WEBVTT - Hour 3 – Bucky Brooks (07-10-20) 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:03.520 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:06.560 Sports Radio. What up? Come on it? Tia, Doug gotlie 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:08.760 Brod Parker in for Dan and the Dan ats Boys 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:14.800 vacation is over as of Monday, right, They're back Monday, 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:17.040 So in the meantime, you're just stuck with us. Our 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:20.560 guy Bucky Brooks, who's he's actually high school football coach, 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:23.560 former NFL player and outstanding analysts for the NFL Network 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:25.479 and part of the Move the Sticks podcast which I 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:30.880 was listening to this morning driving in. He'll join us 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:32.920 at half past the hour. We'll get his take on 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:35.800 the Pat Mahomes contract and on Cam Newton and what 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:38.080 we can expect from the former NFL MVP with the 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:41.160 New England Patriots. That upcoming half past the hour, Rob Parker. 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:44.879 You can hear him on the Odd Couple, which is 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:48.200 seven o'clock Eastern, four o'clock Pacific here on Fox Sports Trader, 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:50.920 your iHeartRadio app. You can also download the Inside the 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:54.880 Parker podcast, which is all baseball, all the time, and 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:57.600 you can read his work in dead Spin in which 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:00.480 he wrote that Pat Mahomes missed a golden opportunity to 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:03.160 get a fully guaranteed contract, something we debated, and we'll 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:06.039 talk with Bucky Brooks upcoming, But Robot, I want to 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:10.160 talk about the biggest story of the day, and that's 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:14.920 that yesterday the Big Ten took the lead and they 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:20.280 decided to announce that they were not are not, excuse me, 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:26.840 going to play going to play non conference games if 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:30.919 they have an upcoming twenty twenty college football season. Here's 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:34.280 the new commissioner of the Big Ten, Kevin Warren. This 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:36.720 decision would allow us to one do the right thing 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:39.440 by our student athletes, keep them at the forefront of 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:42.280 all of our decisions, and make sure we create an 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:45.039 environment to give us the best chance to play. I 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:47.480 mean one thing, we have to realize that this is 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:50.080 not a fatal complete that we're gonna have sports in 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:52.400 the fall. We may not have sports in the fall. 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:54.960 We may not have a college football season and a 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:59.200 Big Ten. What's what's your reaction to his announcement? Well, 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:03.320 I mean, this is such a fluid situation. I don't 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:07.800 think anybody really knows, Doug what's gonna happen come September 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:12.800 and whether there'll be a college football season. The virus, 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:16.120 will it be a vaccine, will something how bad, it's 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:19.160 gonna be. So I think that they're going about it 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:23.639 trying to figure out a way to somehow salvage of 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:30.560 football season, somehow get players on the football field so 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:34.280 that they can get their broadcast money and the other 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:36.640 stuff that comes with it, even if they have to 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:38.919 go without fans. And at one point they were talking 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:42.320 about having fans signed waivers and all kinds and maybe 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:47.200 just having twenty five percent of the crowd coming in 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:50.000 to watch the game. Whatever. By hook or crook, they 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.040 would love to try to get a football season in. 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:55.120 So I think this is just like a step. It 0:02:55.160 --> 0:03:00.360 doesn't mean that this is gonna work or it is 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:04.160 the problem by by just playing conference games instead of 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:07.480 bringing other people in. So it's it's very up in 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:11.040 the air. I thought there's a chance that we would 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.320 get football. I'm not so sure now, Doug. I'm really 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.919 I'm not sure. I think the NBA and baseball is 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:21.320 gonna start and we'll see what happens as we go forward. 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:25.200 And I think that'll probably be the biggest test to 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:28.880 see if somehow, some way, you know, we can have football. Well, 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:31.480 I mean, look, and this is to me, this is 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:36.640 actually universal too. The NBA bubble. It's a little different 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:40.440 Major League Baseball's bubble. But but I'm of the belief 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:42.720 and you're allowed to dispute this. The college botball players 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.880 are way better off on campus than they are at home. 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:52.520 And the reason is when you're on campus, though you're not, 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:56.000 you are bringing in people from all different areas of 0:03:56.040 --> 0:04:00.160 the country. You're at least in a protected environment, at 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:04.440 least have the absolute best medical care. You can get tested, 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:09.080 which is incredibly expensive on a daily or weekly basis. 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.440 And if you do pop up positive is I think 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:15.400 Clemson had like twenty six kids pop up positive, you're 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:17.120 going to get the best treatment as opposed to if 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:20.400 you're at home. The environment is not contained, right, The 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:23.680 world has opened up. Whether you wear a mask or 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:27.919 don't wear a mask some people some states are making 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:32.000 it mandatory, Some are making it mandatory but not enforced. 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:34.920 Some are not making it mandatory. So the point is 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:38.280 that it's not like you're coming from a quarantine bubble 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:42.200 and going to the wild wild West. You're coming from 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:45.960 an open environment and going to some sort of bubble 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:50.400 ish sort of area with far better medical protection. Right, 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.719 That's how they're already popping up positive and that's oh yeah, 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.760 by the way, why they're getting treated. And I think 0:04:56.839 --> 0:05:01.240 ultimately they will hopefully be fine. Knock on wood. I 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:05.280 think that's and it's a real and legitimate argument to say, hey, look, 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.760 if we bring in non conference schools like one, we 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:10.919 don't know if they're going to play. We don't know 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:14.159 if they have the funding. Even so let's and even 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:16.719 if they do play, we don't actually know how much 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:19.560 they've been tested or if they've been in quarantine the 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:22.200 way that we've been in quarantine. We know that the 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:25.480 Big ten schools have the same all the same protocols. 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:28.000 We know that they're all well funded, we know that 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:30.520 they've all been tested, and if they popped up positive, 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.880 they've been removed from their activities. I actually think this 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:36.960 is the safest and smartest way, and I think the 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:41.719 Big Ten. Though some people cynics will say that this 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.960 is the Big Ten, you know, jumping ahead and doing 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:48.120 like a preemptive strike, it's not. It's they've come to 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.359 a conclusion kind of quickly that this is the smartest, 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:55.039 most likely way to have a football season. And look, 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:57.640 the Big Ten, and granted it was a different commissioner, 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.359 but They've done a lot of things ahead of the curve, 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:03.800 mostly for the good of college football and especially the 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.160 good of the Big Ten. And it's worked, whether it's 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:09.000 their own network or whether it's conference expansion. And I 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:12.000 think it stands the reason that they believe this is 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:17.920 the path most likely to give us a college football season. Yeah, 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:22.800 I get it. I's still not sure that even given 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:26.760 these circumstances and what they're trying to accomplish, as you 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.800 mentioned before, with all the players at Clemson, like, could 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:33.440 there be an outbreak at Michigan god forbid, or Michigan 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:37.160 State or you know, Northwestern or something like that, we 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:40.480 just don't know, and how would that impact, you know, 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:42.719 whether or not you would go along or go forward 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:45.000 with a football season. We saw the IVY League shut 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:49.120 down all four sports, I mean all fall sports, right 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:52.200 and just decided to pull the plug and say that 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:54.920 they don't think it's safe enough, so they decided not 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.400 to do anything. Is that because Doug the IVY League 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:02.640 didn't have a big football programs that are make a 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:05.240 ton of money and it's easier to shut down. Is that? 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:08.320 Is that the reason that they can be more cautiously, 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:11.880 you know, cautious with the student athletes compared to these 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:17.760 big time, factory producing football schools. Why do you like 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.720 every every argument you bring comes to the argument of 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:24.720 money and factory and there's a negative like like like 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.640 this is darkonian, like do you think those kids don't 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:29.400 want to play football? Do you think they don't think 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:31.560 they do want to play football? But that's but it's 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:35.240 not Sometimes you have to protect people from themselves, just 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:38.240 like it's just like the government telling people don't go 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:41.320 outside or stay in the house, Doug. It's not that 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:44.320 people don't want to go out. You don't think people 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:46.160 want to go out and socialize and go to the 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.400 beach and have lunch with their friends. Yes, but sometimes 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:52.760 you have to protect people from themselves because yes, they 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:54.800 do want to do those things, but it's not good 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:56.920 for them. And you know better the foot football has 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:59.400 never been good for you, Ted, like football is like 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.360 this is like the idea of safe football is such 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:06.840 it's such an oxymoron. It's not and uh it's like look, 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:11.680 playing college BASBA or player okay, not safe, Okay saying 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:16.600 you're but you're actually safer playing college football than you 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:19.480 are being at home because when you're at home. Do 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:22.880 you think a college kid who's nineteen twenty years old 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:25.880 is at home he doesn't have college football? Is he 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:28.720 just staying at home in quarantine and not leaving his house? 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:33.400 But no, might say, I'm asking questions. I don't know. 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:36.880 Not some people. Not everybody come home and everybody. Some 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:40.480 people might stay home another way. Maybe they have a grandparent, 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:44.280 or maybe they have all cousins or or other siblings people, 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:47.280 so they're they're actually they're actually safer and their family 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.000 is safer. And look, here's another part of like, it's 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:53.000 it's actually a lie that people the idea that, well, 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.199 you can't do it if we have online classes. M 0:08:56.040 --> 0:09:00.200 maybe you should ask an actual athlete. Many students, I 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:05.040 don't know an actual percentage, but as I've I discussed 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:08.720 things with several schools in terms of coaching in Division 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:10.599 one and I have a brother who's an assistant have 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:15.160 been an assistant coach for twenty five years Indivision one basketball. 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:19.320 Most student athletes take online courses almost exclusively. They don't 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:22.240 actually like, oh, you can't have like what happens if 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:25.880 the whole school goes online is the whole school loses 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.480 a ton of money because you because they make money 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:30.720 not just off tuition but also off room and board 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:33.920 and everything else on campus. That's a massive amount and 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:38.400 so you're you have to mitigate all of those losses. Additionally, 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:43.080 putting people attendance is a big financial generator, not just 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.800 in terms of money, but also for the town, and 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:48.079 that's where they get donations for the rest of the 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:53.800 schools by somebody who teaches. I also believe that hands on, 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:58.840 being able to have one on one talks with somebody 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:02.800 and instruction is important too. I don't I'm I'm not 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:07.320 just online, but I'm telling you I'd much rather be 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:10.640 in a classroom and be able to answer the kids questions, 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:12.280 be able to go to them and give them one 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:15.880 on one guidance and have them understand, rather than it 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:19.920 just be online. I get on online, but I'm telling 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:23.640 you I'd rather the hand hands on appro Rob I 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:26.160 agree with you, okay, And like, look, I got three 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.400 little kids, and you know there's a there's a social 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:31.760 aspect to it, there's a mental health aspect to it 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.679 for little kids going to class. Right, anybody who has 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:37.280 kids knows that there's some good and there's some bad 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.160 to the to the homeschooling thing, and it's been really 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:43.319 really interesting to kind of navigate it. I'm just telling 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:47.040 you the reality of it is, even though in person learning, 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.280 by my estimation and yours as well, and you're actually 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:52.280 a professor at USC, in person learning is way better 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:55.719 than learning online. But the again, the reality of it 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:59.400 is that it's kind of a red herring. College football 0:10:59.400 --> 0:11:02.800 and college ball players rarely step foot on that part 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:05.560 of campus anyway. They're not actually going to miss the 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:09.280 in person learning because, in an effort to make their 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:13.120 lives easier, they just do online classes. That way, they 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:14.880 can have plenty of time to rest and to hang 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:18.280 out and have a life, do their football, do their basketball, 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:21.560 and then still be a regular human being. That's it's 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:23.840 just an easier way to balance it and an easier 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:25.880 way for them to keep up with their school. It's like, 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.719 you know, it's what used to be correspondence courses are 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:33.640 now online courses, and even the core curriculum is taught 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:38.800 online previous to this, and you know, so, I think 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.320 the idea if you have all online course courses, it 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:44.560 doesn't mean you can't have football. It does mean you 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:46.520 have to wonder whether or not you can actually get 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:50.480 students into the stands and fans into the stands, and 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:54.120 that's where it changes the financial aspects, but all aspects 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:58.640 of college football. I don't think that yesterday said we're 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:01.719 not going to have a college football season. I do 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:06.080 think that it showed we're very likely to not have 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:09.840 a college football season for a good portion of the 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:13.560 non Power six leagues. That's that's what because they need 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:15.960 football to make money, not just their own home games, 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:19.200 but those guarantee games. You take away the guarantee games, 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.200 and now the home games that the regular conference games 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:27.640 for those conferences are crazy expensive with very little money 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:30.400 coming in. That that's where I wonder if those schools 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:34.720 will have football, you mean this season or long term, 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:37.280 this season and then how it affects them long time, 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.240 because that's that's the issue that I have is I 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:43.680 think the damage done, especially dug if there is no 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:47.880 college football season will be widespread and there will be 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:52.320 programs that will go away because of the financial aspect 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:55.120 of it. It's gonna be very very interesting, and why 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.800 it's important for them to try to push through with 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:01.480 the season. They almost have too and most of the 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:03.440 kids are going to be willing. And here's the other 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:06.880 thing we see it in pro sports where guys are 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:09.720 opting out. Where would you be, Doug if you a 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:13.080 college coach and guys you're You're at Michigan's football team 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:16.160 and twenty kids go to Jim Harbaugh. I don't feel 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:19.560 comfortable playing. Are you cool with that? I don't think 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:22.480 you'll have a choice. What are you're cool with? They're 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:24.280 not cool with it? You won't have a choice. Kid 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:25.720 doesn't want to play. I mean, it's gonna come down 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:27.199 to and the NSA would likely grant a kid a 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:30.600 redshirt year or whatever. You know. To me, again, this 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:34.000 is how, how, how how college kids really think I 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:36.240 would be like if I'm a backup, like, I hope 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:37.960 the starters do that. That way I get to play. 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:40.600 They all want to show themselves. They all want to play. 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:42.920 They just do I If you pull them, I'd say 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.520 you get a ninety five to ninety eight percent kids 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.720 want to play. If they don't, then you know they'll 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:51.320 be I'm sure granted a medical redshirt ear and somebody 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:55.680 else wo get that opportunity. You know, the the college 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:58.880 coaches that I've spoken with, and some are actually over 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.959 sixty years old or in the most danger prone group 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:05.000 have said like, look, it's about the kids and get 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:08.120 an opportunity to play an unbelievable experience, whether it's football 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:12.560 or basketball. If you're in danger as a coach, you 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.400 should be willing to either step aside, sign a waiver 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:17.800 or whatever so that the kids can play. And I 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:21.440 think most coaches would would actually do that. Where it 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:24.240 gets tricky is with fans in the stands. But I 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:26.280 think the kids want to play, and if they don't 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:27.840 want to play, they can opt out and they'll with 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:29.640 somebody in their stead. I don't think you can do 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.520 spring football though, because none of the kids they all 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:34.080 think they're going in the NFL, and any kid who 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:36.360 thinks he's going in the NFL won't want to put 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:38.840 themselves in that sort of harm's way, even if it's 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.280 a five or six game season, because then you're talking 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:44.320 about playing twenty games in the calendar year and your body. 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.080 NFL teams would would not want that, and the kids 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.080 wouldn't want that. I don't think that's really a viable 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:54.320 option for schools. And one last thing, would you sign 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:56.320 a waiver as a fan to go sit in the stands? 0:14:56.320 --> 0:15:00.320 And watch a college football game. Yes, okay, yes you're 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:03.320 right now, because but I would also I would also 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:06.760 tell you that, having taken business law from a professor 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:10.560 named Andy Yurick at Oklahoma State, signing a waiver doesn't 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:14.240 actually clear that school of liability. It's actually a bit 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:17.880 of a misconception. You can still sue even if you 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:22.440 sign a waiver. So um, the waiver idea makes people 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:25.160 think that they can't sue even though they can. On 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:27.600 the other hand, the idea that you would sign a waiver, 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:31.360 go to a college football game, potentially contract COVID nineteen, 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:34.080 and then sue a school, you're pretty much the dumbest 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:35.840 and worst human being, one of the one of the 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.000 bad human beings on earth. Like right like you, you 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:42.000 legitimately were told of the dangers, hopefully prepared yourself, wore 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.360 your gloves, wore your mask, still want to get it, 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:46.600 and then you're gonna blame somebody else. Sorry, I just 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:48.840 I don't have I don't have time for that level 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:50.320 of it. It didn't there would say that, dude, you 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:52.320 shouldn't have had a game. This shouldn't have been a 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.520 game if there was a chance of me getting sick right. 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:56.400 We don't want we want, we want nothing in terms 0:15:56.400 --> 0:16:00.880 of a personal accountability. And that's a different, different story. Okay, 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:06.960 did Pat Mahomes give away a golden opportunity with the 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:09.960 contract that he sighed? Rob Parker's not just a radio 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.840 host and a professor at USC's also a writer for 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:15.320 dead Spin. His article is going to drop it at 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:19.040 some point the very near future. That's exactly what he said. 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:22.240 Will allow him to kind of thoroughly make his point 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:24.760 and Bucky Brooks will either agree or disagree. He'll join 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:27.440 us next in The Dan Patrick Show. Be sure to 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:30.440 catch the live edition of The Dan Patrick Show weekdays 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.960 at nine am Eastern six am Pacific on Fox Sports 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:37.360 Radio in the iHeart Radio a app Doug Golli Rob 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:40.800 Parkering for Dana Danettes Stan Patrick Show, Fox Sports Radio. 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:46.160 Rob is, among other things, a talented writer. Has written 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:51.440 for a long, long time different newspapers. But four years, 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:57.880 if you could believe that year the Wilkesbury Times Leader, 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:01.400 I was a high school sports writer. Doug Yeah, I 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:06.520 covered rocket Ishmael and Quadria's brother. There were high school 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:10.760 track stars in Wilkesbury, Pennsylvania. I was twenty one years old. 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:15.800 And they were seniors in high school. Wow. Wow, that's crazy, 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:20.639 absolutely positively crazy, absolutely positive. Um. Okay, so if you 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.920 go to if you Go to Death has posted, it 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:26.560 has posted, it has but did you did you retweet it? 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:30.600 I'm doing it right now. I just got it. You 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:32.000 go give him a chance to retweet it. All right? 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.639 So the article out in Death's been written by Rob Parker, 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:37.000 of course, is co hosting with me today here on 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:40.280 Fox Sports Radio and the iHeart Radio app and of 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:42.480 course here in the Dan Patrick Show and the Dan 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:46.240 Patrick App. Uh is that Pat Mahomes gave away a 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:50.399 great opportunity? What is that opportunity? The opportunity was to 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:53.640 make history in the change the way the NFL does 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:57.440 business with his players, like he of all players who 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:00.960 could have demanded and gotten a fully guaranteed contract. And 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:04.720 what I mean by that, Doug, is he if he signed, 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:08.240 it doesn't have to be ten year whatever they would 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:11.360 have agreed on, but whatever it would have been, whatever 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:13.800 the amount of money that they talked about in the deal, 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:16.600 would be fully guaranteed. If it's a six year deal, 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:19.080 four year deal, whatever whatever they had come up with, 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:22.560 and whatever the money was, it should have been fully guaranteed, 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:25.360 and he was the guy. We saw Kirk Cousins get 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:27.520 a three year as a free agent, a three year, 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:32.439 fully guaranteed contract for eighty four million dollars, and I 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:36.240 just thought there was a golden opportunity to change the 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:41.320 landscape of what NFL players. All the other leagues, NBA, 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:45.719 Major League Baseball, National Hockey League, you get guaranteed contracts. 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:48.439 Mike Trout signed for four hundred and twenty six million, 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:50.879 He's going to get four hundred and twenty six million, 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:53.639 not a dollar less, not a dime. Lest I remember 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:57.000 when a Rod was leaving the Rangers and wanted to 0:18:57.040 --> 0:18:59.760 go to the Red Sox. Do you remember that story? Yep, yep. 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.840 And he was gonna take a little pay cut to 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:04.760 go to the Red Sox so that it all could fit. 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:08.600 And the union refused to allow him to take a 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:12.879 pay cut because he had to get all the money 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.560 that he had signed for. So that deal was nixed, 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:18.639 which is fine, and I get it, because once you 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:22.199 open up that Pandora's box, you're gonna have problems and 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:27.359 other people and in this case, had Mahomes, may the 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:30.600 NFL do this, other players could have maybe followed his 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:33.960 lead and been like, this is where we should be headed. 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:39.240 And whether the contracts dug or smaller, three years, two years, 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:43.120 whatever the money is, it should be guaranteed. The headline 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:46.119 said five hundred and three million dollars, but there is 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:49.160 no guarantee that he's going to get. You could speculate 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:52.800 all you want. He could get hurt and next season 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:54.960 and never be the same player and never get all 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:58.720 that money. My point is he should sign for a 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:01.560 fully guaranteed contract, and that's what he should have held 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:04.760 out for. Okay, I mean, look, you're if if you 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:08.400 like that, then you like what Kirk Custins did in 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:12.280 getting two straight two straight. Remember he was a franchise 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:15.040 taggy two straight years, which is what Dak Prescott could do. 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:17.560 Could be a franchise tag one more year, okay, which 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:20.359 again guaranteed this year for like thirty one million in change. 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:23.040 Next year would be maybe a little bit more because 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:25.200 it's the average of the top five hours, probably would 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:27.919 be more. And so you know next year in the 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:31.080 thirty two, thirty three, and then he could be transition tagged, 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:33.480 or he could be or he could be a free agent, 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:36.320 and then he could sign. But Pat Mahomes was not 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:39.359 a free agent. He does have guaranteed money, it just 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:41.520 may not be for the length of time or the 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:44.280 amount of money that you believe. Really, this is a 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:48.000 two hundred and seventy four point seven eight one million 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:52.159 dollars guaranteed deal for six years. Most of the money 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:54.840 is actually paid up. A good portion of the money 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:57.600 is paid up front. One hundred and forty one million 0:20:57.720 --> 0:21:01.040 or so in the next two years. Right March of 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:03.760 twenty twenty two, he'll be fully By then, he'll be 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:07.760 fully paid one hundred and forty one million. Signed for 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:10.720 five h three. That's the number. To listen. Listen, you're 0:21:10.800 --> 0:21:13.320 you're doing that. You're reading the Lee Steinberg. Hey, I 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:15.560 signed the guy for five h three. That's what the 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:18.159 contract says. You got to go go google it. The 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:21.359 richest sports contract. I understand the history of God. So 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:23.960 your proports is Patrick Mahomes. Look, that's a that's a 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:27.680 reporting issue. That's a journalism issue. That that's not that's 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:30.280 actually not a Pat Mahomes issue. One, he was not 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:33.280 a free agent. Okay, so they but that didn't show 0:21:33.440 --> 0:21:36.040 I'm signing him to a deal, Doug, stop using that. 0:21:36.440 --> 0:21:39.479 If if that was the case. Wait a minute, what 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:43.439 wouldn't have given him a contract extension? They didn't have 0:21:43.440 --> 0:21:45.800 to sign him, so stop using it. They don't have 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:48.120 wasn't a free agent. He will sign them to a deal, 0:21:48.280 --> 0:21:51.119 understand that. So, yes, So, so when I'm negotiating a 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:54.640 deal and I'm giving you, listen, we'll sign. You've been great, 0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:56.800