WEBVTT - 04/28/21 DPS Hour 2 Mel Kiper Jr. 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.480 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.760 Sports Radio. Welcome to the program. It's our two on 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:09.799 this Wednesday, Dan and the Dan stan Patrick Show. Mel 0:00:09.920 --> 0:00:13.440 kiper Draft Expert will join us coming up in about 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:16.239 twenty minutes. It's the calm before the storm, the day 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:19.000 before the day, and we do have a little bit 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:22.120 of news, or at least the potential for some news 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:26.720 some of the college football analyst insiders. We've got some 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:30.680 tweets that the FBS commissioners are considering expanding the college 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:34.640 football playoff from four schools up to double digit teams. 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:40.600 I sense twelve teams is building support, one source told 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:45.040 Stuart Mandel. Andy Staples also involved in this as well. 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:48.720 We'll talk to Andy coming up next hour. If you 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.040 look at a twelve team playoff. Now, if you do 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:54.040 the math, forty percent of the teams in the NFL 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:58.680 make the playoffs. In college football, nine percent would make 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:01.480 it if you bumped it up to twelve teams. So 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:04.479 still it's the hardest playoff to get into in all 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:07.360 of the sports. But if you looked at the twelve 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:13.119 team playoff based off of last year, Alabama would be 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:19.120 playing Coastal Carolina first round. Who would have thought in 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:22.160 any lifetime we would say, oh yeah, in the playoffs, 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:26.240 Coastal Carolina is going to face Alabama. I know they 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:29.720 would probably get blown out, but you still want to 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:33.040 get the chance. College football doesn't give you the chance. 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:38.400 There's no March Madness, there's no Butler, there's no George Mason, 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:46.600 there's no underdog storing. But Coastal Carolina against Alabama. Indiana 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:51.040 would play Notre Dame. How good is that? So that's 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:56.960 round one Indiana Notre Dame. Imagine how big that would 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:00.680 be in the state because Indiana it's a basque bowl school. 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.520 Now you get to go up against Notre Dame. I 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.200 know you're you're gonna say, well, they have no chance, 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.480 or maybe you do, pulling upset and then you get 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.960 blown out. After that, I understand all of that. All 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:16.240 you need is one day, one lucky day, and if 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.720 you're playing each other on a neutral site in a 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:22.400 bowl game. That way I can factor in the bowl games. 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:26.600 Now I can have more bowl games be more meaningful because, 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:31.560 let's face it, the bull games there's pomp and circumstance 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:35.760 and pageantry and a nice gift bag, but nobody cares 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:39.360 nobody remembers. Then it might be bragging rights for a 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:42.680 fan base. But imagine if you took the Outback Bowl 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:46.200 and it became a first round destination for one of 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:49.880 the playoff games, and then you graduated to the Cotton 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.920 Bowl and then after that you went to the Fiesta Bowl. 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:57.559 Then you make all of the bowl games relevant important 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:01.080 and tune in factor. Who would be some of the 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.160 other matchups in the first rumble, Like you said, they're 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.200 good first round. If it was a twelve team playoff, 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:09.079 Bama Coastal Carolina, Notre Dame, Indiana, Clemson, Oklahoma would be 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.680 a first round matchup. Those are heavyweights. Then you'd have 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:14.919 Ohio State Cincinnati, another in state game that would be 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:17.160 juicy in your state. Why you see Texas A and 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:20.760 M versus Georgia, that's awesome and an Iowa State Seaton's 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:23.800 team versus Florida. Yeah. So all it does is it 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:27.080 brings more teams in, more conferences in, more money in 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.959 and you're able to kind of replenches a lot of 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:36.600 these athletic departments. This is inevitable. Like for how many years, 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:41.680 at least a decade I fought with Bill Hancock of 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:45.000 you know college football and the you know the BCS. 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:49.440 He was the head of the BCS, and I would say, look, Bill, 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:53.040 it's expanding. Nobody wants it. None of the coaches want it. 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:56.840 And we'd have coaches on Steve Spurrier, I'd say, coach, 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.320 do you want this? They were open to it. Pete 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:03.160 Carroll was what USC, and I remember saying, it's happening. 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:05.920 Whether you want it or not. We're going to expand 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:07.720 we went from two to four, and I was on 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:11.800 record as saying I'd be satisfied with four. But given 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:16.320 what's happened now in college athletics, the importance of the 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:20.400 money to keep other programs alive within an athletic department 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:25.039 is paramount. And I do think it's a win win 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:29.159 for everybody involved here because you're going to have bowl 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:32.000 games benefit Now you're going to say, well, what about 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:35.400 the players? And that's always going to be there. And 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:39.960 with Mark Emritt's staying as the head of the NCAA, 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:44.120 you're not changing that. Now you own your likeness and 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:46.120 you may be able to capitalize and there may be 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:48.080 a cap on how much money you can make, but 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.279 Mark Emritt staying in there is the head of the NCAA. 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:55.120 We're not paying players anytime soon. Yes, McLevin. I if 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:57.479 you go to twelve teams with the Supreme Court ready 0:04:57.520 --> 0:04:59.640 to rule on this, there's no way you could not 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:02.279 be able to pay players like this would be awful optics. 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:04.000 They're gonna have to pay the players if they do this. 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:06.720 I mean, what is it they say it's coming out 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:09.080 in July. They're going to say that it's antitrust. You 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:14.159 cannot limit benefits players. I know they already gave him name, image, likeness, 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:16.320 which is going to be a lot of money to start. 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.440 Maybe that's enough. Well that's what they thought that you 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:21.640 gotta go, Okay, how do we cut our losses here? 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:25.080 We'll give you name and likeness. Well, we'll give you 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.279 what's yours. We're going to give that back to you. 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.479 It's it interesting that someone like Page Bucklers can probably 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:32.800 make more a Yukon than in WNBA. If it goes 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.320 the right way, you could make a fair living here 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:40.200 in certain markets. You can certain cities, certain franchise certain teams. 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:44.080 I should say that you could make you know, a 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:47.560 pretty good amount of money. Yeah, Polly, the NSA is 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:50.040 a parent that won't give their kids an allowance, but 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.600 will allow their kid to get a paper out. That's it. 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.200 They avoid paying the kid by allowing them to work 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:58.280 outside the building for their money. That's what they're gonna do. 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:00.440 And by signing Mark Emeron, they're gonna sure that they 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:02.440 don't pay player. The parents also just happened to have 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.920 all the kids doing all the work around the house exactly, 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:07.400 being like, now, go do your paper route to get paid. 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:12.039 Welcome to the program, already in progress hour two. As 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:15.760 we interrupted our draft coverage to bring you that. We'll 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:18.240 get phone calls eight seven seven three d P Show 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:21.240 email address DPA, Dan Patrick dot com, Twitter handle a 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:24.640 DPS show And we have a poll question, mclovin. Are 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:26.600 we staying with that pole question for the second hour 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:29.560 of the program. So though Polly wants a side bet, oh, 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:32.239 a side bet, yeah, Now, keep in mind we already 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:35.839 got some side action, yeah, between Seaton and mcloven tomorrow 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:39.719 night based off Justin Fields. Yeah. The pull right now 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:41.760 is who will win the bet? Senior mcloven, I have 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:45.200 justin fields eight or lower. Seaton has some nine or higher. 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:49.040 Pie per place fifty seven percent say I'm going to win. 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.880 That one probably more about justin fields. Now, Polly and 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.120 I have a sidebt. Well, keep in mind, there was 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:56.640 a tweet that was just sent out late last hour, 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.720 and I'm guessing this is from a football report. Yeah, 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:05.599 an athletic reporter, the athletic reporter, okay, saying that the 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:10.440 Patriots have inquired about moving up to number four overall, 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.880 with the object of desire being justin fields. Yeah. I 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:15.680 read that. It's a huge blow to my case because 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:19.400 anything that's reported on the Patriots, the exact opposite always happens. Yeah, 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:23.400 but I'm guessing nobody has any information for the Patriots 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.000 that this came from the Falcons to create a market 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:30.120 here of Hey, somebody wants justin fields. Anybody else want 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.160 justin fields? All right? What else do you have in 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.960 clonbe So Polly and I still bet the payers will 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.560 get players will get paid in some form based on 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.520 the fact that the NCAA always loses these court cases 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.680 and three years later, like they try to limit coaches pay, 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:47.000 they lost, They try to limit name, image likeness, they 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.840 lost thet O'Bannon case. Now they're doing it. So eventually 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:51.960 this Supreme Court case is going to lead to some 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:54.600 form of payment. Now, normally I don't do like three 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:57.280 year bets, but the problem I did do a three 0:07:57.360 --> 0:08:01.880 year bet with you on Trevor Lauren. Yeah, three years 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.120 ago I said he wouldn't be the number one overall pick. 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.600 You were just sort of playing the odds that the 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.440 quote unquote sure thing. It wasn't about Trevor Lawrence. It 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.240 was really the idea that a shure thing is really 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.120 a short thing. Yes, because we're usually not sure about 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:17.240 a sure thing. Is it funny that Trevor Lawrence has 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:21.760 stayed at this Yeah, it's such an anomaly. Yeah, but 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:26.800 they all dropped. Watson dropped, two A dropped, Sam Darnold dropped, 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:29.880 And we have a bet and I get a pie 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:33.560 to the face on Friday, assuming that it's definitely happening, right, 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:35.480 But then you could be getting pines to the face 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:37.520 on Friday as well. See, Yeah, you don't have a 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:42.120 fifteen pie downfall here. It could Yeah, I only get 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:45.440 one pie. If Justin Fields goes like fifteen, then you're 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:49.200 gonna get like six points. Yes, quick bet with mcleven. 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:52.000 Two years from today, we are still discussing that college 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.280 football players and basketball players are not getting paid by 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:57.360 the university athletic programs that are only getting money from 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:01.080 the likeness stuff, right mclevenne, that piece, I think it 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:03.600 takes five years. I think it took like five years 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:06.360 after that O'Bannon for name image likeness. It takes a while. 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:08.280 I'll do two years whatever. Who cares. We're never going 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:11.120 to remember this. Yeah, no, no. I told Mario he's 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.080 got to write these things down because we do make 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.360 these bets in the heat of the moment, and then 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:18.240 Mario will come back and say, you know you lost 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:22.600 a bet when there's like fourteen months ago. Oh okay, 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:24.720 you know there's a Twitter feed dep show bets that 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:27.079 takes out. We'd have no idea who runs it? Oh okay, 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:29.240 well that's good, Yeah, Paul, he doesn't Mario. No, he's 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:31.600 supposed to remember when we lose bets, not when you lose. 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:35.000 He's been here a while, he should know the policy. 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.360 We'll get phone calls coming up. Mel kiper draft expert 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:42.560 will join us for several reasons. The top quarterbacks are 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:46.520 usually gone by a number ten pick ten, and you know, 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:50.200 the financial structure of the league gives extra incentive on 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.920 taking a quarterback because the price is reasonable. Didn't used 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:57.240 to be reasonable, but you took a quarterback that didn't 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:00.160 mean played right away. And one of the other reasons 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:03.480 is teams at the top of the draft normally need quarterbacks. 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:07.240 It's kind of rare when you have a team that 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:09.960 has a good quarterback and you're drafting in the top ten. 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:13.240 The good teams aren't there, otherwise they wouldn't be good. 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.839 But this year there are a few teams who are 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:20.440 the exceptions to the rule because they're not high up 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:23.079 in the draft, but they still need a quarterback. Defense 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.560 help Washington and Chicago make the playoffs. They don't have 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:30.160 high picks. They signed Ryan Fitzpatrick and the Bears signed 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:34.439 Andy Dalton, But you still get the feeling that maybe 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.880 the Bears are gonna be in the market for a quarterback. 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:41.160 What about the Steelers playoff team, But they got Ben 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:44.320 Roethlisberger at the end of his career. Then it becomes 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:47.240 a question of price. You know, how much does it 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:50.040 take to go up and get Trey Lancer justin fields, 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:53.360 So don't be surprised if certain teams call around to 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:56.280 find out if the answer is maybe yes to a 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.719 very important question on the ability to move up. Patriots 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:05.280 need to quarterback, Bears need a quarterback. Washington football team, see, 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:10.440 Washington football team is a good quarterback, not great, A 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:14.200 good quarterback away from being the best team in that division. 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:18.400 And they were getting Alex Smith, and they were getting 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:21.559 a healthy Alex Smith and he would still be their quarterback. 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:26.240 I wouldn't be surprised if the Washington football team was 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:29.360 a player in trying to move up, because if now 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:32.360 they got burned by Dwayne Haskins, does that mean you 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:35.920 try to go after another Ohio State quarterback? I don't know. 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:39.160 Do I look at Justin Fields differently than Dwayne Haskins? 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:42.439 I do? Yeah, McLevin, where would you draft Justin Fields. 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:45.880 I'm not asking to be a scout, but this year 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:47.760 like sort of hunch on him because you've said a 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:50.560 lot of good things about him this spring. I really 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:53.280 like him. I'm trying to figure out what is the 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.719 big negative here, Like what is it that we look 0:11:55.760 --> 0:12:00.760 at and go we we saw too much Justin Fields 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:03.360 and not enough of Trey Lance. But it feels like 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:07.600 we value Trey Lance more. And this goes back to 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.720 what happened with Deshaun Watson, Like we saw so much 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:14.520 of him that we go, okay, although that didn't hurt 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:18.600 Trevor Lawrence, but Zach Wilson, we didn't see that much. 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:24.480 And I think that's the great mystery Mac Jones. You saw, 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.880 but you didn't tune into Alabama to watch Mac Jones, 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:31.839 And I think he was right there in front of us. 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.959 We just didn't notice him. He wasn't featured. And then 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:36.920 all of a sudden we started to look at the numbers, 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:39.679 because you know, the best player on the field was 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:44.600 Davante Smith. He's not making a play where you go, 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.880 oh my god, like how many plays did you watch 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:49.960 Mac Jones go and you go, ahead, oh my god, 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:54.800 that's incredible. Like if you have accuracy and efficiency, nobody's going, 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:57.600 oh my god, honey, you gotta command look at the 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:02.800 accuracy and efficiency Sports Center Top ten plays. It might 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:05.760 not be Mac. It might be Mac Jones throwing to 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:09.600 the actual play is the catch by Avante Smith? Yeah? See. 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:12.199 Somebody had pointed out though, like sort of defending Mac 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:16.000 Jones saying that, yes, is he throwing to like super 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:19.440 stud wide receivers. Absolutely, and how many times did those 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:22.560 super stud wide receivers have to make an amazing play 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:26.959 to catch the ball almost never. Yeah, well, they might 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:31.240 have made themselves open by being incredible talents, therefore made 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:34.760 it easier for Mac Jones to throw football. But yeah, 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:38.080 I mean he still had I mean, if you're speaking accuracy, right, 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.719 isn't that sort of what they're getting at that these did. 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:44.040 There's none of those like jumping, diving, crazy handed plays. 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:47.160 They usually hit the ball, get the ball right, and stride. Yeah, 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.040 I'm looking at a lot of these touchdown receptions. Might 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:53.520 Avante Smith and I go, yeah, probably make that one. Yeah, 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:55.839 I could probably make that one. I don't know how 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:57.520 many of them where you go, Boy, he fought off 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:00.640 a defender and he threw off balance and he found 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:05.400 Jalen Waddle. Yeah, but there's also never any that's like, well, 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:07.920 they really made up for that crappy throw by Mac Jones. 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:09.800 That's good for them, you know what I mean. No, 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:13.440 he had great throws. But I'm guessing that for the 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:17.360 second consecutive year you're gonna have two wide receivers from 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:20.160 Alabama taken in the top fifteen. Yeah, mclub, And don't 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:22.960 forget the run game too, dog, Harry, Like you gotta 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.320 put a lot of guy linebackers on him too, So 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:27.960 he had a lot of advantages. Although they became a 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:32.480 more dynamic offense than they were a great defense because 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:35.640 normally Saban gives you a running game and defense. And 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:37.440 I think when he brought in Lane Kiff and he 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:40.280 understood the seismic shift in college football, and that is 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.080 I got to open my playbook here, and you know, 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:46.760 Aj McCarron became more than just a game manager. You know, 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.760 Greg McElroy was probably more of a game manager the 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:53.520 type of quarterback that Nick Saban loves. Mac Jones put 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:57.240 it up, Tah put it up. And you got all 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:01.200 of this talent down there, why wouldn't you just dominate 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:05.000 teams offensively? And it used to be, oh Saban defense, 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:07.960 don't let Saban devise. If you give him two weeks, 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.960 he's gonna you know, that's not the case anymore. Yeah, Paul, 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.200 you're right. If you go back to like twenty ten eleven, 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:15.520 I remember Alabama LSU had a game that was six 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:17.920 to three, and then that twenty eleven Game of the 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:21.920 Century the score was nine to six. Yeah, things have 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:25.360 changed in Alabama and rightfully so, all right eight seven 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.760 seven three d P show email address Dpatdanpatrick dot com. 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:32.600 I still love this twelve team playoff from last season 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:36.440 would have been Bama, Coastal Carolina, Notre Dame, Indiana, Clemson, Oklahoma, 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:40.200 Ohio State, Cincinnati, Texas A and m Georgia, Iowa State 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:44.640 in Florida. You're looking for good storylines, you're looking for 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:48.400 good TV. And granted you might get blowouts there. You know, 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:51.240 do I still think that Alabama and Clemson are cut 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:55.120 above everybody with the Ohio State in there, Yes, I do. 0:15:56.080 --> 0:16:00.000 But if it's a neutral site and you have that chance, 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:04.240 like all Coastal Carolinas asking is for a chance, that's it. 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:09.600 Iowa State, you just want a chance and it may 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.800 only happen once every five years, seven years, ten years, 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:15.960 but you get that chance. Remember when Hawaii played in 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:18.240 a bowl game and I think they played in the 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:21.160 Sugar Bowl and they got blown out, but they got 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:25.240 a chance, and that's all you want. Anybody who competes 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.800 just wants a chance. Yeah. Point, there's lots of teams 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:30.600 that go in and get people a game. Army took 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:34.440 Oklahoma top five to overtime. It was thirty Oklahoma at 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:37.200 Oklahoma's thirty one thirty one. Remember about five six years ago, 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:40.560 Navy went into Ohio State. Ohio State was ranked fourth. 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:43.720 That game was fourteen fourteen and a half. If you 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:46.240 tell me, Coastal Carolina is fourteen fourty at a half 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:49.240 of Alabama. Everyone's watching. Yeah, it's unlikely, but it's possible, 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:52.960 you know. So once again, FBS commissioners are considering expanding 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:57.680 the college football playoffs from four to double digit teams 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:03.280 and the senses twelve teams. Building support. You know, these 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:05.879 Power five conference commissioners, they run the sport. It's not 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:11.440 the NCAA. Keep that in mind. 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This weekend one hundred forty 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:55.520 seventh run for the Roses Saturday to thirty Eastern on NBC. 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:58.520 And keep in mind we've been talking about the possibility 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:03.400 of a twelve team playoff FBS commissioners are considering expanding 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:07.000 college football playoffs from four to double digits. There are 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:10.679 multiple reports on this. Keep this in mind, they'd have 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:16.600 to renegotiate the deal. You know, the playoff the contract 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:20.040 goes through twenty twenty six, so they'd have to get 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:23.520 with ESPN to be able to do this and renegotiate 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:26.000 that contract. But I'll have more on this coming up. 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:29.479 Top of X Hour, mel Kiper, draft expert, The Disney 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:32.760 Company kicks off its presentation of the draft starting at 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:37.840 eight eastern on ESPN, ABC, ESPN Deportez, ESPN Radio. Mike 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:43.160 Greenberg will host primetime telecast in Cleveland. You have Booker McFarlane, 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:47.000 you have Lewis Riddick, Chris Mortenson, Adam Schefter, Suzie Kolber, 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:52.160 and that'll be ESPN's forty second NFL Draft telecast. Mel 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:55.639 Kuiper's been along for the ride for most of those years. 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:58.760 In fact, it is it forty years you've been doing 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:01.760 this or have you been there since one? Mil dann 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:03.800 have been doing it for forty three and with the 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:07.760 ESPN thirty eight thirty eight? What is your mood like? 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:12.119 How nervous are you? Will you be tomorrow night, not 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:14.440 at all. I think. You know, you look back over 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:16.879 the years, Dan, and maybe in the early first couple 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:19.920 you were just apprehensive because you didn't really know kind 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:21.800 of what to expect. And then Boomer, you know, Chris 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:23.600 Berman kept me at either I was a bobbly and 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:26.320 Chris Berman those first couple of years and that made 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:28.680 it easier. And then after that, Dan, you just get 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:30.480 used to You're always nervous when you don't know what 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:32.600 to expect. And when you come in you're twenty two, 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:34.440 twenty three years of age, and I haven't had any 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:38.119 experience on television obviously, you know, going on an NFL 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:41.720 draft show is something that you wonder, Okay, how do 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:44.280 I do it? What do I do? I had no idea, 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:47.320 There was no way of knowing until you actually did it. 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:49.480 So after a year or two, it's it's obviously the 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:51.840 preparation and you know, going in and you talk about it, 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:53.639 dance so much as you know over the course of 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:55.479 the year. But by the time you get the kind 0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:57.240 of draft that you're ready to get ready to get 0:20:57.240 --> 0:20:59.440 this thing started and find out actually where these guys 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:01.720 are going to land. When's the last time you were 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:07.160 truly surprised every year, every year, and that's why mock 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:10.560 drafts you do them, Dan, but you want to be surprised. 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:13.040 And nobody wants to know what the presidents are under 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:16.080 the tree on Christmas morning. Nobody wants to know who's 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:18.240 being picked. That we know the first two picks in 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:20.440 this draft, Dan, And you know, nobody's talking about the 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:22.919 Jets and Jacksonville anymore. Once about a month ago, it's 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:26.000 everybody stopped talking about those two teams and those two picks. 0:21:26.200 --> 0:21:27.800 Now it was all about the forty nine ers and 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:30.000 they've kind of kept people guessing a little bit. But 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:32.119 we thought mac Jones, but that was all about at 0:21:32.160 --> 0:21:34.520 Land at four. So I think when you look at it, 0:21:34.520 --> 0:21:38.320 it's the unpredictability of just about every choice after maybe 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:40.520 the first one. And I remember back then to Drew 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:42.760 Bledsoe rick Meyer, you didn't even know the morning of 0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:45.080 the draft for sure the Drew was going number one. 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:47.600 There's been other drafts like that. So I just think 0:21:47.640 --> 0:21:50.439 that's the anticipation of fans have. And the other crazy 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:52.399 part for me, Dan, is after the draft, we do 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:55.560 a great show. Okay, we graved the draft, and yeah, 0:21:55.560 --> 0:21:58.440 that'll be on Tuesday. Yeah, and even on Monday, when 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:01.160 we go through the gauntlet of every show talking about 0:22:01.160 --> 0:22:04.000 the draft, I'll be talking about a player to how 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:06.600