WEBVTT - Hour 2 - Chris Mannix (07-03-20) 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:03.640 You are listening to The Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:07.880 Sports Radio. Greetings, Welcome inside hour two of the Dan 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:11.559 Patrick Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Happy fourth of 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:13.920 July eve as we get set for a big Fourth 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:18.400 of July weekend social distancing hot dog eating contest and 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:21.000 Robert I tell you, I can't get over there's Fourth 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:24.599 of July stories, and then there's Joey Chestnut thinks he 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:27.280 could set a record for hot dogs because the eating 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:31.720 conditions will be just right for it. I mean, for all, 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:33.920 you know, my whole life. Oh boy, there's not gonna 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:35.680 be a lot of points scored today, the rain and 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:37.680 the snow and the you know, in this NFL game, 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.880 But the eating conditions are going to be right. Watch out. 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:44.279 We could see big time eating fireworks a day from now. 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:47.919 You know what, I've always had an issue with dipping 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:51.320 hot dogs into water for them to go down easy. 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:54.160 Whatever happened to the ketchup and the mustard and the 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:58.120 relish and the onions, the condiments. I just couldn't do it. 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:01.440 You know, I want to, and your hot dogs, well, 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:03.160 it makes it well, you have to do it for 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:05.200 the bread. Otherwise you're not gonna you can't eat the 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:07.600 bread as much the winning The winning person would have 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.600 like eight hot dogs. I'm sorry, I'm this bread is 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:13.279 just I've filled up on it. I can't eat anymore. 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:15.679 That bread does fill you up, but just a wet 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:19.360 bread for the hot dogs. I just I've watched them 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:22.400 and I've just been amazed at how those guys are 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:24.800 able to do it. I'm gonna start doing that when 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:26.959 I go to dinner, and you know, and I'm able 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:28.640 to go out to restaurants again and going out to 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:31.039 dinner instead of filling up on bread. So oh, man, 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:32.600 I eat too much bread, and by the time your 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:34.920 meal comes, you can't eat it. When I want bread, 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:36.480 I'm just gonna dip it in water and eat it. 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:38.520 And then I realize I'm gonna be good. I do that, 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:40.280 and then I can eat. I can have the feeling 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:42.039 of eating the bread, and then I can have my 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:44.080 meal when it comes and I'll be okay. And they'll 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:48.880 also be room for dessert after it's all over. Dip 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:50.360 the ice cream in the water and I eat the 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:54.240 ice exactly, and the cheesecake in the water, and yeah, 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:57.160 and I can just digest. It'll be a lot easier, 0:01:57.520 --> 0:01:59.760 you know. Sometimes you know, you have dinner and then 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:02.280 you they're like dessert and you just look at them, 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:04.760 like dessert. What do I have room for dessert? It's 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:09.720 so hard to get dessert down. So while we're looking 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:12.320 ahead at Fourth of July, maybe we get some Fourth 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:15.600 of July fireworks and find out that someone like Antonio 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:19.519 Brown has a new NFL team. Because last night, late 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:21.280 last night, before I went to bed, normally do that. 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:24.200 I do the same thing whenever I'm gonna fill in, 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.600 you know, for Dan here today, you know, with you 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:28.240 and you know, and Doug and all of us, you know, 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:30.680 filling in you and Chris do some days too. Whatever 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:32.440 I do, I always get online at and I go, okay, 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:34.360 here's some stories that we like we're looking at for 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:37.160 early in the morning. And I get online last night 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:39.000 and I see at the top of everything a B 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:42.400 to the Texans, and I go, oh my god, seriously, 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:46.000 Antonio Brown to the Texans. That happened. And then now 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.000 I gotta I gotta go through Twitter, which is like 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.680 going through the looking glass. You know, it's you know, 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:53.520 there's gonna don't know what's real, what's no no, And 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:54.960 I may as well go to Reddit and try to 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.720 figure something out. So I'm like, okay, what is it? 0:02:57.720 --> 0:02:59.840 And then it boils down to the fact that Chad 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:03.400 Johnson put out a tweet saying AB to the Texans 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:06.520 with praying hands. So then I'm like, oh, okay, this 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:10.200 is yet another push from Antonio Brown to try to 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:12.400 get people interested in him. Like if he throws it 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:14.920 out there that he wants to go to the Texans, 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:18.320 Bill O'Brien's gonna go huh. I never thought about that. 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:21.440 Let's call and get into I never thought about Luckily 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:23.799 he put that out on Twitter. I would have never 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:26.120 thought about Antonio right, Let's call and try to get him, 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:29.320 because that's been AB's strategy the past few weeks. Here's 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:32.200 here's video of me working out with Russell Wilson. See 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:33.720 I'm a good guy. You can put me back in 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:36.760 the NFL. Here's video of me working out with other teams. 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:39.520 And now you're seeing, you know, the stories of teams 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:43.520 interested in Antonio Brown, which I look at this and go, okay, 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:45.600 is this real or is this like the story we 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:48.680 get every year that there are teams interested in Colin Kaepernick. 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:51.560 Teams are calling and then nothing winds up happening of it. 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:53.720 You know, I feel like the same thing, like this 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.120 is what we're getting. Here's you know, let's try to 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:59.080 get some juice around Antonio Brown coming back to the NFL. 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:01.680 And this is where we're at now. I don't doubt 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:04.760 that eventually there would be some teams interested in him, 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.480 But Rob, this is like, you know what came first, 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:09.880 the chicken or the egg. Because if a team wants 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:12.920 Antonio Brown, they're going to tell the NFL we want 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.040 to sign him. The NFL is going to say, well, okay, 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.800 he's going on our exempt list because he's got to 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:21.800 figure out his legal problems, which which include, uh, you know, 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.320 being accused of sexual assault by by a woman he's 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:29.240 got but I mean, you have to clear that up, right, 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:30.560 But you got to clear that up if he's going 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:32.479 to come back to the NFL, he's got to have 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:35.280 a clean slate legally to be and he doesn't have 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.000 that right now. He's still coming off of a few 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.280 months ago when he had a melt down and him 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:42.760 and him and a buddy beat up a driver who 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:45.320 was trying to get furniture from his house. You know, 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:47.120 he's got to clean his slate if he's going to 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.000 come back, So he doesn't have that yet. So if 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:50.840 a team says we want to sign him, the NFL 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:52.599 is going to say, okay, he's on our exempt list 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:54.640 and we're going to do an investigation into him. And 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:56.800 teams are gonna say, okay, well we're not into it now, 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:59.839 uh or you know, okay, is it likely he's coming back? 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.160 Not Okay, we're not going to sign him. So teams 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:05.240 know this that if they do wind up signing him, 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:07.279 they would want him for now. They'd want him to 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:09.760 be ready. Hey, we have a season coming up soon. 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:12.400 We haven't had a regular offseason. Let's get a great 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:16.480 receiver who has been fantastic, who you know is a 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.039 self motivated workout guy. The one thing you never have 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.480 to worry about him was working out. He loved practicing, 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:23.480 he loved doing all of those things. But if teams 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:25.000 know he's gonna go on the examp list, well why 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:26.719 are we going to sign him? So he's kind of 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:30.000 in that that purgatory of okay, yeah, potentially you can 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:31.720 come back, but this is what's going to happen if 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:33.760 a team wants him, and so because he's got to 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.400 go on the exemp list, then nobody's going to sign him. 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:40.480 That's kind of what's happening right now. Yeah, I get it, 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:43.479 but I'm gonna tell you, and we've seen this over 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:49.840 and over. When you have a talented guy like that 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:54.279 and people are looking for talent, as many players are 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:57.120 as there are Jason in the NFL, there aren't that 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:00.600 many talented people laying around, you know, And if you 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:04.279 really believe like adding a player of his caliber could 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:07.040 make a difference, you're willing to do that. The only 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:09.920 people who don't, they don't bend over backwards for guys 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:12.919 who can't play right. Then they won't take the headaches, 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:16.080 they won't take the other stuff that comes with it. 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.240 I believe he's going to get back in the league 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:21.440 because he's young enough and the last time we saw 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:25.479 him was good enough. I think he's been humbled by 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:29.720 everything that's gone on. He's really it's weird where he 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:34.479 was in Pittsburgh despite the you know, Facebook live kind 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:36.919 of thing, but he was never disruptive. This guy was 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:42.159 just productive, not disruptive, and was very good in Pittsburgh. 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:46.120 And the thing that people never say is he doesn't 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:48.080 work hard. He's not a you know what I mean, 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.560 he doesn't put in his work, or he's a slacker. 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.040 It's never been that, or he's not a great teammate 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.680 as far as on the field. He just has some 0:06:56.839 --> 0:07:01.120 personal issues that really derailed his life and his career. 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:04.560 And if he can get that straightened out. If I'm 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.600 a GM in the NFL, I want Antonio Brown if 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:10.960 I have a spot for a wide receiver, and I 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:12.880 could think of a number of teams that could use him, 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:17.160 So I hope he gets it together. I'm I love 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:21.200 redemption stories and comebacks, especially if he can get his 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:25.240 personal life Jason straightened out and see what everything was 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:28.200 and make sure that all the claims against him, you know, 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:31.840 and the NFL does did due diligence. But after that, 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:35.880 if that all works out, get him back in the league. See, 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.240 I'm on the other side of you. I'm a GM. 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:42.160 I'm giving ab a hard pass because it's if you 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:46.120 want to take his career and think about it what 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:48.840 it used to be. Okay, It's kind of like, you know, 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:50.600 people want to look at Cam Newton and go, oh 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:52.920 my god, look at if Cam Newton can make plays 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:54.840 like this with the Patriots and all the stuff that 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:56.920 fills my social media feed and I go, this is 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:59.640 a play from two thousand and thirteen, this is two 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:02.560 thousand in twenty. He's been hurt for two years. This 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:04.880 is he can't just suddenly, oh, because he could make 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.080 a play like this seven years ago, suddenly do that. 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:11.000 But Antonio Brown, when he was in his heyday, when 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:13.280 he could do it, he was the best. And I'm 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:17.040 not arguing that with you, But Pittsburgh enabled him. You know, 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:20.960 all the behavior issues that he had, Pittsburgh was able 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:25.160 to cover it up and keep him around because that's 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:27.480 what they did. That's what Mike Tomlin didn't. He deserves 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:29.800 a lot of credit. Oh, you talk about Leveon Bell 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.920 and Ben Roethlisberger. Antonio Brown keeping those guys all on 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.280 the field and throwing the football to each other. That's 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:37.360 some kind of job that he probably shouldn't have had 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:41.000 to do, but he did. Aby leaves the Steelers and 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:43.680 what happens. He goes to Oakland and he finds his 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.360 way out before he even plays a game. He's at 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:49.840 odds with the Raiders over stupid reasons, and John Gruden, 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:52.520 who wanted him so desperately, finally said, we have to 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:54.720 get rid of him. He has a meltdown to practice 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:58.600 and calls Mike Mayock a racist term. And he's out, 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:00.960 all right, now, he's out, now, okay, Now, now let's 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:03.800 see what happens. The Patriots signed him, and everybody says, 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:05.840 I can't believe it. Just how he wanted it to work. 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:07.760 Now the Patriots are gonna have him, They're gonna win 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:10.880 the Super Bowl. He plays one game and then the 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:14.760 sexual assault story has a second break in the story, 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:17.160 and the Patriots say, we can't have anything to do 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:20.320 with you, and he's gone. He has found his way 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.240 now off of three teams. He wanted out for Pittsburgh 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:26.240 for so long. Finally Pittsburgh said, fine. He gets he 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:28.640 gets to Oakland, he's out before he plays a game. 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:30.400 He goes to New England. He's there for a week. 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.360 He's his own worst enemy. You know, he can't stay 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.800 away from Twitter, he can't stay away from controversy. So 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:38.160 if I go through, jump through all of these hoops 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:40.160 to sign him, how long do I know I'm gonna 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.400 have him for until he's out of the league. How 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.480 long until I wake up on an idol Tuesday and 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:47.720 go He tweeted that Oh my, I can't believe he 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:51.240 tweeted that. Oh my good Jason. So how long am 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:53.400 I going to have him for before I realize he's 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:55.240 got to be off the team. It's not worth that 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:57.880 investment for a guy I know could be gone in 0:09:57.960 --> 0:09:59.800 one game. It may even play a game for us. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:01.840 But this is the only issue I have. You know, 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:06.000 you're talking about tweeting and social media. The NFL has 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:11.360 so many guys who are convicted felons, who are vehiculo homicide, 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:15.560 got chances, who beat up women, and and and all 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:18.680 kinds of other things. And the list is too long 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:21.400 for me to go into it. But those guys seem 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:24.760 to get chances to play again. And because a guy 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.959 does some social media stuff that people don't like, it's 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.320 the end of the world. I think he's been treated 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:35.680 way too harshly. He's got sexual I'm talking about. But 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:39.680 you're you're talking about social media and and posting videos. 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:42.360 I'm I'm That's what I'm saying that there are other 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.240 guys who have done some pretty bad things in the league. 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.360 Would you at least give me that? Yeah, yeah, but 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:51.880 they gotten they have, they gotten chances. But we got 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:53.559 to stop at some point, right, I mean, that's no, 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.200 but that but but that's my thing. If you told 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.520 me that nobody in the league with with those kind 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.440 of things happening to them, then then no, then I 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:04.520 got it. But the league is literally with those guys, 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:08.680 and I just don't understand where where you're drawing the line. 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:13.240 And because of his social media activity, that's the last straw. 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:17.000 The guy's a talented football player and if he can 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:20.400 get and I'm just saying, go through the due diligence, right, 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:25.200 let these things play out. Just because people accuse you 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:32.640 of stuff doesn't mean so I can remember, huh, other 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:36.079 players where this stuff has happened before and we find 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:38.319 out later that it's not true. So all I'm saying 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:41.080 is the NFL should do it. Just because someone says 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:43.760 you did this or did that doesn't mean that it's 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:47.559 it's fact because someone makes a claim against you. That's 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:49.720 all I'm saying is I would I want the NFL 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:52.760 to investigate it, find out really where he is with 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:56.600 Jason I'm I'm I'm against. I'm against your stands that 0:11:56.679 --> 0:12:00.360 he shouldn't get another opportunity. He's way too good, way 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:04.680 too talented. Yes, he's had some issues. Um, but I'm 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:07.120 willing to give the guy another chance if he can, 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:11.200 if he can clear his name. Has he shown anything 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:12.680 in the last year and a half that he could 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:14.720 do that he hasn't. He has to say that he 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.040 can he can play in the NFL. He has, He's 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:18.560 shown that he's going to be able to stay in 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.760 the NFL. He hasn't. He found his way. He did 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.240 everything he could to find his way off of the Raiders. 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:26.640 Everything he could. He finds his way off. Then he 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:28.600 lands in a perfect spot. And then what does he do? 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.800 Then text messages come out of him sending a text 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:34.080 to one of his friends about taking care of the 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:38.080 woman who is accusing him of sexual assault. So this 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:40.040 is why I'm giving you that you have given you 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.839 that you can't trust investigate all that. What day, Well, 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:44.840 you're gonna wake up and see something like that on 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:46.559 a day. A team is not gonna say, listen, we're 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:48.600 not gonna I can't go to bed every night thinking 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:51.360 the next day Antonio Brown, something's gonna happen. That's gonna 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:54.400 embarrass the franchise, you know, And I get that from team. 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.079 I understand. How how long can they possibly have him 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:59.720 for you have you have other guys in the league 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:04.120 that the Cowboys they were uh um, I just don't 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.720 have to name in front of me. Uh who got 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:12.200 signed after he left Carolina? He was convicted. Um, he 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:15.560 was convicted in a in a court of law, and 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:18.080 and the Cowboys pick snapped him up. They couldn't snap 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.839 him up fast enough. And and I'm just saying, like 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:24.320 I've seen these circumstances and people don't seem to have 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:28.480 an issue there. I just change change uniforms. Well, but 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:31.480 you gotta start somewhere. You know, you're talking about Greg Hardy, Right, 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:35.040 Greg Hardy? Thank you Greg Hardy. Do you remember that case? 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:38.080 I mean, he was he was convicted. It wasn't even 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:41.400 it wasn't even like hearsay. He was convicted in court. 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:44.520 And the Cowboys couldn't They fell over himselves to sign 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:48.439 Greg Hardy. But it's not that that the NFL is 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:51.480 keeping him out. It's it's what he has done. He 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:54.320 is keeping himself out of the NFL. He's the guy. 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:58.120 He's a guy. Obviously the teams say, we can't trust that. 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.480 We we don't know about getting him back. And at 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.839 some point you have to start somewhere. We're saying, all right, 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:06.360 if this guy is doing this, he can't come back 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.000 to the NFL. It's look, it's it's almost like the 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:11.600 same thing we're dealing with with all these changes going 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.760 on in the world about Hey, let's let's let's take 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:18.000 care of Washington's nickname. You know, here goes the Confederate flag, 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:20.760 all all of these ideas that were out there that 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:22.240 have been out there for a long time, or bad 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:24.720 ideas well, they were accepted for a long time. Well 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:27.480 that was bad. But we gotta start somewhere. So let's 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:31.600 start now, NASCAR bands, the Confederate flag. You're seeing all 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:33.880 the other things happening in the world right now with 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:36.960 the Washington Redskins. They may not have their nickname for 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:40.280 a while. We gotta start somewhere. So if Antonio Brown 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.440 is the guy for hey, I can't get back in 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:44.960 the NFL, Dude, if you could, if you could not 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:49.400 be in a situation where you are beholden to the 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:52.200 law because of stuff you didn't been accused of, you'd 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.360 be in the National Football League. And the fact that 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:56.880 he's not in my heart doesn't bleed for him. That 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:59.160 he's not in the NFL. If he if he can 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:01.000 clean up his act to get back in and show 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:02.640 that he can clean his act up and got okay, 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.280 then he'll get another chance. But he hasn't done it yet, Andy, 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.000 and he's still you know, sitting out there waiting wondering 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:09.960 why am I not getting another chance? Well, I mean 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:11.880 you gotta look in the mirror at some point and go, Okay, 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:13.960 what I'm doing is and what I've done is what's 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:17.600 I'm not. I'm not I'm not saying that I'm endorsing 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:23.120 his behavior, but I just I don't understand, like who 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:27.680 determines which guys get other chances and which guys don't. 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:31.480 And when the Patriots signed him. If you remember, and 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:33.600 I don't know, and maybe you were one of those 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:36.920 guys when he got released by the Raiders, I remember 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:40.240 people reveling in, Oh, that's it. He'll never play in 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:43.600 the NFL again. He's done. Look at what he did 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:45.800 with the Raiders. Oh he released that video? Do you 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:49.360 remember all that? And and then the Patriots signed him 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:52.360 eight hours later or whatever it was. I'm just like, 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:55.720 That's what I'm saying, is like the overreaction from people 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:59.080 now with the legal stuff I'm not saying he's clear 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:01.760 and free and he didn't do anything, but let's have 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:06.280 let's find out what's what's been done and figure out 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:09.040 what's true what's not true. You can't just convict a 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:12.360 guy because people have made claims against you, That's all 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:15.360 I'm saying. And once that is done and you figure 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:17.440 it out, then you should be able to put them 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:20.120 back out there and let teams decide whether they want 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:23.120 to deal with talents. Sometime when you have talented people, 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.480 it comes with issues, and some people are willing to 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:30.320 work through them. Everybody's not a choir boy, everybody. Some 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.520 people have different issues. I'm just not in that camp 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.840 to throw away a talented guy. And we heard Adam 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:41.120 Kaplan just recently on our show say that this guy's 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:44.320 a hall from his body of work. He's already a 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:46.640 Hall of Famer, that's how good he is. That's why 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.960 it's worth the risk to me. Twitter at, how about 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:52.920 a Fresco rob at Rob Parker FS one phone of right, 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:55.880 seven seven ninety nine on Fox On opposite sides of 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:59.320 the ab debate, We'll have more NFL coming up this hour, 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.080 because speaking of on opposides of a debate. You and 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:04.080 I are definitely on the opposite sides of Cam Newton, 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:05.880 so we got to get to that coming up later 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:07.560 on this You mean Cam that is going to win 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:11.679 the AFC least Division. Yes, Cam, who may not make 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:15.320 it to week one. That Cam for President is Garrett 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:19.760 contracts guarantee. Look at you. I'm all insident Camp for 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:23.199 President does the score? Can we're to scarf at the 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:26.040 White House. I'm all in Oh, He'll bring great hat 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.639 fashion to the White House, that's for sure. So we 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:31.600 got that coming up later on this hour. But straight ahead, 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:35.679 is the NBA really ready to open up a second bubble? 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:39.280 Are the Lakers title chances higher after this long layoff? 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:41.720 Anthony Davis says, So we get into those and more 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:44.520 stories coming up next right here. This is Fox Sports Radio. 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:47.360 Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:50.560 Patrick Show week days at nine am Eastern six am 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:54.280 Pacific on Fox Sports Radio in the iHeart Radio WAPP, 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:58.240 Fox Sports Radio The Dan Patrick Show. Jason Smith and 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.199 Rob Parker in for Dan in the day ants. Today's 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:05.280 show brought to you by Mercedes AMG Driving Performance. Gonna 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.040 have Chris Mannix stopping buying a second Fox Sports One 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:11.760 Sports Illustrated NBA insider and Rob I know you talked 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:14.600 about this yesterday on your show, and we talked about 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:17.879 it yesterday as well, the possibility that we're getting a 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:22.280 second bubble in the NBA. Certainly we have the bubble 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:25.119 in Orlando that we're going to try to finish the 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:28.840 regular season in playoffs, and but NBA working on a 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:31.760 second bubble. Agent Waljarowski having the story a day ago 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:36.280 to invite the teams that weren't invited to Orlando to 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:39.880 have some kind of training camp in the month of September. 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:41.960 They're gonna be able to play games, because obviously it 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:44.560 would be unfair if you're going to start the season 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:47.480 at some point soon after that you have twenty two 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:50.919 teams that are going to be in the mindset of 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:52.720 playing having just played a bunch of games, and you 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:55.680 have these other a teams not doing it. So those 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:58.600 teams would be invited. The Knicks would now be to 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:00.919 have a chance to maybe win something as they are 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:04.600 invited to the n I of bubbles. So I'd be 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:07.159 pretty happy for them there. Not only can the Knicks 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:10.639 uh that they would wind up in the trouble Bubble 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:14.560 that's for the bad teams. I mean, you know, I 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:17.840 get it. It's funny though, but the but but Adam 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:20.040 Silver doesn't want to be in any bubble. He's not 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:23.720 gonna stick around, which is interesting. Oh my god, what 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:26.320 a horrible optic that is. You guys all got to stay. 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:28.520 What about your commissioner. Now I'm gonna be in and out. 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:30.880 I might pop in and say hey, then I might 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:33.040 my jet, but then I'm coming back, but then I'm 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:34.679 gonna jet again, and then I'm coming back. I mean 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:37.200