WEBVTT - 02/08/22 DPS Best Of 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.520 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:07.640 Sports Radio. Let's bring in Chris Collinsworth, the Emmy Award 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:10.960 winning analyst for Sunday Night Football. Also he's the owner 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:14.760 of Pro Football Focus and he has the Chris Collinsworth Podcast. 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:17.880 We were just talking about the Bengals and you know, 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:20.320 they're not going in Oh woe is me? But can 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:22.680 they play the play this up a little bit of 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:30.560 it's Us against the World in the Super Bowl. That 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:35.080 would assume some some humble qualities of this football team, 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:38.320 which I don't know. I don't know if they have 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:45.280 or not. You know, it's a they think they're the 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:49.200 best team in football. They think that they are never 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:51.519 out of a game, despite it being twenty one to 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:54.920 three on the road. They think they can go into 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:58.240 Tennessee and knock off the number one seed who had 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:03.520 a week's rest, and beat Pittsburgh twice, and beat Kansas 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:07.320 City twice, and beat the Baltimore Ravens twice, and beat 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:10.399 the number one seed and go into Los Angeles and 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:13.440 basically a home game for the Rams and beat the 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:17.320 Rams there. So I don't think they have that quality. 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:20.280 They just would kind of laugh about if you said, 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:23.679 are you guys really think you have a chance in 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:26.279 this game? They go, yeah, we probably have a chance. 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:28.760 You know, it's just who they are. When you look 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:30.920 at the tape. If you're going to look at the 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:34.240 rams first, what's the one thing that would make you 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:38.880 nervous with this team and the performance on Sunday? Nervous 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:45.920 for them or again nervous for them. Vulnerability? Vulnerability, I 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:48.640 would think because of some of the injuries they've had 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:52.960 at the safety position, Jordan Fuller and Taylor Rap now 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:56.320 Rap maybe back. I don't know what's going to happen there. 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:00.559 But if this group of three receivers could get down 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:05.840 the field and work some magic down there, I think 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.760 that would give the Bengals a little bit of an advantage. 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:12.240 Although I've got to say Nick Scott was phenomenal against 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:16.040 the Tampa in the game that we did, and Eric 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.720 went against the run game with San Francisco was phenomenal 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:22.919 coming down in the box and making plays. But these 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:29.359 are three legitimate threats at wide receiver, and I think 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:32.480 Jamar Chase is already the best receiver the Bengals I've 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:35.720 ever had, And that's saying something because I watched Isaac 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:39.239 Courtesy was a teammate of mine. You saw him plenty. 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:42.200 You know exactly who I'm talking about. Chad Ocho Sinko 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:46.720 had a phenomenal run in his career, but I've never 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.520 seen anybody do with Jamar Chase has been doing, I mean, 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:54.519 catching five yard passes and not even not even getting touched. 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.400 You know, I forget about they couldn't tackle them, They 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:59.680 couldn't even get it. They couldn't even win one hand 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.359 against the guy, and going seventy yards for huge plays 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:06.600 against Kansas City and against Baltimore when they needed it most. 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:09.760 So there's a there's a lot of a lot of 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:14.480 fun on this, on this Bengals offense. The vulnerability for 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:18.480 the Bengals. Can we start with the offensive line? Yeah, 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:23.800 no question, that's it, um it's and then probably in 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:28.359 particular that the right guard and right tackle position a 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:32.000 team identity, and Jackson Carmen at that guard position are 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:35.080 going to see a lot of Aaron Donald unless they 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:38.400 go the opposite way, which I can see happening too. 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:43.720 That they love that overload defense. They love putting Aaron 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:47.880 Donald on the on a three rush side. So maybe 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:52.240 Von Miller sitting outside of him and Greg Gaines being 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:55.040 at the no tackle position inside of him to try 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:58.080 and create that one on one matchup, and if they 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:01.040 flip it to the other side away from right card position, 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:04.240 then do you end up with somebody else being in 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:06.760 a position to be the hero of the game. Do 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:11.040 they start trying to luke Leonard Floyd down inside against him, 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.520 you know? Or do they blitch Troy Reader or don't 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:17.159 you know what exactly is the game plan? But everything, 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:20.960 everything on this team gets built around Aaron Donald. So 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:23.479 whatever they can do to create those one on one 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:26.960 matchups for him, that's what they're going to do. Comparing contrast, 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:33.080 Jamar Chase and Cooper Cume about as different as they 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:37.640 could be and from a lot of different standpoints. But 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:44.760 I think that I think Cooper Cume is severely underrated, 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:48.960 which is incredible to say as a guy who won 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:52.760 the Triple Crown of receiving, and I would argue that 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:55.320 you have to add a fourth component as well, and 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:58.520 that's what he started blocking. I mean, so much of 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.440 what this team can do comes off of play action 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:06.120 passing and the ability to protect this offensive line and 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:12.200 to for him to go dig out defensive ends and 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:17.680 linebackers and pop through there somehow and block the safety 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.960 and give the cam Acres of the world a chance 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:25.080 to go make an explosive plays. I mean, he's not 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.440 that big a guy, you know. I mean, but he 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.240 blocks like he's a two hundred and forty pound tight end. 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:33.640 He's one of the most impressive guys that I've seen. 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:38.279 But Jamar Chase is to me, has a chance to 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:40.960 be considered one of the greatest receivers we've ever seen 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:44.479 in the game. Really, yeah, I think he's that good. 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.360 We're talking to Chris Collinsworth. He'll be on the call 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.640 the fifth Super Bowl that he's called. He'll be with 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:53.480 Al Michaels and Michelle Tafoya. That will be MDC in 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:57.320 Peacock this Sunday. How surprised car players when they find 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:02.560 out that you actually played in the NFL. Surprised some 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:06.159 of them because I always said my goal in life 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:10.560 when I was playing was to walk around the streets 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:13.320 one day and have somebody who didn't know me walk 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:17.360 up and say, you know, you look like a football player. 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:21.360 I never got that, never once in my entire life, 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:24.640 even when you were wearing your uniform out in the streets. 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:30.359 They still know which I would do? Would but yeah, no, 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:35.520 it's um, I don't even know what the question. No 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:39.000 that do have players who don't know that you played football? 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:43.560 For sure? Oh for sure? Yeah, and um, but they 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:47.880 don't know that trement played to some extent, you know. 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:52.960 I mean these guys, they're so funny and they're so 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:58.039 fun and they're they're all great communicators now because they're 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.719 all you gotta be on social media, right, That's the 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.400 only way you have a social life in the world 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:05.840 today is you've got to be able to put on 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:09.360 be your own producer and create your own content on 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:12.800 your own cell phone. And and nobody's going to the 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.840 media to break a story anymore. You just go on 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:18.360 your cell phone and you say whatever you want and 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:21.160 then you get all the attention for yourself. So they're 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.680 all very good on camera. They all have a bit 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:26.880 of a sense of humor with everything, and there's this 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:31.160 brutal honesty to them, so where if if they don't 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:33.640 know who you are, they'll just tell you. You don't 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:35.640 have to guess. It's not like in the old day 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.440 where somebody's going to go like, yeah, you know, try 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:40.680 and work the edges a little bit like, who are 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:42.880 you again? Did you play? You know what? You know? 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:46.400 So they'll they'll let us ask you. You're one of 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:49.720 six players to play on both of the Bengals previous 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:53.200 Super Bowl teams? Is that right? I think so? Yeah, 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:55.160 I was one on one. I know that. I don't 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:58.200 know about all the other. But so you lose them 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:01.280 on ten on both of those, which one which one 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:06.200 hurts more? Um? You know the funny thing is most 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:10.360 people would say the team because you know, it came 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:12.600 down in the last thirty four seconds and they had 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:16.080 to drive ninety yards in the final two minutes to 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:20.840 beat us and all that. I always thought that the 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:23.760 eighty one team was the one that kind of hurt 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:25.680 the most. Maybe it was just because it was my 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:30.000 first year or whatever the case, but that was a 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:33.680 really good football team, and Kenny Anderson played well enough 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:36.360 to win that game and be in the Hall of Fame. 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:39.640 All of us and me in particular, made mistakes and 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:42.560 that in that first Super Bowl, and it's kind of 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:45.760 the sting of that sort of always lives with you. 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:51.840 So yeah, they both aren't believe it's At one time 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:55.360 I wore an AFC Championship ring to a party, and 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:58.080 all anybody wanted to do is talk about the two 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:00.840 Super Bowl losses. I go this right, idea, I just 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.960 started in my pocket for the rest of the whenever 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:07.400 you run into Joe Montana, does this come up at all? 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:10.560 That you know he he cost you two super Bowls? 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:14.880 He didn't, He won two Super Bowls. I just happened 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:16.600 to be on the back end. And we were the 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:20.560 Washington generals for the for the forty nine ers in 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.480 the eighties. But Joe is such a good guy. I 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:25.720 would love to hate him, would you. I Mean, there's 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:30.480 something I just loved to hate him, and you just can't. 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:34.280 He's just such a nice guy. I remember one time, Dan, 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:36.800 we were flying back from the Pro Bowl together, a 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:41.600 little humble brack there, and but we just we just 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:45.319 happened to be on the sitting next to each other, 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:49.200 and uh, you know, and of course Joe kicked our 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:51.480 head in and won the Super Bowl and all that. 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:57.200 And he is literally pounding one drink after another to 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:01.400 try and work up the nerve for takeoff with this airplane. 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.400 And I mean, he was as white knuckled as any 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:07.760 flyer I've ever been in an airplane with and just 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:11.680 couldn't talk, couldn't fortune, and was just it was making 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:15.160 him crazy, And I go, are you really, Joe Montana? 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:19.440 Is this the guy that beat us every way imaginable 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:23.400 when I was playing for Cincinnati. But he's a humble 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:26.080 guy and I can't even find it in me to 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:28.840 hate him. You have any issues with the Pro Bowl? 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:36.680 I don't watch the Pro Bowl. We used to, we 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.199 used to announce it. Is it still as bad as 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:41.959 it was? So they look like they're no tackling Chris. 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:47.600 They played two in touch on Sunday. I don't watch that. 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.680 I really like football, and if I want to watch 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:53.240 two hand touch, I'm like, go watch the kids. When 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:57.160 do you meet with the coaches and the quarterbacks? Wednesday 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:01.320 and Thursday? So we'll go out. Took Bengals practice the 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:06.560 other days in Cincinnati, and but we'll go Wednesday and 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.760 Thursday to watch both practices. I'll leave you with this. 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:16.720 The Bengals will win if if they can get it protected. 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:20.600 I mean, it's really about as simple as that. And 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:24.240 you know they're not going to get it protected every down. 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:27.920 These guys are just too good up front. Can they 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:31.160 get it protected when they have chances for big plays 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:36.160 and if they can, these receivers can make big plays happen. Chris, 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:40.120 thank you as always, we appreciate your contributions the entire season. 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:43.200 We'll be watching on Sunday. All right, Dan, good seeing. 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.640 Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.560 sure to catch us live every weekday morning nine to 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.920 noon Eastern or six to nine Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:54.560 Find your local station for The Dan Patrick Show at 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:57.560 Fox Sports Radio dot com, or stream us live every 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:01.600 day on the iHeartRadio app by Sir F s R. 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:05.480 Or stream us live on The Peacock Act. Full intro. 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:07.600 Rich Eyes in the NFL Network host. You can see 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.480 him a special eight and a half hour edition of 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:14.600 NFL Game Day morning Sunday at nine Eastern on NFL Networks. 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.080 Not enough to talk about. We showed a promo last 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:22.600 night and it's there were twenty one of us on 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:26.439 the screen. They actually work, They actually photoshop twenty one 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:29.800 human beings on a screen. And you know how I 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:33.520 even texted you about this when when Peacock made a 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:38.000 promo for NBC Sports on Peacock. Yeah, and I always 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:42.160 notice who's in the center, who's on the side. Who 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:44.960 has shoulder on another? Because you know when they photoshop 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:49.400 somebody in, they photoshop in somebody behind you or in 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:53.520 front of you, and and um, I let it be known. Um, 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:58.839 you know, I require shoulder when it comes to photoshopping 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:01.520 and a promo. And I noticed on the Peacock one 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:06.600 you had shoulder on me. And but that's but that's 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:10.600 I didn't know that these are things I need to 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:14.040 work on, um until I you know, I need to 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:16.560 make it. Yeah, who's got shoulder? Take a look at 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:20.440 all these promos like last night when for the for 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:24.080 the Super Bowl Opening night show, Um, I you know, 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:28.120 interviewed Borrow and Stafford together and they put a promo 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.600 for that together, and they gave me shoulder on both 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:35.440 Super Bowl quarterbacks. And it might be the only time 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:38.959 I have shoulder on both Super Bowl quarterbacks. Congratulations. It's 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:42.080 a long time coming. It has been long building, A 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.240 long time became momentum has been building. I mean I'm 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:47.040 looking for a sports emmy. You're looking for shoulder. Well 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:50.760 you have one of those things. No, we don't. Oh collective, yeah, 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:56.199 we we're oh for the last four Uh well, I 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:59.920 mean I mean we're the Buffalo Bill. We're the Buffalo Bill. 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:04.079 We are four consecutive loss. So basically what your are 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:08.600 you saying that PTI has shoulder on the day show? Yes, 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:11.600 because I'm assuming that is the show. MLB Tonight beat 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:15.240 us one time. I thought NHL Tonight was gonna edge 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:17.240 us out one one time. But yeah, if you lose 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.880 to pardon the interruption, I'm okay with that, Okay, Yeah, 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:22.240 all right, I'm all right, yeah, yeah, I mean it's 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:24.640 only twenty two minutes show. I mean, you know this 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:26.920 is three hours. Yeah, they don't take that into considerate now, 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:30.920 they don't know, they don't. I love how people always go, Nan, 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:33.600 I'd love to do that your show. You know, you 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:35.560 just get to talk all the day, all day, and 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:37.400 I go, okay, once you try it, give it a 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:39.880 world like go three hours, let me know how you 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:42.080 do you and you know what happens. Usually they go 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:45.600 fifteen minutes. That first fifteen minutes, they're on fire, they 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:48.000 got stories, they got everything all then to go, what 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.120 am I going to talk about from now? On? First 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.640 year I was on the air, um, you know, on 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:56.840 audience back in our the old days. Um I the 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:00.840 first year that my show is only was twenty fourteen, 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:03.840 I guess. So I was still doing Thursday Night Football 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:07.400 on the Road for NFL Network. So the Fridays after 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:09.800 Thursday Night I would have fill in hosts, and I decided, 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:12.760 you know, why not have like the old Carson days, 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:16.400 have a celebrity fill in host So I would offer 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:22.080 the three hours to celebrities, and they just didn't quite 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:25.400 grasp the three hour nature of it. So one year, 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:29.200 one Friday, I had Bobby CONIVALI the actor, do it, 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:32.520 and I saw him after the show. I flew back 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:34.720 in and I saw him that night and he's like, 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:37.920 I had to take a nap. I am wiped it out. 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:41.680 And I'm like, dude, you do like Broadway, you do 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:46.040 two shows any day, you do a Wednesday matinee and 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.960 a Wednesday and the Wednesday and night Saturday mattinee, Like 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:52.240 you do eight hours of live acting. He goes, yeah, 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:54.480 but I know what I'm gonna stay in and he 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.480 goes not knowing what to say. It wipes you out. 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:00.240 Somebody has scripted all of that, and that's the thing. 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:02.760 And people go, you know, as your scripted. I don't, No, 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:05.480 you can't of course not. Yeah, It's like yesterday I 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.360 was on Richie's show and we found out about Kyler 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:12.080 Murray scrubbing is you know social media accounts of the 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.440 Arizona Cardinals. You go, this is going to be a 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:16.120 big deal. Yeah, as soon as you see that in 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.280 the twenty first century, this is something you can read 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:20.960 into it. What's this about? I hear you guys your 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:22.960 poll question the first hour. I can't believe it would 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:27.960 be money because somebody of his, you know, um stature 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:35.400 should understand the money's coming, and you know um on 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:39.400 top of it. I understand that you know you you 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.920 you think the money's coming, but you never know that said, 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:46.720 winning a super Bowl in your first contract is what 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:51.680 you're supposed to do. And that's how DeAndre Hopkins winds 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:54.560 up out here, and how they can afford to work 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:57.680 in AJ Green and TJ and JJ Watt, you know, 0:16:57.720 --> 0:16:59.720 and and so on and so forth. It build your 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.400 team out. If you're going to start demanding to be 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:06.199 paid now, that would be a problem. That said. He 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:08.800 does see Josh Allen getting his when he got it, 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:12.600 and he might be pitching a fit. But I I 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:17.040 don't see how this works. What they're just going to see. Wow, 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:20.960 you you only have two Instagram photos now you had 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:24.840 three hundred. Ye look out. I guess we should start 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:28.280 forking over something that starts with a four. I mean, like, 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:30.359 what's that all about it? Yeah, I don't know what 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:32.600 the end game is, but it just feels it felt 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:36.000 like I want to get paid. Maybe I up the 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:38.520 timeframe and I get paid a year earlier, or you 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:43.359 can utilize your two sports star status when the other 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:47.520 sport is not locking out. You know, like this is 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:52.040 the wrong time, the timing, the leverage timing is in Japan, 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:53.960 Like is that where he is at your plan? I 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:56.440 don't know how that works. Yeah, And I don't know 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:58.959 if you know what his leverage has to get out 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:00.840 of there. I don't know if he has a problem 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:04.199 now with Cliff Kingsbury and the way he calls plays 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:08.560 and what it feels like Kyler Murray. Because of his contract, 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:12.360 they were able to bring in some veterans, as you mentioned, 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.240 that made you formidable. You know, it's not like you're 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:17.840 there with Josh Rosen with you know, the talent he 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:20.680 had or didn't have. You know, you have a good team. 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:23.120 You were in a very competitive division. Yeah, they were 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:27.240 the last remaining undefeated team of this year. So it's 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:30.879 just that that that team with Kingsbury has had an 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:34.080 odd way of fading down the stretch. And I don't 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:38.440 know how this addresses that at all. So I don't 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:40.679 know what it is. I don't know at all what 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:42.280 it is. But also, as you pointed out when you 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:47.320 were on my show yesterday, his strategy sometimes oh your 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:51.120 grassmen at straws as to why somebody would say appeared 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:53.000 as super Bowl when there's a question is he going 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:58.119 to play which sport? Make himself available to somebody like yourself, 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:01.560 and then expect that you're gonna walk out of that 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:04.840 interview without being pressed on that one subject you don't 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:07.520 want to talk about. So how does that happen? And 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:10.679 you know what people don't realize is Rich interviewed Kyler 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:15.080 Murray before we had him on Live. Now, a good 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:19.720 friend would have come down the hall to tell Yer's 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:24.160 too fast, He's too fast. He escapability Dan that day 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:29.640 was remarkable, No, because I saw Rich after and he goes, yeah, 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:31.520 he wasn't very good with us either, And I go 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:34.520 and I'm thinking, why didn't you tell me that? I 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:37.359 could have just said, hey, it worked out. I think, 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:41.199 oh worked out. I don't know. Yeah, Paul and I disagree. 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:43.760 I think that's good producing by Rich. He didn't spoil it, 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:45.959 and he just walk him down. You'd get something out 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:49.560 of him. Oh, I warned him off. I warned Kyler 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:51.520 Murray that you got on your problem. Oh my god. 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:54.720 Mine didn't get aired till later. So and all I 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:57.000 was asking, you have to have an answer for what 0:19:57.240 --> 0:19:59.680 sport are you going to play? Or do you want 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:03.240 to play? And I had somebody who told me about 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:06.120 twenty minutes before, Hey, I see where you got Kyler 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:09.440 Murray and text me, Uh, you know he's gonna play football. 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:12.120 If he's you know, top ten, top five pick, he's 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:14.600 definitely playing football. So I brought it up to Kyler 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:19.679 and he's like, he's just like and then his dad 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:22.960 was like fifty feet away, and I'm yelling across the 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:25.480 room to his dad. I'm asking his dad questions, is 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:30.320 he going to play? Yeah? It's been playing baseball football? Hello, unbelievable. Um, 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:33.920 So Rich Eysen's here hosting the Super Bowl, a home 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:37.639 super Bowl for the NFL networks. Yeah, normally you're on 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:40.160 the road and you're calling home, and I know, now 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:43.600 this time around, I'm actually having a parent Dan. Normally 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:46.639 it's just dad's FaceTime and for ninety seconds, and they 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:49.679 don't want to talk on FaceTime anyway. So now I'm 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:52.760 actually having to go home and parent. So you got 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:56.720 any suggestions, anybody, you know? Normally I'm just sitting in 0:20:56.720 --> 0:20:58.879 a hotel just keeping my head down. Well, this has 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:02.040 just been and plus the NF Film Network. We're now 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:04.560 across the street from the stadium, so our network is 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:08.000 inside the security perimeter of the Super Bowl, So that 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:15.240 adds an extra layer of fascinating status. But it's great. Honestly, 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:17.600 In two thousand and three when we moved out here 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:21.679 at the network and started it up, and people were like, 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:25.200 what are you doing in Los Angeles? There's no NFL 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:28.560 in LA at all. Poor Sam Farmer or the LA 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:31.119 Times is the only guy at the State of the 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:33.399 State for the Commissioner raising his hand and asking questions 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:35.879 about LA and everyone's looking at like, weirdo, what are 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:38.359 you talking about? Like why are you keeping on keeping 0:21:38.400 --> 0:21:42.040 the flame lit? Now five and a half billion dollars stadium. 0:21:42.359 --> 0:21:44.919 NFL Network's got a new spot across the street from it. 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:47.880 Two NFL teams play there. One of them is playing 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:50.879 in the actual Super Bowl here. It's unbelievable. It sets 0:21:50.920 --> 0:21:55.280 up nicely for the Rams. But the pressure on the Rams, yeah, 0:21:55.320 --> 0:22:00.120 to win the Super Bowl, Yeah, is what I would say. 0:22:00.920 --> 0:22:03.440 You know, I know everybody's saying it's house money for 0:22:03.480 --> 0:22:09.040 the Bengals. You know, if the Rams lose the Super Bowl, 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:14.119 it's not going to cost anybody a job. I fully 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:16.760 believe less Need has things set up where it's not 0:22:16.840 --> 0:22:20.520 like some people have got to go. I think they 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:22.840 will be able to figure out to keep Vaughan and 0:22:22.920 --> 0:22:25.840 Odell and everybody kind of digs it here. They really 0:22:25.880 --> 0:22:28.400 like each other. I don't sense any you know, when 0:22:28.400 --> 0:22:30.119 you see a team like they've got to win now 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:33.000 they're all in, they're gonna break up. There might be 0:22:33.040 --> 0:22:35.479 some fissures within the front office. There might be something 0:22:35.480 --> 0:22:38.840 like that. I just think if there is any pressure, 0:22:39.320 --> 0:22:41.040 it would be when are you going to get back? 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:45.080 Although Stafford thinks, I would think that he's in a 0:22:45.160 --> 0:22:53.200 great spot. That said, it would be a great momentum 0:22:53.280 --> 0:22:55.879 for the Rams to win this game and help build 0:22:55.880 --> 0:22:57.840 a fan base or Yeah, that's what I was wondering about. 0:22:57.840 --> 0:23:00.560 The fan base. But I was looking at this. If 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:03.320 Stafford wins and plays, well, yes, he's gonna go to 0:23:03.320 --> 0:23:06.080 the Hall of Fame. I agree. If Joe Burrow wins, 0:23:06.640 --> 0:23:09.239 now he's halfway to the Hall of Fame, right. It 0:23:09.280 --> 0:23:12.440 feels like he's in that Russell Wilson Patrick Mahomes category 0:23:12.520 --> 0:23:16.280 of Wow, you got one too. Well. I think that 0:23:16.359 --> 0:23:18.560