SportsRadio 610 in Houston hosts Seth Payne and Sean Pendergast talked about a social media exchange Pendergast had with NFL Network host Rich Eisen recently. Eisen was on vacation but replied to a re-post of an X post he put out about the Houston Texans. Payne and Pendergast wanted to let Eisen know they had not forgotten his previous comments about Texans General Manager Nick Caserio.
Pendergast explained, “Rich Eisen, NFL Network, he has his own radio show. We have had some fun with Rich Eisen on this show, based on his reaction to the pick of Davis Mills back in 2021.”
The hosts then played the clip of the actual draft announcement back in 2021 which was the 67th pick. The Texans selected the former Stanford quarterback and Rich Eisen could not believe what he had heard.
“So now what’s up with that,” he said on NFL Network’s draft coverage at the time. “What’s up with the Texans not having any choices in the first and second round and then when they finally get one, they choose a quarterback? “What is up with that? I cannot stress this question enough, ‘what is up with that?’ Hold on, let me go ahead and put another accent on another one of the words. WHAT is up with that?”
As the clip ended, Payne was taken back to that time and said, “It was the way he tripled and quadrupled down on it that annoyed me at the time. Now I remember why I got so annoyed.”
The two hosts discussed what was happening at the time with the Texans and that nobody was sure what would happen with their then quarterback, Deshaun Watson. Reports had surfaced about sexual misconduct allegations and Payne thought Eisen should have been more aware of that and also talked about the way the NFL Network was initially handling that story.
“…The NFL Network, they followed a…strategy of just trying to ignore that the DeShaun Watson situation even existed.”
Back to recent events, Pendergast lays out the post Eisen made where he said last week, “In trading their 1st rounder to Minnesota, moving down only 19 picks to the 2nd round, the Houston Texans also acquired a 2nd rounder in 2025 that they just flipped to get Stefon Diggs,” Eisen wrote. “And they ALSO got two 6s this year and a 5th next year in both trades.”
As Pendergast explains, “So, Rich Eisen…lays it all out in a tweet about how awesome the two trades were together and puts a GIF of a conductor, emphatically, energetically conducting the symphony as if to say this is Nick Caserio now…he has conducted a symphony of an offseason.”
Now, Pendergast gets around to why he had brought this up on the show, which was that Eisen spent time on The Rich Eisen show Monday talking about his post and the reply.
“So, that whole thing happened,” Pendergast said. “Come yesterday he gets back from vacation, Rich Eisen, and what did this whole ordeal yield? A very nice segment about the Houston Texans in which he acknowledged a radio host from Houston.”
“Let me just say something about the Houston Texans,” Eisen began. “I got some crap from a radio host in Houston…another thing I couldn’t resist replying to on vacation. I had forgotten this moment. Draft moments they come and they go for me…All I do is sit there and have natural reactions to what I think the fans are thinking…”
Eisen went on to explain that when he made his comments in 2021, NFL Network draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah explained the situation and that Watson would probably not be the quarterback of the Texans much longer.
Payne added, “I think the majority of Texans fans did say the same thing as Rich Eisen.”
Eisen continued on this show Monday saying he believes the Texans are the favorite to win their division and added people should be talking about the Texans and the Chiefs together with the young talent each team has.
He then ended with, “And Nick Caserio, I’m not wondering what the hell you’re doing anymore or thinking.”
