WEBVTT - 11/05/20 HOUR 1-Ian Rapoport 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.520 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.560 Sports Radio. Made it to a Thursday. Come on in, 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:09.119 stay a while. Boys are here, ready to go. A 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.280 lot of topics to talk about. I know who's playing tonight, 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:16.119 but I have no idea who's playing tonight. We know 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:18.919 it's the Niners and Packers. I'm not quite sure who 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:21.560 the Niners are going to put out there at wide receiver. 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:24.520 And also who's running the football for the Green Bay 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:27.840 Packers their scheduled to play in San Francisco tonight. It's 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:31.760 a Gopher right now. I was surprised this game wasn't moved. 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:34.720 Patriots game a couple of weeks ago was moved to 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:39.120 a Sunday. But this game might be the clearest illustration 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:41.519 of a fact that's becoming clearer by the day. The 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:45.279 NFL wants to get through this season as quickly as possible. 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:48.320 The Niners top three wide receivers are on the reserve 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:51.560 COVID list, and you also have their tackle Trent Williams 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:54.640 on that list. Meanwhile, the Packers without their three top 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:59.400 running backs. And this is something that we were concerned about. 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:02.640 The NFL concerned about players in the same position. Group 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:06.039 exposed to one another. Basically, the Niners might not be 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:07.920 able to throw and the Packers might not be able 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:11.240 to run. It was sort of like that in the 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:14.560 NFC title game last year. San Francisco destroyed Green Bay 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:16.920 with its running game and might be able to do 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.360 that again. The bigger question is is it why is 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:22.000 to play this game in prime time with the whole 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:26.280 nation watching. It feels like it's a bad look. And 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:28.560 hopefully the teams can limit the spread of the virus 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:31.240 in their facilities and they'll probably view this as a 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:34.039 blip on the season. But tonight's game seems like a 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:37.360 challenge and possibly a bad look for the NFL. Ian 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:41.000 Rappaport NFL dot Com will join us coming up, why 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:44.520 haven't you know? Why hasn't the NFL moved this game? 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:47.200 Because it feels like you have two teams at a 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:52.360 decided disadvantage facing each other. Maybe it's an equal disadvantage. 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:55.280 The Niners have been snake bitten this year. They lead 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:58.640 the NFL in player games missed to injury. Now, this 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:04.480 is even before COVID most games missed due to injury. 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:09.520 These are the player games missed, San Francisco leading. It's 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:13.520 not even close one and twenty four games missed by 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:17.600 their players due to injuries. The Eagles are second at 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:24.600 one oh seven, the Jets at eighty eight, Seattle eighty seven, 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:30.000 Dallas eighty three. And in case you're wondering the teams 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:34.120 that have had the fewest games missed due to player injury, 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:37.959 the Dolphins are of the best team and the healthiest team. 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:42.040 The Steelers then next, and then the Atlanta Falcons. Yes, 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:45.480 so the Falcons can't even plame injury. Usually if you say, well, 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:47.320 we had a tough season, we're beat up all year. 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.800 We'll get them next year. Falcons can't even pull that one. Yeah, 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:53.119 I got ahead of myself though. Let me go through 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:57.280 all the procedural data that I tell you about every 0:02:57.360 --> 0:02:59.800 day we're on the Fox Sports Radio lineup. You can 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:02.320 watch the show on Peacock, download the app for free. 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:05.680 You can dial U up, email, you can tweet mclovin. 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:07.320 Will have a poll question. We got a stat of 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:09.960 the day play of the day coming up. You have 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:13.560 Matthew Stafford on the COVID list, but it's it's a 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:16.040 different It's a list that I didn't even know existed. 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:20.880 Do you have the official designation of Matthew Stafford's COVID 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.720 list that it's on because it's he kind of came 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:26.320 in contact with somebody who came in contact with somebody 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:30.280 who also came in contact with somebody. Yes, Paully, this 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:34.720 is a weird. One person who's been quarantined after been 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:38.119 in close contact with an infected person. A person's non 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:42.680 related to the team's high risk close contact from a 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:46.200 non team member is Adam Schefer said about Matthew Stafford. 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.760 That's is a lot of hyphens Dan high risk close 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:52.880 contact non team member. That's three hyphens one sentence. We'll 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:55.400 talk to Ian Rappaport about what's going on. All the 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:59.680 Texans have shut down their facility. Ian Rappaport just tweeted 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:06.400 that one Texans player has tested positive. In consultation with 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:10.280 the NFL and medical experts, they've made the decision to 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:15.960 close down the facility. That's all all the information that 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.200 he and Rappaport has right now. Yes, point now, we 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.520 all want my Matthew Stafford to play. Y'all want everyone 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:21.960 to be healthy in play. But if he does not 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:28.120 start on Sunday, do you know who would chase Daniel Oh? 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:32.320 The eclipse is what I call Chase Daniel the Cicada. 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:35.120 He's finally gonna show America that he can play the 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.800 position every few years, the Cicada. Every seven years, he 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:40.960 sticks his head out of the dirt and plays the football. 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:49.000 Chicada Daniel. What's that lunar eclipse? Daniel? Yeah, the greatest 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:53.360 preseason quarterback in NFL history. May get a shot. May 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.760 get a shot? All right, mclovin, what kind of pull 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:57.640 question you have? By the way, this program brought to 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.640 you by Breeders Cup. Friday and Saturday, the world's best 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:05.360 thoroughbreds compete in fourteen exhilarating races. Breeders Cup World Championships. 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:08.200 Learn more, Breeders Cup dot Com, Sligh twenty twenty, Catch 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.320 all the action live on NBC Sports. Okay, start simple. 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:13.400 Should the NFL play the game tonight? Yes or no? 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:16.880 How do you think people would vote? Well? I want 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:19.160 to see it, but I don't want to see it 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:23.440 kind of in this capacity. You know, you still have 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:25.960 Aaron Rodgers out there, and you want to tune in 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:29.839 to see Aaron Rodgers Davante Adams, but I would like 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:31.800 to see him at full strength. I'd really like to 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.080 know and it's not going to happen because of the injuries. 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.880 But I'd like to know has Green Bay answered any 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:39.599 questions from last year's title game when they got blown 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:44.320 out and San Francisco still run the ball right down, 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.279 you know, the green Bay Packers throats. Green Bay's not 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:53.080 stopping anybody on the run. I would I would move 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:56.800 it because of the positive test. The injuries you can't 0:05:56.839 --> 0:06:00.880 do anything about, but just the look of it, it 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.680 doesn't look good for the NFL like we're gonna we're 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:07.479 gonna play this game. Okay, play the game, where in 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:11.760 other situations they've moved games. And I don't know if 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.679 this gets worse. I think later in the season it does, 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:18.200 because I do think there will be maybe a carelessness 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:20.560 on part of some of these teams. Some of these 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:25.120 players they're not in the playoff chase, and you know, hey, 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:27.720 I want to go out. It's been a long year, 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:33.400 bad year, and you're probably gonna have some looser restrictions 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:35.640 or at least in their own minds of what they 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.120 can and can't do. That's where I think there's the 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:41.840 potential for we gotta maybe shut down for a week, 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:45.599 maybe have to add a week to get in these games. Yeah, Pauling, 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:47.719 I wonder if the NFL is kind of trying it's serious, 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:49.880 like they're trying the opposite thing where it's so close 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:51.719 to game time on a Thursday, let's keep it and 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.800 just whoever's there is there, and we don't want to 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:56.640 get so backed up we have to move stuff. They're 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:59.200 thinking right now. The playoffs and Super Bowls seem like 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:02.599 they're intact at the time period they're scheduled, and we 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:04.840 may have to have a few ugly nights like Thursday 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.680 night to get to there. But this is a marquee 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:11.480 game now. Even while without Garoppolo in there, you still 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:14.600 the forty nine ers have no wide receivers and Green 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:16.680 Bay doesn't have their running backs. If we wait a 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.760 couple of days, can we at least be fair to 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.840 both of these teams here? And that's all I'm saying 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.480 that I know that you've got, you know, guys missing 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:28.200 on both sides, but how about we get as close 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:31.120 to full strength as possible? And I think waiting a 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:33.960 couple extra days. But I'll ask Ian Rapaport about that 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:37.400 coming up. Guess McLevin, Yeah, but are you going to 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:39.320 run into a situation where if you push that back 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:41.200 like it becomes a domino where you keep pushing back 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:44.560 and pushing back and run out of time. Well, I don't. 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.680 I mean, they played Thursday Night last week. It just 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:51.160 this happens. You have an alternative plan and you've used 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:52.960 it before. It's not like you go and we don't 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:55.680 move Thursday games. Fox spend too much money. We don't 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.800 move those games. You've moved the game, And it seems 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:02.200 like that that would be the smarter choice for both 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.760 teams here. I mean, if I'm Green Bay, do I 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:11.160 want to be traveling to San Francisco? No? I don't. Yeah, Paul, 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:12.800 why don't we just have a couple of Mac teams 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:15.600 on standby every week to play Thursday Night in case 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.240 something goes squarely, you know, get bowling Green out there 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:20.320 and getst Ohio and say, you guys, you got the 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:22.720 national spotlight we're gonna have from football. Yeah. I watched 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.200 a lot of action last night. It was fun. It 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:28.280 wasn't great football, but it was still football. You've got 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:32.959 football tonight. Utah State, Nevada, Wyoming in Colorado State. Money 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:35.199 wins out in the NBA. The NBA is going to 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:40.120 start December twenty second as opposed to January thirteenth, and 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:44.080 you were looking at probably a half a billion dollars 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:48.440 who was in play, and I think everybody came to 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:51.200 their senses and realized, we'd love to have more time off, 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.280 we should have more time off, and we're going to 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:57.120 start December twenty second. The NBA is all in on 0:08:57.160 --> 0:09:00.440 those Christmas Day games. That's so important to them, and 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.000 really that's when the season starts. I don't know if 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:05.959 they're gonna I always thought that down the road, will 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:10.680 they start, like officially start around then, And I don't 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.160 know if it can stick because there's so much money 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:15.960 at stake and if you're going to reduce the let's 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.679 say eighty two to seventy two games, I'm being just 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:21.760 the amount of money salary CAP's gonna go down. You 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:23.640 know the players are not going to stand for that. 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:27.280 But it looks like December twenty second is when the 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:30.800 NBA will officially start. Yes, mclovin, is that amazing? In 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:33.200 less than two months, we'll see LaMelo Ball in an 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:36.200 NBA jersey play. We're gonna see him play the draft. 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:39.040 Is that's so close to the season. I don't know 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:42.439 if many NBA fans are going, God, I can't wait 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.360 for LaMelo Ball to be in a uniform. You're not curious. 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:47.280 I think it's right now. I've seen him. I know 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:51.960 what his game is. Really, Yes, I've seen this. I've 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:57.559 seen this. He's wildly entertaining and talented, and he shoots 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:00.719 a little better than his bigger brother. I watch a 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.760 highlight reel. He shoots a sutshot from forty five feet away. 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.080 It's the most bizarre thing I've ever seen from like 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:09.400 and it's releases by his hip. Yep, not good. You know, 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:12.080 when you're little and you shoot, you shoot down at 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:15.280 your hip and most people grow out of that because 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:17.840 you're stronger to be able to shoot it up top. 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.559 He has that. He this is how he started, and 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.160 he still shoots that with the little stuff. Curious though, 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:28.760 toobow very little stuff, curier. Isn't that like very little? 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:30.040 You know you were saying it was about shooting. Yes, 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:32.080 doesn't he shoot the second he comes over half court 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.360 just like Trey Young and he's gonna shoot forty three 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:36.680 is a game. That doesn't mean he should be shooting. 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:40.760 And if he's going to Minnesota, I can't imagine that 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:45.000 Carl Anthony Towns is gonna be going, Yeah, keep shooting it, 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:48.920 I'll rebound for you. I don't think anybody's going kind 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:53.800 of can't wait to see lamellow Ball play basketball. I mean, 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:56.880 I'm anxious to see it, interested to see how it works, 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:00.560 and who wants him, but the Golden State Warriors do. 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.640 I'm curious about all those things. I wonder what Lebron 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:07.559 does for the first month of the season. I don't know. Now, 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:11.319 if you want to talk about minutes restrictions, you want 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:15.400 to talk about, you know, game management here, I could 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:18.840 certainly see that, Yeah, see, you gotta be rehabbing a thigh. 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:23.319 Indrian Cobo I think the first month of this season, well, 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:28.600 he's got a home somewhere in I don't know, Antigua 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:30.840 or somewhere, so he could say that, you know, this 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:32.680 is where my doctor is. I need to be here. 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:37.320 Let's see. So we got Rappaport coming up. We'll check 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.520 in with the Niners a little bit later on. Trevor 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.240 Lawrence is going to be at the Notre Dame game. 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:46.240 He's going to be on the sidelines. He's just not 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:51.480 going to be playing I'm not sure what the ACC 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:55.520 rules are, but I guess if he's tested negative or 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.040 how many times he's tested negative, that he can be 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:01.520 on the sidelines. But you know, keep in mind the 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:05.240 information I gave you about this is a ten day isolation, 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:08.640 but it's a fourteen day process in the ACC, and 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.400 I think a lot of people thought, oh, he'll be back. 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.319 I thought he was back until a source said no, no, 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:18.000 this is fourteen days. He won't play ten day isolation 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:23.440 protocols and he will have cleared that by today. But 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.520 he also has some cardiovascular tests that he has to 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:30.400 complete and they won't be done in time for Saturday's game, 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.839 so he is going to be there on the sidelines. 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:39.200 What other poll questions? Nick Clemson question, if Clemson loses 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.360 Notre Dame, do we give them a pass? Are they 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:43.320 still going to reach the final four? Do they get 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.280 I'd like an asterisk on this loss, because no, Trevor, 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:49.640 I don't know how the selection committee is going to 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:54.000 view this because it depends on how how well or 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:59.560 how poorly dj Ungele plays. If he plays well like 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:02.640 he did, it's BC that was on their defense. But 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:04.440 if he plays well, I don't know if they're gonna 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:06.439 go well if Trevor had been in there, But if 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:08.400 he doesn't play well, you know, Notre Dame has got 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.920 a good defense. It's not great, but you're gonna you're 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:14.160 really gonna test this. This is a freshman on the 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:21.840 road against a formidable opponent. A good defense will probably 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.720 do that. With Clemson, I'm gonna guess they're gonna do that. 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.880 Go well if they'd had Trevor. But I'd like to 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:31.360 see how the game is played, because if Notre Dame 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:35.719 is scorn, it will then this isn't on the quarterback 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:37.840 and I can't give you a hall pass. Yeah, only 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:39.839 I go back to if Trevor Lawrence can stand on 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:41.800 the sidelines with a mask on, why couldn't he go 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:44.800 in the game with a mask on. No, they're saying 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:46.920 he has to complete all of this, right, but I 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:49.440 was saying, let's say he's staying there on the sidelines. No, 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:52.719 it has nothing to do with wearing a mask. Ten 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:56.280 day isolation, that's the protocol. He will clear that. Today 0:13:56.800 --> 0:14:02.679 he has to complete cardiovascular test and you know they 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:05.360 have to check for inflammation of the heart, and they 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:08.360 won't be done in time for Saturday. From what I'm told, 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:11.160 and that's why he can go to the game. He 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:13.680 will have tested negative and he can be on the 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:18.080 sidelines and be a mentor to DJ. What else do 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:20.800 you have in Clevin? Okay, I don't know when you 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.040 want to get into it, but I have the top 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:26.680 ten draft picks for twenty twenty one. That there's ten 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:28.920 teams who are two and five or worse, and I'm 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:32.520 curious which ones are full tank mode from now on. Okay, 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:36.560 the Jets are own eight. Now we'll hold off. Yeah, yeah, 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:42.720 because I want to know over under four quarterbacks taken 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.440 in the top ten. That's what I want to know. 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:52.400 Don't tell me. I'm just I'm curious here because we 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:55.800 know too we're going to be taken up top. Trevor 0:14:55.840 --> 0:15:01.200 and Justin Field, Trey Lance, North Dakota State, Purty Rock 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:06.560 Party is not the guy. Um Florida's Kyle Trask guy 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:09.880 might be moving into the first round. Wilson from b 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:13.040 YU is moving up rapidly. I don't know if there's 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:16.720 any other quarterbacks. So there's there's five right there, right, yes, 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:19.600 But it did a function of which teams need quarterbacks 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:21.720 about how high those guys goes it, you know what 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:23.760 I mean? So or it could it be roll? Is 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:26.400 that draft where everybody they took Jake Locker, Eid and 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:29.200 Christian Ponder. It is that like twenty ten, So it's 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:32.680 not just the quarterbacks are, it's also where the teams are. 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:37.280 That was like those gms that day. They struck me 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:41.920 as uh people who go into uh these stores on 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:45.240 Black Friday and they just start buying things and going 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:48.680 crazy like we don't need a TV, grab one, we 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:52.880 don't need a vacuum grab one, and you're just buying everything. 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:55.240 And you got to that draft and you're like, hey, 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:57.200 all right, we got we got our draft board, we 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.000 know who we're gonna take. And then all of a 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:05.880 sudden it went crazy. First twelve picks, four quarterbacks, and 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:09.760 it felt like everybody was under the impression we got 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:11.960 to get our quarterback. Whether you needed a quarterback, he 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:16.200 was the right quarterback for you you were drafting a quarterback. Yes, 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:18.280 it's fair to say three of the four didn't work 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:22.000 out right. Jake Locker Nope, mostly because of injury Playing 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:26.440 Gabbett Nope. Christian Potter Nope, nope, Cam Newton, Cam Newton 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:28.960 not going to the Hall of Fame. He worked out, 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.360 but he worked out. He worked out, Yes, he worked out, 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:36.400 but that was crazy. Where these you spend all year 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.240 long going, let's get our draft board ready. We know 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:43.600 who we need. You know, Dalton and Kaepernick. I thought 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:46.640 Dalton was the best quarterback in the draft, and he 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:48.560 went in the second round. Kaepernick went in the second 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.040 round as well. But I thought Andy Dalton was going 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:54.440 to be the best quarterback. I knew Cam had a 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:57.480 lot of talent. I didn't know who was drafting him 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:59.200 and how he would play or how they would set 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.520 up their system. And Carolina did a brilliant job in 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:03.320 doing that. He took him to a super Bowl and 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.119 won an MVP. Yeah. Point my guy was Ricky Stands 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:08.840 out of Iowa in the fifth round. Did not work out? Love, 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:10.560 Ricky Stands. You put him in the fourth quarter. You're 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:13.679 winning ball game? No die though. Yeah, all right, we'll 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.240 take a break. Why is this game being played tonight? 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:19.040 Ian Rappaport NFL dot com. We'll join us coming up next. 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:21.400 Phone calls are always welcome. 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They've failed to cover this season 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:44.320 by an average of ten point who wrote this thing. 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:47.960 The Cowboys haven't covered the spread in any of their games, 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:50.119 I'm guessing is what they're saying, because it says they 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:53.639 have failed to cover the spread by an average of 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:57.879 ten points per game. If Dallas Lanthony, who claims to 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:00.240 have spoken to a source with knowledge from someone close 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.320 to Woods, says Tiger is struggling, damn it, I'm a professional. 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:06.840 If Dallas fails to cover on Sunday, the Cowboys will 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:09.560 become the first team in modern NFL history to go 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:14.960 oh and nine versus the spread. I have no idea 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:17.879 what that means. And I apologize to Ian Rappaport. You 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:21.320 sound like me trying to talk sports him. Sorry, no, 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:24.520 they cover, No, they didn't cover. Ian Rappaport, NFL Network 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:28.400 National Insider, Sorry about that, Ian. Can you see a situation, man, 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.879 not gonna lie right? Well, you work with Eisen, so 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:35.239 you're worse you used to hearing that? Now? Why did 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:38.480 I do that to Eisen? No business doing that to Eisen, 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:42.439 best in the business. Yes, yes, so he's told me 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:46.840 the Cowboys situation. Can you see a situation where they 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:49.640 start to mail this in that they will truly give 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:52.040 up on the Seaton. Could Jerry Jones possibly do that? 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:55.760 I see, I don't know how really any team could 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:57.920 do that. You know, we've we've heard this before. We've 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:00.600 heard the Dolphins we're tanking for two and you know, 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:03.800 now it's like the Jets tanking for Trevor. And you know, 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:06.600 I think about it all the time because every year 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:09.119 it comes up in some form or fashion. And you know, 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:12.840 for the Cowboys, I mean, they're looking like they're going 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:14.720 to get a high pick now, just based on the 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:18.520 way they're playing. The problem is, individual players don't tank, right. 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:20.560 Players are playing for their jobs. They'd like not to 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:24.159 get cut. They'd like to score touchdowns and get sacks 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:25.960 and do all the things on the football field that 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:30.159 are positive. So individual players aren't tanking. Coaches are not 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:32.600 tanking because coaches would like to. I mean, I don't 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:34.520 think Mike McCarthy would like to be one and done. 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:36.240 I think you'd like to win some football games. They 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:38.920 get this thing right, So I don't see tanking as 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:46.320 an actual real thing. However, the direction they're going probably 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:48.480 will do it anyway. I mean, the Cowboys have showed 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:51.600 not a lot of optimism that probably at this point 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:54.560 seems like they're going to be starting Garrett Gilbert on Sunday, 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:58.800 which you know it's not tanking obviously, but he's not 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:02.000 the greatest quarterback that gives the America's team the best 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:04.520 chance to win on Sunday. So there's a lot of 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:06.520 factors that are leading tour that I just don't think 0:21:06.520 --> 0:21:09.400 it's on purpose. Well, you've seen the Jacksonville Jaguars where 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:15.959 Gardner Minshew is being benched. Yeah, I know, jackson This 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:20.720 feels like managerial tanking to me. I actually felt like 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:24.280 the move to Jake Luton, who seems like he's in 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:27.119 line to start on Sunday, is probably more from the 0:21:27.119 --> 0:21:30.480 coaches than anything. Just they would like to get some wins. 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:34.440 And I think Gardner Minshew's stats are okay, his moxie 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:38.040 and other football things are good. He just hadn't played great, 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:41.600 throwing a bunch of interceptions, fumbles. I mean, for all 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:44.320 the optimism who had about Gardner Minshew heading into the season, 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:48.240 he has sort of stood up to none of that. 0:21:48.280 --> 0:21:50.760 I mean he's struggled. The team is struggled. They're playing 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:52.920 from behind all the time. I think this is more 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:55.959 the coaches trying to get a win. Apparently Jake Luton 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:59.280 looks great in practice. I guess both the quarterbacks Glennon 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:02.439 and Luton better than Minshew in practice. So it's more 0:22:02.440 --> 0:22:04.960 of the coaches being like, we need to get a 0:22:04.960 --> 0:22:07.520