Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox
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Speaker 2: On this Monday, Best and Worst to the weekend more
Speaker 2: of your phone calls. We'll talk some college football. Greg
Speaker 2: McElroy of The Mothership will recap what we saw over
Speaker 2: the weekend, including Penn State losing at UCLA. Florida is back?
Speaker 2: What happened to Texas? Really? If you look at the
Speaker 2: top five to start the season, this is why those
Speaker 2: preseason polls, I know that we like them. They're for
Speaker 2: entertainment purposes and a lot of times we'll put so
Speaker 2: much value in that where we go, Man, what happened
Speaker 2: to you when maybe the analyst overrated your team or
Speaker 2: underrated your team? Like, man, that team came out of nowhere. Well,
Speaker 2: maybe if more people are doing their homework that we
Speaker 2: would we wouldn't have this fluctuation like that. You know
Speaker 2: that you look at Texas? How good is Texas? How
Speaker 2: good is Clemson? Is Florida actually good? Is Florida State
Speaker 2: really good? How good is Miami? You can go down
Speaker 2: the list here, And I think that's what it's dangerous
Speaker 2: to have those preseason polls because we put a lot
Speaker 2: of validity to them, and we shouldn't. It's for entertainment purposes.
Speaker 2: But that's when a team drops out and we go
Speaker 2: what happened to you? When maybe they weren't that good
Speaker 2: to begin with.
Speaker 3: Yes, Paul I had the top five college football rankings
Speaker 3: six weeks ago to open the season. Texas was number one,
Speaker 3: twenty five first place votes, Penn State number two, twenty
Speaker 3: three first place votes. Ohio State was third, Clemson was fourth.
Speaker 3: All got first place votes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought Clemson was going to be good. I did.
Speaker 2: Ohio State might be better than last year's team, and
Speaker 2: that should scare a lot of people North Carolina. I
Speaker 2: think the over under was eight and a half wins,
Speaker 2: and when they lose, they lose badly. Their losses are
Speaker 2: by an average of forty points. It's tough to get
Speaker 2: the And then Mike Lombardi, who is a longtime front
Speaker 2: office exec in the NFL and now working with Belichick
Speaker 2: at Carolina, said we're gonna go after freshman next year.
Speaker 2: They went after transfers this year they got I think seventy.
Speaker 2: Now they're going after freshman. That's not your immediate answer.
Speaker 2: If I'm a North Carolina fan, I'm like, well, okay,
Speaker 2: how long is Bill going to do this because we're
Speaker 2: going to count on freshmen to change our program. May
Speaker 2: take till they're juniors to really change our program. All right,
Speaker 2: Seaton Pole. Question for the final hour of the program.
Speaker 2: By the way, Sunday night, how about this, Jared Goff
Speaker 2: and the Lions go to Kansas City. They face Patrick
Speaker 2: Mahomes and the Chiefs. The Chiefs are in Jacksonville. They're
Speaker 2: favored by three and a half tonight, all right, seton Pole, question.
Speaker 4: Who had the worst weekend?
Speaker 5: Ami de Mericado, James Franklin, the New York Yankees, or
Speaker 5: the Texas Longhorns. Right now, fifty nine percent of the
Speaker 5: audience have James Franklin, followed closely by well, actually not
Speaker 5: closely at all by the New York Yankees.
Speaker 2: Yeah, got roughed up by the Blue Jays. And uh,
Speaker 2: of course Todd thinks that the Yankee play by play
Speaker 2: announcer should have been a little more enthusiastic with the
Speaker 2: Vlad Guerrero Junior the third home run and a Grand Slam.
Speaker 2: And it sounded like this Carrera.
Speaker 6: At edition a two to one count.
Speaker 7: He's looking on the load right here, two one Pitt,
Speaker 7: he did he'd drive left pelf grand Slam.
Speaker 2: I love it. It was conversational and it led right into
Speaker 2: his call. Todd thought that he should have been a
Speaker 2: little more unbiased, less.
Speaker 8: Dismissive, maybe more acknowledging of the moment, an enthusiastic.
Speaker 2: Uh Turbo in Buffalo, Hey Turbo, Hey.
Speaker 9: Thanks Dan. I came up with a name for Todd
Speaker 9: for his traffic behavior blocking the left lane. Who's your
Speaker 9: boy up in Seattle?
Speaker 10: There?
Speaker 9: The catcher hits all the home runs. What's his nickname?
Speaker 2: Big dumper?
Speaker 9: Yes, so I think we should call Todd the big bumper.
Speaker 2: Oh, the big blumper? Okay, all right, thank you turboll.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 5: See was our other poll question, a local broadcaster should
Speaker 5: be a homer or down the middle.
Speaker 4: Do you want to guess the results on that one.
Speaker 2: I'm going to say seventy five percent homer.
Speaker 4: You would be short on that.
Speaker 5: That's we're up to eighty two A homer, not someone
Speaker 5: down the middle for your local broadcast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's what I would want. I want him
Speaker 2: to be excited. I'm excited. I want him to feel pain.
Speaker 2: I feel pain.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Paul, you got to play to the home fans,
Speaker 3: but you cannot ignore the struggles of your franchise because
Speaker 3: that franchise pays you. Like, if you're the play by
Speaker 3: play person for a team that's stinks, you got to
Speaker 3: say they stink.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but we're talking about the opposing team as just
Speaker 2: kid the grand in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but in general, with the pole question about being
Speaker 3: a homer, you could be a homer and you could
Speaker 3: have the energy of the home fans, but you got
Speaker 3: to call it out. We've seen guys, what the guy
Speaker 3: from the Orioles a few years ago got fired for
Speaker 3: calling out his terrible home team because they wanted to
Speaker 3: be a Rara guy.
Speaker 2: Well, the Mets broadcast team, you know, Ron Darling and
Speaker 2: Keith Hintz, they were very critical of the Mets at
Speaker 2: the end of the season.
Speaker 8: Yes, Todd, I think there's been a big moment in
Speaker 8: a happy moment, which I think is going in somewhat
Speaker 8: in line with what Paulie saying. I don't want to
Speaker 8: put words in his mouth, but there are happy moments
Speaker 8: and there are big moments on the grand stage. That's
Speaker 8: That's what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 2: We're going to disagree. That's fine, okay, because you're not
Speaker 2: changing I'm not changing.
Speaker 8: There was that eighteen percent out there that had my back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it feels like if we let that call.
Speaker 5: Going just a little further of the Yankees game where
Speaker 5: he goes Grand Slam and then off Mike, what you
Speaker 5: should have heard was, damn it, that's what everybody doing
Speaker 5: in their car was doing, or that's what everybody damn
Speaker 5: it not a Grand Slam?
Speaker 2: What the hell? Morgan in Maryland? Hi Morgan, welcome back.
Speaker 2: What do you have for me?
Speaker 11: Hey?
Speaker 12: Dan, So I got best and worst of the weekend.
Speaker 12: I'll start with worst. It's obviously the Ravens and you've
Speaker 12: touched on it earlier. It's like it's such uncharted territory
Speaker 12: for us, Like our defense has always been a powerhouse,
Speaker 12: and then we're just like and we can't navigate the waters.
Speaker 12: Even if like the people that we that were injured
Speaker 12: were playing, we still weren't doing well. And the Texans
Speaker 12: came in with like I think six touchdowns in four
Speaker 12: games and they just hammered us at home. It's just
Speaker 12: we're we're not good and it's really hard to watch.
Speaker 12: But since we're still the Ravens, I have a little
Speaker 12: bit of hope left. But you know, it's definitely doing
Speaker 12: the Lane week a week and Best of the weekend.
Speaker 12: It's not sports related, but my sister has been struggling
Speaker 12: with infertility for about two years and she just announced
Speaker 12: the family that she is pregnant and headed into our
Speaker 12: second trimesters. They were all the super.
Speaker 2: Pup awesome, awesome, Well thank you Morgan, go to hear
Speaker 2: from it. Congrats to your No, no, we're not doing
Speaker 2: happy pregnancy. Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 3: Do you think that John Harbaugh with the Ravens if
Speaker 3: they missed the playoffs is going to get the same
Speaker 3: or maybe it's time to try something different coverage.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I still think we focus way too
Speaker 2: much the national media on Mike Tomlin and his success
Speaker 2: and then lack of success in the postseason. I think
Speaker 2: John Harbaugh and Mike Tomlin are very similar, probably similar
Speaker 2: in age, both have one super Bowl, probably similar playoff record,
Speaker 2: I'm guessing. But you know, Tomlin is young. He's just
Speaker 2: going to be like sorry about all these other teams
Speaker 2: in the division. You know, I'm not going to apologize
Speaker 2: if we're going to have home field advantage for a game.
Speaker 2: But he does need to win a game. He needs
Speaker 2: to win a postseason game. They don't make changes with
Speaker 2: their coaches. But I don't know. I thought that this
Speaker 2: might be rogers last year and Tomlin's last year, so
Speaker 2: Tomlin in Pittsburgh and Rogers in his career. But you know,
Speaker 2: let's see how the season plays out, because maybe Rogers
Speaker 2: and they haven't been great, Rogers hasn't been spectacular. But
Speaker 2: all you got to do is just kind of hold
Speaker 2: serve here because you're seeing these teams get knocked off.
Speaker 2: Buffalo gets knocked off at home, Chargers get knocked off
Speaker 2: at home. It's still wild that you think there's parody
Speaker 2: and then you realize that, you know, the Jets are
Speaker 2: still in the league. The Titans got a gift there.
Speaker 2: You know, Carolina ends up winning. So there's some there's
Speaker 2: some good teams. I don't think there's great teams. I
Speaker 2: don't think Philadelphia is a great team this year. Detroit's
Speaker 2: not a great team. But that doesn't mean they can't
Speaker 2: win at all. It's just I don't think you've seen that.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, you don't want to face them? Yes, yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: I think John Harbaugh Ray he's coming up on I
Speaker 5: think almost twenty years of coaching that team and in
Speaker 5: that time they've had three losing seasons, maybe maybe two
Speaker 5: something like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, only one ring.
Speaker 5: But I think that there's I think sometimes we underestimate
Speaker 5: the value in being competitive every single year and how
Speaker 5: great that is as a fan base. It's frustrating to
Speaker 5: not get over the hump, but it's it's way worse
Speaker 5: to have, you know, five coaches in ten years.
Speaker 4: That's a way worse train to.
Speaker 5: Be on than the team that's like, gosh, we're always competitive,
Speaker 5: we just can't get that final mile.
Speaker 4: I'll take that every day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but look at Pittsburgh, they're not happy with Mike
Speaker 2: tom One. They have a winning record every year, every
Speaker 2: single year, and then they get to the postseason and
Speaker 2: nothing's happened in a decade. So I can take regular
Speaker 2: season relevancy, but damn, I got to get a postseason win.
Speaker 2: And you know, we take coaches, you know, players for granted, like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: we had a winning record. Well it's difficult to have that,
Speaker 2: you know, sustainability, But you also then go, okay, we
Speaker 2: expect to have a winning record. Now, how about a
Speaker 2: win in the postseason. I mean, that's the progression you
Speaker 2: have as a fan. Hey, we're not very good. Hey,
Speaker 2: we're kind of good. Now we're good. Now we're competing.
Speaker 2: Now let's win a playoff game.
Speaker 13: Yeah, Marvin, Yeah, I can see the Steelers fans frustration
Speaker 13: because their expectations is to win a Super Bowl because
Speaker 13: they have six of them. So now you're not even
Speaker 13: winning a playoff game, so the frustration is mounding up.
Speaker 2: Brian in Illinois, Hi, Brian, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 14: H Dan?
Speaker 15: First time, long time. My best of the weekend was
Speaker 15: my five hour road trip to Indianapolis to watch my
Speaker 15: Raiders with my daughter at bonding time. Had my snake
Speaker 15: Stabler Jersey on really have a good time. My worst
Speaker 15: was watching Geno Smith quarterback the Raiders.
Speaker 14: That was not watchable.
Speaker 15: However, I didn't have as bad as weekend as Mark
Speaker 15: Stanchez hair the dog Mark at the moon moment that
Speaker 15: got way out of control.
Speaker 2: Yeah, still waiting for more information on that. But he
Speaker 2: was released from the hospital. Now going to jail and
Speaker 2: we'll find it. He's got charges against him, so I
Speaker 2: think charge with three different three charges there, I think
Speaker 2: with Mark the colonel in Tampa, Hey, colonel.
Speaker 16: Good morning, General Dan. Hey, listen, we are in creams
Speaker 16: to cool Heaven here. Not a worst of Dan, but
Speaker 16: you know, thanks for letting me start the weekend off
Speaker 16: with Charlie Sheen, which always hearkens me back to nineteen
Speaker 16: eighty seven standing in front of an infantry platoon saying
Speaker 16: what are your concerns? And they go, you suck. We
Speaker 16: saw a platoon, but luckily we kept Heartbreak Ridge VHS
Speaker 16: in our back pocket. Hey, listen, my best of My
Speaker 16: lovely spouse got us tickets yesterday for Steve Martin. Martin
Speaker 16: short at four pm during the Bucks game, but wonderful time.
Speaker 16: And we walked out to a full parking lot and
Speaker 16: I got to watch the second half of the Bucks
Speaker 16: game while the parking lot cleared. Dan, you've talked about
Speaker 16: Tampa Bay. I will just say leadership and character counts.
Speaker 16: And lastly, Dan, you're our general. Please keep control of
Speaker 16: your privates, especially private Fritsy.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you Colonel David in Cincinnati, Hi, David.
Speaker 17: Hidip, thanks for the call.
Speaker 18: Yeah a few times, long time decrepit five Okay, best
Speaker 18: my Florida Gators chomp. Did this jump the worst Cincinnati
Speaker 18: Bengals And really, if you look back to the offseason,
Speaker 18: they drafted Shamar Stewart seventeenth overall, if you wanted to
Speaker 18: let T Higgins walk, you could have just maybe looked
Speaker 18: at the Ohio state wide receiver who led all time
Speaker 18: and receptions. There a Mecca BUCA draft him. Let T
Speaker 18: Higgins walk, There's an idea go all defense after that,
Speaker 18: or however you want to do it. And lastly, stout
Speaker 18: of the day, you want to cueue up the music.
Speaker 17: I'll try to hit the mark.
Speaker 10: With ten minutes left to go in the third quarter,
Speaker 10: Jamark Schafs, Bengals number one wide receiver, best receiver in football,
Speaker 10: was tied for the team lead and tackles with three.
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Speaker 2: The Deep sounds oldest rivalry. It's Georgia and Auburn. All right,
Speaker 2: Where do you want to start a good game or
Speaker 2: a bad game? I'll let you pick well, it's in
Speaker 2: the eye of the beholder.
Speaker 21: Dan, I'll let you direct it where you want to go,
Speaker 21: because the ugliest games are sometimes the prettiest in my eyes,
Speaker 21: because I'm a football junkie and a bit of a
Speaker 21: say so, I'll let you direct traffic, my friend.
Speaker 2: Right, should we be focusing on what UCLA did or
Speaker 2: what Penn State didn't do?
Speaker 6: A little of both.
Speaker 21: I hate to do the cop out answer there and
Speaker 21: straddle defense. But UCLA was great, and I think their quarterback.
Speaker 21: You run into a hot quarterback in college football with talent,
Speaker 21: you're going to have some challenges, which means you got
Speaker 21: to go outscore them. And sometimes that happens. Sometimes your
Speaker 21: defense doesn't have their best stuff. But to me, this
Speaker 21: was not about effort. I looked at Penn State and
Speaker 21: a lot of people were saying, oh, well, they were flat.
Speaker 21: When I watched it, I was like, they weren't flat,
Speaker 21: They just weren't making plays. They were out schemed. They
Speaker 21: gave up multiple third and longs to run game quarterbacks
Speaker 21: scramble in particular, which killed them. The third and fifteen,
Speaker 21: the third and eleven both converted with the quarterback scramble.
Speaker 21: Third and seven leads to a fifty two yard scramble.
Speaker 21: That three just with the quarterbacks legs and one with
Speaker 21: the running backs legs. So that was huge. The thing
Speaker 21: that was most troubling to me was a little bit
Speaker 21: how James Franklin handled the post game. If I'm gonna
Speaker 21: be completely honest, just some of the excuses. Travel issues.
Speaker 21: We lost guys last week, we lost guys during practice
Speaker 21: this week, guys didn't have enough energy. To me, that's
Speaker 21: gonna fall on deaf ears considering the week before, Oregon
Speaker 21: travels three time zones to beat you in your house
Speaker 21: in a whiteout.
Speaker 6: So I guess I just don't understand why.
Speaker 21: He took to the podium and went about it that
Speaker 21: way as opposed to just taking ownership and saying, hey,
Speaker 21: we got to be better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you on that. I don't want to
Speaker 2: hear these coaches complain about time zones. You know, Lincoln
Speaker 2: Riley going to Illinois, this is what you signed up for.
Speaker 2: This is the Big Ten. This is Big Ten football,
Speaker 2: and that means you're going coast to coast. This is
Speaker 2: what your athletic directors signed up for. So find a
Speaker 2: way to deal with it. I was hoping for a
Speaker 2: little more with Vandy and Alabama the game you did,
Speaker 2: you know, you look back on what happened last year,
Speaker 2: and I think we thought we would get a little
Speaker 2: more Diego Pavia magic there. Maybe Alabama is a really
Speaker 2: good team. How would you assess what you've seen so far?
Speaker 21: I think they are very good. I think both teams,
Speaker 21: by the way, are very good. And if not for
Speaker 21: the strip of Diego Pavia going in where it could
Speaker 21: have been fourteen to nothing and now Alabama's now playing
Speaker 21: from behind, very much changed the game. That was the
Speaker 21: biggest moment in the game was that strip in the
Speaker 21: red zone and the fumble recovery for the Tide.
Speaker 6: I think Alabama one.
Speaker 21: Thing in this game more than anything else Dan They
Speaker 21: showed the ability to weather the storm. They showed the
Speaker 21: ability to absorb the punch, and that was not something
Speaker 21: they did very well last year.
Speaker 6: Under killing the boor. They didn't do that very well
Speaker 6: against Florida State.
Speaker 21: They got punched early in this game, and they responded,
Speaker 21: so that to me is progress. They also made some
Speaker 21: adjustments defensively that I thought were really really good, and
Speaker 21: that's not something they've done consistently at times.
Speaker 6: In the last couple of years.
Speaker 21: They adjusted their alignment just to where the defensive backs
Speaker 21: and the linebackers.
Speaker 6: Were off the ball. That was helpful.
Speaker 21: So I really like Vanderbilt by the way, Like everyone
Speaker 21: looks at Vanderbilt to look at the name, to look
Speaker 21: at the historical significance, and they will dismiss them automatically,
Speaker 21: whereas we've seen with teams like Indiana, with team like Vanderbilt,
Speaker 21: where you can be very different in this new era
Speaker 21: with nil support, and they are really good.
Speaker 6: This was big for Bama to get this win.
Speaker 21: It doesn't get much easier to go on the road
Speaker 21: to Missouri this week, and that's a team that runs
Speaker 21: for over three hundred nearly three hundred yards a game,
Speaker 21: so they'll have their handsful on the road this one.
Speaker 21: And at eleven o'clock kick, they're in Columbia, Missouri, which
Speaker 21: would be tough against top fifteen opponents. So this is
Speaker 21: a very tough stretch for Alabama. This I think was
Speaker 21: proof that they have matured as a program, given how
Speaker 21: they performed against Vandy compared to how they performed last year.
Speaker 21: But it doesn't get any easier as the challenges still
Speaker 21: lie ahead.
Speaker 2: Heisman race is wide open.
Speaker 6: You got somebody, has there ever been one that's this
Speaker 6: wide open? By the way for seven.
Speaker 2: Weeks, But I thought that coming in that it felt
Speaker 2: wide open, just because last year wasn't wide open, right,
Speaker 2: you know? I think arch people thought that, you know,
Speaker 2: this foregone conclusion, Texas to be good. He'll be good,
Speaker 2: they'll play for a national title and you win the
Speaker 2: Heisman in the process. Well, that hasn't gone as scripted.
Speaker 2: So who do you have?
Speaker 21: Well, right now, I think the biggest Heisman moment of
Speaker 21: the season could come this weekend, and that's between two
Speaker 21: guys that are among the front runners. With Fernando Mendoza
Speaker 21: in Indiana who's playing lights out football to the first
Speaker 21: five games of the year, but this will be by
Speaker 21: far the biggest stage he's playing on. It'll be a
Speaker 21: nationally consumable audience. Yes, it's up against Red River rivalry
Speaker 21: at the same time, but for the most part, man,
Speaker 21: everyone's curious what he's going to do now on the
Speaker 21: road against a really good Oregon football team and then
Speaker 21: Oregon's quarterback Dante More.
Speaker 6: Those two guys are going head to head.
Speaker 21: I feel like I'm watching the program and it's you know,
Speaker 21: Joe Caine against Tim wayman. I mean, it's all about
Speaker 21: the quarterbacks in this game for whatever reason, right, you
Speaker 21: know you love that that drop for sure, But to me,
Speaker 21: it's kind of interesting that one those two I think
Speaker 21: are right there.
Speaker 6: I think ty Simpson is ascending, but.
Speaker 21: Big opportunities lie ahead for ty Simpson to kind of
Speaker 21: have that Heisman moment, whether it's against LSU, perhaps it's
Speaker 21: against Oklahoma when John Mattier, who's also in that mix,
Speaker 21: even though he's hurt right now, if they play there
Speaker 21: in mid November, that could be big. Of course, the
Speaker 21: SEC Championship game if they get there's big. And then
Speaker 21: I'll throw a little dark horse at you. Trinidad Shambliss
Speaker 21: Ole Miss. This kid is the real deal, man. I mean,
Speaker 21: I am a believer, I really am. I think he's
Speaker 21: that good. And he was a D two player last
Speaker 21: year at Fairs State. No one really knew who he was.
Speaker 21: But I remember doing their game week two and Lane
Speaker 21: Kiff and Sean McDonagh asked Lane, Hey, Lane, what else
Speaker 21: do we need to know about your team? And he goes, yeah,
Speaker 21: just so you know my backup quarterback if he goes
Speaker 21: in the game this guy's going to cause a lot
Speaker 21: of problems.
Speaker 6: And sure enough he.
Speaker 21: Goes in these last few weeks and he's been unstoppable
Speaker 21: and against quality competition to l us use no joke
Speaker 21: on defense?
Speaker 2: What's North Carolina going to have to do? Big picture?
Speaker 2: And I know it's it's early. You got to have patients.
Speaker 2: They brought in all of these transfers, which I said,
Speaker 2: to be fair to Belichick, give him a month and
Speaker 2: then maybe you're going to find out if this team
Speaker 2: is any good. But then when one of his guys
Speaker 2: on his staff, Mike Lombardi, said, we're going to focus
Speaker 2: on freshmen next year, well that means you got to
Speaker 2: have even more patience. If you're going to be focusing
Speaker 2: on recruits next year, how long do you know if
Speaker 2: North Carolina is any good?
Speaker 21: Uh No, I don't think they're very good. I do
Speaker 21: think last week was not necessarily the best indicator of
Speaker 21: what's going on in the future because Clemson, whow they've
Speaker 21: struggled in the first four weeks of the season, it
Speaker 21: was a kind of a get right off contunity for like,
Speaker 21: I just had a feeling that game was going to
Speaker 21: go that way, like Clemson was due and North Carolina's
Speaker 21: got a whole host of issues. Now they've had some injuries,
Speaker 21: so you could point to that, But the big problem
Speaker 21: is that when you look at what Bill Belichick has
Speaker 21: done traditionally, and what he does well is take away
Speaker 21: teams top tendencies, and they haven't really done that very well,
Speaker 21: and part of that is a lack of talent and
Speaker 21: it's going to take some time. So I don't think
Speaker 21: he's in jeopardy of losing his job or anything like that.
Speaker 21: I think that's way too premature. I mean, he's four
Speaker 21: or five games into his tenure as a college coach.
Speaker 21: But I also think at some point you have to
Speaker 21: sow some progress because the recruits that you're recruiting are
Speaker 21: also being actively recruited by other teams. And if you
Speaker 21: can show the recruits, hey, there's some doubt with North Carolina,
Speaker 21: then they're going to be more open to listening to
Speaker 21: overtures from other programs, even though they're currently committed to
Speaker 21: the Targeels. So I think as long as recruiting's good,
Speaker 21: they're in good shape. But how long will recruiting be
Speaker 21: good if things spin off?
Speaker 2: The rails scholarship offers? Did you get.
Speaker 21: I don't remember exactly, but probably like thirty five in
Speaker 21: that vicinity.
Speaker 6: All the smart schools Dan.
Speaker 21: That was all I had, all the smart schools like
Speaker 21: Alabama and some others, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Okay, did Shaban come to the house?
Speaker 21: Saban wasn't there. Actually he got there the following year.
Speaker 21: So I got recruited by Mike Shula, son of Don
Speaker 21: and current offensive coordinator of the South Carolina game cock.
Speaker 6: So that was who recruited me.
Speaker 21: And him and a guy named Bob Connolly came to
Speaker 21: the house and it made the offer and I committed
Speaker 21: pretty quickly. My parents don't even know I was going there,
Speaker 21: but thought it was a good decision and ended up
Speaker 21: working out pretty good.
Speaker 2: If not Alabama, where would you have gone.
Speaker 6: It's kind of a tough call.
Speaker 21: I probably would have ended up at either North Carolina,
Speaker 21: but kind of my final groups were North Carolina.
Speaker 6: Miss Alabama.
Speaker 21: I was committed to Texas Tech for a bit, probably
Speaker 21: wasn't going to end up there because they had taken
Speaker 21: another guy as well. And then late to the party
Speaker 21: were some teams that were coming in, like USC was
Speaker 21: really good at that point. They relate to the party,
Speaker 21: so a little different era back then where you get
Speaker 21: offered your senior year as opposed to like in seventh grade,
Speaker 21: So it's changed a lot.
Speaker 2: Did you back up Chase Daniel in high school?
Speaker 6: I did?
Speaker 2: Okay, we just we just had him on last hour.
Speaker 6: Oh nice? So he opened to you, Carl Dragons.
Speaker 21: I should have put the dragon helmet out here and
Speaker 21: see who would have had more stars on the on
Speaker 21: the side of the helmet like Buckeye stickers.
Speaker 6: I think Chase probably had a few more than I did.
Speaker 2: Great to catch up with you, have fun with Georgia
Speaker 2: and Auburn coming up this weekend.
Speaker 6: Thank you always, great to be with you, buddy, See soon.
Speaker 2: That's Greg McElroy the Always College Football podcast, and he's
Speaker 2: of course got the game coming up Saturday night on
Speaker 2: ABC and Georgia Impaul.
Speaker 3: Yes, South Lake Carroll High School in Texas a football powerhouse.
Speaker 3: That has to be the first time we've had two
Speaker 3: guys who went to high school together on the same show. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it has to be.
Speaker 2: Yeah. A couple more phone calls here, Jason in Atlanta, Hi, Jas,
Speaker 2: what do you have for me?
Speaker 7: Yes, sir Dan, always a pleasure to talk to you.
Speaker 7: Shout out to the dan Nest want to do the
Speaker 7: best and worst of the weekend. I'm gonna start off
Speaker 7: with the worst. The worst has absolutely got to be
Speaker 7: the quarterback play of the Bengals. I see why the
Speaker 7: NFL does everything they can to keep these dudes up right.
Speaker 7: When your leading tackler is one of your running back
Speaker 7: wide receivers, that's never a good thing. So go ahead, Bengals,
Speaker 7: come and get Kirk Cousins from us. Take them off
Speaker 7: our hands. We'd appreciate it. But the best of the weekend,
Speaker 7: they showed him on CBS when his team, a son's
Speaker 7: team was about to win, and just watching that father
Speaker 7: have so much joy seeing his son get to win
Speaker 7: over there at UCLA was absolutely incredible. So we got
Speaker 7: to get him on make a song about that. One
Speaker 7: final thing was stuck behind a pass hop the other
Speaker 7: day and immediately I said to myself, what the fritz
Speaker 7: is going on?
Speaker 2: Thank you? Jason. Yeah. Rick new Weiseel works for CBS
Speaker 2: Sports and he's watching the UCLA Penn State game and
Speaker 2: his son is the offensive coordinator and he's reacting when
Speaker 2: they had a big stop and his son was promoted
Speaker 2: to offensive coordinator and certainly changing some things there, at
Speaker 2: least offensively at UCLA. Lucas in Texas, Hi, Luke, what's
Speaker 2: on your mind today?
Speaker 22: Hey Dan, good morning, Good morning. I wanted to call
Speaker 22: in with the best of the weekend. First, I loved
Speaker 22: the South Lake Carol shout out. That was a great
Speaker 22: run for South Carolin. They're it's really good here in
Speaker 22: the lone star state. My best, I only have a best.
Speaker 22: It was a great weekend and the early window on
Speaker 22: Saturday gave us a real treatment. Some Service Academy football,
Speaker 22: Navy versus Air Force Academy. You had a shootout, you
Speaker 22: had actual passing, and to that hind, my best is Eli.
Speaker 22: I think it's Heide and rich Hide and Reich scored
Speaker 22: three touchdowns, had over two hundred yards, got to jump
Speaker 22: into his dad's arm after one of those touchdowns, and
Speaker 22: has set the career Naval Academy record with fourteen career
Speaker 22: touchdown reception. By comparison, the Almia School record is held
Speaker 22: by DeVonta Smith with forty six. So still a ways
Speaker 22: to go to climb those ranks, but a great weekend overall.
Speaker 22: Always enjoy watching it.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Lucas. Brandon in Indianapolis, Hi, Brandon.
Speaker 23: Hey, DV, thanks taking a call, a longtime listener, first
Speaker 23: time caller. I'm a huge Kentucky fan. I'll just go
Speaker 23: ahead and just say that. So you guys are talking
Speaker 23: about John Harbaugh here with the Ravens comparison. You know,
Speaker 23: with their careers, you got uh one championship, all the
Speaker 23: talent in the world. You know, I'm seeing right.
Speaker 2: Now, So you're seeing John John Harbaugh, John cali Perry.
Speaker 23: Yeah, I think it's it's the same thing. You know,
Speaker 23: they'd been there for a long time and got one championship,
Speaker 23: and you know they make the playoffs every year. Mccurament,
Speaker 23: every year. Huge's appointment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's a fair comparison. Because John cal Perry
Speaker 2: loves to come on and tell us how many players
Speaker 2: are playing in the NBA, and I wanted to tell
Speaker 2: him off the air. You got to play to your alumni,
Speaker 2: to your boosters, to the fans. They don't care that
Speaker 2: Devin Booker's making sixty million dollars in the NBA. They
Speaker 2: want to know what kind of success he had there.
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis got a thirty million dollar home. I don't
Speaker 2: care what. You know, what did Kentucky do but he
Speaker 2: would always lead with that. And look, I know that
Speaker 2: he recruits and he's going to have you there for
Speaker 2: a year. He wants you to go on to bigger things.
Speaker 2: That's how he gets you. He wants to get you
Speaker 2: ready for the pros. I just I wanted to tell
Speaker 2: him it doesn't sound good when you tell me about
Speaker 2: all of these great players who have passed through and
Speaker 2: you've got one national title.
Speaker 13: Yes, Marvin, Yeah, it's gonna really annoy the fan base
Speaker 13: when seven out of twenty four NBA All Stars with
Speaker 13: the Kentucky and we're coached by you, Like, where are
Speaker 13: the national championships you have won?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Bruce and Florida? Hi Bruce, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 24: Hey?
Speaker 1: Bruce?
Speaker 2: John and Georgia. Hi John, what's on your mind today?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 2: How you doing?
Speaker 14: Dan? I've been listening to you for many many years.
Speaker 15: I just love you guys.
Speaker 6: You're just great.
Speaker 16: Could you guys wish me a happy birthday?
Speaker 22: I just turned seventy nine today.
Speaker 2: Alrighty presence, have.
Speaker 6: A great day.
Speaker 2: John. I was going to say, you know, call me
Speaker 2: when you get to eighty. I mean, seventy nine is
Speaker 2: not that big a deal, but eighty No, I'm just joking, Marvin. Marvin,
Speaker 2: not everybody gets my sense of humor. Yes, Todd and
Speaker 2: usually calling to wish someone.
Speaker 8: Else a happy birthday. I like that he took it
Speaker 8: upon himself, wish me a happy birthday.
Speaker 18: That's great?
Speaker 2: Wrong that, Yeah, Paul, what is officially old?
Speaker 3: It doesn't feel like seventy five is old anymore. Doesn't
Speaker 3: you gotta be over seventy five?
Speaker 25: Like if you hadn't. How's your dad doing? Oh he's good.
Speaker 25: He just turned seventy five the other day. Oh I
Speaker 25: didn't realize he was that old.
Speaker 1: Old.
Speaker 2: Well I've been I see Belichick and Pete Carroll. Yes,
Speaker 2: and Pete Carroll doesn't act like he's whatever. Seventy three
Speaker 2: or seventy four. Nobody retire check certainly doesn't act like that.
Speaker 6: Yes, that is an interesting question.
Speaker 8: When they say someone died of natural causes, are of
Speaker 8: old age? What is that starting number? They never really
Speaker 8: say where that is.
Speaker 2: I would say late seventies.
Speaker 25: Yeah, I'm old, like seventy eight.
Speaker 2: Like John and George is old. Yeah, but he might
Speaker 2: be a young seventy nine. Yeh see.
Speaker 4: I think it's not to.
Speaker 5: Go all meta on us, but I do kind of
Speaker 5: think that there are some eighty year olds who are
Speaker 5: very young and some.
Speaker 4: Sixty year olds who are so old. Yeah. I think
Speaker 4: it is a little bit of the way you carry yourself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I got it. I get it. I mean
Speaker 2: I forget how old I am sometimes, yes, Marmon.
Speaker 13: Yeah, you like to play the obituary game where you
Speaker 13: see somebody's you know, John Smith age whatever. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 13: he lived a good life. There's a funeral, and there's
Speaker 13: a celebration of life. You want to be in a
Speaker 13: celebration of left category?
Speaker 2: How old do you have to be to be the
Speaker 2: he lived a good life.
Speaker 25: Over eighty two.
Speaker 3: It's not like a shame, oh he died early. If
Speaker 3: you're like if you die at eighty three, like, oh
Speaker 3: you got a full one, full run.
Speaker 2: Yes, Todd.
Speaker 8: There's definitely a difference between a full life and a
Speaker 8: good life. You could have lived to only one hundred
Speaker 8: and two and have a miserable.
Speaker 3: Existence, Uh, Paul, Yeah, seat's right about like how you
Speaker 3: behave at an age.
Speaker 25: I have a buddy who did very well for himself.
Speaker 3: He retired at forty eight, and he and his wife
Speaker 3: sit around he reads the paper for hours on end,
Speaker 3: they take walks, she knits, and they go to dinner
Speaker 3: at about five oh two every night. And they're in
Speaker 3: their early.
Speaker 4: Fifties, straight up octagenarian behavior. Yes, yes, I definitely know
Speaker 4: eighty year old people who are more active than that.
Speaker 2: Yes, and I think they live in the villages in Florida.
Speaker 25: Hey, he always says, I gotta get my steps in.
Speaker 25: I'm like steps and you mean to go for a
Speaker 25: walk or a stroll?
Speaker 2: Have you been you guys aware of the villages And
Speaker 2: oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah that they get after it there.
Speaker 4: I'm on now, get your penicillin on thet Yeah.
Speaker 2: And then depending on how you dress up your golf cart,
Speaker 2: you're open for business or.
Speaker 8: Oh okay, I thought it was just pick and shuffle board.
Speaker 14: Do something.
Speaker 2: It's kind of pickleball and shuffle.
Speaker 14: Heck, yeah, let's go.
Speaker 13: Yeah, Doris, what's up?
Speaker 11: Hey?
Speaker 12: Hey?
Speaker 2: Girlfriend? H all right, last call for phone called what
Speaker 2: we learned Once in store tomorrow?
Speaker 25: Did you see Alice?
Speaker 2: Oh, We're back after this.
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Speaker 2: what's on your mind?
Speaker 14: I have a best in the worst first time longtime
Speaker 14: five penn one seventy five hard. My worst of the
Speaker 14: weekend was the build discipline last night. Terrible, hore awful
Speaker 14: second lee. My best of the weekend is hockey season
Speaker 14: starts next Wednesday for us out here in vgk Land
Speaker 14: in Vegas. Uh, you guys have my crystal puck there
Speaker 14: in the man cave.
Speaker 26: I appreciate it.
Speaker 14: We had an emotional ceremony on October first because of
Speaker 14: the shooting that happened. And then third, yes, I was
Speaker 14: in the car driving my wife to the hospital. She's
Speaker 14: a nurse, and she was listening to the whole pass
Speaker 14: whole situation, and she said, that's you, that's you. I said, well,
Speaker 14: I'm doing I'm doing twenty miles over the speed limit.
Speaker 14: Everybody else in the right lanes are going slower. I
Speaker 14: need to get somewhere. Maybe the passhole lane is for
Speaker 14: people that are looking for bagels that are gonna expire.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you Ross, thank you big wind up there.
Speaker 2: But I drive differently. I'm so aware of being in
Speaker 2: the left lane, how long I'm in the left lane,
Speaker 2: how fast I'm going in the left lane, just because
Speaker 2: of you toadd.
Speaker 8: And now I am too actually believe it or not
Speaker 8: not to just get on the good side of everyone
Speaker 8: who hates me out there, if the t shirts and
Speaker 8: whatever we're doing. But I am more acknowledging of what's
Speaker 8: going on, and maybe maybe I need to move over
Speaker 8: a little bit. At times, I still don't appreciate being
Speaker 8: my having my bumpet ridden.
Speaker 2: On Jim and Michigan. Hi Jim, what's on your mind?
Speaker 24: Hey Dan?
Speaker 11: You guys are begging asking the question about how do
Speaker 11: you know when you're old or getting in that elderly
Speaker 11: state is when the artists that are assigned to play
Speaker 11: the halftime show the Super Bowl show up and you
Speaker 11: don't know who they are, and then your artists that
Speaker 11: you do like are now cover stories on the AARP magazine.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Jim. I'm not true. I wasn't familiar with
Speaker 2: everybody that was you know, the rap group that I mean,
Speaker 2: Kendrick Lamar, I'm aware of. I know he's great, famous,
Speaker 2: but I'm not familiar with his music. Drake, I'm not
Speaker 2: familiar with his music. By the way, I had a
Speaker 2: four and a half hour drive to Maine and I
Speaker 2: listened to Taylor Swift's album a couple of times. Okay,
Speaker 2: hell yeah. There's a lot of a lot of a
Speaker 2: lot of eggs in their Easter eggs in there or
Speaker 2: whatever they're called. Where there's a hidden message there if
Speaker 2: you hidden message, A couple not so hidden messages. She's
Speaker 2: getting a little saucy, you know, a little flirty here,
Speaker 2: a little spicy, yes, Marvin.
Speaker 13: But isn't she like thirty five? Yeah, she should be
Speaker 13: a little spicy on windows.
Speaker 2: Well, she didn't even do anuendo talking about Travis and
Speaker 2: as Kelsey, Like I'm going Okay, all right, Taylor.
Speaker 4: A song meat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like would.
Speaker 14: That's like.
Speaker 4: That. It's the exact same scenario. It's the exact same meaning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I I wish she would have been a little
Speaker 2: more discreet because you got a lot of girls, young
Speaker 2: girls who look up to her, and she wasn't discreet
Speaker 2: on on one song. Nope, she wasn't disappointed in Taye
Speaker 2: with that. But I did like the album. I thought
Speaker 2: it was you know, it's clever, fun Jimmy and Michigan.
Speaker 2: But if you're Travis Kelce, you're going to get a
Speaker 2: whole album dedicated to you if if this doesn't go
Speaker 2: off as scripted here, he's going to get a whole
Speaker 2: album if they don't get married or something bad happens. Okay, Jimmy,
Speaker 2: Hi Dan, Hey jim.
Speaker 24: How are you doing great?
Speaker 26: Hey, I'm not. I was going to listen to the
Speaker 26: whole People's string. But I'm eighty one, still delivering the
Speaker 26: auto parts should shops here in Michigan, and I retired
Speaker 26: about ten years ago, got bored with it, went back
Speaker 26: to work, work five days a week, keep going strong.
Speaker 2: Good for you, Jimmy. Yeah, that worries me when I
Speaker 2: when people go, oh, yeah, I'm going to retire. I'm like, man,
Speaker 2: I'm going to retire from the show, but I'm not
Speaker 2: going to retire because I could not do that. But
Speaker 2: staying busy, Hell yeah, yeah, Todd.
Speaker 8: I'd rather take a NAPA in cel auto park.
Speaker 26: So that's just me.
Speaker 2: Okay, got bat Yeah, No, don't encourage him. Butcher in
Speaker 2: Pennsylvania high Butcher.
Speaker 24: Morning, Dan, How are you good?
Speaker 1: Butch?
Speaker 24: I'm a five to ten and a half stout but
Speaker 24: injured two sixties A stout but injured. Philimry driver to sixty. Sorry,
Speaker 24: get a little messed.
Speaker 2: Up there, Okay?
Speaker 24: Uh one a quant I'm a dolphins and a penn
Speaker 24: State apologist, they both think.
Speaker 7: So.
Speaker 24: Next question is is a knee replacement.
Speaker 2: Surgery? Is that a knee replace a surgery or as No,
Speaker 2: it's not a procedure. No, that is surgery. And if
Speaker 2: you haven't had it, that recovery time the first two
Speaker 2: weeks are brutal, brutal. That was some of the worst
Speaker 2: pain I ever went through. But good luck with that.
Speaker 2: But replacement, that is a surge.
Speaker 8: Is there any body part that you can replace where
Speaker 8: it would not be considered surgery from teeth to anything.
Speaker 8: I think anytime you're replacing an organ or a body part,
Speaker 8: that's got to be surgery.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean I've had a lot of surgeries.
Speaker 2: You've had a lot of procedures, Okay for Fritzy Seaton, Marv, Paula, yours. Truly.
Speaker 2: I have a great Monday, everybody. We'll look forward to
Speaker 2: talking with you tomorrow.