WEBVTT - Hour 3 – Derwin James Jr. Andy Staples 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:03.559 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:07.120 Sports Radio. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome back everybody to the Dan 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:08.000 Patrick Show. 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:14.800 Blasted. Yeah, you know, this is a good question. You know, 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:17.400 how many people out there do you think would love to 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:21.560 pepper spray me? That might be a good one. I mean, 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:23.640 not as many as before, but I bet you there's 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:25.759 a there's a I bet you there's a line of 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:27.480 folks that probably wanted to pepper spray me if they 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:30.880 got a chance. Yes again, I'm Ryan Lee filling in 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:34.400 for Dan Patrick today. Uh, Derwin James is gonna join 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:37.159 us here in about four minutes to talk about the 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:42.080 Chargers and the new season under Jim Harbaugh as his 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:44.360 head coach. This is I think Seaton and I were talking. 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:48.120 I think we got him already, so we're gonna go. 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:48.680 To him right now. 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:54.720 Derwin James all pro safety for my Los Angeles Chargers, 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:55.840 joins us. 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:55.960 Now. 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:59.280 I was just telling everybody Derwin about I lived in 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:01.120 LA for the last years. Man, I know what traffic, 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:03.160 traffic's like. You know, you get competit. 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:03.440 Man. 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:04.280 How you doing this morning? 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:06.040 I'm doing good man. How y'all doing? 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:08.840 We're doing well, We're doing well, it's been a lot 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:11.600 of fun to watch you guys this year, Jesse Mentor. 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:15.800 You know, it's just kind of untapped a little bit 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:17.880 of it looks like you guys are having just so 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:21.480 much fun flying around young guys, guys that that that 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:23.840 people really don't know. And then you with out there 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:25.760 is kind of the stalwart on the back end. Just 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:27.480 talk about how much fun it's been this year to 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:29.720 play under this new defensive coordinator. 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:32.399 Man I can't stop smiling every day I come into 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.120 the building. It's just deciding to come to work with 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:37.200 these man not only did the coaches but the players. 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:40.120 It's just ever since Opa, we've been just working on 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:42.560 but off just to go out there and compete, and 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:44.840 we finally found a few the results that we've been 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:46.800 putting in and we just want to keep going hard. 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:49.600 And coach Mentor, man I can't say nothing but great 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:52.680 things about him. He's a man, one of a kind. 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:54.680 Man I haven't been around a coach like him and 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:55.800 coach Harball. 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:59.560 So you you you spoke incredibly eyely a Jimbo Fisher 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:03.440 you're coaching college. I spent like five seasons with him 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:07.440 every fall football genius. I mean when you when you 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:11.079 find guys that can flip that switch in you. Jim 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:14.120 Harbaugh shows up, there's a different mentality as a former player, 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:17.760 Jesse Mentor, you see guys acting different. I mean, I'm 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.440 watching justin this year. There's like a little swagger with him. 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:23.079 He's throwing a touchdown, he's doing some things. I mean, 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.120 what's the locker It just it's allowed the locker room 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:28.679 to be a little freer, it feels, and it comes across. 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:33.000 Yes, sir, everybody's playing free, nobody's playing tight, and we 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:36.960 just create that family environment. Coach Harball, he's you got 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:39.680 the families that practice on Friday Saturdays. It's just creating 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.160 the family environment that I've never been around in the 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.960 NFL in my seven years. So man, it's just been 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:46.720 a lot of fun. And when you can make it 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:48.600 about family, man, you just want to go that much 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:52.160 harder for that person. And Uh, offense get along with offense. 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:55.040 Defense get along, and it's just the whole team coming together. 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:58.680 It's it's it's incredibly different when you walk into an 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.080 atmosphere like that. I remember that with when I was 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.359 in Tampa with Tony Dungee, Like you just go from 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:06.280 a coaching staff that's that's so welcoming in terms of 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:08.480 what makes things easy, and you wonder why that hasn't 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.040 always been the case, because you want your guys to 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:13.320 be the most you know, relaxed going into football games. 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.880 Talk to me about the Atlanta game. I mean, these 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:20.280 games this year kind of fit the Harbaugh mold, right. 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:23.519 It's it's offense trying to run the football, hold people back. 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:27.359 But defense really had to close out that game. Talk 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:29.880 about that kind of final play. They went empty. They 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:31.840 brought Drake London over the cross in the middle, he 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:33.680 kind of stumbles and you just you just knew they 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:34.880 had to get to a point. You stepped right in 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:36.920 front of an end of the game with that interception. 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:39.960 First of all, I feel like coach did a great 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:42.600 job all day calling great plays. I feel like we 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:44.960 was in position to make all the plays we needed 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.320 to make. And like you said, I just seen seeing 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:50.200 Drake London in this plot and as soon as I 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:51.760 see them released the ball, just try to make a 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:53.600 play on it for my team. And like I said, 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:56.240 coach made a great call. And all year long, keys 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:58.160 just making great calls, and as a defense, I feel 0:03:58.200 --> 0:03:59.720 like we just come in that much closer to the world 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:00.400 we want to beat. 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:03.000 Yeah, you get the goes up front, getting after the quarterback, 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:06.400 Bosa that that crew. It's it's been fun to watch 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:08.600 as a former Charger to see that defense kind of 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:11.920 going back into Rodney Harrison Junior sayout days, that's that's 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:15.920 some fun era of football. And we watched the Alscheizier 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:21.240 uh al Shire hit on on Trevor Lawrence. As a defender, 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.120 they've made it incredibly difficult on you guys in terms 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.159 of what the heck is the quarterback going to do 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:28.520 as you're trying to make a little move to get 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:30.000 a few more yards, to pick up a first down, 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:33.440 to extend a drive, to end a game. You got 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:36.919 suspended earlier, and Coach Harbaugh was incredibly disappointed, as was 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:40.320 I think a lot of people that watch football, realistic football, 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.320 how tough is it to make decisions in the moment 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.080 they'll split seconds to make those tackles and do the 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:49.920 right thing. In the eyes of Park Avenue in New York. 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:52.120 City, it's extremely hard. 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:54.840 Like you say, you're playing a game at a fast speed, 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:58.000 a fast tempo, and as a defender, you're going to 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.120 just try to get the guy down, and sometimes the 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:04.680 angle can change. The guy can see you duck sometimes and. 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:05.080 It's just like we got to adjust. 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:06.960 Like I said, they want to clean up the game, man, 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:08.800 And like I said, I'm all for it, man, and 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:11.359 I'm trying to find new ways to get better at myself. 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:14.599 I'm still working at it, and I just love to 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:15.560 play man honestly. 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:15.800 Man. 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.120 Like I say, it's definitely hard on the defenders. I 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.320 feel like, especially because you don't know if he's gonna fly. 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:22.480 You don't want to give up the first down as 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:24.000 a defender. So it's just tough. 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:25.400 Yeah, they put you in a tough spot. 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:28.359 They put you in an absolutely crazy tough spot in 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:32.560 terms of what you have to do. Speaking of coach Harbaugh, 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:35.800 so I don't know if you know this. So coach 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:41.240 Arbaugh was my backup in San Diego. He taught me 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:43.440 that when he taught me how to be a professional, 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.840 you know, it was that quarterback room was crazy. If 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:48.760 he could have been a player, coach, I bet you 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.240 we win a ton more games if he had been 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.240 able to be the coach. What's it been like to 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.479 have him again? And does he how active is he? 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:56.640 Like? 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:58.279 Is he out there slinging the ball around. Is he 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:00.919 catching the ball? I mean, how like how physical is 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:02.960 he with you guys in practice? Seems like a lot 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:04.440 of fun and it looks like he's doing it. 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:07.840 I feel like coach Harball is all in man, honestly. Man. 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:12.000 Ever since ot As he's been pulling sleds man, honestly 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.919 since he's been working out every fourth quarter drill, no 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:18.840 lie like he's he's over there doing manuals with us. Man, 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:21.520 he's really and he has his cleek on his cleek 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:22.440 game is crazy. 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.360 He got all the different Jordan's. Man, it's crazy. 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:29.080 So man, his his Jordan game from his time in Michigan. 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:29.880 That's what I said. 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.320 Yeah, yeah, he have his cleat song man and he 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:34.719 all in it man. Like you say, here a player 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:37.200 coach manning every day. I've scribed to be like, I'm 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.000 like a leader man. When it comes to that leader 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:41.800 ability to affect the whole room and the whole organization, 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:44.120 I feel like he's one of a con when it 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:44.520 comes to that. 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:44.960 Yeah. 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.400 His track record, he goes places, you win, you get 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:49.760 a chance to win a championship, That is his track record. 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:54.080 It makes me laugh. You've been around Justin for so long. 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:55.719 I go and I go away and play golf with 0:06:55.839 --> 0:07:00.400 Justin every summer. And you know, he's the kind is 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:05.040 most kind of under unassuming killers. That's a really good 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.320 way to put it. He's an unassuming killer. He'll go 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:08.640 out and rip your heart out with the way he 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:11.040 can throw the football and be a leader. But did 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:14.480 you see the video of when when coach Harba did 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:16.400 the pregame thing with the quarterbacks he likes to do 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:17.960 where he hits him on the shoulders and they touched 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:20.240 you like Justin didn't know what was coming like, and 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:21.240 he's trying to like be. 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.480 In it too, but it looks so awkward. 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:26.560 What's the strangest kind of pregame thing that coaches kind 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:28.720 of come over and batted you up and get you 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:30.280 ready physically? What is he What has he done to 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:31.040 get you fired up? 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:33.760 Well, yeah, the same thing. Like I've been a time 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:35.080 where he just came and hit me on the bat. 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:36.800 Let's go out, need your best, let's go, let's go. 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:39.480 So he always just trying to get us ready to go. Man, 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:42.480 Especially that pregame speech in the locker room. It's no, 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.040 it's no speeches like Hallball speeches. Man, he always got 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:45.920 one of a confle you. 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.720 Uh, you guys get to see the Chiefs again here 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.760 soon they're the team at the top. I've never felt 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.360 like the Chargers have ever in any way fear the 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:59.440 Chiefs and Narrowhead or whatever. What's it like going up 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:03.040 against Patrick Mahomes as an All Pro safety? And you know, 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:04.920 how important is it for your team? I think entering 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:08.080 the playoffs to to defeat a very good AFC team, 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:09.680 the Ravens had a chance a week could go with 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:12.080 you guys, When you get a chance to the Chiefs 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:13.440 and the teams that you're probably gonna meet in the 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:15.320 playoffs down the stretch, how important is it you guys 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:16.680 to to show up and play well. 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:19.520 First of all, there's always a sighting to go against 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:23.120 the Chiefs. I feel like the games come down to 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:26.240 the end every time, And like you said, we have 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:28.080 to go in on the road and be able to 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:29.760 beat those type of teams because if you want to 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:31.600 go where we want to go in the playoffs far, 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:33.560 those are the type of teams you have to beat. 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.680 And I trust every man in this locker room, from offense, 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:40.360 defense to special teams, and I know we're preparing that way, 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:42.760 and I can't wait till the game Sunday night. 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:47.040 You know, you get to play a really cool position 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.400 because you go up against some of the greatest players 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.040 at the receiver position, in the tight end position, catch 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:53.559 us the running backs out of the backfield. But is 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:55.880 there a get you out of this with with this 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.440 question here? Is there an underrated player that that people 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.920 don't talk about that maybe like you know, when you 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:04.040 go into a game against someone like that or maybe 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:06.400 even somebody on your team when you're going up against 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:09.480 him in practice, that that that it's gonna give you fits. 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:11.200 He's going to be a player that that not everybody's 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.280 talking about Anna Travis Kelsey, but this guy and and uh, 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:16.120 I think that's a that's a pretty cool thing when 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:18.440 when you know who you're going up against every single week. 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.920 I have to say probably Latin mccunkie. Uh, just going 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:25.080 against him from training camp. I feel like his track 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:28.080 where I could speaking for himself, this season lead all 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:30.840 rookies in receiving yards. So man, I feel like he's 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.920 he's doing a great job getting open man and becoming 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:34.640 that receiver one. 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:35.679 And then Dyane. 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:40.000 Henley on defense, Uh, out there him in big pooning 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:42.440 in the middle. So just those three guys, I feel 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:44.559 like a lot of shout outs to those boys. They've 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:46.400 been making a lot of plays just under the radar. 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:48.680 Dayon Hendley, everybody, I don't know if you know this 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:50.880 or not, but he's a Washington State Cougar. Make sure you, 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:53.199 uh you give him a shout out for me today. 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:53.560 When you see him. 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:56.400 All right, yes, sir, all right, Derwin James, everybody, thanks 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:57.679 for joining us, buddy, appreciate it. 0:09:58.000 --> 0:09:58.520 Thank you, man. 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:03.280 That's awesome. I love talking to players current former. 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:08.240 I mean, that's just that dude is a stud. You 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:12.320 talk about a dog every single week. Jimbo Fisher used 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:14.440 to talk about. I spent like five seasons with with 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.160 Jimbo and his staff at at Florida State and then 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:20.320 at Texas A and M. I mean, he talked about 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:24.480 how smart, how intuitive, and just how good he is. 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:26.400 And I really thought with Jesse Minter this year the 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:29.560 things they could do with him hybrid wise, and it 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:33.200 really hasn't been overly much, but he's ended up in 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:36.160 some different places on the defensive side of the football 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:40.079 and making plays that that I think have been incredibly inventive. 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:42.040 He just looks like he's having a lot of fun. 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:44.480 And you know what, Jim Harbaugh gets that out of. 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:47.640 You seen the dude that wants to win right there? 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:51.360 You know you can see it's just like all written 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:53.520 all over him, that dude wants to win. I wonder 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:57.800 what the last four years have been like for him? 0:10:58.040 --> 0:10:59.479 Five years been incredible. 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:06.240 Fourth head coach, right, Anthony Lynn and interim and Brandon 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:07.320 Staley and now Jim Harbaugh. 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:10.600 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I wonder do you think that there's 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:14.000 if Anthony Lynn was still the head coach, would they 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:16.360 be successful by now? 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:17.040 In that? 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:20.680 What I mean is the consistency of message and sort 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:22.960 of brand and pushing in one direction and this is 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:24.480 what we're gonna do. And maybe it takes a year 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:26.640 or two to get it right, but then eventually you 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:29.679 start getting the concepts and they start working or. 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:32.040 What do you speak of? 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:35.720 I am a Steelers fan, Yeah right, yeah, yeah, you know, 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:37.640 I have no idea. We've had three head coaches in 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:41.320 one hundred and eighty years or whatever it is, you know, right, sure, yes, 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:45.000 I do. I do think that the idea of just 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:48.600 giving up. You know what's really impressive about Detroit. Is 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:52.280 that they didn't do that with Dan Campbell when things 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:54.760 were going bad. Remember before they went on that crazy 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.560 winning streak, like three or four games into last year, 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:00.839 like it was chopping block time. People were saying, no, 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.200 you know he wasn't you know he was. He was 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:06.319 actually being asked to leave Applebee's And now he's doing commercials, 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:07.920 you know in Applebee's. 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:09.920 You know, it's the. 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:13.720 Ability to show patience is a huge deal. You wouldn't 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:16.480 have Jim Harbaugh as the head coach right now. That's 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:18.480 that's you know, that's the way people will counter you 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:20.320 and go, we got the guy, We got the guy now. 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.000 But I'm with you, there's some the consensity. What if 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:28.320 you kept Clay Hilton at USC. You know, the Lincoln 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:32.800 Riley thing hasn't worked. Clay Heilton has a better record 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:38.840 at USC than Lincoln Riley has. Times change, cultures have changed, nil, 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:41.920 things have changed. All those things are different in terms 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:45.200 of what it looks like. But I am more of 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:53.960 the consistency over chaos. But the NFL, as you guys 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:58.320 pointed out in the random questions, is about turnover. I 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:02.360 mean the turnover ratio for coaches, players, everything, and the 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:03.880 college model was starting to look the same. 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:04.600 Marvin. 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:06.920 Have you ever seen a head coach or a player 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:10.200 come into building and the building automatically changes, or have 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.880 you heard of any different scenarios like that where as 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.360 soon as this coach came in or this quarterback came in, 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:16.840 the building was completely different. 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:17.720 Yeah, you've seen that. 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:23.280 You've seen that in many different scenarios. You know when 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:25.800 I was first there, when when John Gruden walked in 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:31.280 in Tampa, I mean you just you just what was 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.600 the difference maker in Tampa that year was an offense? 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.040 Like the defense was great, you know, Mike Kiffen was 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:38.800 you know, you're Derek Brooks and you had Booger and 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:41.640 you had Simeon Rice and Rondez and you had Dexter 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:43.560 and not all those guys in the back end, and 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:47.240 I mean, you were gonna You're gonna shut people down defensively. 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:48.800 What you needed to be able to do was score 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:52.960 a few more points, and uh and John got that. 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:54.760 And when they walked in, I think, you know, everybody 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:58.480 looked around and said, oh yeah, with what Tony Dungee 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:00.760 had left behind and put together, this is a super 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:02.080 Bowl winning team. 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:03.280 And it was Marvin. 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.880 Yeah, I think the Buccaneers lost the NFC Championship game 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:08.800 like eleven to five or it was like it was 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:10.800 a craze to Kurt Owner and yeah, yeah, it was 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.360 like a Ricky prol like crazy, like the ball just 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:14.679 dropped right in his chest. 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:16.440 It was. 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:18.959 They were so in need for an injection of offensive 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.200 power and they got it. They got the best thing 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:22.720 in the world. They went up against the Raiders, which 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:24.640 John knew like the back of the hand, on the 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:28.400 only Super Bowl situation where there wasn't a bye week 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:31.040 between because of nine to eleven that year, I believe. 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:34.280 I think that was the reason why, because they had 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.880 taken up a week because of the tragedy and there 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:41.200 was no bye week in between the AFC NFC Championships 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:43.920 and the Super Bowl that year. And what a year 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:45.440 to have it where you have a former coach who 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.320 knew all the signals and all the things that that 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:51.080 that the Oakland Raiders were doing. I mean rich Gannon 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:53.200 went out there and was playing against twenty two people 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:54.200 essentially in that game. 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:56.080 It was crazy. It was crazy. 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.480 So yeah, there's those times like that at all times, 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:04.040 Like when remember talking to some guys when when Russell 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:07.480 walked in in Pittsburgh. I some of my friends on 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:12.120 the Steelers team, they whatever the media has or talks 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:15.480 about outside of Russell Wilson or what went down in 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:17.600 Denver those last two years. He's also a guy that 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.720 went to two Super Bowls, right, came from nowhere to Wisconsin, 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:24.520 won the job, become this you know, you know, multi 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:29.080 millionaire businessman and star quarterback. He walks into the room 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.960 in Pittsburgh. You know, people talk about justin fields, should 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:33.320 have been the starter, should have kept on starting, and 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:35.200 everything like that. I guarantee you right now, ever been 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.160 in that locker room goes, we want competent quarterback play. 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:38.720 Russell's gonna give us to us. 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:41.280 We had the best chance to win a championship. And 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:44.560 they were, you know, they they saw him and saw 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:49.280 an opportunity and they were they were very, very attracted 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.040 to that. And that happens all the time. And when 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:56.520 Jim Harbaugh walks into it, same darn thing, same darn thing, all. 0:15:56.560 --> 0:16:01.840 Right, college football? Is it the minor league? Is it special? 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:04.200 Is it better? I don't know. 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:07.040 Somebody needs to teach me and tell me. Maybe Andy 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:08.720 Staples can do that next, right, here on the Dan 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:09.440 Patrick Show. 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:10.560 We'll be right back. 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:13.600 Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:17.000 the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:21.240 dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:24.960 listen live. Welcome back everybody to the Dan Patrick Show. 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:28.560 Ryan Lafyer filling in for the main man Dan Patrick. 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:29.360 Uh. 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:35.840 Our next guest is gonna be uh college football analyst. 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:39.480 He covers college football for on three Sports as well. 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:40.880 Good friend of mine. I haven't talked to him. I 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:42.880 haven't spoken to him many years, it feels like. But 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:45.560 Andy Staples joins the show. Andy, what's going on? 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:45.920 Buddy? 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:47.040 Ryan? 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:49.400 You never right? He never called him. Yeah, we do 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:50.960 text occasionally, though we do check. 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:51.360 Well. 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:53.720 You usually pointed out to everybody that why are we 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:56.200 listening to Will Ferrell call a football game tonight? 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:00.800 It happens to me sometimes, Yeah, we're a I am 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:02.680 in one of those multi box situations. 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:03.040 Yep. 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:06.399 And of course, unless it's like the beginning of a quarter, 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:10.160 they're not showing your faces and at first I'll be like, wait, wait, 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:13.960 what is where ferrorth searching? Oh wait, that's Ryan, that's right. 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:14.399 Ryan. 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:17.360 Well, milk was a bad choice. 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:18.120 I know that. 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:21.240 You were at the Texas TEXTA, A and M game. 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.000 I was talking to the guys a little bit early 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:26.199 Andy about what college football is and for me, and 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:28.800 this can be, of course a projectionist point of mine, 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.840 since I called only really the PAC twelve games this 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.600 year for the cw SO a conference that was kind 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:37.000 of left behind. I see it a little bit as 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:39.400 the minor leagues. I didn't follow it that much. Guys 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:41.320 are getting paid. I'd rather see if they're going to 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:43.520