WEBVTT - Hour 2 - Chris Haynes (07-16-20) 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.520 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:07.040 Sports Radio Hour two. On this Thursday, We'll check in 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:10.600 with Chris Haynes, who covers the NBA. We'll check in 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:13.920 inside the Bubble. Join us coming up. LSU head coach 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:15.840 head or Jon will join us coming up in the 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:19.520 final hour of the program. Talked a lot about Dak 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:24.120 Prescott and Derrick Henry. During the first hour of the program. 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:28.400 Ezekiel Elliott is clapping back at Twitter haters. Here, mcleven, 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:31.080 are you involved in this? I don't think so. I 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:34.480 want in Okay, what's he saying? Check the stats? Since 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:37.000 I entered this league, I have dominated year in and 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:41.160 year out, put some respect, respecting capital letters on my name. 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:45.800 And then somebody clapped back and said, Bro, you got 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:50.320 paid two years early and for way too much. How 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:55.800 you need more respect than ninety million. Here's another one, bro. No, Lie, 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:57.640 I'm a huge fan, but I'd be lying if I 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:00.880 said I wasn't disappointed in your performance the last two years. 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:04.480 I don't see the hunger that happens with running backs 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:08.000 when they get paid, you start to run a little 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:13.240 more tentatively. Hunger has never been the question mark. Wow Wow, 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:17.160 that's a shot. That's easy, low hanging fruit, which is 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:22.440 something you should probably have more of. What hey, can 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:25.360 you show me the numbers with Zeke Elliott here mclove 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:28.080 in the last two years. I just don't think we 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:31.800 mentioned him. I don't think he has those plays that 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:33.800 he had when he first got in the league, those 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:37.240 incredible plays. Remember it was Zeke's team, like they were 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:40.080 a running team, and then they were like, we got 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:42.760 to take advantage of Zeke with play action pass and 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:44.880 this will help Dak Prescott be able to throw the 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:48.200 ball downfield. I had a scout tell me that defenses 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:49.800 still want to see if he can throw the ball 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:52.560 down the field. This is the knock on Dak Prescott. 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:55.320 And then his numbers are big still. He led the 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:57.680 league of rushing two years ago fourteen thirty four and 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.480 had thirteen fifty seven last year. Okay, but I wonder 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:04.480 how impactful they were. That's where I keep coming back 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.480 to that. Do you think that they're a running team 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:11.480 When they needed a big play, did they get that 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:16.640 from Zeke Elliott? I mean there's still if Zeke's great 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:20.240 and the offensive line is Hall of Fame worthy and 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:22.520 you got Dak who wants to be the highest paid 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:25.160 or second highest paid player in the game and you're 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:27.480 eight and eight. I can put a lot of this 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:32.000 on Jason Garrett. I still think that Jerry Jones's biggest regret, 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:34.919 and he'll never mention it publicly, is he stayed with 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:38.720 Jason Garrett too long and blew too many opportunities to 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:43.000 maybe make a run and get a coach that was 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:46.120 going to make this team better, because I don't know 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:48.600 if he brought out the best in his players on 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.200 a consistent basis. I always thought Jason was more of 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.160 an assistant coach, and that's what you have now with 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.880 the New York Giants. He's an assistant coach there, and 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.119 maybe Mike McCarthy is going to be an upgrade there. 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:02.000 I don't know if the offense changes. I don't know 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.720 if it's more on Dak Prescott's shoulders. Are they more 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:09.200 of a running team with Zeke Elliott? But I don't 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:11.639 want to pay my running back early. I don't want 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:15.680 to pay him often, and Dallas did that, and I 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:17.320 think that that will turn out to be a bad 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:19.760 deal for them. Yeapo, Zeke Elliott's got a point, and 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:23.079 he is the fourth all time in rushing yards per 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:26.320 game career. He's averaging ninety seven yards a game rushing 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:29.160 in his career. That's just behind Jim Brown, Barry Sanders, 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.600 and Terrell Davis. Now, the caveat there is that a 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:33.840 lot of running backs start hot and their first four 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:36.320 years are always their best or almost always their best. 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.720 But he's ahead of Eric Dickerson, Walter Peyton, Adrian Peterson. Okay, 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.360 but if I said you can have Zeke Elliott or 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:47.080 Christian McCaffrey, who do you want completely healthy? No, yeah, 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:49.800 Ezekiel Elliott. Oh, I'd take Christian McCaffrey in a second. 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:54.960 Right now. It is splitting hairs. But Ezekiel Elliott takes 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:58.360 five yard runs and makes them eight. And now I 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:01.360 know he's a great pass catcher. Derrick Henry or Zeke 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:06.000 Elliott Zeke when healthy? Yeah, but I don't know what 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:08.920 healthy means now. Oh, I guess I'm using that with 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:11.440 all running backs assuming health. Well, he's been pretty healthy, 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.400 but I don't know. He's not the same running back 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:17.920 he was when he got in the league. His first year, 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:21.400 hembage one hundred nine yards per game. Nuts, he's got 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:25.080 one of the best offensive lines in the game. Christian 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:29.159 McCaffrey does not have that. Derrick Henry I think made 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:33.520 that offensive line look a little bit better. By all accounts. 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:37.880 Zeke Elliott has one of the top three lines. He's 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:41.640 got what maybe two Hall of famers on that line, 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:47.920 like Zach Martin Iron Smith. Those are Hall of famers. 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:54.200 So he's got a headstart over all these other running backs. Yes, McLeman, 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.760 he's got a lot aware already in his NFL career 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.240 that well, plus go back to college too. I mean 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.359 you have to actor in the wear and tear on 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:02.760 the running back, and I have to go back to 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:05.520 college as well. Derrick Henry didn't have wear and tear 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:08.880 at Alabama. Christi McCaffrey did have wear and tear at Stanford, 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:14.240 and it eventually catches up to you. I go back 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:17.600 to remember James Wilder with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Yeah, 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:21.080 he had I think one season, maybe two, four hundred 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:25.960 and fifty carries something crazy like that, But that's all 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:32.640 the Buccaneers had, but four hundred plus carries. Yeah, McLevin. 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:34.799 You know who seems like an exception you mentioned earlier, 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:37.800 Adrian Peterson, Like he's the only running back where it 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.920 never mattered what he did, and if he had stayed 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:45.960 healthy and you know the suspension, he would be knocking 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:48.240 on the door of him at Smith for the all time. 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:50.120 And I don't know if anybody's ever going to get 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:54.560 close to that again. It's it just doesn't it doesn't 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:57.080 feel like, you know, we devalued the running back. We 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:59.600 don't give you the same touches because football used to 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:02.920 be predicated on running the ball, controlling the clock. You 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:05.520 take a couple of shots down the field and you 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:08.520 have a good defense, that's it. It was almost a 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:13.919 conservative approach. And unless we go back to that, the 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:16.640 running back, if you get to ten thousand yards, it's 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:21.040 gonna be like, man, you had a great career, but 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:22.480 that's the way it used to be. You got to 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:25.960 ten thousand yards like Jim Taylor of the Green Bay Packers. Now, 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.920 granted they won Super Bowls. He wasn't a great running back, 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:32.280 but for that team and that offense, he was what 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:37.479 they needed. I still think Ricky Waters was one of 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:42.320 the great players that just got lost. Got lost. Great 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:47.279 pass catcher, and he got overshadowed because it felt like 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.320 he was Marshall Falk before Marshall Falk and then you 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.919 started to see some of these numbers and Ladanian Tomlinson 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:57.040 comes along. You're like, Oh, everybody's in trouble here, all right, 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.880 Welcome to the program. Already in progress, as you can tell. 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:03.120 Eight seven seven three DP show email address DP in 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:06.960 dan Patrick dot com Twitter handle a DP show. Say 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:09.640 good morning to our radio partners, TV partners watching on 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.240 YouTube dot com slash with the Dan Patrick Show. We're 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:15.480 still waiting for this Washington Post story that's supposed to 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:21.200 be a big deal. Nobody's confirmed anything. We've reached out. 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:24.160 We reached out to the sports editors at the Washington 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:27.360 Post and just said, look, off the record, can you 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:29.720 tell us when the story is going to come out? 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:32.760 And we didn't even get a response on it. Everybody's 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:35.560 tight lipped about this, but it feels like there's something 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:39.040 to do with the toxic culture work environment with the 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:47.480 Washington Redskins. I'm guessing the article expose is probably complete 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:51.960 now the lawyers are looking over this. That would be 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:56.280 my guest. And I don't know if it involves Daniel Snyder. 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:01.480 You got two employees fired Sunday and then they're a 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:09.600 long time broadcaster Larry Michael just resigned. Something's happening here. 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:12.960 It's not just a name change. And that's where I 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:16.800 wondered with skepticism that maybe the name change just happened 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:18.880 to come about at the same time you had a 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:23.720 story that was going to explode. Ross Tucker, our friend, 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.400 former NFL lineman, said, this is like the movie that 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:28.280 everybody keeps saying, you gotta go see it, you gotta 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:29.840 go see it, you gotta go see it, and then 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:31.440 you go see it, you go, Well, it didn't live 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:35.600 up to what the hype was. I'm hopeful that this 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:39.680 story doesn't live up to the hype because given look, 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:44.119 I've been told enough that boy, this could be an explosion. 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:48.880 This could be something that is pretty bad for a 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:54.240 couple of people that we're in the organization. But you know, 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:56.679 there's no names that I'm going to attach, and I'm 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.240 not even going to mention, you know, what anybody's job 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:02.000 was in there. You just start to hear a little bit. 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:06.559 But we don't have that story. And maybe the Washington 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:08.520 Post drops that story by the end of the week, 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:13.600 but by all accounts, it's pretty exclusive. Exclusive. All right, 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:15.680 some phone calls here, what are we gonna stay with 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:17.800 that pole question for the first hour? Yeah, we have. 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.240 If you could start an offense and one of these players, 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:22.960 I know, I know, we'll stick with it. I we'll 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:25.559 come up with something better. All right, what are the results? Okay, 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:27.559 so you have a choice between Kittle, Michael Thomas, and 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:32.040 Christian McCaffrey. McCaffrey actually runs away with it, no pun intended. Okay, 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.280 that might be the most famous of those three. Yeah. 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:39.079 Now I said I would probably start my team with Kittle. 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:45.000 I'm with you because he's there's he's the best tight end, 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.679 where Michael Thomas is one of the top ten receivers, 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:51.840 but it's McCaffrey the best running back. You've convinced me 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:53.720 that all these guys are good, now I've you know 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:55.760 these are all there's so many outstanding ones. I mean, 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.000 Zeke Elliott is putting up great numbers, but they don't 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:00.680 compare to what he did when he first got in 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.959 the league. Therefore, you know, I probably diminished his value 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:08.599 a little bit. Derrick Henry extremely valuable, but Alvin Kamara 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.560 didn't have a great year last year. It just feels 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:14.959 like there's another running back, then another running back another 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.199 running back. This guy came out of nowhere, third round 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:20.200 draft pick, this guy fifth round draft pick. It just 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:23.480 feels like at that position you're able to find running 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:27.760 backs right like Raheem Mostard could have been the Super 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:34.720 Bowl MVP had they won. Where'd he come from? Off 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:39.160 a surfboard? I mean he was a he was a 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:45.320 wide receiver at Purdue and became a running back. Yeah, mcclem. 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.040 If God forbid there was no NFL season, does that 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.439 mean that we'd spend all next year talking about Dak 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:53.400 Prescott's new contract again? It'd just be the never ending 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:57.160 back Prescott contract. I try to talk about the things 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:00.199 that I think are pertinent. I don't do clickbait in 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:03.160 the minority here, and I don't begrudge others that do it. 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.360 I think the transparency is if you can mention Lebron 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:08.559 or the Cowboys and Dak Prescott, then you're going to 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:11.760 do that every single day. You know, Skip and Shannon 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.800 do that every single day. I don't begrudge them. That's 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:18.080 the program they're doing, and I'm not here to help 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:22.120 somebody program their show. It's just there's other things to 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:25.440 talk about instead of saying, how do I work Dak 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:28.520 Prescott into the show. Dak Prescott deserves to be in 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:32.360 the show today and as we head into this regular season, 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.320 and he's going to be a storyline the entire year 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:40.079 because we're gonna look and say, he bet on himself again, 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.920 was it worth it? Are the Cowboys gonna go? You 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:49.240 know what, We're gonna franchise you next year? And that's 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:52.920 what my thoughts process was sign him and get him 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:55.559 at a bargain. If you did it last year, if 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:58.600 you really want him, then give him his four year, 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:01.640 one hundred forty million dollars deal like the Seahawks gave 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:06.040 Russell Wilson. Then you got a bargain. Then you can 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:09.360 use that money elsewhere. Now you're going to be saddled 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:14.480 with paying your quarterback forty million dollars on an offense 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:18.160 that you paid everybody and a couple of deep defensive 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:22.640 players that you paid. The salary CAP's gonna go down 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:26.839 maybe twenty to thirty million dollars due to the pandemic. 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:33.120 Jerry Jones, smart man, But I think you could have 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:36.880 had him at a bargain. But back then, it always 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:38.920 you know when somebody says, you know, you could have 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:41.880 bought that house fifteen years ago for this Well, I 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:44.559 didn't have the money back then. But like people always say, 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:46.200 you know, you could have bought that Brownstone in New 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:49.600 York for one hundred thousand dollars back in nineteen seventy five. 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:54.080 Where were you in nineteen seventy five to tell me 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:57.319 about that? It's after the fact, you know, you could 0:12:57.360 --> 0:12:59.520 have got that car. Got that car a couple of 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:03.400 years ago for a bargain twenty thousand dollars lands yeap. 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:05.280 Have you guys ever had one of those where something 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:07.560 you passed on and you're like, oh, and it still 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.360 is in your gut. I got buying a car, buying 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:15.560 a house yep. Investment opportunity yea. Moving on, Yeah, moving 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:19.240 on here, moving on. Dan in Chicago joins us so 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:21.679 I Dan, what do you have for me today? A 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:25.839 DPH just wanted to get your opinion on you know, 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:28.439 how much blame are we putting on the Vikings contract 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:32.200 with Kirk Cousins for essentially conflating the rate of all 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:35.800 these growing quarterbacks. My opinion is that, you know, his 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:40.080 mediocrity essentially set this extraordinary standard for these huge amounts 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.719 of money. Now you got your your Jimmy G's R 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.280 Dacks or Tan hosts your cars who are serviceable quarterbacks, 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:48.280 but they're in a pay band that's a lot more 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:52.000 that than what they can really chew. I know, and 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:54.880 this is what happened because when I came in that 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:57.839 Monday and I said, you know, Kirk d. Cousins is 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:01.120 going to get all but guaranteed. This had never happened. 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.760 And I came in because I had a source who said, hey, 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:09.960 he's getting it all guaranteed. And I said, now, why 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:14.320 it's a shorter contract and it's all guaranteed sixty six 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:18.040 million dollars. And then all of a sudden, all these 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:20.840 agents Ding ding ding and their clients go, hey, we 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:26.320 went it all guaranteed. And that's what's happening until they 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:29.960 hit the reset button with these quarterbacks salaries, it's going 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:33.520 to get out of hand with crazy numbers for guys 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:35.840 who aren't worth it. The NBA is going through this. 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:40.360 There are guys who are making over forty million dollars 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:47.640 and you go, huh, like John Wall, John Wall a 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:51.120 nice player. If he was playing out in the field house, 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:53.040 I might wait a while before I went out to 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:56.720 watch him shoot we've got to make forty two and 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.640 then I think forty six or forty eight million dollars? 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:04.720 And how many how many guys in the NBA would 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:10.040 you go watch turn on the TV or watch an 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:18.200 entire again? Is there like four or five? Maybe? Now 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:20.800 if I said teams, that's a little bit different. But 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:26.440 you know, the healthy Warriors, Lakers. You're not gonna sit 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:28.560 and watch an entire Bucks game. Don't even try to 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.680 tell me anybody don't. Are you saying we haven't or won't? 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.360 You haven't and you won't if they get to the 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:38.560 NBA finals, you might, But you know, I'll watch the 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:44.400 Greek freak. He's wonderful player, Lebron Hardened Westbrook. Don't forget 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:48.760 the big one, the big ticket, the NBA superstar. Zan 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:51.400 William said, I mean, oh yeah, yeah, they think he's 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:56.280 the number one draw. Well he might be. He might be. 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:03.600 If I said you could have Zion or Luca, Oh see, 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:06.400 Luca's going to be an MVP, right, I don't think 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:09.280 Zion's going to be an MVP. But the excitement factor 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:13.680 is oh yeah. But that's if you said to a 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:16.360 TV executive, if they were going to be honest, we 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:21.520 can show you moored Luca games or more Pelicans games. 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.320 I don't even think it's a contest. I think it's 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:27.360 a Pelicans and Luca is a better player than Zion 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:30.720 at least right now. Yeah, point, but Zion's numbers. Actually, 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:33.080 he's overachieving on the court. In only nineteen games, he 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:36.640 averaged twenty three and a half points. He shot pretty 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:38.720 well even from three shot. He didn't shoot a lot 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:42.000 of threes, but he shot forty six percent. He's nineteen, well, 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:46.920 but Luca's twenty one, right, But he's so much older 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:53.200 than Zion. He plays older than Zion. But Zion, you know, 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.400 he said, Hey, I went back to the basics. I 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:57.960 worked on my basics there. He'll never have the shot 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:01.240 of Luca and the ball hand wing of Luca. But 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:03.440 as far as a draw to get people to come out, 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.640 young fans, they're coming out to see Zion. Yeah, Nickle, 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:09.680 there's a lot of Instagram video of Luca and Porzingis 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:13.080 and Seth Curry just draining forty five foot jumpers. Are 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:15.240 you in on them? Are you you get excited? Is 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:17.760 that why you're right, Luca, I'm excited about Dallas in 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:23.320 the bubble. Oh, but Porzingis is the key. If he 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:26.040 can be dominating or anywhere near what he once was, 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:29.639 then Dallas is tricky. That's a tricky matchup. That's highest 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:32.359 scoring team. Right there. I will take a break. I 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:34.280 will get to your phone calls, but I want to 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:36.439 make way for Chris Hayes. He will join his inside 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:38.919 the bubble. Well, he didn't have anything to do, right, 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:41.240 he's stuck in his room. He can't go anywhere, right, Yes, 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:43.600 he's been there for two weeks or ay, wait, he 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:46.080 got there early. He's been there two weeks. Who gets 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:48.359 there early? I think I saw him pool side the 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:51.359 other day on TV. He might be post quarantine. He 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:53.880 might be at the non Alito deck. Was he out 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:56.680 there with the DJ with Dwight Howard? That's what I'm hearing, 0:17:56.720 --> 0:18:02.639 just those two guns. All right, We'll take a break. 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:06.359 Let's see nineteen after the hour, head into the bubble 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:09.879 right after this in The Dan Patrick Show. Thanks for 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:12.320 listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be sure to 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:15.720 catch us live every weekday morning nine to noon Eastern 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:18.840 or six to nine Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:21.120 your local station for The Dan Patrick Show at Fox 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:24.160 Sports Radio dot com or stream us live every day 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:28.800 on the iHeartRadio app by searching f s R all Right, 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:31.400 phone calls coming up. He'll check in with LSU head 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:34.000 football coach at ords Around. He'll join us coming up 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:35.679 a little bit later on. He's one of our favorites. 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:38.960 He works for Yahoo's Sports, also NBA on TNT sideline 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:43.160 reporter and a host of Posted Up with Chris Haynes podcast. 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:46.320 He is Chris Haynes, who joins us. Now. Last time 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:47.720 we talked, you said you were going to be in 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:51.119 a scrub hotel in the bubble. Looks like you're in 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:55.240 a nice hotel there, Chris. I'm selling you the better side, 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:57.920 the better half of the hotel room. dB. Well, wait, 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:03.240 what's on the other side? Two bets, that's about it. 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:12.000 How many sneakers did you bring? It's about a one 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:15.080 two about I got about eighth pair, then you know 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:20.240 about two. Are you out of corn? Are you allowed 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:22.080 to walk around? You're out of quarantine. You don't have 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:25.159 to stay in your hotel room. Yeah, I'm allowed to 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:29.240 walk around. I got here on July first, so I've 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:31.600 been for a few weeks already. Do you go and 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:34.239 knock on the doors of other NBA reporters and then 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:36.760 run away because you're allowed to be outside and they 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:40.840 can't be. Uh, you act like you've seen a video 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:47.520 of something like that. Have you done that before? Oh? 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:50.800 You know what, I'm gonna plead the fifth Okay, all right, 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:55.800 I'll just say I won't be doing that again. How 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:58.439 would you describe this scene there for those of us 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:02.160 who won't be able to be in the bubble? Well, currently, 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:06.240 right now I'm at the Coronado Spring Resort on Walt 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:10.480 Disney World campus, and on this campus, excuse me, on 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:14.639 this property. This also houses the top teams in the 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:18.040 NBA by standings. You got the Lakers here, Clippers are 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:23.440 here in Toronto, Raptors, Utah Jazz, Denver Nuggets. I believe 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:26.880 I'm missing some Boston Celtics there here. And so as 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:29.359 of right now, we kind of share the same amenities, 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:32.320 the same facilities, and you know, you'll see I'll see 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:36.600 guys walking around taking jobs, of guys riding on bicycles, fishing. 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:38.320 We have a little river here right in the middle 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:41.800 of the campus. So it's a pretty unique thing. Were 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:44.760 you pulled shide with Dwight Howard when they had the 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:47.880 DJ out by the pool and Dwight was the only 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:51.560 one out there. No DP, I think if I was, 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:54.800 I will be explored off campus. Oh wait, you're not 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:59.120 allowed to be part of those events. No, no, no, 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:02.560 you you can't socialize with the player, like if you 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:07.160 see Lebron. Yes, no, there's been times where I've seen 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:12.399 Lebron and we've spoken seen numerous players, but we're told 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:17.280 not to interact with players outside of availability. But with 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:20.040 that being said, they know who I am. They're coming 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:21.720 up to me and they're you know, they're talking and 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:25.040 having conversations, so you can't avoid those. But you know, 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:26.720 I'm not going out of my way to try to 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:30.720 see contact. How important is the snitch line for guys 0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:35.640 to call up and be anonymous? Is it real? Yeah, 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:39.080 it's real, it's real. Last last I've heard, see what 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:43.720 was it? Tuesday? Tuesday? A handful of individuals calling that 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:46.760 on that hotline, a mixture of staff members and players, 0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:50.560 and so it's real, guys, are you know? There's been 0:21:50.600 --> 0:21:53.239 some violations, some guys you know, having to warn their 0:21:53.280 --> 0:21:56.840 face masks and things that nature. Little warnings, but nothing 0:21:56.920 --> 0:21:59.359 serious as it right now. Spencer did Winnie of the 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:02.760 Nets came out and said, uh, he used the expression 0:22:03.320 --> 0:22:08.119 la work. Uh huh. I didn't know what la work meant. Chris. 0:22:08.640 --> 0:22:11.760 That's that's the like players in the import export business. 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:15.600 Is that how that worked? Well? I just say, DP, 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:21.280 you know, does work everywhere? He doesn't worked everywhere. I'll 0:22:21.320 --> 0:22:25.840 know why he singled out la work. Yeah, yeah, why 0:22:26.000 --> 0:22:29.119 just uh you know, have an exclusive to la the 0:22:29.240 --> 0:22:33.200 import export business. You know, the more successful these teams are, 0:22:33.240 --> 0:22:36.399 the longer they get to stay have to stay in 0:22:36.440 --> 0:22:40.600 the bubble. I just wonder how long before these guys 0:22:40.800 --> 0:22:44.480 start going stir crazy. You know, it's funny. I m 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:48.360 the first day I got here, I bumped into somebody 0:22:48.359 --> 0:22:50.680 from the Washington Wizard Organization, and you know, I asked me, 0:22:50.800 --> 0:22:52.840 how are you doing it? Everything's good as a whole. Yes, 0:22:52.920 --> 0:22:55.080 we just we just came here to win, and you know, 0:22:55.080 --> 0:22:57.160 we just want to be as successful as possible. I said, look, 0:22:58.040 --> 0:22:59.879 coming here, they do not want to get out of here. 0:23:01.520 --> 0:23:06.880 What chance do you all? Yes, who is the favorite? 0:23:07.000 --> 0:23:09.280 Now that the Lakers don't have Avery Bradley and Ron 0:23:09.359 --> 0:23:12.440 Jean Rondo? Did that effect you think the overall favor 0:23:12.560 --> 0:23:15.640 to win the title? I don't think it affected much. Obviously. 0:23:15.640 --> 0:23:18.560