WEBVTT - HOUR 1- Al Leiter Oct 22, 2020 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.480 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:08.320 Sports Radio. Welcome to the program our one on this Thursday, 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:10.680 Dan and the Dannatt Stan Patrick Show. Glad to have 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:13.400 you on board. Stay a while, you can watch, you 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:16.600 can listen, you can watch on Peacock. It's free download 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:19.720 the app, and our great radio affiliates around the country, 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:23.599 including that formidable Fox Sports Radio lineup at a play 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:25.840 of the day, stat of the Day, all of that 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:29.200 coming up at a pole question as well. The headlines 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:31.960 from last night. The Rays beat the Dodgers six fourth, 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:34.599 that series tied at a game of piece. The series 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:36.839 takes the day off so they don't compete with Thursday 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:41.320 Night Football Giants and the Eagles. The Pelicans waited this 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:45.760 long and they hired Stan van Gundi. Jeff Van Gundy's 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:47.960 on the short list to be the next head coach 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:51.800 of the Houston Rockets. Al Lighter from the Baseball Network 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:54.120 will join us coming up in a little bit. And 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:56.560 it feels like every series we do the same thing. 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:59.320 Throughout the Baseball playoffs. We read way too much into 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:02.720 Game one or Game two, even Game three, And remember 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:06.200 the Rays led the Astros three h and had to 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:09.520 go to seven games. Meanwhile, the Dodgers, down three one, 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:14.479 went seven games before they advanced. Los Angeles takes Game one, 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:19.720 Clayton Kershaw. Everything's great, powered by the Dodgers. Then the 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:22.119 Rays come back last night winning Game two sixty four, 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:25.880 reminding us that this might be a competitive series. Blake 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:29.280 Snell was brilliant on the mound, Brandon Lowe broke out 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:32.679 of his slump, and now the Rays have Charlie Morton 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:36.920 on the mound. Game three against Walker Bueller Junior the third. 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:40.200 I'm not gonna get fooled again in this series, one 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.760 way or another. I'm just gonna let it play out. 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:46.959 Hope it's competitive, and that seems like a very likely 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:51.040 possibility at this point. But last night the Rays did 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:54.480 it with hitting and pitching. Here is Blake Snell, the 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:58.040 Rays pitcher. Every game right now is obviously a must win, 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.560 but I didn't feel the pressure of we really need 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:02.320 to win. I felt more of the pressure on myself, 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:04.920 like let's get it going and let's, you know, give 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:08.240 this team something to push forward with. Here's Dave Roberts, 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:11.640 the Dodgers manager, on his pitchers. I think that I 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:13.560 still trust him, I still believe them, and they just 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.360 got to make pitches. I know that they want to 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:18.880 make pitches and next few pitches, so we'll kind of 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:20.600 look at the video and see what we can do 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:22.800 better at but they're still going to need to get 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:25.400 big out for us. And once again, the World Series 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:28.280 has the day off. We'll talk to Al Lighter. I 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:31.600 don't want to dive into the analytics again, but I'm 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:36.120 watching last night and it was a common opinion, that 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:40.720 common knowledge that this was a bullpen game for the Dodgers. 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:46.880 This is the World Series. And I know I'm old school, 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:50.280 but I'm not that old. Like, this is Game two 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:53.959 of the World Series. Can I get my second best 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:57.360 starter out there for five innings instead of using five 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:00.880 different pitchers in five innings, I would like to use 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:03.880 those pitchers again the rest of the series. But Blake 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:07.160 Snell pitched extremely well and then they turned it over 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:11.480 to the bullpen. Now let's just go five innings, if 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:14.800 even that. But it was a bullpen session last night, basically, 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:18.280 and you had all of your bullpen guys pitching an inning. 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.600 And this is the World Series. It's game too, and 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:25.480 a lot of success in World Series history is predicated 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:29.400 on having usually two great starters. If you show me 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:32.519 a rotation that has two great starters, I'm going to 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:37.480 favor that team. Justin Verlander and Garrett Cole, Randy Johnson, 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:42.160 Kurt Schilling. Just you have those pitchers, I like your 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:44.720 chance as a whole lot more. Now I'm not sure 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:50.880 because of the analytics here, and I'm open to change. 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:54.160 I understand where the game is now, and I'm not 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:56.880 going to do this. He get off my lawn. These 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:00.440 games are too long. A game can be long, it 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.760 can be four hours, but it could be entertaining. These games, 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:06.040 I don't care how long they are. They're not entertaining 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:10.040 from the standpoint of there is no movement whatsoever. Everybody 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:11.880 throws one hundred. Never it used to be, and that 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:14.680 guy throws one hundred. Now if you don't throw one hundred, 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:17.040 I go, what's wrong with you? If you haven't had 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.719 Tommy John surgery, what do you call yourself a pitcher? 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:25.920 Now it's exit velocity, launch angle, and it's basically let's 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:31.320 dig in. I'm swinging and you're throwing, and the little 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.159 things that made up baseball, and maybe you know, the 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:40.440 analytics say you don't win this way. Okay, but last 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:42.920 night I'm watching the same thing. You know, you've got 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:47.680 guys who swing and miss and it's okay. Pitchers who 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:52.120 you know, throwing ninety eight nine, one hundred. All right, 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.640 But that's the game I think as we move forward, 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:59.640 and baseball has the oldest demographic as far as fans go, 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:02.839 and you got to be careful with that. I'm not 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:06.599 saying bells and whistles like I like when players are demonstrative. 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.240 If you have fun, you're enjoying the game, then great, 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.880 you should be able to do that. Pitchers strike you out, 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.800 you want to celebrate, go ahead at your own peril, 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:18.720 home run bat flip, fine with that, don't throw it 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:22.599 the next guy. But just the sheer enjoyment of the game. 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:28.080 And you could see this, but it changed and it 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:30.680 felt like overnight with let's just go to the bullpen 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:33.159 for Game two of the World Series. I know we 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:35.760 used to get caught up in these pitching matchups. Hey, 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:39.680 it's gonna be Denny McClain and Bob Gibson. Sandy Koufax 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:44.240 is on the mount. Now it's who and he's only 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.279 in there for an inning. Now we'll bring the closer 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:50.720 and put him in the first inning. Okay, if it's 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:53.520 let me get your topier lineup out and he's only 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:57.080 gonna pitch one inning and then maybe we get ahead. Okay, 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:00.600 I get it. I think baseball might be out smarting 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:04.720 itself here runner at second base and extra innings. Okay. 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:07.840 I mean there's a lot of things that I would 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.520 do with Major League Baseball. Just I tidy it up. 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.120 You come in from the bullpen. You don't get to 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:17.719 throw any pitches. If I bring a guy off the 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:19.880 bench to pinch, shit, he doesn't get to go. Can 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:24.760 you can I get some BP like it doesn't happen? Like, hey, kay, 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:28.719 can I would just give me throwing me you know 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:31.520 the shift. I would have a line right down the 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:34.279 middle of the field, center field to home plate, you know, 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:36.920 catch her to second base, and then you got your 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:38.880 second baseman. Can't be on the other side of that. 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:41.320 Your shortstock can't be on the other side of that line. 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:44.880 You know. I gotta I want to increase offense here. 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:48.320 I want movement here. I would love to see the 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:52.000 ball put in play. And I promise this will be 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:55.440 my last get up on a soapbox and talk about 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:59.560 it'll be my next to last rank. Don't guarantee a place. 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:03.480 It'll be one of my next left because alt lighters 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:05.359 coming up. I just I want to ask him. And 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:09.280 I'm trying to be open minded about this because McLevin says, 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:12.480 it's it's the way it's new. It's the analytics. I mean, 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:14.720 this is the way the game is played now. Yeah, mcclemen. 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:17.520 So is it possible the Dodgers staff was just too 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.600 worn out after the last series, so they needed to 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.720 sort of take the al this game they Bueler would 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.400 have been three days rest. So but but where the 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:30.160 Dodgers were built on great pitching for the last fifty years, 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:34.760 options were Gonselin Eureus and Dustin May and May it's 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:36.960 sort of falled off. They didn't have another starter, I 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:38.760 guess I know, But where did they go? I have 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:40.240 no idea how I was going to ask you that. 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.480 How come the options aren't better? I could? It used 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:47.520 to me you'd have four starters. Now it's you got 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:50.240 to have. And the reason why I really like Tampa 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:52.880 this year was the depth of their pitching. I mean, 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:57.120 they use everybody, and they've got twelve to fifteen arms 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:00.560 that they can use. The Dodgers I love because of 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:05.960 their hitting. I wasn't impressed with their pitching, and so 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:09.200 now you're getting if if one team gets hitting and pitching, 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:12.600 they're going to win. You know, Tampa got hitting last 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:15.960 night to go along with their pitching. The Dodgers, you 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:19.760 know they didn't have pitching last night. Yeah, paulling Walker 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:21.960 Bueller on three days rest, could he have done worse 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:24.960 than five innings than give up six runs? Probably not, 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:28.120 based on walker Bueller's background, and also how tired can 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.840 a twenty six year old starting pitcher be who pitched 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:34.480 a total of thirty six innings this season. Thirty six 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:37.200 innings in the regular season. He usually pitches to twenty. 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:40.439 But I understand I don't want walker Bueller on three 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.480 days rest. If I know that he's so much better 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:47.000 on four days rest, I feel good, I feel confident 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.839 about winning that game. It's just when I hear this 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:54.600 it's a bullpen game. Using you don't say that prior 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:58.280 to a game, because I know that you'd always want 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:01.640 to get into somebody's bullpen. But that's not the case. Yes, 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:05.160 one more counter argument. Everything's weird because of COVID and 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:08.400 like the schedules are condensed, so you can't manage your 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:10.800 pitching staff like you normally would. There's less isn't there 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.160 less rest less travel days? But if there's less rest, 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.320 how about I have somebody who can go five or 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:19.200 six and then I can rest my bullpen. That's what 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:23.440 I don't understand. We're playing these games day after day. Now. 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:25.040 You do have a day off now, and I think 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:28.680 a day off after Game five? Am I trying to 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:30.960 conserve my bullpen? That would be the only thing that 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.480 I'm still trying to figure out. It's just like what 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.480 the Yankees did against the Raise and game was it 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:39.080 Game two? Where they they kind of try this and yes, 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:42.600 in it backfire, Yeah, yes, in it backfire. But you 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.440 know the Yankees go out and buy pitchers all the time. 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:47.680 That's what it was surprising with the Dodgers. They have 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:52.920 great hitting, the pitching is kind of suspect, it really is. 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.880 I love Walker Bueller Kershaw. You know you're got a 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.440 bank on Kershaw coming back Game five and pitching great. 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:02.120 I I guess so, but that's gonna be five innings 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:05.400 and then he had turned over to the bullpen. I'm trying. 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:09.720 I'm trying to be open minded about this okay, and 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.720 that won't be my last rant. I'm sure eight seven 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:15.000 seven three d P show email address dp at dan 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.440 Patrick dot com, Twitter handle a deep piece show. So 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.000 we'll talk to a lighter former pitcher who will join 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:24.240 us on loan from MLB Network. The other story was 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:27.960 Ryan Fitzpatrick was well in his words, he got fired, 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.240 he got demoted and to a tongue of Eloah is 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:33.840 going to be your starter. And it was one of 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:35.760 those where I heard the news and I thought, you 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:39.320 know what, Ryan Fitzpatrick, he's a professional. It feels like 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:43.040 he has been a great mentor to Tuah and he'll 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.760 be okay with this. He was not okay with this. 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:51.880 Here's Ryan Fitzpatrick on being fired. I was shocked by it. 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.000 You know, it definitely caught me off guard. You know, 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.560 it was a it was a hard thing for me 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:04.600 to hear yesterday, just kind of digesting the news. Here's 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:08.280 the other answer. That was pretty hard to listen to 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:12.000 because this guy has been around a long time. He's 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:15.120 been a good soldier by all accounts, a great teammate. 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:19.600 He's not a selfish guy. He's a team first guy. 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:24.640 But he got hurt yesterday is this it like, was that, 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.160 you know, my last game as a as an NFL 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:29.079 player in terms of you know, being the starter and 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:32.000 going out there and playing. I've been you know, a starter, 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.280 I've been benched all kinds of different ways. But this 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:39.160 organization and what we've been through the last year and 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.920 a half, this was kind of the first place other 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:47.800 than Buffalo where I was I just felt fully, you know, 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:52.280 committed and invested and felt like it was my team, 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.360 you know, and so to have that, I think that's 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:57.520 a lot of the reason why my heart was so 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.719 heavy yesterday. But you know that that's direction that the 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:04.600 organization's going, and you know, I've just got to accept it. 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:09.760 Here was the other reality of this pandemic, because now 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:14.160 you're doing things via Zoom and this is how his 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:18.080 day went yesterday. This profession is interesting, and that I 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:21.040 got basically got fired yesterday, and then my day of 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:24.480 work today consisted of me in zoom meetings, listening to 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:27.560 the guy that fired me, and then locked in a 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:30.840 spaced out room, you know, with my replacement for four 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:33.600 hours today. So there aren't a whole lot of jobs 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:38.840 that are like that. That is the reality. Imagine that 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.720 you know, but the Dolphins did have a plan. Now 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:47.160 they expedited the plan. Ryan Fitzpatrick probably thought I could 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:50.360 win my way or keep my job by winning my 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:54.400 way in. And the Jets, you know, aren't any good. 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:57.640 The Patriots are still suspect, the Bills have dropped a couple, 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:00.240 and here's the Dolphins who have had two blow out 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:02.400 wins and they're right there in the mix for a 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:06.240 playoff birth. But I don't think their goal was the 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:10.320 playoffs this year. Yeah. I do feel bad for Ryan 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:13.280 Fitzpatrick because now when you watch him that video of 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.040 him cheering TWA going into the game, right, it's very 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:17.800 clear he thought that two was going in for mop 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:20.280 up duty here, you know, and he didn't realize that. 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:24.160 But what did Ryan Fitzpatrick think was happening? I mean, 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:27.559 he couldn't really be surprised by this. Wait, well, this 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:31.160 is where blind Ryan Flores made the mistake of at 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:36.040 least say to Ryan Ryan Fitzpatrick. Kids found out just 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.400 like we did via tech. So they're in school and 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:40.760 all of a sudden, hey, your dad, he got demoted 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:44.400 to A and Ryan Fitzpatrick is like, at least tell me. 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:50.080 And what happened was I think a source in Two's 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:55.160 camp leaked this to Adam Schefter, and then Chefty broke 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:59.000 the news, and Ryan Fitzpatrick is finding out like we're 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:03.199 finding out, and that is wrong. Now, if you're Brian 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:06.840 Flores and you say, hey, just so you know, if 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:10.200 when two is ready, no matter what the record is, 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:13.679 no matter how well you're playing, he's going to play. 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:17.480 You owe Ryan Fitzpatrick that that's all you owe him, 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.400 because he knows you took this guy with the fifth 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:23.880 pick overall and you're looking at these other rookie quarterbacks 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:29.040 who are playing. He's going to play. But Ryan Fitzpatrick 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:32.040 can't be shocked that it happened. I think he's shocked 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:34.960 in the way that it happened. Yes, and how is 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.440 he like? You know, I basically got fired today and 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:39.160 now I have to look at the guy who fired 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:40.920 me and help the guy who's replaced it. Dude, you've 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:43.840 done that like seventeen times in your career. Like your 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:45.960 whole career has been like up and down, starter or not, 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:48.040 start to start backup, move to this team, go to 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.200 that game. I gotta start know him, not anymore. That's 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:53.480 been your whole career. Imagine you see your girlfriend out 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.840 with another guy and you run into him and you go, hey, 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:03.240 what are you two done? Oh didn't hear? Uh we're dating? Now, 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:06.520 That's what it felt like. Ryan Fitzpatrick shows up and 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:09.000 all of a sudden, Ryan Flores is there with Tuah 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:13.760 and they're talking, got their arm around each other. Buddy, buddy, Hey, 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:16.200 what's what's going on? But then imagine that that same 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:19.320 exact scenario happened with the last eight people you dated. 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:22.000 And then and then you're like, I can't believe this happened. 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:25.400 I just I just didn't see it coming. Really, she 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:29.240 cheated on me for the eighth time. Yeah, you broke 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:31.760 my heart for the eighth time. Yes, McLean. If it 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.320 wasn't Ryan Fitzpatrick, who would we be ripping him for 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:36.520 saying that he was fired because it isn't his job 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:38.600 to help the team win. That's his job. His job 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:41.120 is not. He was helping the team win, right, but 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:44.480 he I feel like that's a really non team friendly statement, 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:46.680 Like I feel like he's gotten such a good will 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:48.240 that we're letting him pass. But if it was a 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:50.960 younger quarterback, we'd probably be killing him because that's not 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:53.960 he's not fired he has a job to help too. 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:57.840 Would be great. He got demoded. Okay, yeah, I mean 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:00.120 he didn't get he got fired from being a star. 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:03.480 But usually guys don't say something no, it's a must 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.640 lie situation. I think that the honesty is what shocked 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:09.400 us there because I as soon as we found out 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:12.440 that Tua was gonna be the starter, I said to Fritzie, 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:15.640 reach out to Ryan Fitzpatrick. I thought Ryan Fitzpatrick would be, hey, 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:17.880 you know what the kid is, it's his time. And 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:24.000 right Ryan Fitzpatrick is playing well, not great. He's completing 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:27.360 seventy percent of his passes and I think he's got 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:31.960 ten touchdowns, seven interceptions, and they're winning. That's the part 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:35.800 when you said two is taking over, and PAULI goes, 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:38.640 what if I told you a quarterback who just came 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:42.160 off two wins is playing well, just lost his job. 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:47.160 And I'm thinking, all right, you got me maybe Mitchell 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:51.080 true bisky, But then you go, Ryan Fitzpatrick gonna go wow, 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:53.880 And all of a sudden, I had this flashback to 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:56.840 the Jets game where Tua came in and they had 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.320 him as if he was starting the game, and one 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:02.440 of those role out so He did the same roll 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:06.920 out where he injured his hip when he was at Alabama. 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:10.080 He ran the same play and I went, Wow, they're 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:13.560 getting him ready like now. And I don't know if 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:15.800 the bye week was going to be week eleven and 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:17.960 they would have waited, But now you have a bye 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:20.320 week before you faced the Rams, and two has got 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:22.800 you know, good, ten to twelve days to get ready 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:26.400 for his NFL debut. Yeah, pulling Andrew's right, but it's 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.360 usually a muscle situation. A quarterback like Ryan Fitzpatrick would 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:31.479 you usually say, you know, whatever helps the team. He 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:33.240 doesn't believe this is the best thing for the team. 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:36.480 Nobody believes that they're the person replacing them is better 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:39.560 than them. No person who actually competes for anything. And 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:42.440 Ryan fit Patrick is also almost thirty eight years old. 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:45.400 He knows he's his last call, or close to last call. 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:47.960 You speak differently when you're on your way out. It's 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:49.479 like an old guy who doesn't turn use his turn 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:52.000 signal anymore. He's like, well, I'm just gonna be honest 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.600 because I've been playing the game for so long. Let's 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:58.320 just call it like it is. They're making the wrong decision. Yeah, 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:01.080 tun what would be the upside of motivation for leaking it. 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.119 We better get it out there before they change their mind. Like, 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:05.879 why would you put Ryan Fitzpatrick or two or the 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:08.720 organization in that awkward position that they would get out 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.320 before the Dolphins can announce it themselves. I don't know. 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:13.719 I don't know if it would have mattered if they 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:17.360 did tell Ryan Fitzpatrick. But you know, all I know 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:21.120 is that that's what I heard. That the leak probably 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:22.920 was from to his camp, and they might have been 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:25.720 just excited that hey, we're starting and not really thinking 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:28.439 you know, what's Ryan Fitzpatrick gonna think? But that's on 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:31.600 Brian Flores, like you got it. At least let him 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:34.760 know this is the situation. Ryan Fitzpatrick thinks that he 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:38.679 can win his way into another week, and why not. 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:40.919 Why wouldn't you think that that is how life should be. 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:43.920 Though the more successful person should be keep their job, 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:46.480 and he was the successful guy. He does give them 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:48.760 a better chance to win and has, but it doesn't 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:51.800 work that way when youth always wins out. But I 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:55.359 remember when John Kittman was playing for the Bengals and 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:59.280 was an MVP candidate because they won eight games, but 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:01.760 they had taken Carson Palmer with the number one picked 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:05.080 the previous year, and it didn't matter what John Kitna did. 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:08.159 He could have won the MVP, and he wasn't going 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:11.399 to keep his job. Yeah, club drew Brees and Rivers too, right, 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:14.959 didn't start playing really well when they drafted Rivers. Yeah, 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:17.280 but then he got hurt and that's what made it 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:19.880 easier for the transition. What's the deal with everyone saying 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:22.400 they should trade Ryan Fitzpatrick? Do you know how many 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:24.320 games has too have ever been able to string together? 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:27.320 His ankles are super glued together. His hip is like, 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:30.440 you need Ryan Fitzpatrick. Does Ryan Fitzpatrick want to be there? 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:33.760 That would be my only thing he could be. I 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:37.400 don't know if he's that desirable for how many teams like, hey, 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:41.120 we gotta go get him. Hey we got Ryan Fitzpatrick. 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:47.119 I love Fitzpatrick. He's entertaining, good interview at times, a 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:50.560 really good quarterback. But I'm not looking at him going yep, 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:55.200 we've figured it out. We got Ryan Fitzpatrick here. I 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:59.880 hope that he look his pride is hurt, He'll swallow 0:19:59.880 --> 0:20:03.280 the pride and he'll be, you know, a great backup quarterback. 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:07.119 I'm guessing to two. I would imagine, but I think 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:09.320 it was one of those where God, like, I got 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:12.920 embarrassed yesterday and at least tell me I'm getting demoted. 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:16.879 At least let me tell my family I'm being demoted. 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:20.240 He didn't even get that opportunity yesterday. So I understand 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:23.280 that sensitivity, and you know that was that was an 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:27.359 honest answer. 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