WEBVTT - 01/11/21 DPS Hour 2 Ed Bouchette 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.480 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:07.480 Sports Radio Weekend. Everybody gangs are here, ready to go. 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:11.400 It's one of those where Sunday night, I'm watching and 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:14.400 I go after it's twenty eight to nothing, and I thought, 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:18.000 I'm exhausted, and then I realized still got the National 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:22.360 Title game coming up Monday night. But I am a warrior. 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:25.880 I'm a couch warrior. I'll be on that couch tonight. 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:27.920 You need me on that couch, you want me on 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:30.880 that couch tonight, I will be there. If I would 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:35.440 have told you on Thanksgiving, the Steelers, the Seahawks, and 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:39.040 the Titans won't make it to the second round. None 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:41.040 of those teams will make it to the second round, 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:46.159 even though all three will have home playoff games, you 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:50.120 probably would think I would probably guess one of the 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:53.440 three would advance if I would have said that the 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:57.880 Steelers will lose to Cleveland at home, Titans will lose 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.680 to Baltimore at home. Seattle will lose to the Rams 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:04.720 at home. I'm not surprised the Browns one. I'm surprised 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:09.040 how they won. As far as Seattle. If I'm Seattle 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:11.840 and I'm Pete Carroll, right, now I really have to 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:14.840 think long and hard about what is it that we're 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:20.319 missing here? Because I have Tyler Lockett, DK Metcalf, Russell 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:23.920 Wilson still in his prime. I got Jamal Adams. I 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:26.840 got a pretty good defense that came to life in 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.480 the second half of the season. You had a great 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:33.000 first half of the season, and then you're at home 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:37.200 and you look less than inspiring and you got manhandled 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:40.840 by the Rams. That would be frustrating if I start 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:43.160 to look at this and go, well, we can't blow 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:49.040 anything up the Steelers. It's the end of a season, 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.640 the end of an era. It feels like for me 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:54.960 in Ben Roethlisberger. I'm not going to pin all of 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:58.040 this on Ben. In fact, if you're the Steelers, you 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.240 really have to look at that offense and say, we 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.400 got to kind of reinvent ourselves. Who are we? What's 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:08.000 our identity? The Steelers have always run the football, always, 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:12.280 they'd average one hundred yards per game. This is the 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.119 first year that they haven't average eighty four yards per 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:18.440 game in a non threatening eighty four yards. But you 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:20.040 start to look at the Steelers and you go, okay, 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:22.360 what would you do? Well? I got to start with Ben, 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:26.760 because Ben, even if he's there for one more year, 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:29.600 this is a team that's still together, that is young. 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:32.480 I got a young defense there. I got some skill 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.840 position guys. I got to kind of figure out what 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.120 do we have and who are we as we move forward. 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:43.960 The Titans Derrick Henry two thousand yards play action passed 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:48.799 from Ryan Tannehill. You're playing at home, and then Baltimore 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:51.680 came in. In Baltimore the last month of the season 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.880 was the team that nobody wanted to face because it 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:59.079 felt like Lamar Jackson maybe had this epiphany or a 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:01.520 light bulb went off that you know, it was basically 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.840 I got to go back being who I used to be, 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:08.640 not a pocket guy. You know. I felt like they 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:10.760 were trying to make it more of a pocket passer 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:12.640 in the first half of the season. I thought the 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.400 second half of the season, it was Lamar Jackson saying, 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:18.960 I'm gonna get a hundred yards rushing. I might get 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:24.280 one ninety five passing. But if I'm John Harbaugh, I 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:28.520 roll the dice with Lamar Jackson and I just say, 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:30.440 this is the only way we can win. I give 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:34.560 credit to that defense. That defense was wonderful yesterday against Tennessee. 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:39.120 But you have this philosophy almost like Cam Newton with 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:42.640 Carolina in twenty fifteen when he won the went to 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:46.040 the Super Bowl, he won the MVP. I'm gonna pick 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:49.120 my spots, I'm gonna make some plays, and we're gonna 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:52.080 live and die by me with whatever I do with 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:54.960 my legs in my arm. That's the feeling I get 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:59.280 when I'm watching Baltimore. It's a good team, but a 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.680 dangerous team now because it feels like and I talk 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.240 about this all the time. I know I talk about 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:08.080 it too much. It's trying to find out who you are. 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:13.400 Bill Belichick famously trades the first four games of the 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:18.159 regular season like it's the preseason. He's not hurt sure 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.920 who they are because he wants to see it in 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:24.279 real time against real opponents. But that was back with 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.120 Tom Brady, but he did that. I want to see 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.520 what you do the final month of the season. Who 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.920 are you? And I think we saw that with Cleveland. 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:37.160 I think we saw that with Baltimore. These and the Rams, 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:41.159 you know, even the Rams yesterday. You know who would 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:44.520 have thought they fall off the radar after the Super 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:46.960 Bowl and then all of a sudden, everybody jumps off 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:50.680 Jared Goff's bandwagon. Sean mcvay's not the offensive genius that 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:56.960 we thought. But Sean McVay reinvented the Rams. They trade 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:01.320 for Jalen Ramsey. You have Aaron Donald there and that 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:06.040 defense is probably the best defense in football, and Jalen 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:09.760 Ramsey is not just taught. You have that and you 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:12.760 have Aaron Donald. Aaron Donald got hurt at the third quarter, 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.440 and hopefully he'll be available against green Bay. I don't 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:18.720 know what they have offensively. They're a running team, and 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.640 if Jared Goff is in there, how much can you 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:26.720 depend on him to throw against Green Bay? He'll get healthier. 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:30.000 I don't know if he'll be healthy against green Bay. 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:32.400 But you look at these teams and you wonder about 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.880 their identity. I thought the forty nine ers last year 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:40.599 knew who they were as well as anybody, and then 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:45.320 they got into the Super Bowl and they forgot who 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:50.200 they were. Kansas City knows who they are. But I 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:53.720 also think they need to understand you can't flirt with 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:57.640 danger here. You might go, well, Cleveland, we're playing the Browns. No, 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:02.120 you can't take that approach here. It's just like Buffalo 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.600 playing at home against Baltimore. You can't go, well, they 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.120 can't throw the ball, they can only run the ball. 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:12.160 Baltimore knows who they are. The reason why Buffalo got 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.360 a lot of momentum. It felt like they know and 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:17.120 knew who they were. Those are the teams that are 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:20.080 always dangerous in the playoffs. Not one of those. I 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:24.360 don't know. Sometimes we throw, sometimes we run. Not that 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:26.919 that's not going to be. It's got to be sustainable 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:31.520 there and watching the football over the weekend, you know, 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:33.960 you probably come away with as many questions as you 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.080 do answers there. I thought the Colts were a better 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:40.200 team than the Bills. The Rams manhandled Seattle. I thought 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:43.240 the thirty one twenty three win by the Buccaneers was 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.159 very deceiving because I don't think Tampa Bay was that 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:49.520 much better than Washington, believe it or none. The Ravens 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:53.760 over the Titans, you know, it's ten to nothing, and 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:57.520 that's where you think, Okay, now we make Baltimore one dimensional, 0:06:57.920 --> 0:06:59.640 and then we're going to run the football and have 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:02.760 play action passed with Ryan Tannehill and Derrick Henry. The 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:06.279 Saints against the Bears. I tried to act like I 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:09.760 was interested. I was sending text messages to Paulie because 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:13.400 he's a Bears fan. I was like, I'm really struggling 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:16.480 to watch this game. And then the Browns and the Steelers. 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.640 I like what I see with the Browns. I thought 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:23.160 the Browns were a better team, and if Kevin Stefanski 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:25.920 was on the sidelines last night, I was picking them 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.440 to beat the Steelers. Turns out they didn't need their 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:31.720 head coach on the sidelines. Pretty amazing. We'll check in 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:35.000 with the Steelers. Ed Bouchett, who has covered this team 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:38.040 since nineteen eighty five, he'll join us. Do they bring 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:42.000 back Ben Roethlisberger here has been on that decision whether 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.680 or not he comes back next year. Talk with my family, 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:48.080 discussions decisions, and you know, I still be year left 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:50.480 on my contract. I hope the Steelers won't be back 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.360 if that's the way we go, and there'll be a 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:56.080 lot of discussions, but now it's not the time for that. Yeah, 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:59.080 I agree. I'm sure the Steelers will say the right thing, 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:01.440 just like the Colts will say the right thing. I 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:03.800 don't know what the Bears do. Do the Bears bring 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:08.320 back Mitchell Trubisky? For a year a year plus. I'm 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:12.720 not sure, but what I want Mitchell Trubisky back, No, 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:15.320 I would not, but tell me who is going to 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:18.080 be my starting quarterback? You know. It's the same thing 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:22.800 with the Colts. Philip Rivers played well. Maybe he didn't 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:26.640 play great against Buffalo, and he does look like he's 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:29.800 laboring to throw the ball twenty yards, but his numbers 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:34.240 were good. They became a running team, the great offensive line, 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:38.960 that's a young, talented defense there. They might be a 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:42.280 dynamic quarterback away from going to the Super Bowl. Yeah, 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:45.640 mclen I was surprised by the Bills because they've been 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:48.839 blowing people out. They haven't had a non double digit 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:52.440 win since like two months. But I look at their schedule, 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:54.400 was all bad teams like that. I got fooled a 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.520 little bit. Is it possible I got full? Yeah? I 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:59.120 mean Miami. They destroyed Miami when they didn't even play 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.360 their Chargets last. But it comes down to Josh Allen 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:04.400 was the best player on the field, and Josh Allen 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:07.600 made some plays there and but but I thought the 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:09.800 Colds were the better team. Yeah, Paul, I thought. I 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:11.319 just want to say the same thing. I was watching 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:12.760 that game on the Bills are going to give this 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.280 up because they can't stop the Colts running game. Jonathan 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:17.920 Taylor was just pushing them around, and you know they 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:20.200 did save it. The Stefan Digg's trade is unbelievable, but 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:23.720 it didn't feel good the first three quarters. We also 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:26.400 have a national title game. Oh by the way, do 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:28.679 you know there? They would have gotten more publicity if 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:32.560 they did postpone this game, because it's we just got 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:36.320 through with six NFL games and you know, now you 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:41.079 have the National title game today. If I'm the National 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:44.200 Title Game committee, I wouldn't test anybody today. You know 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:47.400 what this show up, Let's play. Who cares, Let's just 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:51.160 get this game over with here, brush your teeth, comb 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.360 your hair, maybe take a shower, get out there, let's go. 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:56.680 Let's just play some football. Let's go, all right? Age 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:58.960 seven seven three d P Show email address tp oft 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:02.480 Dan Patrick dot com, Twitter handle at DP show. Baker Mayfield, 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.760 who doesn't listen to this show, apparently said that nobody 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:08.600 thought that they could win last night. They wasn't about 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:12.200 that specifically. Yeah, it's the same quote. But we believe 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:14.000 in the people in this room no matter what's going on. 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:17.640 As soon as the COVID news came out that we 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:19.880 were missing some key guys obviously are starting with our 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:22.679 head coach. We knew that everybody was counting out, and 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.400 we knew what mentality we were going to have, and 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:27.440 it's just to cut it loose and go out there 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.040 and give it everything we had. But there was no 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:33.480 added pressure, there was no extra anything. It was just 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:35.120 for us to go out and do our job because 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:39.800 no one believes in us besides us. Don't kick goofy, 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:45.160 don't kick cocky. Just know who you are. It's round 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:48.400 one of the playoffs. You want to feel a little 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:52.680 bit more swag, beat Kansas City in Kansas City, you 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:54.520 want to go a little bit nuts, then you can 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:58.120 do that. Even then I would caution you just play 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:02.200 who you are. That's it. Just just be who you are. 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:06.400 Don't have to be anything, don't have to do anything. 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:11.520 Baker doesn't have to shoot another commercial. Just go in there, 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:16.360 be who you are and then take your chances there. 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.680 It's just I get nervous sometimes when I see these 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.840 younger players, younger teams, and all of a sudden, man, 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:27.560 they get so cocky, and yeah, we told you guys, like, 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:30.240 this is not payback time, This is not I told 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:33.640 you nobody believed it. This is just hey, all of 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.080 us in here, we went out, we thought we could win. 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.640 We got a great coach, great philosophy. We did what 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:42.400 we're supposed to do. Don't tell anybody you didn't believe 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:46.680 in us. Move forward. Yes, McClellan, I was wrong about 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.160 the last two, but I think they need to be 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.160 somebody else. They need to be a better team with 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.280 a starting, healthy front light. How are they going to 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:56.200 beat the Chiefs just because like, well, they're gonna have 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:59.280 their their guard back. But didn't, didn't Conklin walk off 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.840 hurt last night? I feel like maybe yeah, I just 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:06.880 feel like there's such underdogs here, which can they really 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:11.880 do what it gets? The Chiefs? Sure? Absolutely, Like you 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.800 can never say never in sports? How many times when 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:19.160 we go, oh, you got no chance? I mean we're 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:22.880 littered with stupid takes like that, you got no chance? 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:26.360 All right? Cleveland? Is what a nine ten point underdong? 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:28.720 Is that what they are pulling? I got the Chiefs 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:31.520 giving the Browns eleven right now? Okay, you want the 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:35.160 rest of the lines, yeah, sure. Entertainment purpose the Packers 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.680 are given the Rams seven. Okay, the Bills are given 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.439 the Ravens two and a half at the Bills. Yes, 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:52.000 Saucy Saints at home given three to the Bucks. All right, 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:54.120 some phone calls? Is we always do every Monday, Best 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:58.040 and worst of the weekend. Brady Quinn former Cleveland Browns quarterback. 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:01.240 He works for Fox. He'll join us as we preview 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:04.040 the National Title game coming up. Have we seen anything 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:07.920 on Jalen Waddle of Alabama? I assume he's playing. I 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:11.079 don't know if there's been any update here, but I 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:14.920 would assume that he's going to be playing. Yes, if 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:18.880 you're Jaylen Wall of Alabama, would you push to play 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:21.120 to make a point? You know, if you're you walk 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.880 on the field, you get seen a reminder. I know 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:27.400 DeVonta Smith is fantastic, but I was the best guy 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:31.839 here two months ago. You're risking another injury, you're risking 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:35.640 the draft. But the statement of showing up on the field, 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:38.920 I'm gonna guess you want to play play in the 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:41.120 National Title Game. I know you don't want to hurt 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:44.800 your draft stock or oh my gosh, she's not as 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:49.040 good as Davanta Smith. I understand that. I understand all 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:51.840 of those questions or at least thoughts. But if I 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:54.240 haven't played in a long time and I have a 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:58.719 chance to play, yeah, I would go out there. It 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:01.240 might not be the right business decision because we see, 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:03.959 guys that if this was a bowl game, not a 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:08.079 national title game, if this was the outback, then does 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.480 Jalen Waddle play in the answers no, yes, Ton and 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:12.720 from a team standpoint, even if he's just a decoy, 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:14.839 getting him out there and that's just one more of 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.000 all the weapons they already have that Ohio State might 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:19.760 have to worry about. Not knowing exactly how healthy he 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:23.200 is can only help him. Brian in New Jersey, Hey Brian, 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:27.240 what's on your mind today? Mister Patrick? How are you good? Sir? 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:31.720 Hopefully you guys had a good weekend. Best of the weekend. 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:35.960 We always talk about bad beats. Well, we had a 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:39.400 pretty late touchdown yesterday in the Chicago Bears New Orleans 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.040 Saints game. I took a live bed of five hundred 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:45.920 dollars on the live line twelve and a half, so 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:49.440 that last second touchdown was a nice winner. And then 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.400 worst of the weekend. I'm just wondering, maybe you can 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:55.840 shed some insight. Is Doug Peterson just trying to get fired. 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:58.760 I'm not a Philly fan, but I'm an NFC East 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:02.840 fan and just don't get what he's doing with management 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:07.080 and the owner. Well, yeah, thank you, thank you, Brian. Yeah, 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:12.160 Doug Peterson, the Eagles coach, is meeting with Jeffrey Lourie today. 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:14.680 I saw I don't know if it was a report 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.040 because I read so much. Maybe it was just a 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:24.360 this could happen, that the Eagles could trade Doug Peterson 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:30.680 to the Jets. And so Joe Douglas used to work 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:34.520 with the Eagles, he's the GM, and I thought, oh 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.760 my god, Like, how about I just wait for Doug 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:40.760 Peterson to get fired? Why why do I want to 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.600 trade for this coach? There should be a rule that 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:45.520 if you trade for a coach, a coach has to 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:47.480 be thrown into the trade. He would like, if it's 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:49.920 a quality control coach. It sound like twenty four year 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.640 old kid who does analytics like Ray Hanley. Yeah, the 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:56.960 rights direct Ryan, you know that get traded back to you. Yeah, Paul. 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:00.480 That Bears game they won, so the line change a lot, 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:02.680 But a lot of people had the Bears getting eleven 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:05.360 and a half, the Bears scored that last touchdown the game. 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:08.560 Usually you kicked the extra point no matter what. But 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:11.240 in twenty eighteen, the NFL made a change because in 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:14.560 a playoff game, Stefan Diggs caught a touchdown, all the 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:16.800 teams ran off and they made him come back on 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.960 to do a useless extra point because the rule was 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:22.800 in place now. The two eighteen rule changed said if 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:25.440 the touchdown was made on the last play, if the 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.840 extra point doesn't affect the outcome of the game, they 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:30.800 don't have to do it. I don't know if the 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:32.640 Bears could have chosen to do it or not. I 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:35.000 don't think that's a factor, but it was unessay. But 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:36.320 a lot of people did not know the rule in 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:38.200 real time, and a lot of people who had the 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:41.320 Bears were like freaking out, Rob and Idaho, Hey Rob, 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:47.200 best and worst of the weekend? Hey Dan first one 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:50.840 of my big life worst. My dad is in the 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:54.040 hospital hunt of ventilator in the ICU right now, fighting 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:57.680 for his life against COVID, which just makes you all 0:16:57.720 --> 0:16:59.240 the more important to me. Is I think back even 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.720 to the days of the Big Show, it was a 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:03.880 time of really healing for my father and I am 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:06.520 bonding over your show. We both loved what you guys 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:08.960 were doing, and so you mean a lot to me, Dan. 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:14.920 But being that two worsts, how the Steelers just not good. 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.840 But when the Browns I used to the way of 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:22.080 that interception, I so wanted out Michaels to say, it's 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:26.040 Taki Taki with the Taki kaki that may have baulted him, 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:29.640 faulted over do you believe the miracles? And I'm left 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:32.320 warning what might have been Danny, Hey, good luck to 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:37.439 your father, Rob and thank you, thank you. Yeah, you 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:40.960 know what, being in the Northeast, we heard so much. 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:43.720 We knew so much about those who were dying from 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:46.760 COVID because it really hit hard. This was the epicenter 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:49.760 in the United States. And I remember people who were 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:53.040 spread out around the country said, you know, we can't relate, 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:57.640 like we don't have any positive test here. And I said, look, 0:17:57.720 --> 0:17:59.840 I hate to say it, but it's coming your way. 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.720 And you know, we still have so many who have 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:07.119 tested positive, and these front line workers, I hope that 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:12.120 they are getting the vaccine. I hope I found out 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:15.080 last week that you know, I'm I'm able to get it. 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:17.520 I have a compromised immune system. I didn't know if 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:19.600 I could even get the vaccine that they were worried 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:22.000 that it might have an adverse effect on me or 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:25.359 leave me more vulnerable. But I just said, look, I'm 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:28.480 on no list. I'll get it when it comes my turn. 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:31.600 But these people on the front lines, please make way 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:34.480 for them, those in the nursing homes and those on 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:38.760 the front lines, please please make way for them. All Right, 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:40.879 we'll take a break. We'll check in on the Steelers 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.440 because I don't know. I know it's the end of 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:46.159 the season. 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Now we 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:36.960 switched it up to who's most likely to retire Bet Roethlisberger, 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:41.280 Philip Rivers or Drew Brees. Okay, you can dial us up. 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:43.000 We'll get to more phone calls. Best and worst of 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:46.159 the weekend. I was reading Ed Bouchette's column in the 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:49.040 he covers the Steelers. He's been covering the Steelers since 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:52.080 nineteen eighty five, I believe, and his column with the 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:56.119 Athletic summing up last night. Here is the last line 0:20:56.119 --> 0:20:58.800 of his column. It was more than the end of 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:01.800 a season. It might be the end of an era, 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:06.320 Ed Bouchette joins us, Ed was at the end of 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:09.960 an era for Ben Roethlisberger and the Steelers. Well, we're 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:13.439 gonna probably find out rather quickly, Dan, He's due a 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:16.719 fifteen million roster bonus in the middle of March, and 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:18.840 they're going to have to decide whether to pay that, 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:22.320 whether to wrap it into an extension if you will somehow, 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:25.440 or if he retires, I don't think you'll see him 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:30.439 play anywhere else. He doesn't want to. But they have 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:34.960 a massive problem with the salary cap. They only have 0:21:35.119 --> 0:21:38.199 thirty four players under contracts, some of their better guys 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:41.880 or free agents. This does not look like a team 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:45.560 that's going to contend this next season. And if you're 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:48.000 Ben Roethlisberger, why would you want to play if you 0:21:48.040 --> 0:21:53.119 can't contend? What happened after going eleven? And oh, you 0:21:53.160 --> 0:21:56.360 know they I still haven't gotten a straight answer why 0:21:56.440 --> 0:21:59.480 they went to this short passing game. But it was working. 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:02.560 He got rid of the ball everybody knows, faster than 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:05.760 anybody in the league, after spending most of his career 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:08.600