WEBVTT - 04/22/21 DPS Hour 1 Ben Volin 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.520 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:08.760 Sports Radio. I am Ahmed Freed, first time here, first 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:10.920 time in the man Cave. So we have pretty good 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:14.160 studios at NBC Sports. I mean the Premier League studio, 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:16.640 which I've been in. I've been locked in that like 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:20.279 the last five days. Huge TV's in there. Huge TV 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:23.040 is in the background everywhere, and it's like, I've never 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:24.959 seen a studio like that before. So I walked into that. 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:28.160 I was intimidated. I walk in here. We have basketball courts, 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:30.600 we got helmets everywhere, and then I just saw this, 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:37.400 my favorite player of all time. I'm from Michigan. Barry 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:41.239 Sanders signed jersey on the wall. Are you're gonna try 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:43.880 to take it? Can I have it? Is it like 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:46.479 a parting gift? Like you don't need it? I don't know. 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:49.040 Dan doesn't give stuff up very much. You can't see it, 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:51.680 you really can't. It's like off camera, so honestly, you 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:54.400 probably wouldn't even miss it. You know. Dan's got a 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:56.560 long history of Barry Sanders, going back to the draft. 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:58.960 He interviewed them and he talked to him like the 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:02.080 day he retired, and they've got a long history. He 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.920 was you know, as a Lions fan growing up, you 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:08.920 had very few things to be happy about. They really were. 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:11.000 I mean you might have like Eric Kramer was our 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:14.039 best quarterback and like, no one knows who Eric Kramer is, 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:16.720 but he was like my best quarterback growing up. And 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:19.720 Barry Sanders was that guy. It's like, we're not making 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:22.520 the playoffs, we're probably not even gonna get close, but 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:26.080 we have Barry Sanders, who has the most exciting one 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.639 yard runs of anyone in NFL history. But the problem 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:31.480 was it was like that was most of his run, right, No, 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:34.160 it's like in some games that they were super cool. 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:41.160 I loved Barry, I loved him. Studio is so I 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:43.319 was gonna say, like the Premier League studio is intimidating 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:46.400 because he's got the TVs. This is intimidating. This is 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:49.840 this is big. But I mean, how long did it 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:52.800 take to get all this stuff? Wow, that's a big question. 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:56.720 I believe a lifetime. I think about half the stuff 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:58.440 in here is just from Dan's attic that we took 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:00.680 when we moved and we opened the studio about two 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:03.560 years ago on TV. And if you look around, there'll 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:05.560 be like a pair of socks and there Arnold Palmer 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:09.160 sock you know, or there's like a helmet from you know, 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:14.040 Robert Griffin. It's kid. So we have three hours, right, 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:15.920 we can spend the whole three hours just I'm just 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:19.720 like looking around looking at the book covers. We do 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:23.600 have three guests though today, and three really good guests, 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:27.239 and a couple of them I know really well. Matt Mayoko. 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:29.400 I used to work with him out in the Bay Area. 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:32.560 I was out in San Francisco for about five or 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:36.520 six years. He has covered the forty nine ers for ever. 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.919 We're a week away from the draft, and the forty 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.680 nine ers really do have one of the most interesting 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:45.760 picks in the draft because I think a lot of 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:48.720 people think Trevor Lawrence going number one, obviously, got Zeke 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:53.000 Wilson going number two, number three, Who's going number three? 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:56.080 I do a podcast at NBC Sports with Chris Simms, who, 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:58.120 by the way, when you guys ask me, you go, 0:02:58.120 --> 0:02:59.120 who do you want on the show? I was like, 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:01.919 all right, let's get someone to talk Premier League. Let's 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:03.800 get Chris Sims on the show if we can. And 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:07.280 then I'm watching Tuesday, there's Chris Simms on the show. 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:10.880 Rebecca Lowe's on the show two days before I get here. 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:14.760 I was like, you stole my ideas, you took him, 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:17.600 took him from me, just blocked here. What every every 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:19.600 turn that everyone that you had planned to talk to 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.120 his previous guests. No, it's good. We got We got 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:25.200 Robbie Earl talking talking to the the Premier League, so we 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:26.600 did get one of my friends there. But yeah, Matt 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:29.079 Mayoko will break down kind of what the forty nine 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.839 ers are going to do with the number three pick, 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:34.400 and it really does. And there's been so much debate 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:39.000 on what they should do, what they could do. Who 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:43.320 is the better quarterback because clearly you have the flashy 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:46.680 can do it all. Run throw new age quarterback out 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.280 of the Kyler Murray, Josh Allen, mold In, justin Fields 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:51.240 or maybe Trey Lance if you like him a little 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:54.200 bit better. And I get that, but I like I said, 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:58.000 do a podcast with Chris Simms, who loves Mac Jones 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.480 loves him, and a lot of people in the NFL 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:04.400 love him too. Polly, you worked out there for a while, 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:07.640 you know the Niners and Jimmy Garoppolo is twenty nine 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:10.240 years old, twenty seven touchdowns, was in the Super Bowl 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:13.120 and was maybe two first downs away from having a 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:15.560 Super Bowl ring. Is premature to get rid of them 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:17.320 is obviously they're going in a different direction. That's a 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:19.920 great question, right. What changed? Nobody's talking about that? That 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:23.560 is a premature What changed because they spent a second 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:27.799 round pick on him and he was their new quarterback 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:29.599 because all the talk before that was Kirk Cousins going 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:31.800 to come here at some point Kirk Cousins I was like, well, 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:33.520 that's not going to happen. Let's get our guy then, 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.960 and that guy was Jimmy Garoppolo. And I will be 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:41.400 so interested to ask Matt what happened there? What changed 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:45.160 over this past year? Mclovin, He only doesn't Jimmy G 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:48.000 only play six games a year at a certain point 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:51.919 ten year window. Maybe they don't think he's durable. And 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:54.880 part of it too, I wonder, you're right. You need 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.720 a guy who's durable and can be there. And they 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:01.200 have seen how the whole season, every NFL team sees 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:03.760 how every season can all fall apart if you lose 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:07.000 your quarterback. I wonder if Jimmy G can still stay. 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.440 There are some people to say, no, you cannot keep him. 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:11.520 He's got to go. He makes a lot of money, 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:13.839 But I think that's a good way to convince him. Hey, 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:15.600 Jimmy g you make a lot of money. You can 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:17.120 make a lot of money over there just as well. 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.440 We might need you. I don't know I'm gonna pick 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:23.840 Matt's brain about that, but I'm fascinated with mac Jones. 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:27.279 And one of my pet peeves is right around this 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:31.400 time of year, we get drunk on some draft value. 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.880 Do you know what I mean, Poullie. It's like, it's like, 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:38.720 if mac Jones goes number three, that's crazy. He doesn't 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:41.280 have a strong enough arm. That's a bus type pick. 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:45.520 But if mac Jones goes mid first round into the 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:49.000 first round, great pick. He's accurate quarterback, he can make 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.680 all the plays. That's a good spot to have Mac Jones. 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.360 It's like we're talking about two different humans here. If 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:56.640 the Dan always says this, if the Bears had taken 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:59.440 Mitch Trubisky in the first pick of the second round, 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:01.720 then he would have been a really nice quarterback and 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.120 a nice value and not expensive. Remember Andy Dalton, I 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.480 think mclub and he was a second rounder, right high 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:09.680 second rounder. He was a really high end production guy 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.159 for a second round. Yeah, Dad's big one was Reggie Bush. 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.080 If Reggie Bush had been a second rounder, he did 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:16.080 have a nice little career. Yeah, but he was I 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.680 think the second overall pick. It's a different story altogether. 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:22.480 And I get it with Mac Jones. He's not flashy, 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:26.039 he doesn't look great in or out of a uniform. Yeah, 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:31.200 it's like I get it. So but he's highly successful 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:36.120 in that one year at Alabama. And so, yeah, we 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:38.320 do have the death of the Super League. We're gonna 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.800 make sure it's still dead. Right the super League it 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:44.719 was born. I was there. I was sitting on set 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:49.680 with Robbie Earl and Robbie Musto and doing the Premier 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:52.960 League show on Sunday, and our producer in my ear 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.120 Adam goes, goes, hey, I think we got to talk 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.039 about this Super League thing. It's kind of seeming like 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:58.440 it broke when you guys were on the air. It 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:00.000 broke one hundred percent when we were on the air, 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:02.760 and it was during halftime of our game, and I 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:04.760 we go, okay, we'll mention it. Because the New York 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:06.320 Times had just come out with a big story on 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:09.760 it that this is happening, and Robbie Arrow was a 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:12.840 little skeptical because we've heard this before. It's like we've 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.280 heard Super League. We've been hearing this for ten twenty years, 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:17.840 all these big clubs are going to get together in Europe. 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:21.320 But there was something really different about this and we 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:23.760 did see it because all the clubs made the formal 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:26.000 announcement that had never been done before that we are 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:32.400 joining this big European football league. And so Robbie and Robbie, 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:36.120 the two Robbies were despondent almost because we're talking, you know, 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:38.000 top four. This win could get this team into the 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:40.560 top four. West Ham's in there, Chelsea's trying to get in. 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:42.880 And then they get done saying that and they go 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.600 does that even matter anymore? Because top four normally gets 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:47.920 you into the Champions League? But as the Champions League 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:49.800 even gonna be around, so they understood in the moment 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:51.840 what that would mean to the Premier League and the 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:54.560 second tier teams in the other leagues. And I mean 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:57.160 is that what happened there that they went too big 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:01.200 too soon and the reaction was overwhelming. They did they 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:05.240 should have consulted the two Robbies or any other football fan, 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:07.280 you know, and part of me is like, I get 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.520 it right. You want to have the biggest clubs playing 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.520 each other all the time. If in the Premier League 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.360 we didn't have Manchester City Manchester United playing twice a 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.360 year or Arsenal Tottenham playing twice a year, we'd say 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:21.480 what are we doing? We should those teams should be 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:23.680 playing all the time. And so I get it from 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.640 the owners standpoints of like Real Madrid in Manchester City 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:29.720 what we've played maybe three times in the past twenty years. 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:30.960 I don't know. You didn't have to look at it 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:32.880 if if you happen to meet in the Champions League, 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:34.840 that's basically the only time you're going to play some 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:37.800 of those big European clubs from other countries. So I 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:41.719 get it, But it was just the structure there is 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:45.640 so different, and it's what they hold on to. These 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:48.200 smaller clubs can rise up in that idea, even if 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:51.480 they never do. They could. I'd be curious to know 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:54.280 from Robbie Earl where this is going to be in 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:56.880 five years or ten years, right, because like you said, 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:00.000 the concept has been rumored for ten or twenty years 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.560 and it's clearly not going away. As because at last 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:05.160 I saw Real Madrid and Barcelona we're still in It's 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:08.880 just odd. So what happens in five years, say like 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:11.200 the economic fallout of all this, right, or even of 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:14.440 COVID Right, that every sports franchise is dealing with what 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.080 happens in five or ten years from now, where the 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:19.640 super League or the European League is still very much 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:22.160 on the table because the big clubs are still gonna 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:25.360 want an ownership of some of those biggest tournaments out there. 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:30.640 They're still gonna want to guarantee profits and guarantee their valuation. 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.200 And I do think some of this maybe all the 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:36.559 sports leagues. Honestly, every business around the world this past 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:40.800 year has seen where they are vulnerable. They see where 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:42.760 their business is vulnerable. If it all goes away, we 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:45.439 have another pandemic boom, this is where we're vulnerable. This 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.920 is where we could have some trouble. And so I 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:52.480 don't doubt that the football world saw that and said, wow, 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.200 we have invested millions and billions of dollars into some 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:57.439 of these clubs and we just saw in a year 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:59.559 how it could all go away. Let's try to think 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:02.920 of a different way to make this structure and yes, um, 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:07.640 so we'll see if that if that can happen. NFL 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:12.480 some rule changes proposed, actually voted on and are going 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:19.240 to happen. Nothing major in the NFL, but we do 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:22.880 have some interesting new rules. We've got Ben Volan on 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:25.840 from the Boston Globe senior writer. We'll talk about some 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:31.760 Patriots stuff. They didn't get my favorite rule of the 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:35.160 no on side kick anymore, but you get you want 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.360 to eliminate. I want to. I would. I'd be open 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.439 to it. As you'll find out in these three hours, 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:45.800 I'm open to some crazy changes. They might turn out 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.640 to be terrible and then I'll say they weren't my idea. 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:52.160 But I've always opened to some crazy changes. What about 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.240 the overtime spot and choose that got shot down yesterday 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:57.560 where the teams we talked about this like a month ago. 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.040 Where the team wins a coin hip gets it aside 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:05.280 who gets the ball and where that whole it's very complicated. Yeah, 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:06.880 you can say, like the other team gets the ball 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:10.920 out to twenty. I didn't get the benefit of it. 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:14.000 So one team would pick the spot on the field 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:16.440 where the ball would be right, and the other team 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:18.920 would say all right, we want to be offense or defense, right, 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:22.120 So wouldn't that just you'd end up putting it on 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:26.360 the twenty five every time or thirty five. You're own right, 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:28.800 it's like named that tune, named that yard line, like 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:30.520 we're gonna go to the thirty one, we'll go to 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.160 thirty eight. But it would be like Wheel of Fortune. 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:36.040 You know how Wheel of Fortune turned into rst N 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:38.920 l N E. Wait, not two ends, but you know 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.400 what I mean. Yeah, and so everyone just kept doing that. 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:42.800 So then we'll go, all right, we'll just give you 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:46.280 those letters and now give us three extra letters. So 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:48.360 he is, that's what's on Wheel of Fortune. Now, I 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.400 haven't seen the show in years. They give you R 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:53.280 S D and LT. Yes, I know, I haven't watched 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:56.480 it in a few years, but last time I watched it, right, RI, 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:58.800 LT and E. And then you get at least another 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:01.480 two continents an avowal three contents about it's like almost 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:04.680 half the alphabet does already paid exactly because everyone would 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:06.840 go up there, this is the final right at the end, 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:12.040 rst l N E. And then Pat say, Jack and 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:14.079 Vanna got sick of it, and they go, all right, 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:17.040 you will give you those, and it's we gotta be 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:20.920 at least fifteen years into the doing that seriously, I mean, 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:23.439 oh yeah, yeah. Now I haven't watched that show in 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:27.600 at least a decade and they did it then, So yeah, 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:29.480 why wouldn't they give you letters? I know it's obvious 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:34.439 new thing they're doing. Yeah, does it prices right? Give 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:36.319 you the first two numbers of the how much of 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:39.160 refrigerator caused place? Do you think Bob Barker is still 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:45.560 the host? Bob's not, He's gone but a minute? What? Uh? Yeah? So, 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:47.679 but wouldn't it be like that, like every NFL team 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:51.120 would figure out the yard line that's optimal and that 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.559 that would be it every time? And then I guess 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:55.160 it's just the other team if they trusted to their 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:57.240 offense or their defense more. But you said you were 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.240 in the crazy rule change. I know that's a crazy 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:01.120 rule change, but it doesn't make sense to me. I 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:03.319 don't get the benefit of that one. The onside kick 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:08.480 one is interesting to me because that proposal, right, is 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:10.400 that you would have instead of an onside kick, you 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:12.280 have a fourth and fifteen from like your own what 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:15.200 was it twenty five or something like that, So your 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:18.319 own twenty five, fourth and fifteen. If you get it, 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:21.559 you just keep going drive as usual. If you don't 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.000 get it, the other team gets the ball right there. 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:26.280 Oh so if it was an incomplete pass right at 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:28.160 the line of scrimmage, or if you get ten yards, 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.280 they get it there on the field. And I thought 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:33.360 that was going to pass because on side kicks have 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:36.800 become no one recovers on side kicks anymore. Well, they 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:38.800 got a couple of years ago, they got rid of 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.120 the run up, so they I think it was down 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:44.040 to it was four percent a couple of years ago. 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:45.400 I think it was down to two percent of on 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:48.560 side kicks are recovered, and I think it was something 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:53.160 even less of team's winning after they recovered the on 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.040 side kicks. So even in the rare cases where a 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.800 team would get the on side kick, they didn't win 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.520 the game. They might go to over time. So I 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:04.280 was intrigued by this because, Okay, this gives teams an alternative, 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:07.079 But I think what happened with that rule and why 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:10.600 teams are reluctant to accept it, is it does seem 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:14.800 to favor the teams that have a quarterback that have 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:19.360 an offense. If you're the Bears, and you have Mitchell Trubisky. 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:22.800 You're probably saying, no, I don't know that I want 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:26.600 to do the fourth and the fourth and fifteen. So 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:29.920 we're gonna talk about all this with Ben Volan, who 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:32.680 has been all over it for the Boston Globe. Talk 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:36.320 a little Patriots with him as well. Robbie Earl, my 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:39.560 friend and colleague over at NBC Sports, on the death 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.240 of the Super League and maybe Paully if something like 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:45.760 this and Seaton could ever happen again. We're gonna get 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:49.320 into MLB uniforms, and that's gonna be the hot button 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:52.640 topic of the show because Polly has some opinions that 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:55.200 I cannot stand behind. Your West Coast guys. I'm gonna 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.160 save it, but I thought you'd be with me, okay, 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:59.920 And speaking of the West Coast, Matt Mayoko, my friend 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.840 at NBC Sports b Area, talking forty nine ers the 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:06.600 Key to the Draft. This is The Dan Patrick Show 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.480 eight seven seven three DPS show. Email at DP at 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:13.440 dan Patrick dot com, at DPS show on Twitter. We're 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:17.400 live on Peacock all across the country Fox Sports Radio. 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.240 Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.840 sure to catch us live every weekday morning nine until 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:25.880 noon eastern six to nine Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:29.080 and you can find us on the iHeartRadio app at 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:32.760 FSR or stream us live on the Peacock app. Are 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:36.320 you guys in favor of a full sky judge replay 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:38.720 umpire who can call the plays on the field from 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.320 the booth without even right now, they sort of went 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:43.960 in a middle ground where he can influence the officials 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:45.760 on the field. You can call down. But would you 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.680 like to have an official who's in the booth one 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.160 hundred percent of time and can call pass interference if 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:55.400 he wants to, yes or no? What if it just 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:58.840 moves that way completely? You have no on field officials. 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:00.920 It's just all the big in the sky we can 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:04.840 see better sometimes anyway that way, that'd be horrendous for 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:06.760 the officials who work out all year to get their 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:09.920 arms jacked, to be in those tight uniforms, and what 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:11.440 would they do with their arms? They couldn't show them 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:14.120 off anymore? Good call. You'd have to get a camera 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:18.640 in the replay booth and even tighter tease McLevin. Yeah. Oh. 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.600 The other poet was what would you do if you 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:24.280 ran the san Francisco forty nine Ers at number three, 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:26.280 and I would throw in, By the way, you could 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.560 have Mac Jones justin fields trade lance a three quarterbacks, 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:31.880 or how about you take Kyle Pitts. I know you 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:33.920 trade it up and you wouldn't trade up, but if 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.240 you and San Francisco, how about Jimmy g throwing up 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:39.520 Kyle Pitts. It's funny because a lot of forty nine 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:41.200 Ers fans say, if you're gonna do that trade, you 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:44.000 gotta know who you're gonna pick. And then you tell them, well, 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:45.640 I think they might pick mac Jones. They go, you 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:47.600 gotta be able to change your mind. You can't get 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:51.240 stuck on one guy. So we'll see. We'll talk to 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:53.360 Macmyoko about what the forty nine ers are gonna do. 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:57.480 But let's welcome in Ben Volan from the Boston Globe, 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:01.840 senior NFL writer. Hello, Ben, Thanks for taking time to 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:05.919 talk to us here today. Regis story about the rule changes. 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.320 So just right off the bat here, what do you 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:12.920 think the rule changes that should get us most excited 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:15.320 for this coming season? Doesn't seem like anything major, But 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:18.920 what would you say? No, they really didn't try to 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:21.639 do anything major, especially in a COVID year. They didn't 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:24.119 want to, you know, rock the boat too much. But 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:27.800 the most interesting thing is adding these responsibilities to the 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:31.320 instant replay judge. And they're they're towing a line very 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:34.359 very carefully here. You can tell it's it's like a 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:38.719 half measure to appease the coaches who want less pressure 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:40.800 on them to have to challenge, and the coaches just 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:42.919 want the calls to be made right. And there's a 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:46.159 lot of people in management and the competition committee, the 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:49.479 ownership level who aren't very comfortable with the idea of 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:53.199 the instant replay official having sway you know, on officiating 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:55.639 and throwing a flag from the booth and let's slow 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:58.560 everything down to the nanosecond and frame by frame to 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:01.040 see if there should have been offensive holding calls. So 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.719 this is kind of like a half measure that I 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:05.920 think some people inside the NFL are viewing a little 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:09.159 skeptically because it is taking them to another threshold that 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:11.520 they don't usually like. They did that for a year 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:14.520 when they allowed instant replay to be reviewed, and they 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:17.440 hated it and they got rid of it. So this 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:19.960 is kind of a measure to make the coach is happy. 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:24.160 John Harbaugh from the Ravens and the Coaches Subcommittee were 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:26.080 the ones who really pushed this role, and so they're 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:29.040 making them happy, but they're also kind of towing the line. 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:30.840 And I think there are a lot of people skeptical 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:33.639 of allowing the replay official to have too much influence. 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:39.240 Is it almost to prevent the disasters like the big 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:44.440 egregious missed call, just the big play they don't want 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:48.480 because I almost feel like I've seen officials over the 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:50.159 past couple of years, and I don't know how much 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:52.879 communication is between New York and on the field, but 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:55.359 you know, dressed as officials, they come out with the 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:58.640 earpiece in. It seems like there is some communication already 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:00.520 going on. But is this going a little bit further? 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:03.959 Been No question, it's going a lot further. And I 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:07.159 think the thing that Rich McKay, who who's the chairman 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:09.720 of the Competition Committee, he's the Falcons president, what he 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:13.360 said yesterday is there only going to allow the replay 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:16.560 judge to view objective things. What did a guy step 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:19.560 on a line? Was the ball over the goal line? 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:23.200 Things that you would think would be objective. Although anyone 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:25.600 who's watched football know there's a lot of gray area 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:28.960 and a lot of that stuff. Interestingly, this proposal would 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:33.040 not fix the Saints defensive pass interference call for the 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:35.320 NFC Championship a few years ago, because that's a that's 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:37.440 a judgment call, that's a penalty. This is only four 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:40.680 very objective things that the guys step on the sideline, 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:42.840 Did he complete the catch? Did the ball hit the ground. 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:46.560 So they're trying to finesse it and we'll see how 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:49.719 it works this year. But I think certainly this is 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:52.440 something to appease the coaches. Clearly they don't want to 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:55.040 have to challenge anymore. They want the decision taken away 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:57.639