball, to do it on both. It just seems to most people like it can't be done, like you said. But there is, there's always that anomaly, right? Do you think Deion didn't want to do the wide receiver as much? is because he's the third or fourth wide receiver, and I'd rather be great at one thing. It's kind of like Shohei, right? Shohei's the amazing hitter, incredible hitter.

13:44Pitcher, he's good. Like, top 20, but he's not number one. He's not number two. He's not number three. You know, so is that something that you think a Travis Hunter would look at? Would he look at and say, you know what? I'm going to be a top cornerback. I'm going to be a top wide receiver. And if I can't be a top other side, then I'm just going to devote my time to that. But what would the coaches want? I'm sure they both. All they care about is winning. Yeah, you think? In the NFL, it's all about winning. So was it Deion who brought it up? It's like, how are you going to be late in a game and you're trying to stop a team from scoring and you're not going to have your best defensive player on the field, right?

14:28And then flip it the other way. Now you're trying to come back. you're down five there's two minute drill how are you going to have one of your best offensive players not on the field you got to have them out there the thing is the why why hasn't anyone done it why didn't deon do it full-time why didn't charles jack or any of these other players because no one ever thought they could travis hunter you don't wait a second now thinks that he can i'm i'm in a big disagreement on that because in the nfl no i can't play some receiver but am i going to be a full-time wide receiver no i'm a i'm a full-time defensive back If you're talking to a 20-year-old Miz and you tell me I can't do something, I will literally try to prove you wrong.

15:11And I imagine there's a lot of kids out there and a lot of college kids that are like, and even Travis Hunter would be like, I can do this. Deion Sanders literally didn't take meetings in the draft because he was like, you're not even going to be where I'm going to be drafted. So, and you're telling me that guy's going to be like, I don't know if I can play wide receiver and quarterback. That guy, his mindset is I'm greatness. I'm greatness that no matter what I do, if I set my mind to a wide receiver and quarterback, I can do that. But then you have all these outside negative people. That's what it is.

15:47Hey, it's never been done before. You can't do it. It also took Deion Sanders, literally the guy, to allow someone to do it. and look what happened on the Heisman Trophy, second pick in the draft, and now he's in a situation where Liam Cohen says, yeah, we're going to do it. We're going to try. We're going to give him the best shot to succeed at both positions. And look, was it spectacular in his first preseason game? No, but he played a handful of snaps. He had two catches. He did miss a tackle, looked kind of bad on that when he was out there on defense. First time out there, not a big deal.

16:21Let's see how it looks moving forward rest of the preseason, week one. We're going to see him out there. And he's going to play, I don't know, 50, 60%, 75 % on both sides. And then we'll see how he recovers, reacts. We'll see how the practice situation goes. I mean, look, he's in a situation. Was it Josh Hines Allen who was here? It was like, look, he is in the wide receiver room talking smack to the defensive backs, how he's going to beat them on defense. Then he goes, flips on the other side, puts on the other jersey and is like, oh yeah, now I'm going to shut you down, Brian Thomas. Wait, aren't we teammates?

16:55Aren't we on the same side? It's never been done before, but I'm curious to see if it works out. And I would imagine that it probably might. God, I love preseason. Right. There's nothing like preseason because we're just talking hypotheticals here. But one thing is certain. Big news has happened this morning. And if you watched Hard Knocks last night, you saw, man, James Cook. He's holding in. Not holding out because they don't hold out anymore. They hold in. They go to all the meetings, but they just don't practice. And James Cook wants a new contract. Guess what, ladies and gentlemen? James Cook got a bag, baby.

17:34Four years. $48 million. 30 guaranteed. 12 million a year. Does he deserve it? Yes. Yeah. 16 touchdowns last year. Yes, absolutely. He was a dog last year. He's a three down back. Three down back. And even so, Chris, don't they really – they give Josh Allen a lot of goal line work too, which is kind of surprising it seems because you do have that back in Cook who, like I said, he finds the end zone quite easily. Yeah, led the league in touchdowns last year. He was awesome. Main reason why the Bills get as far as they have the last couple of seasons. Now, look, he does – I mean, Rich complains about it because he had James Cook in fantasy.

18:13Comes off the field in the second half, kind of weird. Like, why was he on that drive? Where was James Cook on that one? That's it. So, yeah, he demanded he wanted$15 million. Look, you've got to prove to us you're an every down back, and you've got to play the whole game. You've got to be out there in the closing minutes when we need you. And I imagine, look, he gets$12 million a year,$30 million guaranteed. That's a nice payday for him. Got more than Kyron Williams got, and we've seen what kind of dog running back Kyron Williams is. We need James Cook to kind of do it for 60 minutes, and I think Buffalo's going to ask him of that, and I imagine he'll deliver.

18:44He's a good player. He didn't take him to the cleaners either. Yeah. Like, he got a good bag. But he's like, hey, guys, I feel like this is a super caliber winning type of team. You got Josh Allen, who is arguably the best quarterback out there. And you have a bunch of weapons on the offensive side. You got a good offensive line. I mean, you're feeling pretty good going into this season, especially if you're James Cook. We're going to take a break. Up next, in the next segment, we got Larry Nance Jr. Let's go Cleveland Cavaliers!

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21:25I cannot believe you watched Charles Oakley get dragged out of Madison Square Garden with your own two-armed club. I mean, I could not. Spike Lee was there. You couldn't believe it either. Did everyone just like a... Wait a minute. Spike Lee was there? Boo, boo, boo. It's too nice. Next thing you're going to tell me, Jack Nicholson was at the Lakers game. Boo. McEnroe was there. I know he was right there. He was like practically in Oakley's lap. Was Woody Allen there? He was not. I don't know why that's funny. John Lithgow? Was John there? Steve Earle was there. I saw Steve Earle. Oh, really? This is the new Madison Square Garden.

21:58Leon was there, the actor. Oh, sure. He was there. What about? Costas, I told you. Costas. Oh, yeah. Can you tell this story? Not stealing me. You've got to tell the Costas story. Tell the story. When I was like 21 years old, I went to the, what was it? The Heisman Trophy. At the downtown athletic club? Yeah, I managed to get invited. Like I had an extra ticket or somebody gave me a ticket and I went through the thing. And I went to the bathroom and Bob Costas was in the next urinal. And I was like 21. So this was 1990, 91. And I said, and I was peeing and I went, I'm just trying to say, I'm a big fan of yours.

22:36And he told him, and he went, don't you know the rule? You're not supposed to talk when you're in a urinal. And I was like, oh, God, I didn't. That's how I learned the rule. Anyway, so I'm at the Knicks game. I learned about the Knicks game, and I never met him before since then. And I said to him, hey, Costas, this is Bobby Cannavale. I just wanted to introduce myself and say, when I was 21, I told him the story. And he went, it doesn't sound like something I'd say. Shut me down. Just complete sheet down. Twice. Well, he was also sitting on the toilet when you told him the second time. He was...

23:06He was the next one. He was... He was... He was... Yeah. He was like, hey, Emily. So what... And shut the door, dude. I don't care that you have two Emmys. Chip. Chip. Shut the door, Chip.

23:31Welcome back. We've got a guest, ladies and gentlemen. Let's do it. Ladies and gentlemen, hailing from Revere High School in Richfield Coliseum, which is the same city of former Richfield Coliseum. If anyone remembers the Richfield Coliseum, I remember it as a young Miz watching his pops, Larry Nance Sr., play with Mark Price. I mean, it was amazing. It was phenomenal. He is the newest member of the 2526 Cleveland Cavaliers. Ladies and gentlemen, please give it up for Larry Nance Jr. Wow. We've given you an entrance. What an intro. I just, I just really appreciate that. How does it feel being back in Cleveland?

24:25It just feels right. You know, born and raised here. You know, you get it. There's just something special about being back in Northeastern Ohio. Tell me about growing up in Cleveland and what the values and mindset that it brings to you. Oh, man, one of the biggest things that I've that I've missed over my travels across the country these past few years has been just the good hearted nature of the people. And I'm not saying anything about anybody that I came across, but it's more so about the people from here is that it's just so friendly. And everybody's just genuinely ever since I signed back, everybody's just has nothing but positive words to say about the team and the and, you know, the vision going forward.

25:07And even myself joining, it's been it's been really, really fun to get back around just this Midwestern type of folk. Good, good people, man. I tell everyone this. I would not be where I am today if it wasn't for growing up in the city of Cleveland, Ohio. It brought me my work ethic, and it taught me so many valuable lessons. And I look at some of the successes from people that have grew up in Cleveland. I mean, you look at Travis Kelsey, Jason Kelsey. MGK just had MGK Day, August 10th. I was supposed to be there, but I was like, hey, man, my kid's first day of school is a Monday, and I got to see my kids go to kindergarten and second grade.

25:52I got to be there. I got to be a good old dad, you know? And speaking of dads, your pops is Larry Nance Sr., and I hear that you are now number 22, which is a retired number, your dad's retired number. How does it feel un-retiring your dad's number of 22, Larry Nance Sr., and coming into the Cleveland Cavaliers and being able to wear his number, your pops' number? You know, it's something that I got to do early in my career. You know, when we went on that 2018 run and the years after that, I wore 22 as well. And being able to see it in my locker for the first time was just like hard to put into words.

26:35You know, hopefully I've done some really cool things. I've gotten to hopefully I'll get to do some more really cool things but you know being able to wear the number that my dad got retired for the team that I grew up cheering for um it's it's hard to put into words and it's really hard to describe how it feels wearing it it's it's uh you know something that you even when I left I knew for a fact I'd have to do it again it's just such a special special thing how much of an impact has your dad been with you growing up and playing basketball um did he did you get like lessons teaching was it was it hard um and how is it coming into the nba knowing that your dad is larry nance senior is there a lot of pressure to that right so growing up there was pressure um pressure not but that i put on myself really you know growing up as larry nance junior in in cleveland ohio where you know seniors jersey is hanging in in the Cavs arenas, uh, it's daunting.

27:32And what has, has always been daunting for me, but, um, over the past few years and as I got older, it's, it's, um, I've been able to kind of look at it more and been like, man, like we're very two different people. That man was incredible. Three-time all-star first ever contest winner. Um, no, I appreciate that, but no, like he was incredible and I, you know, I I'm, I'm biased, but you know, I think I'm doing all right for myself as well you know this is going into my 11th year and um for me it's always been about separating that like he is one of the all-time greats and I'm just I'm incredibly happy to be able to um you know honor the legacy that he left for us and and continue you know continue with the Cavs but even continue with the NBA as a whole let's talk about the Cavaliers they're number one in in the division last year went to the playoffs got taken out by the Indiana Pacers what do you think they're missing in the playoffs that can set them apart this season?

28:31Well, with the NBA, it's such a long season that that one of the biggest things when it comes to playoffs is who often the times whoever's healthiest wins. And I think we saw that a lot when it came to Oklahoma City and and Indiana a little bit is like obviously two very good teams and to take nothing away from them. But like, you know, some of the teams, you know, Tatum went down, you know, obviously Darius and Hunt were dealing with the various things they had. Then you have Dame in Milwaukee and just several injuries here or there that, you know, that, that, you know, left the healthiest teams available.