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Speaker 2: in South Bend because the game is coming up tonight? Todd,
Speaker 2: do we know where Reese is?
Speaker 3: I believe he's in South Bend? Ben, now for the game, Tame,
Speaker 3: you believe he's College Game Day is.
Speaker 4: Doing back to back action Friday and Sally South Bend
Speaker 4: then Columbus.
Speaker 2: All right, well, why don't we find out where Reys
Speaker 2: Davis is ESPN College Game Day host live. They will
Speaker 2: be at Notre Dame from well three thirty until eight
Speaker 2: on the mother Ship. Then they go to Columbus for
Speaker 2: a second show. Are they paying you for both of
Speaker 2: these College Game Days? Reese?
Speaker 5: I'm not extra Dan. I think they took the original
Speaker 5: hour and a half show and made it four and
Speaker 5: a half hours. You know how that works at ESPN. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but I'm actually I'm actually thrilled by it. I can't
Speaker 5: I can't think of a better place to be to
Speaker 5: start this playoff than on campus at Notre Dame. I
Speaker 5: was even advocating before we knew the pairings that we
Speaker 5: needed to be at Notre Dame Saturday morning, regardless of
Speaker 5: when the game was. But I think it's even better
Speaker 5: that they're playing the first one and we're here on
Speaker 5: Friday afternoon into Friday night.
Speaker 2: Can you open up the curtains, look outside and give
Speaker 2: me a weather forecast.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it might look terrible, but I'm right
Speaker 5: on campus at the beautiful Morrison. Let's see if we
Speaker 5: can see a little snow out there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: it's nice and it's nice and chilly. We're just a
Speaker 5: few steps away here from from the Golden Dome and
Speaker 5: will be beneath the Word of Life mural. I like
Speaker 5: to be official. People sometimes call it touchdown Jesus Dan,
Speaker 5: but it's the Word of Life mural giving the gospel
Speaker 5: and good news to teams like Indiana who made the playoff.
Speaker 2: I guess the pressure on Notre Dame when you're facing Indiana.
Speaker 2: So this is in state and Indiana never gets this
Speaker 2: opportunity and now you have it. How much pressure you
Speaker 2: just gave Marcus Freeman a contract extension as well. Vegas
Speaker 2: loves Notre Dame this year in the playoffs, so how
Speaker 2: much pressure?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 5: I think if the game gets close, there might be
Speaker 5: some game pressure. But right now, both these teams are
Speaker 5: really similar, and you know, someone asked earlier this week
Speaker 5: what the rivalry situation was, and I said, there is
Speaker 5: no rivalry. I said, historically, the only thing that's consequential
Speaker 5: about Indiana to Notre Dame football is that they're in
Speaker 5: the same state. I mean this, Indiana's lost more games
Speaker 5: than anybody in the history of the sport, and Notre
Speaker 5: Dame has the greatest tradition in terms of being a
Speaker 5: story tradition of any So it's you know, they're two
Speaker 5: hundred miles apartments separated by worlds, you know, historically, So
Speaker 5: if it gets tight late, I would imagine Notre Dame
Speaker 5: could start could start feeling feeling some of that pressure.
Speaker 2: Somebody's going to lose. There's a home team that it
Speaker 2: feels like is going to lose this weekend. It just
Speaker 2: the odds are somebody's going to lose. Who do you
Speaker 2: think that would be?
Speaker 5: I think, even though I think they're going to win,
Speaker 5: and I might be overly influenced by spending time there
Speaker 5: earlier this week, but I think if a home team
Speaker 5: is going to lose, it would be Ohio State because
Speaker 5: I think that they are facing the best team in
Speaker 5: Tennessee and they also are facing a team with a
Speaker 5: particular strength that is opposed by a particular weakness of
Speaker 5: Ohio State, meaning the defensive front. We saw what Michigan's
Speaker 5: defensive front did to Ohio State's revamped offensive line because
Speaker 5: of injuries. In Tennessee's defensive front is just as good.
Speaker 5: It's a little bit different, but it's deeper and maybe
Speaker 5: a little better on the edges. But they have a
Speaker 5: particular strength that could give Ohio State trouble. So I
Speaker 5: think that is the most likely one. If if a
Speaker 5: home team is to lose.
Speaker 2: Why is it open season on Ryan Day?
Speaker 5: I don't know. I mean, I mean, I understand rivalry,
Speaker 5: I understand the importance of it. Dan, It's kind of ridiculous.
Speaker 5: I mean, really, this loss to Michigan is the only
Speaker 5: one that was a bad one. It's not your birthright
Speaker 5: to beat Michigan every year, and you know this, This
Speaker 5: was a bad loss. There's no way around it. They
Speaker 5: they played tight, they played poorly, and they should have
Speaker 5: won the game. The previous three Michigan had better teams
Speaker 5: than they did, you know, So it's they're the They're
Speaker 5: the winningest program in the history of the sport, and
Speaker 5: this small faction I think generally of Ohio State fans
Speaker 5: that act as if it's their birthright that they have
Speaker 5: some type of that they're entitled to beat Michigan every
Speaker 5: Year's preposterous. A guy sixty six and ten, you know,
Speaker 5: I think he's I think this is this fourth playoff appearance.
Speaker 5: It's really preposterous. Guy's good football coach, and you know,
Speaker 5: you got to be careful what you wish for. You know,
Speaker 5: if they're trying to push them out, they better be
Speaker 5: careful what they wish for.
Speaker 2: What tweaks would you suggest for the format next year?
Speaker 5: Man, the first one. They've got to do away with
Speaker 5: this only conference champions getting the buy. The reward for
Speaker 5: winning your conference champion is inclusion into the field. Didn't
Speaker 5: just see the tournament because and that's what it is.
Speaker 5: They have taken the team that's been best all season, Oregon,
Speaker 5: and created a more difficult path for Oregon than they
Speaker 5: did for Penn State, which lost to both Ohio State
Speaker 5: and to Oregon in the Big Ten championship game. I mean,
Speaker 5: all of these teams are good and capable, but Oregon's
Speaker 5: got to play the winner of Ohio State Tennessee. Penn
Speaker 5: State starts at home against SMU, good team. If they win,
Speaker 5: they you know, they get Boise State. Would you take that,
Speaker 5: you know to get to the semifinals? I think you would,
Speaker 5: So they have to they have to change that immediately.
Speaker 4: Dan.
Speaker 5: I think that they did it this way because they
Speaker 5: want to value conference championships and it was a mechanism
Speaker 5: to get it done, to get the other conferences to agree, Well,
Speaker 5: you're not going to go backwards now, so just see
Speaker 5: the tournament. Whoever, if it's four Big ten teams that
Speaker 5: get to buy, still be it. So the way it goes.
Speaker 2: Talking to Rees Davis, ESPN College Game Day host and
Speaker 2: he will be working tonight this afternoon three point thirty
Speaker 2: until eight on the mother Ship at Notre Dame and
Speaker 2: then goes Saturday morning nine am until noon with the
Speaker 2: matchup with the Buckeyes and Tennessee. Yeah, I'm you know,
Speaker 2: if I'm Oregon, you probably wish you would have lost
Speaker 2: the game to Penn State, because you would gladly. I
Speaker 2: think change exchange places with them, you know.
Speaker 5: I like the way I agree with you, and I
Speaker 5: think in all practicality it's an easier path than dealing
Speaker 5: with one of the other two. But I do like
Speaker 5: the way Dan Lanning has approached it. He's like, you know,
Speaker 5: we're just we're just going to try to win the
Speaker 5: games that are in front of us. We're good and
Speaker 5: we think we can beat anybody. So I think he's
Speaker 5: handled it just the right way. But the unintended consequence
Speaker 5: of seating the field like this is a problem, and
Speaker 5: really the whole bottom half of the bracket. Now Georgia
Speaker 5: is where it deserves to be, but if they're playing
Speaker 5: a backup quarterback, then you have, you know, you have
Speaker 5: that part of the bracket with Boys's three ced George
Speaker 5: and the two seed with the backup quarterback, and you
Speaker 5: know some of that luck of the draw. I understand
Speaker 5: injuries part of it and are going to happen, but
Speaker 5: the bracket is imbalanced top and bottom, more power teams
Speaker 5: including Texas at the top than at the bottom.
Speaker 2: If there was an MVP vote for College Game Day, who.
Speaker 5: Is how about how about uh, how about how about
Speaker 5: co MVP or how about you think you really want
Speaker 5: to get me with this? I thought I was save Saban, Max,
Speaker 5: Me and Herb Street all co MVPs, Desmond also co MVP.
Speaker 5: I'm just out there trying to you know, help them get.
Speaker 2: A first look at you, look at you, and and
Speaker 2: you know better than that. I was trying. I was trying.
Speaker 2: And it looks like you're channeling Jim Harbaugh with your look.
Speaker 5: I've been I've been mistaken for him at times. I'm
Speaker 5: a big harball guy. We have a we have one
Speaker 5: of our one of our runners on college game that
Speaker 5: has been with us for a couple of years, a
Speaker 5: woman called Ruby Dreyer, who is married to a former
Speaker 5: Ole Miss player who played for Jim with the Chargers.
Speaker 5: And when she came back this year, I told Ruby,
Speaker 5: I said, the part of your contract, if you've read
Speaker 5: the fine print, is that you owe me one Harball
Speaker 5: story every week. So so she would, she would bring
Speaker 5: in these odd Harball stories. But now hej your husband
Speaker 5: is playing for the Seahawks. So I'm I'm we've we've
Speaker 5: run to the end of the Harball stories. But yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm i'm. I'm a big fan of Jim. See he
Speaker 5: cracks me up. I think he said it best. If
Speaker 5: you like football, you probably like Jim, so.
Speaker 6: And I do.
Speaker 2: Georgia seems vulnerable, you know, and as you mention now
Speaker 2: with Carson back done for the rest of the season here,
Speaker 2: you know, losing Lad McConkie and Brock Bowers. I mean
Speaker 2: that's had a really big impact on Carson Beck in
Speaker 2: that offense here. So what is this team or who
Speaker 2: is this team? Now?
Speaker 5: They're still really good on defense and they're going that
Speaker 5: defense should keep you in every game. Now, are they
Speaker 5: as good as they were a couple of years ago?
Speaker 5: They are not their team that struggles to run the
Speaker 5: ball a little bit at times, and you know, I've
Speaker 5: had some issues on the offensive line. They've certainly had
Speaker 5: issues of you as you've alluded to, with playmakers on
Speaker 5: the outside. But they still are probably one of the
Speaker 5: two or three most talented rosters in this field. So
Speaker 5: I think, you know, Gunner Stockton plays effectively if they
Speaker 5: can they can run it well enough and he you know,
Speaker 5: he's able to make make enough throws that Georgia still
Speaker 5: has a chance to win it all because they they've
Speaker 5: got as many good players as anybody, as many elite
Speaker 5: players in most positions as anyone in this field.
Speaker 2: Give me, if there is a juxtaposition the environment at
Speaker 2: South Bend tonight and what you think you'll get in
Speaker 2: Columbus tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Pure electriicity here. I mean I walked in. I'm staying
Speaker 5: at this place on campus called the Moors, and I
Speaker 5: walked in yesterday and there was a guy playing bagpipes
Speaker 5: in here. I grabbed dinner with Richard Digger Phelps last night.
Speaker 5: You could just feel the buzz around town. They're so exciting.
Speaker 5: They moved finals dan to this week it typically finished
Speaker 5: a week earlier, and anticipation and hoping that they might
Speaker 5: have a home game and they do, so everybody is
Speaker 5: like all in the same direction, pulling Columbus based on
Speaker 5: being there Sunday, I think there will be excitement that
Speaker 5: that is just waiting for something to go wrong, and
Speaker 5: then there will be as no the first time they
Speaker 5: don't convert a third down, the first time Tennessee completes
Speaker 5: a fifteen yard pass or something, or Dylan Sampson, you know,
Speaker 5: gets loose for a twenty yard run, there'll be anxiety
Speaker 5: in that building. And I think how how Day and
Speaker 5: the players respond to that internally will be really really important.
Speaker 5: Saturday night, it's more of an angsty, like there's still
Speaker 5: the pall hanging over and they're just wondering if something's
Speaker 5: going to happen. And if the shoe is going to drop.
Speaker 5: And here it's all seashells and balloons for right now
Speaker 5: in Notre Dame. They're excited.
Speaker 2: Good to talk to you. Have fun tonight. We'll be
Speaker 2: watching all right, buddy, thanks a lot.
Speaker 5: It's always that's.
Speaker 2: Reyes Davis College game day. They'll be live the two
Speaker 2: first round playoff sites. It'll be Notre Dame that they
Speaker 2: started three point thirty this afternoon. They go till eight
Speaker 2: and then it's game time, and then they go to Columbus.
Speaker 2: It'll be nine am Saturday, and then they go to
Speaker 2: noon ahead of the Buckeyes matchup with Tennessee update the
Speaker 2: poll results if you can see.
Speaker 7: Yep, we got up there right now. If you could
Speaker 7: only watch one this week in college football at Pro Football.
Speaker 7: College football has seventy one percent of that vote. We
Speaker 7: also put up college football playoff bye weeks yay or
Speaker 7: nay right now. The nays have sixty percent of that vote. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and about sixty percent. Would rather be a great guitar
Speaker 7: player than singer?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I would. I wish I would have picked
Speaker 2: that up. You can either sing or you can It
Speaker 2: feels like you can teach yourself to play guitar at
Speaker 2: a decent level. I don't know if you can teach
Speaker 2: yourself how to sing at a high level like Fritzy.
Speaker 2: We have the sing off coming up. It's Marvin v.
Speaker 2: Fritzy and Song Choice. You get twenty seconds of your
Speaker 2: favorite song and this is to be crowned the best
Speaker 2: singer on the Dan Patrick Show. Todd, do you have
Speaker 2: your song?
Speaker 3: I have five songs and I've narrowed it down to
Speaker 3: the one that I'm gonna go with.
Speaker 2: What is the song You're gonna go with?
Speaker 3: I am going to go with? Let me take it
Speaker 3: out here.
Speaker 2: Did you need to know?
Speaker 3: Because I have a lot of papers that I was
Speaker 3: narrow a done to two.
Speaker 4: Actually, but I'm gonna go with someone you loved, Lewis Capaldi,
Speaker 4: someone you love.
Speaker 3: Try to make it a little difficult.
Speaker 7: Why are you making it so difficult?
Speaker 2: That's that's just I think you.
Speaker 3: Get points for that. Paul, he would say, you got
Speaker 3: a couple of points for make it the more difficult.
Speaker 7: So well, you're making it's following Paul's advice.
Speaker 2: Paul was setting you up for failure.
Speaker 7: In twenty years, that's never worked out well for you.
Speaker 4: Yes, I had the Searches Over Chicago, Carried Away, George Straight,
Speaker 4: She's Got Away, Billy Joel.
Speaker 3: These were some of the things I was considered.
Speaker 2: Marvin, your song choice when you go against Fritzy in
Speaker 2: about thirty five forty minutes from.
Speaker 8: Now Lately by Stevie Wonder Lately.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's good song once again, this will be to
Speaker 2: be now. This could impact most valuable Dan eut, I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna joke. I'm not kidding around here.
Speaker 4: Yes, Todd, if the verse of our songs goes closer
Speaker 4: to thirty seconds, how height is the twenty because they'll
Speaker 4: be cutting you off right in the middle of you know,
Speaker 4: a couple of lines.
Speaker 2: If you're gonna sound If you sound good, let it go.
Speaker 3: Then I'll let you go get the buzz You get
Speaker 3: the buzzy yes.
Speaker 2: If not, then I'm gonna go.
Speaker 7: Marvin. Are you doing the Stevie Wonder version or the
Speaker 7: Jodasy version.
Speaker 8: If I do the Jodasy version, I gotta take my
Speaker 8: shirt off. Whoa anyway, So I'm gonna go with the
Speaker 8: Stevie onehersion.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I'll go blind. If you do the Jodaicy
Speaker 2: one with your shirt off, just let you know, bloop
Speaker 2: and Lewis Capaldi is an interesting choice because he's got
Speaker 2: a unique voice. I don't know, could.
Speaker 3: Get dicey, it could could go sideways as they like
Speaker 3: to sing.
Speaker 2: And you don't. You're not getting extra credit because you're
Speaker 2: taking on a tougher song. I want you to sing again.
Speaker 2: This is to win the content.
Speaker 3: I just happened to like that song and I've sung
Speaker 3: it a few times in the show.
Speaker 2: Tod There's a lot of songs I like and I
Speaker 2: can't sing it okay.
Speaker 3: And this one that I picked could very well be
Speaker 3: one of those.
Speaker 2: Oh righty, oh god? See how do you not learn?
Speaker 2: See this is when the audience goes you pick on
Speaker 2: fridge seat. I try to give you guidance. For twenty
Speaker 2: two years, I've tried to give you guidance.
Speaker 4: Then there's the good content argument, like it was so
Speaker 4: bad it was good content kind of thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're never in on it so bad that
Speaker 2: it's good content. You're like, is it really that bad?
Speaker 3: Yeah? That I drive home eyed?
Speaker 2: Was I really? Was it really that bad?
Speaker 3: Sounds great in the shower.
Speaker 2: Like, let's you know, when you did the Olivia Newton
Speaker 2: John tribute.
Speaker 3: I nailed that one. Everyone else everybody knows you guys
Speaker 3: could make a fun of it.
Speaker 2: Okay, I had Kurt Warner is going to join us.
Speaker 2: We'll have him analyze the games coming up on Saturday.
Speaker 2: Should Patrick Mahomes be playing in this game? And why
Speaker 2: can't Lamar Jackson beat the Steelers? That'll be coming up
Speaker 2: next Dan Patrick Show.
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Speaker 2: at eight eastern. Where are the MVPs.
Speaker 6: I don't know, to tell you the truth. Sometimes they're
Speaker 6: behind me, sometimes they're in my outside office. I don't
Speaker 6: know Dan Wait.
Speaker 2: Steve Young said the same thing. He didn't know where
Speaker 2: his MVPs are.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's about the memories more than it's about
Speaker 6: the trophies day and so sometimes my wife will put
Speaker 6: them up, you know, to kind of decorate the office
Speaker 6: a little bit and cool. But yeah, I'm with Steve.
Speaker 6: I don't know more about thinking back to those great
Speaker 6: memories than it is, you know, looking at the trophies.
Speaker 2: Well, Steve said, if I walked in his house, I'd
Speaker 2: never know what he did for a living. Is that
Speaker 2: the same in your house?
Speaker 6: Yeah, you wouldn't know unless you came into this office.
Speaker 6: My rings are back behind me somewhere, obviously, some football helmets,
Speaker 6: and there's a Super Bowl MVP trophy I guess is
Speaker 6: up there on the top. So outside of this office,
Speaker 6: you would have no idea. My wife is not a
Speaker 6: football fan at all, so I don't have I don't
Speaker 6: have different pictures or anything displayed anywhere.
Speaker 2: No, does that help if your wife is not into football?
Speaker 6: You know, I think it helps when you're playing, because
Speaker 6: it's nice to be able to get away from it.
Speaker 6: Now that I cover the sports, I wish she'd liked
Speaker 6: football more so. She would sit down with me on
Speaker 6: Sunday afternoons or whatever and watch football because now you know,
Speaker 6: I've got to kind of watch it in cover it
Speaker 6: all the different days of the week that it's on,
Speaker 6: and you know, she could care less. She doesn't want
Speaker 6: to be around it. She doesn't want it to be
Speaker 6: on TV. So it's a little bit harder now that
Speaker 6: I cover it. But it was nice when I was playing.
Speaker 6: Whether it was the kids or my wife, none of
Speaker 6: them were really football junkies. So you came home and
Speaker 6: you could just be that.
Speaker 2: If you were Kirk Cousins, what would you think about
Speaker 2: your future?
Speaker 6: Well, I was Kirk Cousins a couple of times in
Speaker 6: my career. You found myself in that situation. Yeah, I
Speaker 6: think if I'm Kirk Cousins in Atlanta, you probably think
Speaker 6: your career in Atlanta is over for sure. And I
Speaker 6: think when I went through it a couple of times,
Speaker 6: so you know, leave the Rams, go to the Giants,
Speaker 6: and you know, then be benched. When I was, you know,
Speaker 6: with the Giants nine games in, you know, my mindset
Speaker 6: was I still felt I could play, but I didn't
Speaker 6: know if anybody else would give me a shot, right, now,
Speaker 6: now this is two organizations that have kind of, you know,
Speaker 6: moved on from me, so to speak. And that was
Speaker 6: my you know, that was the secondary thought in my
Speaker 6: mind was, Man, is anybody going to give me a
Speaker 6: shot after you know, this season, because obviously my year
Speaker 6: with the Giants was completely different brand of football than
Speaker 6: we played in Saint Louis. So if you just looked
Speaker 6: at stats, you know, numbers, whatever it was, he'd be like,
Speaker 6: oh my gosh, this guy's a shell of himself in
Speaker 6: New York from what he was in Saint Louis. So
Speaker 6: he's probably not a starter anymore. And I think you
Speaker 6: could say the same thing about Kirk Cousins. With this
Speaker 6: last stretch that he's had there, I'm sure there's a
Speaker 6: lot of people wondering are his best years behind him?
Speaker 6: Can he ever get back to the form that that
Speaker 6: he had, you know, prior to this season. So I'm sure,
Speaker 6: you know, part of that is going through his mind
Speaker 6: is what what is the future? Is there a future
Speaker 6: for me as a starter in the National Football League?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but what's that like to play at a peak,
Speaker 2: peak level with the Rams and then you get benched
Speaker 2: with a Giant, Like, how does how do you go
Speaker 2: from that hide that low and then go back to
Speaker 2: that high with Arizona and go to the super Bowl.
Speaker 6: The bottom line, Dan is you've got to be realistic
Speaker 6: with your situation and you've got to take ownership of
Speaker 6: the stuff that's yours. And then you also know that
Speaker 6: there's a lot of stuff going on around you that
Speaker 6: isn't always on you, although it looks like it's on you, right.
Speaker 6: I mean, I broke down Kirk's you know, the interceptions
Speaker 6: when he had that four interception game, and there was
Speaker 6: a couple of plays where I felt like his receivers,
Speaker 6: you know, kind of duped him a little bit and
Speaker 6: he ends up throwing an interception. And so to me
Speaker 6: as a quarterback, you've got to go back and look
Speaker 6: at those things and go, you know what, you know
Speaker 6: that wasn't on me, And those kinds of things help
Speaker 6: you to hold your confidence even when the stats may
Speaker 6: not say you're playing really, really good football. You hang
Speaker 6: on to what you know about yourself. You learn from
Speaker 6: those moments like, yeah, that was a dumb decision, what
Speaker 6: you know, what am I thinking in that situation? But
Speaker 6: you don't just like all of us on the outside
Speaker 6: are looking at Kirk Cousins and just going, oh my gosh,
Speaker 6: he's terrible. He can't play anymore. And when you watch
Speaker 6: a film, I don't I don't think that's the case.
Speaker 6: I don't think he was ever comfortable in Atlanta. I
Speaker 6: don't think he's ever been comfortable in this offense. I
Speaker 6: think there's a lot of continuity issues between the guys
Speaker 6: around him and himself, and it's led to a lot
Speaker 6: of this stuff that hasn't played into his strengths. And
Speaker 6: if I'm Kirk Cousins, I'm thinking, Okay, that's not who
Speaker 6: I am. This offense didn't fit me. I need to
Speaker 6: find an offense that fits me because I believe I
Speaker 6: can still play at a high level. And that's how
Speaker 6: you hold onto that confidence even when you're going through
Speaker 6: moments like this or you find yourself being benched.
Speaker 2: We're talking to Kurt Warner, the Hall of Famer. You
Speaker 2: can catch him on NFL Networks Game Day Morning, rich
Speaker 2: Ies in your host on Sunday, and he's calling the
Speaker 2: Cardinals Rams for NFL Network. Now did they tab you
Speaker 2: for this because these are two of your former teams.
Speaker 6: I don't know. I mean it works out beautifully for
Speaker 6: a lot of different reasons. Because we're going to be
Speaker 6: in LA on Sunday morning, so we don't have to
Speaker 6: travel far after the game. Obviously, you know, we joke
Speaker 6: around that it's the Kurt Warner Bowl when when these
Speaker 6: two teams play, because they play a couple of times
Speaker 6: a year, and obviously it's a it's a big game.
Speaker 6: You know that NFC West is going to come down
Speaker 6: to the end. So I'm not sure why, but but
Speaker 6: I like it. I like all those different factors and
Speaker 6: I think it's gonna be a really good football game.
Speaker 6: It's going to mean something.
Speaker 2: So I'm excited about Would you play met Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 2: this weekend?
Speaker 6: You know, I am a firm believer that if a
Speaker 6: player is healthy enough to play, then you play them.
Speaker 6: And I understand all the different things. Oh, you know,
Speaker 6: if we can save him for this game, and that's
Speaker 6: just what we do. Dan like if if we get injured,
Speaker 6: but it's not so bad that it stops us from playing.
Speaker 6: We want to be out there playing, and that's what
Speaker 6: you do in every other scenario. Right, We're trying to
Speaker 6: look at this down the stretch, but in every other
Speaker 6: scenario you do the same thing. If you're in week
Speaker 6: four and you know your guy tells you, hey, I
Speaker 6: can play, I'm good, I can practice all week and
Speaker 6: I can play. You play that guy, you don't. You know,
Speaker 6: That's just the nature of of what this business is
Speaker 6: all about is we want our best out there, and
Speaker 6: our guys want to compete every chance they get. And
Speaker 6: you don't hold that competitiveness from them in any situation
Speaker 6: unless you see the guy and you go, Okay, that's
Speaker 6: not our guy. That guy can't protect himself, or that
Speaker 6: guy can't play at the level you know we need
Speaker 6: him to play. Other than that, If he says he
Speaker 6: can go and he's out there practicing, he goes, why.
Speaker 2: Did the Steelers have Lamar Jackson's number?
Speaker 6: That's a great question, and I don't really know the
Speaker 6: answer to him. But I think what we all know
Speaker 6: is that there are certain teams that just get into
Speaker 6: our mind that we would struggle against. When I played
Speaker 6: it was a Tampa Bay Bucks defense is that I
Speaker 6: just knew how good they were. I knew what they
Speaker 6: were going to do. It wasn't a surprise. You know,
Speaker 6: they didn't fool me. They were just really, really good
Speaker 6: at what they did, and they matched up really well
Speaker 6: against us. And that's another thing I don't think we
Speaker 6: consider enough is matchups and how important matchups are dan
Speaker 6: in the course of things like we just want to
Speaker 6: look at you, well, this team's better than that team,
Speaker 6: but matchups become so critical and inside divisions. You know,
Speaker 6: certain teams are built to stop other teams. And I
Speaker 6: just feel like the Steelers have a real good gauge
Speaker 6: on what the Ravens want to do how Lamar Jackson
Speaker 6: plays football, because they've played against him and they've watched
Speaker 6: him so much, and they just match up very, very well.
Speaker 6: And like I said, you know, as a quarterback, there's
Speaker 6: times you have teams where you're just like, man, I
Speaker 6: just know I've got to be perfect in this game
Speaker 6: if I'm going to have success, and going out and
Speaker 6: trying to play perfect usually leads in the other direction,
Speaker 6: you know, instead of just going in free and believe
Speaker 6: in a doesn't matter. You know, we're gonna take this team.
Speaker 6: I love the matchup we got and we're gonna go
Speaker 6: out and sling it around. You sometimes can get a
Speaker 6: little bit tighter, hesitate a little bit more, and against
Speaker 6: good teams, that's all it takes.
Speaker 2: Explain to me, and you said this before years ago
Speaker 2: to me that you loved when somebody blitched, that somebody
Speaker 2: was open, but you got to take that hit sometimes,
Speaker 2: like you you may like it's the risk and the
Speaker 2: reward with that, but what's that How do you process
Speaker 2: that of that guy's coming and I'm probably going to
Speaker 2: get hit, but it does open up this route for
Speaker 2: you know, Isaac Bruce.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, All I can say, Dan is that the
Speaker 6: HiT's never hurt as much when you complete that. And
Speaker 6: so you know when that's coming and you know there's
Speaker 6: a guy open and you're going to hit him, and
Speaker 6: it's going to be some kind of play that adrenaline
Speaker 6: or whatever it is. Most of the time you don't
Speaker 6: even feel the hit, like it's just like, ah, I gotcha,
Speaker 6: and you're thinking of it from that perspective, not oh
Speaker 6: my gosh, this guy is going to hit me. I'm
Speaker 6: thinking to myself, well, I just won. You could come
Speaker 6: and hit me all you want, but I just won
Speaker 6: because there's an opening there and I'm getting into one
Speaker 6: of these guys that's going to make a big play
Speaker 6: against you. And so I just I loved that aspect
Speaker 6: of things. And you know the other too, Dan was
Speaker 6: I'm going to try to get the ball out before
Speaker 6: you can even hit me Like that was to me
Speaker 6: one of the fun parts of it is how fast
Speaker 6: can I see it and beat you? So you think
Speaker 6: you're gonna get a free hit on me, Dan, and
Speaker 6: then the ball's out and you've got to stop, and
Speaker 6: you're just thinking that was awful because you know, you know,
Speaker 6: these guys are licking their jobs. As soon as they
Speaker 6: see the tackle step down, this defensive end is coming
Speaker 6: right at you, and then boom, all of a sudden,
Speaker 6: the ball's out and they've got to stop. There is
Speaker 6: no better feeling when I played than that aspect, is
Speaker 6: that when a team thought they had you with the
Speaker 6: blitz and they had an overload and somebody's coming free
Speaker 6: and you just flip the ball out and you get
Speaker 6: a big play and you just know the frustration that
Speaker 6: they're feeling.
Speaker 2: These rookie quarterbacks rank the performances so far, not who
Speaker 2: you would take in the future, just what you've seen
Speaker 2: this year from all of these guys who have played.
Speaker 6: Jayden Daniels is number one for me, been the most
Speaker 6: consistent from day one to now. There's so many big plays.
Speaker 6: I love the way he plays in control as boys.
Speaker 6: Put him at number one. I would put bo Nicks
Speaker 6: at number two. You know, not as good early, but
Speaker 6: I think he's played some really really good football. He's
Speaker 6: been helped by Sean Payton, who does a great job
Speaker 6: of dialing up some easy things and giving him some opportunities.
Speaker 6: But I think he's played really really well and what
Speaker 6: we saw in college has really translated to the NFL.
Speaker 6: I would go Drake May three. And he's probably the
Speaker 6: biggest surprise for me of all of these guys. A
Speaker 6: lot of ups and downs of last year in college
Speaker 6: and a lot of footwork stuff, and I didn't think
Speaker 6: he saw it really quickly in college. I have been
Speaker 6: overly impressed since he got in there, especially with the
Speaker 6: situation and they don't have a lot of pieces. He's
Speaker 6: not surrounded by, you know what some of these other
Speaker 6: guys have, and he has seen the field extremely well.
Speaker 6: He's played fast, he's made a lot of plays and
Speaker 6: made them competitive. So I would put him at three,
Speaker 6: and then I would put Caleb at four. Even though
Speaker 6: we've seen glimpses, you know, there's just there's a long
Speaker 6: way to go. In terms of speeding up the processing,
Speaker 6: getting the ball out, being more consistent playing the game.
Speaker 6: And so yeah, that's how I would rank him at
Speaker 6: this point.
Speaker 2: Is Caleb the problem or the Bears the problem? If
Speaker 2: you were going to pick one or the other.
Speaker 6: Man, If I was going to pick one or the other,
Speaker 6: I would probably pick the scheme as being the problem
Speaker 6: for the young quarterback. I think Caleb's got some issues
Speaker 6: he's got to get better at and he's got to
Speaker 6: see it and process faster. But then I've talked a
Speaker 6: lot about you know, some of these teams run these
Speaker 6: pure progression type systems, and what that does is it
Speaker 6: forces a quarterback to have to look and read a
Speaker 6: play the exact same way, no matter what the defense is.
Speaker 6: And I think that hurts quarterbacks because just because they're
Speaker 6: looking at a receiver, they don't get to see the
Speaker 6: entirety of the field. And so as he tries to
Speaker 6: work back across some of that stuff, he's completely lost
Speaker 6: to what's going on on the backside, because he wasn't
Speaker 6: really worried about it to begin with, Like, Oh, I'm
Speaker 6: not worried about what's going on over there. I'm going
Speaker 6: to read over here first, and I just see that
Speaker 6: hurting him over and over and over again, and I
Speaker 6: believe that can be a problem across the league. You know,
Speaker 6: some teams do it better than others, but I believe
Speaker 6: that scheme has really caused Caleb Williams to play slower
Speaker 6: and play more deliberate. Where I think he's been at
Speaker 6: his best is when he's been free and he's looking
Speaker 6: doesn't have it. He reacts and he plays just like
Speaker 6: he did in college, and I think that system has
Speaker 6: really hindered him from doing that. So young quarterback room
Speaker 6: to grow, but I wish they were given him some
Speaker 6: different opportunities in terms of the scheme that they ran
Speaker 6: or they run, because I think.
Speaker 2: That's hurting my best. Do the family. Happy holidays and
Speaker 2: thanks for joining us as always.
Speaker 6: You got it. Happy holidays to year as well.
Speaker 2: It's Kurt Warner. He'll be on the call for Cardinals
Speaker 2: rams NFL Network. That's next Saturday, December twenty eighth, but
Speaker 2: you can see him on NFL Game Day morning this Sunday. Well,
Speaker 2: take a break, some phone calls coming up. We do
Speaker 2: the Best Week in Sports? Who had the best week
Speaker 2: in Sports? Al Michaels will join us. But coming up next,
Speaker 2: it's Marvin versus Fritzi. Who is the best singer on
Speaker 2: The Dan Patrick Show. We'll find out next.
Speaker 1: Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan
Speaker 1: Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six am Pacific
Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio w APP.
Speaker 2: It's the moment you haven't been waiting for, but we're
Speaker 2: still going to do it. It's Marvin versus Fritzie. They
Speaker 2: got to pick their favorite song. Who is the best
Speaker 2: singer on The Dan Patrick Show? And I'm going to
Speaker 2: take myself out of the equation here, but it's a
Speaker 2: new segment called America Doesn't have Talent And it'll be
Speaker 2: Fritzie picking his song, Marvin picking his song, and Marvin,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna let you start, all right, your song choice.
Speaker 8: Is Lately by Stevie Wonder. All right, I'm sorry everybody
Speaker 8: in advance.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's okay. Here we go.
Speaker 11: Well, I'm a man of many wishes. I hope my premonition, missus,
Speaker 11: but what I really feel my eyes won't let me
Speaker 11: hide because.
Speaker 3: They all waits. Start to crowd.
Speaker 5: Let's go.
Speaker 2: Let's know, Larvin put a little pressure on you. I
Speaker 2: see the gamesmanship. Marvin won the toss. He elected to sing,
Speaker 2: and now it's Todd Fritz. He's shared the stage with
Speaker 2: Darius Ruckert's and your song choice is.
Speaker 3: Someone you loved by Lewis Capaldi.
Speaker 12: Okay, all right, I'm going none around this time out there,
Speaker 12: there's no one to save me this sult and nothing
Speaker 12: really got aware.
Speaker 3: You driving me crazy. I need somebody to here.
Speaker 13: Somebody to know, somebody to have, somebody to hold.
Speaker 3: It's easy to say, but it's never the same.
Speaker 13: I guess I kind of laugh the way you nu'mbed
Speaker 13: all the pain. Now the dayle's intil nightfall, and you're
Speaker 13: not here to get me three lines, No, it's just
Speaker 13: three lines.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 6: We have.
Speaker 3: Really comes to finish the strong with the leste.
Speaker 2: Once again, you never listened to me.
Speaker 13: Go ahead, I let my god down and your powther road.
Speaker 13: I was getting kind of used to being some on
Speaker 13: your load.
Speaker 2: I'm going all right, Paul, stop you lose points to.
Speaker 1: Paul.
Speaker 14: Marvin did a really nice job, Stevie wonder. There's very
Speaker 14: much potential with Marvin and being a real singer. Ritzie
Speaker 14: took some chances, and about five seconds in I said
Speaker 14: to myself this sounds really nice and it's a really
Speaker 14: tough seconds. I actually think it got better. Okay, I
Speaker 14: enjoyed both of them. Todd took a little more chances.
Speaker 2: All right, Seatan, what about you?
Speaker 7: Oh man, it's tough. I'll tell you one thing. I
Speaker 7: know we need to do it, that's for sure.
Speaker 6: Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 2: Oh can you guys do a due end?
Speaker 3: Never gonna give you.
Speaker 11: I just want to do that.
Speaker 1: Can we do it?
Speaker 6: Do it?
Speaker 3: I'll do the female voice. Let's pick one where as
Speaker 3: a you know, like tonight, I celebrate my love for
Speaker 3: you guys.
Speaker 7: Do what's it? Leather and lace?
Speaker 2: Please? You do Stevie Nicks? You could be Stevie Nicks
Speaker 2: and Don Henley?
Speaker 7: Uh yeah, Marvin could be Don Henley.
Speaker 2: Huh marks forever? Seatan, who's your pick?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 7: You know what I'm gonna Todd I thought started off
Speaker 7: really really shaky, but finished super strong. I think if
Speaker 7: Marvin had gone second, Marvin might have been the best singer,
Speaker 7: but he went first. I'm gonna I'm gonna stick with
Speaker 7: the Toddler.
Speaker 2: Yep, I am. I'm gonna take Todd. Yeah, started a
Speaker 2: little shaky, but then you finished up strong. I think
Speaker 2: Marvin's was there. I just think Marvin needed some more
Speaker 2: reps with that.
Speaker 14: Yes, that said, Marvin's was really nice, and that is
Speaker 14: a tough singer to take on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't have taken on that song.
Speaker 6: That was that.
Speaker 2: That was a tough song. But Fritzie took on a
Speaker 2: tough song too, he did. Yes, he did.
Speaker 3: His renditioned to Perry Como whoever.
Speaker 8: That was.
Speaker 3: Little Hands coming.
Speaker 2: Out carry five gold Christmas. Every song that Fritzie singing
Speaker 2: sounds the same.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that should take points off Goda.
Speaker 2: Admit, all right, Marvin is the winner. Yeah, your kisses
Speaker 2: on the listeners.
Speaker 13: Your luck mixed their sports radio contents.
Speaker 2: See this is where you're singing the female part. It
Speaker 2: didn't go well, you know what I mean. Okay, how
Speaker 2: about the most must win game of the weekend. We
Speaker 2: have that and who had the best week in sports.
Speaker 2: We'll do that and we'll slide into the weekend as well.
Speaker 2: Let me run down. Slide into the weekend brought to
Speaker 2: you by King Swine. Tennessee at Ohio State, Clemson at
Speaker 2: Texas Steelers at the Ravens oh Man. This is I mean,
Speaker 2: you got to win this game. If you're the Ravens.
Speaker 2: You have to win this game. Eagles at the command Man,
Speaker 2: there's some good games. Texans at the Chiefs, and Mahomes
Speaker 2: is a go for that game. So you got Saturday
Speaker 2: and Sunday. You got college football tonight. College football on
Speaker 2: Saturday might be too much football. That's a sliding into
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Speaker 2: had the best week in sports? Ton I'll start with
Speaker 2: you best week in sports?
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say recently biased that was a huge win
Speaker 4: for the Chargers and that puts them very much in
Speaker 4: the playoff picture, which could have been very dicey if
Speaker 4: they fail to eight and seven.
Speaker 2: Listening all right, Seaton Best week in sports?
Speaker 7: Saint Michael Pennox Junior.
Speaker 2: Okay, these are yours, lads. Let her rip.
Speaker 8: Uh Marvin Carl Anthony Towns last night returned to Minnesota,
Speaker 8: had thirty two points twenty rebounds.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, thirty two and twenty as the Knicks beat
Speaker 2: the Timberwolves. I was watching Golden State last night, orar
Speaker 2: least I thought I was. I think they were losing
Speaker 2: by fifty. When I tuned in, Steph Curry didn't hit
Speaker 2: a basket. I was like, what just happened here?
Speaker 5: Paul?
Speaker 2: Who had the best week in sports?
Speaker 14: I'm also going with Jim Harbaugh. He's three weeks away
Speaker 14: from being in a playoff, his first year in the NFL,
Speaker 14: first next stint in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's the who had the best week in sports?
Speaker 2: I'm going to say the offensive lineman for the San
Speaker 2: Francisco Giant forty nine ers. They didn't earn those trucks
Speaker 2: that Rock Perty gave them, but ten of his offensive linemen.
Speaker 2: So you had the starters and then the backups and
Speaker 2: they all got trucks for a team not going to
Speaker 2: the playoffs. Rock Purty has a Toyota deal dealership or
Speaker 2: deal before you know, he makes fifty five million dollars,
Speaker 2: but he makes a million, so he probably spent seven
Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars on trucks for his offensive lineman. Update
Speaker 2: the poll results. If you can, Seaton, let me see here.
Speaker 7: Would you if you could only watch one yeah, this weekend,
Speaker 7: it would be college football or pro football? College football crushing,
Speaker 7: absolutely crushing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it means something. Yeah, I got that.
Speaker 14: Yes, Paulie, I got a text from our good friend
Speaker 14: rich Eisen. Yeah, he said he loved the song contest
Speaker 14: and would love to hear a duet. Don't go break
Speaker 14: in my heart with these two gentlemen.
Speaker 2: Can you guys pull that cobble that together at the
Speaker 2: top of the hour, could you guys get together? Maybe
Speaker 2: you guys could go in the back and rehearse a
Speaker 2: little bit. You guys do a duet? Oh yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: And we aimed to please. Even if rich Eisen's the
Speaker 2: only one who cares about it, we will give that
Speaker 2: for a rich, merry Christmas, ritch happy Hanukah.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 7: Social media, by the way, overwhelmingly right now, we're going
Speaker 7: to put this up as a poll question, but siding
Speaker 7: with Marvin as a pole singer overwhelmingly.
Speaker 12: Wow.
Speaker 2: Okay. Are we talking better singer or better performance? It's
Speaker 2: taught a better performer. Marvin could be a better singer.
Speaker 2: Is that possible?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: But I perform with my hands down my pants on.
Speaker 3: My pocket.
Speaker 2: No, your hands are in your pocket, not down your pants.
Speaker 3: Depends, pockets are attached to the pants. Yes, Marvin, nothing
Speaker 3: talking about what is Fritzy doing?
Speaker 2: I have no idea he's got his hands down his pants.
Speaker 3: Got mocked for that performance of my hands in my pocket.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so what kind.
Speaker 3: Of performer does that?
Speaker 2: Final hour? Al Michaels, and we'll crown the most valuable
Speaker 2: den