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Speaker 1: Initially he had said that no Titans players for the
Speaker 1: first time in seven days, had no negative tests this morning,
Speaker 1: and I said, nah, I think Chefty needs to say
Speaker 1: that they had no positive tests this morning, because if
Speaker 1: they had no negative tests, then the Titans aren't going
Speaker 1: to be playing for a couple of weeks. So, for
Speaker 1: the first time in seven days, the Titans had no
Speaker 1: positive test this morning. They're still doubt about their game
Speaker 1: next week against Buffalo. But until recently the league seemed
Speaker 1: to be in pretty good shape. And now they're basically
Speaker 1: in the same boat with Major League Baseball. And that
Speaker 1: was a couple of months ago when Baseball with the
Speaker 1: Cardinals in the Marlins, had a couple of positive tests
Speaker 1: and the first challenges controlling the virus. You got a
Speaker 1: steady stream of positive tests, and the Titans showed how
Speaker 1: difficult it can be if teams can contain the outbreaks
Speaker 1: and they have to figure out how to schedule around
Speaker 1: the virus. And it's a little easier than baseball. There's
Speaker 1: no double headers in football. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: you can add weeks to the end of the regular season.
Speaker 1: Here's a problem. And here's the scenario that was pointed
Speaker 1: out presented to me yesterday, because people are saying, well,
Speaker 1: if the Titans can play next week, then you know,
Speaker 1: can you move the regular season back a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks to get in all the games. They said, well,
Speaker 1: let's say you're the Kansas City Chiefs, you're the number
Speaker 1: one seed, and then you have to wait until an
Speaker 1: X number of weeks until you can play your first
Speaker 1: playoff game. That's going to mean something, and you know
Speaker 1: it's not fair if you're going to go, Hey, let's
Speaker 1: say you have three or four teams that have to
Speaker 1: make up two games each, so you add a week
Speaker 1: eighteen in a week nineteen to make sure that they
Speaker 1: are able to play those games. But if you're somebody
Speaker 1: who has the best record in AFC or NFC, then
Speaker 1: you're going to have to wait almost a month to
Speaker 1: play your first playoff game. There'd be the bye week
Speaker 1: and then you know you'd play your first game, and
Speaker 1: that's not fair to them either. It's a little tricky.
Speaker 1: Right now, you can move the super Bowl back, but
Speaker 1: I think you know we're gonna have to wait and
Speaker 1: just you know it's going to happen in real time
Speaker 1: where we go, Okay, they have to do that. Now.
Speaker 1: I think you can speculate here in week four, but
Speaker 1: it's dangerous to do that because I don't know how
Speaker 1: many teams are going to have a situation like Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: and Tennessee had. I'm gonna guess we'll have another situation
Speaker 1: like this, but you don't know when, you don't know
Speaker 1: how big, and you don't know if it would be
Speaker 1: just one team or not. This year's tested every league's
Speaker 1: ability to think outside the box. The NBA and NHL
Speaker 1: had great successes, but they were in the bubble. Baseball
Speaker 1: started slow, found kind of its groove, and the NFL
Speaker 1: has been basically like a giant cruise ship on the ocean,
Speaker 1: although that's probably not the best analogy to use during
Speaker 1: these times. It takes a long time to make a turn,
Speaker 1: but they don't have that luxury right now. So you've
Speaker 1: got to make sure that you're gonna be buttoned up
Speaker 1: as you head in. I thought week eight, Week nine,
Speaker 1: week ten, maybe that's where players get a little more lax.
Speaker 1: Or if your team's out of the playoffs, out of
Speaker 1: the playoff chase, you might have that. But that's what
Speaker 1: was told to me when this season started, that it'll happen.
Speaker 1: The NFL was prepared for this. They weren't prepared that
Speaker 1: it was going to happen. You in week three or
Speaker 1: Week four, eight, seven, seven, three d P show will
Speaker 1: get to your phone calls best and worst of the weekend,
Speaker 1: as we always do. Once again, the Miami Heat picking
Speaker 1: up a big win last night. Maybe it's just their
Speaker 1: one moment here, but Jimmy Butler was as great as
Speaker 1: you could possibly be, not only offensively but defensively. And
Speaker 1: here's a number to always keep in mind when it
Speaker 1: comes to when you're watching the Los Angeles Lakers. If
Speaker 1: they are going to shoot less than thirty three percent
Speaker 1: from the floor from three point range, they don't win.
Speaker 1: They are undefeated in the bubble when they shoot better
Speaker 1: than thirty three percent from the floor. Here is a
Speaker 1: troubling number that I had last night because I wanted
Speaker 1: to know where Anthony Davis was. Anthony Davis took nine
Speaker 1: shots the entire game. At thirty three minutes, he shot
Speaker 1: two free throws. I'll give Miami some credit, but that
Speaker 1: feels like the Lakers fell in love with the three.
Speaker 1: Mark Keith Morris attempted more three pointers eleven than Anthony
Speaker 1: Davis attempted total shots nine. If an alarm doesn't go
Speaker 1: off when that happens, then there's a real concern. But
Speaker 1: I will say, Jimmy Butler, that's exactly what you want.
Speaker 1: He basically said, we're not losing this game. And I
Speaker 1: love the exchange that he had. First quarter, Lebron had
Speaker 1: this to say to Jimmy Butler. First, I just wanted
Speaker 1: to clarify. It looked like you said you're in trouble.
Speaker 1: Is that what you said? I said, Okay, we not
Speaker 1: go him just out there talking trash for him, not Bro,
Speaker 1: I said at the end of the first that's what happened.
Speaker 1: I just said it to him in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. It was great. Just
Speaker 1: you know, hey, put up, shut up, and Lebron, stay
Speaker 1: on the floor. Ten seconds left. You're not bigger than
Speaker 1: the game. Stay on the floor. Be professional. I don't
Speaker 1: care how mad you are. However, you know, angry you
Speaker 1: are ten seconds isn't gonna make it worse. Might make
Speaker 1: it better if you walk into the locker room. But
Speaker 1: he was not in any cheerful mood, although he did
Speaker 1: acknowledge Jimmy Butler's greatness after the game. I thought Jimmy
Speaker 1: was phenomenal. You know, he did everything that they needed
Speaker 1: for him to do tonight, and he came through a
Speaker 1: big time in a big time game. One of the
Speaker 1: best competitors were having our game. We love that opportunity.
Speaker 1: So for me personal, I don't know how many more
Speaker 1: opportunities on behalf. So, you know, to be able to
Speaker 1: go against a fierce competitor like that is something I'll
Speaker 1: look back on when I'm down playing. But like miss
Speaker 1: those moments. Yeah, you might look back on that moment
Speaker 1: of just how great he was and then move on
Speaker 1: and make sure it doesn't happen the next game. That'd
Speaker 1: be my advice. Yeah, when I'm all set and done,
Speaker 1: I'll look back on that moment. Nah, I'd look back
Speaker 1: on that moment right now and make sure it doesn't
Speaker 1: happen again. But Butler wanted Lebron. He got Lebron and
Speaker 1: lived to tell about it, and Lebron put up some
Speaker 1: decent numbers there by the way. I was looking for
Speaker 1: a positive sign with my Cowboys and Ethan, our stats guy.
Speaker 1: You guys are aware of Ethan, right, Yeah, so Ethan,
Speaker 1: he said, I'll try to come up with something. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys had the easiest remaining schedule in the NFL. Their
Speaker 1: remaining opponents have a three seven and two winning percentage.
Speaker 1: So there is hope there for the Cowboys. Somebody has
Speaker 1: to win the NFC East. I check with the NFL.
Speaker 1: They do have to give the NFC East to somebody
Speaker 1: this year. Now, if you're looking at how bad their
Speaker 1: opponents are, look at the Giants, look at Washington. Eagles
Speaker 1: did get a win last night. But Cowboys. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they can get any defense anytime soon. But boy,
Speaker 1: just do whatever you want. Run the football you can throw.
Speaker 1: That's a good place to pick up your stats a
Speaker 1: little bit there. Yeah, Paul has a seven and nine
Speaker 1: team ever won a division and made the playoffs? Well,
Speaker 1: didn't this Saints? Yeah, the Seahawks beat the Saints right
Speaker 1: with the Marshawn Lynch rumble. Wasn't one of those teams
Speaker 1: seven and seven and nine? How about this for a
Speaker 1: new rule. If a team wins a division at seven
Speaker 1: and nine, that division loses their playoff spot and it
Speaker 1: goes to a while the next person in line to
Speaker 1: get the wild card, next team in line to get
Speaker 1: the wild card, Well, they should never give a seven
Speaker 1: and nine team who wins the division a home playoff game.
Speaker 1: Even more so, that's the big problem because you're seven
Speaker 1: and nine and you won your division. Therefore you get
Speaker 1: to host a playoff game. Yes, mclemen, there's no doubt
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys are hosting the LA Rams. Then let's
Speaker 1: this Sunday four o'clock games in the in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I think this isn't even There's no way the Eagles
Speaker 1: have enough healthy bodies that would be a rematch to
Speaker 1: the Michael Gallup push off. Ooh, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't yeah, you know, I don't think you're selling it
Speaker 1: that way. We'll rematch, but it's it pushed off on
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey. The Texans and Bills will also play on
Speaker 1: that Saturday, even though the Texans are But is there
Speaker 1: any way the Eagles still have enough healthy buy they
Speaker 1: lost four to five? Oh alignment, nobody? How much have
Speaker 1: to win this division? Right? Nobody cares McLevin about the NFC. Easy,
Speaker 1: they don't care about the Eagles. Nobody. Oh, come on,
Speaker 1: everyone cares about Nobody cares about them, guys. I think
Speaker 1: that there isn't a single NFL teams are all national.
Speaker 1: There's not a single There's nothing regional about the Browns
Speaker 1: or the Eagles. The Bengals are regional there. Jacksonville is regional.
Speaker 1: The Bengals used to be regional, but then they got
Speaker 1: a quarterback who everyone knows because of last year. By
Speaker 1: the way, update the poll results there. Polly was right.
Speaker 1: You can have one under twenty five quarterback. Who you
Speaker 1: have and the choices wore Lamar Jackson, Kyler Murray, Josh Allen.
Speaker 1: Just tell me it was Joe Burrow. Joe Burrow number one,
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Josh Allen number two, then Justin Herbert, then
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, then Kyler Murray. So the reigning MVP unanimous
Speaker 1: MVP is fourth on this list. By the way, he's
Speaker 1: younger than Joe Burrow. Yea, Burrow is older than Jackson
Speaker 1: two h oh, I know, yeah, by Burrow better get
Speaker 1: used to throwing touchdowns at getting offensive holding on it.
Speaker 1: That is the Bengals are gonna kill him. It's not him,
Speaker 1: it's the Bengals. If they don't start enforcing holding, you're
Speaker 1: gonna have five, six, seven quarterbacks throw for you know,
Speaker 1: over five thousand yards fifty five hundred yards, throw for
Speaker 1: more than thirty touchdowns. I mean, it's it's pretty crazy
Speaker 1: when you think about it. There are thirteen quarterbacks right now.
Speaker 1: On pace to throw at least thirty touchdown passes this season.
Speaker 1: How many through for at least thirty touchdowns last year?
Speaker 1: If you answered four, you would be correct. Doesn't that
Speaker 1: seem low? I mean it used to be if you
Speaker 1: got to thirty, that was an unbelievable year. But that
Speaker 1: was back in the eighties. Now it feels like you
Speaker 1: got to throw for thirty touchdowns. Yeah, Polly, it feels.
Speaker 1: It's obvious that the NFL has told the refs not
Speaker 1: to call offensive holding this year. It's I think it
Speaker 1: was down fifty to six percent through the first month
Speaker 1: of the season. But look at what we're not talking
Speaker 1: about with the NFL referee calls and lack of offense.
Speaker 1: We're talking about crazy offense and we're barely talking about
Speaker 1: refs at all the first month. Yeah, that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: Here's another one of those, and I, of course, I
Speaker 1: guess I apologize for thinking the Miami Dolphins, with ten
Speaker 1: days to prepare for Russell Wilson Junior the third traveling
Speaker 1: cross country a banged up team, don't bet on my picks.
Speaker 1: That's the best advice I can tell. You are bad
Speaker 1: against him if you want to. But I forgot that
Speaker 1: this was October, not September. And mister September, Ryan Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: is not good in October, and they couldn't score touchdowns
Speaker 1: and the Seahawks ended up winning that game. Now here's
Speaker 1: another thing that you know, we'll talk about this tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Probably I don't understand, you know how Vegas views these games.
Speaker 1: You got Atlanta and green Bay they're playing tonight. Atlanta
Speaker 1: and green Bay had the first and twelfth worst scoring
Speaker 1: defenses in the NFL. The average points in a Packers
Speaker 1: game this year is sixty nine. The average points in
Speaker 1: a Falcons game this year is sixty six. Why is
Speaker 1: the over under at fifty six and a half points?
Speaker 1: Then one of the six games played by either team
Speaker 1: this year ended with less than sixty three points scored,
Speaker 1: and that was Bears Falcons last week. This is why
Speaker 1: I don't bet because if you said Falcons, Matt Ryan,
Speaker 1: that got a good offense, Calvin Ridley's played well, Packers
Speaker 1: at home fifty six and a half points? Are they
Speaker 1: screaming now, don't bet on this? By the way, do
Speaker 1: not this entertainment purposes only? Aren't they screaming to take
Speaker 1: the over tonight? Right? It feels like that yeah mclub,
Speaker 1: which means it won't hit right because when it's that obvious,
Speaker 1: it's a sucker badger way. That's the feeling I have.
Speaker 1: But I don't know. I've heard the overs Vegas having
Speaker 1: trouble setting. The O is the word on this street, right,
Speaker 1: everything's going way over this year. By way, the DeVante
Speaker 1: Adams out for the Packers. Ridley and Julio Jones both questionable.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, so maybe that's why. But even so, it
Speaker 1: could be it could be Peter King supplying some of
Speaker 1: those stats. Theresable means playing by the way and pretty
Speaker 1: much pretty much. Let me see Benjamin in Tennessee. We'll
Speaker 1: check in with the Patriots coming up here. Hey Benjamin,
Speaker 1: Hey Dan, Um, I got the best worst free of
Speaker 1: this today? All right, um, My best of the weekend
Speaker 1: is the game that some of your other colors have
Speaker 1: been uh digging on is the Colts versus the Bears.
Speaker 1: Big Colts fans, so nice to see us beat a
Speaker 1: pretty solid defense there. The Colts and the ANFC South
Speaker 1: boring because they have no deef or they have all
Speaker 1: the defense, and they don't have high scoring games. And
Speaker 1: that's why Dallas and the NFC East is the exciting division.
Speaker 1: I did you fade out about halfway in kind of yeah,
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure where we were going there. The FC
Speaker 1: is tough. Yeah, that's why the AFC South is so boring.
Speaker 1: It's hard to put your finger on it. But I
Speaker 1: relate to that about being boring the South, like all
Speaker 1: they're they're you know, when you're flipping through it's Sunday
Speaker 1: one o'clock, it's like, oh, they're the cults flip Titans.
Speaker 1: I'm a little I'm a little more curious about the Titans,
Speaker 1: just their whole game plan. Not really you're saying, you're
Speaker 1: right now. I know Nashville. They always get mad at me.
Speaker 1: You don't like us, And it's not nothing. Don't take
Speaker 1: it personally, didetically aesthetically, it's you know, it just leaves
Speaker 1: a little bit to be desired. Yes, that's a big
Speaker 1: loss by the Jacks. They gotta be pumped up about that.
Speaker 1: They're back in the they're back in business. For drag.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know they played yesterday and you come
Speaker 1: in going, man, Jacksonville, but that was bad, and I go, wait,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? Like that was a bad loss? There,
Speaker 1: but they were, they were beating the Bengals. The Bengals
Speaker 1: can't make a mistakes. And then I just noticed the
Speaker 1: Bengals were playing. I didn't notice Jacksonville was playing. And
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, mccleman's off the Gardner Minshoe bandwagon.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's not happening. And then didn't you tell me that, hey,
Speaker 1: they're not tanking, And I go, they're eventually they're gonna
Speaker 1: be tanking. But those New York teams are gonna be
Speaker 1: tough to knock off. Yeah, I don't. The Giants, though,
Speaker 1: did play hard. I mean they made that competitive. But
Speaker 1: the Jets are their Jets are dreadful. And Washington, poor
Speaker 1: Ron Rivera battling cancer treatment, getting an IV at halftime,
Speaker 1: and you know, if you go through that, you get nauseous. Normally,
Speaker 1: he doesn't need that to get nauseous. He can just
Speaker 1: go out there and watch his team and get nauseous.
Speaker 1: But uh, heroic effort by him, not by his team. Yeah, McLeman,
Speaker 1: what are you hearing about Giants quarterback Daniel Jones? That
Speaker 1: he's better than I think what people look at. You
Speaker 1: know when you look at the numbers there, that he
Speaker 1: is better than what the optics are. But I don't
Speaker 1: know if I don't see it yet, and I don't
Speaker 1: know if we're gonna see it this year. But let's
Speaker 1: put it this way. If the Giants are on the
Speaker 1: clock and you have Joe Judge, who this is his
Speaker 1: first year there, does he want to get his quarterback
Speaker 1: in there? If you can take Trevor Lawrence? Like, how
Speaker 1: many teams would take Trevor Lawrence right now? Washington with
Speaker 1: Dwayne Hans yes, Jets with Sam Darnold yes, Giants, Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones yes, Jags Gardner Minshoe yes. Who else would be
Speaker 1: on that list? The Bengals are not taking Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 1: at Atlanta would take Trevor Lawrence. If Houston keeps losing,
Speaker 1: you still have Deshaun Watson and you just signed him up,
Speaker 1: So Houston will Houston will make it respectable this year?
Speaker 1: I don't think they're in the same boat. They've had
Speaker 1: a pretty tough schedule. Yeah, but Houston has Jacksonville twice
Speaker 1: in the next month. He could either go very well
Speaker 1: or horrendous. Because they have Tennessee in Green Bay in
Speaker 1: that window as well, it could go horrendously. How about
Speaker 1: Fritzie's Broncos with the injuries at quarterback. Yeah, maybe if
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrences and you got Drew Luck. Drew Luck was
Speaker 1: his second round pick. Yeah, wait, it's your team. I
Speaker 1: didn't memorize what round Pickie was. I think he was
Speaker 1: a second I never professed to know every single thing
Speaker 1: about the history of the Broncos. I bring up a
Speaker 1: topic you should know something about, and you say, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know everything about it. I will say that
Speaker 1: we haven't seen enough of Drew Locke to either give
Speaker 1: up on him. Or do you want me to bring
Speaker 1: up onion bagels? Yeah, yeah, bring up something that you're
Speaker 1: an expert in. I think Drew Locke was the second
Speaker 1: round Drew is right, Okay, that's correct, all right. Thanks
Speaker 1: see not my team, I know, yeah, I should know
Speaker 1: that off the top. Thank you. All right, Well, take
Speaker 1: a break. Check in with the Patriots not a bad
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Speaker 1: phone calls coming up best and worst to the weekend.
Speaker 1: Once you saw that you liked, you didn't like? I
Speaker 1: just saw this from Mark Stein. NBA insider John Lucas
Speaker 1: is emerging as a candidate with the Rockets as they
Speaker 1: continue to look for a new head coach. He was
Speaker 1: part of the Rockets player development coaches with Mike d'antoni's
Speaker 1: staff in the past four seasons. Has strong working relationships
Speaker 1: with James Harden and Russell Westbrook. It's nice to have
Speaker 1: a great relationship. Can you help Russell with his jump shot? Like?
Speaker 1: That's what I would want to know. Hey, you got
Speaker 1: a strong relationship with him? Can you help him shoot?
Speaker 1: All right, we'll get to our best and worst of
Speaker 1: the weekend coming up. Mike Reas, ESPN NFL Nation reporter
Speaker 1: covering the Patriots and also an analyst for ESPN Boston
Speaker 1: dot Com, kind enough to join us here, Mike, good morning,
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. How would you sum up the
Speaker 1: last couple of days with the Patriots. Wow. You know,
Speaker 1: for the players, Dan, totally topsy turvy. I think Saturday,
Speaker 1: they get the word that Cam Newton had tested positive
Speaker 1: for COVID nineteen and a lot of questions and a
Speaker 1: lot of concerns. You know, I would say it highlights
Speaker 1: to me the humans side of the game. You know, Initially,
Speaker 1: some of the players that I had communicated with said,
Speaker 1: we're really going to go forward and play this game?
Speaker 1: Is it worth the risk of doing so? And I
Speaker 1: think as we talk right now, maybe there's been a
Speaker 1: little more acceptance among some of the players just to
Speaker 1: move forward as time has passed a little bit. As
Speaker 1: Cam's spoken, he hasn't. He just posted something on Instagram
Speaker 1: yesterday afternoon just saying thank you for the love and
Speaker 1: support and that he's going to take this time to
Speaker 1: get healthy. And that's really all we've heard from Cam.
Speaker 1: Why Brian Hoyer not Jared Stidham tonight? Terrific question? And
Speaker 1: really after all off season we've been talking how Jared
Speaker 1: Stidham at the inside track right to be Tom Brady's
Speaker 1: heir apparent. And let's say two things, Dan, you know,
Speaker 1: the first thing when Cam came in July eighth, that
Speaker 1: was like a last minute type thing, and it was
Speaker 1: sort of clear like it was going to be Cam
Speaker 1: as long as it didn't go sideways. But really everyone
Speaker 1: thought Jarrett would be the number two and everything changed
Speaker 1: for him the fourth day of training camp. He went
Speaker 1: to a Boston hospital for tests on his leg and
Speaker 1: the tests came back negative. But when he was on
Speaker 1: the field for the next practice, his reps were really
Speaker 1: diminished and it sort of went from a three picture
Speaker 1: quarterback snapshot to just two. And Stidham never really developed
Speaker 1: any momentum after that and never really made a charge
Speaker 1: to sort of change the team's mind that he should
Speaker 1: be the number two guys. So I think the experience
Speaker 1: of Howyer here is something they're a little more comfortable
Speaker 1: with after that sort of change the fourth day of
Speaker 1: training camp and also going on the road, you'd probably
Speaker 1: want to go with a veteran leadership with Hoyer. But
Speaker 1: how are the travel arrangements different for the Patriots for
Speaker 1: this game as opposed to a normal game? Well, how
Speaker 1: about a twenty two hour work day. That's basically what
Speaker 1: they're looking at. Check this out. They woke up this
Speaker 1: morning before the sun came up here in New England.
Speaker 1: They go to their facility to get tested. They board
Speaker 1: the buses and they head to two different airports, one
Speaker 1: in Boston, one in Providence. You get some of the
Speaker 1: players that have been in close contact or all the
Speaker 1: players that have been deemed to be in close contact
Speaker 1: with Cam on one plane going to one airport, and
Speaker 1: then the other rest of the team on another plane
Speaker 1: at a different airport. They're going to arrive at around
Speaker 1: the same time in Kansas City later this morning. They'll
Speaker 1: have about three hours at a hotel in Kansas City,
Speaker 1: then at to Arrowhead Stadium for the game hopefully put
Speaker 1: up for them, you know, a competitive performance, and then
Speaker 1: hop back on the plane and get back to Gillette Stadium,
Speaker 1: let's say three four in the morning, Eastern time, about
Speaker 1: twenty two hour work day for I'm not ideal, but
Speaker 1: something that I know at the players I've communicated with,
Speaker 1: they've sort of accepted this is the reality. Was there
Speaker 1: any pushed by the Patriots to get this a standalone
Speaker 1: game on Tuesday, Not that I have been able to
Speaker 1: discern in the people I've spoken with. In fact, if anything,
Speaker 1: they liked the idea of playing it tonight because of
Speaker 1: the turnaround. They have a home game Sunday against the Broncos,
Speaker 1: and the idea of playing Tuesday and then getting back
Speaker 1: in the middle of the night and having that short
Speaker 1: condensed time to get ready for their next game at home.
Speaker 1: I don't think was my sense, Dan was that that
Speaker 1: wasn't viewed as an ideal scenario for them. I know
Speaker 1: you've been covering this team for a long time in
Speaker 1: there every day, but I've never heard Bill Belichick talk
Speaker 1: about a player the way he has spoken about Cam Newton,
Speaker 1: like the whole month, And I wondered, if Tom Brady
Speaker 1: went a couple of years without hearing the niceties that
Speaker 1: Cam got in one month, what's the logic, Because there's
Speaker 1: always some kind of logic. It's calculated with Bill Belichick.
Speaker 1: So why the fawning over Cam Newton? Oh? I wish
Speaker 1: I had to answer, like a lot of things with
Speaker 1: this team, damn right. You know, I will say, in general,
Speaker 1: and this is probably more specific to Bill Belichick, I
Speaker 1: have personally noticed a little bit of a softening just
Speaker 1: overall this year, not just with Cam, but you know,
Speaker 1: everything that's gone on with COVID nineteen. He just lost
Speaker 1: his mother, you know, within the last month. And I
Speaker 1: think just in general, maybe the whole virtual nature of
Speaker 1: our interactions with him, it's not as much in his face,
Speaker 1: you know, and I think he feels maybe more comfortable
Speaker 1: in these interactions. And if I had to say one
Speaker 1: thing like that's probably a bunch of things, but that
Speaker 1: might be more of a factor than anything related to
Speaker 1: the whole Brady cam comparisons. And you know what, damn,
Speaker 1: maybe there's something to the idea that he's done some
Speaker 1: research with the people that have been around Cam in
Speaker 1: the past, and maybe, you know, the idea of building
Speaker 1: Cam up is something he's learned from those that have
Speaker 1: coached Cam before is a good way to go. Mike,
Speaker 1: great stuff. Has always enjoy your work on the mother
Speaker 1: Ship and thanks for joining us. We appreciate it. Thanks
Speaker 1: for having me. Dan. That's Mike Greece, ESPN NFL Nation
Speaker 1: reporter covering the Patriots. And yeah, I think it's interesting
Speaker 1: they're going with Brian Hoyer instead of Jared's did him?
Speaker 1: Because remember we thought, okay, Jared's did him, He's going
Speaker 1: to be the starting quarterback, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you didn't hear his name. When's the last time you've
Speaker 1: heard his name? It's been a long time because and
Speaker 1: then I like how Belichick was trying to be coy.
Speaker 1: I haven't named my starter yet. Uh yeah you have. Yeah,
Speaker 1: his name is Camry. We haven't name start you Yeah,
Speaker 1: but no Cam tonight. And I mean it's this a
Speaker 1: herculean task even with Cam to go on the road
Speaker 1: to be Kansas City. But you know, this is where
Speaker 1: you see what Belichick can devise. Because you've got Brian Hoyer.
Speaker 1: You're not scaring anybody, But can you come up with
Speaker 1: a game plan of trying to limit the number of
Speaker 1: times that Patrick Mahomes goes on the field. Anytime you
Speaker 1: see a great quarterback, high powered offense, you always try
Speaker 1: to So how do I take I want to take
Speaker 1: away the number of chances you have on the field.
Speaker 1: This is what the Giants famously did with Belichick's defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator against the Buffalo Bills in the Super Bowl. They
Speaker 1: knew they couldn't stop the Bills. Let's limit the number
Speaker 1: of times that they're on the field. That was the
Speaker 1: big difference there, and you know they ended up grinding
Speaker 1: it out. Defensive minded game, and you know they have
Speaker 1: the missfield goal at the end. But that's what you
Speaker 1: try to do. I want to limit you the number
Speaker 1: of opportunities. So when you get out there, it feels
Speaker 1: like you're rushing, you're forcing things because you know you're
Speaker 1: not going to get the ball back San Francisco when
Speaker 1: they run the football, they force you into this. When
Speaker 1: they're playing at a high level, they're forcing you to
Speaker 1: get on the field and make something happen. And you
Speaker 1: know you're seeing a few of these teams in the
Speaker 1: NFL do that against these potent offenses. Here, all right,
Speaker 1: a couple more phone calls here, Best and worst of
Speaker 1: the weekend? Do you guys want to give your best
Speaker 1: and worst of the weekend right now? Are you ready? Todd?
Speaker 1: Are you ready? You are ready? Yeah? Okay? Drew Locke
Speaker 1: was drafted second round. Thank you, missourion. Okay, alrighty, Best
Speaker 1: and Worst of the weekend? Todd Best the weekend just
Speaker 1: one week before the Red Rivers showdown the unranked TCU
Speaker 1: Horned Frogs upset number nine Texas the unranked Iowa State
Speaker 1: Cyclones takedown number eighteen Oklahoma Worst of the weekend, ignoring
Speaker 1: previous warnings. SMU campus police had to clear out the
Speaker 1: students section during Saturday's game against Memphis. What are they doing?
Speaker 1: A large number weren't following coronavirus protocols, mask wearing social distancing.
Speaker 1: Entire crowd gone by the time the third quarter got
Speaker 1: underweight and just put the mask on. Come on, John
Speaker 1: Gruden's gonna get fined again, man, Like he's just blatant. Hey,
Speaker 1: I got this mask. It's like a chin strap. That's
Speaker 1: not the way it works, John. If I'm the NFL,
Speaker 1: just hammer him. You know, he's already been hammered yes time.
Speaker 1: And there was a raider's coach up in the booth.
Speaker 1: I guess he kind of looked at one of the
Speaker 1: monitors and saw himself on the screen, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden he quickly put up over his mouth of notes. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm watching that TCU game, and as soon as it ends,
Speaker 1: it ends on a safety. I immediately went to over
Speaker 1: under immediately because I think it was sixty two and
Speaker 1: a half and it went over like that's a bad beat.
Speaker 1: And I don't know why I thought that, but you know,
Speaker 1: it was just one of those the random two. The
Speaker 1: randomness of it. I go, oh boy, this is gonna
Speaker 1: be bad. Yeah. I looked at the point spread and
Speaker 1: that was you know that that wasn't affected by it,
Speaker 1: but the over under, and I went, oh my god,
Speaker 1: imagine you're going, hey, got this one. Yeah, club. There
Speaker 1: was like a four minute delay to decide if it
Speaker 1: was a safety. Obviously the penalty too, So they should
Speaker 1: make betting illegal. That's good luck with that. Best and
Speaker 1: worst mccob best is obviously the duo that has carried
Speaker 1: the Eagles for so many years. Travis Fulgum with a
Speaker 1: go ahead touchdown. Then someone named Alex Singleton with the
Speaker 1: pick six, who is apparently a Canadian league all pro.
Speaker 1: I have no idea they are pulling guys off the street.
Speaker 1: My other best is North Dakota State. All right, Trey
Speaker 1: Lance going fifteen for thirty two t ds. That might
Speaker 1: get him back to college next year. See, we wondered,
Speaker 1: what's the worst case scenario here? Best cases you just
Speaker 1: reinforced that you're really quarterback and you're maybe a top ten,
Speaker 1: maybe a top five pick. He was unbelievable last year,
Speaker 1: didn't throw an interception, they went a national title. He's
Speaker 1: got size strength. They liked him to Patrick Mahomes with
Speaker 1: that kind of ability, he can run the football. And
Speaker 1: then I thought, you know what could go bad that
Speaker 1: he doesn't play great, and he didn't play great and
Speaker 1: they had to come from behind, and in Central Arkansas
Speaker 1: has played like four games this year and they were
Speaker 1: in the playoffs last year. But I don't know if
Speaker 1: that standalone game was great for him. See no counter
Speaker 1: best and worse of the weekend. But best of the
Speaker 1: weekend is the hit Jalen Ramsey had on Golden Tape
Speaker 1: that was just delicious, And not only because of how
Speaker 1: he hit Golden Tape, but because Jalen Ramsey laid out
Speaker 1: the blocker first, who absolutely ran through this other dude,
Speaker 1: sent him flying, and then got that hit on Golden Tap.
Speaker 1: Now I'm not making any commentary on like whatever feud
Speaker 1: they have going on. I'm just saying that hit was fantastic. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that hit was meant to hurt an entire That was
Speaker 1: not I want to hurt you, I want to hurt
Speaker 1: the family there message. Then dang, And then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, the background on that is Jalen Ramsey has
Speaker 1: a couple of kids with Golden Tate's sister. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then he left Golden Tate's sister to go to another
Speaker 1: woman while she was pregnant. That's unfortunately, and Golden Tate
Speaker 1: wanted to wanted to. He said after the game, Hey,
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to find me or I'm gonna find
Speaker 1: him or whatever it was. That's one of those where
Speaker 1: I was hoping the players would just like spread out
Speaker 1: in a circle and just let him fight. Yake ahead,
Speaker 1: just go ahead, guys. Although I don't after that hit, though,
Speaker 1: Golden Tate might be like, well, let's just talk about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think we need fisticuffs here. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then my other even more bester of the weekend though,
Speaker 1: and we've mentioned it already, but October's in full effect.
Speaker 1: Iowa State over Oklahoma thirty seven thirty. Let's go. I
Speaker 1: don't know who's good this year, you know, because you're
Speaker 1: watching in Oklahoma can look fabulous. And then you go,
Speaker 1: how did they lose again? PAULI best week, Well, this
Speaker 1: isn't gonna help Arkansas Razorbacks somehow beat Mississippi date Bulldogs.
Speaker 1: The Bulldogs had one of the great debuts of a
Speaker 1: coach they could and Arkansas football, which was da out
Speaker 1: of nowhere, unbelievable. Felipe Franks is or quarterback for that name,
Speaker 1: rings a belly in Miami. Yes, Felipe Franks. I didn't
Speaker 1: know he was in the transfer, had no idea he
Speaker 1: uh doesn't. He spelled Phelipe a little like he's got
Speaker 1: an extra I and E or something in there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he has no no picks A couple extra ease though.
Speaker 1: And then my favorite team this year, my SMU Mustangs
Speaker 1: Dan beating Memphis thirty twenty seven grade comeback. I liked
Speaker 1: Memphis's uniforms. They were great, they were kind of funky.
Speaker 1: But SMU is going to run the table this year.
Speaker 1: They had the game of the year coming up four
Speaker 1: and zero or undefeated SMU Mustangs in a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks versus the undefeated Cincinnati Bearcats. That could be college
Speaker 1: game Day. How weird is that? But sm is gonna
Speaker 1: run the table. SMU is gonna be in the final four.
Speaker 1: Yeah calling it. You are no one else, no one else,
Speaker 1: It's all right. More phone calls coming up. Top of
Speaker 1: the hour, Donnie Baseball Don Mattingly will join us talk
Speaker 1: about his Marlins, and Reggie Miller will join us as well.
Speaker 1: Your phone calls are next year on The Dan Patrick Show.
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Speaker 1: Michelle not playing for the Patriots tonight out with a
Speaker 1: quad injury. How many points to the Patriots getting Paul?
Speaker 1: You can get Chiefs given ten and a half or eleven? Eleven?
Speaker 1: What do you like? No, no, no, no, I'd either
Speaker 1: bet this for the Chiefs to cover or bet the
Speaker 1: Patriots to win over outright, not to cover, and you
Speaker 1: make a lot of money at the Patriots win out
Speaker 1: right the money moneyline. Okay, so eleven? No, no, I'm
Speaker 1: not giving any advice here, sure, yep, yeah, positive. It
Speaker 1: feels like you have something to give you. Just no,
Speaker 1: here's the problem. I gave you the Dolphins against the
Speaker 1: Seahawks and probably lost your money. I didn't watch the
Speaker 1: game because I told you that I thought Miami was
Speaker 1: going to win that game. That's why I don't like betting.
Speaker 1: That's why I don't like giving predictions because it drove
Speaker 1: me crazy. I think I first looked at the score
Speaker 1: at two thirty two yesterday, where I just went, let
Speaker 1: me check NFL scores and it was halftime and I go.
Speaker 1: And then I waited till a round three thirty, and
Speaker 1: I didn't get any text from the Danad's going yes,
Speaker 1: Fitz Magic Dolphins. I got nothing, and I go, I'm
Speaker 1: in trouble. Yes, but I have to bet this game
Speaker 1: because of the money you lost me on the last.
Speaker 1: So I mean, don't we have to do this one? Now?
Speaker 1: How about you take the under hackers and the Falcons
Speaker 1: because it's screaming for you to take the over with
Speaker 1: those two defenses and those two offenses, but entertainment purposes,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I can't. Then I won't be watching
Speaker 1: the games tonight, and it's my job to watch the games. Yes,
Speaker 1: Dolphins had all the momentum. You're right. You would have
Speaker 1: been so annoyed because they were right at the goal
Speaker 1: line and they just they couldn't score touchdowns. They couldn't.
Speaker 1: They really had that win. I know that doesn't make
Speaker 1: you any better. It doesn't make me feel any better
Speaker 1: because when my audience loses, I lose filling Indiana's back.
Speaker 1: Hi Phil, what's on your mind today? Hey? Dan, I
Speaker 1: hope you had a great weekend, buddy. A two quick things,
Speaker 1: so my beast move the Eagles. At one point they
Speaker 1: flashed a picture of Greg Ward as the senior wide
Speaker 1: receiver for the Wealth to play six games last year,
Speaker 1: and I mean obviously two games this year. But damn,
Speaker 1: my worst is the Champa Bay Buccaneer fans. I mean,
Speaker 1: these guys are beating the Broncos, the Panthers, and the
Speaker 1: Chargers hardly murderers row and they haven't even played a
Speaker 1: team that has a winning record yet. So Dan, I
Speaker 1: just want to get a talk about that has a
Speaker 1: good weight, buddy. Oh, you know, Brady looked pretty good.
Speaker 1: He had another pick six, But you know, you're you're
Speaker 1: you're rallying for a win. In that situation. Each of
Speaker 1: the five touchdowns went to a different receiver with Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: which is impressive. I just don't want the Buccaneers and
Speaker 1: Tom Brady to have to rally from being down twenty
Speaker 1: four seven. The ability to rally is really important. Here
Speaker 1: is Tom Brady off yesterday's win. It's a long season
Speaker 1: and we're twenty five percent of the way through, so
Speaker 1: it's not early anymore. You know, we have a decent emphasize.
Speaker 1: We got to figure out what we're good at, where
Speaker 1: we're not good at, and keep working to get better.
Speaker 1: The guys that haven't had much of a role got
Speaker 1: to find a way to find a role for themselves,
Speaker 1: and the guys that have got to keep them improving
Speaker 1: it and increasing it. So they got to win there
Speaker 1: and that's all that matters here. John Gruden said, let
Speaker 1: me play what John Gruden had to say. The Raiders
Speaker 1: lost to the Buffalo Bills, and John Gruden was talking
Speaker 1: about the tough opponents they faced. Anybody's played a tough
Speaker 1: for scheduling us, tell me who it has. You know,
Speaker 1: we played Monday night against the Saints, across the country
Speaker 1: on a short week against the Patriots, and the Buffalo
Speaker 1: Bills are undefeated in a playoff team and we're not
Speaker 1: going to get any sympathy next week either going to Arrowheads.
Speaker 1: So this is a great opportunity for us to continue
Speaker 1: to get better. And look at our young players and
Speaker 1: I'm proud of them. We've been in been in all
Speaker 1: these games and we've won two and lost two in
Speaker 1: the first quarters. In the books, you gotta taking one
Speaker 1: game at time. You try to taking two games at time.
Speaker 1: Pull of hamstring, always gonna feel sorry for that's Frank Caliendo.
Speaker 1: Gruden is doing Frank Caliendo, not the other way around.
Speaker 1: I wanted to find out the toughest schedule based off
Speaker 1: opponent's current records, and would be the Miami Dolphins and
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons and New York Giants. They're tied for
Speaker 1: the toughest schedule as far as opponent's records, followed by
Speaker 1: the Texans. Then it's the Lions, Cowboys, Raiders, and Patriots
Speaker 1: all lumped in there after that. So John technically was
Speaker 1: not correct. They have faced a tough, you know, stretch
Speaker 1: here and going cross country. Absolutely. Can you imagine now
Speaker 1: you got Kansas City coming up? Yeah, mclub. He's also
Speaker 1: a Brady Foles rematch on Thursday night. I believe Bears Wow,
Speaker 1: Bears Bucks. I hope nobody says the following a chance
Speaker 1: for redemption for Tom Brady. I hope not, because if
Speaker 1: you win that game, that doesn't make up for losing
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl. I'm gonna guess I don't know, you know,
Speaker 1: Brad these feelings on that, but I'm going to go
Speaker 1: out on a limb. Nick, and San Diego's back. Hi. Nick,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind today? Danny boy? How are we going? Good? Nick?
Speaker 1: All right, here's the deal. I got two best for you.
Speaker 1: Friday was my birthday. My buddy took me to see
Speaker 1: the podres line at his rooftop follow bids the weekend
Speaker 1: of four rounds of golf. On the final round of golf,
Speaker 1: on the fifth hole, what did your boy do but
Speaker 1: knock one in for a hole in one? Nice? Nice.
Speaker 1: We'll congrats there, Nick, and you got your podres coming
Speaker 1: up to playoff baseball starting tomorrow. We'll talk to Don Mattingly,
Speaker 1: the Marlins manager. At the top of the hour, Greg
Speaker 1: and Dallas joins us. Greg, good morning, what's on your mind? Hey? Dan? Area? Good?
Speaker 1: Hear me? Okay, yes I can. I'm on the balcom
Speaker 1: new apartment here. I'm actually from Detroit. I move my
Speaker 1: daughter Lola down here to pursue a ballet career. And
Speaker 1: that's before I tell you my best and worst. I
Speaker 1: want to bring up a name with you too and
Speaker 1: see if you have an opinion on it. But my
Speaker 1: worst would be my lions losing in the fashion that
Speaker 1: they did as usual. My best would be not having
Speaker 1: to listen to that on the radio in the morning
Speaker 1: and being able to listen to them belly ach about
Speaker 1: their cowboys here. All right, well, thank you, Greg. Greg
Speaker 1: gave me a lot of information there. Two bedroom Dance,
Speaker 1: got a dorman. It's a lovely building. I moved my
Speaker 1: daughter down here so she could take up ballet. And
Speaker 1: just want to let you know. I had an egg
Speaker 1: McMuffin for breakfast. A sounder graduates Stanford No. Two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just a little too much of gonna get a qu
Speaker 1: workout in after the call. You just thinking that I'm
Speaker 1: thinking of doing cardio today. I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Just I'm thinking about got this dairiology. But I'll be
Speaker 1: all right here you went on one I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: for lunch. I'm thinking about you know, it's gonna have
Speaker 1: a burger. But I don't know. It's not true right now,
Speaker 1: not a lot of seeds. I have something with my eye. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Let's see. Yeah, I'm not sure what
Speaker 1: game to watch tonight. I don't know. Maybe you could
Speaker 1: help me with that anyway. Aunt to the Lakers, that
Speaker 1: particular lighters. I'll be fine. More phone calls coming up,
Speaker 1: best and worse through the weekend. Don Mattingly, Donnie Baseball,
Speaker 1: Will Jonas coming up, and Reggie Miller as well. Final
Speaker 1: Hour this Monday, Dan and the Dan at Stan Patrick's show,