Rich Eisen addresses NFL Network losing its schedule-release show

It was more than a little jarring to those on the outside to dial up NFL Network on Thursday night and to find ESPN’s schedule-release show . It was at least a little jarring to those on the inside. Appearing Friday on The Dan Patrick Show , NFL Network's Rich Eisen — who in the past had hosted the NFLN schedule-release special — addressed the current situation at the network formerly owned and operated by the league.

“The games are still on NFL Network, there’s seven of them," Eisen said, via Brandon Contes of Awful Announcing . "Five international and two others. I have been told Sunday NFL GameDay Morning that I’m hosting is the same, and so is the [Scouting] Combine and the draft.

We’re still going to have the Combine, and we’re still going to have the draft. The rest of it, I mean, we didn’t have a schedule-release show for the first time in years. I don’t know if that’s an indication .

” Given that ESPN took the reins of NFL Network less than two months ago, anything is an indication. Everything is an indication. All developments are data points as to something that will be not a revolution but an evolution.