The Rich Eisen Show

NBA.com's Mark Medina tells guest host Ryan Leaf how Kevin Durant’s return from injury will boost the Nets’ title chances, what the James Harden addition means for the 76ers’ odds to top Brooklyn for Eastern Conference supremacy, and if Warriors fans should be worried about the W’s recent stumble after such a red-hot start to their season. 

Ryan compares his NFL Combine measurements from 1998 to those of Pitt Panthers QB Kenny Pickett this year and explains why it’s the intangibles that will determine success in the NFL and not necessarily things like hand size.

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Guest host Ryan Leaf reflects on his long journey from NFL flameout to recovering addict and the mental toll of expectations and adulation on athletes.

NFL Network host Rachel Bonnetta tells Ryan Leaf what her first-ever NFL Combine is like, why she’s excited the NFL is making it more fun and game-like with the presence of fans near the field for the first time, and which event Peter King would excel at if there was a Combine for NFL journalists and broadcasters. 

Ryan and the guys debate if Pitt QB Kenny Pickett’s small hand size (8.5” as measured at the Combine) will effect where he goes in the NFL Draft, reflect on how the Rams’ big gamble on Matthew Stafford paid off, and why QB’s like Aaron Rodgers are more willing to work their leverage to work trades or get fat new contracts.

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The Rich Eisen Show's Chris Brockman, TJ Jefferson, and Adam Chudwin break down the latest from the NBA.

01:30- James Harden's impact on Sixers' title chances.

14:45- Ja Morant is awesome.

22:30- Worried about the Warriors?

26:20- Lakers getting boo'd/ Westbrook and LeBron.

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Rich calls in from the NFL Combine in Indianapolis where he tells guest host Ryan Leaf how he and Miami Dolphins Head Coach Mike McDaniel pulled off the Great Coaching Cliché Caper of 2022 at the NFL Combine, what whisperings about the league’s QB carousel he’s hearing behind the scenes and more. 

Ryan takes a call from someone who played football and basketball against him in high school and shares some larger-than-life stories about the teenage backboard-breaking phenom.

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Guest host Ryan Leaf and Chris Brockman break down the jumbled NFL QB puzzle and explain why Russell Wilson, Aaron Rodgers, Jimmy Garoppolo, Tua Tagovailoa and other quarterbacks could re-shape the league’s landscape this off-season, debate where Carson Wentz would be the best fit if he and the Colts part ways, and says why Jimmy Garoppolo will be a starting QB in the NFL next year wherever he ends up playing.  

The MMQB’s Andrew Brandt tells Ryan why we’re suddenly seeing TV networks for over big money for NFL announcing booths like Troy Aikman’s $90M deal with ESPN, why he still thinks Aaron Rodgers and the Packers are headed for a divorce, and how similar/different the Kyler Murray and Lamar Jackson contract negotiations are going. 

Ryan ends the hour making his pitch to Jeff Bezos to become the Thursday Night Football booth analyst when TNF moves to Amazon Prime next fall (with TJ and Brockman serving as way-too-intrusive sideline reporters).

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Guest host Ryan Leaf and Chris Brockman run through the latest developments in the NFL and on the anniversary of Wilt Chamberlain’s NBA record 100-point game they discuss which NFL single-game record is most unbreakable: receiving yards (336), passing yards (554), rushing yards (296), or sacks (7).

Ryan tells his behind-the-scenes account of how his NFL Combine experience went prior to the 1998 NFL Draft and why things went terribly wrong from that point on.

Ryan weighs in on Kyler Murray’s issues with the Arizona Cardinals and says the disgruntled QB’s resume to this point doesn’t warrent the huge extension he’s trying to leverage out of the Cards.

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Rich and Brockman argue over whether the San Francisco 49ers should pursue a trade for Tom Brady and what the compensation for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers should be.

Emmy-winning writer/actor/director/producer Ben Stiller and Rich discuss his new Apple TV+ series ‘Severance’ and reveals how he was able to land a star-studded cast that included John Turturro and Academy Award winner Christopher Walken, if he was truly intimidated filming that lie detector scene with Robert DeNiro in ‘Meet the Parents’ and reveals he actually had trouble pronouncing Brett Favre’s name in ‘There’s Something about Mary,’ and weighs in on the “rudderless” state of his beloved New York Knicks.

Brockman breaks out a special NFL Combine edition of ‘What’s More Likely’ where Rich weighs in on if we’ll see a Mike Mamula workout wonder, more brooms or football-on-a-stick, and more!

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Rich re-examines the (LENGTHY) statement released by Kyler Murray’s agent and wonders if this weird, very public beef is just a prelude to the disgruntled QB asking for a trade if he doesn’t get an early long-term extension from the Arizona Cardinals.

The MMQB’s Albert Brooks tells Rich how the top of the NFL Draft could shake out after this week’s NFL Combine, what Kyler Murray’s goals are by airing his dirty laundry with the Cardinals, if players forcing teams’ hands for earlier long term contracts is the new normal in the NFL, and if Lamar Jackson acting as his own agent has played a role in the lack of his contract extension with the Baltimore Ravens.

Rich and the guys react to the news trickling out of Day 1 of the NFL Combine including Bruce Arians responding to Tom Brady’s retirement and speculation that TB12 might still opt for another NFL season.

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Rich recaps Ja Morant’s jaw-dropping night where the Memphis Grizzlies guard threw down 52 points on the San Antonio Spurs, and says how his meteoric rise compares to the descending comet of the player drafted before him, Zion Williamson. 

Denver Nuggets Head Coach Michael Malone tells Rich when Denver is expecting the return of injured stars Jamal Murray and Michael Porter Jr., what makes reigning NBA MVP Nikola Jokic so special, what he learned from spending his formative years going to work with his dad (a former coach for Syracuse and the Bad Boy Pistons), why he hopes NBA coaches NEVER go back to wearing suits during games, and what bringing a title to Denver would mean to him and the city. 

Rich and the guys reflect back on the anniversary of then-Celtics head coach Rick Pitino’s infamous “Larry Bird ain’t walkin’ through that door” rant.

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Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio tells Rich why Kyler Murray’s agent released that lengthy statement today that “doesn’t accomplish anything,” if the Cardinals would consider trading the disgruntled QB, why Aaron Rodgers deserves $50M per year from the Packers after winning back-to-back MVP awards, if the Seahawks will be dealing Russell Wilson this offseason, and how close Tom Brady came to joining Sean Payton on the Miami Dolphins.  

Rich reacts to Derek Jeter resigning from the Miami Marlins and his parking spot at the team’s stadium being immediately coned off. 

In his ‘Overreaction Monday’ segment Rich says if the addition of James Harden means the 76ers are now the favorites to win the East, if LeBron James deserved to be booed by Lakers fans during the team’s home blowout loss to the New Orleans Pelicans, what the Packers snub of Aaron Rodgers in their Abbey Road tweet means for the 4-time MVP’s future in Green Bay, if Kyler Murray’s odd social media tactics will pay off with a fat new contract, and if ARod or Derek Jeter has been living the best life in the last 5 years. 

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