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The Rich Eisen Show

REShow: Louis Riddick and Frank Caliendo - Hour 3 (03-03-21)

The Rich Eisen Show

ESPN

Sports

4.31.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Monday Night Football analyst Louis Riddick tells Rich why the Texans should reverse course and start entertaining offers for Deshaun Watson, why the Bears should “take a big swing” to land the disgruntled quarterback, the source of Watson’s unhappiness with the Texans’ brass, and why the Cowboys STILL haven’t worked out a long-term deal with Dak Prescott and why that could come back to bite them with the rest of the players in the Dallas locker room.   Comedian Frank Caliendo tells Rich about his big role in helping to lure free agent DE JJ Watt to the Arizona Cardinals, why Green Bay Packers fans are mad at him now, and drops a GREAT impression of Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians. Rich wraps up the hour celebrating the anniversary of one of his all-time favorite shows, ‘Moonlighting,’ and how it launched Bruce Willis’ career.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody live from the rich eyes and show studio in Los Angeles. Let me just say one thing here. This is the rich eyes and show. My gosh, Steve, when did you first start the

0:14.8

chitchatting with J.J. Wat about him coming aboard? Well, as soon as he was officially released. Earlier on the show, MMQB senior writer, Albert Breer, pro football

0:26.2

Hall of Famer, Rod Woodson, coming up, ESPN NFL analyst, Lewis Riddick, plus comedian Frank Kelliando. And now, it's a rich eyeson.

0:39.8

Power number three of the rich eyes and show is on the air. 844204 Riches, the number to dial to have a conversation. The very hilarious. Frank Kelliando is going to be joining us in the middle of this hour. He was referred to by J.J. Wat as a non football person. Well, I mean, J.J. Wat was talking about the recruiting tools that Steve Kym employed in getting him to Arizona.

1:10.2

And he said that they came from all angles, including non football people. And we found out from Steve Kym yesterday before that sound bite was even uttered by J.J. Wat is introductory press conference that it was Blake Shelton made a video for for the Cardinals.

1:26.2

Because he's a die hard Cardinals fan. And he said Frank Kelliando Steve Kym said. And Kelliando retweeted the video of we put out of Kym saying that on our show yesterday from at rich eyes and show he wrote Kym was so right about my flag football coaching abilities, three crying emojis and knowing Frank that's either that's a gag or or or he's saying that he was a flag football coach in the video that he gave to J.J. Wat, but Kym said it was it was grudiny. I think he made him do a grudiny imitation.

1:57.2

So that's what you played for Kym yesterday. We're going to straighten all this out. You got to straighten all this out.

2:02.2

Because it's a stuff that you know, I'm ready to look important. So many people might talk about J.J. Wat's effectiveness and how it might actually work in the NFC West. As you know, we're going to track down the most important stuff, which was Caliando stuff.

2:14.9

Or as I came on the air about Marshall Goldberg, who's the guy who used to wear number 99, whose family is told J.J. Watty can wear it. I referred to my book that I have right here, great using sports.

2:27.9

And there's a three page entry about Marshall Goldberg's college and football professional playing experience. Just come straight to the source. And by source, I mean, a Jewish person in front of a microphone.

2:38.4

source you. Yes, source me 844204, which is the number dial, but there is so much going on. Diana Rossini of ESPN, who I follow and whose work I greatly appreciate. She said that she texted a football coach head coach today, who called the cuts coming in next week's NFL calendar, a massacre.

3:02.3

And then there's what is going on with the quarterback carousel situation and throw to have here on the show really enjoyed his work with Brian greasy and Steve Levy in the booth for Monday night football.

3:12.5

And he talks ball all the time for the world, while I'd leader in sports Lewis riddock here on the show. How are you Lewis?

3:17.8

You're a good man. Appreciate you having me on. No, thank you for coming on this program right now. Let's just jump right into it with what's going on with Dishon Watson. I mean, you know, you know how front offices approach matters and it's always like let's stick with plan A until plan B somebody walks through the door with an offer that we can't refuse, but it does not even seem like it looks like the the Texans are even refusing.

3:47.8

I think to acknowledge there's a door B right now. What do you think is going on with this? Yeah, I think when you think about that, I think Nick Casarios, you know, he's looking at this going, look, this is my first time being a GM.

4:01.8

I have the final saying I really want to be known as the guy who at the first crack of being a GM after knocking on the door so many different times and for different reasons, not being able to.

4:13.8

You know, I actually finished a deal. Do I want to be known as the guy who traded the Sean Watson? That's the first thing that he did. He traded one of the most dynamic quarterbacks that quite honestly.

4:23.8

Well, you look at him play for play, stat for stat. He's right up there with some of the greats that are playing this game right now, namely the guy who everybody considers to be the standard Patrick my hopes. Do you want to be known as that guy?

4:36.8

And I think but once you get past that when you look at the long game, Rich, I think and I've said this numerous different times if I got to a point where I could get to a face the face with the Sean.

4:49.8

And he was telling me this and I really did for all intents and purposes, believe him when he said, I'm not playing for you because this isn't even about you. This isn't my problem isn't with you.

5:00.8

The problem goes way above you. Then I would really start saying, hey, look, it's time for us to start picking up the phone because I need to build this football team. I need to do what's in the best interest of this team, both now and in the future.

5:13.8

We need to pick, we need to capital and there's some people out there right now that are just flat out desperate for this guy and we might be able to take them straight to the cleaners.

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