WEBVTT - 12/21/20 HOUR 2- Andy Staples 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.480 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:07.360 Sports Radio. Welcome to the program already in progress. It's 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:10.440 our two on this Monday, Dan and the Dance, Dan 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:13.800 Patrick's show. Glad to have you stay as long as 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:16.200 you can. You can watch on Peacock. If you don't 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:18.599 have it, you can download the app. It's really simple, 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:22.200 take you thirty seconds. You can watch all three hours 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.440 absolutely free. We say good morning to our great radio 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:29.000 affiliates around the country. Chat row and if you'd like 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:31.200 get in touch, you can, as we always do every Monday, 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:35.280 Best and Worst of the weekend. Alabama, Notre Dame, Clemson, 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:39.400 Ohio State, A and M, Oklahoma, Florida, Cincinnati on the 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:44.159 outside looking in. College football Playoff Committee can explain their 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:47.080 choices all day long, but we know that this isn't 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:50.520 an exact science. We've talked about it. After Alabama, Clemson, 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:54.200 Ohio State, and Notre Dame, the Irish have a similar 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:57.160 resume to Texas, A and M. And we know the 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:59.959 committee like certain teams in the big conferences too long. 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:03.480 Oklahoma jumped up to number six ahead of undefeated Cincinnati, 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:07.440 and they offer up their reasons, but they don't always 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:11.720 stand up Ohio State played six games the eye test, 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:14.440 but they're a blue bloody and you want them in there, 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:16.800 great fan base. They got some players who are going 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:22.280 to play on Sunday next year. They didn't want Alabama 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:24.840 versus A and M. And I think that A M 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:28.039 fans need to realize that if they were getting in 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:31.640 the committee. I know that I've said it and I 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:35.000 sound like I'm crazy when I say it, but so 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:39.520 much goes into this is a TV show. You don't 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:42.959 want blowouts. They hope they don't get them. It doesn't 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.240 mean that they won't get them. And you might get 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:48.920 that with Notre Dame in Alabama. Remember computers used to 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:51.520 do this. The computers were not thinking that this was 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:56.400 a TV show. When the BCS was deciding one versus two, 0:01:56.560 --> 0:02:01.360 that was the computer got all the information there was. 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:05.000 The human touch was not involved in it other than 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:08.600 feeding the information into a computer. Now you have humans 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:11.000 who are looking at this, going do we want an 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:16.400 M versus Alabama again? People would rather tune in to 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:19.560 Notre Dame getting blown out by Alabama then A and 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:24.400 M getting blown out by Alabama. If that happened, I 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:26.519 think we could all predict what was going to happen. 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:30.040 There was nothing. We didn't get any chaos in college football. 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:33.040 You know, Florida went toe to toe with Alabama. I 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:36.400 would love to see Florida and Alabama play again, believe 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:40.119 it or not. If it comes down to Notre Dame 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:42.760 versus Clemson, I would have liked to have seen that again. 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:46.560 But these are the final four. Will make the best 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:49.079 of it and hopefully we get some good games. I mean, 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:52.480 that's really all you can ask for. I feel like 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:55.799 the system's flawed only because it's rigged that these other 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:58.880 schools actually think they have a chance and they don't. 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:03.280 And that's where they need to find a way to go. 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:07.960 Either acknowledge them, let them in, expand the playoffs, or 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:11.840 just basically say we're just letting the Power Conferences in. 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:15.320 That's it. But I think you're going to see expansion, 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:19.000 and I think the momentum that has been building here 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:21.720 not only this year, but maybe last year, and they'll 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:25.400 expand to eight teams. I was talking to my college 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.600 football source over the weekend and he said it's inevitable. 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:33.200 The question is the Power Five Conferences ESPN you have 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:35.960 a contract here, do you open it up? Do you 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:39.640 wait until twenty twenty three or twenty twenty four and 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:41.880 then go, now we're going to expand the playoffs. I 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.120 don't think they can wait that long. I think you 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:47.640 have an opportunity and you're able to expand the playoffs. 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:50.680 And yes, you're going to get blowouts, but you got 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:54.480 to blowout against Notre Dame in Clemson. It's going to happen. 0:03:54.560 --> 0:04:00.560 There are two great programs in America Alabama Clemson. Whoever 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:05.080 plays them, they're ripe to be blown out. A and 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.760 M is the sixth team in the country. They got 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:12.440 blown out Clemson number two or Notre Dame number two 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:16.839 getting blown out by Clemson. It happens. It's going to 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:23.599 happen because there's a big disparity between those programs. Hopefully 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:25.880 we get competitive games. That's all I asked for. I 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.799 gotta have my Heisman vote in by five o'clock today, 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:32.200 and I struggled with it. Over the weekend. I watched 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:36.640 the Alabama Florida game from start to finish. I watched 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:40.040 a lot of Clemson, certainly in the first half, trying 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.920 to figure out where Trevor Lawrence fits in. DeVante Smith, 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:47.520 the Alabama wide receiver, Mac Jones, the quarterback. I watched 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:50.680 Ball State in Buffalo because I wanted to give some 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:56.719 love to Jared Patterson, and they lost and he didn't 0:04:56.720 --> 0:05:00.279 play well like he was one of those He's had 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:05.359 an unbelievable year thousand yards in five games, and is 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:08.560 he looks like he could be a like a Darren's 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:12.240 Sproles type in the NFL. But a whole lot of fun. 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:16.919 But Buffalo lost to ball State. You know, you're looking 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:20.359 for those players from schools that may not get a 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:23.280 whole lot of recognition, and I always like to do 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.839 that with the third person on my ballot. But I'll 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.520 and I can't tell you who I'm voting for. I've 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:30.960 been asked not to those of us who are voting. 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:36.120 The Heisman Trust said don't tell people who you're voting for. 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:39.760 I guess prior to the deadline. So I will certainly 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:43.960 acknowledge that, and you know, I take it seriously, very seriously, 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:46.920 and it's an honor to be able to do it. 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:50.240 All right. Some other headlines here Cleveland Brown's one last night, 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:52.359 and I wanted to go back and look at what 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:56.920 Baker Mayfield has done. Because John Dorsey was the GM 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:58.800 of the Browns, and he's the one that said we're 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:03.880 taking Baker Mayfield number one overall. Surprised everybody. But you know, 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:09.800 in his last four games, ten touchdowns and you know 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:19.200 the Browns one interception. So he's playing well, he's playing smart, 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:21.880 I should say, and that's what I want out of him. 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:25.520 This is an Oklahoma You're not going against big twelve 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.599 defenses here. You got to be smart. You got a 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.719 good running attack, you got some weapons, You've got a 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:34.400 couple of defensive players who can make some plays. And 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:37.920 this is a team that will be dangerous in the postseason. 0:06:37.960 --> 0:06:41.680 I believe if they stick to the script. It's when 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:45.080 they don't stick to the script they're vulnerable. And last 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.920 night they beat the Giants. I'm looking at the Cowboys now. 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:50.800 I know the cow always were my preseason pick to 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:54.400 go to the Super Bowl. They got the Eagles and 0:06:54.480 --> 0:07:00.640 the Giants. They're five and nine. Cowboys are in Okay 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:06.040 going against the Eagles and then they got the Giants. 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:11.960 Could the Cowboys make the playoffs here? I watched a 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.480 lot of the Eagles against the Cardinals. That was my 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.280 favorite game because I wanted to see Jalen Hurts and 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:19.760 Kyler Murray and it was back and forth. It was. 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:23.440 It was a lot of fun there. I watched in 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:28.080 amazement the Jets against the Rams because I kept thinking, 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:33.679 the Jets are the Jets look like they're the playoff team, 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.280 and the Rams look like they're the winless team, Like 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:40.160 there's no life there. And I don't I don't know 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:44.000 how you explain that. But here's Sean McVay, the Rams 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:47.560 head coach, trying to this loss will demoralize this only 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.120 as much as we allow it to. It's gonna be embarrassing, 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.360 sick tier stomach about it. But we do have two 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:54.840 games left in it, and we've got to find a 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:58.400 way to respond and rebound on a short week. Yeah, 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:00.640 that was one of those where you go that just happened. 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:04.400 It truly, the Jets are in a victory formation. Here 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.760 is Sam Darnold, the Jets quarterback. I mean, it's the 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:09.720 greatest feeling in sports, you know, to be able to 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:12.640 ice the game out and know we had it. I mean, 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.440 it's the best, you know, for you know, just that 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:17.720 drive alone. You know we knew we couldn't give it 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:20.560 back to him, and for us to be able to 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:22.840 execute when we really need it to. I mean, that 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:26.200 was obviously something we haven't done all year. He's a 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:30.040 good quarterback, the potential to be a good quarterback. He's athletic. 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:33.520 You know, I just don't know what it does to 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:37.319 your confidence level when you show up for work every week, 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:41.880 every day and you know you're probably going to lose. 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:47.320 And then he got hurt, lost his job. Joe Flacco 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.719 came in. You lose your defensive coordinator. You know your 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:54.040 head coach is dead man walking here. You know that 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:58.240 the Jets fans are hoping you lose the game because 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:02.480 then you get Trevor Lawrence. But in true Jets form, 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:07.960 they win. And now the Jacksonville Jaguars are on the clock. 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:10.760 All right, we'll get to phone calls best and worst 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.640 to the weekend. By the way, the Patriots, who I 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:17.080 said would not make the playoffs, are not making the playoffs. 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:20.679 Here is Bill Belichick with this loss. You guys were 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:24.560 eliminated from playoff contention, first time since O eight. Just 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:30.000 wondering your reaction to that. Disappointed, But we didn't deserve 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:34.600 to win today, So yeah, pretty much so. And I 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:38.600 started to look at Cam Newton's numbers because if I'm 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:41.400 New England. Do I play Jared Stidham the last two games? 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:43.920 Do I want to see what I have? Do they 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:45.920 know what they have? Do I just ride this out 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.600 and have Cam Newton as my starting quarterback in his 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:53.040 last seventeen starts. So this goes back two years. Cam 0:09:53.080 --> 0:10:01.960 Newton has thrown in seventeen games, five touchdown passes, twelve interceptions. 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:08.079 He has had almost five hundred throws over those seventeen games. 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:12.720 As Peter King points out in his column today, Aaron 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:18.920 Rodgers has had four hundred seventy seven pass attempts through 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:23.320 the same time period. He's thrown forty touchdowns. Cam's thrown five. 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:27.320 And I know coming back from arthur'scopic surgery, this was 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:30.680 on his rotator cuff and for those of us who 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:34.880 have had rotator cuff surgery, just coming back for a 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:37.760 normal life, not trying to fit a football into a 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:42.319 small window is really difficult. And I don't think Cam 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.440 has come all the way back from COVID. I don't 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:51.080 think that you can discount that. But Cam, we're not 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:54.240 going to see Cam a twenty fifteen, never going to 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:57.960 come close to that. Can he still be a quarterback 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:02.439 who starts in the NFL. Is he a quarterback who 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:06.920 is going to be a backup quarterback? And I think 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.160 that's going to be the next step to decide what 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:12.720 happens with the Patriots. What direction they go in? Do 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:16.360 they go after a quarterback? Do they keep Cam? Do 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.520 you give him more money? Is Jared Stidham? Is that 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:23.959 experience experiment over as well? But Patriots and I also 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:29.080 thought about this. We have talked about Julian Edelman Hall 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:32.880 of Famer, potential Hall of Famer. I think this is 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:37.280 it for Julian Edelman at age thirty four, you don't 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:40.920 hear his name anymore, and his career may end up. 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:43.000 Do they play the Jets on the last game of 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:45.760 the season. I believe, don't they? McLevin like, could you 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:49.480 imagine like Julian Edelman's career is going to end on 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:55.560 a nondescript Sunday afternoon against the New York Jets. Yeah, 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:58.920 Paul and the Patriots are the hardest team to predict 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:00.520 what they're going to do with the quarter back position. 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:02.280 A year ago, at this time, we thought Brady would 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:04.480 do another year or two. Then we thought they were 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:06.600 going to go with Stidham. Then we thought, remember that 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:08.679 Andy Dalton might be traded for That was a hot 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.520 rumor that they're going after Dalton and then Cam out 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:14.400 of nowhere. And if you could predict the starting quarterback 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:16.800 Week one of the Patriots next year, there's like ten 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:18.960 different names you could throw out there. But also go 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.240 back to when I told you that the Patriots were 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:24.959 interested in Baker Mayfield. They were interested into a tongue 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:30.360 of ioloa. They have thought about this, They've explored these 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.720 other quarterbacks prior to this, even when they had Brady, 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.880 Belichick was kicking the tires on a couple of these quarterbacks. 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:43.200 And that's why that's why I'm surprised they didn't do anything, 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.800 make a move go up in the draft, because I 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:50.040 think they thought if Baker fell that maybe they could 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:52.640 get him. And the fact that they were interested in Tuah. 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.480 Bill is looking at who is the next quarterback and 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.560 what kind of style are we going to be playing? 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:02.960 And I think he thought he may have had that. 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:06.080 He caught fool's gold with Cam Hey, he can run 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:09.319 past the RPO. We love it. You know, I'm losing 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:11.679 some defensive players, but maybe we could keep it together 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:15.000 and still win the East it didn't happen. Yeah, mcclub. 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:17.960 I mean, I know we're not doing excuses, but the 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.720 opt outs hurt them, probably more than any other team. 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.200 Isn't this a last year anyway? Even if Cam had 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:25.760 been good, Yeah, but Cam didn't play well. So yes, 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:28.440 my defense had opt outs. Cam didn't play well. Cam 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:31.560 didn't look good. There are guys who look good and 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:35.160 they lose. He doesn't look good even when they win. 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:39.280 He doesn't necessarily look good. He's a he's a running quarterback, 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:42.320 and if you put him in the pocket, he does 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:46.240 not look comfortable at all. All right, Uh, let's get 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:48.600 a couple of phone calls in here. Let me see 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:52.120 Barry in Long Island. Hey, Berry, sorry about your jets. 0:13:53.880 --> 0:14:01.360 Good morning fellows. Five. Yeah, yeah, you know it's only 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:05.800 my Jets could go one in fifteen and not get 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:11.920 the first pick. I just turned sixty. I vaguely remember 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:18.959 the sixty nine Super Bowl win, and I pretty much 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:22.880 resigned myself to, you know, not seeing another Super Bowl 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:27.320 in my lifetime. Then this year, a little sliver of 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:34.720 light comes through maybe maybe maybe, and Lucy pulls Lucy 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:38.600 pulls the ball away from Charlie Brown. Again. Old are 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:47.560 you I'm sixty, Well, just eat healthy and exercise, Berry, 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:50.360 maybe you'll see this team make the playoffs in your lifetime. 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:52.320 But I would just say, let's let's just start a 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:57.240 workout regimen. Eat right and work out. Okay, Yeah, well, 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:01.920 at least at least we have uncle Stevie Cohen buying 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:04.960 the Mets. Yeah, good luck with that too. Now I 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.000 might get a word. I might get a world series 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:10.360 before I die. I like, how when thank you very 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:12.680 happy holidays, Mary Christims, I like, when you know the 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:15.040 Mets fans go, hey, we got a billionaire about the team, 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:18.239 I go, pretty much, all these teams are owned by billionaires, 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:20.440 and we think they're going to go on a spending spree. 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:23.520 Like Steve Cohen, the billionaire who bought the message, is 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:27.360 gonna go crazy. I don't think so. But I mean, 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:29.960 unless you go, man, he's going to spend a ton 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:32.840 of money. This is crazy. He's gonna be going crazy. 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.160 You can be like a drunk soldier on a week 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:37.680 or a sailor on a weekend. Here, how let's just 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:41.600 drinks on me. I don't think that's going to happen here. 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:46.680 Gus and Los Angeles, Hi, Gus, welcome back, Good morning, 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:50.880 mister dph. Best and worst of the weekend is actually 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:55.560 the same thing, which was the USC Oregon game. Best 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:57.520 of it is that, you know what I'm I'm proud 0:15:57.520 --> 0:15:59.920 of my boys for, you know, for doing what they did, 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.080 and you know, even though they lost. The Worst of 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:06.000 it is the PAC twelve and the frauds at the 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:10.600 NAA allowing USC to play three games in twelve days. 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.000 You know, yeah, we were six and oh and everything 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:15.000 like that. We were the favorites. But I don't care 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:18.360 who you are. You play three games in twelve days, 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:21.560 You're not winning that third game. And I just don't 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:24.840 know how they allowed that to do it. They took 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:27.240 Washington out at the last second. They put like, what 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:29.720 is this like a UFC fight, We're just replacing people 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:33.160 for the last second. Yes, yes that's the case, Gus. 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:36.720 And thanks for the phone call. Absolutely, the NFL does 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:40.960 this three games in twelve days. They've done this. But 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:44.200 you're asking college kids. By the way, I hope that 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:49.600 we learned from twenty twenty that these college kids are athletes. 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:52.880 We love to do student athlete. They coined that back 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:55.800 in the seventies. We bought into that nonsense. Everything that 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:59.520 we've asked of these athletes this year. Please don't refer 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:03.000 to them as student athletes. They're athletes. These football players, 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:08.879 what we've asked them to do, they're athletes basketball too, 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:12.639 Like I never know if a game is actually going 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:18.040 to go off as scheduled in college basketball. And if 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:20.280 you don't want to call him pro athletes, call him semipro. 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:25.720 Because what we've asked these kids to do, it's been 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:29.520 remarkable because all of these conferences. You know that you've 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.320 got commissioners taken victory laps, and hey, look at what 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:34.359 we did in the SEC. You know who did that? 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:42.399 The kids did. They made all this happen, And who 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:46.200 would have thought back in March April May that we'd 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:49.960 be able to get these games in. It hasn't been pretty, 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:57.199 and hopefully we get some good games here. But I 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:00.199 hope in twenty twenty one we look back differently and 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:04.520 remember what these football players, you know, these teams went 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:06.920 through to get us to this point. All Right, more 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:10.640 phone calls coming up. What's the poll question, Nick Levin? Okay, 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:13.160 it's a Trevor Lawrence special. If you're Trevor Lawrence, where 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:16.719 do you want to play next year, the Jets, the Jags, Clemson, 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:20.960 or possibly hold out and it's actually sixty two said 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:27.400 the Jags. Yeah, I don't you know what. Talking to 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:30.760 him the other last week, it felt like he's from 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:33.960 a small town and he's he didn't grow up an 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:41.840 NFL fan, and maybe Jacksonville allows him to be normal ish, 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:44.840 you know, the expectation level, the number of media members there. 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:48.480 Trust me, he goes to the Jets, he better be 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:52.719 great right away because there's no grace period there Jacksonville. 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:56.000 It feels like going to ease in a little bit 0:18:56.119 --> 0:19:00.720 here the expectation level. But the Jets, Jets, you know, 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:04.040 that's sky high. They want a winner, They want a 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:08.840 winner now, and the expectation level would be extremely high. Yeah, Paully, 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:11.760 I had the guys, the research guys look at this 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:13.639 because is there any way the Jets at the Jets 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:16.240 and the Jaguars finished with the exact same record. Is 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:18.719 there anything with how the other teams play that changes 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:21.280 the strength of schedule? Is there any chance, even if 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:24.160 it's like five percent, that the Jets could do nothing 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:26.760 and end up getting this pick back. We're looking into it. 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:30.440 We're trying to find out how many scenarios there are? No? Okay, 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:35.600 just from a math standpoint, so both teams lose their 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:39.200 final two games, is there anything strength of schedule wise 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:42.640 that would allow the Jets to leap for all the Jags, 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:45.040 right we're looking to that right now, it's just a 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:49.399 glimmer of hope. Pepeully. We'll talk Andy Staples, who's going 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:52.240 to join us. He covers college football for the Athletic 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:55.640 on kind of where are we going with the playoff? 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:59.440 You know that are we expanding? Are we just gonna 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:02.160 keep it as it is? And you're starting to hear 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:06.639 some of these coaches who were all in on the 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:10.119 BCS and didn't want to go to fourteen playoff who 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:14.600 now understand that maybe you have to expand this. It's 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:19.240 either expanded or just basically say to all these outliers 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:21.600 who aren't in a Power of five conference, you're not 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:24.480 going to play. You might end up ranked sixth in 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:27.320 the country, You're not going to play for a national championship. 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:32.080 At least tell them instead of holding out hope, hey, 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:35.720 where are we ranked? And then you realize there is 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:38.119 no way you're going to leap frog at Georgia or 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:41.280 a Florida or A Texas, A and M doesn't matter. 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:46.280 Doesn't matter what you do. Undefeated, blow everybody out, doesn't matter. 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:49.199 And really that's what the Playoff Committee is telling you. 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:51.359 Take a break twenty two after the hour here on 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:53.400 the Dan Patrick Show. 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Go 0:22:05.960 --> 0:22:08.119 the extra mile, the all important first step in an 0:22:08.119 --> 0:22:12.960 authorized dealership. Today. All right, here's this scenario. We are 0:22:13.000 --> 0:22:17.399 wondering if the Jets could somehow catch the Jaguars in 0:22:17.480 --> 0:22:22.080 strength of scheduled tiebreaker over the next two weeks. The 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:25.440 Jags are guaranteed to finish with a weaker strength of schedule. 0:22:25.960 --> 0:22:28.200 The only way that Jets could get back to the 0:22:28.280 --> 0:22:32.760 number one pick is the Jags win a game. That's it. 0:22:33.840 --> 0:22:37.960 We were wondering if maybe who do the uh the Patriots. 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:40.600 I know the Jets play the Patriots, Browns at Jets 0:22:40.640 --> 0:22:43.119 and Jets at Patriots for the Jets last year games, 0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:46.600 and it's Bears at Jags, Jags at Colts for their 0:22:46.680 --> 0:22:51.439 lasting Okay, all right, so if you're Trevor Lawrence, you 0:22:51.520 --> 0:22:54.639 probably are breathing a sigh of relief that maybe you 0:22:54.720 --> 0:22:57.520 get to go to Jacksonville instead of the New York Jets. 0:22:58.119 --> 0:23:00.679 Andy Staples kind enough to join us son loan from 0:23:00.720 --> 0:23:04.920 the Athletic covering college football. Andy, any problems with the 0:23:05.000 --> 0:23:09.040 final four, not really, because it was going to be 0:23:09.600 --> 0:23:11.560 Notre Dame or A and M at four, and you 0:23:11.600 --> 0:23:13.360 could flip a coin on those two, and I don't 0:23:13.359 --> 0:23:15.520 think anybody other than the fan bases would have been 0:23:15.600 --> 0:23:18.680 upset if one or the other had been picked. Notre 0:23:18.720 --> 0:23:20.960 Dame makes sense. You can make the case, Hey, look 0:23:20.960 --> 0:23:23.399 they beat a team that's in the playoff Texas. A 0:23:23.400 --> 0:23:25.199 and M had a really good win against Florida, but 0:23:25.720 --> 0:23:28.080 they both got blown out by teams that are in 0:23:28.119 --> 0:23:30.680 the playoffs. So I mean it was kind of six 0:23:30.760 --> 0:23:33.800 to one, half dozen to the other. I just would 0:23:33.840 --> 0:23:37.919 like it to be a better system in general. You know, 0:23:38.080 --> 0:23:40.400 it doesn't need to be four. Should have been eight 0:23:40.480 --> 0:23:44.800 all along, and every year they keep showing us why 0:23:44.840 --> 0:23:48.000 it should be eight. But you know what will happen, Andy, 0:23:48.040 --> 0:23:49.919 You're gonna get some of these teams that get in 0:23:49.960 --> 0:23:53.000 there and they get blown out because they face Alabama 0:23:53.040 --> 0:23:55.560 or Clemson in the opening round and then people, now 0:23:55.800 --> 0:23:58.360