WEBVTT - 08/10/21 DPS Hour 1 Sean Salisbury 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.480 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:08.160 Sports Radio. Douzins test positive. If he test positive on Friday, 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:12.240 he's gonna miss two games. That is one eighth of 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:15.680 his season. Bringing you the biggest guests and best interviews. 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:18.520 This guy, we're paying eight jillion dollars a year or two. 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:22.400 I can't break in silent broadcasting from the Mercedes fan kame. 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:24.200 What if the Viking said, you know what, We're not 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:26.680 going to keep you. It's in the bottom line of business. 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:30.120 This is Dan Patrick, It's a Tuesday, It's our one. 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:32.159 Come on in, stay a while. Dan and the Dan 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:35.840 Nstan Patrick Show gang's all here ready to go. Check 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:40.760 in with the Houston Texans and the future of Deshaun Watson. Also, 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:45.519 Adrian Wojnarowski will join us ESPN NBA Insider coming up 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:48.400 in a little bit as well. Speaking of the NBA, 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:51.120 normally when a team signs a player to a contract 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:54.680 in the two hundred million dollars ballpark, there's a reason 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:56.600 for the fan base to be a little nervous. But 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:59.280 I don't think anybody in the Dallas organization or that 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:03.520 fan base has any questions about the MAV's decision to 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:07.120 give Luca five years at just over two hundred million dollars. 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:11.880 That's the supermax rookie extension. Keep in mind he's twenty two. 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:15.080 This is why players want to get into the league. 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:17.280 They might not be ready. They want to get in, 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:20.640 eat up that rookie contract, and then all of a sudden, 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:24.200 you get that new deal. But this is a supermax 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:29.360 rookie extension because he's First team All NBA twice. Therefore 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:33.160 he was eligible for a supermax twenty two years of age. 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:36.320 Now the question is, as we move forward, can they 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:39.360 win a championship with the ball dominant guard? Is he 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:43.920 James Harden? Is he Russell Westbrook? And you have to 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:45.840 have the right team around him. And I think that's 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:48.760 what's going to be curious because he almost took the 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:53.640 Slovenian national team to the gold medal game. And Luca's 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:57.080 got everything you want, the full arsenal. He's too big 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:00.880 to cover, he's too fast for big eyes to handle. 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:04.760 Great passer, great rebounder. He can get better at the 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:07.920 free throw line. I just think he should be a 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:11.640 knockdown eighty percent free throw shooter. But the MAVs have 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:14.560 him under contract neck they can focus on building a 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:18.600 more competitive team. And that's tricky because with some players 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:22.560 Lebron needed Anthony Davis, they weren't going to compete on 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:25.560 the floor for anything other than touches, and Lebron was 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:28.640 smart enough to know that's the future. I gotta make 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:31.840 sure Anthony Davis dominates. If he dominates, then I win 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:34.600 as well. And he was led the league and assist. 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:38.840 But with Lucas a little bit different. He's got the ball, 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:42.360 he does score, he does rebound, he does pass. But 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:46.000 to get the pieces around him and they know what 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.760 their roles are going to be. That's tricky because I 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:51.919 don't think Kris stop Sportzingis makes any sense for Dallas, 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:54.160 but you have him under contract. Are you going to 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:56.840 be able to trade him? Who wants Kris stop Sportzingis, 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:01.280 Tim Hardaway Junior makes sense. They have some pieces there 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.200 that makes sense. But as far as getting a free agent, 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.400 they missed out on Kyle Lowry. I believe that they 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:11.040 were second to the Miami Heat. But you gotta get 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:14.720 some players who fit Luca, and I think that's going 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:17.680 to be the tricky part with Jason Kidd. If you're 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:20.320 a free agent, do you want to play with Luca. 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:22.320 I know he does have a lot of assists, but 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:24.760 he has the ball all the time and I think 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:28.400 that'll be very interesting to see it. That's the tricky 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:31.040 part with all of this. Does he play differently with 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:35.480 Jason kidd Is his new head coach? And can you 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:37.960 can you make any deal? They didn't make any deals 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:41.080 here in the offseason, but as you move forward, how 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.360 long are you going to have Christop Sporzingis? And can 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:49.040 you make any roster moves there? We'll talk to wos 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:52.120 about that if you How do you exactly build a 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.680 winner around Luca? Eight seven seven three d P Show 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:58.640 email address dpat dan Patrick dot com, Twitter handle at 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:02.000 dp's show and McLevin has a poll question. We got 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:03.920 played the day stat of the Day, all that coming up. 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.200 Stay good morning to our radio and TV partners. You 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:08.920 can watch the show one Peacock can also listen on 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:12.400 our nearly four hundred radio stations around the country. What 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:14.800 are you thinking about? Mcleven? Okay, this is a group 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:18.159 effort over here. The most valuable athlete twenty five and under, 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.760 and we say twenty five and under bees Patrick mahomes 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:23.040 is twenty five. Who do we put on the poll 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:33.440 Luca twenty two, Mahomes twenty five, Zion twenty one valuable. Okay, baseball, 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:36.480 the name that jumped out was Fernando Tatis Junior twenty two. 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:41.040 Here of these three hundred something million anybody else for 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:43.440 leaving off of any quarterbacks like a Josh Allen or 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:49.320 Lamar Jackson or Justin Herbert, any other baseball players Juan Soto, 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:54.160 Jason Tatum in the NBA's twenty three. Feels like there's 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:57.640 a class. The guys we named Luca, Mahomes, Zion and 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.240 Tatis might be a class ahead of everybody else. Okay, 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:05.479 but how are we equating value? Good question? We didn't 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:09.239 We didn't get that thought out. Well. I mean it's 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:12.880 I guess it's a user defines value, Like what's value? 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.400 Like that's a good question, Like how valuable is I in? 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:17.520 I mean, I think that's a good debate. He's got 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:19.080 to sell a lot of tickets, but will he win 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:22.000 in championship? Yeah? Pull yeah? How relevant does it make 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:25.440 your franchise? How competitive to make your franchise? Trevor Lawrence 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.679 has made the Jaguars relevant again, hasn't made them good yet, 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.520 but they he was the biggest prospect in the past 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:36.000 ten years. Yeah, I would put Trevor Lawrence in there. 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:39.600 I think that's a good one, just based on potential 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:42.680 with his age that you know, he's one of those 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:46.840 once every ten fifteen years type quarterback we talk about 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.800 generational quarterback. Well, I guess the question is who would 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.240 you hand a four hundred million dollars contract too. Who 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:55.360 would you feel most comfortable in any sport to make 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:58.599 like a huge, huge investment. Well, they already did it 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:02.159 with Mahomes and they have sort of done that with 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:07.200 Luca m Tatiss. How already got paid. Yeah, he's already 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:10.840 gotten paid. So they're they're already locking these players up 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:14.840 when they're you know, they're early twenties. 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I would say NBA Summer League. 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:56.920 You've picked that over NFL. Yeah, I might, because I've 0:06:57.400 --> 0:06:59.719 I've been watching quite a bit of it. I was 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:03.600 watching last night. I wanted to see this Davion Mitchell, 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:08.200 the kid out of Baylor. He didn't disappoint. He's you 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:11.760 know when your nickname is off night, because you're gonna 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:14.400 have an off night when he guards you. I love 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:19.320 that nickname. He was tremendous last night. Jalen Suggs was 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:21.800 awesome last night. Now, I know it's Summer League. I 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.920 know it. I have to tell myself. I have to 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:29.400 remind myself. And then I'm watching Desmond Baine of the 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:33.880 Grizzlies last night. He's lighting up the night. So yeah, 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:36.760 I did watch a little too much Summer League basketball 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:40.000 last night. But it was fun because you're gonna see 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.440 somebody out of this group is going to make a 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:46.360 really big impact. Now, Jalen Suggs with Orlando should and 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:49.360 probably Battlecade cunning him for a Rookie of the Year. 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:53.040 But I really enjoyed it just seeing some of these 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.440 guys that you only saw a little bit in college 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:59.160 and now you're seeing them and they're going against fellow 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.920 rookies for the most part here. But it's good, it's entertaining. 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:08.040 Carmelo Anthony had a press conference as he's now a 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.320 new member of the Lakers, and he talked about joining 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:14.120 Lebron on the team. There's been a lot of opportunities 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:16.880 or well, I guess a lot of speculation that you 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:19.880 and Lebron might one day play together on the same team. 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.640 What made now the right time to team up with 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:25.680 the Lakers? Time? And is everything? I mean, for years, 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.680 we've always laughed about it and spoke about it, what 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.200 it would be like. We had a little bit of 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:34.600 framies with with the USA basketball and playing together, but 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.240 that's you know that that's totally different in the situation 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.959 like this. But we've always talked about it, laughed and 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:41.960 joke about it. But I thought, and then he thought, 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:45.120 at this moment, now you know, everything comes back full 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:47.719 circle for us, and I think the time is now 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.280 for us to be on the same team. You know, 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.360 it couldn't have came at at a better time. Yeah. 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:56.120 I wonder why Lebron didn't pull the trigger on getting 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.560 Carmelo a couple of years ago, because we thought about that. 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:03.560 It's like, Okay, nobody wants Carmelo, and I thought, okay, 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:06.400 maybe the Knicks bringing back and you have that farewell 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:09.880 tour and then all of a sudden, he's playing meaningful 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:13.680 minutes with Portland. He's scoring, and he's had this resurgence, 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:18.000 and I always wondered, like, why didn't Lebron go after him? Then? Yeah, see, 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:20.560 because wasn't there a minute where Carmelo was out of 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:23.400 the league. Yeah, and then yeah, he sort of had 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.080 this rebirth in Portland, but it didn't feel like he 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:28.720 had many good minutes left for a while. Phil, Like 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:34.920 after Houston he was sort of floating and I kept thinking, 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:38.920 is he done? And you know, because he's limited in 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:40.880 what he can do, but he can still score. And 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:44.280 I think he proved a lot of people wrong, including myself, 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:47.240 with what he did in Portland. Yeah. Point, I heard 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:49.440 one of the shows on I Feel like Klea See 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:51.880 talking about how people being very critical to the Lakers roster. 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.800 Don't you find this roster to be really like diverse 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:56.800 and they've got younger guys, they've got a lot of 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.520 older experience. It they feel deep, they feel like they 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:02.839 got a roster that can protect their stars from burning 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:05.800 up so many minutes. Yeah, but I mean this is 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:09.440 what we do. We criticize, you know, or you might compliment. 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:12.200 I don't know why people are bothered by it that 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:16.120 people are being analytical when they look at the roster, like, okay, 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:21.920 so what like they made moves, they made some aggressive moves. 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:25.520 They brought in some younger players. You know, do I 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:30.520 love having Marcus Saul No, But if you have minutes 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:32.160 and he knows what he's supposed to do and he 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:36.040 compliments White Howard, then Gray. This comes down to can 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:41.120 Anthony Davis stay healthy? That's it? Because I know Lebron 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:46.480 Will and Russell Westbrook will. If Anthony Davis is healthy, 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.120 then they have every right to think they're going to 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:53.600 play for a championship. The other players like like that, boy, 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:56.040 what did you say about us? Or what are people 0:10:56.080 --> 0:11:00.160 saying about us? I don't know this roster, but you 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:03.440 guys should win the West, like, that's not a bad 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:06.000 consolation prize when it comes to hey, you're being critical 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.439 and I don't know why Lebron got upset or you know, 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:13.640 at least tweeted out since deleted his tweet about you know, hey, 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:17.440 just remember what you're saying here. I like the roster 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:20.120 last year, and you see what happened with that team. 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:24.960 I loved it. I thought, okay, Harold Shrewder, like, Okay, 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:27.880 we got it. I think we got better here. And 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.600 then all of a sudden it's like, no, you didn't, 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:34.480 and now this team do. I love Russell Westbrook not 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:38.880 on that team, but if you're it may work, and 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:42.920 if it does, great, But I didn't go. Let me 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:47.600 be the contrarian and just rip Lebron's lineup here. My 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.800 job is to just analyze it one way or another, 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.680 like is it good? Are they better? How much better 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.280 did they get? Are they done? You know? That's why 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:58.680 I wanted to have woe John? Can they do anything 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:02.480 else here? But as it is now, that's the team 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.840 to beat in the West, not the Clippers, not the Nuggets, 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:09.679 not the Jazz, not the Phoenix Suns. That is the 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:12.640 team to beat because you have Lebron, you have ad 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:16.560 and you have Russell Westbrook, and it might be there 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:18.640 are teams that are built for the regular season. There 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:22.440 are teams that are built for the postseason. You know. 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:25.120 That's what Greg Popovitch would always get his team ready 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.480 for the postseason. He didn't care about the regular season. 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:30.920 When he got into the postseason. That's when he wanted 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:33.400 to put his best team as healthiest team, and that's 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:36.880 where he was going to outcoach you, Bill Belichick. He's 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.320 got teams, you know that have been good in the 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:42.079 regular season, great in the regular season, but he's all 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:45.480 about the postseason. Who's going to match up with us? 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:47.680 Where are we playing like that? Those are the things 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:50.280 that are really important for the coaches, the teams that 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:54.840 are playing for championships. Is the Laker team built for 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:59.000 a seven game series? If you said that Laker team 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:02.640 against the Nets right now, seven game series? Because that's 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.680 what this is going to come down to. It's not, hey, 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:09.760 what are they going to be like on Valentine's Day? 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:12.800 They could have the best record in the league. It's 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:15.600 when you get in a seven game series, when it's 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:20.640 half court basketball, where every possession counts, when you have 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:24.199 close games when you need a defensive stop. That's how 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:28.240 you win championships. It's not about the regular season, and 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:31.720 that's what I want to know. Playoff game and they're 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:35.000 forcing Russell Westbrook to beat them. Is Anthony Davis going 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:39.280 to be healthy? Can some of these younger players contribute 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:44.719 when there's big, big moments on the line. That's what 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:48.520 it comes down to, am Am, I questioning that, yes, 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:51.840 because those players haven't been on this big stage before. 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:57.880 Even Russell Westbrook he's been on the stage. But Kenny 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:02.000 be great, what rolled is you play? And does Anthony 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:05.679 Davis stay healthy? That's it? Yeah, Paul. By the way, 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:07.040 this is gonna sound like a dumb question. Is it 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:08.880 an eighty two game season this year? Is our play 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.280 in tournament? Is it starting on time? I can't keep track. 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:13.760 I think it starts on time. I think there's a 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:16.040 play in tournament eighty two games. I think it's eighty 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.560 two games? All right? I think so refreshing. Once again, 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.440 we can ask Wogan when he joins us Adam Schefter 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:24.520 had a tweet about Deshaun Watson's playing status. Have that 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:26.280 for you coming up in a moment. We'll check in 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:29.840 with our good buddy Sean Salisbury in Houston about what's 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:32.680 going on with the Texans. What is Plan A? What 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:35.800 is Plan B? It's coming out bon sixteen. After the hour, 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:38.440 we'll settle on our poll question and we'll come back 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:42.920 after this and The Dan Patrick Show. 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Be sure to catch us live 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.000 every weekday morning nine until noon eastern six to nine 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:20.840 Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, and you can find us 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:25.040 on the iHeartRadio app at FSR or stream us live 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:27.880 on the Peacock app. Adam Schefter sent out a tweet 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:31.200 saying that the Texans GM Nick Kasserio said on Sports 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:33.960 Radio six ten in Houston this morning, he does not 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.680 expect to Shaun Watson to travel to Green Bay this weekend. 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:41.720 So Watson un officially out for Houston's preseason opener. Well, 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:44.240 it's one thing to say that he's probably not going. 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.400 But if he's not going, why is he not going? 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:50.200 Remember he had the injury. And then we asked John McClain, 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:54.040 the Houston columnist, and he said, yeah, probably from his foot, 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:57.920 fell asleep, taking a knee on the sidelines. Feels like 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:01.600 they're hiding to Shaun Watson in here. Yeah, Seton, I 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.160 don't know that you can have him travel out of 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:10.400 state right now. Well, legally he can. Legally he can. However, yeah, man, 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:12.120 it might just be a better idea to leave him 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.960 at home in Houston. It's bringing Sean Salisbury, morning host 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:18.640 to the Sean Salisbury Show on Sports Talk seven ninety 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:22.160 in Houston, right, So what is going on with Deshan? 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:25.160 Is he injured or why would he not be going 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:29.320 to Green Bay? Well, Dan, because the Distraction are not 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:32.880 playing and he doesn't want to play for them right now, 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:35.920 I asked Charles Robinson yesterday. I'm sure you guys saw him. 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.320 The door is still open. Dam. They are going to 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:40.320 visit this while a lot of us have it dead 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:43.360 bolted and slam shut. But between now and the time 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:46.280 the season starts, if the commissioner doesn't come out, if 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:50.400 there's no legal implication and he's still there's no restrictions 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:53.880 on playing, they're gonna they're gonna visit this and see 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:56.960 if Deshaun Watson some point in time. He probably doesn't 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.200 need a lot of reps. He knows this offense with 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:01.360 Tim Kelly, So why is not going is he's not 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:03.480 going to play, so why take him? I don't think 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:06.000 he's injured. If it was it was minor Dan. I 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:09.600 think this comes down to sitting down. If DeShawn Watson 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:12.639 decided between now and then the start of the season, 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:15.200 I want to play for the Texans. This is where 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:17.679 I want to be. If he did that Dan for 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:21.479 this year and that the talk is unless there's some 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:26.360 federal felony indictment on him, a felony indictment, that the 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:28.720 commissioner is not going to make a decision anytime soon 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:33.080 on the information and the Commissioner's examplest So if he 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:35.560 can play and there is no restrictions other than the 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:38.880 optics of the legal stuff, why wouldn't you play him? 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:42.320 The question is, will DeShawn say yes, I'll go all 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:45.400 Aaron Rodgers on, you be talked into playing and we'll 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:48.320 deal with this in January or February, because right now 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:50.000 they're not going to play him. But I can tell 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:53.160 you this, if he's able to play, why the hell 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:55.400 wouldn't you play the best guy instead of have him 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:57.399 in shorts and a T shirt during the games on 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:59.679 the sideline. We know he wants to get paid, but 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.719 so how can you put together a trade proposal if 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:04.640 you're one of these teams, Let's say you're the Eagles, 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:08.399 you're the Dolphins Denver, you don't know when he's available, 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:12.040 and it feels like the Texans aren't taking any kind 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:16.080 of secondary deals that they want top top end return 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:19.320 on Watson and they should, man, they should want top 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:22.520 end return because before the legal stuff kicked in, this 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:24.160 is one of the three best assets in the National 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:27.800 Football League, just was, and he instantly makes your team better. Now, 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:30.760 with that in mind, I'm not getting twenty five cents 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:33.359 or fifty cents on the dollar for him, and the 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:35.919 stuff I can control is communicating with him seeing if 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:38.760 he wants to play, dealing with the football stuff, the commissioner, 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:41.399 and the legal stuff. That's how above their pay grade. 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:43.880 So let's see what happens. But if you're the Texans, 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:46.480 you say, well, listen, he's under contract. He's not going 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:48.480 anywhere as long as we got him under contracts. So 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:51.520 he either wants to play if he can there's no restrictions, 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:53.399 or he doesn't, so we'll keep him here and then 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:56.159 we'll watch teams like the Giants or the Eagles, or 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:59.120 the Broncos, or if the Vikings flounder this year, six 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:01.399 seven teams get into the mix. And you know this, Dan, 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:04.119 the more that's involved, the more draft picks are gonna get, 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:06.160 the more first roundages are going to get. His value 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:08.720 will definitely be higher. I don't think missing a season 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:12.040 is gonna say, well, Deshaun can't play football anymore. So 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:14.440 if you're Nick Cassario, you're not just gonna give him away, 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:18.000 and I wouldn't either. You hold the cards. Nobody else 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:20.520 does right now, maybe the NFL and depending on the 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:22.919 legal side, but I'm not giving him away either. I 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:26.159 don't have to do anything. I covered myself with Tyrod Taylor. 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:28.680 So it's gonna be on Deshaun Watson, whether he wants 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:32.920 to play or not, because somewhere, somehow, desperation's the only 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:35.679 thing that would make a team right now, Dan, Like, 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.560 if you got a Jalen Hurts hurt in preseason or 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:40.440 you didn't think he could play, say oh my gosh, 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:44.040 let's just do it because eventually Deshaun Watson's gonna play anyway, 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:46.000 so let's just take the chance so we can get 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:48.320 through the legal stuff. Desperation will be the only way 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:51.040 they make a trade right now. How do you broach 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:56.120 the Kirk Cousins topic without making it political? Then are 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:59.280 we talking about the he doesn't want to get the 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:04.120 jack scene? Yeah? Dan? For me, I understand the side 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:07.440 of people saying, as a player that it's selfish because 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:11.520 you've got other people's careers, wins and losses on your shoulders. 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:13.320 I do get that, and if I was a player, 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:15.440 I'd probably think the same way. But I also when 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:18.040 you step outside, and how can it not be political? Dan, 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:23.320 We've turned a vaccine into Republicans versus Democrats, conservative versus liberal, 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:25.920 which is crazy because both sides get it and both 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:28.399 sides don't. I've always been a guy that says you 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:31.520 should have the choice, But that's different in your personal life, 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:35.399 because your personal life sees us to exist just by you. 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:38.320 When you cross the line and fifty three other players 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:41.840 an organization and wins and losses and their paychecks are 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:44.520 on the line, it's a tough decision. If kirk Cousin 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:46.840 doesn't get vaccinated, it's not like I wouldn't hang around him, 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:48.800 not going to be his friend. If kirk Cousins does 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:51.800 get vaccinated, it'll tell you that he's taken more responsibility 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:54.000 for the team. But I refuse to tell anybody how 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:55.440 to run their life because I don't know what their 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:58.600 health is, or what the downfall is or for their health, 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:00.800 or what goes on in their family or their religious police. 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:03.080 I can tell you this, though, you have to keep 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:05.160 in mind that it's more than one person. In mind, 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:07.359 it's not just you and your family. You're talking about 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:09.840 guys that are relying on their paychecks and wins and losses, 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:12.119 and part of that falls on kirk Cousin's shoulder. But 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:13.639 I'm not telling he should get it or not that's 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:16.120 going to be him and his family to decide you're 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:20.399 in Texas. I'm curious how big the Dak Prescott's situation 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:23.280 is that this is a little trickier that this isn't 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:25.920 you know? We moved on from the ankle, it's not 0:21:26.240 --> 0:21:31.000