Marshall Faulk Talks Rodgers, Belichick, Tomlin, Michigan & More with Rich Eisen | Full Interview

Pro Football Hall of Famer Marshall Faulk joins Rich Eisen in-studio to discuss the Michigan cheating scandal and if the Wolverines can beat Alabama in their College Football Playoff semifinal at the Rose Bowl, how much NIL money he could have made in college at San Diego State, if the Jets could have done anything differently to save their season in the wake of Aaron Rodgers Achilles injury, Bill Belichick and Mike Tomlin’s hot seats with the Patriots and Steelers, Christian McCaffrey as NFL MVP, and weighs in on the Dallas Cowboys, Kansas City Chiefs, and Philadelphia Eagles.

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Good to see you my hall of fame friend Marshall Fox oh what’s going on Rich Eisen how you doing man that’s how we roll here on the program got a question for you rich yes Marshall fo what’s what’s what’s your question oh let’s go any does Michigan cheat does Michigan

Cheat yes no they do not cheat okay I just had to ask you what do you mean by that what do you mean does Michigan cheat what do you mean by that I’m just asking a question man Marshall I don’t understand who was your first quarterback in the National Football

League listen who was your first quarterback in the National Football League is a straight up I ask you if Jim Harbaugh cheats I asked you of Michigan meaning but what is your what is your definition of cheat I we didn’t get to Harbaugh yet can we can you just

Wait I just want to talk about you sit down and just fire that’s why I asked you the question did you even aim there’s no layups here okay still layups here I know that break away so do you want to answer the question I asked you what who was

Your first quarterback in the National Football how welcoming was you let’s just be clear I love I refuse to come on this show and ask you does Jim Harbaugh cheat I love Jim so I asked you does Michigan cheat but all I hear from that guy over there

Who it’s kind of funny that he separates from me on this front all he does is just want to play a foil and don’t cheat don’t cheat don’t cheat and that your your accomplishments might actually be tainted I have two rules who’s this guy over there don’t fumble don’t cheat I

Hear you I hear you so and and all of the Patriot accomplishments a lot of people have Asis did did you want me to ask you if the Patriots cheat you can ask me that okay but I would never say Tom Brady cheat ever okay so my question he

Doesn’t he doesn’t sit there at all and go you know what rich I feel your pain I’m there for you that that your team’s accomplishments are somehow some way wrecked or discounted because of something that hasn’t been completely proven when your draft choice has got forfeited you know what I’m saying like

I’m in the same boat I’m in your boat now I didn’t think I’d ever be in your boat I’m in your boat boat game hold on we’re in the boat game you need you need you need six more rings to get in my boat buddy this guy that guy right

There love it love it man I’m good man I’m good I just you know I just yeah yeah was game on the first we we got some days we got some days before we get to the game what do you think can you guys win of course we can win don’t just

Stop what are you talking about serious Michigan needs to make sure milroe has a long day Michigan needs to have a run game be consistent and Michigan needs their quarterback to play uh have a clean sheet we do that I think we win this football game okay and Michigan has

The’s a grown man I know that like he’s not just some little dude you’re tackling I’m aware of that like he’s a little bit smaller than Derrick Henry no I I’m aware I’m aware of that but desate to dude if he can have long days in the SEC why not against Michigan’s defense

Why not okay and this is this is a a team that has whether you feel it is appropriate or not a mentality that everyone is against them and they are using that as a rallying cry as well as a a way to to play for one another I

Think that worked and this this is this is and this like I believe that worked Rich MH when you guys weren’t one see when you played Ohio State what’s a number they everybody was like say what what’s a number that’s the expectation one is playing four there an

Expectation yeah you’re the favorite one is playing you guys were the when you guys were playing Ohio State you guys were in favorite this guy over there I’m just I’m telling you honest just matters with these kids I’m serious I’m going bring I’m bringing you into it because

Every these games Rich think about it when you guys went into was it the Pinn State game you you didn’t have your coach it was like oh we’re not going to know like all of these all the know until 24 hours literally before like 10 hour the

Expectation when youed on the tarmac yes so the expectation wasn’t there like in this game you guys are expected as the one you are the number one seat you are expected so you’re saying Chris over there that a team that is expected to win cannot play the nobody believes in

This card everyone’s against this C hell no you how many you’re number one do you know how many times Brady went off to the Super Bowl and told Sully and Fitz at at their farewell we’re going off to the Super Bowl party with the big rally nobody believes in this and the whole

Country’s like get out of here you’ve got five trophies that season when everybody said he sucked and then he it was time to go to so you’re telling me that JJ McCarthy has Jedi Mind Tricks that he’s going to use on himself to get him up for the no I’m hoping Jim does

That he it’s his spirit animal hey man the the reality rich is you guys are the favorite to win it all so do you you think Michigan has no chance to win that’s not true what are you saying I forgot this is this is the martial fault conversation I’m just going to play

Devil’s Advocate until I actually put it in your La what you feel this this wasn’t about what I think and what I feel this was about you you’re I told you how I feel and then you push back and then you say you actually agree with

Me is that what you’re saying I with you they’re the favorite oh my God they are the favorite see that little box I put you in actually you’re in the box right now on the screen now they now the two us but we’re betting Alabama right

Marshall so do you feel who wins this game Alabama listen why cuz the SEC because they’re the SEC only no no no no no no no no there’s something with this team the game against they don’t they they should not even be there to win

Against arburn I was just like oh my God go like I’ve seen some unbelievable games that game like what milro did yeah and and and you don’t I mean unless they start talking about it to this degree yes they benched him they played somebody else they cycle through

Quarterbacks well I mean isn’t that how both Tua and Herz got born into our national cons somebody got hurt uhhuh like that was that somebody got hurt well no two Herz got benched you know in the national championship game well no no they they pulled in the game so it

Wasn’t like milro got benched yes like they took his job that was different mhm and that throw was great against durn there’s no doubt about it I just uh there’s there’s something I I I want to see man I you know i’ I’ve only Kirby Smart is the only one that’s that’s in

This position done it to sabbin well maybe Michigan could hire someone from the Georgia staff in t you know before the game maybe they could do that that’s what Alabama that’s what Alabama did I I don’t I don’t like where you’re going with this okay very good I

Don’t mean you just sat down and just like I’m like let’s talk week 16 no no no I asked I say Rich can I ask you a question did I not I I I remember how it started okay all right cool Good Marshall Faulk is here on the program

Well how how much would You’ have gotten an nil at San Diego State yeah right I probably would have sounded more like Caleb Williams like I might not be going to I probably would have went for my fifth or sixth year I A fifth or sixth

Year I would have got all the green shirt the blue shirt I’d have got all the shirts they would have been creating colors of shirts I should have asked you how much nil money would you have made against BYU alone oh my God you tormented them

Yeah they would have probably paid me to Leave he got to go he got to go yeah they said and and and name image and Leave that’s how that would have went name image and then you they would have put some figure on the table and you’d have been like what Cincinnati still has that first overall pick no doubt you know there’s still not enough money didn’t want to go

There oh man so yeah the whole nil thing imagine I I I cannot Prime is deep in that world right now oh yeah yeah and he I mean rightfully so you couldn’t have a better person couldn’t have a better person you know he you know he understands the bag understands how to

Play the game too and he gets it and he understands when kids might actually reneg on him which it seems like as of this conversation and that seat two weeks ago Jordan seat was sitting here wearing his blenders talking about how if you’re a dog you’re going to Colorado

And he might not show up there at the end of the day it’s kind of crazy hey right now it’s okay do you think the NF the the college football should go with what Chip Kelly said which is go independent from the rest of college sports let everyone be in the old

Conferences and basketball and the Olympic sports and football it should just be 64 of us and let’s play it like it’s the NFL you know basically what he said I don’t know if that sounds good or not but I always question should we listen to Chip Kelly oh God I’m just

Being honest say what you want I’m just being honest no I know that that’s it should we should we be listening to Chip Kelly is the question I don’t know I mean college football he’s uh he’s he seems to have had a lot of answers although maybe not as much at UCLA

Questions okay I’m just that that’s all I would ask like if Nick sa said that I’d be like let’s listen to him I know when Brockman doesn’t make eye contact with me he knows he wants no part of this conversation this makes me laugh Marshall fun here on the rich oen show

Okay so what should we talk about here anything I noticed um but Michigan no it’s okay I mean it’s all good man um so why did you leave Indianapolis wow that’s a great question great question well you know we had a we had a difference of opinion we were going in a

Diff we were going separate ways um you know the the town just wasn’t big enough for two new orleanians I was about to say can you imagine pton Manning and you playing your entire careers together I mean obviously you wound up in the same place you know football heaven was your

Phrase you are on the same team again but I’m sure and CTT Warner is like why are you even asking that question hey man it was listen um it was fun playing with pton a year that like and and then playing with him it was fun watching the process of of him

Processing how to navigate the league like literally learning okay I can’t do that I can’t do this I can’t do that and and anybody else who throw 20 suide interceptions their rookie year MH they have a the next year is just not good the next year they went 13 and three

Like how he without you yeah without me like the next year they went 13 and three I mean he he he really stepped it up and um I think he only threw like eight maybe nine interceptions something like that it wasn’t but it was impressive to watch um the process of of

His rookie year and then how he picked it up and how he stepped it up and and what they did to evolve the offense and and listen they were right at when I was there uh Payton leaned on me a lot and when I wasn’t there the maturity and

Growth that that he needed to become a leader it it it happened naturally and everybody followed him and I love that story was one of my favorite stories I’ve ever heard you tell is the processing that Payton was going through about throwing footballs where he shouldn’t and what say can would you

Tell that story what you say oh yeah so so we’re we’re like beginning of the Season he throws a pick throws a couple more picks and his thing was oh man I just didn’t think the guy couldn’t get there it’s like oh yeah I just I was

Like P I just didn’t think he can get there meaning the defensive back yeah he just didn’t think he can get there I didn’t think he could get there I didn’t think he can get there and then pretty soon I was just like hey Peyton everybody can get

There welcome to the NFL this is the NFL everybody can get there but it just um it was it was it was you you could you could watch the process because he just wouldn’t make the same mistake twice like literally he fou it away if if if a defensive coordinator did something it

Was like and he saw it coming again couldn’t get him twice with the same thing anybody else you play with like that um he was the only one who had control of the game Mars wouldn’t let like Mars wouldn’t allow our offense was different right you know Kurt Kurt had

Control of the game but it was just in his decision making his ability to make decisions on based on the coverage where the ball would go the coverage sometime would dictate where the ball went and then even though that was the case Kurt would then he had the option to hold on

To it a little longer take the hit and make the throw and and he did that better than better than anybody like the dude I mean we we won the Super Bowl because of that that that throw him holding on to it taking a hit throwing

The ball to Isaac that like that was his that was his calling like what he did and and and to watch the movie watching his movie understanding that his defining moment and the thing that he’s known for was what kept Him bench cuz he could not stay in the

Pocket he kept running out of the pocket and in the movie his coach was like you got to stand there and take it in college right in college and that became his calling card it’s unbelievable man unbelievable he’s the American Underdog yeah 100% two Hall of Fame quarterbacks

You played with all right so uh and and it’s interesting with pton you’re saying that Payton was the offense cuz when he went out with the neck injury and the bottom fell out it’s kind of because he was the only one who could operate the system that they had in place

And that you had to change the system in mid Midway mid in in the middle of of everything when he went out and it’s kind of I always use the analogy it’s like the the moving Independence Day that the only the aliens can actually operate the the spacecraft that they had

And that’s what pton was like with that offense and it seems like that was the case with the Jets this year when Rogers goes out certainly with the coordinator they had the system was set up for all right you you’re basically the quarterback and the coordinator pre-nap whole damn thing and

Then he goes out and the Jet season goes down the toilet because they couldn’t adjust is that is that an appropriate way of uh of analogizing that that that’s exactly it when what what Payton did and and um and I you know people want to get into greatest quarterback

This this and this the current state of what a quarterback’s job is in an NFL is because of what pton did um obviously before Peyton long long time ago guys call their own plays M what pton did was he went to the line of scrimmage with multiple plays and

Checks they were never in a bad play he always had an answer and no down was wasted that was that was the idea let’s get something out of every down and not not the physical elements of he didn’t have the strongest arm he weren he wasn’t the fastest he like all of that

Stuff but his capacity to stand at the line of scrimmage and slow the game down and literally put them in the play that’s going to be successful was unbelievable and and throughout the time when it was him Marvin Reggie and uh and Dallas um they line up in the same

Formation with edrian back there and wore you out and and a lot of the plays look the same but they’d run that stretch and he knew it and and if if if they handed off the ederen and and and and and and and the safety’s back they’re getting 20 and if

That safety cheat up you gonna see that naked hand and if that naked hand go out to the back it’s going over your head I mean they did it better than anybody and Brady turned into that as well Brady turned into that and you could make a

Case that Rogers he’s that is well and maybe the best skill set in terms of physical abilities to boot out or run it himself with that neck up ability and we’ll see if m momes is there he can do it right exactly and so that’s the question is that what could the Jets

Have done right because you’re not you’re not telling the play caller we’re pulling a code red on you because Rogers was either a thinking of coming back this year or be absolutely wanted everything still still be in the same place and the Jets made a decision we’re

Going to keep it frozen here because we can’t antagonize the guy that we just put all the eggs in the basket and the basket blew up for snaps into the season what what could they have done differently nothing I mean they they went into it and the worst case scenario

The worst the worst was if your offensive coordinator had to coach the guy calling in plays had to coach somebody other than Aaron Rogers because we saw what that looked like with Russ yeah we saw what it looked like that was that was the worst Cas like of all the things

That could have happened that was the worst because in in in most cases here’s what I want you to look at Minnesota has won games with Backup backup quarterbacks look at the Browns the Browns with with the backup quarterback the Jets used last year for Zack so

Understand like you can win games it’s it’s like it’s a reflection on and and I’m I’m say this Aaron Rogers is an exceptional Talent like we beyond beyond what he’s able to do and I think what we were about to see was the maturation of

Of his process and and what he was about to do with that offense with taking ownership of it with the probably one of the best receiving cores he’s had in a while that the receiving core that the Jets were about to put on the field um

So getting Flo off his couch in week two week three that wouldn’t have fixed it Jets might have a better season season right now if they went ahead and made some sort of was it is that’s the whole point is it a Zach thing or cuz McDaniel called Zack Wilson quote unquote

Dangerous and he does not mean because he’s dangerous for his own team Rich I’m I’m I don’t I don’t know and I can’t tell if it’s a Zach thing but what I but what I am going to say is um when I watch him or any other quarterback for

The Jets play a lot of the times they don’t have the answers to what’s going on out there it doesn’t look like they’re getting hey when you see this we’re going here when they do this this and this we’re doing this we’re late in the season defenses aren’t doing things that you

Haven’t seen that that’s usually you know first maybe month of the Season they’re trying stuff they’re trying to disguise right now when you line up against a defense you have a you you you have you have the data that’s telling you on first down when you put regular

Personnel out there here’s what they line up in these are the things that they run if you run motion here’s what they like to do here’s what they check is you know those things and it it it it just appears to me that the the he doesn’t appear to have the answers and

When he does he plays well he slings it he plays well I feel sometimes with the Roku Channel um talking to potentially a new audience every day I I mean we’ve only been on for about a year plus yeah um so this is maybe your um teenth appearance

Whether with me or Suz when she’s sitting in here Marshall faul um one of our favorite moments um September 8th 2016 was when we got our new sign outside um and um and then um Mike deltufo was out there to pull the rope and complete malfunction Marshall was

Here this is it you know and remember this moment guys hold on a minute hold on Marsh it’s coming just give it one big pull give goody P there we go and then it goes that’s Marshall laughing pull it pull you’re B oh man classic both ropes came down all right very

Good seven years ago right can we go back to that I think he’s still in uniform are you wearing the same thing go back you lost think he’s still in uniform is it the same shirt he’s a uniform oh my God he’s a uniform that’s

Old minut old the same hat the same hat that’s the same shirt oh my God the not your no you a patch on your left arm in the video and you’re wearing the shirt right now Mar his finest Marsh Haw over there spot it oh my God said were you 20

Super Bowl oh my God we’re back here on our radio show and we’re showing an old footage from seven years ago of Del struggling to take down multiple properly you were wearing the same hat and shirt that day no the Hat’s different no it’s not it’s literally the hat super 50 it’s the

Same same shirt wear sht oh my God it’s a uniform shirts excuse me we’ve all advanced as humans you have not verion of new shirt oh my God new version of new shirt just sweating you’re sweating right now oh my God I love Tuli man that

Is that is the best you go does not get better than that bro awesome you’re laughing so hard you are sweating oh my gosh Del that’s Dion the other day Del two my favorite human beings on the planet very best man I love seven years ago that

Doesn’t change the fact you wearing the same shirt who your favorite is you know you got me there the same this is the Marshall Faulk bowl tonight right yes the Rams it would be Rams colts for your teams that you played for professionally but Rams versus New Orleans yeah that’s

Where you are from well the old NFC West aha okay I like it um and uh you every single time we would talk about the Saints back in the day on NFL Network everyone would screaming out the word popcorn but like popcorn and why would that be why were we doing that that’s

How I got my start man um as a kid when I couldn’t afford money to get in the game I was I was a vendor I sold popcorn in the super doome that’s how I got in the game it’s the only way I can see professional football other than on TV

Do you remember what year that was you remember what that oh man let’s seear era is that what this was 89 88 887 8889 okay hold let’s see so was this Dome Patrol is this what we were yeah it’s Bobby a this was we were just out

Of being the ANS okay the bags came off of our heads and we like we started having a showing oh yeah 87 they were 12 and three wow 10 and six and 88 9 and 7 and 8 so you started showing up the we we just got the bags off our head and

Then you were filling up with popcorn yep we were the ANS man they the fans were so I mean we have sell our crowds and they put bags on their heads I remember that little I mean paper bags with eyes cut out and the mou cut out so

They got to be able to drink you know I I will never forget the night the super doome reopened oh yeah and we were there for NFL Network and I was standing next to you and you told me going into the game this is going to be the loudest

Building you’ve ever been in your life you told me that and I was standing next to you we were in some Suite you you you you you were I was I was your plus one yeah okay Mr New Orleans and I will never forget when Vic rolls out and the

Ball goes on the ground and everybody thought it was going to be a Saints turnover on the opening drive of the reopening of the super doome and the place went nuts and then the ball rolled out of bounds and everyone wo and you looked at me and I looked at you cuz it

Was the loudest I’ve ever heard a building and you start looking at me and you’re nodding your head at me you start laughing like yeah I told you I told you and then the next place is the Steve gleon the punt block yeah that is now yes you know Memorial basically with the

With the with the Statue out yeah I’m getting chills right now like thinking about it thinking about it like we were there that night yeah yeah and come coming off coming off Katrina and and and all all that that team had been through yeah um uh the displ playing in

San Antonio playing more away games and um nobody knew if if the Superdome would reopen would the team ever come back and U the awfulness that was going on in that building yeah oh my God God to wipe that memory away best the best that the city

Could amazing and have that happen that happened within like the first minute y of return yep like the the I’ve never been at an event that was that loud like you you remember it was like we were standing next to each other talking like yeah we couldn’t I couldn’t hear you

Could not hear each other that’s why you when I looked at you and you were like yep I told you it was going to be that loud and then it got louder yeah I just like the city was buzzing we were there it was just buzzing they were they were

So hungry for a home game and and I’m going to tell you I’m going to tell you what what my people did the New Orleans it was like they wanted to show people that we were resilient we were resilient it it was so much going on and um the

City was being talked about because of you know all the stuff that happened in super doome and do they deserve a team and do they want to move the team and man like would they ever support sellout crowd everybody it it was like everybody stood up the whole game almost tackle it

Was insistent that everyone returned to new or yeah I mean there was a conversation about going to San Antonio or anything like that that that that I I remember that night like I will never forget it and the fact that I got to stand next to you um a Mr New Orleans

Essentially I will never forget that it is a blessing that I had that and it also leads to the your other favorite moment of that night because it was a Monday night game on ESPN and we went down on the field to watch that game in the third quarter and

They go up member of the security staff to Marshall and say uh you can stay looked at me and said you got to go like I was big dumb big dum I’m like what he kept looking at me like what’s going on help they saw me and I was I was

Non-essential oh they saw him and they’re like you’re essential and guess who got to allow me to stay on the field oh this guy oh nice and then when afterwards you’re like let’s go out and I’m like excuse me this night is not great enough that I get to

Go out in New Orleans with Marshall faul on the night the Super Dome reopens this triumphantly it’s going to be amazing and we turn to much I’m like come on he’s like no I’m just going to go back to the hotel wow that’s Mo for you and I

Said to him like yeah Steve this next hurricane of the century wipes the city off the map and they reopen the Super Dome like this and the most popular guy in New Orleans asked you to go out we’ll do it then and he’s still still left that’s

Mooch that is mooch literally Spike Lee was there and bands were there Green Day you Green Day amaz unbelievable amazing yeah all right let’s ask you about some uh narratives here Marshall faul that are going on right now um Cowboys are going to be one and done because we saw what happened in

Buffalo that it’s just the same old thing same old thing or or they’re not going to make it back to the NFC championship game because we just saw they were they were shown as being gazi by the bills what do you think man

That’s I I I just I I want to I want I want to think that it’s different um I’ve seen a different Dak um the question is going to be can Mike McCarthy get out of the way way really y cuz he’s been dialing it up like crazy to this point I

Think just watching the game all right watching the game um they have to learn because it’s not that he’s dialing it up is that Dak is putting them in the proper plays but on the road they can’t they can’t get in the proper play on the

Road is different you got to have some signals and you got to be able to get into the proper place at home they can hear him he’s real audio here we go he can check he can do stuff on the on the road in Buffalo it was no checks and

They had that they they literally Dak had to make decisions dropping back and that’s hard ask anybody ask pton all of them they they get a pre- snap read and they play from that pre- snap read if you do something boom Buffalo literally they they play Four cross and they dropped it

In late on him and he had to make decisions and your guys got to win so give Dak the the ability pre- snap to do whatever he’s seeing give him full control is and the fact that he doesn’t have it may be the reason why we’re seeing the Cowboys struggle on the road

That’s my analogy that he doesn’t have it like he has to have like the ability to get in and out of plays call certain plays if if if they’re going to do what they need to do when you watch Patrick Mahomes just just pay attention Patrick stop it get him into something

Else I mean he he has the ability to do that and and they allow him to so let me turn to Mahomes The Narrative is cadarius Tony is absolutely going to cost them the ability to win an important game in the playoffs but but but he is the personification of the

Issues with the offense how about that is a better way of setting up the Nar kind of I’m I’m not going to let Watson off and um I’m not going to let uh what 24 was the skymore sky them three like them the three of

Them so is that fixable no so then their issues at receiver RIT large that cadarius Tony personifies is going to cost them at the end so let’s say this fix is it fixable what’s fixable is um and and I love sap sap showed us that

Sap in ton was yeah Tony was offside a bunch of times and they didn’t call it okay um what’s fixable is okay lined up in the neutral zone that’s fixable your ability to catch the football when you’re when you have the drops the fixes just catch the damn ball

Like that’s and and whether they’re going to catch it the the touchdown that uh valz scanton dropped like that was it like when he dropped that ball it’s like his career ended I I haven’t seen him throw him a meaningful ball since so they they have four guys that have the

Drops well he did throw one one that that should have been pass interference against the Packers but wasn’t um but I I I do think that the momes going nuts on the official was because can I just bring one thing up sure they miss their wide receivers coach is that

Bey they miss their wide receivers coach okay so if we asking what his worth was it was those guys were on schedule with Mahomes cuz he worked with Mahomes he worked with the white outs and right now right now those wide receivers look like they play for the

Bears Marshall Faulk here on the Rich Eisen show uh another um narrative is that the uh Eagles are less than because their coordinators are head coaches somewhere else and this is not fixable either yes they you you lose I’m impressed that they got off to the start

That they did MH you know and now it’s time now it’s time okay both offense and defensive coordinator they figured you out what are your adjustments that’s that’s that’s what we and and we’re not seeing their adjustments we’re not seeing now they’ve adjusted to you now what you got two head

Coaches and and and and the one in in Indianapolis is doing a great job sure is you see why he’s missed I mean he got Gardner muu Gardner looking good good M that team is playing well the Run game is Trey Surman and Tyler Goodson ran all

Over the Steelers 14 straight times it’s it’s it’s it’s you see why to wrap that game yeah so you’re they’re going to be there’s a deficiency and I think I I I believe let’s let’s just see if they can make the adjustments going into the latter latter part of the season to get

Them ready for the for the for the push in the playoffs I’m just amazed that they’re here Rich teams that lose the Super Bowl don’t they don’t start off the way that the Eagles started off I give serani credit for having them ready at the start of the season and then

Another narrative is that uh both and this is the third rail um is that both belich and Tomlin have run their courses at their spots would you agree with that I I just can’t see how unless belich wants to live in Southern California coach the Chargers and sell his boat in

Newport off of Newport Beach I mean I can’t see you getting R Bel I I just I the the the Robert Craft that we know I just I don’t even know how you do that I don’t even know how you do I can’t even people keep saying and I’m like how do

You put that in the words like what what do you what do you tell bich I I because he clearly is still one of the greatest coaches of all time I’m not I’m not discounting that now now he’s always been the bad judge of talent he hasn’t always picked the

You know the groceries yeah it hasn’t always you know cook the food that he wanted to the dish that he said he was going to make but but he finds ways to win and I just could not ask him that and then I believe Mike Tomlin some of the the Pittsburgh

Steelers when they lost their GM that that’s the difference in this in in this team the talent doesn’t look like the pittsbur Steeler talent and and and I listen to guys like Ryan Clark Ryan Clark said here’s the problem and and I was like that that might make sense the

Pittsburgh Steelers used to draft the best available Talent not to what they needed and if you start drafting the what you need then you get in trouble you got to take the best available Talent so they always have high quality you know High ID what I saw those two

Receivers do Deontay Johnson against the Bengals and then picking just last I’m tell you right now if that was Isaac Bruce and and Tory hot every time I got a chance I’d run up their back I’d hit him in the back like you’re not you’re not going to

That is not on the field during on the field yes they going to get in contact you either block or get ran over what they’re doing that’s that’s not even football man watching them two stand up watching a he watched the ball and the

Other guy get out of the way just let a guy go hit the running back you well that’s why people are putting that on Tomlin like that isn’t that the head coach to fix that not Jaylen Warren’s responsibility or Nai Harris’s responsibility your best who receive can you win games without them

Two it’s your best two receivers MH and and coaching today is hard if you got to bench those two guys and listen we we both know because we watch with Antonio Brown Tom Ando have a problem benching you you have a problem sending you to the locker

Room but in today’s in today’s climate you got to win games they’re already Talent deficient mhm you know they they got Big B calling in saying that this don’t look like Steelers football you got Ryan Clark making comments I mean well the toml and I saw

Looked as engaged as ever I saw him and by the way same guy same everything and TJ Watts like I I I would run through all for this guy how did they win games early in the year with Matt Canada doing what he did now now there’s a thing the

Fact that his loyalty to his coaches sometimes you know Canada it it the proof was in the pudding he went up for the job it didn’t fit with they were trying to do he wouldn’t the guys to cook those groceries like didn’t fit but tomlin’s loyalty is that’s that’s who he

Is but you’re not going to tell me that that guy MH can’t coach if they let him go I mean it’d be a fire cell for people trying to get him will you tell this’s another one of my favorite stories uh um about you barking back at the Cardinals sideline one

God one of my favorites so we’re playing the cardinal know and um and I’m having a day M oh man I I and and and anytime like um you know I normally don’t engage but I run a couple of plays their side and they’re talking and they’re real

Chirpy and they’re getting off and and and and now it’s it’s literally a blowout and I’m going up and down the sideline and I’m I’m I’m you know some nasty things and and I go keep going keep going and then I double back I’m like Mr Green not

You I’m sorry I every time at the hall of fame I remind him I’m like he’s like I remember that so mean Joo is on the sideline as assistant he’s on the sideline as he’s the he’s the dline coach he’s on the sideline and I’m bar I’m telling him y’all ain’t this this

This y’all getting worked y’all sorry so at Arizona Marshall at Arizona Arizona so this was uh November 3rd 02 yes what did you what was his what was his day 27 carries for 178 yards five five catches for 58 more I’m wearing them out Rich I’m wearing them

Out and you’re letting them know and I’m letting them know it I’m wearing them out and I’m like and then I I was like Mr Green I that wasn’t for you I’m sorry I just you can’t talk trash to me Joe Green I’m like just you got to have some

Respect man like I respect that man too much now I call him pops you know I’m like I but I I just man I I caught myself it was just like you know you get in the moment and you’re being disrespectful and you just trying to get

On everybody on the sideline and I was like not you sir like love it that’s truly one of my favorite stories from you Marshall ful back on the Rich Eisen show you can check out the NFL on Westwood One for free sponsored by AutoZone including tonight’s Thursday night football game

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Finder service can help you find a fix for free restrictions apply get in the zone AutoZone how to lay into that one Marshall faul still here on the program uh last segment what is your interpretation of what Shawn pyton was saying to Russell Wilson on the sideline in Detroit when he went right

After him and started yelling at him you’re you’re my Shawn pton whisper I don’t know if you saw that sequence on Saturday night yes um what what do you think that was about let me say because he said it’s not of our business what that was about so let me ask you what

You think that business might have exactly um Sean only responds to stuff like that when something was supposed to be done mhm that was talked about agreed upon and Russ did the opposite or something different okay like he’s not Shawn pton will not lose doing stuff that he doesn’t want to

Do or has been run through yeah all just in case it happens and then that had happened so what was it cuz the the essential idea was that he ran the play maybe too fast he couldn’t challenge what it happened just before on the goal line or anything like that it’s there

There’s just whatever happened here’s what I’m saying it had to be discussed talked about and the situation because Sean’s all about situ you know he’s situational football right that’s exactly where bich got it from which is pereles Shawn got it from which it’s football is all all about situations and

For a veteran quarterback to not understand the situation like that that is like like like you can make physical errors with him but the mental errors he cannot handle he cannot it is just not it is not acceptable so he he let him know about

It on the sideline and this is one of those things where pages are turned and off we go and we can do it again let’s move on right like he’s he’s let’s move on that that happened and and you got you got to be able to take that like

That’s that’s his thing like sometimes the coach is going to get at you and you got to be able to take it like March March has done that to to Kurt you just got as the player you got to be able to take it because one of the most

Frustrating things for a coach is you you put a lot of time and effort into it but you don’t get to do anything on the field and and and that’s going to happen that’s going to happen last narrative for you um is the 49ers are unbeatable

It looks that way Rich I’m telling you I just I there’s no answer for for what for what I mean obviously if if the head coach decides that he wants the quarterback to be MVP instead of the running back and they decide to throw the ball in the Red Zone against the

Team that they play in the Super Bowl then they can be beaten that’s what you think is at stake on Monday night huh I’m just saying if they if if if what they do is if he decides to control the game and not allow the game to control

Like they right now they’re playing and whoever is hot they go through and uh you know if he wants if he wants to have Brock pie be the MVP then he can get in away so let me ask you in the two minutes I have left here then as

Somebody who knows what it’s like to run and catch and block and do everything that mcaffrey is doing make the case for him as the MVP as you want one it is what it is man he he he is if if if they allowed hold on if they wouldn’t pacify

Debo and hand them the ball and do the things that they need to do McCaffrey’s numbers would be through the roof off the charts it it’ be through the roof but the way that they operate their offense is um they they try to create mismatches with Personnel being in

Different different positions and and we did that too and I I think his touches and his numbers are exact they’re great but I think his touches are down because they want to make sure he’s fresh for the for the for the playoffs remember last year calf had a little calf injury

And sometimes you get worn down a little bit but um I there it’s I I enjo Brock pie I when when they didn’t have no mcaffrey they didn’t have Trent and they didn’t have Debo he looked regular he was just regular nothing was there he wasn’t able to carry the team

And um and I just think I think it’s Kristen mcaffrey and then after that you got to go with the cheetah if if the cheetah Clips 2000 that’s that’s that’s unbelievable though so it the first two MVP V V uh or win in place should be non- quarterbacks yes yes then who’s the

Quarterback that that that shows is it pie or is it Lamar and that’s what’s at stake Monday night depending on what Lamar does yes you know because you you can’t turn off the early parts of the season forar they they had some they had some they they

They gave some games away early this year they sure did like they just just imagine but they figured it out they literally figured it out including one pburg which has the opportunity you know P Pittsburgh everybody seems to forget that they they beat the Ravens earlier

This year yeah great to see you brother all good you’re the best thanks for having me it’s the Hall of see we just filled an hour boom like that Amari CER armari Cooper coming up and the comedian Brad Williams and TJ’s fantasy advice in hour three still got about a minute plus

Right here so um it’s it’s funny to say McCaffrey’s numbers would be even guder if they did not hand the ball to uh Deo but how do you not I mean the guy is a a huge weapon to diversify yes you have to use him and

And L listen KD is underused I know I I I I love the fact that he just he’ll block he’ll bang his head he does what he does and then sometimes he get highlighted He he’ll get six seven eight catches two touchdowns and um just the

Greater good I I love he’s probably a guy that could that that that should be looked at as grank or you know like the star tight end he could be featured like Kelsey he could be that but but he’s not trying to and then interesting again I

Know this is more of a conversation than 30 seconds James Cook is re reimagining the way that the bills are are are playing offensively Joe Brady right it’s it’s it’s it’s unbelievable you know the guy the guy knows how to call plays and obviously something was going on in

Carolina that got him out of there but um I I like here’s the same thing same thing um you’re watching the quarterback with answers the quarterback has answers to Joe is like this this this these are the answers when you see this this this these are the answers well James Cook is

A hell of an answer yes that is for sure why why hasn’t he been getting touches the Bingo and that’s why they switch maybe offensive coordinators catch the rich eyes and show every single day on the Roku Channel 12 to3 Eastern for free