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Speaker 2: Blasted. Yeah, you know, this is a good question. You know,
Speaker 2: how many people out there do you think would love to
Speaker 2: pepper spray me? That might be a good one. I mean,
Speaker 2: not as many as before, but I bet you there's
Speaker 2: a there's a I bet you there's a line of
Speaker 2: folks that probably wanted to pepper spray me if they
Speaker 2: got a chance. Yes again, I'm Ryan Lee filling in
Speaker 2: for Dan Patrick today. Uh, Derwin James is gonna join
Speaker 2: us here in about four minutes to talk about the
Speaker 2: Chargers and the new season under Jim Harbaugh as his
Speaker 2: head coach. This is I think Seaton and I were talking.
Speaker 2: I think we got him already, so we're gonna go.
Speaker 3: To him right now.
Speaker 2: Derwin James all pro safety for my Los Angeles Chargers,
Speaker 2: joins us.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: I was just telling everybody Derwin about I lived in
Speaker 2: LA for the last years. Man, I know what traffic,
Speaker 2: traffic's like. You know, you get competit.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: How you doing this morning?
Speaker 4: I'm doing good man. How y'all doing?
Speaker 2: We're doing well, We're doing well, it's been a lot
Speaker 2: of fun to watch you guys this year, Jesse Mentor.
Speaker 2: You know, it's just kind of untapped a little bit
Speaker 2: of it looks like you guys are having just so
Speaker 2: much fun flying around young guys, guys that that that
Speaker 2: people really don't know. And then you with out there
Speaker 2: is kind of the stalwart on the back end. Just
Speaker 2: talk about how much fun it's been this year to
Speaker 2: play under this new defensive coordinator.
Speaker 5: Man I can't stop smiling every day I come into
Speaker 5: the building. It's just deciding to come to work with
Speaker 5: these man not only did the coaches but the players.
Speaker 5: It's just ever since Opa, we've been just working on
Speaker 5: but off just to go out there and compete, and
Speaker 5: we finally found a few the results that we've been
Speaker 5: putting in and we just want to keep going hard.
Speaker 5: And coach Mentor, man I can't say nothing but great
Speaker 5: things about him. He's a man, one of a kind.
Speaker 5: Man I haven't been around a coach like him and
Speaker 5: coach Harball.
Speaker 2: So you you you spoke incredibly eyely a Jimbo Fisher
Speaker 2: you're coaching college. I spent like five seasons with him
Speaker 2: every fall football genius. I mean when you when you
Speaker 2: find guys that can flip that switch in you. Jim
Speaker 2: Harbaugh shows up, there's a different mentality as a former player,
Speaker 2: Jesse Mentor, you see guys acting different. I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: watching justin this year. There's like a little swagger with him.
Speaker 2: He's throwing a touchdown, he's doing some things. I mean,
Speaker 2: what's the locker It just it's allowed the locker room
Speaker 2: to be a little freer, it feels, and it comes across.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, everybody's playing free, nobody's playing tight, and we
Speaker 5: just create that family environment. Coach Harball, he's you got
Speaker 5: the families that practice on Friday Saturdays. It's just creating
Speaker 5: the family environment that I've never been around in the
Speaker 5: NFL in my seven years. So man, it's just been
Speaker 5: a lot of fun. And when you can make it
Speaker 5: about family, man, you just want to go that much
Speaker 5: harder for that person. And Uh, offense get along with offense.
Speaker 5: Defense get along, and it's just the whole team coming together.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's incredibly different when you walk into an
Speaker 2: atmosphere like that. I remember that with when I was
Speaker 2: in Tampa with Tony Dungee, Like you just go from
Speaker 2: a coaching staff that's that's so welcoming in terms of
Speaker 2: what makes things easy, and you wonder why that hasn't
Speaker 2: always been the case, because you want your guys to
Speaker 2: be the most you know, relaxed going into football games.
Speaker 2: Talk to me about the Atlanta game. I mean, these
Speaker 2: games this year kind of fit the Harbaugh mold, right.
Speaker 2: It's it's offense trying to run the football, hold people back.
Speaker 2: But defense really had to close out that game. Talk
Speaker 2: about that kind of final play. They went empty. They
Speaker 2: brought Drake London over the cross in the middle, he
Speaker 2: kind of stumbles and you just you just knew they
Speaker 2: had to get to a point. You stepped right in
Speaker 2: front of an end of the game with that interception.
Speaker 5: First of all, I feel like coach did a great
Speaker 5: job all day calling great plays. I feel like we
Speaker 5: was in position to make all the plays we needed
Speaker 5: to make. And like you said, I just seen seeing
Speaker 5: Drake London in this plot and as soon as I
Speaker 5: see them released the ball, just try to make a
Speaker 5: play on it for my team. And like I said,
Speaker 5: coach made a great call. And all year long, keys
Speaker 5: just making great calls, and as a defense, I feel
Speaker 5: like we just come in that much closer to the world
Speaker 5: we want to beat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you get the goes up front, getting after the quarterback,
Speaker 2: Bosa that that crew. It's it's been fun to watch
Speaker 2: as a former Charger to see that defense kind of
Speaker 2: going back into Rodney Harrison Junior sayout days, that's that's
Speaker 2: some fun era of football. And we watched the Alscheizier
Speaker 2: uh al Shire hit on on Trevor Lawrence. As a defender,
Speaker 2: they've made it incredibly difficult on you guys in terms
Speaker 2: of what the heck is the quarterback going to do
Speaker 2: as you're trying to make a little move to get
Speaker 2: a few more yards, to pick up a first down,
Speaker 2: to extend a drive, to end a game. You got
Speaker 2: suspended earlier, and Coach Harbaugh was incredibly disappointed, as was
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people that watch football, realistic football,
Speaker 2: how tough is it to make decisions in the moment
Speaker 2: they'll split seconds to make those tackles and do the
Speaker 2: right thing. In the eyes of Park Avenue in New York.
Speaker 4: City, it's extremely hard.
Speaker 5: Like you say, you're playing a game at a fast speed,
Speaker 5: a fast tempo, and as a defender, you're going to
Speaker 5: just try to get the guy down, and sometimes the
Speaker 5: angle can change. The guy can see you duck sometimes and.
Speaker 4: It's just like we got to adjust.
Speaker 5: Like I said, they want to clean up the game, man,
Speaker 5: And like I said, I'm all for it, man, and
Speaker 5: I'm trying to find new ways to get better at myself.
Speaker 5: I'm still working at it, and I just love to
Speaker 5: play man honestly.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 5: Like I say, it's definitely hard on the defenders. I
Speaker 5: feel like, especially because you don't know if he's gonna fly.
Speaker 5: You don't want to give up the first down as
Speaker 5: a defender. So it's just tough.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they put you in a tough spot.
Speaker 2: They put you in an absolutely crazy tough spot in
Speaker 2: terms of what you have to do. Speaking of coach Harbaugh,
Speaker 2: so I don't know if you know this. So coach
Speaker 2: Arbaugh was my backup in San Diego. He taught me
Speaker 2: that when he taught me how to be a professional,
Speaker 2: you know, it was that quarterback room was crazy. If
Speaker 2: he could have been a player, coach, I bet you
Speaker 2: we win a ton more games if he had been
Speaker 2: able to be the coach. What's it been like to
Speaker 2: have him again? And does he how active is he?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 2: Is he out there slinging the ball around. Is he
Speaker 2: catching the ball? I mean, how like how physical is
Speaker 2: he with you guys in practice? Seems like a lot
Speaker 2: of fun and it looks like he's doing it.
Speaker 4: I feel like coach Harball is all in man, honestly. Man.
Speaker 5: Ever since ot As he's been pulling sleds man, honestly
Speaker 5: since he's been working out every fourth quarter drill, no
Speaker 5: lie like he's he's over there doing manuals with us. Man,
Speaker 5: he's really and he has his cleek on his cleek
Speaker 5: game is crazy.
Speaker 4: He got all the different Jordan's. Man, it's crazy.
Speaker 2: So man, his his Jordan game from his time in Michigan.
Speaker 3: That's what I said.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, he have his cleat song man and he
Speaker 5: all in it man. Like you say, here a player
Speaker 5: coach manning every day. I've scribed to be like, I'm
Speaker 5: like a leader man. When it comes to that leader
Speaker 5: ability to affect the whole room and the whole organization,
Speaker 5: I feel like he's one of a con when it
Speaker 5: comes to that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: His track record, he goes places, you win, you get
Speaker 2: a chance to win a championship, That is his track record.
Speaker 2: It makes me laugh. You've been around Justin for so long.
Speaker 2: I go and I go away and play golf with
Speaker 2: Justin every summer. And you know, he's the kind is
Speaker 2: most kind of under unassuming killers. That's a really good
Speaker 2: way to put it. He's an unassuming killer. He'll go
Speaker 2: out and rip your heart out with the way he
Speaker 2: can throw the football and be a leader. But did
Speaker 2: you see the video of when when coach Harba did
Speaker 2: the pregame thing with the quarterbacks he likes to do
Speaker 2: where he hits him on the shoulders and they touched
Speaker 2: you like Justin didn't know what was coming like, and
Speaker 2: he's trying to like be.
Speaker 3: In it too, but it looks so awkward.
Speaker 2: What's the strangest kind of pregame thing that coaches kind
Speaker 2: of come over and batted you up and get you
Speaker 2: ready physically? What is he What has he done to
Speaker 2: get you fired up?
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, the same thing. Like I've been a time
Speaker 5: where he just came and hit me on the bat.
Speaker 5: Let's go out, need your best, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 5: So he always just trying to get us ready to go. Man,
Speaker 5: Especially that pregame speech in the locker room. It's no,
Speaker 5: it's no speeches like Hallball speeches. Man, he always got
Speaker 5: one of a confle you.
Speaker 2: Uh, you guys get to see the Chiefs again here
Speaker 2: soon they're the team at the top. I've never felt
Speaker 2: like the Chargers have ever in any way fear the
Speaker 2: Chiefs and Narrowhead or whatever. What's it like going up
Speaker 2: against Patrick Mahomes as an All Pro safety? And you know,
Speaker 2: how important is it for your team? I think entering
Speaker 2: the playoffs to to defeat a very good AFC team,
Speaker 2: the Ravens had a chance a week could go with
Speaker 2: you guys, When you get a chance to the Chiefs
Speaker 2: and the teams that you're probably gonna meet in the
Speaker 2: playoffs down the stretch, how important is it you guys
Speaker 2: to to show up and play well.
Speaker 5: First of all, there's always a sighting to go against
Speaker 5: the Chiefs. I feel like the games come down to
Speaker 5: the end every time, And like you said, we have
Speaker 5: to go in on the road and be able to
Speaker 5: beat those type of teams because if you want to
Speaker 5: go where we want to go in the playoffs far,
Speaker 5: those are the type of teams you have to beat.
Speaker 5: And I trust every man in this locker room, from offense,
Speaker 5: defense to special teams, and I know we're preparing that way,
Speaker 5: and I can't wait till the game Sunday night.
Speaker 2: You know, you get to play a really cool position
Speaker 2: because you go up against some of the greatest players
Speaker 2: at the receiver position, in the tight end position, catch
Speaker 2: us the running backs out of the backfield. But is
Speaker 2: there a get you out of this with with this
Speaker 2: question here? Is there an underrated player that that people
Speaker 2: don't talk about that maybe like you know, when you
Speaker 2: go into a game against someone like that or maybe
Speaker 2: even somebody on your team when you're going up against
Speaker 2: him in practice, that that that it's gonna give you fits.
Speaker 2: He's going to be a player that that not everybody's
Speaker 2: talking about Anna Travis Kelsey, but this guy and and uh,
Speaker 2: I think that's a that's a pretty cool thing when
Speaker 2: when you know who you're going up against every single week.
Speaker 5: I have to say probably Latin mccunkie. Uh, just going
Speaker 5: against him from training camp. I feel like his track
Speaker 5: where I could speaking for himself, this season lead all
Speaker 5: rookies in receiving yards. So man, I feel like he's
Speaker 5: he's doing a great job getting open man and becoming
Speaker 5: that receiver one.
Speaker 4: And then Dyane.
Speaker 5: Henley on defense, Uh, out there him in big pooning
Speaker 5: in the middle. So just those three guys, I feel
Speaker 5: like a lot of shout outs to those boys. They've
Speaker 5: been making a lot of plays just under the radar.
Speaker 2: Dayon Hendley, everybody, I don't know if you know this
Speaker 2: or not, but he's a Washington State Cougar. Make sure you,
Speaker 2: uh you give him a shout out for me today.
Speaker 3: When you see him.
Speaker 2: All right, yes, sir, all right, Derwin James, everybody, thanks
Speaker 2: for joining us, buddy, appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Thank you, man.
Speaker 3: That's awesome. I love talking to players current former.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's just that dude is a stud. You
Speaker 2: talk about a dog every single week. Jimbo Fisher used
Speaker 2: to talk about. I spent like five seasons with with
Speaker 2: Jimbo and his staff at at Florida State and then
Speaker 2: at Texas A and M. I mean, he talked about
Speaker 2: how smart, how intuitive, and just how good he is.
Speaker 2: And I really thought with Jesse Minter this year the
Speaker 2: things they could do with him hybrid wise, and it
Speaker 2: really hasn't been overly much, but he's ended up in
Speaker 2: some different places on the defensive side of the football
Speaker 2: and making plays that that I think have been incredibly inventive.
Speaker 2: He just looks like he's having a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: And you know what, Jim Harbaugh gets that out of.
Speaker 6: You seen the dude that wants to win right there?
Speaker 6: You know you can see it's just like all written
Speaker 6: all over him, that dude wants to win. I wonder
Speaker 6: what the last four years have been like for him?
Speaker 3: Five years been incredible.
Speaker 2: Fourth head coach, right, Anthony Lynn and interim and Brandon
Speaker 2: Staley and now Jim Harbaugh.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I wonder do you think that there's
Speaker 6: if Anthony Lynn was still the head coach, would they
Speaker 6: be successful by now?
Speaker 4: In that?
Speaker 6: What I mean is the consistency of message and sort
Speaker 6: of brand and pushing in one direction and this is
Speaker 6: what we're gonna do. And maybe it takes a year
Speaker 6: or two to get it right, but then eventually you
Speaker 6: start getting the concepts and they start working or.
Speaker 3: What do you speak of?
Speaker 2: I am a Steelers fan, Yeah right, yeah, yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: I have no idea. We've had three head coaches in
Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty years or whatever it is, you know, right, sure, yes,
Speaker 2: I do. I do think that the idea of just
Speaker 2: giving up. You know what's really impressive about Detroit. Is
Speaker 2: that they didn't do that with Dan Campbell when things
Speaker 2: were going bad. Remember before they went on that crazy
Speaker 2: winning streak, like three or four games into last year,
Speaker 2: like it was chopping block time. People were saying, no,
Speaker 2: you know he wasn't you know he was. He was
Speaker 2: actually being asked to leave Applebee's And now he's doing commercials,
Speaker 2: you know in Applebee's.
Speaker 3: You know, it's the.
Speaker 2: Ability to show patience is a huge deal. You wouldn't
Speaker 2: have Jim Harbaugh as the head coach right now. That's
Speaker 2: that's you know, that's the way people will counter you
Speaker 2: and go, we got the guy, We got the guy now.
Speaker 2: But I'm with you, there's some the consensity. What if
Speaker 2: you kept Clay Hilton at USC. You know, the Lincoln
Speaker 2: Riley thing hasn't worked. Clay Heilton has a better record
Speaker 2: at USC than Lincoln Riley has. Times change, cultures have changed, nil,
Speaker 2: things have changed. All those things are different in terms
Speaker 2: of what it looks like. But I am more of
Speaker 2: the consistency over chaos. But the NFL, as you guys
Speaker 2: pointed out in the random questions, is about turnover. I
Speaker 2: mean the turnover ratio for coaches, players, everything, and the
Speaker 2: college model was starting to look the same.
Speaker 3: Marvin.
Speaker 7: Have you ever seen a head coach or a player
Speaker 7: come into building and the building automatically changes, or have
Speaker 7: you heard of any different scenarios like that where as
Speaker 7: soon as this coach came in or this quarterback came in,
Speaker 7: the building was completely different.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you've seen that.
Speaker 2: You've seen that in many different scenarios. You know when
Speaker 2: I was first there, when when John Gruden walked in
Speaker 2: in Tampa, I mean you just you just what was
Speaker 2: the difference maker in Tampa that year was an offense?
Speaker 2: Like the defense was great, you know, Mike Kiffen was
Speaker 2: you know, you're Derek Brooks and you had Booger and
Speaker 2: you had Simeon Rice and Rondez and you had Dexter
Speaker 2: and not all those guys in the back end, and
Speaker 2: I mean, you were gonna You're gonna shut people down defensively.
Speaker 2: What you needed to be able to do was score
Speaker 2: a few more points, and uh and John got that.
Speaker 2: And when they walked in, I think, you know, everybody
Speaker 2: looked around and said, oh yeah, with what Tony Dungee
Speaker 2: had left behind and put together, this is a super
Speaker 2: Bowl winning team.
Speaker 3: And it was Marvin.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think the Buccaneers lost the NFC Championship game
Speaker 7: like eleven to five or it was like it was
Speaker 7: a craze to Kurt Owner and yeah, yeah, it was
Speaker 7: like a Ricky prol like crazy, like the ball just
Speaker 7: dropped right in his chest.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 2: They were so in need for an injection of offensive
Speaker 2: power and they got it. They got the best thing
Speaker 2: in the world. They went up against the Raiders, which
Speaker 2: John knew like the back of the hand, on the
Speaker 2: only Super Bowl situation where there wasn't a bye week
Speaker 2: between because of nine to eleven that year, I believe.
Speaker 2: I think that was the reason why, because they had
Speaker 2: taken up a week because of the tragedy and there
Speaker 2: was no bye week in between the AFC NFC Championships
Speaker 2: and the Super Bowl that year. And what a year
Speaker 2: to have it where you have a former coach who
Speaker 2: knew all the signals and all the things that that
Speaker 2: that the Oakland Raiders were doing. I mean rich Gannon
Speaker 2: went out there and was playing against twenty two people
Speaker 2: essentially in that game.
Speaker 3: It was crazy. It was crazy.
Speaker 2: So yeah, there's those times like that at all times,
Speaker 2: Like when remember talking to some guys when when Russell
Speaker 2: walked in in Pittsburgh. I some of my friends on
Speaker 2: the Steelers team, they whatever the media has or talks
Speaker 2: about outside of Russell Wilson or what went down in
Speaker 2: Denver those last two years. He's also a guy that
Speaker 2: went to two Super Bowls, right, came from nowhere to Wisconsin,
Speaker 2: won the job, become this you know, you know, multi
Speaker 2: millionaire businessman and star quarterback. He walks into the room
Speaker 2: in Pittsburgh. You know, people talk about justin fields, should
Speaker 2: have been the starter, should have kept on starting, and
Speaker 2: everything like that. I guarantee you right now, ever been
Speaker 2: in that locker room goes, we want competent quarterback play.
Speaker 3: Russell's gonna give us to us.
Speaker 2: We had the best chance to win a championship. And
Speaker 2: they were, you know, they they saw him and saw
Speaker 2: an opportunity and they were they were very, very attracted
Speaker 2: to that. And that happens all the time. And when
Speaker 2: Jim Harbaugh walks into it, same darn thing, same darn thing, all.
Speaker 3: Right, college football? Is it the minor league? Is it special?
Speaker 3: Is it better? I don't know.
Speaker 2: Somebody needs to teach me and tell me. Maybe Andy
Speaker 2: Staples can do that next, right, here on the Dan
Speaker 2: Patrick Show.
Speaker 3: We'll be right back.
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Speaker 1: Ryan Lafyer filling in for the main man Dan Patrick.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: Our next guest is gonna be uh college football analyst.
Speaker 2: He covers college football for on three Sports as well.
Speaker 2: Good friend of mine. I haven't talked to him. I
Speaker 2: haven't spoken to him many years, it feels like. But
Speaker 2: Andy Staples joins the show. Andy, what's going on?
Speaker 4: Buddy?
Speaker 1: Ryan?
Speaker 8: You never right? He never called him. Yeah, we do
Speaker 8: text occasionally, though we do check.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: You usually pointed out to everybody that why are we
Speaker 2: listening to Will Ferrell call a football game tonight?
Speaker 8: It happens to me sometimes, Yeah, we're a I am
Speaker 8: in one of those multi box situations.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 8: And of course, unless it's like the beginning of a quarter,
Speaker 8: they're not showing your faces and at first I'll be like, wait, wait,
Speaker 8: what is where ferrorth searching? Oh wait, that's Ryan, that's right.
Speaker 1: Ryan.
Speaker 3: Well, milk was a bad choice.
Speaker 4: I know that.
Speaker 3: You were at the Texas TEXTA, A and M game.
Speaker 2: I was talking to the guys a little bit early
Speaker 2: Andy about what college football is and for me, and
Speaker 2: this can be, of course a projectionist point of mine,
Speaker 2: since I called only really the PAC twelve games this
Speaker 2: year for the cw SO a conference that was kind
Speaker 2: of left behind. I see it a little bit as
Speaker 2: the minor leagues. I didn't follow it that much. Guys
Speaker 2: are getting paid. I'd rather see if they're going to
Speaker 2: get paid. I'd rather see him be playing for the
Speaker 2: Lions or something like that. But yet there was one
Speaker 2: hundred and whatever twenty thousand people in College Station last
Speaker 2: week to watch Texas Texas and renew that that rivalry.
Speaker 2: Where do you see the game of college football? What
Speaker 2: was it like being there and then watching the twelve
Speaker 2: team playoff kind of you know, start to spin this
Speaker 2: new version of college football in our eyes.
Speaker 8: It's really interesting how it changed our relationship with games
Speaker 8: in November. I mean, we told the people who wanted
Speaker 8: to stick to four and the people who wanted to
Speaker 8: stick to the BCS that this would make the November
Speaker 8: games more meaningful for more teams, and they didn't believe us. Well,
Speaker 8: they believe us now, Like it really changed the dynamics
Speaker 8: of everything because we would not have been watching Miami
Speaker 8: Syracuse with nearly as much interest as we were in
Speaker 8: the game. I was at SO Texas and Texas A and
Speaker 8: m we're playing for a spot in the SEC Championship game.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 8: I mean you got all the trappings of that rivalry,
Speaker 8: the fact that they hadn't played since twenty eleven, and
Speaker 8: then you add some stakes on top of that. It
Speaker 8: was a beautiful thing, not a beautiful game. Not a
Speaker 8: beautiful game. Both defenses much better than most, but then
Speaker 8: both offenses. But we did get to see Arch Manning
Speaker 8: as like the designated running quarterback for Texas, which I
Speaker 8: did not have our Manning as the two thousand and
Speaker 8: six Tim Tebow on my big o'card for the year.
Speaker 8: But I kind of love it.
Speaker 2: So don't forget he's Cooper's kid. He's not Peyton or
Speaker 2: Eli's kid. R Kuber was a receiver, was a wide receivers.
Speaker 2: He's got some ability on that. Andy Staples here joining
Speaker 2: us here on the Dan Patrick Show. The Biggest Gripe?
Speaker 2: What team may have the biggest gripe? So far of
Speaker 2: being on the outside looking in and not knowing what
Speaker 2: this weekend is going to bridget. But what we found
Speaker 2: out here on Tuesday night, I.
Speaker 8: Think Ole Miss, Miami, and South Carolina all have the
Speaker 8: same gripe because they're not really any different from Alabama.
Speaker 8: Alabama is the one they picked to be in that
Speaker 8: last spot. Now, Alabama might not get that last spot.
Speaker 8: If Clemson were to beat SMU in the ACC Championship game,
Speaker 8: they might leave Alabama there. They might only drop SMUT
Speaker 8: there and drop Alabama out. So we don't exactly know
Speaker 8: how that's going to play out. And that has been
Speaker 8: the argument raging in college football land all week is,
Speaker 8: you know, how dare they choose Alabama? This is so stupid.
Speaker 8: It's always Alabama. I don't think it's always Alabama. I
Speaker 8: think it's Alabama in this case. Is Alabama super deserving? No, No,
Speaker 8: three loss team is super deserving. But they all have
Speaker 8: flaws and there's four that are kind of the same,
Speaker 8: and they got to pick one, and so that's the
Speaker 8: one they're picking.
Speaker 2: It seems like, yeah, is there a team that most
Speaker 2: likely this weekend? I mean, because we've had a conversation
Speaker 2: on the show today about you know, whether or not
Speaker 2: these games should even be played. Why, what's the purpose
Speaker 2: of playing these games? You know you have I would
Speaker 2: argue that Texas is the SEC champion. They have one
Speaker 2: loss this season in the SEC that makes them the es.
Speaker 8: They lost to the team that they're going to play
Speaker 8: it exactly, so exactly that's a big part of that.
Speaker 2: Is there a team that you see in the title
Speaker 2: games tomorrow or on Friday and Saturday, that you see
Speaker 2: likely to be knocked out if we're to get that loss.
Speaker 8: So Boise State will be knocked out if they lose
Speaker 8: to un I'll be on Friday night. I mean, that's
Speaker 8: that's pretty much a predetermined conclusion. Whether it puts UNLV
Speaker 8: in or no is another question. It might But then
Speaker 8: if Army beats Tulane, then there's a probably probably a
Speaker 8: conversation between you and LV and Army. But this SMU
Speaker 8: part is really interesting. We had rhtt Lashley, the head
Speaker 8: coach from SMU, on my show today and he said, look,
Speaker 8: if we all got COVID and didn't play this game,
Speaker 8: we'd be in the playoff. Yet you're saying if we
Speaker 8: lose to Clemson we might be out. How is that right?
Speaker 8: And my co host Ry Wasserman asked him, Hey, if
Speaker 8: that happens, you would if you did lose and got
Speaker 8: knocked out, do you think it would change the way
Speaker 8: coaches approached these championship games, and rhet lastly's like, yeah,
Speaker 8: I think coaches would do some crazy things at that point,
Speaker 8: because if you're in the playoff and you've earned the
Speaker 8: right to play an extra game, the thinking is it
Speaker 8: shouldn't punish you. Yeah, but yeah, if I were a
Speaker 8: coach and I saw that happen to somebody else, it
Speaker 8: would make me rethink wanting to play in that game.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a real argument to be had that,
Speaker 2: you know, Ohio State losing may have had a little
Speaker 2: bit of a benefit because now, listen, I'd take the
Speaker 2: buye for me is a big deal.
Speaker 3: The bye is a big deal for me? Is a yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 8: That well, Also, the five seed is a big deal
Speaker 8: if you lost the Big ten championship game, if you're
Speaker 8: Ohio State. Yeah, because the five seed plays the twelve,
Speaker 8: which may not necessarily be the number twelve team that
Speaker 8: may be a conference champion. They got raised up to twelve.
Speaker 8: So not only that, who does the five play in
Speaker 8: the second round, and it's try to like the play
Speaker 8: the four, the four which is probably not actually number four.
Speaker 8: It's some conference champ that got raised. So could be
Speaker 8: I would argue, yeah, I would argue that that five
Speaker 8: seed is probably has an especially if you didn't play
Speaker 8: in a conference championship game, has a nicer path than
Speaker 8: the one seed, which gets a bye. But that eight
Speaker 8: nine winner is gonna be somebody nasty.
Speaker 3: It could be.
Speaker 2: It could be one of those teams that we talked about.
Speaker 2: It could be a Georgia, It could be an Old Miss,
Speaker 2: could be an Alabama team that is a brutal beat
Speaker 2: physical in nature and everything like that. So yeah, first
Speaker 2: year of playing out, there's gonna be a ton of
Speaker 2: discussion around what this looks like and where you go
Speaker 2: with it and.
Speaker 3: Everything like that.
Speaker 2: National Signing Day we're talking with Andy Staples here. National
Speaker 2: Signing Day was yesterday, and does it what does it
Speaker 2: mean now with the portal opening, what does it mean
Speaker 2: to and is it different for certain teams like if
Speaker 2: you are at the very top of the heap or
Speaker 2: if you're somewhere at bottom where you're gonna have to
Speaker 2: develop and maybe know you're developing for let's say Alabama
Speaker 2: in a couple of years.
Speaker 8: You know, you're treating it if you're Alabama, Georgia, Ohio
Speaker 8: State the same way you always did. You go get
Speaker 8: the best high school players. You try to make that
Speaker 8: the foundation of your program, especially the big guys like
Speaker 8: you want to. You know, offensive defensive linemen for the
Speaker 8: most part, are not going to come in ready to play,
Speaker 8: so you try to stockpile them as best you can.
Speaker 8: That's not going to be easy because of the transfer portal.
Speaker 8: Kids are smart, you know, they see how this works.
Speaker 8: And I think what has happened is those teams can't
Speaker 8: stockpile the way they used to. Like Alabama's backups used
Speaker 8: to be better than probably everybody ranked below number five,
Speaker 8: and that's just not the case anymore. Those guys go,
Speaker 8: I can just play somewhere else. I can become a
Speaker 8: first rounder at Arkansas. I can become a first rounder
Speaker 8: at Ole Miss. So why am I? Why am I
Speaker 8: sitting here? And so it's made the market a lot
Speaker 8: more efficient. So it's really more where guys are going
Speaker 8: to start their careers, whether they finish them there is
Speaker 8: another story, And you know a lot of ways it's
Speaker 8: it's it's more fair to me because I'm so used
Speaker 8: to covering the coaching carousel, so I'm used to signing
Speaker 8: day happens and then oh we forgot were firing the
Speaker 8: wide receivers coach. I'm sorry you wanted to play for him. Oh,
Speaker 8: don't worry about that, but you're stuck here. Well you're
Speaker 8: not stuck there anymore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't have to be hostage to some whims
Speaker 2: by adults that have no real interest in necessarily what
Speaker 2: you're doing. Uh, the the coaching carousel.
Speaker 3: You spoke of what maybe jobs.
Speaker 2: Are are on the line this weekend, What jobs are
Speaker 2: are are maybe opening that that maybe people may think
Speaker 2: are are ones that could be open here soon.
Speaker 8: This is a weird year, Ryan, because normally there's a
Speaker 8: lot more jobs open, and I think a lot of
Speaker 8: the Power Conference schools have been afraid to fire their
Speaker 8: coaches because you've got revenue sharing with the players coming
Speaker 8: next year, so that you're gonna have to devote millions
Speaker 8: of dollars to that. You don't want to pay these buys.
Speaker 8: Some of the buyots have gotten so ridiculous that they're
Speaker 8: they're almost prohibitive, like Kentucky and Mark Stoops don't seem
Speaker 8: to be on the best terms right now, but they
Speaker 8: would owe him forty four million dollars within sixty days. Like,
Speaker 8: he ain't going anywhere if he doesn't want to go somewhere,
Speaker 8: right So, like the best jobs open right now are
Speaker 8: North Carolina, Perdue, UCF in West Virginia, and they're still
Speaker 8: looking for coaches. I think, you know some of those
Speaker 8: some of those schools are considering coaches who are coaching
Speaker 8: in championship games this weekend. So probably get a little
Speaker 8: movement on that after the weekend. But you know, I
Speaker 8: think everybody's looking at Columbus right now. Obviously, Ryan Day's
Speaker 8: in the playoff. He's not going anywhere. I don't think
Speaker 8: Ohio State is firing Ryan Day. But Ryan Day has
Speaker 8: a Michigan problem, and he has to decide what to
Speaker 8: do going forward once this season ends. About that Michigan problem,
Speaker 8: I'm guessing that he just wants to try to fix it,
Speaker 8: but you got to be careful because he's varying very
Speaker 8: dangerously into John Cooper territory right now.
Speaker 2: It's so strange, it's so strange how that game transpired
Speaker 2: on Saturday. I mean, I watched it in a I
Speaker 2: covered I called the Oregon Michigan game earlier in the year,
Speaker 2: and yeah, and they played pretty good at times, but
Speaker 2: it didn't matter.
Speaker 3: O High State.
Speaker 2: I watched the High State Oregon game as well, and
Speaker 2: that's a completely different football team in terms of mindset
Speaker 2: and coaching.
Speaker 8: What was shocking to me is Ohio State tried to
Speaker 8: meet Michigan on its own terms. Like why meet Michigan
Speaker 8: on Michigan's terms? Dictate the terms? Like you have Jeremiah Smith,
Speaker 8: who is the best wide receiver in the country. He
Speaker 8: might be well he's not yet, but in a few
Speaker 8: years he will be the best wide receiver in the world. Like,
Speaker 8: within probably four years year two in the NFL, he
Speaker 8: will be the best wide receiver in the world. They
Speaker 8: targeted him twice. Yeah, Like, do the things that you're
Speaker 8: good at. Don't try to beat Michigan in its own game.
Speaker 2: It just it's dumbfounding to me. I'd be remiss if
Speaker 2: having you on you and I talking about our friend
Speaker 2: Trevor Moat. Oh, yeah, you wrote or co wrote the
Speaker 2: book with him. It takes what it takes and and
Speaker 2: and you know how important Trevor was to me. But
Speaker 2: but I think you would have a really unique voice
Speaker 2: in the understanding of what transpired over the last couple
Speaker 2: of years with Denver and Russell Wilson because you were intrinsically,
Speaker 2: uh taught this this neutral thinking because you had to
Speaker 2: write about it, and so the understanding of that, and
Speaker 2: I've tried to make it across that that Russell may
Speaker 2: be the best of anybody who's ever done the neutral
Speaker 2: thinking aspect of things of what him and Trevor tried
Speaker 2: to Russell.
Speaker 8: So Trevor was Russell's mental coach. Yes, cognitive but Russell
Speaker 8: Russell kind of designed a lot of this and gave
Speaker 8: a name to it, and and Trevor and I wrote
Speaker 8: it takes what it takes. And then as as Trevor
Speaker 8: was fighting cancer, we wrote getting to Neutral, which we
Speaker 8: kind of wove in the pandemic and like how because
Speaker 8: we saw a lot of people in the real world
Speaker 8: trying to have to wrestle with the stuff that that
Speaker 8: Trevor had to deal with with athletes at a different level.
Speaker 8: And it was wild watching Russell in Denver because it
Speaker 8: was like, if I think, if Trevor we're able to
Speaker 8: talk to him and able to They were able to
Speaker 8: talk about thinking neutrally and how to deal with these situations.
Speaker 8: I think it would have gone better. But I do
Speaker 8: feel like when I hear uss talk when I see
Speaker 8: him playing in Pittsburgh, that he's getting back to.
Speaker 3: That now well, and he tried trying to watch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he tried to compartmentalize, and I think a lot
Speaker 2: of times when you are in that neutral thinking, because
Speaker 2: this is also the logic that I used with the
Speaker 2: way Trevor worked with me. You know, once I walked
Speaker 2: out of prison ten years ago, and I would be
Speaker 2: nowhere I am today if it weren't for him and
Speaker 2: what he did for me. But you know, Russell can
Speaker 2: come off like a simulation sometimes and it's just because
Speaker 2: it's this. It's it's this maintaining a certain thing, and
Speaker 2: he's the best that that's done it. And I just
Speaker 2: thought that would you know, I'm usually the one talking
Speaker 2: about it when I come on and talk about Russell,
Speaker 2: and you wrote the book with Trevor and you were
Speaker 2: perfectly situated to talk about it.
Speaker 8: I am so glad you brought that up, because it's
Speaker 8: it's one of those things and I was going back
Speaker 8: through it takes what it takes in getting in a
Speaker 8: neutral the other day because I think about Trevor a lot,
Speaker 8: and that stuff has helped me so much in my
Speaker 8: own life, just raising kids, you know, doing doing the
Speaker 8: things you have to do to live life. And for
Speaker 8: those who don't know, neutral thinking is a basically, you know,
Speaker 8: the power of positive thinking, very popular book, a motivational speaker.
Speaker 8: It's not positive. We just don't allow negative thoughts ever
Speaker 8: to enter our mind. It's basically you don't allow negative thoughts.
Speaker 8: You don't verbalize negative thoughts. You just say, hey, here's
Speaker 8: what I know, here's what I can.
Speaker 3: Do, this is what I can You'd be yeah, you'd be.
Speaker 8: Shocked how much easier it makes life if that's how
Speaker 8: you're thinking.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it changed my life, bro. I mean,
Speaker 2: you've gotten to know me. You know, you met me
Speaker 2: eight years ago. Nine years ago we covered the Clemson
Speaker 2: Alabama game together down in uh in uh Santa Clara.
Speaker 3: I just I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't let anything negative creep into my mind. And
Speaker 2: it's hard, you know, especially with with the way the
Speaker 2: way the world works, and they want to uh talk
Speaker 2: to you about your life, you know, and so and
Speaker 2: for Russell to do that, and I think that that
Speaker 2: got lost a little bit in Denver, and I think
Speaker 2: we're just giving it given some context. You know, everybody
Speaker 2: in Pittsburgh has seen and and what it's come from.
Speaker 8: But I just thought I would would put that out.
Speaker 8: It's fun to watch like that. Yeah, that whole situation
Speaker 8: has been fascinating. The justin feels to Russ and all
Speaker 8: look at that. So, Russ, that's like a Jack Lambert, Russell,
Speaker 8: Wilson Dursey.
Speaker 2: So Russ sent me uh uh away and home Jersey
Speaker 2: this year and I couldn't. I couldn't breakhim out until
Speaker 2: he got healthy. And I was just like, because I
Speaker 2: think I might have been the only one that actually
Speaker 2: said that this is a super Bowl team with a
Speaker 2: confident quarterback at play.
Speaker 3: So we'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 8: Let's get George Picktens out of control first.
Speaker 2: But well, you know, George Pickens is the talent of
Speaker 2: Antonio Brown in the eyes of Mike Tomlin. And if
Speaker 2: I've talked to him before, and it's like, you know,
Speaker 2: the talent when it becomes an issue where it got
Speaker 2: to with Antonio Brown and I had to ship him
Speaker 2: out that's that's when it until that time, the talent
Speaker 2: is so overwhelming for everybody.
Speaker 3: That's that's why they were putting up with it.
Speaker 8: And Mike Tom is the one guy you trust to
Speaker 8: get that out of it.
Speaker 2: And I trust it, and I trust it and because
Speaker 2: I know that he knows when it's over, he'll pull
Speaker 2: the pluck and he has and that's why he's still
Speaker 2: the coach and why everybody trusts.
Speaker 3: Him and stuff like that. So I could talk to
Speaker 3: you all day, man. I miss you, brother. It's good
Speaker 3: to see you. Thanks for hopping on with us today.
Speaker 8: Thank you, Ryan, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Yep, good to see you. Andy Staples.
Speaker 2: Everybody talking a little college football. I mean he he
Speaker 2: makes some good points around the idea of, you know,
Speaker 2: the college conference games this weekend. We've talked about it
Speaker 2: earlier Seton. I mean, really, what's the point in SMU
Speaker 2: playing this game? They could move up a couple spots,
Speaker 2: maybe a spot for them they're in right now.
Speaker 6: Set How long do you think we last in this
Speaker 6: current iteration of college football exactly the way it's set
Speaker 6: up this year? How long do you think this lasts
Speaker 6: this year?
Speaker 3: Next year?
Speaker 6: And then what do you think the changes. You go
Speaker 6: to fourteen teams, No.
Speaker 2: You go to the National Collegiate Football League.
Speaker 3: Do you think that quick?
Speaker 2: Yep, because that's when the media rights deal is up
Speaker 2: with the college football Playoff.
Speaker 6: It's the only thing that is making more and more sense.
Speaker 2: You put it aside and you make it what it is,
Speaker 2: the National Collegiate Football League, eighteen to twenty two teams
Speaker 2: in each conference, NFL model, you go, you have a
Speaker 2: czar at the top commissioner. I would recommend Nick Saban,
Speaker 2: you regulatory around transfers and portal and anil. That's that's
Speaker 2: a separate entity away. It's hard to predict because they're
Speaker 2: still on college campuses. That's what's so foreign to me
Speaker 2: with this, guys, is the fact that they're still on
Speaker 2: college campuses. Like these are student athletes still, like they
Speaker 2: have to they have to qualify to get into school,
Speaker 2: but they're the professionals on the football part of the campus.
Speaker 3: It's just it's just so odd.
Speaker 2: And and I'm not poo pooing any of it, Like
Speaker 2: I want every player for their worth to be paid,
Speaker 2: their worth for name, image and likeness, for what they
Speaker 2: bring to the university and everything that I want that.
Speaker 2: So it's just it's just a different model. And so yeah,
Speaker 2: I anticipate that what's going to really be beneficial. And
Speaker 2: you know, this is maybe just tooting in the PAC
Speaker 2: twelve horn here and Teresa Gould the commissioner, something that
Speaker 2: her two predecessors could never have done and seen forward
Speaker 2: thinking wise, they kept the PAC twelve brand. Guess what
Speaker 2: teams are going to be coming back because they are
Speaker 2: not going to be in the nowtional Collegiate Football League
Speaker 2: because they can't afford to be.
Speaker 3: So teams that were.
Speaker 2: In the PAC twelve they're gonna be coming back. And
Speaker 2: guess who's gonna hold the cards on whether you get
Speaker 2: back into the PAC twelve conference? Washington State, Oregon State
Speaker 2: and in Teresa goul So there you have it, Andy Staples,
Speaker 2: that was great. We're gonna come back for our last
Speaker 2: segment here on The Dan Patrick Show. We'll break down
Speaker 2: everything leading into the Packers and Lions game tonight, as
Speaker 2: well as recap all that went down today right here
Speaker 2: on The Dan Patrick Show.
Speaker 3: We'll be right back.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back everybody to the Dan Patrick Show. Ryan Leaf
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Speaker 2: So we have a few minutes left in the show.
Speaker 2: Anybody who's watched the Dan Patrick Show knows that I've
Speaker 2: been as staple for many different reasons.
Speaker 3: Right, there was a span where it.
Speaker 2: Was much ado about nothing to you know, the trials
Speaker 2: and tribulations that I went through. But ten years ago,
Speaker 2: it was about a year out we were at the
Speaker 2: San Francisco super Bowl. Was at Super Bowl fifth I
Speaker 2: believe it was my now wife and I drove up
Speaker 2: from Los Angeles to go to the nflpa's Player Care
Speaker 2: Foundation medical evaluations. They offered free medical evaluations to former players,
Speaker 2: most of which guys may have not had physicals for years.
Speaker 2: And me being a prison and doing what I did
Speaker 2: to my body for as long as I did, I
Speaker 2: had no idea what I was like. I didn't know
Speaker 2: where I needed to go to get healthy, and so
Speaker 2: I went in to do that. That's why I went
Speaker 2: to that Super Bowl. I went up there because they
Speaker 2: offered those at those sites for those big events. As
Speaker 2: I was in the hotel, it was the hotel that
Speaker 2: we were doing the checkups in with the doctors, I
Speaker 2: ran across Paul Pabst.
Speaker 3: In the hallway.
Speaker 2: Now listen, Paul and I and as well as Seaton
Speaker 2: and Andrew Perlof and Fritzy We've known each other for years,
Speaker 2: pre prison, post prison everything, and PAULI just simply said, hey,
Speaker 2: you know, you know told in your hands if you
Speaker 2: want to come on talk to about where you're at.
Speaker 3: And I was just I didn't know.
Speaker 2: I talked to the people that I cared about, the
Speaker 2: mentors and things like that, and they just they said
Speaker 2: something that spoke volumes to me, and I didn't understand
Speaker 2: it at the time. Really said, you are a lighthouse
Speaker 2: and you don't see lighthouses running around the harbor looking
Speaker 2: for boats. And I didn't understand what that meant. And
Speaker 2: then you understand, especially living in the Northeast now, lighthouses
Speaker 2: are rooted in the rocks, in the foundation, Okay, and
Speaker 2: you just you shine a light and you provide a
Speaker 2: safe harbor for somebody if they may need it. And
Speaker 2: that's all this was. It's a little snippet, it's a minute,
Speaker 2: but here's from Super Bowl fifty in San Francisco down
Speaker 2: in the marina with Dan and the dan Nants and
Speaker 2: myself and my first public statements since walking out of
Speaker 2: a prison cell.
Speaker 9: It's great to see you. You look great, you brought
Speaker 9: your girlfriend. Looks like you got life in order here, right?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Today I do.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 9: If you were going to recap the last four years
Speaker 9: for somebody who had no idea about Ryan leave, how
Speaker 9: would you recap four years?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: Interesting, I have a lot of life experience. Even more
Speaker 2: added on to all this I think that four years
Speaker 2: ago I got sick, and when I got sick, I
Speaker 2: got offered pain medication from the doctor, and I never
Speaker 2: told them that I had a previous problem. I just
Speaker 2: had to do radiation for a brain tumor, and I
Speaker 2: just assumed that, you know what, everybody else gets to
Speaker 2: do this when they're feeling this, but I can't. I
Speaker 2: can never take one. And they gave me those pills
Speaker 2: December one, twenty twelve, and by March thirtieth, two thousand
Speaker 2: or December one, twenty elevel, by March thirtieth, twenty twelve,
Speaker 2: I was in a jail cell. So it took four
Speaker 2: months for everything to go away.
Speaker 8: Wow.
Speaker 2: I look different, I even sound a little different. But
Speaker 2: it was simply just telling my story, and I think
Speaker 2: that was the foundation of what my mentors were talking
Speaker 2: to me about. I had no idea that that day
Speaker 2: would would spin what it looks like now. Right there's
Speaker 2: a lot of water under the bridge in terms of
Speaker 2: like because I didn't want to be in the public
Speaker 2: eye anymore. I thought I could go and be of
Speaker 2: service to other people and then just kind of disappear.
Speaker 2: But the Dan Patrick Show exists. My name doesn't disappear,
Speaker 2: all right. The draft happens every year, especially when they
Speaker 2: take six first round draft picks in the same season.
Speaker 2: You know, that's that's what happens. So I had to
Speaker 2: figure out a way to take that power back. One
Speaker 2: was meeting Trevor Moad and making sure that I didn't
Speaker 2: allow negative thoughts into my brain anymore, and that shifted
Speaker 2: and changed. Marvin didn't didn't know me. Then he's come
Speaker 2: on board after Andrew left, but Fritzi and.
Speaker 3: Seaton have and.
Speaker 2: I mean from you guys knew me previously to that
Speaker 2: moment to where we are now and just your thoughts
Speaker 2: about this incredibly grateful life that I get to get
Speaker 2: to offer seating.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, it's interesting that clip. You can hear uh,
Speaker 6: I mean you can see obviously a physical change. You
Speaker 6: could see too.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 6: You're uncomfortable and you can hear that You're not confident yet.
Speaker 6: You know that's the big difference. You're You're infinitely more
Speaker 6: confident sitting here today than you were. That guy right there,
Speaker 6: that guy is like a baby, you know, the guy
Speaker 6: that was just talking. He's like a pump.
Speaker 3: That that guy.
Speaker 2: That guy, that guy hasn't been in the public eye,
Speaker 2: you know, for I don't know how long in that picture.
Speaker 2: This is, this will, this will, this will, this will
Speaker 2: be crazy. But I'm more confident now as a human
Speaker 2: being with all the baggage that exists, and I ever
Speaker 2: was in as an NFL quarterback. So thank you to
Speaker 2: the listener, thank you to Dan Patrick, Thank you to
Speaker 2: you guys for carrying me and always being there for me.
Speaker 3: Dad, We'll be back tomorrow. Oh love you all.
Speaker 4: Thanks