WEBVTT - 12/02/20 HOUR 1- Michele Tafoya 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.480 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:08.320 Sports Radio. It's our one on this Wednesday, Football this afternoon. 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:12.520 I guess it's football afternoon in America. Michelle Tafoya, who 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:15.400 will be on the sidelines for NBC Sports. She will 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:18.800 join us from Pittsburgh coming up shortly. Phone calls are 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:24.080 always welcome, Emails, tweets. Operator Marvin standing by, also your 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:26.479 tweets and your email. We say good morning to chat 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:28.960 Row as well. A little bit later on Pat forty 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:31.760 from Sports Illustrated, an update on what's happening in the 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:36.360 Big Ten, in particular with the Ohio State Buckeyes. 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The pandemic has thrown that schedule into disarray. 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:15.160 You know, when you think about we had NBA and NHL, 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:17.720 we had that in the fall. We had baseball squeezed 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:19.920 in there a whole season. We did it in a 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:23.720 couple of months. The NFL has been the exception. Now. 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:26.080 They made a statement in April they held the draft 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:29.080 on time, and for the most part they have held 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:32.240 true to that schedule. But now things are getting weird. 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:35.160 The Ravens and Steelers are going to try again to 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:38.360 play this afternoon. Keep in mind that this was supposed 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:41.240 to be Thanksgiving night, and then it was going to 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:44.880 be a Sunday or Monday or Tuesday, and now here 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:47.760 it is on a Wednesday afternoon. I'm okay with a 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:50.560 London game at nine am. I mean, usually they aren't 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:53.440 good games, but I'm okay with it. I'm used to it. Now. 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:57.840 We associate NFL games with downtime or reward for a 0:01:57.840 --> 0:01:59.720 hard day's work, Like you come home and you go 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:01.760 I can't wait for that Monday night game or a 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:05.800 Sunday night game. Sometimes the NFL gets lucky, stumbles into 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:09.600 a great idea and somehow I get this strong feeling 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:13.880 that Wednesday afternoon football will not be one of them 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:17.880 because the Ravens could have more positive tests this morning. 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:20.839 They have to have more tests this morning to see 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.840 if they can play tonight. I don't know what happens, 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:27.120 like how many positive tests, more positive tests with the 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:29.679 NFL then go you know, one on second thought or 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:32.240 third thought or is it their fourth or fifth thought 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:34.840 that they wouldn't be able to play this game for 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:38.760 entertainment purposes only the Steelers are favored by ten and 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:41.919 a half. And keep this in mind, Pittsburgh beat the 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.079 Ravens back in Week eight and that was twenty eight, 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:47.560 twenty four, and that's a typical game between these two. 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.320 Since Mike Tomlin took over as the head coach back 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:53.720 in two thousand and seven, Steelers and Ravens have played 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:57.760 twenty games against one another. That's the most by two 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:01.480 teams over that time frame, and they were decided by 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:07.200 seven points or less. They played twenty seven times, twenty 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.519 of the twenty seven decided by seven points or less. 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:13.720 Is that going to be the case today? With Robert 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.280 Griffin Junior the third as your quarterback, they have their 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:20.359 running backs back, they have a depleted offensive line and 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:24.600 Pittsburgh's coming in undefeated. This program brought to you by 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:27.480 one eight hundred Flowers. You can still celebrate the season 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:31.440 with Christmas. You can get a flower arrangement, and even 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.400 if you can't be there, you can give the impression 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:37.120 that you really care. 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Is that fair, David, Michigan 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:16.800 could opt out basically of that game and keep Ohio 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:20.680 State out of six games to qualify for the Big 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:23.520 Ten Championship. That doesn't make sense to me, but I 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:25.120 think a lot of people want to see where Ohio 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:29.160 State would be okay, Herbie walked that back later on 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:31.279 in the night. He posted a video and said that 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.800 he didn't have any insight information and what he was 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.080 basing it on, I guess was just his opinion, a 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:39.800 gut feeling that maybe that could happen. I want to 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.040 bring something up. I want to bring it back up 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:44.680 because I said this to you yesterday around this time, 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:48.040 my source was telling me about what was going on 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:51.240 with Ohio State in Michigan, and I said, any updates 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.360 on Ohio State. So this is yesterday's twenty four hours ago, 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.320 and my source said, they're doing everything to play, but 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:01.360 we'll be down significant numbers. Michigan has paused football activities, 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:05.039 but don't know the numbers and their availability for this 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:08.160 week or next week versus Ohio State. My source then 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:11.200 goes on to text me, if they're unable to play 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:14.919 Ohio State, they avoid losing to them and eliminate Ohio 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:18.200 State from playing in the Big Ten Championship. That's from 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:22.600 my source yesterday. And then I followed up after what 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:27.200 Herbie said last night, and I said, it sounds like 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:30.880 they're still playing. Any thoughts on what Herbie had to say, 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.719 and my source said he's probably been talking to Davos 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:37.919 Sweeney regarding the Florida State situation. The situation with Michigan, 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:41.120 according to my source, is up in the air. If 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:44.840 they can't fill a competitive team, they'll have a tough 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:50.279 decision to make against Ohio State. So, once again, my 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:52.800 source didn't go as far as Herbie did that they're 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:56.560 going to weigh the white flag, but that you know, 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:59.479 kind of the blueprint is there or the outline is 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:03.719 there if Michigan can't be competitive, that they may not 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:07.000 want to play this game against Ohio State. Now, obviously 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:09.919 there are COVID issues here. That's first and foremost with 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:12.200 all of this. This isn't hey, we're not any good, 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:15.240 we don't want to play Ohio State. If they can't 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:19.000 field a competitive team, from what my source told me, 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:21.440 then they may not be able to play. They'll have 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:24.400 a tough decision according to my source, to play against 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:27.800 Ohio State. But Herbie did backtrack and say, I give 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:31.839 Rees Davis a whole lot of credit because I'm assuming 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:36.279 that was Live TV last night and Reese was asking 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:40.040 Kirk hert Street to clarify here, and he was not 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:43.240 taking the answers that Herbie was giving him, and Reese 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:46.120 really pinned him down to say, do you know exactly 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:49.080 what you're saying right now? And I don't know if 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:52.040 Herbie did. David Pollock kind of came in and joked 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:55.039 a little bit there, but I think that Rees Davis 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:58.919 did a wonderful job in saying, guys, you understand what 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:02.320 we're talking about here, that Michigan would actually not want 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.560 to play a football game against Ohio State, that they 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.720 would actually do whatever they could do to not play 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:13.280 against Ohio State. My source is saying COVID is the 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:18.280 issue that if they can't field a competitive team, then 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:20.840 maybe they're going to have a really tough decision to make. 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:24.920 I'm assuming Ohio State plays Michigan State this weekend and 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:29.120 they don't have a requisite number to play requisite number 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:33.160 of games to play for the national championship, because Ohio 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:36.640 State could have four games and probably still play in 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:38.920 the Final four, but they won't be playing in the 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.960 Big Ten Championship. But that's just some of the background 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:45.800 information from yesterday. What happened last night with Herbie. Herbie 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:48.840 did walk it back, and I've known Herbie for thirty 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:53.440 year twenty five years. And I know that we joke 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:57.120 about Ohio State in Michigan because I'm from Ohio and 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:03.040 I hated Michigan growing up. But Herbie never engaged in 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:07.120 that as a fan. Never, and he's from Centerville outside 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.680 of Dayton. He never engaged with that. When we would 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.119 joke off the air about Ohio State Michigan, he didn't. 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:15.960 And he has been a professional when he's on the 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:19.800 air talking about Michigan because it's the same thing that 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:22.360 I went through many many years ago when I said 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.360 I don't have an allegiance anymore. Because if I say 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.080 that I'm a Reds fan and you're a Pirates fan, 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.600 then you go, well, he's a Reds fan. I had 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:33.120 to stop rooting for any team. I don't root for 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:37.920 Ohio State. I root for a storyline here. Herbie got 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:41.320 caught up in Hey, maybe Ohio State. You know, if 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:43.920 you're gonna play in Michigan's gonna get embarrassed again and 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:46.800 you don't want to and maybe you wave the white flag. 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:50.560 Where you can't say wave the white flag. You can 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:54.400 say if they don't have a competitive team here, do 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:58.320 they make a decision based off COVID and the safety 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:00.480 of the players they'd be putting out there against a 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:05.079 far superior team. You can say it that way, but 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.400 last night, when you say you're gonna wave the white flag, 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:10.840 there is no I can't imagine a situation where Jim 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.679 Harball would go, I don't want to play Ohio State. 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:17.400 Deep down, you may go, this may hurt, but I 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.240 can't imagine those football players are going to go, we 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:23.120 don't want to go out there and play. You don't 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:26.559 get to that point in your career where all of 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:28.400 a sudden you pick and choose when you want to 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:30.920 play and don't want to play based on based off 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.920 how good somebody is or isn't. And this might just 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:39.400 be sort of the overflow of Clemson still heated. Dabbo 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:43.800 Sweeney is still upset at Florida State, and Herbie's got 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:46.839 two of his sons who go to Clemson. Maybe he 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.520 spoke to Dabo, according to my source, maybe that's where 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:52.920 it came from. But I don't know of other situations 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:56.439 where coaches are saying that team is opting out they 0:09:56.440 --> 0:10:02.120 don't want to face somebody. Yeah, like you said, this 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:05.080 topic must be driving Jim Harbaugh crazy, and you know 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:07.280 him we've had him on a dozen times. The fact 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.960 that they're even speculation by anybody out there that his 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:14.520 team would rather stay home than get waxed. I know 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:16.200 he's not talking. He hasn't done a lot of interviews 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.720 this year, but that must be driving him nuts. Yeah, 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:22.560 but well, it was just strange. I'm watching, I'm watching 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:24.160 the show. It's a half hour show, and then I'm 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:26.680 getting ready to watch basketball after that, and I thought, Okay, 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:30.040 there's not going to be any change in the top four, 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:32.400 top five. I was curious about Iowa stayed, I was 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:36.840 curious about BYU, curious about Cincinnati. Basically, that's it. And 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.920 then all of a sudden, when Herbie started talking, and 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:43.520 then he kept talking, and then I went, is somebody 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:46.760 gonna say anything? And then he turned it over to 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.520 David Pollock, and David Pollock joked with him a little bit, 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:52.920 and then Reese hit the reset button and said, wait, wait, 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.440 hold on here, do you know what you're doing? Do 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:59.920 you know what you're saying? And he was holding her 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.520 be accountable, and that's what you needed to do. It 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:06.319 was very good TV. It wasn't scripted, but it was 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:09.120 very good TV. All Right, mcleven, you got a pull 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.880 question for me today. Well, we have to start with 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:15.240 the obvious question. Will the Ravens and Steelers actually play 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.760 today at three forty Eastern time? Can I wait for 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:22.480 about twenty minutes after we have Michelle Tafoya on because 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:26.480 I don't know when today's test, this morning's test results 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:29.600 come back, but I would like to I get some 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.439 point and you go for competitive balance. Could you imagine 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.080 if the Steelers get ready for the Ravens, They've already 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:39.360 flown there and you're still waiting on tests this morning 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.760 to see if you can play this football game. I'm 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.720 gonna say we're gonna play the football game. I don't 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.840 know what it's going to look like. It has to 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.880 be better than Denver against New Orleans. It has to 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.960 be at least RG three has played the position at 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:58.880 a high level before. Yes, McLevin. I keep googling who's 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:02.000 on the Ravens team tonight and it's not clear because 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:04.320 they guys are on the COVID list, but I don't 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:06.120 know who gets off the COVID list and time to play, 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:09.040 So they're they're massing like eight Pro Bowl players like 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:12.520 Klai's Campbell, Mark Andrews, Brandon Williams, you gets sewn on 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:17.800 a list, Willie Sneed. It's everybody's out. You can't reschedule 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:21.200 this game right like, like they can't do it again. 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:23.839 But then what do you do if they can't play 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:31.119 this game? Can you do it? Can you do it Thursday? 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:36.079 Like Thursday morning? You know morning drive football? I mean, 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:41.240 at this point, it's bordering on embarrassing. We're gonna we're 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:43.880 gonna get this football game in. I don't care what happens. 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:46.400 I don't care who plays. We're getting this football game in. 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.760 But we'll talk to Michelle Tafoya. He'll she'll join us 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:52.600 and give us an update on what is going on 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.920 with this game. Yes, Paul, I wonder if Tafoya is 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:57.520 going to have just a normal mask on on the 0:12:57.520 --> 0:13:00.319 sidelines or like the full has Matt like the Pola 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:05.840 thirteen space suit doing report being extra cautious? Oh what 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:09.200 else do you have? Nick Levin? Okay, wait, hold on, 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:13.160 hold on, do you want to do this time? How 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:16.520 do you feel about that? Um? The last one didn't 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.640 go great, but it wasn't terrible. I say we just 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.520 go for it. Oh you're feeling that good? Okay, Well, 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:26.800 Todd came up with a poem, A limerick. A limerick, Okay, 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:29.520 a limerick. I'm sorry, it's my wheelhouse. Yeah, pocket with 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:33.040 the haikus of the automotic You you stole a limerick 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:35.040 from somebody and won an award. I did that once. 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.400 Was a man from Peruh's dreamed he was kissing his shoe. 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:39.160 He awoke in the night in the terrible fright, found 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:40.920 out it was perfectly true, right out of a book. 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:44.080 Do you want to get this over with? Yeah, we go. 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:48.720 Here's Todd Fritz with his limerick about today's Raven Steelers game, 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:53.080 a third rescheduled game. No way, it's a pandemic. So 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:55.920 what can you say? Wednesday afternoon at Hines just a 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:57.960 sign of the times. But are we sure that they'll 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:02.040 even play? Okay? I like that. Now is the effort 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:07.640 to rhyme or to entertain, I'd like to say more entertain, 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:09.520 But as far as following the pros and what you're 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:11.880 supposed to do for limerick lines one, two and five, 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.199 after rhyme in three and four after rhymem separate, Okay, 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:16.800 all right, I'm gonna give you a passing grade on that. 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:19.200 I'll take that. Yeah, like an eighty No no, no, 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:25.880 It's like Brown University. You pass or fail, never seize, 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:30.320 dick get degreed. What else do you have? McLevin? Okay, 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:32.600 I was going to ask which team in the top 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.600 four now is most likely to fall out with Clemson, 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:38.840 Notre Dame, Alabama, and Ohio State. But based on what 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:43.760 you opened with, is the answer going to be Ohio State? Well, 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:46.480 I think that the committee this is entertainment, this is 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:48.920 a TV show, and as much as we want to go, 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:51.920 this is based off your resume. I don't know how 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.160 you could look at Ohio State and say, based off 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:58.000 your resume, we're putting you in the final four. Now, 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.640 talent wise, they deserve to be in the final four, 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:03.280 but you can't tell me based off your resume that 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:06.880 they're a final four team. But I think that I 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:08.880 think Ohio State is still going to make it even 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:13.480 if they're playing four games. I see this scenario. I 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:15.800 don't know if it could happen, but let's say Notre 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:19.040 Dame loses to Clemson by less than a touchdown, Clemson 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:23.400 fully assembled with Trevor Lawrence back, Alabama loses to Florida 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:27.960 in a closed game. Could Ohio State get left out 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:31.640 because you'd still keep Alabama in after a loss, and 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:35.280 you'd keep Notre Dame in after a loss because their 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:38.400 resume is better than Ohio States. That was just the 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:41.400 one question that I had if we look at scenarios here, 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.600 that was the one that I looked at. Yeah, mccleman, 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:47.560 what about Texas A and M who sits at five? 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:49.840 I believe do they have a real path because what 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.360 you describe leaves them out a little bit. I don't 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:56.080 know if anybody is anxious to see Texas A and M. 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:59.800 Just being honest here from an observer, But this is 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:04.240 this is about This isn't March madness. This is the 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:08.640 four best teams where people are going to watch in 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:14.840 Ohio State, Clemson, Alabama, Notre Dame. People will watch. You 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.400 want to put Florida in there with Kyle Trask, who 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:20.840 will probably win the Heisman, or at least if he 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:23.120 has a great game against Alabama, he's gonna win the 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:26.800 Heisman Trophy. Maybe people will tune in for that. I 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:30.240 don't think anybody is interested in Texas A and M 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:35.480 being invited to the party. What else? So that means 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:39.080 Cincinnati isn't even worth as Cincinnati is. You know, if 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:46.320 this were March Madness Cincinnati and BYU Coastal Carolina Liberty 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:50.080 would be a whole lot of fun. But this is football, 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:54.440 and football doesn't believe in Cinderella's stories. They love the 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:57.560 blue Bloods and they are gonna live and die by 0:16:57.560 --> 0:16:59.680 the blue Bloods, and I don't think this year is 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:01.920 any exception. All right, let me take a break. We'll 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:05.080 settle on a poll question. By the way, you got 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:08.119 gear for the holidays, and look no further than the 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:12.720 DP shows store. 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When's the last time you watched 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:26.359 Kentucky and had no idea who anybody was on the floor. 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:30.400 When's the last time you watched Kansas and had no 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:33.560 idea who anybody was on the floor. Well, that happened 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:37.120 last night, and I followed the sport. I know Duke 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:40.960 had an unbelievable recruiting year, but I'm watching and I'm 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:47.320 going m nope, nope. And that was the case last night. 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:52.480 Kentucky Kansas not good, not good at all. And then 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:55.320 Duke and Michigan State, Michigan State got to win. Yes, Paul, 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:58.760 that's the thing. You know. Two years ago, Zion took 0:19:58.760 --> 0:20:00.880 over the sport. Everyone knew. You got to know him fast, 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:03.320 but by default you got to know RJ. Barrett and 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:06.000 Cam Reddish and the other guys. There's not a focal 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:08.920 point guy anywhere. The player of the year. It's playing 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:10.720 for the Iowa Hawkeyes and not a lot of people 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:13.680 I would think it's much national attention. Age seven seven 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:16.000 three DP show will settle on a poll question. Got 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:18.359 a couple interesting status of the day coming up, but 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:21.000 the big question of the day is are we going 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:26.240 to have football this afternoon? Michelle Tafoya NBC Sunday Night Football, 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:32.280 NBC Wednesday Afternoon Football sideline reporter, and she joins us 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:35.680 now from Pittsburgh. How confident are you we're playing football 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:38.720 to day? Michelle, I'm very confident. But first I have 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:42.280 to say Jalen Sugs of Gonzaga, don't ignore him. Okay, 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:46.199 mini guy point guard. All right, Yeah, we're gonna have 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:49.640 some football. It's the Thanksgiving edition of Sunday Night Football 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:53.520 on Wednesday afternoon. That's what we have. We feel pretty confident. Look, 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:58.359 the Steelers have two guys missing, and James Connor and 0:20:58.760 --> 0:21:03.119 Stefanto it the Ravens. You should see this flip card. 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:05.040 If people don't know what a flip card is, it's 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:07.439 the card that they give the media to lists all 0:21:07.480 --> 0:21:10.240 the starters in the second and third deep. It is 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:13.160 a mess. It's just an absolute mess for the Ravens. 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:16.440 But you know, some of these guys are coming back. 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:19.440 The rumors that Mark Ingram and JK. Dobbins will play 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:21.600 in this game are false. They will not. They're not 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:25.800 coming and so but you know they're going to take 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:30.400 rapid tests before they leave the hotel today. And assuming 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:34.040 everyone clears, we've got a football game. Okay, could there 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:36.840 be a number and like, is there a number of 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:39.760 positive tests that could happen this morning where that it 0:21:39.840 --> 0:21:42.960 would put this game in jeopardy? Well, my guests would 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:46.400 be again, this is not official, Dwan, but what they've 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:48.600 been doing is I mean, if there's a single test, 0:21:49.359 --> 0:21:53.800 then really, if that person's been in meals, in a walkthrough, 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:58.480 in a meeting, then everyone's at risk. Or they could say, 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:01.000 you know what, it's a it's a defensive back. We're 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:04.040 only worried about the corners and everyone else's is negative. 0:22:04.840 --> 0:22:07.040 I'm sure it would have to be cleared with the league, 0:22:07.400 --> 0:22:11.680 but yeah, that's something I'm sure John Harbaugh is grinding 0:22:11.680 --> 0:22:14.320 his teeth about this. Morning is get these tests back 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:17.440 and please make them negative. How is your role changed 0:22:17.480 --> 0:22:21.560