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Speaker 1: more phone calls coming up. If you're watching on Peacock,
Speaker 1: you're noticing I have a festive sweater on. Todd has
Speaker 1: a festive onesie on. It's almost like that scene in
Speaker 1: Christmas Story with Ralfie. You know when Ralphie comes down
Speaker 1: the steps when he's got a bunny outfit on. That's
Speaker 1: sort of what Todd has. Paulie has a onesieon as well.
Speaker 1: It looks good. He goes that goes, you look like
Speaker 1: a pink night man. Great, so we'll get to phone
Speaker 1: calls coming up. Last night, it was the Lakers getting
Speaker 1: their rings and then they got beat by the Clippers.
Speaker 1: There all of a sudden, Paul George playoff. Paul came
Speaker 1: back and looked impressive last night. I watched a lot
Speaker 1: of the Nets against the Warriors. Well, I watched first half,
Speaker 1: and then I was just curious about postgame comments and
Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving didn't disappoint. He had this to say after
Speaker 1: the Nets blew out the Warriors. As a young player,
Speaker 1: you think that scoring a bunch of points and doing
Speaker 1: a bunch of things, getting individual accolades are are great.
Speaker 1: I definitely was going after those things. Now, I really
Speaker 1: don't care for any of those individual accolades, accolades or goals.
Speaker 1: You know, it really doesn't bother me. I know I'm
Speaker 1: validated culturally, validated culturally he is. I think he's validated
Speaker 1: culturally because he thinks the Earth is flat and there
Speaker 1: were never dinosaurs roaming the earth. I think that's just
Speaker 1: cultural irrelevancy. Maybe Frank Eisola knows, you know, he can
Speaker 1: understand this better than I can. Frank has been covering
Speaker 1: the NBA for a long time, and he's of course
Speaker 1: espns around the horn and pardon the interruption, contributor Sirius
Speaker 1: XM NBA Radio. The show is the starting lineup and
Speaker 1: he is your host. Where do you stand with the
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nets this year? Frank, By the way, you remember
Speaker 1: the player World Be Free. It was from Canarci Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: They say now that Kyrie's nickname is world be Flat.
Speaker 1: I think that's a that's that's a terrific Victa perhad.
Speaker 1: The nets look really good. And you know, if you
Speaker 1: go back to the bubble last year, everybody says, well,
Speaker 1: you know, the Nets all right, so they made the playoffs,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get knocked out in the first round, which
Speaker 1: they did. But what last year meant for the development
Speaker 1: of guys like Harris Lavert obviously, Jared Allen, Joe Harris,
Speaker 1: and now you add Kyrie Irving healthy, but more importantly
Speaker 1: Kevin Durant. You know how this works? Stand you haven't.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen Urant what was it, five hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty days? And it's not that you forgot that he's
Speaker 1: a great player, but when you see him out there
Speaker 1: and you're thinking, man, when this guy is right, it's
Speaker 1: really Lebron and then Kevin Durant. Maybe some people think
Speaker 1: that Kevin Durant is a better player, certainly a terrific
Speaker 1: offensive player. If he's gonna play like this and he's
Speaker 1: gonna stay healthy, the Nets will be a tough team
Speaker 1: to beat four to seven times in the playoffs. I
Speaker 1: feel a little bit. I'm a little bit more encouraged
Speaker 1: because you have Kevin Durant there, Because when Kyrie went
Speaker 1: to Boston, we said the same thing about the Celtics. Boy,
Speaker 1: they grew up in the playoffs, and now you put
Speaker 1: Kyrie in there. Well, Kyrie didn't help them get any better,
Speaker 1: and you know they were happy to see him leave.
Speaker 1: I think having Durant there almost as a sounding board,
Speaker 1: or he can whisper in his ear, hey, let's get back.
Speaker 1: You know, it's you and me here together. We gotta
Speaker 1: because they can make something great happen here. I just
Speaker 1: think it's a really delicate mix of either really good
Speaker 1: or really bad here. Frank, Yeah, I think you're right,
Speaker 1: And that's why after one game, it doesn't really matter
Speaker 1: what guys, and you know, we're all just like the
Speaker 1: first weekend of the NFL season. We always overreacted in
Speaker 1: the first game. We're going to do that with the
Speaker 1: nets against a Warrior's team. But still trying to figure
Speaker 1: things out. But you know, when Kyrie was in Cleveland,
Speaker 1: he had Labron, so you're playing with you know, Arge
Speaker 1: will be the greatest player of all time, so you're
Speaker 1: the number two guy there. That was perfect for him.
Speaker 1: In Boston, they needed him to be the number one guy,
Speaker 1: and I think he struggled with that. Now with Kevin Durant.
Speaker 1: You know Durant when he was on Golden State, he's
Speaker 1: surrounded by Clay Thompson, Steph Curry, Draymond Green. They were
Speaker 1: okay with him being the guy. As long as Kyrie
Speaker 1: Irving is okay being that so called Robin to batman,
Speaker 1: it'll work out. Because we know this from Kevin Durant.
Speaker 1: He's good with an ensemble cast. He had ensomble cast
Speaker 1: in Oklahoma City, where he was the number one guy.
Speaker 1: They go to the finals. Obviously, what they did in
Speaker 1: Golden State was tremas. Think about this. Kevin Durant played
Speaker 1: ten finals games with the Golden State Warriors. They were
Speaker 1: nine and one in those games. That's how good. Kevin
Speaker 1: Durant is so and what I love about Durant you
Speaker 1: listen to him now, except for when Charles Barkley asked
Speaker 1: him a question last night. He wanted no part of that,
Speaker 1: which was pretty funny. But for the most part, Rant
Speaker 1: has been very upbeat. His mood seems to change. I
Speaker 1: think now that he's playing basketball again, I think he
Speaker 1: wants to get back to that level. Not only is
Speaker 1: a great player, but as a champion. I think he's
Speaker 1: shooting for what Lebron did last season. I just love
Speaker 1: his attitude. He seems like he has the joy back
Speaker 1: and playing basketball convinced me the Clippers could be better
Speaker 1: this year by what they did in the off season.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Luke Canardo got crazy money. He's
Speaker 1: a good playmaker. Sergei Bacca, who disappeared for a couple
Speaker 1: of years and then the last two or three years
Speaker 1: with Toronto, has been nothing short of outstanding. So I
Speaker 1: think he'll help. And you could have said, Frank, you
Speaker 1: could have said, no, I can't convince you that I was.
Speaker 1: I would give you that out. Well, it's funny, right,
Speaker 1: So Charles Barkley Interviews. He had a great question for
Speaker 1: Paul George last night when he asked him about getting
Speaker 1: preferential treatment. Let's face it, in every line of work,
Speaker 1: the stars get preferential treatment. Your crew talked about it
Speaker 1: all the time. You get treated definitely than everybody because
Speaker 1: you're the big star. We know how it works absolutely.
Speaker 1: But you know, when he brought up the fact because
Speaker 1: Paul Jim, he said, well, you know, I know what
Speaker 1: it takes, so yeah, sure that's how it works. But
Speaker 1: the guys who had an issue with that, that's no
Speaker 1: longer a problem to me. He was clearly referring to
Speaker 1: Montrez Harold, who's no longer on the team. There were
Speaker 1: chemistry issues. They didn't want to be in the bubble
Speaker 1: last year, and I think Lou Williams proved that when
Speaker 1: he went to Magic City just to get the wings.
Speaker 1: As you know, that's all he was there for was
Speaker 1: the wings. So they were chemistry issues. They need Kawai
Speaker 1: to play at a different level. If Lebron had lost
Speaker 1: a three one series lead to Denver the way that
Speaker 1: Kawai did, we'd be killing Lebron. Kawhi kind of got
Speaker 1: a bit of a pass last year, which he didn't deserve.
Speaker 1: He needed to play better. Yeah, but nobody cares about
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard the way they care about Lebron. I mean,
Speaker 1: Lebron is polarizing because for a variety of reasons. But
Speaker 1: I think the bottom line is is people don't want
Speaker 1: him infringing on Michael Jordan's territory. Like, no matter what
Speaker 1: he does, no, he's not going to get there. There's
Speaker 1: always going to be the Yeah. But with Lebron James Kawai,
Speaker 1: we just sort of go, you know, hey, Kawahi, he's
Speaker 1: a great two way player. He shows up in the playoffs. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: there's nothing else about him. He's not musty TV. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you're right. So everybody loves player empowerment. We've talked
Speaker 1: about this before. Yeah. Player empowerment is great for the
Speaker 1: player because when things go wrong, they're never blamed. Doc
Speaker 1: Rivers got blamed in LA. Look what James Harden is
Speaker 1: pulling right now at the Houston Rockets. So Kawhi leaves Toronto,
Speaker 1: goes to the Clippers. You know, they move heaven and Earth,
Speaker 1: bringing his buddy Paul George. So now Kawhi Leonard is
Speaker 1: making demands they trade all those assets to get Paul George.
Speaker 1: Look at the way that Paul George played in the babble.
Speaker 1: Not to his credit, he got two hundred twenty five
Speaker 1: million dollars extension. He was actually failing up in this case.
Speaker 1: But nobody said to Kailer, hang on a second, you're
Speaker 1: the one that made us go out and get Paul George.
Speaker 1: He didn't show up on those last three games against Denver.
Speaker 1: You weren't very good in a game seven. You know
Speaker 1: who will blame. Let's blame Doc Rivers will ship him out.
Speaker 1: Talking to Frank Gisul, the serious x M NBA radio
Speaker 1: shows called this starting lineup. He's the host, he's obviously
Speaker 1: a contributor to Around the Horn And pardon the interruption.
Speaker 1: You know, I watched the Lakers last night and I
Speaker 1: just I wasn't going to eat anything into it. I
Speaker 1: just wanted to see substitutions. I wanted to see, you know,
Speaker 1: certain guys were, you know, play with certain players. I
Speaker 1: didn't take anything away from it. And am I being
Speaker 1: naive by not taking anything away from that loss against
Speaker 1: the Clippers. Well we you know, I know I put
Speaker 1: a lot into last year's opening night when the Clippers
Speaker 1: beat them, and I thought the Clippers would give them
Speaker 1: a great run, and they won the Staples Center Championship.
Speaker 1: The problem is the Lakers won the World Championship, and
Speaker 1: I think, you know, for the Lakers not having Rondo,
Speaker 1: he was huge, especially during the playoffs, and even Dwight Howard.
Speaker 1: You know, a pivotal moment in the NBA Finals was
Speaker 1: that hard foul that Dwight had a Bam out of Byo,
Speaker 1: which noted Bam out for a game and injured him
Speaker 1: for the rest of the years. I don't really ever
Speaker 1: remember Dwight really being that physical, but he knocked dam
Speaker 1: out of Bya for a loop and we really never
Speaker 1: saw him again. The key will be Lebron James, and
Speaker 1: we know that Lebron will be ready by the end
Speaker 1: of the season, but Kenny stay healthy. So last night
Speaker 1: Lebron rolling his ankle. We know that on December thirtieth,
Speaker 1: he's going to turn thirty six years old, so all
Speaker 1: that stuff starts to add up. But I still have
Speaker 1: a lot of faith in him. You know, he's when
Speaker 1: he's at his best, he looks like he's about twenty
Speaker 1: eight years old, not necessarily thirty six. So I'm not
Speaker 1: going to jump to conclusions on the Lakers after one game.
Speaker 1: ESPN NBA reporter Tim McMahon is reporting a source says
Speaker 1: the Rockets are working with NBA office officials to review
Speaker 1: video of James Harden at a strip club. If the
Speaker 1: video's circulating on social media is verified to be recent,
Speaker 1: it's a violation of the league's COVID protocols, which would
Speaker 1: put Harden's availability for tonight's opener in jeopardy. It's disgraceful,
Speaker 1: it really is. And here's the issue that you have
Speaker 1: with Harden. He's another guy I don't want Chris Paul
Speaker 1: and the team bringing Russell Westbrook. Then that falls apart.
Speaker 1: Now that the team looks like it's moving trending toward
Speaker 1: not being a playoff team, he says, well, now I
Speaker 1: want to be traded. We'll hang on a second. You
Speaker 1: were the one that was making all the calls. Now
Speaker 1: when you don't like things, now you say that you
Speaker 1: want to be out of here. You don't show up
Speaker 1: for practice. So Stephen Silas finally gets a head coaching
Speaker 1: job after about twenty years as an assistant. And look
Speaker 1: what James Harden does with this guy. If I were
Speaker 1: Steven Salas, I'd call up Mark Cubans say can I
Speaker 1: have my old job back in Dallas. It's a lot.
Speaker 1: It's a lot less stressful being an assistant coach in
Speaker 1: Dallas than running the Houston Rockets. At some point, the
Speaker 1: league needs to step in James Harden if this turns
Speaker 1: out to be true, I think he should be suspended
Speaker 1: because Dan, he's holding the organization hostage number one, number two.
Speaker 1: With all this stuff that he's been pulling, He's hurting
Speaker 1: his trade value, which is also hurting the Houston Rockets.
Speaker 1: It'll eventually work out for James Harden. I'm not so
Speaker 1: sure it's going to work out for the Houston Rockets.
Speaker 1: One final thing, and I've been on this topic on
Speaker 1: and off for the last couple of years. We love lists.
Speaker 1: List drive me crazy, but when we put out the
Speaker 1: top ten basketball players of all time, it feels like
Speaker 1: there should be a line of demarcation that starts nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy on. Yeah, because Will to me should be Babe Ruth,
Speaker 1: but he's not allowed to be Babe Ruth. We discredit
Speaker 1: those stats for some reason. Bill Russell the greatest winner
Speaker 1: in team sports history, but not one of the top
Speaker 1: ten players it's as far as you know, stats and
Speaker 1: everything that he did, love love what he did, but
Speaker 1: he's not in there. Do I leave Oscar Robertson in there?
Speaker 1: Do I leave Jerry West in there? At some point
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a top ten list where Carl Malone
Speaker 1: is not in there. Larry Bird might not be in there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know there's Will. It's not going to be in there.
Speaker 1: Like I don't know how you rank players because Steph
Speaker 1: Curry is he going to be a top ten player
Speaker 1: of all times? Is Kevin Durant going to be a
Speaker 1: top ten player of all time? Yeah? I think yeah,
Speaker 1: we're becoming that guy where now we're we have to
Speaker 1: defend Lowry Bird in terms of being a top ten player.
Speaker 1: You should get Sunny Hill, mister Philadelphia Basketball, to tell
Speaker 1: you some stories about Will Chamber. I mean, come on,
Speaker 1: at a time when everyone was allowed to do this, Dan,
Speaker 1: the guy averaged fifty points in twenty five rebounds. If
Speaker 1: an NBA player did that for a week, people would
Speaker 1: say you should probably build a statute for the guy.
Speaker 1: So that was fifty and twenty five for one season.
Speaker 1: Then when you go look at Michael Jordan, what I
Speaker 1: love about Jordan go look at the games played like
Speaker 1: to the players even of the eighties and the nineties,
Speaker 1: it was a badge of honor to be playing eighty
Speaker 1: two games a season. Now, if you play eighty two games,
Speaker 1: you look at as you're some kind of weirdough. Well,
Speaker 1: clearly you have no cache in the league. Is why
Speaker 1: would you be playing all the time. The idea isn't
Speaker 1: to play all the time. But I think you're right.
Speaker 1: As time goes on, we're gonna forget some of these
Speaker 1: great players. And the game was different. It's now a
Speaker 1: three point shooting game. You know, touch fouls get called
Speaker 1: all the time. You know, in the eighties and nineties
Speaker 1: it was all out warfare. I looked up something the
Speaker 1: other day where, you know, there was a fight between
Speaker 1: Rick Mahorn and Charles Oakley. I think it was back
Speaker 1: in like eighty five or eighty six. They both got
Speaker 1: fined about twenty five hundred bucks. Mahorne did get one
Speaker 1: game for the fight, So you were almost you weren't
Speaker 1: even penalized for fighting back in the day like you
Speaker 1: are today. To the league's credit, they basically legislated fighting
Speaker 1: out of the league. But it's just so different the
Speaker 1: games on. It's physical, so everyone's scoring averages are up.
Speaker 1: Great to talk to you, Mary christmas Chia, thanks you,
Speaker 1: thanks for contributing to the program this entire year. We
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Frank, thanks Daniel, look great great sweater. Thank you, buddy.
Speaker 1: Frank I sold of Frank Knows Fashion series X. I'm
Speaker 1: NBA Radio. The show is the starting lineup. He's the host.
Speaker 1: Also contributes to Around the Horn and Pardon the interruption.
Speaker 1: A couple of phone calls in here Chris and Arizona.
Speaker 1: Hi Chris, what's on your mind today? Hey Dan that
Speaker 1: I just wanted to give my best to the year.
Speaker 1: I thought the Kevin Harland versus Fritzy voice impersonation and
Speaker 1: then where you had to ask him who was who?
Speaker 1: Which we already knew that Kevin Hart, who was Kevin Harland?
Speaker 1: Who was Fritzy? And then if I had one more,
Speaker 1: my wife wanted to ask me to ask you a
Speaker 1: question about what's the biggest transition. We're having a baby
Speaker 1: number two, we have a twenty month old. What's the
Speaker 1: biggest transition from child? Who wanted the child too? Good luck?
Speaker 1: Congratulations Chris. You know when I got to when we
Speaker 1: got to three, then it was chaos. Two it was
Speaker 1: just these the moments where you help your wife, even
Speaker 1: if she doesn't ask for it, just just say, look,
Speaker 1: i'll take I'll take the baby, or let me do that.
Speaker 1: I found that you know, your wife wants to do
Speaker 1: everything when they have the baby or babies, and we
Speaker 1: tend to stand back because there's only there's certain things
Speaker 1: that we can't do physically taking care of babies. But volunteer,
Speaker 1: don't say what can I do? Or no, don't say
Speaker 1: can I do something? Just say what do you want?
Speaker 1: What do you need me to do? What can I do?
Speaker 1: That's that's really really important. And patience, patience and sense
Speaker 1: of humor with each other go a long long way. Uh,
Speaker 1: let me see what else Doc in Ohio? Hi, Doc,
Speaker 1: would you have for me today? Hey guys? Um? Three
Speaker 1: quick great memorable moments. One was make sure Sure the
Speaker 1: best it's not always the guess, it's the sound bites.
Speaker 1: One was when you were talking about Ben and winning
Speaker 1: the Olympics, being on the horse steroids and when Polly
Speaker 1: launched into the horse gallop. I literally went out of
Speaker 1: my chair at work. The best Another it was too
Speaker 1: good and also Want died yesterday I in honor of
Speaker 1: the holidays. My mother, seventy seven year old Ethel is
Speaker 1: a big fan, and yesterday I went back and watched
Speaker 1: the interview of Billy bob Thorn with her talking about
Speaker 1: Bad Santa being drunk on the escalator during filming, which
Speaker 1: was great. And lastly, I think my number one highlight
Speaker 1: of the year was an eighty one year old Brent
Speaker 1: Musburger explaining to the boys what shoe shopping is too good.
Speaker 1: You guys are the best. Thank you, and our best
Speaker 1: to your mom as well. Thank you. That was funny
Speaker 1: because the danis when Brett Musburger is talking about shoe
Speaker 1: shopping and they're looking like shoe Brent Musburger talking about
Speaker 1: shoe shopping and I know because your level, as Dwayne
Speaker 1: Haskins has told me, when you go to the strip club,
Speaker 1: is usually shoe level. And that's how you came up
Speaker 1: with the expression going shoe shopping, because you start with
Speaker 1: the shoes right there in front of you. I thought
Speaker 1: that Kevin Harlan moment was really sneaky good because Kevin
Speaker 1: was a great sport and he's got a distinct announcing
Speaker 1: style and the fact that Todd that you actually thought
Speaker 1: that maybe the audience wouldn't know the difference between you
Speaker 1: and Kevin Harlan because I do such a great impersonation
Speaker 1: they could be confused it. Oh we've had we had
Speaker 1: a new addition to the impersonation. U repertoire Todd. Todd's
Speaker 1: Mike Tyson laugh is so it's It's just it makes
Speaker 1: me laugh every single time. Dana White, he wanted me
Speaker 1: to fight shock. I'm fighting human. He wants me to
Speaker 1: fight truck with friends like that? Who needs enemies? Right? Oh,
Speaker 1: that's spectacular. You should have come hang out with me
Speaker 1: on the ranch. We get smoke wheat together and be
Speaker 1: silly and hang out with my pigeons. It crushes me
Speaker 1: how you should do nothing else but this. Ye, why
Speaker 1: don't you do your sports, your Christmas sports as Tyson
Speaker 1: and then laugh after every one of them? Then you
Speaker 1: would have me. Man, can you smell that steak that's
Speaker 1: out there on the trigger? Wow, we're kind of having
Speaker 1: a eight socially distanced Christmas party with the back room
Speaker 1: guys that I wanted to have Alan have some steaks.
Speaker 1: And he did a great job. He's done a great
Speaker 1: job all year. Long, every every Meat Friday. Alan gives
Speaker 1: so much thought to it while also helping to run
Speaker 1: the sound part of the show here, and he's done
Speaker 1: a great job. But those steaks, they smell really really good.
Speaker 1: All right, more phone calls coming up if you want
Speaker 1: to weigh in with a sports related name. Christmas sports
Speaker 1: related name to rival Todds is not too good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got to go into the holiday. Well the look
Speaker 1: on your face, your soul left your body when mclovin
Speaker 1: topped you at Thanksgiving. Yeah, like I saw, I saw
Speaker 1: you like you were crushed. And then he sends an
Speaker 1: email with the Haskins story with strip sacot. I didn't
Speaker 1: need that. I didn't need that. I know. It's just
Speaker 1: people are kind of infringing on other people's territories here,
Speaker 1: and you know that quite well. I've stolen many of
Speaker 1: Pauli's up things with the history and all that saw
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Speaker 1: You blow up, Selle. I don't know what you do
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Speaker 1: show email address dpit dan Patrick dot com. I did
Speaker 1: want to mention this story. You know, it's it's not
Speaker 1: a big story, but it felt a little bigger to me.
Speaker 1: Daryl Bebell is the Lions interim head coach and he
Speaker 1: made a decision on Monday to fire his special teams
Speaker 1: coordinator Braden Combs. And this came after Combs, who went
Speaker 1: against Bebel's decision to punch in the fourth quarter of
Speaker 1: Sundays lost to Tennessee, going for a fake instead. Bevill
Speaker 1: said that he told Combs it spelled Coombs to punt,
Speaker 1: and he defied the head coach's wishes, called a fake
Speaker 1: that ultimately came just short of converting the first down.
Speaker 1: They fired him. If they get the first down? Does
Speaker 1: he fire him? Plus? Why does it always have to
Speaker 1: be something black or white? So it's so, hey, I
Speaker 1: gotta fire you? How about you just saying, you know what,
Speaker 1: don't do that again, Like, does it have to be
Speaker 1: where you fire the guy at Christmas with two games
Speaker 1: left and you're with the Lions. But he got fired,
Speaker 1: and Daryl Bevill said it was an agonizing decision, something
Speaker 1: that really it was really hard for me. You know,
Speaker 1: I thought it would be important to think on it
Speaker 1: a lot. You know, I really thought about it basically
Speaker 1: all night long. Okay, I mean, this guy's thirty four
Speaker 1: and a Lion source told ESPN that the special teams
Speaker 1: coach was not a cultural fit and that the fake
Speaker 1: punt was the final straw for issues that had been percolating.
Speaker 1: The head coach declined to give the explanation for going
Speaker 1: for the fake and also whether this was an isolated
Speaker 1: incident or part of a pattern since Komb's arrival from
Speaker 1: Cincinnati last season. All right, well, if he needed a reason,
Speaker 1: he got a reason. But I'm just thinking, there's two
Speaker 1: games left. The guy thought that. You know what, punters
Speaker 1: will tell you, they sort of have a green light
Speaker 1: when they go back to punt. Now, unless the coach goes, hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna, you know, call for a fake punt, it's
Speaker 1: hard to call for a fake punt unless you know
Speaker 1: exactly what the defense is going to look like. So
Speaker 1: I have to go, Hey, let me, let me survey
Speaker 1: the scene here. Oh gosh, man, they're they're retreating back
Speaker 1: for a return. Pat McAfee one of the great punters
Speaker 1: in history. He said, yeah, well, if you decide take
Speaker 1: matters into your own hands, a better work. But the
Speaker 1: fact that this uh Special Teams coach said hey, let's
Speaker 1: go for it, you know, and and there are other
Speaker 1: priors they needed a reason to fire him, and then
Speaker 1: they fire him. I just thought, you know what, it's
Speaker 1: two games to go. Unless he was that toxic and
Speaker 1: there were all these other things going on, and we
Speaker 1: gotta get rid of our Special Teams coach here, Like,
Speaker 1: what's wrong with the lines this year? Man? That's Special
Speaker 1: Teams coach? Oh he's holding it back. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean that part of the article for me that's
Speaker 1: really telling is where he said it wasn't really a
Speaker 1: cultural fit and there were other issues percolating. You know,
Speaker 1: if if there are issues behind the scene and you're
Speaker 1: kind of fed up with it already and then you're like, hey, dude,
Speaker 1: punt and then this guy goes off and does his
Speaker 1: own thing. I'd probably be like, all right, man, just
Speaker 1: get out. If it got to that point where he
Speaker 1: was willing to do this, then he should not have
Speaker 1: been on the field. If you thought like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: like you're going for a fake punt, you're going to
Speaker 1: defy me? And did you fire him right after the
Speaker 1: fake punt? Because I mean, if you really want to
Speaker 1: be dramatic about it, I just thought with two games
Speaker 1: to go, and it seemed drastic. Yeah, poem, that's what's wondering.
Speaker 1: If Daryl Bevil thought this will be a move that says,
Speaker 1: this is my team. I'm a head coach. I'm not
Speaker 1: afraid to make the tough ones. That's the only thing
Speaker 1: I could think about it. Reasoning wise, Well, Daryl Bevil's
Speaker 1: not keeping the job. Your special team's coach is not
Speaker 1: keeping his job. Nobody's keeping their job. You know they're
Speaker 1: they're all gonna get fired there. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: It just seemed like, wow, all right, it seemed kind
Speaker 1: of drastic. But then the Lion source said to ESPN,
Speaker 1: you know there was he was not a cultural fit.
Speaker 1: Anne in Texas, Hi, Anne, thanks for holding What do
Speaker 1: you have for me? Today. Good morning, Dan, I'm here
Speaker 1: supporting the Hood Nation. Just so glad that Drew has
Speaker 1: made it back. It was so exciting watching him and
Speaker 1: Tom Brady go back and forth earlier in the season
Speaker 1: before the injury. And so here's a little Santa name
Speaker 1: for you. They're the Santa Saints because they're bringing all
Speaker 1: the giddies to us kids. All right, Okay, well, thank
Speaker 1: you Anne. Good luck with that. Santa's Saints. Get a
Speaker 1: couple of phone calls in here Brad and North Carolina. Hi, Brad,
Speaker 1: welcome back. What can we do for you today? ADP.
Speaker 1: You just want to kind of weigh in on the
Speaker 1: audience discussion. And you know, I know this is only
Speaker 1: an award nominated program, but in my book, nobody does
Speaker 1: it better than you, guys. And a reason for that
Speaker 1: is because you let us in. You, you let us
Speaker 1: see behind the curtain. You let us have personalities. We've
Speaker 1: got the retired cop in Detroit. You've got not exactly
Speaker 1: Atticus Finch, You've got Ted and Tampa who hates his
Speaker 1: offensive linement. And you have you have me who calls
Speaker 1: in and it makes fun of you because you thought
Speaker 1: a root canal with surgery. So I just wanted to
Speaker 1: call which you got far Christmas? Happy bleaty hannaka to
Speaker 1: the background of guys, and I'll look forward to talking
Speaker 1: to you guys next year. Thank you, Brad. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is our final show once covid hit. I said to
Speaker 1: the Dane's, let's show up for work, whether it's in
Speaker 1: studio or via zoom, because I don't think our audience
Speaker 1: has ever needed us more without overstating our importance, but
Speaker 1: we understood our importance and we understood when this first
Speaker 1: started out in March, we had no idea, but we
Speaker 1: were trying to figure it out to be able to
Speaker 1: present the scenarios, the stories, the issues, the interviews, and
Speaker 1: we just kind of you know, we were adapting every
Speaker 1: single day as well, and you were along for the ride.
Speaker 1: But we never took it for granted that you know
Speaker 1: what our role was. We knew what our role was,
Speaker 1: and there were a lot of things to talk about
Speaker 1: that we could have talked about, but I chose to
Speaker 1: keep to keep it with what we do best, having fun,
Speaker 1: sports related pop culture, whatever it is. We were a
Speaker 1: diversion and we chose to try to be a diversion.
Speaker 1: And there were a lot of headlines that didn't have
Speaker 1: much to do or anything to do with sports, and
Speaker 1: you could get that elsewhere. I wanted you to know
Speaker 1: that this was almost a safe spot, safe haven where
Speaker 1: you could come in and we were going to be
Speaker 1: talking about things that you could relate to, or that
Speaker 1: you needed to know, or that maybe put a smile
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Speaker 1: tell you it brought us closer together because every single
Speaker 1: day we were talking about there were serious issues sports
Speaker 1: related going on, and we discussed and discussed and discussed again,
Speaker 1: what's the right guest, what's the approach here? What do
Speaker 1: we want to leave people with? And to be able
Speaker 1: to have those conversations where a lot of times we
Speaker 1: can just come in and do a show, We've gotten
Speaker 1: to that point where I just know what the Danans
Speaker 1: are going to do. They're so good at what they do.
Speaker 1: I just let them do their job. I come on
Speaker 1: the air, and then we just go for three hours.
Speaker 1: Those were shows that I'm extremely proud of because we
Speaker 1: did factor you in every single day, like what do
Speaker 1: you want to hear? What do you need to hear?
Speaker 1: What's important? Who do you want to hear from? Make
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Speaker 1: we were with YouTube and your support was unbelievable and
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Speaker 1: were watching and they said, we want to be in
Speaker 1: business with you. And I said, it has to be
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Speaker 1: But you know, we've learned a lot about each other.
Speaker 1: And I'm talking about me with the Danaans and me
Speaker 1: and the dance with you, the audience. But that's what
Speaker 1: strengthens us, that's what makes us great. That's what makes
Speaker 1: coming in every single day. And at my age, I
Speaker 1: don't have to do this, but I need to do this.
Speaker 1: I want to do this, and we are for a
Speaker 1: few more years at least. But thank you for what
Speaker 1: you've given us. Hopefully we've given you a lot in return.
Speaker 1: We'll take a break here. Yes, it's that time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I did running out of time. I was
Speaker 1: getting a little nervous. I'm looking at the close. Let
Speaker 1: me see you follow that, Todd. That's pretty deep. It
Speaker 1: was very emotional and now and you just left me
Speaker 1: hanging out to dry here. Basically, I can't copy those emotions.
Speaker 1: But you know what we do. We just you know,
Speaker 1: let's just blow by and we don't do the names. Well,
Speaker 1: it doesn't make sense, you do. We're just talking about
Speaker 1: how much you appreciate the listeners and and then therefore
Speaker 1: I shouldn't do the name. The last few minutes of
Speaker 1: our yes, it's like the opening act is going after
Speaker 1: the headline and the Beatles just played, Rolling Stones just played,
Speaker 1: and now they're bringing up on Googans are coming to
Speaker 1: the party, have some poison to drake be Okay, we're
Speaker 1: gonna come back and uh, if you're watching on the
Speaker 1: live look in, we're gonna have steak because that's uh.
Speaker 1: I'm staring at the monitor right now. I told the
Speaker 1: big german, I want to have a monitor that shows
Speaker 1: the grilling area because some of the back room guys
Speaker 1: and Mario is here today. Mario came out and he
Speaker 1: tried to steal some food a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 1: and he burnt. He burned his hand. So I'm watching
Speaker 1: on the monitor. It was so good. He was over
Speaker 1: by the trigger and all of a sudden he opens
Speaker 1: it up and he's he puts his paw in and
Speaker 1: then I see him go, and I go, yes, I
Speaker 1: got you, break you. I know all right. Todd's Christmas
Speaker 1: names next right after this. Fox Sports Radio has the
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Speaker 1: this is our final show of this year, what a year.
Speaker 1: Here's to happier, healthier twenty twenty one. Thank you for
Speaker 1: being a part of this program, Dan and the Dance
Speaker 1: and all the great people behind the scenes. This arcade
Speaker 1: fire goes out to you. Oh, these meat Fridays and
Speaker 1: the fact that we won't be here on Friday. It's
Speaker 1: a meet Wednesday. And that steak is pretty good, Todd,
Speaker 1: pretty good stuff. Yeah, and that buffalo chicken particulars. Yeah,
Speaker 1: twice baked potato. I'm good with the ones bake, but
Speaker 1: it's a twice bake. Holidays get crazy. Yeah, it's so. Hopefully,
Speaker 1: if you're watching on Peacock, you're living vicariously through us.
Speaker 1: As you can see the grilling area that we have.
Speaker 1: We got a fire burning, and you know it's just
Speaker 1: two special friends together who love each other but don't
Speaker 1: particularly care for each other. Well, I love you. I
Speaker 1: don't like you, I know, I just I was just
Speaker 1: kind of playing off on that a little bit. But
Speaker 1: I think you like me now too. I won't admit
Speaker 1: it publicly, but you know, in a quiet moment with
Speaker 1: a lie detector, I think you love me and like me. No,
Speaker 1: maybe not. I would take a lie detector test to
Speaker 1: prove that you don't like me. If you want to
Speaker 1: get a lie detector test, and then you can have
Speaker 1: you know, have somebody ask me questions. Do you love
Speaker 1: Todd that I believe? Do you like to trying to
Speaker 1: get the like part up to where it needs to. Oh,
Speaker 1: we got the T shirts in We got the I
Speaker 1: don't love you but I like you T shirts, and
Speaker 1: we got the Christmas sports Did you see the T shirts? No?
Speaker 1: I have not. Yeah, Well, if you get up off
Speaker 1: and you know, get there, no time for my sports
Speaker 1: names though. Now I'll have somebody there, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: Alan or Marvin could get it. That'll be perfect. I
Speaker 1: don't like to having one of the back room guys,
Speaker 1: do something I don't like it, doesn't know their names
Speaker 1: one of the guys. Yeah, sometimes you got to delegate one.
Speaker 1: Maybe Weeks the cameraman, maybe he can do it. And
Speaker 1: Weeks didn't get fired this year, which is pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: All right, Todd, this is the moment I got to
Speaker 1: hold up the shirt first. Okay, that shirt just came in.
Speaker 1: That's available on Dan Patrick dot com and it's got
Speaker 1: the Christmas sports related names there and uh, it looks great.
Speaker 1: And then what else do you have? Their time? That's
Speaker 1: the I love you but I don't like you t
Speaker 1: shirt that may sell a lot. Yeah, well I think
Speaker 1: people can relate to that. You know, your wife may
Speaker 1: say I love you, but I don't like you. Get
Speaker 1: a lot of that. Yeah, No, I'm not talking about you.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I get a lot of home. All right. Okay,
Speaker 1: are you ready with the Christmas just to read them quickly?
Speaker 1: Or how do you want me to handle it? It's
Speaker 1: your moment here, it's your moment. It's so important to you,
Speaker 1: it's important. Okay, here we go. Rockem Christmas. Mary Decker
Speaker 1: Slaney retired American middle distance runner. In case you're wondering
Speaker 1: who that Is Martin, Saint Louis, Chesnut Mclockton beth Lehem Potter,
Speaker 1: British Olympic triathlete Jack Snow. Wait a minute, how many
Speaker 1: names do you have? Because fast, I got like seventy.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm going fast. I want to get them in.
Speaker 1: Dave Frost, Formed Angels, Pitcher, Chilly Davis, Hugh Freeze, Nativity Thurmond, Kyle, Rudolph,
Speaker 1: Rob Raindeer, Rob Dear, Rob Braindeer, Donner Maddingly, Joy Fawcett
Speaker 1: retired American soccer player Joy Fawcett. Julio Jones can get
Speaker 1: away with that? Or Julio Joe, just keep moving? Darius Slay,
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley, ug Lee Smith Sweater, Ugly Swear, Michael bou
Speaker 1: Blaine Gabbert, Michael bou Blade and Gabbert Adam Silver bells
Speaker 1: or silver and Gold, James White, Christmas, Jimmy Clawson, Jimmy Connors.
Speaker 1: That was a tricky one. Jimmy Connors. Jim that was
Speaker 1: Jimmy Connors, like one. Gary Reefson's if I had a lisp. No, No,
Speaker 1: Gary Reefson, No, that's a former Giant linebacker Gary Major
Speaker 1: Mainer Harris instead of Major has Manger, Harris Star of
Speaker 1: David Robinson, Julius Pepper's Mint, John hanka Us pro Golfer,
Speaker 1: John Hanny, familiar of them, John Hanna, Leavian Bell, D'Angelo Hall,
Speaker 1: Joe Hornemant Sterling Shepherd, Yukon Cornelius Bennett. You know who.
Speaker 1: Yukon Cornelius was right from the ruff, the redness, Reranger,
Speaker 1: the guy I was looking for the silver and gold.
Speaker 1: Yukon Cornelius looking Antonio Parson Brown, You got twenty second
Speaker 1: Andy Midnight Mesters Master Smith, Midnight Master Smith, Ron egnong Loft,
Speaker 1: ron Igla, Rafael Landis, Toy, Saint Nick Foles, Randy Cross,
Speaker 1: Rick up Church, Priest Holmes, Jesus Shuttlesworth, Lynn Swan, Goose Gossage,
Speaker 1: Golden Tate, Larry Bird. I gotta give you a few
Speaker 1: more heres six John McClane for Ralphie Sampson, three D.
Speaker 1: Jacob Marley, Jacob Marley. Is he getting better getting worse? No? No, no, no,
Speaker 1: you you lead with your your big ones there and
Speaker 1: uh there's no leftovers here, no left unlike a meat Friday,
Speaker 1: there's no leftovers here. You don't what save him for
Speaker 1: next year because I'm sure they won't be relevant. Two
Speaker 1: quick ones, Carl Anthony coming to towns and Alex Grinch.
Speaker 1: Who's Alex Grinch the Oklahoma as soon as defensive coordinator
Speaker 1: Alex Grinch. That's his name, alrighty, thank you, Todd, Alex Grinch,
Speaker 1: Thank you Todd. Uh Barry in Long Island, Hey, Barry
Speaker 1: top that Hey, Merry Christmas, fellas I do happen to
Speaker 1: have a couple that Todd k miss Okay, there's a
Speaker 1: Wade nod sled Williams, Jay Cutlery, you have to carve
Speaker 1: your turkey there, Mary Povich, Reef Hernandez Jojo. I'm dreaming
Speaker 1: of a white Christmas. And we have our first team
Speaker 1: NHL is coming back, the New York Mangers. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Barry. I think I won that. No, you did.
Speaker 1: You were better than Barry quantity and and and Barry
Speaker 1: is probably you know, I'm gonna hate himself now. He's
Speaker 1: Ryan and Hollolulu. You're a good friend from Ryan, Yes, yes, Ryan,
Speaker 1: Hello ho ho and Merry Christmas. All right, So what's
Speaker 1: going on today? Not much or no, not much? Ry alright,
Speaker 1: let's go speed it up? All right, all right, all right,
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Speaker 1: We got some succer ones here a name are in Paris,
Speaker 1: Saint Jermaine Ja. Oh my god, it's blocked on even
Speaker 1: needs a screwge No, no, I would say that I did.
Speaker 1: I had to cut him short time. Oh hey man,
Speaker 1: he crushed Ian Reppa present was great that one? And
Speaker 1: uh him major? What was it? Something around him? And wait, Ryan,
Speaker 1: you're still there? Yeah, give me, give me no, no, no,
Speaker 1: give me this loot on again? Slopped on a screw?
Speaker 1: Why are you laughing at that? And I love Ryan,
Speaker 1: but you can't believe you guys, that's no sense. What's funny?
Speaker 1: But go ahead, Ryan, ridiculous? Okay, I got I got
Speaker 1: chief scorn to Eric down the chimney. I have Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay raised super stop for Randy Kenoke's arena. We've got.
Speaker 1: I want to stop with Slaton. No, thank you, Ryan,
Speaker 1: I would stop with Slaton. Oh Prison, that's the one
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. I like it a lot. It's a
Speaker 1: lot on no dayser screwed. I'm insulted. You guys left
Speaker 1: at that? Uh? John in New Zealand, Hey John, good
Speaker 1: to have you back. How's New Zealand? Good day mate.
Speaker 1: I think I might love very in Long Island, but
Speaker 1: I like Ryan and Honolu. Ryan did okay? But John,
Speaker 1: thank you for calling in, Thanks for all your support
Speaker 1: this year, and hope things are well there. Todd just
Speaker 1: sent me a limerick about Dwayne Haskins. Yeah sure, why not? No? Yeah,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Dwayne Haskins. I went to a strip club,
Speaker 1: didn't have a mask on, and Todd known for stealing
Speaker 1: limericks and he's got okay teammates trust he'll have to regain,
Speaker 1: not considering others. He's kind of vain. Do we really
Speaker 1: need to ask if you're wearing a mask? Can't stop
Speaker 1: him from making it? Were okay? All right, thank you John, Okay,
Speaker 1: but that was workable. Do you have something final you
Speaker 1: guys gonna say to the audience? Anything? Daniel? I've been
Speaker 1: the one that has been saying a lot of things there,
Speaker 1: so okay, nobody cares about it. Oh okay, we can't
Speaker 1: top I looked it up. Rockem Christmas last play in
Speaker 1: the NBA in twenty sixteen, and he's in New Zealand. Now, uh,
Speaker 1: let's go around the room. What we learned on the program, Todd,
Speaker 1: I'll start with you, what did you learn that? Okay,
Speaker 1: your opinion of last night's NBA results. It's just one game.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean anything easy with the overreal Yeah that
Speaker 1: feel Levin. You and Todd are best friends, Yeah we are,
Speaker 1: but that'll quickly end after today's Wow we were having
Speaker 1: on the tennis set An O'Connor right in, Honolula has
Speaker 1: got a real future, Yeah he does. PAULI the Winter
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