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Speaker 1: this Tuesday, Dan and The Dane's Dan Patrick Show Spirited.
Speaker 1: First hour on the program, we'll talk to Chris Fowler.
Speaker 1: He's hosting the Heisman Awards ceremony coming up tonight. Also,
Speaker 1: we'll check in with Daniel Jeremiah, NFL network analyst and
Speaker 1: he also works for the Chargers. He does, he's the
Speaker 1: analyst for their games. How how good is that job
Speaker 1: opening there? It appears to be. I think it's a
Speaker 1: great opening because I have my quarterback, at least I
Speaker 1: believe I have my quarterback. I have some star players
Speaker 1: under contract, and I can kind of ease into the season.
Speaker 1: If I go eight and eight, you know, that's not
Speaker 1: a bad season with the Chargers, but you know it
Speaker 1: feels like you're you're you're kind of blanketed by the
Speaker 1: Dodgers and the Lakers, even the Rams in there like
Speaker 1: USC football, and then it's the Chargers. So you can
Speaker 1: sort of be off the radar, go in, take over
Speaker 1: a team, and then you get a little bit more leeway.
Speaker 1: Urban Meyer goes to Jacksonville with Trevor Lawrence you're gonna
Speaker 1: want to see results right away because it's Urban Meyer
Speaker 1: and it's Trevor Lawrence. But I think the Chargers is
Speaker 1: a great opening here. The Jets worry me because I
Speaker 1: start with from the top down and I just don't
Speaker 1: know about Woody Johnson as an owner. It just feels
Speaker 1: like the infrastructure there is still a little fragile, and
Speaker 1: that would make me nervous. What am I doing with
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold with the number two pick? Overall, you start
Speaker 1: to look at these coaching vacancies. There's a reason why
Speaker 1: they're coaching vacancies. You know, the Texans, the infrastructure there bothers. Me.
Speaker 1: I got DeShawn Watson. Everybody keeps saying, you got DeShawn Watson?
Speaker 1: What else do I have? Laramie Tunsil And that's it.
Speaker 1: J J. Watt won't be there next year? Like who
Speaker 1: are they? What are they? Detroit? What do I have?
Speaker 1: Do I want Matthew Stafford? What else do I have
Speaker 1: to build around? Does anybody care about? Like it's one
Speaker 1: thing to be bad, Like the Bengals were bad, but
Speaker 1: they were relevant Because at Joe Burrow, you can be
Speaker 1: bad but still relevant that people are fascinated with watching
Speaker 1: you play Detroit. Nobody's fascinated. There's no interest there, there's
Speaker 1: no pulse. You know, if they had taken two and
Speaker 1: then had that him as the future like that, you know,
Speaker 1: then you got something that's maybe a little exciting. Matthew
Speaker 1: Stafford may go to the Hall of Fame, but you're
Speaker 1: not getting excited about Matthew Stafford there. You know, Atlanta,
Speaker 1: is Julio Jones going to be there? Matt Ryan? Do
Speaker 1: you want Matt Ryan there? At his age? What is
Speaker 1: he thirty five going on thirty six? You know, I
Speaker 1: think the Saints are a sneaky team to keep an
Speaker 1: eye on. Do they do anything in the quarterbacking situation?
Speaker 1: I can't imagine that Taysom Hill is going to be
Speaker 1: a starting quarterback next year now, maybe because Sean Payton
Speaker 1: knows a whole lot of football. Drew Brees gonna be
Speaker 1: working friend BC is Jamis Winston gonna be you know,
Speaker 1: a possible starter there or you know, do they soon
Speaker 1: understand this? A couple of years ago they were drafting
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, Kansas City went up and got him, and
Speaker 1: Sean Payton has said this to us, and they got Lattimore,
Speaker 1: who was a great player. They were taking. They were
Speaker 1: taking Patrick Mahomes. Part of the history of the NFL
Speaker 1: would be rewritten. If you, I mean imagine that Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes would be behind Drew Brees. He wouldn't have an MVP,
Speaker 1: he wouldn't have a Super Bowl. Or if he has
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl, it might be with the Saints. You
Speaker 1: never know when it comes to draft day, because if
Speaker 1: you're a GM, an owner, a coach, why would you
Speaker 1: ever tell anybody what you're thinking. I would tell you
Speaker 1: what I'm not thinking of doing. Not Hey, you know
Speaker 1: who we really like, because you can't trust any of
Speaker 1: us when you tell us we want to tell somebody, Hey,
Speaker 1: don't tell anybody. But how many times have you been
Speaker 1: told that, Hey, do not tell anybody? But and then
Speaker 1: what do you do? You tell somebody and then you
Speaker 1: say to them, Hey, you didn't get it from me. Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something, but don't tell anybody. And
Speaker 1: then that person does the same thing, and then they
Speaker 1: do the same thing, and that's how these stories get out. Hey,
Speaker 1: you know I'm hearing Urban Meyer twelve million dollars, okay,
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, insiders are refuting that
Speaker 1: you're not getting twelve million dollars. Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I know that Texas was offering him ten million. I
Speaker 1: was told that over the weekend ten million. Turn that
Speaker 1: down twelve million. I don't know, shod con you want
Speaker 1: him twelve million? You know, Bill Belichick, nobody knows what
Speaker 1: he makes, but there are guestaments that he's around twenty
Speaker 1: million dollars a year. Just wow, Yeah, I thought it
Speaker 1: was like eleven. Well wow, sources close to me tell
Speaker 1: me that Bill. You know, they don't say what he's
Speaker 1: making a lot of sweatshirts. Yeah, no, he only needs one,
Speaker 1: he said. Thing he had on the other day was like,
Speaker 1: it's almost like a Spandex coaches long sleeve. It was
Speaker 1: a terrible look for him. He's not that bad a
Speaker 1: shape or anything. Is that the kind of the thing
Speaker 1: that you wear when you're a wrestler and you go
Speaker 1: into the steam room to lose weight. It's like Fritzie's
Speaker 1: NYU zip up from yesterday. It shows a lot of
Speaker 1: oh undulation. Yeah, it's funny. He left that number out
Speaker 1: when he was talking about, hey, we sold out the
Speaker 1: last couple of years. We spent all of our money
Speaker 1: doing all this other stuff. Now there's nothing left for me.
Speaker 1: Joe Judge lays into the Eagles, and we spent some
Speaker 1: time in the first hour talking about that, the NFL firings,
Speaker 1: the Heisman awarded tonight. McLevin Wood's the poll question. I
Speaker 1: got way ahead of myself. I was all fired up
Speaker 1: about the sanctimony of everybody yesterday and today about what
Speaker 1: happened with the Eagles quarterbacking situation. So we've been working
Speaker 1: at a poll that will annoy you enough to get
Speaker 1: your mind off of Joe Judge. All right. It started
Speaker 1: off with which matt would you want next year? Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan or Matthew Stafford that you were talking about with
Speaker 1: Ian Rapp Report last segment, thirty five for Ryan, thirty
Speaker 1: two for Stafford. Morphed into which actor would you rather
Speaker 1: be Matt Damon or Matthew McConaughey got hot and heavy
Speaker 1: over here, because that's a that's a tougher argument than
Speaker 1: you'd think. Then it morphed into which role played by
Speaker 1: a Matt would you want the most? Ferris Bueller, Matthew Broderick,
Speaker 1: Matt Perry as Chandler, being and friends Matt Damon Goodwill Hunting,
Speaker 1: Matthew McConaughey as Waterson, of course, or for Paulie Matthew
Speaker 1: Modine it's a wrestler Envision quest. Good call, Matt Dylan's
Speaker 1: something about Mary Flamingo Kid also with them, Danna Jones,
Speaker 1: Yeah outside, yeah, yeah, he did some things. Matt Damon
Speaker 1: has had a great run, or Matt Matt Dillon's had
Speaker 1: a great run. Yeah. Yeah. Do you want me to
Speaker 1: circle back to Ryan and Stafford? No, because I don't
Speaker 1: even care about that. I don't. I don't want either
Speaker 1: one of them. Really, you don't. You don't think there's
Speaker 1: something left in the tank for those guys. I'm sure
Speaker 1: there is. But you know, if I'm a Lions fan
Speaker 1: and you go, Matthew Stafford's coming back, it doesn't change
Speaker 1: my day. If you say, I'm a Falcons fan and
Speaker 1: I got Matt Ryan coming back, it doesn't change my
Speaker 1: day at all at all. And they might be going
Speaker 1: to the Hall of Fame. I just it doesn't quicken
Speaker 1: the pulse. No, what if I told you is a
Speaker 1: new movie? When Matt Damon came out on Netflix with
Speaker 1: that quipment Quick of the Ball? No, really, what if
Speaker 1: Matt Damon played Matt Ryan in a biopic. Okay, so McConaughey.
Speaker 1: Back in thirteen, Dan did, uh, what's that movie where
Speaker 1: he takes all his clothes off Dallas Buyers No, he didn't.
Speaker 1: In two thousand and twelve, he does Magic Mike, and
Speaker 1: he was getting critiqued for being you know, pretty boy
Speaker 1: and baseless movies. Mcclub and just said, as a good movie.
Speaker 1: And then he magic, like Steven Soderberg, that's a well
Speaker 1: reviewed movie. And then he did Dallas Buyers Club in
Speaker 1: two twenty thirteen and changed everything. Yeah, I'd still take
Speaker 1: Matt Damon. Matt Damon's involved in a lot of projects
Speaker 1: as well. He's not just an actor. But I like
Speaker 1: McConaughey's lifestyle, But Matt Damon, I'd probably take the career.
Speaker 1: Matt Dame. You like playing pool with people watching, that's
Speaker 1: what you mean by his lifestyle, Matthew McConaughey. Yeah, McConney.
Speaker 1: Remember that commercial, that Chrysler commercial. Is that what it was?
Speaker 1: What's this bull doing in this road? It was like,
Speaker 1: you don't have to be on an acid trip here.
Speaker 1: When you're cool, you don't need air conditioning. It's this
Speaker 1: isn't Jim Morrison and the doors. It's like he's playing
Speaker 1: pool and then he gets in his car and then
Speaker 1: he leaves driveway. Is awesome though it is places, but
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's his because all those other
Speaker 1: people are still at his house. Like he's leaving his house.
Speaker 1: That's how cool he is. He leaves a party at
Speaker 1: his own house all the way and then he's on
Speaker 1: the road. And then there's the cattle or whatever that
Speaker 1: happens sometime to time, the cattle hill up right there
Speaker 1: in the middle of the highway. I know, But it's
Speaker 1: not gonna make me buy the car, probably not. It shouldn't.
Speaker 1: Like you're selling a car. And if you go, hey,
Speaker 1: you want this lifestyle? You want to you want to
Speaker 1: have a party and play pool by yourself and then leave? No,
Speaker 1: do you want to drive? And there's a bison in
Speaker 1: the middle of the road. No, analock breaks and weed
Speaker 1: is all I need. You know. When he's great at
Speaker 1: the of the lifestyle that's different. You ever see the
Speaker 1: wild turn key commercial he's in And there's like this
Speaker 1: crazy party going on in the middle of a field somewhere,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, they like, pull up on
Speaker 1: the piano and it's Matthew McConaughey play, and the guy
Speaker 1: third he's like, thanks, buddy, gets his drink. You're like, yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: I'll go to that party. That looks awesome. Got lights
Speaker 1: hanging all over the place. So I'm like jazz playing.
Speaker 1: It's great. Sometimes I forget what I'm you know, when
Speaker 1: you watch a commercial, I don't know what they're selling,
Speaker 1: and then it always dawns on me where you go, oh,
Speaker 1: that's right, they're selling insurance, but I don't at the
Speaker 1: time I go, have you seen the commercial? I don't,
Speaker 1: But I don't know what they're selling. So I don't
Speaker 1: know if they're doing their job in the product that
Speaker 1: they're selling as much as what's that dug and that
Speaker 1: stupid EMU or whatever that thing is? Insurance liberty, liberty, insurance.
Speaker 1: Those are bad, and they well they thought, hey, you
Speaker 1: know whatever, they're trying to get that Geico thing going, yeah,
Speaker 1: like hey, we gotta talking of frog here. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: gotta kinda have a gimmick to make salamander to make
Speaker 1: insurance sounds interesting, you know, like, but they're not even
Speaker 1: funny if they're trying is crushing. I think Flow is great.
Speaker 1: I do. I think Flow has that fifteen minutes of fame.
Speaker 1: She's extended it. I think Flow is doing a great job.
Speaker 1: And I even like the woman in the AT and
Speaker 1: T commercial. Yeah, yeah, although I'm not sure that. For
Speaker 1: some reason, I'm obsessed with the word of mouth advertising.
Speaker 1: That's what they did before commercials. That tilts her head, like,
Speaker 1: what just happened there? What Nicklovin? Remember how annoyed you'd
Speaker 1: get it that commercial where Aaron Rodgers agent couldn't do
Speaker 1: his job. You're like, why does he keep using him? Guess?
Speaker 1: And he finally got rid of him, and now he's
Speaker 1: the MVP. Yes, Apples and Oranges. No, it happened. I'd
Speaker 1: been saying it forever. This is Aaron Rodgers. You said
Speaker 1: it to him last year we had him on the show.
Speaker 1: And get rid of that agent. You'll be back. I say,
Speaker 1: you gotta fire that guy. He's not any good at
Speaker 1: the packers now. And then Aaron goes it's a commercial.
Speaker 1: I didn't know, but the perception is Aaron Rodgers hired
Speaker 1: this guy as his agent, and I, you know, therefore,
Speaker 1: I thought that maybe his career was over. And I
Speaker 1: was all in favor of drafting Jordan Love just based
Speaker 1: off who his agent were. Right, you're bringing Jake from
Speaker 1: State Farm, you win the MVP. I mean Jake is jacked.
Speaker 1: I mean he's on performance announcing drugs. But it's okay allegedly.
Speaker 1: Remember I asked Rodgers that as Jacob unperformed, and Rogers
Speaker 1: said he was gonna look into it. He's not sure either, Yes, mccle,
Speaker 1: Chris Paul needs a home security system. Okay, how does
Speaker 1: he let Alfonso Roberta or whatever get back in his
Speaker 1: house all these times? And then Chris Paul acts like
Speaker 1: how did he get here? You keep letting him in somehow,
Speaker 1: and Jake's always standing there too. I don't know what's
Speaker 1: going on in that house. I gotta get simply safe
Speaker 1: for Chris Paul to put in his house to keep
Speaker 1: that guy out. Alfonso's son was like outside with the
Speaker 1: with the basketball. There was like a weird moment there,
Speaker 1: breaking me out a little bit, like he's pretending to
Speaker 1: be his dad. At some point, don't you call the comps? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's I think, Come on, Chris, that's once again. Now
Speaker 1: Now I got questions about Chris Paul as my you know,
Speaker 1: my floor general. Come on, Chris, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: That guy is always in here. He's he's creepy. It's outside.
Speaker 1: He's knocking stuff down, he's breaking stuff. Yes, I was
Speaker 1: actually really disappointed that you don't like the ads where
Speaker 1: the guy explains how not to be your father. I
Speaker 1: love her. They're okay, they're okay, they're okay, Like I'm
Speaker 1: mildly amused, really, yeah, mildly the pillows on the couch
Speaker 1: or she's like, I'm gonna have a big lunch and
Speaker 1: just a light snack. We're not gonna do that in
Speaker 1: the store. We're not gonna be on our speakerphone, are
Speaker 1: I think those are fantastic. They're good. They just rolled
Speaker 1: out some new ones. They're gonna go with that bit
Speaker 1: for a while. Yeah, they're funny. But the the dug
Speaker 1: and the EMU or whatever that is, that's not good.
Speaker 1: It's just not good. It's it's not and I'm not
Speaker 1: saying the acting. I'm just saying the premise of whatever
Speaker 1: that is not funny. All Right, welcome to the program
Speaker 1: already in progress. As you can tell, we are also
Speaker 1: that had the same energy, by the way as your
Speaker 1: Eagles take the same anger, channeled it through commercials. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's the other thing. Tanya Roberts was a famous actress,
Speaker 1: very beautiful woman. She was with Charlie's Angels, James, she
Speaker 1: was a bond girl, she was big in the eighties.
Speaker 1: Beautiful woman and uh, you know, the word came out
Speaker 1: she passed away, and then upon further review, she didn't
Speaker 1: pass away. Now she's she's really and she's upon further review,
Speaker 1: upon further review, upon further review, Tanya Roberts is not dead. Yeah,
Speaker 1: first down, Um, but she's not in she's not in
Speaker 1: good health. But but I guess they thought she was
Speaker 1: dying or had died. And then her rep put out
Speaker 1: something and then we were wondering about this, if you
Speaker 1: could not not die, but know how people are going
Speaker 1: to react to you dying eventually, Like would you want
Speaker 1: to know what people are going to say about you
Speaker 1: after you're gone? Because I mean to be, you know,
Speaker 1: totally insense. If Tanya Roberts knows what people are going
Speaker 1: to say about her, you know, when she dies, because
Speaker 1: these tributes that like two days of that. Now I
Speaker 1: don't want to be on the verge the precipice of
Speaker 1: dying to then find out. But if you announced that
Speaker 1: I had died, so leak it to TMZ. We know
Speaker 1: the TMZ. Yeah, just just send it out to H
Speaker 1: to Harvey Levin that you believe I've died, so you
Speaker 1: could be in good health and appreciate the good and
Speaker 1: the bed what people are saying about you for a
Speaker 1: period of time. Yes, because Van Pelt's going to do
Speaker 1: a whole thing. Yeah, no doubt. Yeah, he would do
Speaker 1: something of Ronaldi. That might be his first piece at Fox. Right.
Speaker 1: Oh nice? Um, you know Samantha guthriem Today Show, she
Speaker 1: Loves My Voice. Barkley would mention you definitely on the
Speaker 1: T and T Show, Reggie Reggie, Maggie Reggie. That's big,
Speaker 1: that's good coverage. Yeah. Um, But then I would be
Speaker 1: able to find out, like what is being said about that?
Speaker 1: Would you guys be interested in knowing that? See? Do
Speaker 1: you want to know what Costas says that your eulogy?
Speaker 1: No you don't. I don't want Constas there. You don't know, no,
Speaker 1: because then his Bob const is at my funeral? Right?
Speaker 1: Oh you know that? No, Neil Everett can get up there.
Speaker 1: Bartender Jack cool is the rule. Yes, Paul, if you
Speaker 1: don't hire, if you don't hire Oberman to do your eulogy,
Speaker 1: he's gone. He's already mad. Yeah, he's showing up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's perpetually angry. But if you don't hire him to
Speaker 1: do your eulogy, he might already have HI ridden. He
Speaker 1: might And I've done four pages, JP, I don't need prompter. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's rush, thank you. But you do run the risk though,
Speaker 1: if if there's someone that you really like and respect
Speaker 1: and care about that may open up and say something
Speaker 1: horribly negative that goes with the territory. May not all
Speaker 1: be flowers and usually don't say negative things. You don't.
Speaker 1: But what if there's that one person that you just
Speaker 1: always loved admired and they just, in an honest moment,
Speaker 1: say yeah, let's not make that big a deal of
Speaker 1: it that it sounds like it might be you. Well,
Speaker 1: we were getting it out of the friends, right, we'll
Speaker 1: love But the liker who needs to be improved on?
Speaker 1: I said to Todd, would he want to know what
Speaker 1: people say about him? Because I think your eulogy should
Speaker 1: just be every corny mock headline and or sports related
Speaker 1: names that you do around the holidays, and that's it.
Speaker 1: Just just have people come up there and they do
Speaker 1: like ten of them, and then somebody comes up and
Speaker 1: does ten and then and that's all specifically morbid names.
Speaker 1: Or it could be, oh, well, could we do sports
Speaker 1: related names that have to do with death, like Jerry
Speaker 1: Kill or something for coach? Yeah, good call? Yeah? Would
Speaker 1: you there? You go like, could we do that more?
Speaker 1: What is it? Mclevint, Mortician Anderson, Yeah, mord Anderson, Yes,
Speaker 1: you could do Tom Grieve yeah, Chris Mortician could break
Speaker 1: the story. Chris Mortenson yeah, yeah, I don't know. Ah,
Speaker 1: this was a little more fun than talking about Joe Judge.
Speaker 1: I had to get off that topic after a while.
Speaker 1: I'll get back on the topic because I know you
Speaker 1: want to talk about it, but uh yeah, I just, uh,
Speaker 1: Joe Judge should worry about the Giants. That's all. Just
Speaker 1: worry about the Giants. You went through a lot this season,
Speaker 1: so did every other team, so did doctors and frontline
Speaker 1: workers and those people as well. But you won six games.
Speaker 1: I would And I know I've heard from Giants fans saying, look,
Speaker 1: he's saying that to Giants fans. He's getting the Giants,
Speaker 1: fans pumped up. You know, the players know, hey, you're
Speaker 1: gonna rally behind him. I get it. I get all
Speaker 1: these things. That's why when you know, I've had people say,
Speaker 1: is Joe Judge really like that? I don't know Joe Judge.
Speaker 1: From what I'm told, that's Joe Judge. He sounds like
Speaker 1: he's out of a movie. But you know what happened
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. They have to deal with their own You know,
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson, you made a decision for whatever reason. Explain
Speaker 1: that to your team. You don't have to explain it
Speaker 1: to me because I'm not going to believe what you
Speaker 1: say to me. You got to say it to your team.
Speaker 1: Joe Judge, how about you win more in six games?
Speaker 1: Then you don't have to worry about who Philadelphia is
Speaker 1: playing in the final game of the season, and to
Speaker 1: the NFL get used to more of these situations because
Speaker 1: your greed is leading to another week of games that
Speaker 1: could be a lot more meaningless games. In situations where
Speaker 1: you don't have teams playing their starters, it's going to
Speaker 1: continue and they'll have even more I was worried about
Speaker 1: fifteen sixteen, You know those weeks. Now you add another one.
Speaker 1: Imagine if we had one more week of games, Nate
Speaker 1: Sudfeld probably get a full start. He's gonna start is
Speaker 1: what are you gonna get? This? Just in from TMZ.
Speaker 1: Tanya Roberts has passed away, so they were off by
Speaker 1: a couple of days. She died. I think she was
Speaker 1: sixty five years of age. But wonderful career. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll take a break here. Chris Fowler is going to
Speaker 1: join us and he's hosting the Heisman Trophy ceremony coming
Speaker 1: up tonight. More phone calls as well. It's twenty one
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Speaker 1: calls coming up. Mclovin, what's the full question? I actually
Speaker 1: did put up? Which Matt would you want? Next year?
Speaker 1: Ryan or Stafford? And Ryan has the early leader, which
Speaker 1: is I'm surprised because he's older. What is he three
Speaker 1: or four years older? Yeah, Stafford. I just think he
Speaker 1: has a lot more good will than Stafford because he's one.
Speaker 1: Although the Stafford arguedly he's more talented, is it? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I kind of put him in this same
Speaker 1: hopper there, but you know, four year age difference is big.
Speaker 1: Chris Fowler is going to be hosting the Heisman again
Speaker 1: tonight for the twenty seventh consecutive year. Chris will be
Speaker 1: hosting and showtime is at seven Eastern on the Mother's
Speaker 1: Ship and then Chris heads to Miami to call the
Speaker 1: National Title Game Monday at eight eastern on ESPN. Chris
Speaker 1: joining us from the lovely confines of Bristol, Connecticut. People
Speaker 1: have heard about Bristol, Connecticut over the years, over the decades, Chris,
Speaker 1: for those who have never been able to go to Bristol, Connecticut,
Speaker 1: could you give us a snapshot of Bristol, Connecticut right
Speaker 1: now on a Tuesday morning, Dan, I know much more
Speaker 1: about the campus in the actual town at Bristol, because,
Speaker 1: as you know, what sits right on the edge of Southington,
Speaker 1: right on the DMZ between those two towns. So I
Speaker 1: can tell you all about the campus, which I haven't
Speaker 1: been doing a couple of years. By the way, my
Speaker 1: initial visit here, so every time you come as a
Speaker 1: new building, it's very quiet, very deserted, very spooky, but
Speaker 1: it's gleaming and beautiful. And I'd tell you they did
Speaker 1: a hell of a job. I was a little bit skeptical.
Speaker 1: You take the Heisman out of that intimate setting in
Speaker 1: New York, and obviously it's a virtual ceremony. Past winners
Speaker 1: will be on screens as well the finalists. But they
Speaker 1: did a hell of a job dressing up the studio,
Speaker 1: which I think has the Fantasy League show normally in it,
Speaker 1: if blocked that off, and they got a beautiful looking
Speaker 1: room for this kind of one time only home of
Speaker 1: the Heisman. Can you give us a look out the window?
Speaker 1: Do you really want to look at the view here? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think just now? This is Is this the Radison
Speaker 1: Hotel or has it been renamed? It is now the
Speaker 1: Double Trade? I asked for and they gave me a
Speaker 1: room with a very special view. Okay, now that's the
Speaker 1: elevator testing show. This is this is where this is
Speaker 1: the otis Elevator building. Here where they tall building in
Speaker 1: the middle of these hills where they run the elevator
Speaker 1: up and down to test them. We have a construction.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on, but they're building something
Speaker 1: over here. And you can see the parking lots rather empty.
Speaker 1: So that that is your snapshot. Thank you. Six one
Speaker 1: O you asked for. Do you remember your first day
Speaker 1: on campus? Yeah? Absolutely, I looked about eleven um. I
Speaker 1: was in to do a high school sports show called
Speaker 1: Scholastic Sports America. I had been a fan of the
Speaker 1: network since it's signed on in seventy nine, so this
Speaker 1: is eighty six. When I arrived and they're like, who
Speaker 1: is this kid, you know walking around at a T shirt?
Speaker 1: And you know, I was like, there was Burmann lead,
Speaker 1: there's Tom NEAs. These were the early guys that you know.
Speaker 1: I stayed up and watched Sports Center and I thought
Speaker 1: when they had called me to work here, they were
Speaker 1: going to put me on sports There said we've got
Speaker 1: something a special plan for you. You're gonna hit the
Speaker 1: road and coach and you know, work forty weeks during
Speaker 1: the school calendar doing high school features. But I love
Speaker 1: that too, And I think the one I remember is
Speaker 1: when you featured him at Smith Yeah for some reason
Speaker 1: for this football player of me profile at Pensacola, Escambia. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he became kind of like a lifelong acquaintance. It
Speaker 1: was very cool, all right. So the game plan tonight now,
Speaker 1: when you get the envelope, it's the same as usual.
Speaker 1: I don't want to know ahead of time. Nobody on
Speaker 1: the show knows who wins. You just don't want to
Speaker 1: have that. But the commercial break before the announcement is made,
Speaker 1: I do get the results then, because sometimes there's been
Speaker 1: a lot of suspense and you just don't want to
Speaker 1: be caught completely off guard because in case the guy
Speaker 1: gives a short speech, I have to step in there
Speaker 1: for the interview. So you want to let your eyes
Speaker 1: kind of look at the page and see what's going
Speaker 1: on with the voting. So in that break before the announcement,
Speaker 1: I'm out on camera in that segment until after their
Speaker 1: name is read. Then I find out. The biggest question
Speaker 1: you have tonight, aside from who's gonna win, is what
Speaker 1: Well I have my stress ball here, I haven't needed
Speaker 1: it yet, But my biggest concern is we all do
Speaker 1: the everything's on a screen like you and I are
Speaker 1: right now, But you just want everything to be buttoned
Speaker 1: up technically. You know, all these guys, you know for
Speaker 1: a minute here. And my biggest concern until I read
Speaker 1: something this morning, was that Nick Saban's practice was going
Speaker 1: to run into our show because plan A. Nobody knows this,
Speaker 1: but plan A for Alabama was to have DeVante, Smith,
Speaker 1: Mac Jones and the rest of the Tide practicing for
Speaker 1: the Championship being right up until about six Central seven
Speaker 1: Eastern when this show starts. I'm thinking, are these guys
Speaker 1: gonna like, I think I have time to tallow off
Speaker 1: after practice? Are they going to come in sweat so
Speaker 1: they you know, DeVante's miss a sharp dress, dude, he
Speaker 1: wears these tailored suits, the bow ties. That's how he
Speaker 1: goes to the games. And I thought, can you let
Speaker 1: the guy and put a suit on? And Matt, can
Speaker 1: you let them at least dress up? Because it's weird
Speaker 1: to be practicing for the ultimate Game and have this
Speaker 1: potential life moment from one of them be like minutes away.
Speaker 1: But I was told this run. They moved practice earlier.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it took to make that happen,
Speaker 1: But now these guys can chill that I know they're
Speaker 1: going to be there on time. So that's that was
Speaker 1: my biggest worry. Is Saban going to join you? Yes,
Speaker 1: the only part of the show as will Dan Mullen
Speaker 1: and and Dabbles Sweeney, the coaches and the families. You know,
Speaker 1: the two players whose seasons are over, Trevor Lawrence and
Speaker 1: Kyle Trask. It's a very different deal. You know, they
Speaker 1: can have their family there, the coaches, it's going to
Speaker 1: be at their team locations. But it's a different vibe
Speaker 1: than two guys who are still in the court of
Speaker 1: sort of the Alabama bubble of getting ready for the
Speaker 1: game next Monday. And you've been doing this such a
Speaker 1: long time. We love to hand out that Heisman in September.
Speaker 1: We love at the like the beginning of October. And
Speaker 1: you know, I came in, I forget how many weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and I said, Davante Smith is the best player on
Speaker 1: any football field that he plays on. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's gonna win the Heisman, but he to me
Speaker 1: is the difference maker for that team. But you know,
Speaker 1: I it's when you start to handicap this, what do
Speaker 1: voters see and what they what should they be looking for.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you that what should you look
Speaker 1: for in the Heisman candidate? Well, it's simple. It says
Speaker 1: most outstanding player on the ballot, right, But that's open
Speaker 1: to interpretation. For me, I always look at what would
Speaker 1: the team be like if that guy weren't there? What
Speaker 1: would he what would it mean if he was out?
Speaker 1: You know? And I think we saw with Lawrence what
Speaker 1: it meant for Clemson, for example. I don't know where
Speaker 1: Florida would be without Kyle Trash, but it wouldn't have
Speaker 1: been in a New Year's six Bowl game battling bamafres
Speaker 1: HEC Championship down to the final couple possessions, that's for sure,
Speaker 1: and then the Alabama guys get the judge. You know.
Speaker 1: There's the offense is so good. I mean we're having
Speaker 1: this conversation, are they as good as LSU last year?
Speaker 1: Which I think is the best college offense I've ever seen?
Speaker 1: I mean, Smith, Jones and Harris and then offensive line
Speaker 1: that Jones stays pretty clean in the pocket a lot.
Speaker 1: But you know, you said something about DeVante Smith and
Speaker 1: I think it's interesting, Dan, and this year that's been
Speaker 1: so different, where the rules are just basically tossed out.
Speaker 1: I think there is more momentum for voters to look
Speaker 1: beyond the usual quarterback stats and say, the first of all,
Speaker 1: Demante has amazing stats as a receiver. I mean phenomenal stats.
Speaker 1: Every good team they faced, no matter what they threw
Speaker 1: at him, he was off the charts. And the better
Speaker 1: the dB he's across from, the more he embraced the
Speaker 1: challenge of figuring out a way to beat that guy.
Speaker 1: And so I think there's You've seen lots of people
Speaker 1: endorse him. Lots of guys have said, you know, Demante
Speaker 1: Smith is the best player. Maybe this is a year
Speaker 1: to do that. I don't know if that's the way
Speaker 1: the voting is going to go, but I think people
Speaker 1: would consider him a slight favorite at this point because
Speaker 1: there's been that late season momentum you talked about, what
Speaker 1: is it, eight hundred voters more than nine voters? Yeah? No,
Speaker 1: are they voted now? People think they didn't vote after
Speaker 1: these ball games. Okay, they voted after the conference championship games.
Speaker 1: That didn't change. So you can't factor in what you
Speaker 1: saw New Year's Day and the other bowl games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because if you did, then Deamonte Smith your Heisman Trophy winner. Right, Well,
Speaker 1: it certainly would have hurt the case for Lawrence and Trask.
Speaker 1: I'll say that, Well, the Bama guys just kept rolling.
Speaker 1: I mean, Smith had three more touchdowns. It gets a
Speaker 1: notre dame. That doesn't count in the voting or how
Speaker 1: we statistically evaluate. But those guys, I don't think that
Speaker 1: Heisman should ever be given out after the playoff anyway.
Speaker 1: You can't make it an award that's that's tilted that
Speaker 1: much toward the guys who had, you know, the final award.
Speaker 1: That to me is you'll never have a guy winner
Speaker 1: off a non playoff team if you did that. He's
Speaker 1: Chris Fowler. He'll be hosting tonight for the twenty seventh
Speaker 1: straight year. Chris hosting the one hour telecast on ESPN
Speaker 1: the Heisman Trophy Ceremony. It starts at eight eastern. Uh, well,
Speaker 1: whenever Nick Saban wants to It started seven eastern, okay.
Speaker 1: I got eight eastern here, yeah, seven okay, that may
Speaker 1: change that seven eastern National Title game eight eastern, yes, okay,
Speaker 1: or whenever Saban wants to show up for tonight's Tonight's ceremony.
Speaker 1: As we move forward, hopefully we get back to whatever
Speaker 1: normally is calling a game. You know, Herbie called you
Speaker 1: know last week from home. Does the pandemic as we
Speaker 1: move forward out of it, does it change broadcasting in
Speaker 1: you know games you know on site? I hope not.
Speaker 1: I mean I enjoyed being on site for a lot
Speaker 1: of years, and there's an experience that special. A lot
Speaker 1: of the stuff that is fun about the job. I'm
Speaker 1: the last one to wine, believe me, but the contact
Speaker 1: with the coaches and players in person hasn't been there.
Speaker 1: You'll get to watch practices. Everything is a screen. Everything
Speaker 1: is reading in the booth. You know, everything is a screen.
Speaker 1: You can't have a spotted near you. You can't have
Speaker 1: a stats guy near you. That's all the COVID protocols.
Speaker 1: Everything is a source, right You just look at all
Speaker 1: these screens, like your air traffic control. You miss a
Speaker 1: lot of the human contact. Our crew can't meet, you know,
Speaker 1: in a room. Everything is a zoom meeting and I
Speaker 1: miss I missed that contact a lot. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't like the idea of having to call play by
Speaker 1: play off a TV screen. We're gonna be doing that
Speaker 1: the Australian Open because of all the complications of going
Speaker 1: to Melbourne. At this point, we're gonna be doing tennis
Speaker 1: off a TV. I know a lot of guys have
Speaker 1: done great work. A lot of my colleagues have not
Speaker 1: been able to go on the road and call games.
Speaker 1: So they call these games are ready games. I don't
Speaker 1: know why they're called ready, but that means where they
Speaker 1: everybody's kind of virtually Dad, there's there's teams have done
Speaker 1: football games this college football season. They guys have not
Speaker 1: met each other play by play an analysts have never
Speaker 1: met get their calling games from their respective holmes. I
Speaker 1: Kirk and it there is our twenty fifth season together.
Speaker 1: So it helps when he's in Nashville, I'm in the
Speaker 1: booth to have that kind of chemistry that built up
Speaker 1: over a quarter century. I was wondering in the hit
Speaker 1: on Justin Fields, like what kind of information can you get?
Speaker 1: But had been different if if everybody was in person
Speaker 1: and they you know that, because I don't know if
Speaker 1: there was ever a medical update on Justin Fields with
Speaker 1: that hit? Oh you mean, what, what's what he might
Speaker 1: have sustained? When we were told that they got the
Speaker 1: X ray room ready at halftime, so you're thinking, oh,
Speaker 1: they're going to go look at his ribs, but it
Speaker 1: wasn't for him. He didn't get X rayed, and he
Speaker 1: admit it after the game. He took a couple of injections,
Speaker 1: or at least an injection, which you need to get
Speaker 1: through the pain. Because you saw how he was grimacing
Speaker 1: there when he got hit me in I thought, I thought,
Speaker 1: oh my god, that's broken ribs, or maybe they'd have
Speaker 1: checked for a kidney injury. And you know they're not
Speaker 1: saying what the injury is. I mean, Justin didn't attend
Speaker 1: the interview sessions that we had set up and that
Speaker 1: the CFP had set up yesterday. Maria Taylor was supposed
Speaker 1: to talk to him. He didn't make that appointment, so
Speaker 1: obviously that sort of raises concerns. I mean, Ryan Day
Speaker 1: says he expects him to play. I would certainly hope so.
Speaker 1: But you know, this is gonna be a certain amount
Speaker 1: of cloaking dagger before the championship game, and they're not
Speaker 1: getting down there till maybe the day before, so you're
Speaker 1: not gonna have eyes on many practices, if any, to
Speaker 1: check that out. But you know, God, he's got play.
Speaker 1: He just has to play. Is Herbie gonna be on
Speaker 1: site with you. Yes, that's the plan. Hey Dan, this
Speaker 1: is our to our brother. Yes, but he will have
Speaker 1: cleared protocol. He is gonna be on site. I don't
Speaker 1: want to do a championship game. Oh. If I'm on site, man,
Speaker 1: I got I probably got I don't know what, like
Speaker 1: two three more tests. I gotta pass Worth before I
Speaker 1: get the booth. I had fifty four this year. If
Speaker 1: you're counting fifty four COVID tests, are you fifty four? Oh?
Speaker 1: I am undefeatedefeated, I'm not all humility. I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not doing the victory dance. I'm spiking the ball. But
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't want to, you know, flag you
Speaker 1: for you know taunting. It's the announcer Jinx. You just
Speaker 1: you just gave it to him. While I have you
Speaker 1: the Steve Sarkisian situation here? How does that affect Alabama
Speaker 1: in the National Title game? But what do you think
Speaker 1: of the hire for Texas? Well? I think starkillhandle's business
Speaker 1: calling plays and he better he has to. You couldn't
Speaker 1: take him out of the equation. I was talking to
Speaker 1: Smith and Jones as part of my prep, and you
Speaker 1: know they were they were relieved that he was going
Speaker 1: to stay on and call the plays. You cannot disrupt
Speaker 1: that engine at this moment. I mean, guys have done
Speaker 1: it before. But he's the play caller. He's a huge
Speaker 1: part of that and you know him him matching wits
Speaker 1: with Ohio States defense is a big part of the game.
Speaker 1: Texas is a really hard job. You got to be
Speaker 1: a politician. I've talked to Mac Brown, who was, you know,
Speaker 1: the most successful coach there post Darryl Royal, And you
Speaker 1: have to navigate your way through some very murky, choppy waters.
Speaker 1: Everybody in Texas who's the trustee down there, gives a
Speaker 1: bunch of money. They all want to beat Jerry Jones Junior,
Speaker 1: and they want to have a say in the program.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of stuff to deal with but beyond
Speaker 1: coaching football, and I hope Sark can manage all that stuff,
Speaker 1: because man, he can. He can call plays, and he's
Speaker 1: a good recruiter and and I'm happy to see him.
Speaker 1: You know, he's had He's had two sort of redemption
Speaker 1: trips back to Tuscaloosa with Save It, and I think
Speaker 1: he's I feel, uh, I like him a lot, and
Speaker 1: I feel for what he's had to go through off
Speaker 1: the field, and I hope that part of his life
Speaker 1: has conquered forever, and I hope he has great success
Speaker 1: in Austin. He's uh Chris Fowler tonight at seven Eastern
Speaker 1: the Heisman Trophy ceremony and then aid Eastern on Monday
Speaker 1: night the national title. Who did you vote for? By
Speaker 1: the way? Okay? Okay, Mike, I'm twenty seven or no
Speaker 1: and not remeally my vote? Can you imagine this for
Speaker 1: once they're not in the same room, But I'm you can't.
Speaker 1: You can't say who you voted for and then go
Speaker 1: out there and host the show. Come on, but good
Speaker 1: try Okay, I mean I think I'm yeah, I voted, okay,
Speaker 1: but I'm not allowed to tell. Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: No one's supposed to tell. Actually, right, you're sworn to secrecy.
Speaker 1: They could they could come and take your ballot away, right, Well,
Speaker 1: they did ask, you know, because I do you know,
Speaker 1: tell people on the show, because I said, you know, hey,
Speaker 1: I watch a lot of football. I take this. It's
Speaker 1: a great honor to vote, and uh, you know that
Speaker 1: you I almost got into a fight this a Heisman
Speaker 1: fight with Craig Segar years ago. In Miami outside the
Speaker 1: Clevelander Hotel. Okay, so we both have beers in our hands,
Speaker 1: and Uh, I said to Segar how disappointed I was
Speaker 1: in the Heisman voting because a freshman should be able
Speaker 1: to win. Adrian Peterson, to me, I thought deserved the
Speaker 1: Heisman trophy. Okay, So three minutes later, we're we're nose
Speaker 1: to nose. We're gonna fight over Adrian Peterson should he
Speaker 1: win the Heisman trophy. PAULI had to jump in true story,
Speaker 1: Segar and I were gonna throw down over Adrian Peterson.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just picturing you and Segar probably had
Speaker 1: a plaid sport coade on, uh, with beers at the
Speaker 1: corner of Tenth and Ocean, ready to throw down. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think it's what what color wasn't was that salmon?
Speaker 1: He had a fushia colored jacket on. He's a big guy.
Speaker 1: Could you imagine police showing up? What's what's the argument
Speaker 1: about Adrian Peterson? Oh, as you were, go ahead, you
Speaker 1: guys can throw down. I've seen plenty of beer fueled
Speaker 1: fights at that exact location. Said many years, my friends
Speaker 1: used to own that place, and that that was a
Speaker 1: that was a hangout. But that's a great memory. You
Speaker 1: get visual picture you give him me. Thank you for that. Yet,
Speaker 1: have fun tonight as always, Chris, we appreciate your time.
Speaker 1: And good on Monday night as well. Thank you, sir,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thanks Chris Fowler. Seven Eastern Heisman Trophy tonight
Speaker 1: He'll be awarding that and then Monday the National Title
Speaker 1: game starts at eight Eastern. Back with your phone calls
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Speaker 1: Hey Brent, what's on your mind? Hey guys, enjoy the show.
Speaker 1: Keep up a good work. Sorry, I just got done
Speaker 1: with the jog in South Alabama, all right, Hey, So, okay, Eagles,
Speaker 1: maybe we need to take coach Peterson at face value.
Speaker 1: Maybe he really did think he was making the best
Speaker 1: decision to win the game. Maybe he think he figured
Speaker 1: out when I was Satan figured out against Georgia in
Speaker 1: the National Title game. And that is that. Jalen Hurts. Oh,
Speaker 1: he's a good kid, great guy, great athlete. He is
Speaker 1: not the difference maker you need when it's a short deal.
Speaker 1: Third and mom got throw somebody open. All right, I know,
Speaker 1: I know, brand I get it, and thanks for the
Speaker 1: phone call, um, But you're replacing him with Nate Sudfeld,
Speaker 1: not to a tongue of iolo. So that's the flaw
Speaker 1: in your argument. Yeah, mclem you have to give it
Speaker 1: that guy credit. I've heard a million theories on the
Speaker 1: first time I heard that one, like, oh, okay, Jalen Hurts,
Speaker 1: he's used to being replaced because he was replacing the
Speaker 1: National title game, but that he replaced to it in
Speaker 1: another game. Right then he come back in one game
Speaker 1: and save his butt. Yeah yeah, I think so. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let me see what else do we have here? Phil
Speaker 1: in Indiana? Hey Phil, Hey, Dan, always great to be
Speaker 1: with you. Happy Blay the new year. You know, I
Speaker 1: looked when you look at the best job opening down,
Speaker 1: I wanted to get your thoughts to me. I know
Speaker 1: everybody's going crazy over Jaguars because they get Lawrence, but
Speaker 1: I'm looking saying it's got to be the Chargers. You've
Speaker 1: got Justin Herbert, who has proved to me that he
Speaker 1: can be an NFL quarterback. Lawrence from what I saw
Speaker 1: in that Ohio State game, Dan, I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know that everybody said it can't miss guy, but
Speaker 1: I wanted to get your thoughts because Lawrence showed some
Speaker 1: I think a chick in the armor there in that game. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't think he had the weapons that he's had
Speaker 1: the previous couple of years there. But thank you, Phil.
Speaker 1: Always great to hear from you. Doesn't it sound crazy
Speaker 1: if I would have said at the beginning of last
Speaker 1: year or right after the draft, by the way, you're
Speaker 1: going to have football fans who would rather be coaching
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert than maybe Trevor Lawrence in Jacksonville, Because that's
Speaker 1: what's happening right now. They both jobs are open, and
Speaker 1: you have football fans who probably think, I know what
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert is. He went out and proved it. He
Speaker 1: threw for more touchdown passes than any rookie in history.
Speaker 1: And here's Trevor Lawrence who can't miss. He's supposed to
Speaker 1: be Elway and Andrew Luck and now all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: we're going, yeah, but we love potential and here's results.
Speaker 1: And do you want the potential of Trevor Lawrence or
Speaker 1: the results of Justin Herbert? And I think that's an
Speaker 1: interesting decision. If somebody has to make that, maybe it's
Speaker 1: Urban Meyer. And Urban's going to take Jacksonville and it's
Speaker 1: the right situation for him. They do have money, they
Speaker 1: do have draft picks. I don't like that the owner
Speaker 1: is involved with the roster moves, but I'm sure if
Speaker 1: Urban comes in that they would change that. And you
Speaker 1: get Trevor Lawrence, West Daniel Jeremiah, former NFL scout now
Speaker 1: working for the NFL Network, which job he thinks is best.
Speaker 1: People want us to have Jake from State Farm on
Speaker 1: the show, Todd. I think that's a fun idea. It
Speaker 1: would be great. I could ask him the ped questions.
Speaker 1: He could be on the Juice