WEBVTT - 01/13/21 DPS Hour 1 Mike Florio 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.480 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:07.600 Sports Radio. Oh, it's our one on this Thursday, Dan 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:11.880 and the Danette stan Patrick Show. Morale is high even 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:16.440 though we're down to Danette. Fritzie is joining us from home. Yeah, 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:21.240 Fritzie is zooming in today. Big brother, the Wizard of 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:26.800 Oz is there? Is it just the monitor or your head? Todd? 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:30.120 It seems like you're larger than life there at home. Wow, 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:32.600 we're getting started a ready, Yeah, yeah, just want to 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:35.319 let you know, great to see my head. My head 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:38.360 looked very big in this shot. Um, it's just a mom, 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:42.280 very pasty and pale and white. But you are pasty 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:45.680 and pale. 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Pay a day, Play the Day, poll, question, 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:04.720 stat of the Day, all that forthcoming, Paul, He's going 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:07.040 to do the honors with the pole question today with 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:10.240 Fritzie being at home, and we start off with the 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:12.640 LA Lakers came into this year as a favor to 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:15.560 compete for the title, and why not you got superstars 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:19.600 like Lebron and Anthony Davis. You traded for Russell Westbrook 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:22.480 Junior the third, and that trade came with a lot 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:26.080 of scrutiny. I didn't like it. I sort of understand 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:28.440 that I was trying to understand what they were doing 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:32.120 during the regular season, and that is Westbrook is going 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:34.840 to be able to take a little bit of the 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:38.080 workload off Lebron's shoulders. Well, that hasn't been the case. 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:43.800 Westbrook's an explosive athlete, but he's limited, below average shooter. 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:46.840 He's a turnover waiting to happen. He went two for 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:50.680 fourteen last night, eight points, and the Lakers lost at 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:54.360 home to the Kings. And Lebron has been unbelievable. He's 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:57.600 been shouldering the load because Anthony Davis isn't there. He 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:00.600 had thirty four points, he had six assists. He's at 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:04.240 age thirty seven, averaging more points today than he did 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:07.600 when he was twenty seven years of age. But that 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:11.440 longevity is being wasted right now. The Lakers are eight 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:15.400 in the West. Anthony Davis can't stay healthy. Westbrook. The 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:18.760 trade hasn't worked out. The good news for la as 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:22.200 Lebron isn't slowing down, but the bad news is how 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.040 long can he continue to do this at this pace? 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:29.120 And really what is the endgame here? Lebron has scored 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:32.680 thirty or more in eleven of his last twelve games, 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.520 but the Lakers are ten and nine this season when 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:40.200 he scores thirty or more, and you have to go 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:42.680 back to two thousand and seven when he did that, 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:45.040 when he had that many losses. That's when he was 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:49.480 with the Cleveland Cavaliers. But watching last night, it's not 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:53.160 going to get any better with Russell Westbrook. That's just 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:55.720 who he is. And then, you know, we always look 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.720 at a trade from one side. We always like, well, 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:00.840 who were the Lakers going to get if they trade 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:06.160 Russell Westbrook? Okay, who wants Russell Westbrook? That's really what 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:09.320 the that's the question that needs to be answered the Lakers. 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:13.000 If they can unload Russell Westbrook and get a shooter, 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:15.800 somebody who is a little bit more of a pure 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.960 point guard, I'm sure they would gladly do it. But 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:22.480 these salaries are so crazy. It's like trying to trade 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:28.080 Tobias Harris. You know, Ben Simmons, who wants those salaries? 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:32.200 And you still have that drama attached to Ben Simmons, 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:36.080 you know, is anybody gonna want him? And I don't 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:39.479 know if anybody's asked how is his mental health? Like, 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:44.120 is he going through therapy? He's not playing basketball. I 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:47.120 just want to know why, And I don't know if 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:49.960 there's been an update there, because if he gets traded, 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:54.640 I'm guessing he's probably going to be mentally ready to 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:58.720 play for whoever trades for him. But if you're not practicing, 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.440 you're not playing. Nobody wants to give you a king's 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:05.159 ransom for Ben Simmons. And even then if you trade 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:08.240 for him, I don't even know what you're getting. And 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:12.440 I'm still waiting for an update on Ben Simmons on 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:17.000 just can he play? Does he want to play? Because 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.280 if I'm going to trade for him, I need to 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:22.440 know these things. Yeah, pull remember when the season started. 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:24.200 I remember we did a show in October and we 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:26.640 talked about the current Lakers roster and the way it's built. 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:29.040 Russell Westbrook can definitely play a lot of minutes. He's 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.560 always a top minutes guy. And Anthony Davis would coming 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:34.040 into the season air quotes healthy and we said this 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:36.480 is great for Lebron. He could pace himself. He won't 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:38.920 have to be the focal point. Russell Westbrook could handle 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.120 the regular season and Anthony Davis and Lebron could do 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:42.560 his thing in the playoffs, and it's turned out to 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:44.920 be the exact opposite there. I think their record is, 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.599 are they five hundred, twenty one, twenty one? I just 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.240 know they're eight seed in the West. Yeah, they need 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:55.080 Lebron to play a lot. Now, imagine if he wasn't 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:59.240 playing at this level. Yeah, or pacing himself. Yeah, it's 0:05:59.880 --> 0:06:03.600 not gonna be pretty. Here's Lebron James talking about the 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:06.400 lost last night and the season. You know, if you're 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:08.479 trying to you know, jockey for positioning or you know, 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.200 garats of playoffs, you want to be in your stride 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.720 at the white time. So, um, you know, we have 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:18.960 forty two games now and uh forty left, and we 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:22.400 want to see what we made. But um, you know, 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:27.159 it's definitely been our roller coaster so far. Here's the 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:31.000 Lakers head coach, Frank Vogel talking about Russell Westbrook. Yeah, 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:34.040 we're we're working with Russ. He's you know, he's receiving 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.800 our coaching and just trying to put him in positions 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:40.599 to succeed. And you know he's you know, he's just 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:43.480 in a slump right now, you know, finish at the basketball, 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:45.680 shooting from the perimeter, and we's goin to stay with 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:47.920 it and help him through it. I don't think I 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.120 labeled this as slump unless you say it's a ten 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:54.240 year slump because he's not a good shooter. He's a scorer, 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:58.800 he can't shoot a big difference. He's a wonderful all 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:03.560 around talent. But how many meaningful games does he win? 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:06.640 And I think that's really the key with that style 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:11.040 that while he does give you that energy, he giveth 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:15.000 and take it away. There was also another story. You know, 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:18.960 the Brooklyn Nets look good. You know he had all 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:23.680 three on the floor. Yeah again, Brooklyn Nets look good 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.880 as they beat the Chicago Bulls. But what stood out 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:29.240 was his story in the New York Daily News yesterday 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:34.400 Stephen Bondi covers the NBA. He said the Nets could 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:40.320 use a loophole here that would allow Kyrie Irving to 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:43.280 play during home games. Now, the former mayor of New 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:47.200 York City, Build A. Blasio, had key to New York 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:52.600 City Executive Order which that was preventing the unvaccinated Kyrie 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.960 Irving from playing home games. The executive order lists certain 0:07:56.000 --> 0:08:00.880 penalties for non compliance. Well, guess what the penalties are 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:05.000 for non compliance? First defense, you get a warning. Second 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:08.800 offense one thousand dollars fine, Third offense two thousand dollars fine. Now, 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:11.400 once again, you're doing this as if it's just a 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:14.559 regular citizen in New York City, not a guy who's 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:19.160 making forty million dollars a year. Fourth offense is five 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:24.680 thousand dollars. Fifth offense five thousand dollars, and then after 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:28.920 that it's just five thousand dollars. Wouldn't you say, will 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:34.960 pay the fine for Kyrie to play home games? I'm 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.600 going to guess the Nets knew this. The Nets have 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:42.839 twenty home games left. Let's say you have a maximum 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:46.720 of sixteen playoff games. Sixteen more in the playoffs. If 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:49.800 the Nets advanced to the finals have home court advantage 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:54.319 in every single round, each series goes all seven games, 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:58.240 that will equate to one hundred and seventy three thousand 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:03.360 dollars in fines at the most. It's a hell of 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:06.720 an investment. Stat of the day, stat of the day, 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:11.120 that best stat of the day stat of the day 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:17.240 here comes that what stat of the day? And Stephen 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:20.240 Bondi goes on to write in the New York Daily News, Brooklyn, 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:24.439 having presumably done plenty of due diligence on the Kyrie situation, 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:28.760 most likely knew about the loophole before the season even began. 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:31.880 Well that's the case, then, why don't you just say 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.880 we're gonna pay the fine? You pay a couple hundred 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:39.559 thousand dollars. And I don't know if the NBA, or 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:42.000 maybe out of principle that the Nets are saying, look, 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.800 we want to be fair to the city. We don't 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:48.440 want to kind of rub their nose in it look 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.880 the other way. But that might be what you're going 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:54.680 to do with Kybrie. Irving that all right, cost you 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:59.079 five thousand dollars. Suit up, I'd pay it. If I'm 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:03.440 the Brooklyn Nets. I'm looking the money you're paying for 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:07.360 him not to play? Why not just pay five thousand 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:10.600 dollars more and I'm gonna get my money's worth out 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:12.960 of him. Yeah, Paul, is he the highest paid non 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:16.760 playing athlete? DeShawn Watson's got to be up there, not 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:18.719 athletes who don't really play their sport. Up until a 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:20.880 couple of weeks ago, Kyrie Deshaun Watson's gotta be making 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:24.040 thirty million to not play this year twenty five, Well, 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.280 what's Ben Simmons. Ben Simmons got to be in the 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:33.120 thirty million category, thirty five play. I think Deshaun is 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:37.000 up there as well. He has to be over thirty million, yeah, 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:41.040 not play. Yeah, but Kyrie's I think Kyrie is probably 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:46.439 thirty five million dollars. I got de Shawn at thirty five. Yeah. Yeah, 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:49.440 but that's just a loophole, just just a factor in 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:53.000 second half of the season. If you're the Nets, can 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:55.960 you do this and basically say to the City of 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:59.920 New York, Hey, we're gonna pay the fine, but he's 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:01.520 going to be playing in these games. I don't know 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.640 what the NBA would do, but that loophole is there. 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.000 And he was in the New York Daily News. Stephan BONDI, 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:10.240 you know Ben simm Is at thirty three. Oh, he's 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:14.439 only a thirty three million marga for not playing. Yeah. Yeah. 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:16.920 He doesn't want to play at home. He doesn't want 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:18.880 to play at home. Kyrie would love to be able 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:21.040 to play at home. Ben wants to play all of 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:25.240 his games on the road as well. What poll questions 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:27.000 do you have today, Paul, Okay, I have an actual 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:28.840 poll question, but here's the snarky one we got from 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:30.560 the back room that I'm very proud of those guys 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.840 coming up with. Wow. Which supporting cast right now would 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.560 give Lebron the best chance to win another title, the 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:41.439 Lakers supporting cast or the Cleveland Cavalier supporting cast. Wow. 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:45.200 The Lakers are five hundred, the Calves are twenty four 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:50.000 and eighteen, and the Cavaliers had the best win margin 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:53.160 percent in the East. They're winning their games by five 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:56.080 points a game. The Cavaliers are a quality team. I 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.160 think I could say that, Yeah, I told you that 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:01.640 a couple of weeks ago. Your Calves, Yeah, very good team, 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:05.319 interesting team, young team. But I was watching last night 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:08.199 and you start to think about the you know, Brandon 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:13.280 ingram A, Lonzo Ball, Julius randall these players who were 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:17.040 with the Lakers, and then they wanted to cash in 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:19.840 on those younger players. They wanted to bring in Anthony Davis. 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:23.640 If you said to Lebron, now, you wouldn't have gotten 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:27.040 a title perhaps with you know that group and not 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:29.280 Anthony Davis. But if you said to Lebron, hey, you 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:33.520 want the younger guys here that you didn't want, because 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:37.520 those guys would be very helpful for Lebron right now. 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:40.040 And if it means you don't have Russell Westbrook and 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.240 you don't have Anthony Davis, but you have the rest 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:45.400 of that group, I'm sure Lebron would sign up for that. Yes, Paul, 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:48.720 I'm calling my shot here. Bronnie James gets drafted by 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:52.160 the Cleveland team. Right I don't know where he's gonna 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:53.920 be drafted, but when he gets done with college or 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.400 whatever he's gonna do, Bronnie James goes to Cleveland, they 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:59.000 draft him, and Lebron finishes his career on a one 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:03.840 year contract to play with son in Cleveland. Um, he 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:07.280 doesn't like that owner hells his son though, Yeah, but 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.280 he I didn't like that owner. He could buy the team, 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:14.320 play one year player coach owner GM all four slash 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:16.880 and his son is the small forward. If he loves 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:22.480 his son, he's not lettinghim play there. Yeah, I retract 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:28.560 my stavid. Um. I could see Lebron the last year 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.360 of his NBA career with a team that he would 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:35.040 eventually then become a part owner of that that I 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:38.280 think would be a bigger picture where you could see, Hey, 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:43.280 I'll come to the pistons. Let me be a part 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:45.880 owner here. I want to play one year with my 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:48.839 son and then I'll go into the front office. 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Visit M drive dan dot com. 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:42.960 Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.560 sure to catch us live every weekday morning nine until 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:48.640 noon eastern six to nine Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:51.840 and you can find us on the iHeartRadio app at 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:56.360 FSR or stream us live on the Peacock app. Settle 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:58.640 on a poll question, got a play of the day 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:02.320 coming up? Another stat of the day as well, judging 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:06.840 by your reaction on Twitter. A little surprise with the 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:11.080 loophole there with Kyrie Irving going to cost him or 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:14.920 the team five thousand dollars after his fifth offense if 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.640 he plays in a home game you're already paying him, 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:20.640 might not pay the five thousand dollars you get him 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:25.240 to play, and that could lead to a real, real 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:28.080 dangerous Nets team here in the second half of the season. 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.120 All Right, if you got poll question, we'll bring in 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.680 Mike Florio. Yeah, Dan, Our one pole question, the AFC 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:38.160 underdog that wins this weekend. Okay, So the Bengals are 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:40.600 five and a half point favorite on the Raiders, the 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:44.360 Bills are four point favorite on the Patriots, and the 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:46.880 Chiefs big favorite twelve and a half on the Steelers. 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:49.840 That's a first Our pole underdog that wins this weekend. 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:53.080 The underdog that wins this weekend, not has the best 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:56.400 chance to win, that will win, That will win because 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:58.880 Ben has already said we have no chance to beat 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:02.320 Kansas City I like how the headline makes it seem like, Ben, 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:06.120 we have no chance. It's all tongue in cheek there 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:09.280 with Ben. Yeah, yeah, we got no chance. He did 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:11.720 the old eye roll there and like, yeah, you might 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:14.760 not have any chance. But I'm not buying how he's saved. 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.520 Do you think the Kansas City Chiefs are going? Ben 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:20.800 doesn't think they have any chance to win. Boy, this 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:24.640 will be really easy. That ain't gonna happen here. Mike Florio, 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:28.520 popular co host or Pro Football Talk Live. He joins 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:30.400 us on the program. Let me start with the poll 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:35.159 question the underdog best chance to win in the AFC. 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:39.440 I think it's the Patriots. Bill Belichick's single elimination all 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:42.119 those playoff games he's coached over the years. And it 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:43.800 has to be a record that the Bills and the 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:46.239 Patriots for two teams to get together three times in 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:50.320 forty days. They had two late regular season games. Patriots 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:52.480 won in Buffalo on a cold and windy night. Now 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:54.760 it's not gonna be as windy, and even if it is, 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:56.240 I think the Bills have figured out they need to 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:58.199 unleash Josh Allen. It's not going to be easy for 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:01.520 the Patriots. But it's hard not to trust Bill Belichick. 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:03.320 If you give me those three options and you say 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:06.119 which one wins, and we know that home teams have 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:08.760 been winning games like never before, I'd have to go 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.080 with the Patriots. All the votes are in for all 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:14.520 the honors, Coach of the Year, MVP, all of that's 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:20.040 been tabulated here. Who's your Coach of the Year. Well, 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:23.119 I don't have one of the votes, so we do 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:26.800 our own awards and at PFT I consulted with my 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:29.360 staff and I'm not being sarcastic because I wasn't sure 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:30.680 which way I was going to go with Coach of 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:32.280 the Year, but they persuaded me that it should be 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:34.800 Mike Gravel. And when you consider that they set a 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:37.600 record in Week twelve, they set the record for the 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:40.879 number of total players used, They didn't have Dereck Henry, 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:44.080 the best player on their team for more than half 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:46.800 of the season, and they still got the number one 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:49.800 seed in a top heavy AFC. You know, I was 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:53.919 thinking Matt Lafleur until we really sat down and talked 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:57.480 it through, and Rich Besacci, what he did was so special. 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:01.680 But it's a tough year. But I think vrabel By 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:05.800 a nose over Lafleur. Yeah, I was wondering about Belichick 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:08.480 with it was like last year he did one of 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:12.040 his best coaching jobs. This year, I expected them to 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:15.760 make the playoffs. But I don't know, how do you 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:18.320 differentiate when you're the greatest coach of all time? It's 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:20.920 like Chuck Noll, I don't think everyone coach of the year. 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:23.640 You know, the great coaches are the guys who are 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:26.880 really successful normally don't win Coach of the Year. Why 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:29.560 is that, Well, because the Coach of the Year is 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:33.560 kind of loosely determined by how far you exceed the 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:36.800 expectations that were loosely out there going into the season. 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:38.240 So if there's a team that's just supposed to be 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:41.160 complete and total crap and they make the playoffs, all 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:43.879 of a sudden, that coach is a viable candidate for 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:45.600 Coach of the Year. The bar is always high for 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:48.760 the Patriots, So it's very difficult for Bill Belichick to 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:52.320 exceed that bar high enough that it stands out over 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:54.919 somebody who takes a team from worst to first, like 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:57.560 a Zach Taylor, who should get some consideration, or a 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:01.080 Vrabel who did something special with his best player but 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:03.280 you know, Dan, we also do executive a year that's 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:08.720 not one of the official Associated Press NFL awards. Sporting News, 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:12.800 for whatever reason, is still the officially recognized executive of 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:14.879 the year. That's the one that people pay attention to. 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:16.200 I don't know why. I don't even think they still 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:18.960 make Sporting News, But that's another issue altogether. We made 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:21.960 Belichick our Executive of the Year because it's always hand 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:25.520 in hand. What Belichick does as an executive either makes 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:28.640 it harder or easier for him as a coach. This year, 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:31.560 what they did going all in, spending all that money 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:33.720 when they had the cap space that they had carefully 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:36.159 built in a year where other teams weren't as competitive 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:39.879 because of the drop in the salary cap due to 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:43.119 the pandemic, and they got mac Jones when maybe the 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:44.920 forty nine ers really did want him with the third 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:46.960 overall pick, and they ultimately didn't take him, and it 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:49.040 just worked out well that they have the talent they 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:51.240 need to be as competitive as they were. So he's 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:52.920 Executive of the Year and not Coach of the Year, 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:58.400 but Executive of the year. Who's worst executive of the year. Well, 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:01.240 I don't know, Dave Gettim has already been fired, although 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:06.159 although you know, the reality is and I think one 0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:08.479 of the things we learn every year at this time, 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:14.000 as the bad teams dump coaches and general managers and 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:17.119 they make their owners available to speak to the media, 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:19.760 you start to get an idea of why bad teams 0:21:20.160 --> 0:21:23.199 stay bad and why they can't get out of their 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:25.119 own way. I got some strong feelings about the Giants, 0:21:25.119 --> 0:21:28.879 for example, and I think the Mayor family is way 0:21:28.920 --> 0:21:32.639 too involved in the management of that team from a 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:35.400 personnel standpoint, and they're so involved that they don't even 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:38.159 realize how involved they are. But there's a reason this 0:21:38.240 --> 0:21:40.439 team has been to the playoffs once in the last decade. 0:21:40.480 --> 0:21:43.600 There's a reason this team has one yeah, yeah, one 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:46.880 playoff appears, no playoff victory since their last Super Bowl win. 0:21:47.040 --> 0:21:50.040 It's stunning how far they've fallen. And I feel like 0:21:50.040 --> 0:21:52.159 they're in quicksand, and the harder they try to get out, 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:54.000 the deeper they sink. And I think at this point, 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:57.000 I got the vibe from the mayor press conference yesterday, 0:21:57.040 --> 0:21:59.280 I don't think they know what to do. Now. They're 0:21:59.280 --> 0:22:01.840 not going to admit that, but just I don't think 0:22:01.880 --> 0:22:05.040 they know what to do, and unless they're willing to 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:08.480