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Speaker 1: numbering over four hundred cities. Seaton. We'll finish up the
Speaker 1: poll question from our two and then give us a
Speaker 1: new one for hour three.
Speaker 2: Right now, Hour two, we got up there losing NFL
Speaker 2: team from this weekend. That should feel the goodest. The
Speaker 2: Broncos running away with that one. We also had up
Speaker 2: there quarterback that had the worst weekend justin Herbert Jordan
Speaker 2: loved Baker Mayfields finishes in that order justin Herbert running
Speaker 2: away with that one.
Speaker 3: That's tough.
Speaker 1: So what's the poll question for hour three?
Speaker 2: He's had a little bit of a couple of years,
Speaker 2: but I think everybody thought that the new coach bump
Speaker 2: would help him this year.
Speaker 1: I think it did, though, right, Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1: I think Harball was trying to make him a quarterback,
Speaker 1: like they weren't dependent on passing, just like at Michigan.
Speaker 1: I think he wanted to have a balanced attack. I
Speaker 1: just didn't think their receiving corps allowed them to be
Speaker 1: a balanced attack. And I didn't think they had a
Speaker 1: great running game either. So I think Harball got a
Speaker 1: lot out of that team this year. And you know
Speaker 1: the irony is they didn't turn the ball over and
Speaker 1: then that's all they did in this situation. All right,
Speaker 1: So final hour poll question is going to be.
Speaker 2: Well, this one's a little specific, but if you were
Speaker 2: a Steelers fan, what would you do with Mike Tomlin?
Speaker 1: I would ask Mike does he think he still has
Speaker 1: this team? Like he might need something, He might need
Speaker 1: to take a year off, two years off, maybe go
Speaker 1: into TV, something like that, because it's just not good
Speaker 1: enough in Pittsburgh where you're making the playoffs. Hey, we
Speaker 1: made the playoffs. That's not good enough. And I'd ask Mike,
Speaker 1: what do you want to do? How long do you
Speaker 1: want to do this? We have to come up with
Speaker 1: some kind of solution here if you're going to stay,
Speaker 1: And I agree with Tony Dungee, who were you bringing in?
Speaker 1: But if I said to Pittsburgh fans today, you can
Speaker 1: have Ben Johnson of the Lions or Mike Tomlin. Now
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say Aaron Glenn because Aaron Glenn
Speaker 1: is a defensive minded coach. But if you can bring
Speaker 1: somebody in. Now you brought in Arthur Smith. If you're
Speaker 1: going to bring in Ben Jonson, are you going to
Speaker 1: keep Russell Wilson? Would you have justin Fields because he
Speaker 1: gives you more options? Would you keep both of them?
Speaker 1: So I think that it's a tricky question. I think
Speaker 1: it's a fair question to ask from the standpoint of
Speaker 1: he has been disappointing. It used to be you made
Speaker 1: the playoffs. This is you made the playoffs and then
Speaker 1: you lose every year in the first round. And I
Speaker 1: think that has to be addressed at some point this offseason.
Speaker 1: I think you have to ask it, and it's a
Speaker 1: tough question to ask. Look, the Cowboys moved on from
Speaker 1: Tom Landry, like teams move on from legendary coaches. You
Speaker 1: might have to move on from Mike Tomlin for the
Speaker 1: betterment of this organization, Gampa.
Speaker 4: And it's a little similar to the Cowboys Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 4: They're always ten, eleven, twelve plus wins. They don't have
Speaker 4: the six win season that gives you the opportunity to
Speaker 4: fire them. Mike Tomlin. I don't know if he's ever
Speaker 4: had a we talked about a bad season. Fremis nine
Speaker 4: wins an off year, fram is nine. They never get it.
Speaker 4: But it is that a good Is that a good
Speaker 4: enough season?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: But it hurts the owners options or the GMS options.
Speaker 4: If a team goes six wins, you have the fan
Speaker 4: support behind the firing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so is that the final hour pool cunt? Yes, Marvin.
Speaker 6: And if the new head coach comes in, he'd better
Speaker 6: do better. He better win a playoff game the next season,
Speaker 6: because Pittsburgh fans are going to say, Okay, why we
Speaker 6: fire Mike Tomlin for this guy?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I was surprised that. You know, the
Speaker 1: local reaction to Tomlin is different than the national reaction.
Speaker 1: But I think he's held in such high regard by Annaly.
Speaker 1: I think people are afraid to criticize Mike. I do.
Speaker 1: And I think this is a situation where it's a
Speaker 1: bottom line industry and you're not coming up with playoff wins.
Speaker 1: And you know, I get a stat in their last
Speaker 1: five or six playoff games, they've trailed by as many
Speaker 1: as twenty one points in every one of those games.
Speaker 1: Can't be competitive, Yeah, But.
Speaker 2: I think part of it, though, is like there are
Speaker 2: way worse places to be than where the Steelers are
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: There are way worse teams than that. There are way
Speaker 1: worse They're pretty competitive every year. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: mean that sounds pretty good. So you would stay with
Speaker 1: Tomlin if I said the next three years, you're going
Speaker 1: to make the playoffs. After that, you don't know what
Speaker 1: happens in the postseason. You make the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Would I keep Mike Tomlin for those three years to
Speaker 2: make the playoffs?
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course. But you're not winning in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: You're making the playoffs. See. I think that's the problem.
Speaker 1: You know, Pittsburgh, they expect to win championships, compete for championships,
Speaker 1: other organizations. They make the playoffs. We don't make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: We were the team or one of the teams to
Speaker 1: beat in the playoffs. And I think that's the difference
Speaker 1: is they don't feel threatening. You lose what your last
Speaker 1: four games of the regular season, four or five games,
Speaker 1: and then you go into the postseason like most teams
Speaker 1: go into the postseason winning. You know, hey, they put
Speaker 1: together three or four wins. Those are the dangerous teams Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: That's why they were a nine point underdog against the Ravens. Yes, Paulin,
Speaker 1: it's kind of apples and oranges here. It's not a
Speaker 1: direct comparison.
Speaker 4: But seven eight years ago when the Chiefs had Alex Smith,
Speaker 4: they're playing good football, they're appearing in the playoffs. He's
Speaker 4: playing above average football. They had under contractor they could
Speaker 4: have stuck with him, give him a new deal, and
Speaker 4: they said, no, let's try something really different. Mahomes was
Speaker 4: not beloved coming out of college. You've talked about this
Speaker 4: one hundred times project project, and they took a gamble
Speaker 4: and look where they are. It feels like the Steelers
Speaker 4: are in a different situation. Though as far as the history.
Speaker 1: Well, I have to know if I'm bringing that other
Speaker 1: guy in that I know he's going to be an upgrade.
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's anybody who's an upgrader for
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin. Now you might get different results, maybe, but
Speaker 1: the Steelers are so loyal and maybe loyal to a
Speaker 1: fault that you know you're going to keep Kower for
Speaker 1: twenty years and Chuck Nole for twenty years, and then
Speaker 1: you know Mike Tomlin, but you know it ended with
Speaker 1: Chuck Nole, It ends with you know these legends, at
Speaker 1: least some of them. You talk about somebody who needs
Speaker 1: a win, Sam Donald. A win tonight is really really
Speaker 1: important because you got a quarterback who's a free agent
Speaker 1: in waiting. If he has back to back bad games,
Speaker 1: I don't know what the perception is going to be of.
Speaker 1: It's kind of saying Sam Darnold that he does show
Speaker 1: glimpses of being great, maybe a franchise quarterback, But if
Speaker 1: he wins this game tonight and they are favored by
Speaker 1: two and a half, But talk about somebody who needs
Speaker 1: to win a game Sam Darnold does just to clear
Speaker 1: up that mess that he had against Detroit, And you
Speaker 1: know you don't want to be sort of a here
Speaker 1: comes another a younger Kirk Cousins, where hey, he can
Speaker 1: look pretty good, but then he can also look pretty bad.
Speaker 1: And Sam is still young. We all know that with
Speaker 1: his age. I think he's been twenty seven for five years.
Speaker 1: It's like Sam Darnald, he's twenty seven. I go, is
Speaker 1: he's still twenty seven. You have Paul, But.
Speaker 4: Let's go back to the Steelers and Sam Darnald to
Speaker 4: just pair them for a second. If you were three
Speaker 4: years ninety million dollars on Russell or three years on Sam,
Speaker 4: same price, I think they're like eight years difference those two.
Speaker 4: That that seems like maybe a direction the Steelers could
Speaker 4: take a chance.
Speaker 1: Okay, I would be in on Sam Donald over Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson because I'm getting a quarterback that's probably around the same,
Speaker 1: but I'm getting a younger quarterback and Sam might be
Speaker 1: a better athlete than Russ at this time. But if
Speaker 1: you don't get a wide Sam Darnold has Justin Jefferson
Speaker 1: and Jordan Addison, like let's just start there. Russ has
Speaker 1: George Pickens, who's a crapshoot, like I wouldn't want him
Speaker 1: on my team, but you know. Remember it was Matt
Speaker 1: Canada members the offensive coordinator, and now they got rid
Speaker 1: of him, thank god. Then you brought in Arthur Smith. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're going to rejuvenate this offense. It just didn't happen.
Speaker 1: It's still a team that feels like our franchise that's
Speaker 1: predicated on playing great defense and running the football and
Speaker 1: having that mentality of Mike Tomlin. I just I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's run its course, but you have to
Speaker 1: find that coach where you say this is an upgrade,
Speaker 1: this is what we need. All right, So we got
Speaker 1: our pole question for the final hour of the program.
Speaker 1: We will write the headline a little bit later on.
Speaker 1: Let's go around the room, best and worst of the weekend, Todd,
Speaker 1: I'm going to start with you your best in your worst,
Speaker 1: Best of the weekend.
Speaker 7: Saturday afternoon at Cameron Indoor, Duke's Cooper Flagg scores a
Speaker 7: career high in an ACC freshman record forty two points.
Speaker 7: Blue Devil's over noted eighty six to seventy eight worst.
Speaker 7: We've mentioned it several times today. Justin Herbert, who threw
Speaker 7: only three picks all season, picked off four times by
Speaker 7: the Texans. First play on NFL history to throw more
Speaker 7: picks in a single playoff game than in the entire
Speaker 7: regular season with.
Speaker 3: A minimum of two hundred attempts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's impressive what he did during the regular season,
Speaker 1: and it's impressive what he did in the postseason throwing
Speaker 1: four picks. I was watching Cooper flag and I kept thinking,
Speaker 1: is Notre Dame just going to let him score? Like
Speaker 1: you're You're not even devising your defense to stop him.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, I think we can handle him.
Speaker 1: I think we can play man. And I go, he's
Speaker 1: going to go for thirty, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you know he's going to go for forty. He probably
Speaker 1: could have gone for fifty if he wanted to. But
Speaker 1: I don't know what Notre Dame was thinking. But you know,
Speaker 1: the next time they play them, I wouldn't employ the
Speaker 1: same kind of defense set invest and worst of the
Speaker 1: weekend my best the weekend.
Speaker 2: I know Jayden Daniels, obviously he's a superstar, there's no
Speaker 2: doubt about that. Doing it in the playoffs is gigantic.
Speaker 2: But you cannot underestimate the importance of Terry McLaurin to
Speaker 2: the commanders. That dude, he's a boss, a boss and
Speaker 2: a half, and he had just an unbelievable catch just
Speaker 2: the other day that was really fantastic. Even more better, though,
Speaker 2: is just running backs in general.
Speaker 1: This weekend.
Speaker 2: I can't think of a time that I saw so
Speaker 2: many plays where a running back would get like hit
Speaker 2: behind the line of scrimmage and still go for twelve
Speaker 2: yards or get tackled at about eight but somehow stay
Speaker 2: up and push to fifteen or something.
Speaker 1: It was just crazy. What a weekend for powerbacks, I guess. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I know that people will be like, who wants
Speaker 1: to see three yards in a cloud of dust? But
Speaker 1: it wasn't that. It was three yards get hit and
Speaker 1: then yards after contact. Yeah, and you saw that. It
Speaker 1: was prevalent throughout the league. Everybody loves to, you know,
Speaker 1: throw the football. We like that excited. But there's also
Speaker 1: part of me that likes that running back and a
Speaker 1: running back will decimated defense far more than a passing game,
Speaker 1: because that's just constant. That's just like damn, here comes
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry again, here comes Saquon Barkley again. Now, unless
Speaker 1: it's a record setting year with a quarterback and a
Speaker 1: wide receiver, it's just different because you stop one, you
Speaker 1: stop the receiver. But if you're going to run the
Speaker 1: you know, run the ball. Now, I got to deal
Speaker 1: with all these offensive linemen. That's a great offensive. Both
Speaker 1: these teams have really good offensive lunch. They just pound you,
Speaker 1: and they keep you out there, and they're going to
Speaker 1: come right back out at you and pound you again.
Speaker 1: It's like the boxer who doesn't have a one punch,
Speaker 1: but he's just going to continue to pepper you at
Speaker 1: the end. And that's what you saw there. Marvin Best
Speaker 1: and worst of the weekend.
Speaker 6: My best, speaking of running backs, I'm going to go
Speaker 6: with James Cook or the Buffalo Bills. Twenty five carries
Speaker 6: one hundred and twenty yards once. I if they win
Speaker 6: the Super Bowl, man, he's gonna be a big part
Speaker 6: of that. My worst of the weekend, and I like
Speaker 6: this guy a lot. Mika Fitzpatrick of the Pittsburgh Steelers
Speaker 6: getting just absolutely destroyed by Derrick Henry.
Speaker 3: The stiff arm was just nasty.
Speaker 6: I felt really bad, and that's saying something because he's
Speaker 6: one of the better safeties in the NFL and Derrick
Speaker 6: Henry just treated him like a practice player.
Speaker 1: Don't go up top on Derrick Henry like just try,
Speaker 1: you know, try to get his ankles, don't go up top.
Speaker 1: And that's he's like kid hunner here. You know. It's
Speaker 1: like when you have your little brother in the backyard
Speaker 1: and you just throw his face right in the dirt.
Speaker 1: Paulie best and worst of the weekend. I was gonna
Speaker 1: go Terry McLaurin. He's awesome, but I'm an audible to
Speaker 1: Nico Collins. Similar situation. Not a household name that I
Speaker 1: have to say. It's from the Houston Texans. He's a
Speaker 1: great wide receiver. He he's carrying them right now with
Speaker 1: the receivers. He's fantastic.
Speaker 4: Worse the weekend, I want to go back to Friday Night,
Speaker 4: down seven, the long Runta, this great five to six
Speaker 4: minute drive. They get it down to the goal line.
Speaker 4: They get a penalty, so you're first and goal at
Speaker 4: to one. They get buried seven yard loss incompletion, stripsack
Speaker 4: fumble goes the other way for seven points. You had them,
Speaker 4: You had a chance. You could have scored seven and
Speaker 4: gone for two and maybe stole this game out of nowhere.
Speaker 8: The Longhorns at the goal line were terrible.
Speaker 1: Back to Terry McLaurin, Terry Mclaurin's one of those guys
Speaker 1: that when you watch the Commander's play, you're reminded of
Speaker 1: how good he is, but you don't bring his name
Speaker 1: up when it comes up with other wide receivers. But
Speaker 1: when you're watching, you go, he's good, He'll make he'll
Speaker 1: make a player or two where you go, well, that's right,
Speaker 1: he is really good. Yes, Mark.
Speaker 6: And it's weird because it's now like he went to
Speaker 6: like Delaware State, he went to Ohio State. So I'm
Speaker 6: just kind of flabbergast to how he wasn't a bigger
Speaker 6: star until now.
Speaker 1: Maybe let's take a break. Yes, no, no, no, sorry, go ahead,
Speaker 1: let's take a break. We'll get some more phone calls
Speaker 1: coming up. Best and worst of the weekend. We'll write
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Speaker 1: Never too early to look ahead to the matchup in
Speaker 1: Buffalo with the Ravens and the Buffalo Bills. So you
Speaker 1: got josh Allen and Lamar Jackson. Here is the Bills
Speaker 1: head coach Sean McDermott.
Speaker 11: If you weren't coaching at a game next week, would
Speaker 11: you want to buy a ticket to watch Lamar and Joshua?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 12: I mean this is what this is what everyone's been
Speaker 12: waiting for, right, So it'll be it'll be a nice
Speaker 12: week and everyone'll be looking forward to it. And you
Speaker 12: know they're a great football team, right, I mean, they
Speaker 12: handled us pretty good the first go around, and you
Speaker 12: know they're they're certainly playing well, well coached. John's won
Speaker 12: a Super Bowl and it comes from great pedigree.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna be a big challenge for us. This
Speaker 1: would be probably comparable to you know, back in the
Speaker 1: day when Duke of North Carolina were really really good,
Speaker 1: you know, top five teams, like if they met in
Speaker 1: the Elite eight as opposed to the final four of
Speaker 1: the title game. That's what this feels like. You got
Speaker 1: the two best quarterbacks, the MVP candidates, and they're going
Speaker 1: to be meeting in the divisional round. The Washington Commanders
Speaker 1: their first win since January of two thousand and six,
Speaker 1: so the team was a different nickname. Then they also
Speaker 1: beat Tampa Bay. Some of the things from two thousand
Speaker 1: and six. Joe Gibbs was Washington's head coach, Last time
Speaker 1: they won a playoff game. John Gruden was Tampa Bay's
Speaker 1: head coach. The quarterbacks for Washington, the last time they
Speaker 1: want a playoff game, Todd, I'll start with you. Will
Speaker 1: go around the room, but I'll start with you.
Speaker 7: Ton quarterback for Washington, Jay, Sure.
Speaker 1: No, but that would have been twenty years earlier. But
Speaker 1: thanks for playing. It's a bad idea. Mark Brunel and
Speaker 1: Chris Simms were the starting quarterbacks. Although you can't have
Speaker 1: two starting quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: Yes, Paul, My guess was going to be Rando Jason
Speaker 4: Campbell out of Auburn.
Speaker 8: I just remember him being there at that time.
Speaker 1: How about the running backs on that team two thousand
Speaker 1: and six, The last time they want to playoff game?
Speaker 1: Marvin Steven Davis. No, No, if you said Cadillac William
Speaker 1: who he was the starting running back for Tampa. Clinton
Speaker 1: portis Clinton portis for Washington. Let me see if there's
Speaker 1: anything else. I saw something on answer Nation about this,
Speaker 1: just to give you an idea of how long it's been.
Speaker 1: The iPhone wasn't out I think, is that right? The
Speaker 1: last time Washington won a playoff game, Facebook been invented. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think the iPhone was invented back then.
Speaker 1: Let me see the top three movies when Washington last
Speaker 1: won a playoff game, Hostile, The Chronicles of Narnia, and
Speaker 1: King Kong. I didn't see any of those top three
Speaker 1: songs last time Washington won the won a playoff game,
Speaker 1: Don't Forget About Us by Mariah Carey, Run It by
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, and Grills by Nelly featuring Paul Wall. Yeah feet, yes,
Speaker 1: you do? You still have your girl from mister Paul Paul?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's over yeah in front on the desk there? Yeah,
Speaker 1: all a bit.
Speaker 4: Who was the NFL MVP in two thousand and five,
Speaker 4: the last time the Commanders won a playoff game?
Speaker 6: Hint, non quarterback Marvin that's easy Sean Alexander.
Speaker 1: Wow, did he have like twenty nine touchdowns? Yeah, twenty eight,
Speaker 1: twenty nine touchdowns. He had one of those three year windows,
Speaker 1: and then that window, like all of a sudden, it
Speaker 1: closed it sealed and the key to the front door
Speaker 1: didn't work either. It's like he's gone, yeah, Paul, yeah,
Speaker 1: you nailed it.
Speaker 4: Fifteen hundred yards, seventeen hundred yards, nineteen hundred yards, and
Speaker 4: each of those seasons fourteen touchdowns, sixteen touchdowns, twenty seven.
Speaker 8: Never had a thousand yard season after that day day.
Speaker 1: Here's Dan Quinn, the Commander's head coach, on his star quarterback.
Speaker 3: Jayden certainly is big factor in that.
Speaker 13: I think if he had his heart rate monitor on
Speaker 13: in mind, they would not be the same in the game.
Speaker 13: And his stays pretty consistently good. Sometimes I'm like the duck.
Speaker 13: If you just saw the feet going under the water,
Speaker 13: it's good. But he really is into that space exceptional.
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield had a great year, but that fumble with
Speaker 1: eleven minutes to go was costly. Here he spoke about
Speaker 1: that after the game. Some dumb stuff today that across
Speaker 1: the team. So it's yeah, it's gonna wear on me
Speaker 1: for a while. The first one all year.
Speaker 2: That happened on so obviously timing of if not great,
Speaker 2: getting backed up, defense had just done a hell of
Speaker 2: a job getting us the ball. Another fourth down stop
Speaker 2: and stay unfortunate for the foot that falls on me.
Speaker 1: It does. He made a mistake. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he was supposed to hand off. He was late with
Speaker 1: the handoff, but Commanders took advantage of that. If your
Speaker 1: Marcus Freeman, you got the National title game coming up
Speaker 1: in a week, and there's a report that the couple
Speaker 1: of teams are interested in inner viewing him. But you
Speaker 1: can't do that interview this week. You don't. You just
Speaker 1: can't be you know, the perception would be terrible that
Speaker 1: you're coaching for a national championship and the Bears are
Speaker 1: going to want to fly you in or zoom call
Speaker 1: you. You can't do it. But if you're Marcus Freeman and
Speaker 1: you're thirty nine years of age, have you coached enough
Speaker 1: where you feel confident enough that you're ready to go
Speaker 1: to the NFL? And I think we're going to have
Speaker 1: Marcus on this week, at least we were hoping to
Speaker 1: have him on. I don't know if this kind of
Speaker 1: news will be like he'll come on, but he doesn't
Speaker 1: want to talk about the NFL. But if I'm Marcus Freeman,
Speaker 1: and you know, let's take care of business here. If
Speaker 1: you continue to take care of business. I don't think
Speaker 1: this is one of those like who was it? Iowa stayed?
Speaker 1: Is that Matt Campbell? And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh my god, he's the next head coach.
Speaker 1: He's going to be Ohio States head coach, or he's
Speaker 1: going to coach in the NFL. I go back to
Speaker 1: Kirk ference. Kirk ference at Iowa, it felt like, man,
Speaker 1: he could get a job, they could get a job
Speaker 1: in the NFL. He didn't want a job in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's still at Iowa. I don't know
Speaker 1: what Marcus Freeman his goals are. Maybe it is to
Speaker 1: coach in the NFL. But what he's done at Notre Dame,
Speaker 1: he's made him likable and they have a whole different
Speaker 1: feel to them. They're not a finesse team, and Notre
Speaker 1: Dame would normally be that way. Now you've got Ohio State,
Speaker 1: maybe you win a national championship, but I don't know
Speaker 1: if you win a national championship, would then he's would
Speaker 1: he be willing if he wants to coach in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And I don't know who his agent is. Agent might say,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm going to tell these teams. When
Speaker 1: you win the national championship, then you'll talk to them. Now,
Speaker 1: they just gave him a contract extension, and I know
Speaker 1: that happens, they break up contracts all the time. Whatever,
Speaker 1: But I don't know. Maybe and this is the old school.
Speaker 1: WIN mean, you're coaching Notre Dame. There's something to be
Speaker 1: said about that. And it feels like now with the
Speaker 1: twelve teen playoff, they're eventually going to go to fourteen.
Speaker 1: I'm being told they'll eventually go to sixteen teams. Now,
Speaker 1: not going to happen soon, but it's going to happen
Speaker 1: where they're going to extend the playoffs. So Notre Dame
Speaker 1: is basically you know, ushered in. Hey just be be
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. Be good and if you win ten eleven
Speaker 1: twelve game like they want Notre Dame in. So you're
Speaker 1: going to be in the playoffs constantly. You're going to
Speaker 1: be making money for your school. You don't have to
Speaker 1: share that money. You have to join a conference. Is
Speaker 1: that enough? And how long would you stay in a
Speaker 1: job like that? I hope he stays. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think it's a wonderful story, So I hope he gets
Speaker 1: that opportunity to decide how long he wants to stay.
Speaker 1: And if he does go, then you're going to go
Speaker 1: to the NFL. But you might have that decision to
Speaker 1: make win or lose. Coming up? What is it next
Speaker 1: Monday night for the National Title Game. Stat of the
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Speaker 1: Thanks for holding this morning. Best and worst of the weekend.
Speaker 14: Hey, the very worst is this Pittsburgh Steelers. Yea, I
Speaker 14: hear people talk about them not lead r win a
Speaker 14: playoff game. Well, they haven't led a football game or
Speaker 14: won a football game since December seventh or December eighth,
Speaker 14: when they were ten to three and then the driver's seat.
Speaker 14: And this has been a slow watching like a slow
Speaker 14: spiral plane wreck. And what's happened is the quarterback play
Speaker 14: has been very less than good. If you look at
Speaker 14: everything in big picture, this is a burnout third round quarterback.
Speaker 14: And the Steelers are used to this. Without Ben Roethlisberger
Speaker 14: and Terry Bradshaw, Steelers have always been a team that's
Speaker 14: kicked field goals and played defense.
Speaker 15: I saw him go to the Super.
Speaker 14: Bowl with a third round draft pick Neil O'Donnell, and
Speaker 14: then before that, I rooted for third round draft pick
Speaker 14: Bubby Brister and I missed those days. But I'll tell
Speaker 14: you what, this has been crazy. This has been the
Speaker 14: worst because they're in the driver's seat and it's painful, Dan,
Speaker 14: It's real painful for Steelers fans to watch. And then
Speaker 14: you know, you got a good team. You got Joe
Speaker 14: Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals sitting on the couch and
Speaker 14: those guys could have easily been in there. You know,
Speaker 14: there's a couple of things worked out for him, and
Speaker 14: it's sad. It's sad for Steelers fans, sad for Bengals fans.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Sean. Yeah, if you're Cincinnati and you have
Speaker 1: all of that firepower and you got Burrow and you
Speaker 1: got Jamar Chase, you had the NFL sack leader, Like
Speaker 1: that's like that hurts where you're like, God, couldn't we
Speaker 1: get into the postseason? Well, you can't open up and
Speaker 1: lose to New England. We said that was going to
Speaker 1: come back and haunt them.
Speaker 3: Ail.
Speaker 1: If you're going to treat the first couple of games
Speaker 1: like it's the preseason, man, those things can come back
Speaker 1: and bite you in a competitive division.
Speaker 7: Yes, Ton, and you see the other AFC teams lose
Speaker 7: by fourteen, twenty and twenty four points, they got.
Speaker 3: To be thinking we could have done a little better
Speaker 3: than that. As far as the three teams that bowed
Speaker 3: out early in the wildcard round.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if the Steelers were that good.
Speaker 1: When they were ten and three, we still were like, God,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Russ. Do they have their do they
Speaker 1: have their quarterback? I don't like their wide receivers. It
Speaker 1: was a defensive first team, but that's what Pittsburgh's been.
Speaker 1: And Sean brings up a great point. Look at all
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks the Steelers have had, you know, it's like
Speaker 1: their coaches. Hey, we only need three coaches for sixty years.
Speaker 1: Well you got Terry Bradshaw and you've got Ben Roethlisberger.
Speaker 1: You're waiting for the third quarterback there and they don't
Speaker 1: have that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Marvin, you forgot about the great Tommy Maddock.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well initially was in Denver. Dan Reeves drafted
Speaker 1: Tommy Maddocks first round. That fractured the John Elway relationship. Yes,
Speaker 1: oh I missed that. Maybe it's my age. Tommy Maddox
Speaker 1: was the first round draft pick. I thought he's from
Speaker 1: the XFL. Well, he had to be in college to
Speaker 1: go to the XFL, and I got to look up
Speaker 1: with Tommy Tommy maddocks. Yeah, I think end of the
Speaker 1: first round. Does that sound right, Todd? That does UCLA.
Speaker 3: And it definitely I did not make John Oliver happy.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, Paul, Yeah, first round picked twenty fifth overall,
Speaker 4: ninety two draft and the reaction was shocking because it's
Speaker 4: prime Lway.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know if it was like Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: them taking Jordan Love, but that it might have been
Speaker 1: the precursor to that weight What are you doing? And
Speaker 1: Elway and Reeves, I don't think they were ever on
Speaker 1: good terms or on the same page after them. Jason
Speaker 1: in Texas, Hi, Jason, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 15: He has a go on speak this morning?
Speaker 1: Good good, Hey.
Speaker 11: So I got a best slash slash stat of the
Speaker 11: weekend and then a worst and then I need some advice.
Speaker 11: So the best slashed out of the weekend? How about
Speaker 11: Jim NANTZ five hundred broadcasts? I mean you can.
Speaker 1: Attest to that.
Speaker 11: That's probably pretty pretty big deal.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 1: I think what Jim has done to be consistently great.
Speaker 1: You know, and I've mentioned this before, there are so
Speaker 1: many of these broadcasters who have been able to do
Speaker 1: this for decades and keep that high level, keep the
Speaker 1: like the enthusiasm. That's what I love about Jim. You
Speaker 1: still have to love sports. And I was talking to
Speaker 1: somebody who's in the business who does what I do,
Speaker 1: and he says, do you still love sports? And I go, yeah,
Speaker 1: don't you And he goes, no, I'm good at this.
Speaker 1: I just don't love sports the way I once did.
Speaker 1: And that's what leaves you. So Jim still has that enthusiasm.
Speaker 1: So go ahead, Jason. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then man, worse than the day.
Speaker 11: Hate to hear about jj reddick man losing his house
Speaker 11: that that stinks may even though he's a duchy hate
Speaker 11: to hear that. But and then, man, I need some advice.
Speaker 11: So I'm going to be doing my first color high
Speaker 11: school basketball game, will be the color guy. So give
Speaker 11: me some advice as I try and navigate being doing
Speaker 11: my first.
Speaker 1: Color Well, do your homework, have nuggets, have little things
Speaker 1: that you can drop in there. If it's a blowout,
Speaker 1: you've got to be ready for that. If it's a
Speaker 1: really close game, make sure that you have that chemistry
Speaker 1: with your play by play guy. Let him know. Maybe
Speaker 1: hold your finger up if you're going to say something
Speaker 1: to him, because if you're just doing it and you
Speaker 1: may not know each other that well, you know, just
Speaker 1: so you don't step on each other. And if he's
Speaker 1: a really good play by play guy, he will make
Speaker 1: room for you to add something and then get out.
Speaker 1: Brevity is really good. Get to the point. Talk to
Speaker 1: the coaches. Maybe if you get to talk to one
Speaker 1: of the star players, maybe they tell you something and
Speaker 1: then you can use that in the broadcast. Always be
Speaker 1: prepared to have way more information than you'll ever use.
Speaker 1: And I think that you know, that's a great start.
Speaker 11: Love it, man, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much, all right, Jace, Good luck James in
Speaker 1: ver Rginia, NA. How about a round of it was
Speaker 1: that the commanders?
Speaker 5: Oh, thank you for taking my call, gentlemen. Happy Monday,
Speaker 5: DP down it salute the commanders. Man, holy moly, what
Speaker 5: a crazy season. If they've been in Washington, I'm so
Speaker 5: glad to hear you guys talk about optimist Prime Terry
Speaker 5: mccaorn hands down the most underrated receiver in the NFL,
Speaker 5: best contestant catcher in the NFL, and his man and
Speaker 5: five is a live man. I was just killing Tyler
Speaker 5: Man at any given time. This guy is the fastest
Speaker 5: down on the field. But what makes was so dangerous
Speaker 5: it's his ability to deliver from the pocket. And man,
Speaker 5: he stands in there and throws dins and darts.
Speaker 16: All day long. And I think what's so amazing about
Speaker 16: watching Washington this year is they are a team that
Speaker 16: believes in each other. They're not perfect, they're still learning
Speaker 16: a rookie quarterback, first year head coach. But man, washing
Speaker 16: these guys play is inspiring football man to not believe
Speaker 16: that Washington has the ability to go to an NF
Speaker 16: championship game for the first time since nineteen ninety one.
Speaker 16: But they got a jugger out in their lay in Detroit.
Speaker 16: Their best defense will be their offers, just like last night,
Speaker 16: thirty five minutes of possessing sixty nine plays. Get so
Speaker 16: excited for Washington fans all across the nation. Man, I
Speaker 16: really appreciate you guys. To Luther Commanders and I'm pound
Speaker 16: down DP. I'm hoping for that Super Bowl, so I
Speaker 16: come see you guys you have a great game. Man,
Speaker 16: Salute the commanders.
Speaker 1: How about the rhynd clause for DA Virginia. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: say salute the commanders. Man. That guy's having the best
Speaker 1: day of his life. Didn't his white Didn't they have
Speaker 1: a baby?
Speaker 3: They did?
Speaker 1: Didn't? Yeah? I should have asked him. Is this better
Speaker 1: than when you had your first job?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 4: Lots of people have kids? Commanders victories? Those are generational?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 13: Uh?
Speaker 1: Todd in Kentucky, Hi, Todd, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 15: Great? Hey, the first time caller six three to sixty
Speaker 15: down for pre forty. Okay, I think I got a
Speaker 15: fix for your college playoff football system. You're right to
Speaker 15: get the top sixteen teams in you right, your top seven,
Speaker 15: and it's starting with the first team. They get to
Speaker 15: pick who they play.
Speaker 1: I like that. Now they're not going to go to sixteen.
Speaker 1: That's not going to happen yet, Todd, my source. You
Speaker 1: know what, Let me take a break. I'll come back.
Speaker 1: I'll give you a little information on what I found out.
Speaker 1: But I do like that you get to pick your opponent.
Speaker 1: That'd be fun. I like that. That's good. All right,
Speaker 1: let me take a break. Last call for phone calls
Speaker 1: what we learn, what's in store tomorrow, and then we'll
Speaker 1: write tomorrow's headline today with the Rams and the Vikings.
Speaker 1: After this, Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast.
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Speaker 1: slash The Dan Patrick Show. Vikings, the Rams in Arizona Tonight,
Speaker 1: the Vikings favored by two and a half. We will
Speaker 1: write the headline tomorrow's headline today. We'll have that for
Speaker 1: you coming up. I got some information from one of
Speaker 1: my college football sources that beginning with the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: six college football playoffs, they're probably not going to make
Speaker 1: any decisions until twenty twenty six, and they'll probably go
Speaker 1: to a fourteen team A fourteen team playoff that means
Speaker 1: two teams would get a first round by but the
Speaker 1: best two teams would not be getting home games. Here.
Speaker 1: It's kind of complicated, but keep this in mind. What
Speaker 1: I'm told is they'll probably go to fourteen teams, but
Speaker 1: eventually they'll go to sixteen and it might not be
Speaker 1: until twenty thirty two. That's the next media agreement. They
Speaker 1: want to have something that'll be there so they can
Speaker 1: negotiate this, and they'll go probably from twelve to fourteen
Speaker 1: after twenty twenty six, and then they'll go to sixteen
Speaker 1: that probably won't be enacted until twenty thirty two, So
Speaker 1: they're discussing this. I do like that that certain number
Speaker 1: of teams you get to pick who you want to
Speaker 1: play first round matchup. That's kind of spicy there. All right,
Speaker 1: let's write they have this day in sports history, final
Speaker 1: results of the Pole question. Todd, I'm gonna start with
Speaker 1: you right the headline tomorrow's headline today for tonight's game.
Speaker 7: I have if the Rams win Oh Darnald fourteen and
Speaker 7: three and bounced in wild card, and then if the
Speaker 7: Vikings went, I had Oi McVeigh I win, Sean would
Speaker 7: have been nice.
Speaker 1: Okay, I think we've gone to that well before Seaton.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow's headline today for tonight's.
Speaker 2: Game, LA's honking horns. No, they're not stuck in traffic.
Speaker 2: Those are the Vikings helmets that they just honked horn.
Speaker 2: The horns on the helmet, the horns on the Vikings helmets.
Speaker 2: They honked those horns.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you have to explain it.
Speaker 3: Marvin, Sam I am clutch Vikings win.
Speaker 4: Late, Okay, Paul, since Todd did too, I'll try to.
Speaker 4: If the Rams lose Garropo, no Rams backup, loses to
Speaker 4: Vikings Garpo now, and then if the Vikings defense doesn't
Speaker 4: play well. Andrew van Stinkle, weikes d no shows versus
Speaker 4: Rams Van Stinkle nothing personal.
Speaker 1: Okay, there, we've done it. It's that easy. Tomorrow's headlines
Speaker 1: today for tonight's game Wit in Texas. What's on your mind?
Speaker 2: Hey?
Speaker 13: Dan?
Speaker 17: Best of the weekend road tripping with my dad to
Speaker 17: watch the Horns play Ohio State in the semifinal in
Speaker 17: Arlington at Jayworld. Used to go to games all the
Speaker 17: time growing up, and we hadn't been able to do
Speaker 17: it in a while because life gets in the way.
Speaker 1: So thankful we were able to do that. Or's for
Speaker 1: the weekend.
Speaker 17: Game time drive in our end zone where we're sitting
Speaker 17: and watching them blow it. That hurt Dan, second and goal.
Speaker 17: You run a stretch play to the sideline and it
Speaker 17: gets blown up. I think Sarkisian has a business decision
Speaker 17: to make going forward. Fifty percent of it is figured out.
Speaker 17: I think arch Manning. No one's going to be sad
Speaker 17: to see quintin yours leave marsh Manning steps in. But
Speaker 17: if you're Steve Sarkisian, you got to decide if you
Speaker 17: want to be a CEO, if you want to call plays.
Speaker 1: You can't do both, all right, thank you, Wit. It's
Speaker 1: to the point there. Yeah, I'm watching the game and
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, all right, I don't think they can just
Speaker 1: run up the middle, but you know, you get those
Speaker 1: kind of as Wit pointed out, stretch plays. Those can
Speaker 1: be really good. But if they blow it up, then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you've lost seven yards and then
Speaker 1: you've lost that opportunity to be able to just power
Speaker 1: this in or try to power this in. It just
Speaker 1: felt like, just go go four times, run the ball
Speaker 1: four times at the one, and then you can decide
Speaker 1: if you want to go for two or bring in
Speaker 1: arch Manning. Now, although he had one run, he got
Speaker 1: banged up a little bit. I don't know if that
Speaker 1: affected him the rest of the game, and that's why
Speaker 1: they didn't put him in. But at that point, I
Speaker 1: just want you to think, if your a defense, I
Speaker 1: want you to think he might run the ball with
Speaker 1: Quinn yours. You wouldn't be worried about that threat. Andy
Speaker 1: and Rhode Island, Hi, Andy, welcome back.
Speaker 18: Hey, good morning, Dan, Dennis.
Speaker 15: What's going on?
Speaker 18: Marvin Chritzy? I have two best of the weekend? Actually, Dan,
Speaker 18: I don't even have anything that's really going bed. I
Speaker 18: would say that my first is actually going to be
Speaker 18: the Washington Commanders twenty years ever since winning at first
Speaker 18: in the playoffs. Shout out to James in from Virginia.
Speaker 18: I know he's excited. I can hear it in his voice,
Speaker 18: and it's not like he was about to jump through
Speaker 18: the radio. And my second it's actually going to be
Speaker 18: actually just received an email over the weekend to narrow
Speaker 18: down selection to be part of the Survivor series that's
Speaker 18: actually on CBS, and I'm so excited because it's one
Speaker 18: of my lifelong dreams I've actually wanted to accomplish and
Speaker 18: being able to try to possibly go to Fiji to
Speaker 18: twenty fix days and cossibly come back a millionaire.
Speaker 16: I'll sign up.
Speaker 1: For every day, Dan, Andy. Can we send you some
Speaker 1: DP show gear? Maybe you could wear a T shirt
Speaker 1: or too. Normally they don't wear much clothing, but maybe
Speaker 1: you could slip in a you know, I'm trying my
Speaker 1: best or high motor or something like that.
Speaker 16: Absolutely pretty polo is the way to go.
Speaker 1: Dan, all right, we'll put you on hold Tyler, get
Speaker 1: your information and your sizes. Then we'll see if we
Speaker 1: can get some product placement there for survivor. This day
Speaker 1: in sports history, Paulie.
Speaker 8: Got a couple.
Speaker 4: Nineteen sixty eight, Bill Masterson of the North Stars was
Speaker 4: injured and he's checked on the boards. He died two
Speaker 4: days later. He was the first casualty in NHL history.
Speaker 4: Never heard that story. The NSA in nineteen eighty six
Speaker 4: got Prop forty eight going very controversial. Let's see Michael
Speaker 4: Jordan nineteen ninety nine of the Bulls announced his retirement
Speaker 4: from the NBA, his first and lastly. Two thousand and five,
Speaker 4: Major League Baseball started steroid testing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, six yearsly on this date. In twenty twenty, AJ
Speaker 1: Hinch and GM Jeff Lounow fired by the Astros for
Speaker 1: their roles in the team's sin stealing scandal. Wonderful we'll
Speaker 1: ever really get to the bottom of that. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: one day. Let's go around the room. What we learned
Speaker 1: on the program Todd, would you learn on this Monday.
Speaker 7: Pittsburgh Dave, who actually lives in Arkansas these days, is
Speaker 7: thinking about destroying his Steelers' theme clothing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was ready to ignite it, set it a blaze. Seaton,
Speaker 1: What did you learn today? Tony Dungee not happy with
Speaker 1: what happened with Jerrodmeo, Marvin.
Speaker 3: Tommy Max was the first round draft pick?
Speaker 8: Pauli RCI about to blow up.
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