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Speaker 2: the Vikings against Jared Goff and the Lions. It's the
Speaker 2: final game of the regular season and what's up for
Speaker 2: grabs number one seed in the NFC. The loser will
Speaker 2: be the fifth seed with fourteen wins on the road
Speaker 2: opening round to the playoffs. Sunday seven Eastern on NBC
Speaker 2: in Peacock. And if you talk about a must win situation,
Speaker 2: this is and we'll do the must win game of
Speaker 2: the weekend coming up. But if I look at the Lions,
Speaker 2: I have to take them off the board for the
Speaker 2: following reason. They have to win this game for a
Speaker 2: variety of reasons. You want to have the number one
Speaker 2: overall seed, you have the home field advantage, so they
Speaker 2: need to continue to win. So there is the possibility
Speaker 2: that Aiden Hutchinson will be able to play. The longer
Speaker 2: they go, the more opportunity for these players. And it's
Speaker 2: not just him, there's a couple other players. They're trying
Speaker 2: to get back for the postseason. They must win this
Speaker 2: game this weekend. They got to get to the NFC
Speaker 2: Title Game, and if they do, chances are they would
Speaker 2: have Aiden Hutchinson back for the Super Bowl. But when
Speaker 2: you talk about most must win, I know there's other
Speaker 2: scenarios here, but that would probably be front and center
Speaker 2: for me because it's not just home field advantage. It's
Speaker 2: also sending the Vikings on the road, and it's also
Speaker 2: maybe going to extend the opportunity to be able to
Speaker 2: extend your postseason because you'll have home field advantage. All right,
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Speaker 2: It was a great night for Notre Dame. This is
Speaker 2: one of those games that, now, this isn't a great
Speaker 2: Georgia team, but it's a dangerous Georgia team. And I
Speaker 2: thought that Notre Dame looked like an SEC team, or
Speaker 2: at least an older, old school SEC. You know, they
Speaker 2: were able to control the ball, they were physical, they
Speaker 2: had speed, all the things, you know. And I go
Speaker 2: back to I was at the national title game with
Speaker 2: Ohio State in Florida, and I remember it was just different.
Speaker 2: You just watched what the SEC was all about, and
Speaker 2: it was speed. And I thought, there is a big
Speaker 2: difference between the SEC and everybody else. There's not that
Speaker 2: big of a difference anymore. Dan Wilton, who writes for
Speaker 2: USA Today, he has an article that starts out by
Speaker 2: saying SEC and its dear leader should accept reality. The
Speaker 2: league no longer rules college football. Goes on to write
Speaker 2: the time has come for SEC fans, its media machine,
Speaker 2: and especially its commissioner to fess up to the reality
Speaker 2: that it has simmered under the surface this entire college
Speaker 2: football season. The world has changed significantly and the old
Speaker 2: reliable narrative that there is a different quality of football
Speaker 2: in the SEC than other leagues is now more of
Speaker 2: a myth than a reality. It goes on to write
Speaker 2: how you can't stockpile players nil transfer portal. That's changed everything,
Speaker 2: and he ends up by saying that they should not
Speaker 2: be entitled, that we wont all these championships under a
Speaker 2: completely different set of rules. So you must kneel to
Speaker 2: us now that Bologney that comes far too naturally for
Speaker 2: people all over that league. It's time for a new act.
Speaker 2: It's time to be honest, it's time to face facts.
Speaker 2: You're just like everyone else now, Yes, Paully, I.
Speaker 4: Like to pump the brakes on that article. One off
Speaker 4: year for the SEC does not deny the past twenty years.
Speaker 4: They stir the drink of college football. They will in
Speaker 4: the off season, Greg Sanki make maneuvers to alter the
Speaker 4: rules of the college football playoffs to be more friendly
Speaker 4: to them. One off year does not mean falling off
Speaker 4: a cliff. It's like a basketball player in his prime
Speaker 4: has an off year and they say, well that's it,
Speaker 4: Tom Brady's falling off a cliff, or Lebron James, the
Speaker 4: SEC is going to be fine and they are going
Speaker 4: to keep running.
Speaker 2: Things, but there's only so much amount of money you
Speaker 2: can spend on an io and other schools are promising
Speaker 2: your opportunity to play right away. If you're a quarterback,
Speaker 2: you want to play. If you're transferring, you want to
Speaker 2: play now. You're not going to be third on the
Speaker 2: depth chart waiting for your turn at Alabama. It's just
Speaker 2: not going to happen. And you even saw this with
Speaker 2: Georgia last night. Georgia should have five running backs ready
Speaker 2: to go, and maybe they do, but they didn't have
Speaker 2: a running game last night. I mean, Sony Michelle and
Speaker 2: Nick Chubb, Like, this is Georgia. You got to have
Speaker 2: a running back. They had no running game. Now you're
Speaker 2: still spending money on the offensive and defensive line, but
Speaker 2: it just feels like these other schools can pony up
Speaker 2: money and it can be an attractive place to go
Speaker 2: because you can play right away. I think that's the
Speaker 2: difference is maybe they're not going to be as great
Speaker 2: as they once were, but you're going to have teams
Speaker 2: that maybe you didn't factor in, like SMU or Indiana,
Speaker 2: Arizona State, Boise State, that they can come up and
Speaker 2: they can play with you. It's only one game. That's
Speaker 2: all you're asking for. They wanted an opportunity. Now they lost,
Speaker 2: but they got an opportunity and Arizona State took Tech
Speaker 2: to the mat double overtime. That's what you want. Now
Speaker 2: you have more teams that can make the playoff. It's
Speaker 2: not making a bowl game, it's making the playoffs. So
Speaker 2: now when you spend, you're spending with a goal that
Speaker 2: can be lucrative because if you win or you continue
Speaker 2: to win and that amount of money, like Notre Dame
Speaker 2: doesn't have to share the money. They had fourteen million
Speaker 2: dollars they made last night and then they got this
Speaker 2: next game. So that's where you know, the business of
Speaker 2: college football is allowing you to be able to compete
Speaker 2: and if you win your conference and college football will change,
Speaker 2: it'll continue to change. But this is why when you
Speaker 2: see what's going on now, transfer portal. I can get
Speaker 2: that quarterback who played with that team, quin Ewers is
Speaker 2: going to play for somebody next year. Imagine if quinn
Speaker 2: Ewers goes to Notre Dame or Oregon, six million dollars
Speaker 2: probably gonna cost you got your quarterback. So that's what's
Speaker 2: going on. Notre Dame, Sam Hartman, Riley Leonard, come on in,
Speaker 2: play a year, see you later. That's what college football
Speaker 2: has become. You know, it's not this. Hey, You've earned
Speaker 2: your time. Your time is now. You come in, you play.
Speaker 2: If you don't play, you're thinking about transferring or I
Speaker 2: might transfer. How much you're gonna pay me to stay?
Speaker 2: This is what's going on, and it'll continue until they're
Speaker 2: able to put, you know, a seatbelt on this. And
Speaker 2: believe me, they're working on this. They are like, how
Speaker 2: did this happen?
Speaker 3: Yah?
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Speaker 4: Hey?
Speaker 5: Dan?
Speaker 6: Six two one fifty lanky?
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Speaker 5: Hey Dan?
Speaker 7: Youre talking some dude earlier about Riley Leonard's Notre Dame
Speaker 7: quarterback and how he can't be Taysom Hill because.
Speaker 6: He's too small.
Speaker 5: Well, Riley Leonard's six four two inches taller than Taysom
Speaker 5: Hill in the same weight. I'm just wondering.
Speaker 6: I feel like he could be.
Speaker 8: Way better, uh if he wanted to. I don't say
Speaker 8: there there.
Speaker 2: You know, Riley Leonard is is lanky. Taysom Hill is jacked, Okay,
Speaker 2: and he was like that in college. Riley Leonard's good athlete.
Speaker 2: I told you, you know, he was recruited to play
Speaker 2: college basketball. He's a perfect college quarterback. But Taysom Hill
Speaker 2: is different. There's no there's no other Taysom Hill in
Speaker 2: the NFL. And Riley Leonard is not playing running back. Okay,
Speaker 2: maybe gets a chance playing quarterback.
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, I've just I've watched him. He's athletic, you know,
Speaker 2: watched him before he transferred, so I was aware of
Speaker 2: him and he found a great place. But he's not
Speaker 2: Taysom Hill. How about the most must win game of
Speaker 2: the weekend. I can't wait any longer. Okay, Lions are
Speaker 2: off the board. Okay, because if you factor this in
Speaker 2: the Lions the most must win, you get the bye week,
Speaker 2: and then you have eighteen players on the IR Thirteen
Speaker 2: of the eighteen players for the Lions on the ir
Speaker 2: defensive players. They're gonna have to outscore everybody like they're
Speaker 2: They can't just score twenty one points in win a game.
Speaker 2: They can't. I'd be shocked if they do. All right, Todd,
Speaker 2: the most must win game of the.
Speaker 10: Weekend, Shockingly, I'm gonna go with at Mile High Stadium,
Speaker 10: the Broncos must be Carson Wentz and the second tier
Speaker 10: Chiefs and finally grab.
Speaker 2: You, you know what, I'm taking the Broncos off the
Speaker 2: board for you.
Speaker 10: Are you real?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's obvious.
Speaker 10: Then I'm gonna go for a must win for.
Speaker 2: I'll come back to Okay, Yeah, I'll come back to Seaton.
Speaker 2: Most must win game of the weekend.
Speaker 11: I think if this is a must win weekend for Russell.
Speaker 2: Wilson, Russell Wilson's future.
Speaker 11: I think Russell Wilson if he beats the Bengals, which
Speaker 11: I think knocks them out of the playoffs, right yeah,
Speaker 11: I think if he's able to do that, he can
Speaker 11: count on having a job in Pittsburgh next year. I'm
Speaker 11: not sure if he doesn't. Though Bengals favored by two
Speaker 11: by two, I think he wins that game. You can
Speaker 11: count on him coming back.
Speaker 2: All right, Marvin most must win game of the weekend.
Speaker 12: Ironically, I have the Cincinnati Bengals if they can get in.
Speaker 12: Have a couple teams lose. That's a team you do
Speaker 12: not want to see in the playoffs, like legit.
Speaker 3: You don't want to see, you do not they can
Speaker 3: get to the super.
Speaker 2: Bowl, Yeah, they can't get to the super Bowl. Part
Speaker 2: of the FI yeah, Pie of the Faith. They they
Speaker 2: don't have a defense.
Speaker 3: They got Joe Burrow.
Speaker 2: They have Joe Burrow, and they have Jamar Chase and
Speaker 2: they have t Higgins, Paulie. The most must win game
Speaker 2: of the weekend.
Speaker 4: Is my mmwg ot W is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Speaker 4: favored by fourteen against the Saints. The NFC is wide
Speaker 4: open and they are very threatening if they get there.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna give you a bonus. Most must lose game
Speaker 4: of the weekend. This is new the New England Patriots
Speaker 4: hosting the Buffalo Bills. You must lose that football game.
Speaker 4: You had the number one draft pick and I think
Speaker 4: there's no way you could lose it unless you win
Speaker 4: that game.
Speaker 2: And so you can win by losing, correct, you can
Speaker 2: win big by losing.
Speaker 11: I think you can also lose and still win. Correct,
Speaker 11: after all these years.
Speaker 13: You can lose and still win in the.
Speaker 4: End, and lose in the NFL and still win. The
Speaker 4: Patriots are three and thirteen have won six lost six
Speaker 4: in a row.
Speaker 3: Right on cue, So.
Speaker 2: Wait mate, you can lose and still win. You can
Speaker 2: win and still lose.
Speaker 4: The New York Giants and the Raiders have won and
Speaker 4: still lost the past few weeks.
Speaker 2: The Bills are favored by two and a half, two
Speaker 2: and a half, two and a half. Most must win
Speaker 2: game of the weekend, I'd say the Steelers. I think
Speaker 2: Steelers is kind of a tricky situation there because the
Speaker 2: Ravens are favored by twenty Yes, tod, I.
Speaker 10: Think for an also round, even if it's not the
Speaker 10: most because they're pretty much off the board from the ones.
Speaker 10: You guys picked Chicago at Green Bay. All the attention
Speaker 10: going to the Lions and Vikings on that Sunday night
Speaker 10: game that they need to dominate the Bears, Lambeau and
Speaker 10: feel good going into the wild card round, that they're
Speaker 10: the team to be reckoned with in the.
Speaker 2: Nfstein anything Ryan in Michigan? Hi Ryan, what's on your
Speaker 2: mind today?
Speaker 9: Hi?
Speaker 10: Dan?
Speaker 6: I was just calling because I just don't understand why
Speaker 6: Jared Goff is not an MVP conversation. He's got pretty
Speaker 6: comparable stats of Joe Burrow, and if you take him
Speaker 6: off this Lions team, there's nothing without him. I mean, yes,
Speaker 6: he's got a great on line, he's got some weapons,
Speaker 6: but this guy's been playing whites out. I'm so glad
Speaker 6: that we have him. And yeah, I just want to
Speaker 6: know your thoughts.
Speaker 2: Well, I could say, how abound we put Joe Burrow
Speaker 2: on the Lions.
Speaker 12: That's the greatest offense there's ever been.
Speaker 2: Jared Goff has played well. Sam Darnold has played well.
Speaker 2: I don't I don't have any problem, like, how many
Speaker 2: MVP candidates do you want to have, say Kwan Barklay,
Speaker 2: Josh Allen, Mark Jackson, Jared Goff, Sam Darnald, Joe Burrow.
Speaker 2: How many MVP candidates do you want to have? You
Speaker 2: want to have five? Do you want to have ten?
Speaker 2: I don't care. Sure, I have no problem with it.
Speaker 2: Or if you just want to say, hey should be
Speaker 2: in the consideration as an MVP candidate, Okay, I'm fine
Speaker 2: with that. It's Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson. That's it.
Speaker 2: You can have other candidates if you want to, and
Speaker 2: I don't have any problems. What Sam Darnald did surprise
Speaker 2: to everybody. I think Josh Allen benefited from a bad division,
Speaker 2: but he also surprised me at how he had a
Speaker 2: window of I think five games that was bordering on historical.
Speaker 2: And if you watch them play, you're like, who's that
Speaker 2: guy or who's that guy? You know, Cook's a good
Speaker 2: running back. They got a couple of tight ends there.
Speaker 2: Coleman's good or has the potential, But I don't think
Speaker 2: you look at them and look, you know, say, well,
Speaker 2: that's like the Lions of the Bengals when it comes
Speaker 2: to offense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Paul, interesting story. Can Sam Darnald win comeback Player.
Speaker 2: Of the Year? Well, what's he coming back from? Right?
Speaker 4: Based off the old rules, the pre Joe Flacco rules,
Speaker 4: you had to come back from something like injury, whatever.
Speaker 4: And because of the can you come back from humiliation
Speaker 4: from being average?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Can you come back from being benched? I just saw
Speaker 4: this story. Though the associated this can't be right. The
Speaker 4: AP confirms that Sam Darnald Comeback Player of the Year
Speaker 4: award votes won't be rejected. They'll accept them, which is
Speaker 4: in the face of the rule.
Speaker 2: Interesting, Okay, I wouldn't look at him as a comeback
Speaker 2: Player of the Year. But if Joe Flacco came back
Speaker 2: from his couch, then oh then they change the rule
Speaker 2: because of that. Like Deamar Hamlin nearly died, but Joe
Speaker 2: Flacco came back from you know, sitting on account chance.
Speaker 13: I don't think we can set the bar at did
Speaker 13: you die or not?
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 13: I don't think that that's fair.
Speaker 2: No, what I'm saying is he lost the comeback Player
Speaker 2: of the year. What are you even coming back from
Speaker 2: a bad season? He died.
Speaker 11: I don't know that that's the I don't think we can.
Speaker 11: But in that situation, though, the guy who do you
Speaker 11: truly did, Joe Flacco is more deserved. He came back
Speaker 11: like he truly came back from the dead. He couldn't
Speaker 11: he couldn't play. Nobody wanted him to play, and he
Speaker 11: had to play and he did well.
Speaker 2: Only one other person came back, and that's j C.
Speaker 2: Jamar Hamlin came back.
Speaker 13: I got it.
Speaker 2: I mean you gotta give him the d I mean
Speaker 2: comeback Player of the Year. Yeah.
Speaker 4: The new AP rule for comeback Player of the Year.
Speaker 4: Quote a player has demonstrated resilience in the face of
Speaker 4: adversity by overcoming illness, physical injury, or other.
Speaker 2: Or Okay, but let's not discount the importance of or other.
Speaker 2: What is the or other with Sam Darnold not being
Speaker 2: very good?
Speaker 10: Okay, yes, I think or other could be someone who
Speaker 10: has written off by most and all of a sudden, Wow,
Speaker 10: look at that, that's the or other.
Speaker 2: All right, let's take a break. Big Mike Gullick will
Speaker 2: join us. Coming up next, Dan Patrick Show.
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Speaker 2: He's fallen in love with Sam Darnald. You've got a
Speaker 2: crush on Sam Donald. You want him to get paid.
Speaker 2: Now you're promoting him for Comeback Player of the Year.
Speaker 4: War which he's somewhat not eligible for.
Speaker 2: Well, no, the criteria is there that you can vote
Speaker 2: for Sam Donald for Comeback Player of the Year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the AP put out criteria that guidance for their
Speaker 4: voters that it's someone who came back from an illness
Speaker 4: or an injury or of something of that or other.
Speaker 13: But it's not a hard rule.
Speaker 4: So if you're an AP voter and you want to
Speaker 4: vote for Sam Darnold, you're not supposed to, but you can.
Speaker 2: Okay, he's Mike Golick, co host of Gojo and Golick
Speaker 2: on DraftKings Network, and of course Uh, former stalwart with
Speaker 2: the mother Ship, joining us on the program, Big Mike, Uh, Sam,
Speaker 2: Sam Darnold, Let's start with Sam Donald. Uh. Listen, come
Speaker 2: Back Claire of the Year.
Speaker 3: I am.
Speaker 14: I'm calling the Detroit, Minnesota game for Westwood one Sunday,
Speaker 14: and the first thing I'm gonna do when I go
Speaker 14: on the field before the game is apologized to Sam
Speaker 14: because a few weeks ago I had talked on my
Speaker 14: son and I show that you know, is he going
Speaker 14: to fall to the you know level he had been
Speaker 14: or is he going to keep going? I was kind
Speaker 14: of questioning it, and he's been nothing but money. He
Speaker 14: has been absolute money. But no, he's not winning Comeback
Speaker 14: Player of the Year. That that that's for illness, that's
Speaker 14: for injury. That should be stated. I know there's the
Speaker 14: other part that you just mentioned in the in the rule,
Speaker 14: but I think comeback player is for an injury or
Speaker 14: an illness.
Speaker 2: What do you do if you're the Vikings. I don't
Speaker 2: know if you bring this up during the broadcast, but
Speaker 2: you know there are they in a good situation because
Speaker 2: you have this decision that you might have to make
Speaker 2: with Darnold and JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's a it's a great situation.
Speaker 14: I mean, listen, we've seen Green Bay do it twice
Speaker 14: where they drafted a guy high and he sat for
Speaker 14: three or so years, and in Aaron Rodgers and Jordan
Speaker 14: love So and JJ's coming off of a need. Listen,
Speaker 14: you you got to strike while the iron's hot. Now
Speaker 14: the issue will be what deals does he get offered
Speaker 14: from other teams? Are they huge money deals? Can you
Speaker 14: get away with a Baker Mayfield type of deal for
Speaker 14: Sam a three year, one hundred million, fifty MILLI guaranteed
Speaker 14: it would probably be more than that instead of a
Speaker 14: fifty million dollars a year, which I'm not sure someone
Speaker 14: will give, but they might get close to that. And
Speaker 14: that this guy has kind of recaptured that that first
Speaker 14: round thought. But if I'm Minnesota, I definitely try and
Speaker 14: hang on to him and I run it to its course.
Speaker 14: I mean, if JJ sits he sits. I mean you
Speaker 14: have a proven guy, a guy who's proving it on
Speaker 14: the field as opposed to an unproven rookie who's coming
Speaker 14: off of the knee.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would probably franchise him. And I agree with you.
Speaker 2: We brought this up years ago that the agents had
Speaker 2: to come up with a middle ground here. It was
Speaker 2: not we got to get sixty million or fifty five million,
Speaker 2: like you had to be smart, and Baker Mayfield's agent
Speaker 2: was smart. You're getting paid, you're playing well, You're going
Speaker 2: to be in the playoffs. He'll get commercial endorsement like it.
Speaker 2: I just don't want Sam to price himself out of
Speaker 2: a great situation that he has with the Vikings.
Speaker 14: I think what Sam, and it seems Sam's a smart person.
Speaker 14: He also realizes what he has with Minnesota and if
Speaker 14: you get offered now again there's a lot of money
Speaker 14: and a little money depending on your preference of what
Speaker 14: you get offered.
Speaker 3: But what he has with Kevin O'Connell, make no mistake
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 14: Kevin O'Connell call him plays and the offense that he
Speaker 14: has is definitely helping to his success. While he's playing great,
Speaker 14: there are other factors involved and Kevin O'Connell is one
Speaker 14: of them, So you have to think, do I go
Speaker 14: to take more money and go to a lesser coach
Speaker 14: and lesser offense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this isn't a quarterback heavy draft as well,
Speaker 2: so you know, I mean, this is the right place
Speaker 2: at the right time. Unless Sam Donald. If they would
Speaker 2: lose Sunday night and they go on the road and
Speaker 2: they play Tampa and they bow out or play the
Speaker 2: Rams and bow out, I wonder if that would have
Speaker 2: any impact on Sam Donald's future.
Speaker 14: Well, I think it'll be on how Sam plays. Right
Speaker 14: right now, the offense is humming the defense, while the
Speaker 14: defense is fourth worse than giving up pass yards, are
Speaker 14: fourth best in giving up points, and that's the most
Speaker 14: important thing, how many points that you give up. So
Speaker 14: I think it would depend on how he plays, even
Speaker 14: if they were to bow out early.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the Lions. The pressure on the Lions
Speaker 2: to win, to be the number one seed, to get
Speaker 2: a bye week and have home field advantage and the
Speaker 2: better chance to extend your season and then get some
Speaker 2: of these injured players back. When you're doing a game
Speaker 2: like can you ask these questions of Dan Campbell or
Speaker 2: somebody with the Lions when you're doing the broadcast where
Speaker 2: they'll give you a little more information.
Speaker 14: Sure, you could ask, but they're not really gonna give
Speaker 14: quite honestly. I mean they're going to talk around it,
Speaker 14: and I think one of the most important players. Quite honestly,
Speaker 14: I'm concerned more for the defenses, especially Detroit's defense in
Speaker 14: these games. Both these offenses are high profile offenses, but
Speaker 14: the defense is the injuries Detroit has had. Now they
Speaker 14: have Alexanzeloni that the linebacker broke us forearm, miss the
Speaker 14: last six games. He's in the twenty one day window
Speaker 14: to come back, and he's practicing this week. But the
Speaker 14: thought is Dan Campbell said it was an eight week
Speaker 14: injury and it'll be seven weeks this Sunday. So do
Speaker 14: you bring him back early because they need him, especially
Speaker 14: in defensive pass coverage. They need him, But do you
Speaker 14: risk him re injuring it and being out for the
Speaker 14: playoffs or just trying to get the job done without
Speaker 14: him and still get the number one seed. But if
Speaker 14: you get the number five seed, at least you're still
Speaker 14: in the playoffs and he has another week to rest
Speaker 14: his forum. Those are kind of the decisions that they
Speaker 14: have to make.
Speaker 2: He's my Goliic, co host of Gojo and Golick on
Speaker 2: DraftKings Network. You're a Notre Dame fighting Irish last night.
Speaker 2: Let's look at like a bigger picture here with the
Speaker 2: nil transfer portal where Georgia wasn't Georgia like they had
Speaker 2: been before. Alabama is not Alabama, Clemson is not Clemson.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if this is a one off
Speaker 2: MIC or is it because maybe the playing field is
Speaker 2: leveling and talent is dispersed and you're not stockpiling three
Speaker 2: running backs at Georgia or you know, five defensive lineman
Speaker 2: at Alabama. Is this a one off? Or do you
Speaker 2: think we're peeking into the future.
Speaker 14: No, I think we're peeking into the future for guys
Speaker 14: that are sitting. I mean Gunner Stockton, the backup quarterback,
Speaker 14: is a rarity. He's with the program for three years,
Speaker 14: right and kind of was waiting his turn. Normally you
Speaker 14: don't see that, you see a guy transfer. So no,
Speaker 14: I think this is kind of the new era of
Speaker 14: college football. We saw the portal opened a few Mondays
Speaker 14: ago and within a week there was over two thousand
Speaker 14: players in the portal. So this is the new college football.
Speaker 14: It's just a matter how much you want to use it,
Speaker 14: like Dabosweeney has not used it a lot. Marcus Freeman
Speaker 14: said Notre Dame will always minor in transfers. They won't
Speaker 14: major in transfers like they were already talking about next year.
Speaker 14: They won't go to a transfer quarterback. They had Sam
Speaker 14: Hartman now Riley Leonard, but now they'll use one of
Speaker 14: their younger quarterbacks. At least that's what they said. We'll
Speaker 14: see if they stay with it. But overall, I do
Speaker 14: think we had forty three different starting quarterbacks in FBS
Speaker 14: through the portal last year and I think that's going
Speaker 14: to continue.
Speaker 2: See Notre Dame has figured it out. Though they bring
Speaker 2: in Sam Hartman, they bring in Riley Leonard. That seems
Speaker 2: to be the round to go instead of saying, now
Speaker 2: I'm going to raise an eighteen year old here.
Speaker 3: It does. But I think they have CJ.
Speaker 14: Carr, who they really really like, and it seems like
Speaker 14: they're going to give him a chance.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 14: That's not to say if there's a quarterback that they
Speaker 14: think fits their system that pops up in the portal
Speaker 14: that they won't still go for, because you know what,
Speaker 14: the way it is now with the portal, you're playing
Speaker 14: year to year, You're not playing for three years down
Speaker 14: the road.
Speaker 2: Is Notre Dame likable suddenly?
Speaker 14: Well, I think Marcus Freeman is likable, and I think
Speaker 14: that makes Notre Dame likable. He's the face of the program.
Speaker 14: Brian Kelly was this kind of this gruff guy who
Speaker 14: changed kind of his added wood halfway through when when
Speaker 14: people were tired of him turning purple on the sideline
Speaker 14: and yelling and it seemed like he was always yelling
Speaker 14: or mad. And Marcus Freeman is young, he's good looking,
Speaker 14: he's a great recruiter. Players love him, So I think
Speaker 14: people start to like because there's a listen. There's always
Speaker 14: people that are gonna hate Notre Dame. But I do
Speaker 14: think that he brings up the the the rating, the
Speaker 14: Q ratings on Notre Dame because of Marcus Freeman.
Speaker 2: But the fan base. When Brian Kelly left because he
Speaker 2: wanted to try to win national titles at LSU, was
Speaker 2: there an outcry of you know, how dare you leave Notre.
Speaker 14: They were they were surprised that a coach left Notre Dame,
Speaker 14: because normally a coach would leave Notre Dame by retiring
Speaker 14: or being fired, never left voluntarily, so I think they
Speaker 14: were they didn't really miss a beat. They didn't really
Speaker 14: miss Brian Kelly, even though Brian Kelly's the winning his
Speaker 14: coach in Notre Dame history. You know, beat out New Rockney.
Speaker 14: I mean, so that's something. There's something to be said
Speaker 14: for that. But no, they really didn't. Didn't really bad
Speaker 14: an eye that he left. They were a little disgruntled
Speaker 14: that he chose to leave, and now it's kind of
Speaker 14: biting him. I mean, he left thinking he'd had better
Speaker 14: opportunity at LSU, and here's a Notre Dame in the semi.
Speaker 14: So yeah, there wasn't there wasn't too much. Too much
Speaker 14: Oh no, what are we going to do now when
Speaker 14: he left?
Speaker 2: Who's the best team left in the final four?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 3: I mean the way Ohio State's playing.
Speaker 14: If Ohio State plays the way they play against Tennessee,
Speaker 14: UH and Oregon, I don't know who's going to beat them.
Speaker 2: I mean it makes you go back to the Michigan game, like,
Speaker 2: how do you get that's coaching to me? That your
Speaker 2: game plan you can accidentally score three touchdowns with that offense.
Speaker 3: It is stunning.
Speaker 14: Now, Michigan always has a very, very tough defense. I'll
Speaker 14: give them that, but they don't really have an offense.
Speaker 14: They rely on the running game so much. That was
Speaker 14: a stunning, stunning loss and really put Ryan Day's head
Speaker 14: on the chopping block. But he is more than making
Speaker 14: up for it. I mean, they're not just winning, they're
Speaker 14: blowing teams out. They're so explosive on offense, they're so
Speaker 14: stifling on defense. So they're playing the best right now.
Speaker 14: I think it'll be Notre Dame and Ohio State in
Speaker 14: the title game, which would be interesting for Marcus Freeman
Speaker 14: since that's where he went to school.
Speaker 2: Yeah, is Ryan Days? Is he still on the hot
Speaker 2: seat if he loses this game?
Speaker 10: Man?
Speaker 14: Dan That that is a great question because it's weighed
Speaker 14: so heavily losing to Michigan. Then it's like, Okay, you
Speaker 14: lost to Michigan, but hey, we'll take a national title
Speaker 14: over overbeating over losing to Michigan. But if you fall
Speaker 14: short of that, I think he's safe. I think the
Speaker 14: two blowout wins saved his job, if it truly it
Speaker 14: was in the If he had lost the first game,
Speaker 14: I think there certainly would have been some cries for it,
Speaker 14: but I think he's gonna be fine.
Speaker 2: But if we didn't have this expanded playoff format, Ryan Day,
Speaker 2: is he still coaching Ohio State?
Speaker 3: Probably not because they don't make the final four?
Speaker 2: Right? Yeah?
Speaker 3: And I would if they don't.
Speaker 14: If they didn't make the final four and lost to
Speaker 14: Michigan for a fourth raight year, I would say he'd
Speaker 14: be gone because so much is put on that. But
Speaker 14: now that it is expanded and he has a chance
Speaker 14: to make up for which he is in spades, I
Speaker 14: think it'll save his job.
Speaker 2: Good to chat with you again. Thank you, Mike, you
Speaker 2: got it.
Speaker 6: Damn.
Speaker 2: It's big Mike Golig And he's the co host of
Speaker 2: Gojo and Golick on DraftKings Network. Sneaking a Phone Caller
Speaker 2: two and let's start with Jonathan in New Orleans. Hey Jonathan,
Speaker 2: Hey Dan, how'll be going to turn good?
Speaker 6: Second?
Speaker 8: Tom long com thanks for taking my callsh to My
Speaker 8: nine year old son is in the other room watching
Speaker 8: on Peacock and it's excited to see here the call,
Speaker 8: but too shy to come say hello. But anyway, those calling,
Speaker 8: I've read two books from authors you've had on the show.
Speaker 8: It takes What It Takes by Trevor Moad in The
Speaker 8: System Jeff Benedict both amazing reads. And I'm just curious
Speaker 8: if you knew of any books out there being written
Speaker 8: or currently available discussing the current NIL landscape that are
Speaker 8: similar in contact to the fourmentioned books.
Speaker 2: I have not, Jonathan, I don't know if there's a
Speaker 2: big market for that. You know, we talk NIL, but
Speaker 2: I don't know unless there's gory details there of you
Speaker 2: know that that's what I would want to read. But
Speaker 2: it's changing so fast, so you could start to write
Speaker 2: something NIL by the time you publish it, it might
Speaker 2: be obsoleep.
Speaker 12: Yes, Mark, I'm currently reading that book, The System by
Speaker 12: Jeff benedictt Yeah.
Speaker 3: It is so good.
Speaker 12: It goes into detail about every aspect that makes college
Speaker 12: football run, from the hostesses, you know, the co eds
Speaker 12: that host him, to Mac Brown's right hand man, to
Speaker 12: the boosters. He goes into great detail about every single
Speaker 12: aspect that makes college football run.
Speaker 2: Some of the stories about the hostesses like yes, and
Speaker 2: he goes into it yes yeah, like yeah, pull.
Speaker 4: There was a book years ago called The Courting of
Speaker 4: Marcus Dupree, this famous high school running back Mississippi and
Speaker 4: it talks about all the recruiting stories, Billy Simms coming
Speaker 4: to his high school. That's a classic college football book.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's so much that went on. And I'd
Speaker 2: mentioned this before. Somebody I knew actually played against I
Speaker 2: went to Kentucky and knew nothing about horse racing. They
Speaker 2: went to the track and went with a booster, and
Speaker 2: he just said, what's your favorite numbers? And he told
Speaker 2: him his favorite numbers. And all I know is this
Speaker 2: guy came back over the summer with a Mercedes Benz,
Speaker 2: a two seater, and we were like, many treating you well.
Speaker 2: He said, yeah, I went to the to the race track.
Speaker 2: I'm like, all right, I didn't know you knew anything
Speaker 2: about horse raising. Go I I don't. I don't know
Speaker 2: anything you said. I just had favorite numbers. Let's take
Speaker 2: a break. If you're watching on Peacock, we'll go out
Speaker 2: to the Tregger Girls. Last call for phone calls. What
Speaker 2: we learn, what's in store tomorrow or I should say Monday.
Speaker 1: Right after this, be sure to catch the live edition
Speaker 1: of The Dan Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern
Speaker 1: six am Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio wapp.
Speaker 2: My thanks to Tyler. Tyler did a great job, whipped
Speaker 2: up a batch of Tariokee chicken stirfry spring rolls, and
Speaker 2: man it hits the spot. Good stuff, Tyler, thank you.
Speaker 2: Let's get to rhyme time, because it's really important that
Speaker 2: Fritzie gets this in first one of the year. I'd
Speaker 2: forgotten about it, and I, of course him trying to
Speaker 2: be a new person, a better person in the new
Speaker 2: year and say nicer things to Todd and this meal,
Speaker 2: this tariokei chicken sturfry in spring rolls is because you
Speaker 2: love it.
Speaker 3: I do love it. Yes, I'm very happy guy.
Speaker 2: All Right, how do we play rime time?
Speaker 10: I'm going to give you two clues and the answers
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Speaker 10: m v P Tonight Show, Marvin Alan Follon exactly, that's
Speaker 10: how we do. Josh Allen, Jimmy Irish head roadkill, Irish
Speaker 10: head road kill, like the head coach of the fighting.
Speaker 2: Irish Marcus Carcass.
Speaker 10: Marcus Carcass is exactly what.
Speaker 7: I don't think anyone who's gonna get that.
Speaker 13: Marcus Carcass is.
Speaker 10: Malcontent Van dy j malcontent Van dy j current NBA malcontent,
Speaker 10: Vandy J. Butler, Vanderbilt quarterback back in the day, color Butler,
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Speaker 3: Blard, Look at you guys.
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Speaker 2: Carlin.
Speaker 3: Buffs QB.
Speaker 2: Shaudor Sanders and over.
Speaker 3: The top play by play.
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Speaker 10: That would be chadour tesitur.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna taking I feel.
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Speaker 2: Burrow, Edward R.
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Speaker 10: A skin growth Texas head.
Speaker 2: Uh something Sarkesian.
Speaker 10: That would be a lesions.
Speaker 3: That's what we got them all there.
Speaker 10: Stolely Hanka treat Stolely Honica.
Speaker 2: Treat vodka.
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Speaker 10: would be two penn State's a clue on the right
Speaker 10: side domesticates.
Speaker 3: Franklin Tame James, James James.
Speaker 10: Is exactly and the last one here is retired Blue
Speaker 10: Jay coffee drink maker. Retired Blue Jay coffee drink maker.
Speaker 10: Like Starbucks, they're one strike.
Speaker 3: Recently.
Speaker 10: Jose the first name of that retired Blue Jay who
Speaker 10: makes the coffee Canseco.
Speaker 12: We were looking for Barista, Bautista, Artista, Barista.
Speaker 3: That's exactly what we're looking for, Bautista.
Speaker 2: And that is time. There you go, Ola, rude, we
Speaker 2: are screwed. Yeah, Asian turkeys. How about this day in
Speaker 2: sports history?
Speaker 9: Wow.
Speaker 4: In nineteen forty one, the NCAA made rules that you
Speaker 4: could sub freely in college Footballneenix.
Speaker 2: Notre Dame did that last night against Georgia. Yes you are.
Speaker 4: Nineteen sixty two, work began on the Houston Astrodome, and
Speaker 4: in nineteen eighty three, twenty door set of the Cowboys
Speaker 4: made the longest run in scrimmage in NFL history, ninety
Speaker 4: nine yards. The Cowboys only had ten men on the field.
Speaker 2: On this date, two thousand and three. We were on
Speaker 2: the sidelines watching this one. Ohio State upsets Miami double
Speaker 2: overtime to win the National championship in the Fiesta Bowl
Speaker 2: on the State Oh seven. Nick Saban resigned as the
Speaker 2: head coach of the Dolphins to become the head coach
Speaker 2: at Alabama. I think he said he wasn't going anywhere, right,
Speaker 2: and then he was. Let's see nineteen twenty the Curse
Speaker 2: of the Bambino. They sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars in cash, and
Speaker 2: not to forget the three hundred and fifty thousand dollars loan,
Speaker 2: and that launched the eighty four year Curse of the Bambino.
Speaker 2: Fund of results of the Pole question see no connor.
Speaker 11: Oh man, we had a couple of doozies up there today.
Speaker 11: Let's see who are you rooting for to win the
Speaker 11: college football playoff right now? Notre Dame's got about thirty
Speaker 11: nine percent of that vote. And are the four best
Speaker 11: teams in college football playing in the semifinals right now?
Speaker 13: Fifty eight percent of the audiences? Yes, yes they are.
Speaker 2: Kevin in Oregon, Hi, Kevin, what's on your mind?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I'm the guy called in a told you that
Speaker 5: I lost my patient. I'm the surgeon. Anyway, I was
Speaker 5: told I'm talking about Notre Dame. I was told you
Speaker 5: do a spot on imitation of lou holes.
Speaker 2: They put the pea shown shame way we do.
Speaker 5: That's what I want.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: So Kevin is the surgeon who said that he wanted
Speaker 2: to go out and tell a family that they, you know,
Speaker 2: he lost their he lost his patient and they they
Speaker 2: would have reacted like he died. And he was like, no, no,
Speaker 2: I can't find him. I don't know where he is.
Speaker 2: He's walking around.
Speaker 3: Got the room number that we put him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And then I said, oh my god, you could
Speaker 2: never do that to a family. So that was that
Speaker 2: was Kevin. Sense you humor, doc and Laguna beach I doc.
Speaker 9: Hey, DP, Happy New Year. I hate starting in New
Speaker 9: Year with us. Stay in a lane and stay in
Speaker 9: your lane. But I have to reference my biblical mentor
Speaker 9: that's going to come back into town from Austria tomorrow
Speaker 9: and that would be Shane Irving. But you said Denny
Speaker 9: Hamlin and JC were only two races from the dead,
Speaker 9: but that Shane Irving will confirm that there was actually
Speaker 9: twelve race in the dead in the Bible.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I want to ask Shay about the other
Speaker 2: people who came back from the dead. I mean, I
Speaker 2: was just talking to NFL players. I think I've come back.
Speaker 2: DeMar Hemley Shayan. Irving is in Vienna, by the way,
Speaker 2: for the holidays.
Speaker 13: Getting cured off the wild turkey or is he I
Speaker 13: don't know.
Speaker 2: Is that a family vacation. Yeah. I talked to him
Speaker 2: yesterday and he said him and the roommate are getting
Speaker 2: along a lot better. And uh, but he's going to
Speaker 2: be coming home from Vienna.
Speaker 13: They had to go to Neutral Territory.
Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much. He's part of the Gambling podcast, available
Speaker 2: at Danpatrick dot com. Todd, would you learn today?
Speaker 3: The week eighteen point spreads are whack?
Speaker 10: According to you, including the Browns of twenty point underdogs
Speaker 10: that the.
Speaker 2: Ravens come on Seaton. What did you learn, Dan? Or
Speaker 2: Alaski train guy Marvin?
Speaker 3: The Jaguars have two Pro bowlers, Paul.
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