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Speaker 1: Welcome to the program. Final Hour, Dan and m Dannen's
Speaker 1: Dan Patrick Show. We had a spirited discussion talking about
Speaker 1: the greatness of Luca don Chick and Zion Williamson and
Speaker 1: if you could have either one right now, who would
Speaker 1: you take to me? No brainer. As much as Zion
Speaker 1: is a TV star, Luca is a better basketball player
Speaker 1: and feel like he's Yeah, keep this in mind. Fewest
Speaker 1: games to one three thousand points, one thousand rebounds, seven
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty assists in an NBA career. This is
Speaker 1: all time. Oscar Robertson needed ninety nine games to get there.
Speaker 1: Luca is second at one twenty four. Third is Grant Hill,
Speaker 1: and Grant Hill was going to be one of the
Speaker 1: greats who ever played the game. If he had stayed
Speaker 1: healthy and all of his surgeries, he was on a
Speaker 1: fast track for being one of the great players of
Speaker 1: all time. Larry Bird is fourth on the list, and
Speaker 1: then Lebron James. These are pretty impressive numbers for somebody
Speaker 1: who's that young to be able to do what they're doing.
Speaker 1: And Zion I think Zion's been better than I thought
Speaker 1: he was going to be. I thought he was going
Speaker 1: to be kind of a Julius Randall as far as
Speaker 1: a twenty ten guy his first year. Now he's got
Speaker 1: twenty three and a half and seven rebounds. But you
Speaker 1: know he's on a numbers crunch there. He's got thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: I think he's playing average of thirty minutes, maybe a
Speaker 1: little less than that. But you know, he said that
Speaker 1: he's kind of gone back to the basics here during
Speaker 1: the pandemic, and he looks like he's in even better
Speaker 1: shape there. That's a big concern I have. At that size,
Speaker 1: he's going to get bigger and as you know, can
Speaker 1: you carry that weight to be able to do what
Speaker 1: he does on a night in and night out basis?
Speaker 1: Can he get into a better weight or more muscle there?
Speaker 1: But you know he's limited with his shot. You know,
Speaker 1: he has a hard he doesn't get off a shot,
Speaker 1: you know, coming off a dribble, uh to set shot.
Speaker 1: But he gets into the paint, he's gonna score or
Speaker 1: you're gonna get foul. I think he's an underrated passer
Speaker 1: and uh offensive rebounder. But you know, lukea is just
Speaker 1: a better player. Yeah, can either guy play defense? Well, okay,
Speaker 1: do we do this? How many times do we do this?
Speaker 1: Where some guys really good, like Steve Nash. Oh, who's
Speaker 1: he gonna guard? Um? Who's guarding him? Yeah? But Lebron
Speaker 1: is a monster on defense, Kobe was amazing defense, Jordan
Speaker 1: was amazing. Okay, but no championship guys. When the last
Speaker 1: time somebody said, uh, hey, stuff can't guard anybody the
Speaker 1: opposing coach and said, let's go at him four hundred
Speaker 1: times a game? So and then how many titles does
Speaker 1: he have? Yeah, I know it's it, but but he's
Speaker 1: guarding him. But didn't play defense. He played the passing lanes.
Speaker 1: I mean you can. I'll give you Patrick Beverly, I'll
Speaker 1: take Steph Curry. What if I gave you like Kawhi
Speaker 1: versus don Check like a guy like I would take Kawhi.
Speaker 1: You like defense. That's why I'm saying that you always
Speaker 1: stick to these guys like, well, no, but how many
Speaker 1: players are like Kawai, like Lebron Kawhi. Kawai wants to
Speaker 1: play defense. He started as a defender. Remember, we didn't
Speaker 1: know about his offense that that appeared limited, but he
Speaker 1: was very good defensive player. Well how about the Jordan
Speaker 1: defensive hype? Was he that good defense? Yes, but he
Speaker 1: wanted the challenge. But I always thought Scotty was a
Speaker 1: better defender because I thought Scotty could defend everybody, and
Speaker 1: Michael wanted to play the passing lanes. Scotty was a
Speaker 1: great on ball defender. I mean, you go back to
Speaker 1: what he did to Mark Jackson, our friend Mark Jackson
Speaker 1: and the NBA Finals or conference finals. He picked him
Speaker 1: up full court and it wasn't a good series for
Speaker 1: Mark Jackson. It's Scotty could guard anybody on the floor.
Speaker 1: But you know, we get caught up in who can
Speaker 1: he guard? Yeah, Luca can't guard anybody who's guarding him.
Speaker 1: Can Zion play defense? He sure doesn't. There's all these
Speaker 1: clips of him watching this guy to do. Yes, there's
Speaker 1: a There was like a handful of players that you
Speaker 1: would can like Klay Thompson plays defense. Now Clay Thompson
Speaker 1: will play both ends. But it's rare when you find
Speaker 1: something because you have to want to play defense. A
Speaker 1: lot of these guys you can't go. Boy, he's got
Speaker 1: all this talent on the offensive end, and he has
Speaker 1: no talent on the defensive end. I'm gonna guess you
Speaker 1: can move your feet, you're quick, you can jump. You
Speaker 1: should be able to do that at the other end
Speaker 1: as well. Yes, PAULI, I wonder how many league MVPs
Speaker 1: or finals MVPs have also been Defensive Player of the Year,
Speaker 1: because I know, I know Jordan has. Oh maybe Elijah
Speaker 1: On I wouldn't be surprised if he was. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he was League MVP. Probably was once and
Speaker 1: he was definitely defensive end. Kawhi Leonard two time Defensive
Speaker 1: Player of the Year in the NBA fourteen and fifteen
Speaker 1: fifteen sixteen. Yes, there's a lot of people saying Yannis
Speaker 1: might win it this year. Yeah, and I could see that,
Speaker 1: you know he was. He's great two way player. Uh,
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis has been a great two way player. He's
Speaker 1: I just read he's the competition. It's what two man
Speaker 1: race of those guys. You know that guy. Those guys
Speaker 1: are great at defense and could score like that. A
Speaker 1: team did it twice, Jordan did it once. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't it feels like the game the way the game
Speaker 1: is played now. I don't know how important defense is.
Speaker 1: It's everything is predicated by spacing. And you know how
Speaker 1: many shots are you getting up? Uh? You know shooting threes? Now,
Speaker 1: James Harden doesn't play defense. I like when they say,
Speaker 1: well he's gotten better, Well he hadn't get better, right,
Speaker 1: he couldn't have gotten any worse. He's still you got
Speaker 1: a guard James Harden. So when you say well he's
Speaker 1: not guarding anybody, you still have to guard him. And
Speaker 1: not many people can guard him as well. All righty uh,
Speaker 1: we'll talk to ed Orgeron or as PAULI said, is
Speaker 1: it ed Oseron or Orgeron? I've heard it both ways?
Speaker 1: Was it when he was at USC it was pronounced
Speaker 1: one way? And then he got to LSU and maybe
Speaker 1: down in Baton Rouge they pronounced it differently. I think
Speaker 1: they dropped the first R when he got down to
Speaker 1: Baton Rouge. So it's just some w You can call
Speaker 1: me whatever you want, just don't call me lead for
Speaker 1: dinner there, Danny? Is that a better personation? Um? I
Speaker 1: think it's not anything like her here. Well, why don't
Speaker 1: you do that for coach? Yeah? Just say hey, coach
Speaker 1: m Fritzie has an impression of you hey, coach, and
Speaker 1: have a fifty hundred thousand in the stands. Is that
Speaker 1: your Springsteen in person perspective? Thank you, Todd de Valley,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Tod all right, thank you Tod. All right.
Speaker 1: So are we gonna go with a poll question? We
Speaker 1: gotta put up Zion versus Luca, which is, by the way,
Speaker 1: not that different than our first two hours, which was Kittle, McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas and McCaffrey right away with do you think
Speaker 1: Luca runs away with? Luca is a Christian McCaffrey of
Speaker 1: the NBA. Oh okay, enormous record setting numbers are both
Speaker 1: like ridiculously young. Yeah, but Luca plays on a playoff
Speaker 1: team and McCaffrey is not going to be on a
Speaker 1: playoff team anytime soon. Yeah, Paul, whose agent would you
Speaker 1: rather be? Patrick Mahomes or Zion Williamson. One's Global are
Speaker 1: about to be Global. One is the face of the NFL.
Speaker 1: I'd have to look at what numbers are going to
Speaker 1: be like in the NBA because the hit that they
Speaker 1: took from the billions they lost from China. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that affects the salary cap here, but how
Speaker 1: many years before Zion gets into that next contract and
Speaker 1: what is he going to get paid? Does his year
Speaker 1: at Duke as an ac crude season? I don't, Wow,
Speaker 1: I'm just reading the headlines. Wow, that story kind of
Speaker 1: went away, right, It just sort of floated off. You'll
Speaker 1: see a headline every few days about the case. I know,
Speaker 1: but every time, you know, you read these articles and
Speaker 1: you know, breathlessly saying, oh, Kansas and Bill's self are
Speaker 1: in trouble, and then you read it and then you
Speaker 1: go okay, and then you wait and you go, uh, anybody,
Speaker 1: no nothing here, because the nc DOUBLEA is waiting for
Speaker 1: Yahoo or ESPN or somebody to do a deep dive
Speaker 1: on these stories. And they should be paying Yahoo's sports
Speaker 1: like Dan Wetzel should get a stipend from the NCAA
Speaker 1: to do some of their dirty work there because they're
Speaker 1: not doing it. Uh. Let me see get some phone
Speaker 1: calls in here. Do you see where Jimmy Butler got
Speaker 1: in trouble at the inside the Bubble? Yeah? He Uh.
Speaker 1: Hotel security went to Jimmy Butler's room after complaints of
Speaker 1: loud basketball dribbling. Yeah. See, so is that other basketball
Speaker 1: players complaining about Jimmy dribbling the ball too loud. I
Speaker 1: don't think there's a family downstairs at the hotel. Yes time,
Speaker 1: supposing they didn't know what it was. At first, they
Speaker 1: heard some loud thumping sound and someone called complaining about
Speaker 1: I don't enough it was necessary a player or just
Speaker 1: some family trying to enjoy relaxing to stay at Disney,
Speaker 1: and they hit his loud thumping and it turns out
Speaker 1: he's just dribbling a basketball. He's in his full practice uniform,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to just kind of do his own
Speaker 1: thing and get ready for get ready for the season.
Speaker 1: Didn't he arrive for his first practice with the Miami
Speaker 1: heated three thirty in the morning, right sit outside. I
Speaker 1: think he showed up like six hours or something before
Speaker 1: the practice. It was a eduled shoot around or something.
Speaker 1: But you know, dribbling the basketball, Hey, knock it off.
Speaker 1: I don't think you're gonna have a family underneath him
Speaker 1: that in the in the hotel. I'm just guessing, but
Speaker 1: I don't think that they're gonna be underneath you. Yeah, mclove.
Speaker 1: I always I like the joke. We made it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what if they didn't they had families in there, and
Speaker 1: you didn't know about the NBA bubble and you're walking
Speaker 1: around a lot of it. Why so tall in this hotel?
Speaker 1: What is going on there? Heard that? Are they? Are
Speaker 1: they having a tall convention? Like you're with Chris Stops
Speaker 1: and JaVale McGee. I'd be like, this is the weirdest.
Speaker 1: I think you got to be over six to eight
Speaker 1: to be in this hotel. It still goes back to
Speaker 1: I think one of the greatest stories that I ever heard,
Speaker 1: and it's right out of a Seinfeld or Curb Your
Speaker 1: Enthusiasm episode, because you cannot even when I tell you
Speaker 1: the story, you're gonna go there is no way that
Speaker 1: is possible. And it did happen because a friend of mine,
Speaker 1: he worked in the mail room at ESPN when he
Speaker 1: first started, and his job was to go pick up people.
Speaker 1: He would be a driver for some people, executives who
Speaker 1: were coming in, somebody had landed at the airport. He'd
Speaker 1: go pick up Dick Vitau, and he was given the
Speaker 1: assignment of picking up a man who largely transforms Sports
Speaker 1: Center into what it is today, and John Walsh. So
Speaker 1: my friend is told to go pick up John Walsh
Speaker 1: at the Radison Hotel, which is right across the street
Speaker 1: from the mother Ship, and they go up. Okay, I
Speaker 1: don't know what he looks like. You can't miss him.
Speaker 1: He's an albino. So my friend goes over to the
Speaker 1: Radison Hotel and walks in. It's an albino convention and
Speaker 1: he so he calls back and he says, they're all
Speaker 1: albio knows here, like he thought he was being punked.
Speaker 1: So he walks in it. You can't miss John. He's
Speaker 1: an albino. He'll be waiting for you. He walks in,
Speaker 1: and he said, everybody in there, fifty albinos there in
Speaker 1: the lobby. It was like an albino convention. And meanwhile
Speaker 1: John Walsh, who was just starting his tenure at ESPN. God,
Speaker 1: I love that story though. Can't miss him. Mike, go
Speaker 1: in there. He's in the lobby. They're all albinos here,
Speaker 1: And Walsh loves John. Walsh loves telling the story too.
Speaker 1: Like when it came to albino humor, Walsh always had
Speaker 1: some funny lines about that. Let me see a couple
Speaker 1: of phone calls in here Walts and Cincinnati joins us, Hi, Walt,
Speaker 1: what do you have for me today? Hey? Dan? First
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Speaker 1: Hey Mark, happy fiftieth birthday. And you got a great
Speaker 1: dad who called into a wonderful radio show. So I
Speaker 1: hope you have a great day. And thank you Wald
Speaker 1: for calling in Andy and Tennessee on the program high
Speaker 1: ending What's on your mind today? Hey Man five eight
Speaker 1: one seventy Yeah, So I actually went to the Alstar
Speaker 1: Race last night. Had a great time. Can't complain about
Speaker 1: go and see some live sports and racing. We'll say
Speaker 1: that they do need to do some adjustments for crowds.
Speaker 1: Seating was fine, I felt spaced out. Let me mention
Speaker 1: here Andy, we're talking about Bristol Motor Speedway and they
Speaker 1: had around twenty thousand fans there for a place that
Speaker 1: holds over one hundred and twenty thousand. What were the
Speaker 1: rules when you went into the NASCAR race event? So
Speaker 1: the rules were when you go to basically going through
Speaker 1: the ticket booth, you have to have a mask on,
Speaker 1: and then you have to have a mask on. Why
Speaker 1: you walk through the concourses and then when you sit down,
Speaker 1: you can take off your mask. Now, I'll say, yeah,
Speaker 1: when you sit down in your seat, you feel pretty comfortable.
Speaker 1: It's pretty spaced out in that track. But when you're
Speaker 1: walking to the concourses, it was pretty crowded. I mean
Speaker 1: there was a lot of people not wearing masks and
Speaker 1: they didn't really have a lot of social disencing when
Speaker 1: they're waiting in line for concessions and diffythings like that.
Speaker 1: But I think once they go towards maybe NFL stadiums,
Speaker 1: I mean, they're gonna do maybe a lot less than
Speaker 1: twenty thousand because it's it can get crowded in those concourses. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and thank you Andy. We were wondering about that where
Speaker 1: and I thought this was going to be maybe an
Speaker 1: underplayed story because twenty thousand fans at a sporting event,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's outside NASCAR event at night, And
Speaker 1: I wondered, what happens once you get to your seat
Speaker 1: where you're allowed to take off your mask. If you're
Speaker 1: going to have a college football scenario, can you put
Speaker 1: in twenty five or thirty thousand fans in a stadium
Speaker 1: that seats one hundred thousand. Can Michigan put in thirty
Speaker 1: thousand fans safely. Can Tennessee volunteers put in thirty forty
Speaker 1: thousand in a place that holds over one hundred thousand.
Speaker 1: This is what I'm curious about. Can we do it?
Speaker 1: Do it safely, smartly, and then maybe we do get
Speaker 1: fans that go to sporting events. But I just didn't know.
Speaker 1: Once you got into the concourse, you went up to
Speaker 1: get a beer, get something to eat, and everybody's up
Speaker 1: there without mask on. There in lines the problem. But
Speaker 1: NASCAR with twenty thousand fans, which I thought was surprising.
Speaker 1: Robin Florida joins us Hi Rob what's on your mind today? Hey? Dan?
Speaker 1: How you doing six one a hafty two and a
Speaker 1: half bills? Hey? I wanted to kind of chime in
Speaker 1: on the NBA defense discussion. I got a couple of
Speaker 1: numbers and a quick story. First, to defend my guy Harden.
Speaker 1: He's constantly in the top ten in blocks and steals
Speaker 1: among guards every year, and he's one of the best
Speaker 1: post defenders in the NBA percentile wise. But a quick story.
Speaker 1: This isn't just hardened specific, but I played in a
Speaker 1: church league. I am not an athlete, as I said, six, one,
Speaker 1: two and a half and so. But we had a
Speaker 1: guy who played on our team is a good friend
Speaker 1: of mine. Even the G League played overseas, had some
Speaker 1: injuries that derailed an NBA potential career. But he scored
Speaker 1: all our points every game that we played. He would
Speaker 1: go for seventy points a game and the rest of
Speaker 1: us would have eight. But when it came to the
Speaker 1: defensive side, I was tasked regarding the best player, not
Speaker 1: because I was the best basketball player, but he was
Speaker 1: so tired. And I see in the NBA allotted day,
Speaker 1: a lot of guys are asked to carry the load offensively,
Speaker 1: these volume shooters like Luca, like Trey Young, like Harden.
Speaker 1: Not so much now anymore with Russ by his side,
Speaker 1: But they can't keep it up on both sides of
Speaker 1: the floor, which is what made Mike so great and
Speaker 1: Kobe and Lebron. But just the NBA nowadays, there's not
Speaker 1: so much emphasis on defense. No, And you bring up
Speaker 1: some great points, thank you, Rob that I've always marveled
Speaker 1: at Iverson at that size. Every single night he had
Speaker 1: to bring it. And if you've never had that pressure,
Speaker 1: it's enormous. You have to get shots up volume the offense.
Speaker 1: You know, it is predicated on you being able to
Speaker 1: get shots on and Harden doing that every night, Trey
Speaker 1: Young doing that every night. Alan Iverson, I thought Iverson
Speaker 1: could have been a great two way player. I thought
Speaker 1: at Georgetown he could have been a great two way player.
Speaker 1: He got into the NBA and you know, he was
Speaker 1: a great one dimensional player, but he would lead the
Speaker 1: league in steels. You know a lot of your guys
Speaker 1: who are scorers can play the passing lanes like they'll
Speaker 1: cheat a little bit. You know, Bird played the passing
Speaker 1: lanes all the time, Barkley because they're trying to get
Speaker 1: the ball back. Steph Curry plays the passing lanes. Iverson
Speaker 1: played the You know, they're not great lockdown defenders, but
Speaker 1: they're great off the ball defenders from the standpoint of
Speaker 1: they're playing the passing lanes. And it would always do.
Speaker 1: I remember when Steph Curry was at Davidson and the
Speaker 1: knock was, well, what position is he gonna play? Who's
Speaker 1: he gonna guard? And I always and maybe this is
Speaker 1: an offensive mentality that I have, and that is you
Speaker 1: still have to guard that guy. And Steve Nash when
Speaker 1: I saw him in Santa Clara. I went, I don't
Speaker 1: he can't guard me, and I didn't mean it as
Speaker 1: any disrespect, but you realize how great some of these
Speaker 1: guys are at the other end, and how much pressure
Speaker 1: that puts on you, and how that changes your game
Speaker 1: plan and your rotations and your substitutions, you know, and
Speaker 1: not enough credit is given to those players. And look,
Speaker 1: I knock Harden all the time that you know he
Speaker 1: doesn't play defense. I want you to at least try
Speaker 1: to play defense. I just try to do that, and
Speaker 1: maybe he is better. But there was a time when
Speaker 1: you know, Lebron got called out by his own teammates,
Speaker 1: you know, the previous year he's mailing in it on defense.
Speaker 1: But then there's part of that you must pace yourself,
Speaker 1: especially if you're Lebron. You know, Jordan, you know that
Speaker 1: that ability to be that kind of player at both
Speaker 1: ends when you had the same kind of intensity at
Speaker 1: one end. It you know, Kobe towards the end of
Speaker 1: his career in not playing defense. I don't know if
Speaker 1: Michael ever got to that point, maybe with the Wizards,
Speaker 1: but he took every challenge. And that's a guy who
Speaker 1: didn't have another speed. It was one speed whereas some
Speaker 1: of these other players. And I can't even put Jordan
Speaker 1: in that conversation. I mean, it's just not fair to
Speaker 1: anybody else. He played one speed, but still at the
Speaker 1: other end played the same speed, and that's exceptional. That's
Speaker 1: so hard to do. Todd's gonna do his impression of
Speaker 1: ed Orgeron to the wait. I know he's not that great,
Speaker 1: but I'll do it. I'm gonna get He's not gonna
Speaker 1: be probably. We were just talking about how to pronounce
Speaker 1: his name. You know, you didn't put me on the spot,
Speaker 1: but you didn't early before the show started, and then
Speaker 1: you didn't get any reaction. I get. Maybe I'll try agin,
Speaker 1: I know, but we didn't give you a reaction the
Speaker 1: first time you did it. Three hours now you're in
Speaker 1: my head. I'm like, it sounds too much like Bruce Springstein,
Speaker 1: my attempt to try to sound like coach, and that's
Speaker 1: going to come out. They ball. It doesn't sound anything
Speaker 1: like that. I was right. It sounds more like remember
Speaker 1: Chuck the motto that wasn't the coach of NC State
Speaker 1: or Rick Maybe a little Rick majeris sprinkled in. There's
Speaker 1: not a lot of people are calling for those kind
Speaker 1: of impressures. It's a niche, but Christy's nail. Hey, can
Speaker 1: you do the chuck the motto impressure to do that
Speaker 1: in vegas of Rick Majeris shows. I like that impressure. Maybe.
Speaker 1: All right, let me take a break here. By the way,
Speaker 1: the NFL Players Association has announced the number of players
Speaker 1: who have tested positive as of last week. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give you an over under of seventy five. Give you
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Speaker 1: announces seventy two players tested positive for COVID nineteen as
Speaker 1: of July tenth. I'd like to know out of how many, though,
Speaker 1: because I don't know if that's an alarming number or not.
Speaker 1: But it's seventy two. Polly just gave me the news here.
Speaker 1: Pelican Zion Williamson is left Orlando to tend to an
Speaker 1: urgent family medical matter. Plans to return or season restart
Speaker 1: at a later date. That's gonna push him back, is
Speaker 1: an He's gonna have to be quarantined again. He's the
Speaker 1: head coach of the LSU Tikers, he said, Orzron, who
Speaker 1: joins us on the program. Coach, you look good, you
Speaker 1: look like you're in shape, great tan hair looks good.
Speaker 1: What have you been up to? Its silver time, A
Speaker 1: lot of time to work out during this COVID nineteen
Speaker 1: break that we had. We're excited to have our team back.
Speaker 1: Then we're ready to go. What's what's your max bench?
Speaker 1: What can you do of bench No? Three fifteen, three
Speaker 1: fifteen or three fifty fifteen? Wow? All right? If all
Speaker 1: of the SEC coaches had a bench press content. Who's winning?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't ask him that you can
Speaker 1: do more than Saban though we know that he's a
Speaker 1: great coach. What is different now at this stage of
Speaker 1: the summer as opposed to last year in how you're
Speaker 1: preparing your team. Obviously in July, our staff would be
Speaker 1: off the whole month of July. We'd be on vacation
Speaker 1: right now, and we were ready for being getting ready
Speaker 1: for camp. But now we have our team with us,
Speaker 1: we having practice, spring ball, We're trying to catch up.
Speaker 1: We have two hours a week a week with them
Speaker 1: right now. We have an half hour film today and
Speaker 1: then we have a football school coming up in July
Speaker 1: twenty fourth, so we will be able to go out
Speaker 1: and do some walkthroughs and practice all the way up
Speaker 1: the camp. And I saw where at Bristol Tennessee Bristol
Speaker 1: Motor Speedway they had twenty thousand fans for a NASCAR
Speaker 1: race last night. Can you see a scenario where you
Speaker 1: could have social distancing for an LSU game for thirty thousand. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be possible to get fans in
Speaker 1: the stadium. Obviously that's not my decision. This is only
Speaker 1: my opinion, but I think with mask and with testing,
Speaker 1: testing for fevers and having the appropriate people at the game,
Speaker 1: that we could put fans in the stadium. What was
Speaker 1: it like meeting with the Vice president? Outstanding? He was
Speaker 1: very aggressive and want the schools opened and education for
Speaker 1: us to play football. They had a lot of people
Speaker 1: that was talking about the things that are going on
Speaker 1: around the country. But he wants football, he wants to school,
Speaker 1: so be open. And I do believe he's represented President Trump.
Speaker 1: How did that meeting come about with Vice President Pennce?
Speaker 1: You know the governor, governor, he has great relationship. I
Speaker 1: think Louisiana has done a great job with COVID nineteen.
Speaker 1: I think our governor has done a great job of
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen. And I think that our school has educated
Speaker 1: our players. They given him the best help in COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen possible. So he wanted to come down here and
Speaker 1: talk to us, see what we were doing, find out
Speaker 1: some answers, and go back to the President. Whence the
Speaker 1: last time you talked to Joe Burrow? I talked to
Speaker 1: Joe about a month ago. We miss him. We miss
Speaker 1: him every day here. And what a great player for
Speaker 1: the Tigers. When did you know you had something special
Speaker 1: with Joe? You know, I do believe it was the
Speaker 1: third and seven Tenias Texas. It was a blitz. We
Speaker 1: had to make a play. Uh, he dies a rusher,
Speaker 1: made a big play, we scored a touchdown. I felt
Speaker 1: that we had a winner and Joe that could make
Speaker 1: the big play in the big game. But I and
Speaker 1: it comes down to a single play that you're talking
Speaker 1: about that you saw something that was special. That's interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, you got to make the players on the field,
Speaker 1: and I always believe that it can do it. He's
Speaker 1: a very smart football player. The first time I met him,
Speaker 1: we had about a two hour football meeting. There were
Speaker 1: six people in the meeting including me, and he was
Speaker 1: the smartest person in the and I liked it. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's kind of hard to go out and get another
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow. So what's what's the challenge? You know, how
Speaker 1: that how's that process been and the fact that you
Speaker 1: can't have these workouts you know in person. You know,
Speaker 1: we have a young quarterback of Miles Brennan who was
Speaker 1: waiting waiting his turret here. He's very talented. It's his time.
Speaker 1: All up to old Miles. I want you to be
Speaker 1: the best Miles Brettan possible. Now we're not going to
Speaker 1: compare them to Joe, but if heels as good as Joe,
Speaker 1: I'll promise you. We're talking to at Orgon, the LSU
Speaker 1: head football coach. Actually we had a question about this.
Speaker 1: I thought a when you were at USC, your your
Speaker 1: name was pronounced differently, like the R was a little
Speaker 1: more involved, and then you get to LSU and it
Speaker 1: feels like they dropped the first R here. So could
Speaker 1: you be on the record here with me edon Oon?
Speaker 1: Oh you're you're throwing a little Louisiana, a little Cajun
Speaker 1: in there. Now. Yeah, I'm back home about in LA.
Speaker 1: That's a hard But if you were back in La,
Speaker 1: then it might be pronounced differently. No question. And now
Speaker 1: what mine? How good a player were you growing up?
Speaker 1: I was okay, I was a good player, not a
Speaker 1: great player, A good player. How does that effect in
Speaker 1: how you coach or what you look for? Are you
Speaker 1: looking for players that were like you? You know? I
Speaker 1: look for players that were better athletes than that was,
Speaker 1: especially at the LSU right now, within an elite level.
Speaker 1: But I look for players that have heart, grit and toughness.
Speaker 1: You had so much talent last year, and I've been
Speaker 1: watching college football a long time. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I've seen more talented players, certainly offensively than you had
Speaker 1: last year. It was almost an embarrassment of riches there, ed,
Speaker 1: I mean, how do you balance keeping every not everybody
Speaker 1: happy because it's college, but how do you spread the
Speaker 1: wealth there? Yeah? You do. We had a great scheme
Speaker 1: and especially when you go to the spread, there were
Speaker 1: a lot of opportunities, but it all started with our
Speaker 1: coachings have had a great plan and then Joe Burrow.
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow knew exactly where to go with the football.
Speaker 1: I think Steve Sman did a tremendous job of putting
Speaker 1: in the spread offense is something that LSU has needed
Speaker 1: for over the years. With all the great talent. Here's
Speaker 1: what I told him, get all players to football, get
Speaker 1: them some space and let them make plays. And we
Speaker 1: did it. What is key in recruiting, like how did
Speaker 1: you close guys? And you know all those USC players
Speaker 1: and certainly what you've done at LSU, I mean you're
Speaker 1: competing with the elite here to get these so who
Speaker 1: are you closing the parents or the player, the champion,
Speaker 1: the decision maker? Who is the decision mom? Most of
Speaker 1: the times, Mom, you're right, and they have to trust you,
Speaker 1: and you have to develop a relationship and it has
Speaker 1: to be a long lasting relationship. It can't be a
Speaker 1: short term relationship. They have to trust you. If mom
Speaker 1: is cooking, you have to eat with mom is cooking. Correct.
Speaker 1: I've got no probably, unless unless it's liver World's Mama.
Speaker 1: I probably hate Libert. Didn't you recruit the Rock at
Speaker 1: the U? You know, Bob Cormelos recruited the Rock? Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I did coast the Rock and he's a friend
Speaker 1: of mine. I love him to death. His nickname was
Speaker 1: Dewey and he was a very good football player. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I talked to ray Lewis about that. It's weird that
Speaker 1: here is the Rock who's a billionaire, and ray Lewis
Speaker 1: was talking about he just kept calling him Dewey like
Speaker 1: he was gonna cut. He's not the Rock, He's not
Speaker 1: Dwayne Johnson. He just Dewey. But if he didn't get hurt,
Speaker 1: is the Rock, you know doing something different? Is he
Speaker 1: could he have been a pro football player? No, question.
Speaker 1: I think you'd have been a pro football player and
Speaker 1: been a real good one. What did you pick up
Speaker 1: boxing in the off season? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1: You're ready to take on anybody? Or you just shadow boxing? No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm just learning my technique. I'm using it for a
Speaker 1: corneo vascular workout. H you look good, though. You look
Speaker 1: like he lost some weight here also little weight, feel better?
Speaker 1: Lost about twenty five pounds, ready to go. When did
Speaker 1: you first acquire that voice? I think I was bored. No, no,
Speaker 1: you didn't. You didn't have that at like three ed
Speaker 1: like coaching career. I think he's got rougher and roffer.
Speaker 1: I think I wore out of vocal cords and bars.
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna checked out. Yeah, I was wondering
Speaker 1: about that. I can't imagine you at six and mom
Speaker 1: I want something for dinner, be scaring her. Hey, it's
Speaker 1: great to talk to you, and uh, congrats, And all
Speaker 1: we're asking is what do you do for an encore
Speaker 1: after last season? No pressure whatsoever? Right, no pressure, just
Speaker 1: I enjoy every day being the head coach the LASU Tigers.
Speaker 1: I believe we have a very good football team. We're
Speaker 1: just getting starting. When a sending program, I can't wait
Speaker 1: to get starting. Don't you have the best two way
Speaker 1: player in college football? Well, he has a chance to
Speaker 1: be one, but I told us dad that he's only
Speaker 1: going to play defense for two years. Oh in his
Speaker 1: third year, he could play both ways. And Derek Stingley,
Speaker 1: he has a phenomenal football player. You know, it's strange.
Speaker 1: I thought he was the best player on your team.
Speaker 1: He could be, And you know Jamal Chase is a
Speaker 1: pretty good football player. Also. You know, we have a
Speaker 1: great receiver coming back. We have a great young class
Speaker 1: coming back. This is the best freshman class that we've
Speaker 1: recorded here. We're excited about all young football team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Derek Stingley and I thought that's a guy who could
Speaker 1: win the Heisman if he played both ways. I really
Speaker 1: think that though. Ed. I think he's that talented. And
Speaker 1: somebody saw him when he first got to camp, and
Speaker 1: then they were telling me the story. They said they
Speaker 1: realized this guy is already an elite defensive back and
Speaker 1: he just got to camp against all those great athletes
Speaker 1: at LSU last year. So I don't know if you
Speaker 1: run the risk of or you have the urge that
Speaker 1: let's give him a couple of reps on offense and
Speaker 1: you know, just to have some fun with that or
Speaker 1: get some more hype for him. But maybe he doesn't
Speaker 1: need any more hype than I'm giving him right now.
Speaker 1: But man, I think he could be a two way
Speaker 1: player win a Heisman. Well, yeah, you know you have
Speaker 1: some good thoughts there his third year that if he
Speaker 1: wants to touch the ball of offense, we're going to
Speaker 1: give us some reps. Is there anything you want me
Speaker 1: to help you with, coaching tips anything? I mean, I'd
Speaker 1: be more happy to help you while you got me.
Speaker 1: But then it's this a free b ed. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was pretty good. Yeah, I appreciate. Uh, hey, great to
Speaker 1: talk to you, and congrats again, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1: Thank you all right. That's uh you got a little
Speaker 1: Cajun in there, though, Ed sneaking a little wrong orders
Speaker 1: the wrong. Yes, boy. One of the reasons I love
Speaker 1: college football because if I was going to do a
Speaker 1: movie about LSU football and hire a head coach to
Speaker 1: play the role, I'd have to hire at Ozron. He
Speaker 1: looks and sounds like the LSU head coach. If you're
Speaker 1: doing a movie, oh yeah, Central casting. If if the
Speaker 1: blind side. They would always have these schools that you
Speaker 1: you know, they give you that fictitious name. But then
Speaker 1: you would have the coach like Nick Nolty when he
Speaker 1: played a basketball coach in Blue Chips. He was trying
Speaker 1: to be Bobby Knight. But Edg's unique. Plus when you're
Speaker 1: a closer, when you're on the recruiting trail, and he
Speaker 1: was a big he was a great recruiter. But when
Speaker 1: you're out there on the road and you gotta you
Speaker 1: got a charm and you gotta you gotta charm mom
Speaker 1: normally because Mom a lot of times making the decisions there,
Speaker 1: I saved you the embarrassment of not I was hoping
Speaker 1: you weren't good go to me with that. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think that would have went well. Here. He looks
Speaker 1: like he has a good sense of humor. But if
Speaker 1: it's a very bad impression, we're just wasting everybody's time.
Speaker 1: I protected you. I think that's a good decision. Thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you. See all right, let me take a break here.
Speaker 1: We'll close up shop. Last call for phone calls, what
Speaker 1: we learned, what's in store tomorrow, and we'll try to
Speaker 1: do all of that next year. On the Dan Patrick Show.
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Speaker 1: Bubble tend to an urgent family medical matter, plans to
Speaker 1: return for the season restart at a later date. Now,
Speaker 1: they don't have much time to try to make up
Speaker 1: some ground there, and if they're not going to have
Speaker 1: Zion Williamson for a few of those games, going to
Speaker 1: be even a longer shot. It's already a long shot
Speaker 1: that they would make the playoffs, but with him they were.
Speaker 1: They won ten of nineteen games without him eighteen and
Speaker 1: twenty seven, so obviously a big difference there in scoring
Speaker 1: output and you can go down the numbers there. But
Speaker 1: right now, Zion Williamson not with the Pelicans. In the
Speaker 1: Bubble final results of the pole question, McClellan, who would
Speaker 1: you rather start a team with? Luca or Zion? Was
Speaker 1: our three pole? Luca fifty Brian Bumgardner. He played Kevin
Speaker 1: on the Office as a new podcast about it's a
Speaker 1: the oral history of the Office. He'll join us on
Speaker 1: the program tomorrow. One of her favorites. Yeah, I heard
Speaker 1: a story that Jim Halpern Halpert he has he wears
Speaker 1: a wig in one of the seasons on the Office.
Speaker 1: So John Krazinski has a wig on that looks like
Speaker 1: his hair when I watched a show like it looks
Speaker 1: like a big, floppy early messer. Yeah, first few years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he was doing a movie with George Clooney was
Speaker 1: at leather next that football movie, Leatherhead, and I guess
Speaker 1: he had really short hair and they said, well, we'll
Speaker 1: let you do it, but you got to wear a wig.
Speaker 1: When when they did that movie, we actually had Clooney
Speaker 1: on the show. I think that's the last time we
Speaker 1: had Clooney on. He was promoting that movie. Yeah. See
Speaker 1: John Kartzinski's hair in the Office wasn't his one season
Speaker 1: he wore a wig. Sources close to me tell me.
Speaker 1: But we can talk to Brian about that. By the way,
Speaker 1: when you think of the Office, the Office, like the
Speaker 1: show Friends, has become even bigger, you know, since they
Speaker 1: went off the air. I mean, the whole new generation
Speaker 1: is you know, watching absorbing the Office just like Friends,
Speaker 1: and even the second time around, Friends still isn't any good,
Speaker 1: but the Office, the Office is still great when you
Speaker 1: factor in that. The second episode of the Office, they
Speaker 1: didn't even know if they were going to survive. I
Speaker 1: think they said you get to do six episodes, and
Speaker 1: they didn't even know if they'd get to a second season.
Speaker 1: The second episode is diversity training. That's where you build
Speaker 1: up some house, you know, cred to, you know, with
Speaker 1: the network to say we're going to do something that's
Speaker 1: really controversial, and they did it the second episode. I
Speaker 1: found that amazing. So we'll talk to Brian Bumgardner. He
Speaker 1: was Kevin on the Office. I'm sure Kevin here's the
Speaker 1: word chili quite a bit one of the great episodes
Speaker 1: of all time when he brought in He brought in
Speaker 1: the chili and spilled it in the office. Loved it.
Speaker 1: Brian and DC. Hey Brian, what do you have for
Speaker 1: me today? Hey? Dan? How are you doing? Good? Sir? Tom?
Speaker 1: Long time Listener five six, two hundred and seventy five
Speaker 1: filt punds Okay, okay, I just called because I've left
Speaker 1: that interview with that OrderIn kind of sound like that
Speaker 1: musician Tom Waits last few voice of days sounds a
Speaker 1: good touto. But hey, thanks for the last I will
Speaker 1: be enjoy your show and thanks man, Thank you, Brian. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tom Waits great songwriter? Using when somebody says Tom Waits,
Speaker 1: it's a great songwriter, not necessarily a great singer. But
Speaker 1: you hear that voice, didn't he do um? Closing time?
Speaker 1: Or is it called closing time? Or I hope that
Speaker 1: I don't fall in love with you closing time? No, no,
Speaker 1: semisun one more time? That's not Tom Waits every new
Speaker 1: beginning from the beginnings and Tom Waits, No Tom Waits.
Speaker 1: Does I think it's called closing time? Closing time? Or
Speaker 1: I hope that I do? Dog? It was heartbreaking? Is
Speaker 1: that you're orn? That was about Tom Waits? Oh? No, cloding? Dog?
Speaker 1: Does at ozeron? Do Tom Waits a karaoke? That's go too?
Speaker 1: Wouldn't it be great if you did? Like Selene Dion, dear,
Speaker 1: oh wherever you are ready ready didn't see that one coming? No,
Speaker 1: I did not not today, not today, I did not.
Speaker 1: And Paully sends me this article this morning, I start
Speaker 1: my day this way, I come in and Paulie says,
Speaker 1: UH sent you an article and I saw. I look
Speaker 1: in my computer and I go, men should limit alcohol
Speaker 1: to one drink a day, experts now advice. I go,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Why are you doing that to
Speaker 1: me to start my day? I actually read down on
Speaker 1: the article and they're not saying that more drinks is
Speaker 1: necessarily bad for you, but if you have other conditions,
Speaker 1: drinking more can make it worse, which is kind of obvious.
Speaker 1: So they're saying people shouldn't drink multiple drinks if they
Speaker 1: have any health issues. What if you go over for
Speaker 1: six days and then do seven in one shot, right,
Speaker 1: seven a week and just put them all on Saturday. Well,
Speaker 1: there there are people who do wait for the weekend
Speaker 1: to drink binge, drink a little bit. Everybody woken? Sorry,
Speaker 1: what's what's worse? Seaton's ed orgeron slash Tom Waits or
Speaker 1: Fritzie's Bruce Springs is a very good I thought he
Speaker 1: started hitting it there at the end. Singing that's different.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to expand. No, No, that is niche. Niche,
Speaker 1: that is we do impression. It's ed ors. You're on
Speaker 1: singing karaoke impressions. You never asked no, no, But it's saying, uh,
Speaker 1: twelve ounces of beer or five ounce glass of wine
Speaker 1: or shot of liquor. Why don't you bounce beers? Why
Speaker 1: don't you just get a bigger glass for your beer
Speaker 1: and have one drink a night, just like a big,
Speaker 1: huge stein. Yes, for I think that column also suggests
Speaker 1: that you can't like make it up in the next day.
Speaker 1: You can't like not drink for two days and then
Speaker 1: you can have those drinks on the third day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna make up my own rules. They can't
Speaker 1: make up my rules. I make my own rules. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do my own study Tequila for everybody. Uh this
Speaker 1: damee sports history Paul In nineteen fifty d Uruguay versus
Speaker 1: Brazil World Cup soccer the finals in the Rio. Biggest
Speaker 1: crowd to ever watch a sporting man. Who can guess
Speaker 1: closest to the whole how many people were at the
Speaker 1: World Cup final? Wow? This is nuts. In nineteen fifty,
Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty two thousand, one hundred ninety nine
Speaker 1: thousand people. M hmm, okay, that's it. That's it. Nineteen seventy,
Speaker 1: the Pirates played their first game at three rivers, Well,
Speaker 1: the ashtray another ashtray stadium. The Red started that and
Speaker 1: then Pirates and Phillies they followed suit big ash tray stadiums. Todd,
Speaker 1: what did you learn on today's program? You think that
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry deal is great for both Derek and the Titans. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like it that. It's okay you didn't set records
Speaker 1: setting numbers there and you know, but you've got a
Speaker 1: number that seems smart for both sides there. McLevin, what
Speaker 1: did you learned that Chris Haynes brought some pairs of
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