Drew Bledsoe: I Like What The Patriots Have Done

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Man, we're on one right now. You know what I should say? I should say that every show, because if I don't say that every show, maybe we're not having a great show. Maybe somebody thinks the show's bad because you didn't say it. That's true.

The best thing about us, though, is it's about us. Tell Tupo when he's on. How's it going?

He'll get handled when he gets handled. All good? Very good? I love him. I love that drop. That's my favorite drop.

Is that right? That's your new favorite drop? Every day, I switch. I switch up. Ah, you switch. I switch up.

It's like Mickey Mantle of drops. Just switch it. Go for both sides. Very good. Here, coach.

Great show so far. We simulcast with Pat McAfee. That was awesome. That was so cool.

That's got to be like once a month, something like that. I don't know. It was fun. It worked out well.

Technically, the technological aspect of it. It was funny. Pat, at one point during the end, he goes, he didn't know how it was going to work. It's true. We tried it out, I mean, before we left for yesterday. Yeah, we tested it.

We were completely blind flying into it. I mean, you know. You don't know. You don't know. Because I'm here, you have no idea. That's true.

I can screw stuff up in two seconds. So we did that hour one, hour number two. We just said goodbye to Dan Leberthardt as well. Did he reference our simulcast by saying thanks for having me on the program? I believe so. I heard that.

I picked up on that. If you missed it, don't you dare worry. We re-air on the Rich Eisen Show channel. We've got our own fast channel, people. We're live right now on the Roku Sports Channel, where we have a couple of re-airs on that as well. We're on the air every single day after Good Morning Football Overtime. I always loved listening to Dan Patrick do that in his highlights. Overtime. So, long story short, we've had a fun show.

844-204-richnumber. Drew Bledsoe is going to be joining us shortly. I like that you agree with it. You're excited. Bledsoe is a guy, right? I do know Drew Bledsoe. He was the guy.

It was great. He moved to Maine that year. He was the starting quarterback. That was the year they got drafted. Ninety-four? Ninety-three. Ninety-three.

Okay. And we had some fun times watching him slinging around. I mean, Ben Coats. Ben winter coats. Troy Brown in the early days.

It was a good time. I'll ask him his first conversation with Parcells because you never know. Willie McGinnis will tell you he had no idea that the Patriots were going to draft him. None. Zero. Zero. That he never spoke to him at the combine. Yeah.

Never spoke to him. That's crazy. Yeah. It is crazy.

That's crazy. And so, Drew Bledsoe. We'll ask him about Drake May and any advice for him and things of that nature. 844-204-richnumber to dial. Ricardo in San Francisco is here on the Rich Isaac show. What's up, Ricardo?

Hey, Rich. First time caller. Great to be on the program.

Ricardo, honestly. First time caller. Always appreciate first time callers. Where you been? We've been around for a while.

You got it. So I'm a lifelong Dolphins fan. I actually grew up in Montreal watching Jets games and I became a Dolphins fan.

But anyways. So you became a Dolphins fan through watching Jets games in Canada. Is that what I understand? Did I just hear that?

Exactly. Because it was the Plattsburg, New York affiliate and they showed all the Jets and Giants games. And you were smart enough to like the Dolphins, I have to say. Very good. What's on your mind? All the great.

Missed all the great Super Bowl teams. Kind of became a fan probably 40 something years ago. Okay.

Little bit hard. That comparison with Purdy. Put Tyreek in jail and waddle on the 49ers and believe me, Purdy passes for 5,000 yards.

Probably 35 plus. Well, I don't think he was saying. I think Dan was saying if you took Purdy's and Tua's numbers and removed the names and the jerseys, the laundry as Seinfeld would call it from the equation, would you think both guys are elite top five quarterbacks? And so he was actually equating their numbers, I think.

But equating the two of them, comparing the two of them as being denigrated by many because for whatever reason that they're products of the sum of their parts or in my estimation, just the way that they're born into National Football League fandom consciousness. Purdy was the last pick in the draft. He had to be the last pick. He can't be an elite quarterback if you're passed up 354 times. You know what I mean? So including by the team that drafted you. I think that's what he meant.

So a couple of points about Tua. Basically, you know the expression liquid courage. I think he's got contract courage. Now he's got the FU money. He can say whatever he wants.

Yeah. I'm sure a lot of coaches are going to be, we're listening to that and wondering like what's his deal? Would I really want a guy like that on my team if he's going to rat me out somewhere down the line?

But that being said, I never thought I would say here today where Joe Shane looks like a genius for the contract he signed Daniel Vils two versus what Chris Greer committed to with Tua. But my prediction will not see a road playoff win for the four years, the next four years with the Dolphins. I don't see that happening. But you're saying you're a Dolphin fan, huh? Is that what you're saying? Yeah. Okay.

Sir, I'm totally one and I'd love to see them win the Super Bowl. I don't see even a playoff win on the road with Tua. Okay, Carter.

I appreciate the two cents right there. It may not have to go on the road. Well, I mean, even Mahomes finally went on the road. Right.

I don't know, man. I think what Lebethard was saying was like, look, there's a general feeling that Purdy and Tua are products of great coaches, superstars around them at every single position. So basically, all they're doing is just kind of put the ball here, run after catch.

I'd be interested to see those numbers. But that's what I felt like Dan was saying. Now, again, I know I said that they need home field advantage in order to more than any other team. I don't think that's right, because the other places, the entire AFC North plays outdoors and it's cold. The AFC West, they went to the one, two of the teams, it's pretty damn cold.

One is indoors, two are indoors, and two spots are pretty damn cold. The AFC South, you don't have to, I mean, Tennessee can get cold? Oh, yeah.

So my only point is that it's possible they might end up, what if they have to face the Chargers in the playoff game here in LA? That's what I said yesterday. You're concerned about it? No, because it'll be 80% dolphin fans.

Well, is that, I don't know. Hold on a second, hold on a second. Let's see how the Los Angeles sports fan for the Chargers changes with Harbaugh here. And he, and if he pluses him up and we'll see, we'll see. We will see. Yeah, I agree with that.

We will see. Plus, plus the bottom line is the two of you don't have Chargers season tickets. You just sell your tickets for the Rams.

I used, I only have a couple years. They don't have to worry about you two. Don't have to worry about you two. I haven't been to a preseason game two years in a row. Nice. Okay.

I gave my tickets to more games than they have. You know what we need to do? We need to do one day is put up the Rams home schedule, not their full schedule. And I'll do, I'll do not the win loss game, but just like sell or go. Can we do that now? We'll do a sell or go.

No, we don't have, we don't have the graphic of just their home. Sell or go. Sell or go. I like this. And what you and I, you and I TJ, they, they can only sit here and listen to the two of us spit balls.

I like that. Should I stay or should I go? Sell or go. Sell or go. And we'll, and we'll project sell or go and we'll see by the end of the season if we were right. How's that for an idea? You know, I love a pricing game. Great.

So let's get the Rams home schedule. We have been hoodwinked, bamboozled, led astray, run amok, and flat out deceived. I'm offended at this. I still love that sound bite. That was based on him reacting to the Knicks drafting Porzingis. Sorry, Rich.

You need to refer to him now as NBA champion Kristaps Porzingis. My bad. Oh God. Oh boy. Get that right.

My bad. Did you see Portnoy's response to Steve Kerr showing up at the DNC? Did it have to do with potato playing time? It basically said something.

Yeah, it had to do with potato playing time. Nice. It was funny. That was my response too.

It was funny. Steve in Melbourne, Florida. You're here on the Rich Island Show. What's up, Steve? Hey guys, how you doing today?

What's on your mind, Steve? I heard the discussion yesterday and I started thinking about the rookie class this year and it got me thinking and it has to do with the head coaches. I mean, you guys have been on talking about, hey, offensive head coaches usually history shows they have more success than everything and take J.J. McCarthy out of it just because he's not playing this year because he got hurt, but out of the five remaining coaches, who I think is going to be really good this year, they're all defensive head coaches. Flus, Quinn, Mayo, Morris, they're all defensive minded coaches. I know and I know I kind of slagged on defensive coaches and I'm not saying they can't win at all.

I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that if I owned an NFL team and I had to choose a head coach, I would really have to have my arm twisted to hire somebody who isn't directly involved hip to hip with the development of my quarterback. Now can I have somebody like Salah run the defense while Aaron Rodgers shows up to run the offense?

Yeah, I can do that. Well, even with the offensive minded head coach, Aaron Rodgers ain't going to listen. I miss that chapter of Ian O'Connor's book. But I'm just saying history shows that Pat Mahomes, there's no argument, best NFL quarterback in the lead right now, but would he be the same Pat Mahomes we all know and love without Andy Reid? Well, again, we can have these conversations too, you know, and thanks Steve, I appreciate the call.

Thanks for the food for thought here. And again, I know what I say is totally nuts because you know I love Tomlin, okay, Belichick is known for defense and special teams. And look what happened with Brady.

It's not like they didn't meet or have meetings or... I understand that. And plus you, I just need to know that my head coach has a full on plugged in 100% relationship with the quarterback and usually it would be helpful that they're, that's their, if you will, side of the ball of their expertise. Yeah, I would only hire enough. But again, you know, Belichick clearly knows offense pretty damn well. But towards once Brady was gone, I mean, and then McDaniel. So if you are, if you have somebody who's really talented at the offensive coordinator, that's the reason why I would have an issue with hiring a defensive minded head coach is because if you have the right assistant to foster your young quarterback, that person is most likely going to leave, right? That person might get a new head coaching job. That's the issue.

Once McDaniel's left, what happened with Mac Jones? I know we could cherry pick other instances where that doesn't happen. Sure. But McDaniel, McDaniel's was also a terrible head coach. Yeah.

So you know, those duties would spread out over the CEO position. You can't really hone in like you were as just a coordinator. Again, which is why, you know, I said something that makes it a very cookie cutter conversation when clearly it's not.

Clearly it's not. And if you do have a defensive minded head coach, you know, you got to throw your arm around the kid, man. This is a conversation that's born out of the whole Flores to a situation. Not everyone's like that either. Yeah. I wonder if it has to do with just the age of these kids now coming up and how they grew up and it wasn't in your face coaching your whole life. But you can't just say that about tour. There was Nick Saban was his college coach.

Come on. But clearly he needed hugs the whole time. But his college career, you would label to his college career, aside from the one throw a disappointment, wouldn't you? I would say it took a while for him to get a shot. And I, I mean, I, I think he had a pretty damn good career there outside of his getting injured. I mean, listen, he was supposed to win multiple Heisman trophies. The number of evaluators were talking about how special and insanely talented he was. I lost track, which is why when you, from that chair the year before the draft where he was drafted and you were saying there were mock drafts saying Joe burrow was going to be the first. And that was before Joe got, I think 40 of his last 60 touchdown passes in. I'm like, really?

That's nuts. Cause all I was hearing is two was going number one overall and it wound up being burrow. But all the expectations, all the thoughts, and that's why a lot of people didn't win a Heisman trophy, right?

These are all the reasons why everyone's like good luck paying them 55 million. Let's take a break. Drew Bledsoe will join us next right here on the rich eyes and show his thoughts on Drake May and his development plan in new England.

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Call click Granger.com or just stop by. He's a Patriot hall of Famer and he was a hall of fame roaster and the roast of Tom Brady back here on the Rich Eisen show drew blood. So how are you drew? I'm doing great.

Rich man. It's good to be well. Good to catch up with you. It was, I didn't see you the night of the roast. Um, you know, we were in the same building, um, and I, I, I'm wondering how many people stop you for that over the last few months through, you know, it's pretty interesting. Um, that, that, that thing became a much bigger phenomenon than I, than I didn't think anybody had anticipated.

Uh, you know, just random people that, you know, maybe didn't even know who I was before all of a sudden you ride by a bicycle, like, Hey, great job on the road. I was like, all right, thanks man. So it was, uh, it was, it was a, uh, it was a bit of a phenomenon and I'm glad I didn't fall flat on my face.

You definitely didn't do that, man. You definitely didn't do who, who did you, uh, workshop. Your lines with, yeah. So they, uh, they had some, some, uh, some writers that, that, that helped work with us. Uh, you know, and, and so, you know, I threw a bunch of material at them and they kind of helped me as much as anything to help organize everything and put it in the, in the, in the right sequence, uh, which was really helpful. The one thing they did that I really appreciate, I didn't know if it was appropriate to throw in stuff about our wine business. Uh, the writers were the ones that came up with those bits, uh, and I was like, oh, cool.

Well, I guess it's, I guess it's cool to, uh, to, you know, promote our, promote our biz, uh, up there. So that was great. Um, and then, uh, then I got some, I got some good run-throughs with my wife and my kids because they were very nervous, uh, they were pretty concerned that I was going to embarrass them. Uh, you know, all they hear from me are bad dad jokes and inappropriate comments at inappropriate times. So they were, they were worried about me.

Uh, so they made me run through the material with them a few times. Wait a minute. How old are your kids?

26 down to 21. Okay. Okay. All right. Cause normally you're putting the kids to bed for the Brady roast. The kids need to be in a different, forget about bed, you're being a different area code for the Brady roast.

Yeah. I, uh, my, my niece who I think is 13 watched it with, with my, uh, with my wife and my, my sister-in-law and my sister-in-law was really funny. She said, Molly, Molly, why are you laughing? You don't know what that means. She goes, mom, I have a phone. I know what that is.

You know, you can't shield them too much. I guess I have a phone. That's funny. Oh my gosh. It just, I'll be honest with you, Drew, you know, not to get too deep, but screw it. I felt like I was watching, you know, with you and Brady and you and Belicheck and Gronk and Belicheck and Edelman and Belicheck and the two of them with Brady and Randy Moss in there as well. I kind of felt like I was watching a Patriots therapy session where it was a safe space, a safe space, and you got, you got some stuff off your chest and a bunch of people got some stuff off their chest that night.

Yeah. You know, I think that's accurate. You know, I think there, there was some catharsis to it, I guess it would be the right way to, to put it where, you know, I just have always felt like, you know, if you can get to a point where you can laugh about something, then it's a very healing thing, you know, so I got to take some digs at Tommy and some digs at Belicheck and, and, you know, so I think there was, there, there, there was, if you're going to psychoanalyze it, you know, there was some healing that happened during that because we got to laugh at each other a little bit and, you know, I think that's a good thing. And taking it one step further, I think it made the Brady Patriots induction night in Gillette completely free of any awkwardness. It was, it was completely free because of the roast, got it all out of the way and nobody's sitting there going, oh, Belicheck's back, there's Kraft, he's in Gillette or everybody's together again.

It was basically about, you know, the red jacket that night. You know what I mean? Yeah. That's right. I hadn't really thought about that piece of it, Rich, but, but yeah, because of the, because we'd had a good laugh, then when they did the induction that there wasn't the awkwardness that that might've been present, you know, for that, that special night for Tom, you know, in New England. So I think you're right. I think it did, you know, look, the other thing that I really appreciated about the roast and we're going to go a little deeper on that, you know, you know, it was so cool because there was no backlash for any of this stuff.

Nobody got canceled coming out of it. And it was, it was like, oh, okay, it's, it's okay to laugh about stuff again. You know? And I think that that's an important thing. You know, we, we got into this, this rut for a while where if anybody said something that wasn't totally PC, then they were canceled. And you know, look forever, you know, I really have felt, and it was true in an NFL locker room and it's true in life. I think, you know, if you get to a point where you can laugh at the hard stuff, you know, that's a really healing thing and people understand that, Hey, you know, it's okay to laugh about the hard stuff. And you know, I think we kind of, kind of got back to that.

So I think it was actually kind of a culturally important show, you know, in some ways, because we're like, okay, yeah, it's okay to laugh at this stuff. Even if it's, even if it is pretty serious and sometimes I'm totally with you, absolutely with you drew Bledsoe here on the rich eyes and show hitting the way back machine even further. First time you ever had a conversation with bill Parcells. When was that?

True. First time I ever had a conversation with bill Parcells was at the scouting combine in Indianapolis. I was, I was actually, I was still 20, I think when I met him because I turned 21 at the scouting combine, uh, me and Alex van Pelt, now the OC for, uh, for the Patriots, uh, spent my 21st birthday Hooters in Indianapolis, uh, just for the wings, of course. The first time I met Parcells, I was still 10 years old and I went up to meet with him in his hotel room, like one-on-one right. So it was kind of like, you're, you know, a little bit like you're going to meet the godfather, you know, and it's just, uh, two of us talking one-on-one here's, you know, big Jersey bill and, and I'm this small town kid from walla walla, Washington, uh, got to sit down with him and, uh, you know, try to be impressive so that he'll take me with the first overall pick. It was a pretty intimidating moment, uh, for sure. And, uh, I don't recall exactly what we talked about. I think we talked all, um, you know, a little life, a little bit about other stuff that I was into, um, and, uh, you know, hope that I, apparently I did okay in the interview. So, cause he's still picking me with the first pick, but what's your favorite, what's your favorite Parcells story?

True. Oh man. Well, he was, you know, he was a really funny guy as long as he wasn't talking to you. Uh, but I re I just remember, you know, my rookie year, he was such a pain in the ass because he would stand, you know, during team drills, he would stand right behind the offense, like right by my, my setup point. And I would drop back and he would stand behind me to go throw it, throw it, throw it, throw it.

And so it's like somebody yelling at you in the middle of your golf swing, you know, you're trying to, you know, trying to do this thing and, uh, and he's yelling at you the whole time. And so, you know, whether it was intentional or not, it made game days, uh, a lot easier cause he had to be at least 35 yards away from me. Um, you know, so I look forward to game days mostly because I didn't have to deal with him when I was in the middle of the play. I'm sure he was screaming that, uh, at the, on the sideline though, I'm sure he was screaming the same thing.

Of course. But you all the way over there, I get, you know, I could just pretend like I didn't hear him. And then, and then of course the Superbowl when you played in, it was the general sense. I just remembered, uh, I, I was on sports center at the time covering this whole thing that, um, that he was gone, there was no question. He was gone. Did you know that the Superbowl that you played?

Yeah. You know, that was the one thing that was, that was disappointing about that situation rich was that we were, you know, we were the underdogs, we were not supposed to be there. Uh, you know, the, the story should have been about this amazing run that we made to get to the Superbowl. Instead of the storyline, the whole, the whole week that we all had to answer for, uh, was whether or not Parcells was, was going to the jets, uh, which was not a very closely kept secret.

Uh, certainly back then, um, I can't imagine what it would be like today with all the, uh, with all of the different outlets that are out there today, but it was, I just remember that being disappointing. It was like, why can't we talk about the fact that this team that was not supposed to even make the playoffs is in the Superbowl, you know, why can't we talk about that, you know, rather than talking about where our coach is going to be next year. So that part kind of sucked and then, uh, and then, uh, and then of course had to deal with Reggie white, uh, on Superbowl Sunday and that part sucked at all too.

Uh, love you, Reggie, but, uh, but it was not enjoyable to play against Reggie drew Bledsoe here, uh, on the rich eyes and show, and we'll talk about NFL kickoff in a moment. You mentioned Alex van Pelt moments ago, you go way back with the current OC in new England and it's just a whole new day. First of all, the fact that the guy who is coordinating the offense actually has a title, you know, right.

And there's, that's it for starters, but we, we all know that it's a whole new, uh, situation there. And he has, uh, to call Drake may a mold of clay is quite, you know, uh, an image. But that said, this is a huge moment. Certainly when Mac Jones, um, the, as the narrative goes, didn't have over the last couple of years, uh, the best setup. Do you think Alex van Pelt is, is, uh, a good setup for Gerard Mayo with Drake may clearly the future? True.

Yeah. You know, I really think I've liked what the Patriots have done. Start with Gerard. I think he's a really special, uh, dude and a, uh, uh, and it's going to be a great coach. I get to spend a bunch of time with him. We went on a trip together. Uh, Mr.

Craft took us to, uh, to Israel and we both draw and I were on that trip. I got to spend a week with him, you know, he's, he's, he's almost like a bond villain, you know, he's an NFL linebacker. Um, but in, you know, so he's got that physique, but in high school he was a white hat hacker. So he would go, he was a computer nerd. So he'd go break into companies and then he would tell them how he broke, how he broke in so they could go fix their, fix their problem. So you can take an NFL linebacker body and you've got a computer nerd brain. You know, he's sort of a, yeah, sort of like a superhero or bond billing kind of dude. And he's a great guy. The players all love him.

So you start there. And then Alex, Alex understands, you know, coaching quarterbacks in a way that I think you can only understand if you played the position and Alex, you know, I make fun of him all the time. And I tell this guy is whenever I'm in there, one of their meetings, you need to listen to this guy because here's this six foot fat dude that doesn't throw it very hard. That played for 11 seasons in the NFL. He obviously didn't do it based on his physical tools.

He did it with his brain. Um, and I think Alex is also really good at understanding, you know, how to set quarterbacks up for success. Um, you know, meaning, you know, you don't just have your offense and that quarterback has to fit the mold.

You take the quarterback that you have and then you build the offense to suit him. Uh, and I know that Alex would do a great job of that. Uh, I don't think we still know, you know, who's going to be under center at first game, whether it's going to be Jacoby or whether it's going to be, uh, Drake, but, uh, but I think that, that, uh, you know, Alex is going to give Drake May his best chance, uh, for success, whether that's immediately or whether that's in the future. Well, what is your opinion on the throwing somebody in the deep end of the pool right away? Uh, Cincinnati, that is not, uh, that's not, uh, for the faint of heart.

What do you know? That's not an easy way to start, you know, it's a, it's, it's just, it's such an individual decision, right? You know, it's about looking at, um, your guy and is she ready to do that yet?

Uh, some guys are, and some guys need some time. Uh, and then you also have to look at your team, you know, is your team in a place that sets this quarterback up for success as a, as a, as a young guy. Um, you know, for me, um, I felt like I was ready, um, and obviously Parcells felt like I was ready. So I started the first game, uh, you know, we had to go play at the bills, which at that time that was a very daunting task because they were, had just come off their third of four straight Superbowls. Um, you know, so I remember being terrified, you know, seeing Bruce Smith come out of the tunnel, uh, I was warming up like, man, I don't belong here. I just watched that guy playing the Superbowl from my dorm room, you know, about like four, five months ago. Um, but I felt like I was ready for it.

And so it's, it's a highly personal thing. And I, and I know that, uh, again, you know, back to Alex, I know that, I know that Alex will make the best decision, both for Drake and for the team, uh, you know, going into that game. And if, if, if he feels like Drake is ready and gives the team the best chance to win and also, uh, can set him up for success in the future, then he'll, then he'll be under center for that first game.

Uh, if he's not ready and the team's not ready around him, uh, to give him some chance of success, you know, then they'll let him sit and let the veteran play. Yeah. Marshall Falk once told me a story, Drew, of going to Rich Stadium in Western New York and standing on the sideline. I think it was a cult. It was with the Colts at the time and standing on the sideline and just noticing the, the sort of curvature of the, of the fields. Like it was, it was kind of, you know, bubbled up right. And and watching the heat rise off of the turf and then out of the tunnel, all greased up was Bruce Smith. And he just felt his stomach drop, just watching him through the, you know, the heat rays coming off of the turf there.

That's the story. Oh dude, it was terrifying. You know, I'm standing there and I see Bruce, Bruce come down out of the, out of the tunnel. And not just, not just Bruce, but you got Daryl Talley, you got Cornelius Bennett, um, you know, Jim Kelly, one of my heroes comes running out and he was at least nice enough to come over and pat me on the butt and say, good luck, Brooke. Uh, I was like, Oh, thank you, Mr. Kelly.

You know, can I have your autograph after the game? But yeah, I mean, it was, it was, it was pretty terrifying. And then Bruce put, uh, he kind of, he was the one that gave you my, gave me my welcome to the NFL hit. One of those hits today, he would have been fined and thrown out of the game and uh, bail for him instead. Then it was just a legal hit where he put his helmet right between my shoulder blades and they had it in slow-mo. It was a good enough hit that I was the star of his Nike commercial the next year.

Um, so yeah, it was, uh, it was crazy stuff, man. So, um, you know, Drake's ready for that. Then they throw them in.

If he's not ready for that, then they don't. Drew Bledsoe here on the Rich Eisen show, you got a question for him, TJ, before we get to his business. Yeah, just real quick. Hey, Drew. Um, I can remember reading a story in Sports Illustrated about you first or second season in the league.

And I want to make sure I have this right. Is it true that after you got your signing bonus and signed your contract, you and your little brother would drive around the different banks and check your ATM and just kind of marvel at how much money you had in there. You went from having like $6 to a couple of commas in there. Is that how the story goes? Yeah, it's, it's, it's like that.

Yeah. Because it was the same bank account that I had in college, right. Which, you know, you would call them and it would give you the automated, you know, your balance is negative $17 and then, and instead, you know, in the first installment of my, my signing bonus was like a million and something. And so I, I called my brother who was, uh, in what, eighth grade or ninth grade at the time. And, uh, uh, I told her like, dude, you got to call this number and, and, you know, call it like your same automated voice that gave you the negative balance that your balance is one million. And like, dude, it was, that was, that was, it was, I don't know the same thing.

I would have done the same exact thing. Then that's, that's the one that you're, you're just a, you're good people drew blood. So, uh, so what are you doing for a NFL kickoff and a Sunday ticket on YouTube TV? Yeah. You know, uh, so fan duels, the partnership, um, you know, I've stayed away from the gaming space, you know, rich, I figure I'm already invested in one vice with our winery. So, you know, you know, don't want to, don't want to promote another vice, but, but I do appreciate the fact that FanDuel is promoting, um, responsible gaming. Um, you know, this is supposed to be an entertainment thing.

It's not supposed to be something that you, that you gambled money that matters. Uh, and so they're really embracing that and that makes me feel comfortable about it, but their promo is really cool. All you gotta do is go, you go place a, uh, a $5 bet, uh, and you get three free weeks of Sunday ticket on YouTube and YouTube TV, uh, you know, and I've been a fan of that move that the NFL made to go over there just simply because it's a great platform and it always works. Um, you know, I don't mind paying for these streaming platforms, but I want it to work. Uh, and, uh, and at this one, that one seems to work really well. So yeah, pretty cool deal, you know, got to place a one bet and you get three free weeks of a Sunday ticket. Well, uh, I, I'm sure you know that the, the, uh, the joke, um, but I'll repeat it anyway.

The one that I heard about how to make a small fortune in the wine business, you've heard that joke. True. Start with a large fortune. Yeah, exactly.

That's it. That's the, that's, that's the, that's the, that's the, that's the one that's the only, it only took us, uh, it only took us seven years to make our first dollar. Uh, so we're, we're pretty proud of that, but now it's turned into a good business and we've got a great team.

They're kicking butt for us year after year and it's, it's, it's actually become a good business for us, but, but it certainly doesn't happen quickly. Pinos. What do we got? What do we got? You know, mostly cabernet based on, but we also, we're also making some pinot noir in the Vellante Valley in Oregon. Um, and then we've got, uh, you know, we've got some Chardonnay, we've got some Syrah, we've got, so we've got, we've got a lot of different wines across the board, but the business is based primarily on cabernet and some pinot noir.

Okay. Well, I mean, what's the, the label's name, Drew, what is it? Doubleback doublebacks, the, uh, the, the, the O G that's the, that was the first one and it's called doubleback. Not because we named it after Tom looking in the mirror, but, uh, but actually named that, named out because I grew up in Walla Walla and I got to go play in the NFL for a bunch of years. And after I was done, doubled back and came back to my hometown.

So the story is about returning home and, and, uh, building a, uh, building something cool in my little tiny hometown, Bledsoe wine estates.com for doubleback and everything else. I like that. I do like that. And I liked the last minute dig at Brady, you know, I, I kind of dig that too.

True. Well done. I got to keep throwing blows. You can't, you know, you can't just, you can't just swing once you got to keep swinging.

I like it. You know, once you start roasting, you can't stop. Um, it was great to see you up there, man. And seriously, when you said, you know, it's, you have to show that you can make fun of yourself, uh, you know, for tone setters for, cause that's what roasts are about. You have to set a tone. That's why Kevin Hart went hard the minute he started talking last night.

Cause there's a roast master. You gotta, you gotta go hard and let everybody on the stage fill in behind you. But the, the, the cold open of the broadcast where Belicheck is there, benching you for Brady was really a tone setter where it's just like, okay, everything is fair game tonight. This is a third rail subject, your game, Bella checks there. You're there.

He's there. Perfect tone center, man. That was great. That worked out good, man.

And then, uh, you know, Kevin and, uh, and then, uh, Jeff Ross, you know, I was kind of worried to like, am I, am I, you know, am I going, am I going too hard on this stuff? And then they came out and they went so hard earlier. Like, Oh yeah, my stuff's totally PG compared to where they went.

And so that made it more comfortable as well. And then Nikki Glaser came out and the whole roof caved in pretty much so unbelievable. And she's such a sweetheart, you know, we spent some time at the after party and she's the nicest person. She introduced me to her boyfriend and she made that awful joke about, and I was like, dude, do you need a hug?

Like, like that was, and he was like, no, I actually helped write that joke. Like, okay. All right. You know, cool with it, I guess, but she's just an incredibly sweet person, but on stage she is an absolute killer.

Uh, she was incredible. Drew, thanks for the time, man. Let's do this more often.

Uh, congrats on everything going on with your pal. Appreciate you, Rich. You got it.

Patriots hall of fame or drew Bledsoe right here on the Rich Eisen show. There he goes. There he goes. All right. Let's take a break. There's breaking news out of Denver and also breaking news out of our control room. Oh, oh yeah. What we discussed about maybe doing we're going to do next.

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Nerd wallet compare Inc, NMLS, one six one seven five three nine. A moment if I may. The latest example of my wife being awesome. Susie presented me with this t-shirt. I don't know where she got it. But it's a merchant versus Mayweather t-shirt. Yeah, we knew about that.

I was 50 years younger and I'd kick your ass. You knew about this? Yeah. She was texting us if we also wanted one and I was like, all set. One for the studio is fine.

When I, when Jim was in the chair, she found him that day. That is fantastic. Yeah, this one's for the studio. I was like one for the studio. Come on.

We're good. Look at this. You wouldn't want to wear this shirt? What am I going to wear that for? I mean, she got one for the studio and one for me.

I will wear this around. There you go. I wish I was 50 years younger and I'd kick your ass.

I mean, he most definitely would not at 50 years younger, but we don't know what type of yeah, but I know that I know Floyd, so I don't think that what plays defense? Well that's the object of the box is not to get it. I don't know where we put it. Where do we put it? On the couch. We'll hang it somewhere. We'll figure it out. There it is.

Mayweather versus merchant. It says Saturday, September 17th, 1961. I don't understand that. Oh, he would have been 50 years younger. Oh, I see. Fantastic.

They actually subtracted 50 years from the day he said it. That's funny. Now I get it. They put it live on pay-per-view.

I love it. So they subtracted. So then I guess it was 2011 when he said it. That was after Floyd beat Victor Ortiz. Oh, that is fantastic.

If I was 50. And if you remember that. Genius, man. Turned his back on.

Genius. Put his guard down. Put his guard down.

Floyd knocked him out. Protect yourself at all times, people. Nothing but love for Suzy Schuster. Okay, so we're back here on the Rich Eisen Show. One big happy family back here together. What a show we have had. What a show.

Simulcasting with McAfee, chit-chattin' with Leboutard, Drew Bledsoe. You never heard that joke before? How do you make a small fortune in the wine business? You started with a large fortune. Four years ago. And Rich, you know the question I asked Drew.

Think about one day you're a college kid with negative $17 in your bank account and then the next day $1.5 million. That's it. I would call that thing 10 times an hour. All right, everybody. Here it comes.

Mo Amre, I see breaking news. Out of Denver. Bo Nix is the starting quarterback for the Denver Broncos. It's bow time. Bow time. I like it.

Bow time. Sean Payton named Bo Nix the starting quarterback. On the count of three, Bo. You said it wasn't anything that Jared or Zach Wilson didn't do.

It's just what this kid is doing. And listen, they drafted him 12th overall. How about that? So we will have three starting rookie quarterbacks in week number one. And Bo Nix, and he's going to get his start in Seattle. How about that for week one?

Bo Nix in Seattle. That's where Denver starts the season. And then home for the Steelers. And then at the Bucks and at the Jets, three of his first four will be on the road, home for the Raiders and Chargers after that.

That's your Broncos schedule. That's what Bo Nix will be doing. And it'll be Bo Nix in New Orleans for Sean Payton and his return to the Saints. I like it. It'll be the guy who, you know, I guess what he's got.

Anytime Sean Payton twitches in the direction of a quarterback, he's got Drew Brees-like qualities. So there you go. So rookie quarterback Gardner Minshew, and that's half of your AFC West, Mahomes and Herbert the other. And they hope that Nix can be that guy.

We shall see. Now the Patriots are on the clock. Is Drake May going to go because JJ McCarthy, as you know, is out. And Stewart's also on the clock now.

Well, no, I'm talking about rookie quarterbacks. Michael Pennix Jr. isn't starting the rest of the preseason. He's not playing the rest of the preseason. So it's going to be Cousins. Kirk told us yesterday. It's going to be him. He's ready to go. Right.

And that's your, what do we call it? The Rattler six? Spencer Rattler was the seventh quarterback, seven years from now. Yeah. Those six guys were taken.

And then Spencer Rattler went in the fifth round with no quarterbacks between the first dozen picks and the fifth round of the draft in Detroit. Unbelievable. Yeah. We'll never see that again. Right?

Probably not. What if I told you six quarterbacks were taken? The Rattlers, should we call them the Rattler six? I do like that. Do you like that? I do think that's pretty funny.

That's a good fantasy. Coming up on Roku sports, the Rattler six. Here's Sean Payton on the decision. I want to talk real quick about the quarterback position. You guys have been real patient.

I understand, you know, and, and respect that, that, that process for you and, and for us, we've had a process. So look, Bo Nix is going to be our starting quarterback. I felt like, and I said this to you guys two weeks ago, you know, that room has been outstanding, you know, Stidham, certainly with his experience and then, you know, being able to work with Zach Wilson, all three of those guys, we've got some tough decisions as we get into the roster.

I don't want to get into all the other roster battles. That's not for today, but Bo will start. Congrats to him, man, 61 career starts in college, Auburn and Oregon, and go figure that.

Chris Brockman starter is a rookie in the national football league for Sean Payton and then Denver Broncos words that I don't think anybody would have said when Bo Nix was in Auburn. Right. So it's amazing how things happen.

Congrats to him, man. Let's finish up this way. Chris Brockman keeps slagging on the Los Angeles sports fans that the chargers aren't going to have fans there and whatever. And he's the one who sells his tickets for the Rams all the time. I mean, unbelievable.

That is a mischaracterization, but it fits your narrative. So as long as you're pushing back on that, we have put together, thanks to Mike Hoskins, the Rams home schedule. I need music, please.

I need music. Please. TJ, you and I will now play, not the win loss game. We will play the sell or go game for each of these guys and you can't say anything. Okay.

Okay. TJ, home for San Francisco. I say Del Tufo goes, and I think they both go. I say, Rich Niner's fans. They're insane. They're crazy. They're close. There's too much money to be made there.

They're going to sell those. Oh, okay. Too much. Okay. Okay.

Next up, home for Green Bay. Oh, Del Tufo. They're selling. They're selling. Here's the deal. I'm an owner. Mike is part owner.

No, no, no, no. They're selling. Phil would look bad if he sold the tickets, but regardless, he's going to sell them anyway. Chris, no reason for him to go to that game. He's more cells. He's, hold on a minute.

This is what, let's just make it easy. Del, he's, he's, he's going to the San Francisco game and he is selling the rest. He is selling the rest. Del Tufo or me? You are. You are.

Let's make this easier. I say he goes to San Francisco and then he sells the rest. Week three. The only question is, does he take Liz or Hoskins to the Buffalo game? Del Tufo?

Del Tufo? I think you, you go to San Francisco and you sell, you definitely, I mean, you go to Buffalo, you're going to go to Buffalo and then you sell the rest. You go into two games. No.

Which one? I go to Thursday and Monday. You're going to a Thursday night game against Minnesota. A hundred percent. I can see Thursday. Cause I can, I can heckle my friend, Carissa Thompson, who's set right in front of me.

And it's really only David. She won't hear a word you're saying. I gave tickets to people last year. She's got ears in and there's thousands of people screaming at her. She won't hear a word you're saying. A hundred percent I will.

From your seats? I'll have her come. I'm going to, yeah, I'm going to get a pass for that game. I'm going to go, I'm down here. I'm going to that game. Mike.

I already have someone I'm taking. So you're going to three of the games? Three of the games. Three. Okay.

Chris? Great, great, great question. Uh oh. It's hard. Are you even going to go to San Francisco?

Yes, because my mom is going to, is visiting us again. I'm right about that. I know about that.

And then you're selling the rest. You will see, you normally say to anybody when you go to a game, come say hi, I'll buy you a beer. You'll say, go to the secondary ticket market. I'll say hello.

Here's the thing. I do go to the prime, Sunday games are tough to go to. I go to the prime time games. You're going to go to the Monday night against Miami? And Thursday. And Thursday. I will definitely go to Thursday, I think Chris Sunday against Philly. Okay. Monday night.

You got to kind of go to Monday night. I say he goes to one, sells the rest. I say the Del Tufo goes to two, sells the rest. You say I say between the three of them, they go to three games total between the two of you. Three. That's a go game. I love it.

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