Wide Left: Rich Eisen of NFL Network Talks Packers, Tebow and More

Rich Eisen is the host of NFL Network's Gameday Morning and Thursday Night Football pregame show. He also hosts a wildly popular podcast for NFL.com talking to the likes of Al Michaels, Matt Damon and Rob Lowe.

That's one show, folks. He gets the A-plus of the A-listers. And the same day he got them, I get him, which is pretty cool.

We talk about the art of podcasting and how it's different from other traditional media. Rich's show is cut down to 22 minutes for TV, which is fascinating if you think about the untethered nature of a podcast being cut up into digestible sound bites for television.

We talk about his busy week ahead—going to Atlanta for Thursday night's game then to Tampa for Saturday night's game (sorry NFLN, I meant to brand that as Thursday Night Football's special Saturday presentation), before flying back at halftime to run the desk for NFL Network's Sunday pregame extravaganza.

We talk a lot about his duties as a host, dealing with personalities like Warren Sapp and Michael Irvin, and discuss the differences between doing a show in studio and live in the stadium.

NFL Network has the Texans at Colts on December 22nd in a game that went from a preseason barn-burner to, "I'm missing Hanukkah with the kids for this?"

We talk about the Colts and if a team like Indy going 0-16 is getting lost in all the Peyton Manning and Andrew Luck talk. Going winless is a huge story, isn't it?

Is it bigger than going undefeated? Probably not, and Rich thinks that both Indy and Green Bay will finish what they're close to accomplishing.

He also thinks that Tim Tebow may be overshadowing everything, going so far as to say that an undefeated Green Bay going up against Tebow and Denver in a Super Bowl would be the highest-rated game ever (he thinks Tebow could do a significantly bigger number than Tom Brady and the Patriots, even in the Super Bowl).

I throw some quick hits at Rich, including Miami's search for a "Young Don Shula", Jason Garrett's future in Dallas and why Todd Haley was dressing like a hobo on the Kansas City sidelines.

Oh, and Eisen says that RGIII's Superman socks…are his. He's taking all the credit. I'm just trying to get Rich to wear them when he runs the 40 at the Combine.

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